Rising per morning and retiring per evening from the obscure
neighbourhoods in the hostile streets of Johannesburg, deserted villages of Maiduguri,
the troubled clouds of Ukraine, the bleeding skies of Iraq and the sweating,
barren soils in the creeks of Ogoni land, you curse and accuse your leaders and
presidents with clenched teeth and blank eyes.
You sit and wonder why and how they can’t just get just get
these anomalies to stop and then make the world a honey land of no stinging
bees. You are just one insignificant, unnoticed creature in a location that the
maps did not capture and you can’t help anything. Just a solitary, wishful
thinker gleaning a beautiful, peaceful, lawful, and fruitful human habitat in
his crying mind. Bland utopian vision from a little man with a little life of
no eventual consequence.
You are nowhere in the map, so you drink your sachet water
and toss the sachet on the street. You write exams and you cheat. You enter the
mall and you pilfer. You are late at meetings and you don’t respect the
standing rules. These things don’t matter because the real havoc wreckers are
in Pretoria, Abuja and Baghdad. Real little sins of no consequences in your
little days?
You lie, because there are seasons and cycles, at least
judging from the sprouting of seedlings in the spring and drying up of tendrils
at autumn. You think your little foxes will suddenly flee when the spring
arrives and your little days are over and you grab a mantle? Nay! They would
have grown fat like you too, and when you do one small pilfering, the economy
of a nation tumbles and recession sets in and people go hungry because at
thrones there are only big sins and big consequences.
ACE GRADUATE SCHOOL is established to deal with your little
sins while there is still time through the Leadership, Apprenticeship,
Entrepreneurship and Citizenship course she offers. Time will only wait for men
who join her train.
Ekemba Dawkin L
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