Dele Omotunde
EVEN both the hungry and the angry have cause to give thanks to God at least for surviving another season of hunger and anger.
Americans celebrated their annual Thanksgiving Day Thursday, November 27, as usual with family gatherings with a lot of eating and drinking. Turkeys and chickens are the favourite while daring diaspora Africans pound yam to provide SOKURA on the table for both blacks and adventurous whites who often end up with the wrong combination of IYAN (pounded yam) and jollof rice plus dodo and salad.
Thanksgiving for what?
The festival dates back to the days of the Pilgrim fathers who first landed on the soil of the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus. For safe arrival feasting was one of the ways of thanking God for His protection.
No day is universal in Nigeria. We have too many captains trying to steer the ship, each claiming to be superior to the other. Who commands? Who carries out the order? Nobody. Share on XAnother School of thought argue that it was a means of giving praise and thanks to God for allowing them holding dominion over a vast land so fertile and full of the proverbial “milk and honey”. Right from the first planting season they have been reaping bountiful harvests. While not declare a special day for showing appreciation?
Thanksgiving Day has become so big and well accepted by both the overrun aborigines and the immigrants who used military superiority to upstage them that it has become the most national festival all Americans are obsessed with. It surpasses Christmas!
You don’t mean it!
That’s their own way of life.
Can there be a national festival like this in Naila to hold everybody spellbound and proudly expectant of it every year?
The Kanu drama is a mataphor of the disunity, hate and anger in the land. Share on XFor where?! We are unified by words of month only on billboards and in propaganda sheets and pamphlets.
But we have a big one in October 1, Independence Anniversary. Don’t we?
No day is universal in Nigeria. We have too many captains trying to steer the ship, each claiming to be superior to the other. Who commands? Who carries out the order? Nobody. In a nation of more than 300 ethnic groups and about 250 languages we can never agree. Did you watch the Kanu drama?
That was madness unplugged.
I don’t believe that. Rather I’d say the Kanu drama is a mataphor of the disunity, hate and anger in the land. Some people hate the others like vermins. How can such mutually distrustful and hateful of one another nation ever have internal cohesion? Thanksgiving Day my foot!
My leg too!
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