I have a slightly different use for craniology in the Nigerian context. Most Nigerians are convinced – without evidence – that something biologically weird happens to otherwise perfectly normal people when they get to Aso Rock or Government House in the state capitals. Some attribute the changes in these people to “something in the air that they breathe in the corridors of power” and I have heard others propose that it is in “the water they drink”.
Yep, u got that right....something in the air and water...could hazard a guess that the water is spiked with Forgetfulmicin and they also sniff glue.
Given the desperation of our situation and the mess that our rulers make of our lives, it may not be an outrageous proposition to measure the skull of anybody going into government in Abuja and the state capitals and remeasure their skulls when they leave office to determine if, indeed, something about the nature of power shrinks the human cranium in Nigeria. A reduction in the size of the cranium and the brain may explain why they become rulers who do not qualify to be called leaders. Desperate problems, they say, call for desperate solutions.
That theory is not quite right cos all they got is pea-brain anywaz
Could there be some truth to Tolu Ogunlesi’s sobering definition of Nigeria? Says Ogunlesi: Nigeria is not a country, not even a geographical expression. Nigeria is a way of doing things wrongly or leaving them undone
Tolu is so right...but then soon and very soon, we will shout eureka, we've finally found and done it right
PS>>...Thanks for this beautiful write up...what a way to start the week...something to chew on 4real
