People of no History
Wake up o lion, king of the jungle! Why sleep thou for so long? Are you not aware that your kingdom is ravished by wolves and hyenas? Animals that are not able to stand in your presence! Has a sleeping spell been cast on you?
Wake up from your slumber and in your sobriety remove the veil that has been used to blind your vision. The vision that can be used to bring down giants! Even the snake that is sly, with venom sufficient to bring you down in minutes, still fears your presence.
Oh king of the jungle, arise and take your place. They say you have no history of kingship, yet you have been used figuratively as the king of the jungle from the beginning of time and no one has changed that. Even the Messiah of the world is likened to your kind.
How long will it take for you to realise who you are and take your position? In certain foreign countries you are treated like the king that you are but in your homeland (where you are well known) you are abandoned as a nonentity, because you and the inhabitants have been deceived.
Deceived about your identity, ripped-off on your culture and values, forced to accept doctrines and customs of beings out of this world! They label you with negative words such as greedy, ferocious, voracious, and dubious, but before they came to your land you were honest, hospitable, lived in peace and harmony, having control on how to do away with evil but now the tables are turned.
They laugh at you and say that you can never get together and do anything meaningful – that the leader of the fold is always greedy; never satisfied, always wanting more, yet it was through their craftiness that they put you in a cage locked up as they watched you fight against one another.
They give you their history, telling you that yours has no origin, claiming that it is filled with hatred, lies and wickedness, without any record of good. You accept it as a statement of fact and hold onto it until your unborn children come into the world, assimilating the foreigners’ history, quoting it as yours.
Oh lion, where is your strength? Where is that strength you had when you brought victory whenever you went for battle? In times of old you didn’t have to do everything by yourself. Your lioness fended for the young cubs and gave nourishment for their growth while you provided protection and guidance in return. That is how you were from the beginning. Why should they try to change you? If there is anything that needs changing in you, it would be your heart, where you carry the heart of a dove. To enter a life of bliss, where you are harmless to the creatures around you.
Written by Ikenna Akaolisa Anyadike
Edited by Chukwudifu Onianwa, of ChuDifu Projects
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About Author
Ikenna Akaolisa Anyadike is a writer, leadership trainer and religious teacher. His core focus is on the youth in Africa; most especially Nigerian youth. Mr Ikenna Anyadike has a B.A in Psychology with a minor in business at Tuskegee University Tuskegee Alabama.