SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

On April 19, 2020, I received an open letter from a bosom friend:  Oyebode Kujembola  on the person of  # Abba  Kyari. The message in the letter was instructive and inspiring on the person of the former Chief of Staff to President Muhammodu Buhari. I've since wrote a rejoinder and shared on What's App platform. I initially was hesitant to share here for some reasons, chief of which is that I don't believe on speaking on dead issues, but the recent campaign to rewrite history about him by individuals closed to him necessitate the need for alternative voices like mine if not for anything but for posterity sake. Below is my rejoinder, while I implore you to read my friend's letter too. Re: Open Letter To My Friend Thank you Yinka for finding me worthy of being called a friend in this age of betrayal and bad blood. Sincerely, we've come a long way, weathered some storms together, but the journey is still far-fetched, so no resting on our oars. Give it...

The first documented case of human coronavirus dated back to the 1960s.   Since 2003, at least 5 new human coronaviruses have been identified, including the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, which caused significant morbidity and mortality.  A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe. That case dates back to Nov. 17, 2019, according to the  South Morning China Post  according to Jeana Bryner of LiveScience. Ever since then, the diseases have grown in leap and bound ravaging all humanity from East to West, and North to South. Nowhere appears to be saved. Like every human phenomenon, coronavirus has been plagued with politics and politicking from the global level to the national level, and from individual to individual. At its advent in the USA, Trump was quoted to have described it as  Chinese Disease,...

"Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it with relative opacity." ―        Frantz Fanon,  The Wretched of the Earth         Like in the days of  Frantz Fanon , the above quotation: " Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it with relative opacity ;" was apt and true, and so it will continue to be true and apt for generations to come.  The truth is every generation like every man is born with a mission to be fulfilled or betrayed. And just like very few men discover their mission or purpose in life, so also is very few generations discover their mission or purpose in life, let alone fulfill it.   As I said in my last write up on the above scourge, 'these are not the best of times for humanity...These are dark moments, a moment of despairs, of woes, of turbulence and era of darkness,' some battles have been won, som...