When hunger knacks you persistently from morning till night and continues non-stop to batter you till daybreak every day, you naturally become impregnated with anger, anger wholesale!
Itumo? He who speaks in parables at a meeting with his in-laws should not forget to bring along “alaga iduro” (interpreter) to bail him out with meanings and interpretations. O ya now.
Without perambulating about let me go straight for the jugular. The times are hard. The Punch and the Vanguard are also hard.
For where? The economic weather is hostile to the average person on the street and at the kitchen table. Things are hard. I repeat, THINGS ARE HARD…
How do you mean?
Things are expensive. Money is difficult to come by. Everybody wants somebody to help or be helped. Gradual by gradual loving souls are coming to the rescue. During the Yuletide that has just come and gone, Christmas hampers became real food hampers. Little bags of yam powder (elubo), garri Ijebu and garri Ifo ati garri Ilaro, SEMO (semovita, semolina) have become the order of the day. No more matches, candles and soap and all sorts of whatnots making the content of today’s give away hampers.
I learnt some people even add “eja gbigbe), dry fish to the package and, you know what, I love the day somebody gave me semolina. I was very happy and thankful to the giver as much as to the object handed to me. O Semolina! Semolina, my love, ran away because I had no money to appease her. Thanks to the neo-philanthropists.
That’s the spirit of love and being one’s brother’s and even sister’s keeper during these hard times to help reduce tension. Popular takeaways at parties, nowadays, are real food packs. Nigerians are ingenious. If those in government are engaged in Operation Fool the Nation with GREED AND UNBIKITA ATTITUDE, why can’t they assist fellow talakawa with a counter Operation Feed the Nation with LOVE. …A hungry man is an angry man and anger, they say, has no common sense. Like in the Charley Boy Show anything can happen if there is too much hunger in the land. Only the show of love and care can pacify the hungry.
Let’s have more SEMO, pls. I love it.
Sure?
Yes, I do. I love Semolina. I love the loving. I love the kind-hearted. I love the lovers of “our dear native land”. Food is it! Abi, Alabi, my friend?
Dele Omotunde
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