Browsing: Taju Tijani

One thing though, it is in the interest of patriarchal and oligarchic social order to stage theatrical interventions instead of genuine national soul searching. It is in the habit of cabalist hierarchical efficiency to undertake campaign of public diplomacy which does no more than imitate the voices of popular aspiration but in the end it will not foster that epochal disturbance that will redirect the course of our history. In this mad, bad and bastardised time, it is rather essential to study official rhetoric either emanating from Jonathan or Dr. Doyin Okupe, Dr. Reuben Abati and Reno Omokri, all spokespersons of the President

In a nation of grosser and grosser inequalities dictated by a complex amalgam of tiny elite domination, resource cleansing, colonial authoritarianism, unending corruption, impunity, tribal jealousies and distrust, a time must come when there would be a pre-emptive mobilisations of millions of forgotten Nigerians who had been made to understand that their paradise is perpetually postponed

There are multi-legged assaults on black culture and pride in the Western world. First is the denigration of anything authentically African by Western media as backward, crude, dirty, phoney, mysterious and distasteful

Ironically, the society that fought wars to give both Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale liberty and freedom is the one that is taking its freedom back by incarcerating and caging these black brutish butchers

This genocide has provided the defining moment to the lacklustre and bloody legacy of Jonathan’s tenure. Judging by the long lists of bloody obituaries and sea of tears that are being shed in Baga village and all over Nigeria, we are now saddled with a leader whose bemused emergence is consistently marked by plane crashes, auto accidents, communal clashes and ongoing bloody Boko Haram culling of innocent blood

This social and moral tension have driven many of our children into the arm of local gangs and thugs who then offer violent alternative lifestyle of nihilism. The rude boy, the bling and the hood capture the souls of our teenagers while parents are made powerless, stupid, overbearing and helpless

Social metricians will say that the roaring 90’s was the affluence decade when “Pathfinder”, “Explorer”, “Escalade”, “Hummer”, “Infiniti” and “Pajero” crept into our social discourse. That was the outrageous decade when ritualism and ritualists became synonymous with Jeep