[Opinion by ChidiOdinkalu] Japa: The verb that became a noun via thecableng
reach of all but the children of the most comfortable in Nigeria. He desired to pursue a career in a rarefied field of engineering, which could only be fulfilled outside the country. So, the month after he finished high school in 2019, Ileka was off to England where, at the end of a few weeks of vacation, he ended up in a public school not far from Heathrow Airport for his Advanced Levels. In 2021, he began a three-year course in Engineering in England.
By the time he received the diagnosis in 2021, Ileka’s granddad had long become disillusioned with the trajectory of the country. A proud community leader, his country home had recently been attacked by political thugs who claimed that he had mentored a much-detested politician in his home state. Painfully, Ileka’s granddad decided that he would live out his last days in England. With the help of his children, he relocated to London to be hospitalised.
When Livingstone and his generation of prejudiced predators were doing their thing, they claimed a civilizational calling. Today, the young people from the Global South doing the same equally lay claim to existential missions that are no less compelling.
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