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Rarely do I feel like interfering in the affairs of men in your place of aboard. But I have been itching to write you since July of 2013 when you tactically referred to Patience Jonathan, the wife of President Jonathan, as a hippopotamus. I cringed as your admirers cheered you to the high heavens, including that renegade called Dr. Damages. I was new here and could not figure out how to message you.
You are a wonderful poet, my dear Ogbuefi of African literature. However, our forefathers’ proverbs have more wisdom than all the poems ever written by members of the dead poet’s society. In a situation like this, what should a wise man do? He will rush to Death and the King’s Horsemen and remember, “The elephant trails no tethering rope, that king is not yet crowned who will peg an elephant.” Likewise, that laureate is not yet born who will gag social media and hold the information superhighway up at gunpoint. Social media is not a radio station in Ibadan.
Brother Wole, today’s world differs from the one you and I grew up in. But I can tell you that simultaneously, the world came about due to the life we, the people you called “wasted generation,” lived. To understand this new phenomenon, you must abandon the old ways of the ’60s and ’70s and adapt to the new world.More brilliant scholars have famously observed that most people cannot tell what a poem is. But they know one when they see it. It is the same thing with moral fortitude.
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