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One thing about us - members of the organised civil society - is that we pretentiously claim to fight for the people or on behalf of the people.
When that need arises to fight for or on behalf of the people, we disappear from the theatre of action. Never to be heard. Thread
When that need arises to fight for or on behalf of the people, we disappear from the theatre of action. Never to be heard. Thread
Or when we don't disappear, we become like that raven character, Moses, who fled the battle of the windmill, and reurn with fancy tales of the sugarcandy mountain. Or return as chroniclers of tales from Afghanistan
Nature abhors vacuum. It is for this reason that oppressed societies find heroes and heroines in the most "unlikeliest" persons. Loathe Kanu, dislike Igboho, they are liked by the commons of their societies because in them the commons find their voices. We? We blow grammar
I have followed the climate change argument on the herders/farmers conflict in the SW and claims by the grammar-speaking ideologues of Igboho's opportunism. Really? The people need to secure survival on their land- holdings first before being told how the climate threatens them
The telling disappearances of our Moses will remain profound so long as they continue to hide in plain sight. If we don't present ourselves as the Moses who'll lead our people from this Egypt, new heroes will present themselves. They are never in short supply.
Good morning from the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine
