XMAS AT MY VILLAGE,MEMORIES OF MY FATHER PLUS A SNAKE BITE

Each end of year,l join millions of people travelling back to ancestoral villages for christmas and new year. l often dont know if to be sad or happy with the constant state of flux,with the expanding topography,the constant release of the last Agricultural land into the development market,while futher breaking down culture,making it easier the transformation of my beautiful rural village into just another soul-less haven for middle class angst..As l hiked round the remaining virgin forest this evoked reminiscences of a nostagic yester years.  

 In my youth,i was this stubborn head strong girl,l often delibrately go out of my way to rebel against my father. Making him angry gives me some kind of sadistic pleasure.My father was this mystical figure living in a french speaking country that often appears during the christmas,and we must return to the village from the town. My mother loved him to bites and i could not understand why we were not living with him outside the country.So just want to hurt him for not returning the huge love my mom had for him,to me if he loved us,he would stayed with us.

My father always want my sister and I to attend social gatherings in the village so as to get suitors from our village, marrying outside the village was out of it.to make him unhappy,I often holed up in doors with my novels. On that fateful day, the traditional ruler of our village was holding the yearly coronation ceremony, my father told every body for leave for the venue, once they all left, l went back to my room and continue with my novel. He came back after two hours and saw me in,he rushed for his cane and I ran out of the house.
 I went to my cousin's house and refused to go home till my mom sent my younger brother and sister to bring me home.On our way back home , l stepped on unseen snake and was bitten,.It was my smart kid brother that saw the snake,he is still very smart.we rushed home , l was rushed out for treatment and the drama started from there.
The villagers started visiting to find out if the snake was killed as they have this believe on the supernatural ability of the snake to hunt me down,as l took it fang during the bite.

once they were told that the snake was not killed,they informed the family that the snake will come in search of me to kill after ten days.My dear mom wanted us to run back to our town home miles away from the rural village. She was informed that the snake will still get me even in America.We  were in doubt, but wanted to prove them wrong so stayed back in the village.

On the10th night,l was really scared thinking that they might be right,the snake could actually come .We made sure our light generating set was in good order in case of power failure. The whole family gathered in the living room,my brothers collected matchets or big butchers knives from the people living around,l was kept in the middle and every one was waiting for the snake to come for me till the next day, it never did.These stories actually made the village fun,things have gone to the dogs right now,fun had gone for good

MEDICAL MARIJUANA----WHATSDAT?

 I have watched and listened to lot of medical programmes singing about the goodness of marijuana in the treatment of dozens of illnesses; ranging from cancer, parkinson,pains,depression,migraine,bipolar,Alzhimer,epiletic etc Doctors now want reclassfication of hemp for medical treatments.

 we were told that marijuana  was very addictive and causes mental illness.The three people close to me that smoked pot went stark raving mad.This hemp is an illegal drug in many countries of the world,even classfied by world health organization as very dangerious to health. Now various countries mostly in the west are now allowing a limited grow at homes in pots.People are now given licence to sale hemp to people for health reasons.so how do they regulate the growth,? how do you  regulate the prescription of the hemp,every one knows that you can get any drug you want from some kind of doctors.


 Yes there may be benefits to the smoking of this weed,but have they looked at the long time effect. They now produce hemp in various forms,vapourized form,liqudized form,in form of droups,cooking with it. These are far better than smoking hemp,as it has a very disgusting odour.

 Legalizing hemp smoking is going to leave a very sour taste for many people this hemp  destroyed the lives of their love ones.my best friend brother,s life  was totally destroyed by this .he started this in high school when he met an American deportee,as our youth are not even known to smoke anything.In little time he got hooked;started stealing,go out come back without his shirt or shoes,when the family stopped his pocket money.

 To remove him from his hemp friends,he was removed to start schooling in America,this was like adding gas to fire,what with those very terrible African Americans.most of whom have no life and dont do any thing to have a meaningful life.The family brought him home,then send him to Britain,once in LONDON he started moving with Jamacians.Every one in UK knew that these people are terrible once it comes to drug dealing.
 he cut every link with the family, I was in UK and the sister in US.l traced him to WEMBLY just  by ASDA shopping mall, in the home of a JAMICIAN drug lord,the sister flew in from US and we storm the address,the rough looking man with mattered hair that had never seen a comb as a RASTA , ran us off his terraced home with   long sword,totally hooked on some thing.


 The boy was brought home once more, about 18 years and useless.He was taken for treatment and kept running away.Ironically  he kept on returning to the sister,s exhusband,s home without understanding that they were divorced and both remarried.The man till today still kept him in his very large home.the poor boy  cannt even recorganize any of his relations. that when he was informed that their mum had passed on,he could,nt comprehend what the fuss was for.

Bottom line,the people in the medical line must be sure that the benefits of hemp is significant,as most people on hard drugs often start from hemp smoking.There are lots of social problems all over the world mostly fuelled by drugs.

TORTURE AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

I love Koran traditional movies set in era before the division of the country into north and south.People will always rebel against the king,s opressive rule,the rebels are always caught and tortured.The king will seat on the throne, while the rebels both male and female will be sitted,with thick heavy woods place between their legs while two people will be pressing their private parts and crushing the bones.The screams are always terrifying.I always close my eyes from the blooded scene.Am sure it was so in days gone by.

8th of December marked human right day and also 30 good years aniversary of the ractification of the law against torture.But nothing has changed; as American senate also release their report on torture.In the ancient time, when the Roman Catholic Church besotted the whole world as the ruler,torture was a common thing.People were tortured for going against or questioning the Church postion on God, the bible ,creation of the universe etc. Galileo an Italian scientist  was tortured and killed for theorizing that the world is round and not flat as the church taught.Now the cookies has crumbled for Catholic church.

In the modern world,torture  has not stopped,mad scientists are always researching on the most effective way of obtaining confessional statements from suspects.This was escabated by terrorism, these confessional statement often false,are obtained through means already outlawed.These people are dehumanized,depersonalized, deindividualized by torturers who are also deindividualized themselves;by who ever employed them.

The prisioners already institutiinalized,are less than human to the tormentors.They are made to pass through unsual pains,feeling no different from a Rat in cage.Think of the hooded prisioner going through water boarding,or one deprive of sleep or kept in a total darkness and isolated from other human beings for years.

We all know these are done in furdrance of a cause like State security or a high case like true Religion ,a political ideology or loyalty to a race,its effect can be galvanic. like the 17th centure French philosopher Blaise Pascal said "Never is evil done so thoroughly or so well,as when it is done in a good cause".

Obedience to authority is a deeply ingrained human attribute,so the people been used to carry out these acts become alienated to the terrible things they are doing.Though there must be an emotional tug of war between their conscience  and their humuan act of causing pains to others,but  they still dont see themselves as been responsible for the victims suffering.

Sure deviants will always exist in very society,the deep rooted anger of deviants should be looked into.When it comes to the global problem of the Radicalization of modern youths of certain religious believes,the answer should be in Education and Reducation.Ilitracy is a serious illness in developing nations.The rich Nations should not close their eyes to the problems of poor countries,after all,we all share common humanity.Sooner than later,there will be no place to hide.
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ADVENT OF TELEVISION AND INCREASING VIOLENCE

 

The 12 year old boy who was shot and killed by the police in United States from the video clips showed was holding a toy gun that look very real,people called the police who shot him at the park. people learnt through immitation,picking up the behaviour pattens they see around them,through a process called  CONDITIONING.,in which rewards and punishments some obvious,some subtle.These behaviour patten, often start from home,then progressively built up as strong influence from society comes into play..

Psychologist Leonard Eron carried out an experiment of a group of 875 children living in rural district of New York state over a long period of time.He studied first hand effect of television aggression on violent tendencies as they become young adults.The amount of time spent on violent films,determines the level of aggressiveness of the person as an adult.The Semai people of central Malaya,who are not exposed to television at all are very gentle people so said Anthropologist Robert Dentan,who spent a year living with them.

American rise to violence started from all the so called 'cowboys' films like 'THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON' with Errol Flynn who played the role of General Custer 'LONE STAR TRAIL' 'FIVE BOLD WOMEN' 'SOME WHERE IN SONORA' 'BRONCHO TWISTER' etc.One of my brother in laws love watching the film 'FIRST BLOOD' so much that he named his son 'RAMBO'.Today the 18 year old boy is a criminal, moving from soft crime to hard ones.

Italians then started their Mafians films that triggered the highest level of violence,where nothing is left to the imagination, the films are bloody,the acceptance to the public ,made things terrible for growing impressionable young generation.
Bottom line,these violence in the name of entertainment on television and now internets has fueled many robbery,kidnapping,cannibalism,serial killing,gang membership;satanic praticses,ritual killings,drug taking etc.Every country is now caught up,there is no hidding place.Religious extremism had now taken violence to a frenzy levels, since the advent of televangelisn.American schools had become very scary places,where students and staff could be guy down by angry drug fuelled youths.All effects of over watching of violent movies.From what is seen right now,every one watches movies, whether rated 18 or not.This days parents dont care.Kids are becoming very strong willed,parents are too busy, to take note.Children are left on their owns,to seek whatever makes them happy.



In our own country,the best selling movies are RITUAL films,main actors,always meet voodoo witch doctors who will ask for human heads,breasts,private parts or new born infants to prepare get rich fast medicine, whereby a dirty poor person turns into a billionarie over night.what With high level of uneducated people, who often believe everything seen on the televison,ritual killings,cult membership,gangsterism,in real life becomes the order of the day,witch doctors start making neat cash.  People had disappeared never to be seen ever.people had never asked themselves why voodoo doctors are always dirty poor,always live in the slums,if truely they can make one rich after pounding a new born child into mince meat for some satan.Then in comes CULT films,now most university students belong to one cult group or the others ,they carry out robbery and kidnapping to fuel their high profile living.Parents now dont want to send their children to Nigerian universities, for fears of their kids becoming cult members.Parents perfer to send their kids to Ghana or Uk universities.At the end of the day,we are all paying the price for these movies,when you can not move around on foot,jog in the parks or streets,take walks,or even sleep with two eyes closed.

WHO ARE THESE TENAGE FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS

The two bomb blast that took place in kano city in Northen Nigeria was carried out by two tenage girls aged 13 and 15 years.The first bomb went off,while people gathered to take closer looks,the second girl wearing a Buka ran into their mist and denoted her own bomb;which killed about 60 people.

who are these girls? how do such young children got involve in terror aggressive behavours, who are their parents ,are they aware of the deadly missions of their daughters. people had theorized the 200plus kidnapped school girls from CHIBORK High school adopted 7 months ago,were converted from Christianity by force to Islam,then brainwashed into turning into suicide bombers.

We were told that male suicide bombers are brainwashed into believe that if one is killed in the course of fight 'holy' wars as they actually believed theyvwere doing, the immidate reward from God,will be12 virgins.These illiterates couldnt just wait to start ravaging the virgins,just rush to heaven without God inviting them first.pray, what do the instigators offer these girls? mulitiple hunks?.

l have always imagine the mind of a suicide bomber,moving into crowd to kill as much people as possible ,it must be a dark labyrinth of blackness, moving towards a never to return insurmountable preciple. What is the solution? invesigation by the government, to find out who these girls were and charge the people using these very young girls for crime against humanity.

VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION--A PART OF HUMAN INSTINCT?

In london a young man is convicted of killing a catholic priest, strangled an old woman and stabbing another years back. his only explanation was that he 'enjoyed killing'
   The question is,is man violent by nature, is violence learned, can man master his aggressive impulses. What do we hear and watched every day? but tales of violence from all corners of the globe. Organised war fares, robbery,kidnapps,riots, vandalism.
    The idea that genetic defects might be responsible for criminal violence was proponded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso.This has been revived by other psychologists who suggested that an abnormality in the heredity unit or chromosomes could predisposes one to antisocial behaviour, while a group of Boston brain surgeons reported finding a high incidence of abnormal brain waves among prison population.This recieved surport when Charles Whitman in Austin,Texas murdered his mother, wife and shot 38 other people from the top of a university tower, a huge tumour was found in his brain.
 Charles Darwin in his theory of evolution believed that violence serves a useful purpose in the evolution of man,by enabling the fittest and strongest to survive by surpressing the weak known as social Darwinism. In 1908 British psychologist William McDougall called aggression ''the intinct of pugacity'' and stated that it was likely the most important factor in Man,s evolution as a social being.


 Konard Lorenz maintained that aggression in human being just like animals is instintive, but what makes man more destructive is the lack of built-in inhibitors against the terrible weapons fashioned by man. Think of Albert Einstein whose brilliant work in physics without his intention has now lead to the production of weapons of mass destruction fashioned by man.

If only man faught only with their fists and natural strenght like animals,things wouldnt have been this bad.but with the on going arms races,scientists now spend sleepless nights trying to out do each other researching on better destructive weapons;like Ronald Bailey in the book HUMAN BEHAVIOUR said ''these weapons came so fast that evolution has not been able to keep pace with them''
 Weaponary has become more complex and complicated that remote control is all that is needed now, think of drone aircraft, the aggressor never see physically the victims;so they are less than human. we are all in trouble for sure as how do you stop your creation into falling into the wrong hands. mankind is in very terrible and dangerious situation because man,s negative creative impulses certainly will bring the destruction of man in totality.

 Many others believed thet violent behaviour is not inate in man,sure some degree of aggression is; but man we are told more than lower animals is a learning being, whatever are his inate potentialites,his attributes is shaped largely by his experiences of the world, the values of his culture and specific institutions that is found around. Therefore the level of aggression and violence varies from culture to culture and importantly contacts with other people.to be contiuned.

COLOUR PERCEPTIONS AND RACIAL TENSION

To live other people's lives is nothing unless we live over their perceptions, live over the growth,the change,the varying intensity of the same--since it was by these things they themselves lived .AMERICAN GREAT NOVELIST ,HENRY JAMES   


 last week,l watched a news item on France24 on how a group of African students were attacked on a subway in  I NDIA without the police coming to their help.Just becourse they are black.There are millions of Indians in Africa.I went to school with lots of Indians,most of whom were born here in Africa.without any issues,they are in all the cities  of Nigeria i,n any trade one can think of.

The most important aspect of life is that your country of origin is totally independent of your decision..what determines one,s skin colour is geography and not divine intervention or favour,an imutable law is that the closer your country to the sun,the darker the skin,the futher away from the Sun, the paler the skin colour.
African students are seen as coming to take over jobs in host countries and other issues just like AUSTRIAN SCIENTIST Konrad Lorenz and Robert Audrey theories in the book AFRICAN GENESIS AND TERRTORAL IMPERITIVE made it clear that human being can become aggressive which functions to provide each individual with a sufficient space to ensure an ample food supply,especially these days of global mass unemployment.
   why are people ready to take in such humilation out side the shores of their country?l have travel to various to different countries of the world,l also have my own racial perception. when in America,am always scared of serial killers that l often dont step outside the apartment and dont generally sleep well and are also scared of young people going crazy and start killing every one in sight. In United Kingdom,am scared of PUNKS and SKIN HEADS who are in total rebellion against everyone.God forgive me,the people l totally dislike are African AMERICANS.the sassiness and the attitudes of their female folks drives me crazy, the lay back attitudes of their menfolk is totally well known that is why they still remain the dreg of American society.They equally hate Africans too.


People from so called third world countries would not have been moving to also so called first world(whatever that means) countries if their crude Machiavelian leaders who are only interested in their own  survivalist calculus,should work for their societies.while other leaders are working for betterment of mankind,they are all vain and egoristical self centered.Am glad to read that the president of BURKINE NABABE has just been pushed out of power after 27years in power without moving his country out of poverty.27 years ago he killed his best friend THOMAS SANKARA to take over power and wanted another two  terms of 5 years that would have been 37 years in power,this one of the reasons helpless citizens look for greener pastures.Leaving their countries to such power drunk presidents for lives without challenging them.It took that country 27 years to do the right thing of reclaiming their country from a tyrant.