Nigeria: O Tempora O Mores, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Nigeria: O Tempora O Mores, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

There is an epidemic of intellectual ignorance among the majority of Nigerians in Nigeria, including those who claim to be graduates of tertiary institutions, but are still intellectually challenged in logical and rational analysis of the vicissitudes of life and the essence of human civilization. 

Then there is a facade of conceit and deceit by the elites who are posing and posturing in affluence and opulence of the luxuries of the status symbols of their hypocritical society.

Money can buy lifestyle of luxury.

But money cannot buy class.

You don't need to be rich to have class.

You cannot have class without dignity, integrity and nobility.

You must appreciate the high values of the virtues of life.

A Fraudster can afford to live in a palatial mansion and buy expensive posh cars and SUVs and fly on private jets and dress in Gucci, Dior, Armani.and Versace and drink Champagne. But the Fraudster is still beneath the men and women of dignity, integrity and nobility.

All that glitters is not gold.

You must understand the difference between a life of pretence and a life that is the true essence of human existence.

You must know the difference between fallacy and legacy.

In the next 100 to.1000 years in the world if the Earth is still in existence, students.and scholars will be reading and studying Wole Soyinka and his peers and the intelligentsia of our generation. But all the mobs of the intellectually retarded and multitudes of this generation would be forgotten in the sands of time. 

I know the time frame of everyone and everything in Nigeria and the rest of the world in the history of civilization.

Everyone has a story.

But not everyone will make history.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

Author of "The Prophet Lied", "Diary of the Memory Keeper" and other books distributed by Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers.

Saturday, November 18, 2023 

Lagos, Nigeria.

The Truth About Life

 Life is not as difficult as many people want you to see it by their fears and insecurities shown in their intellectual ignorance, malice, caprice, prejudice and other acts of irrationality.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

Author of "Diary of the Memory Keeper", "The Prophet Lied" and other books.

Nigeria in the Vicious Circle of Anomie

"Great nations have not been built by building houses and skyscrapers, but by building lives and leaders."

- Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Author of "In the House Dogs" and other books.

When you do a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria and degradation of the government by corruption, you will see the genesis of the Nigerian crisis and the consequences which are now the worst fears and nightmares of widespread intellectual ignorance and violence.
It is unfortunate that while the educational institutions are collapsing, the federal government is celebrating pyramids of bags of rice and state governors are celebrating building flyovers while the drainage systems have collapsed.
The local governments cannot even clean up their streets with nauseating filthy environment of dirty inhabitants.

There cannot be good governance in the state of Intellectual ignorance and incompetence.
There is an epidemic of gullibility, irrationality and stupidity in every sphere of the dog eat dog Nigerian society.

The terrible predicament of intellectual ignorance is that the ignorant don't realize their ignorance. Living in denial of the truth is a common lifestyle among them. It is an oddity to be honest and straight.
The youths and elders are equally living in conceit and deceit.
Fathers and mothers have become pimps of their daughters.
The religious leaders are partners in crime of the rogue politicians and their rogue contractors in the private sector.

The country is full whited sepulchres
of rotten people with empty lives. And they don't even realize that they are empty in the vicious circle of their anomie.

-  By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
Author of "In the House Dogs" and other books distributed by Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers worldwide.