Opinion: Majek: A Rainmaker and His Unique Augury, By Louis Odion
Neither riches do I’ve, nor excess garments do I possess/The enemy at home is to be feared more than the foe outside.his hour of need. As Edo Information Commissioner between 2011 and 2015, I attest that ComradeBy then, the now troubled star only admitted alcoholism for his steep physical decline as against widespread suspicion of substance abuse. Regardless, by then, the omens had begun to look grave indeed.the famed rainmaker.
fateful night, he was billed to herald a bigger act, Tracy Chapman, at a concert before a mammoth crowd.attempted to mount the big stage in his trademark cassock and handcuffs. Chapman, a more visible black activist who had achieved global fame with her revolutionary “Talking About Revolution” and “Fast Cars” , considered the sight of a fellow black in “handcuffs” rather offensive, on a much more philosophical optimism that “black man is no longer in bondage after the abolition of slavery”.
. He would frame his condition as clinical depression arising from heartbreak from a failed marriage. As his career began to flounder in the U.S., he claimed to have become estranged from his childhood sweetheart, Rita. So, increasingly, he found solace in alcoholism.Material things, I’ve not to give to you baby/It’s been long time we’ve been together, baby, cherish every moment together/Love can break your heart, love can mend your life..
anguish. For a man whose songs preach love, it must be personally devastating watching his own marriage fall apart. As Russian literary immortal, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, reminds us, nothing is ever more hurtful, more mocking than for a physician to suffer affliction in very branch of medicine where they are thought to be expert.
As mystically potent as it was in the beginning so it would seem at the very end for the musical legend from Nigeria. Exiting at a time the whole of America is convulsing under the eruption of anti-racial violenceArise from your sleep America…. there’s work to be done, America,And coming on June 1 when the raining season peaks in his native sub-Saharan Africa, the passing of the fabled rainmaker couldn’t be more symbolic.
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