Dear Mr Disu
I hope I meet you well sir?
On the issue above which you dealt with on the front page news edition of Friday 13th, the points you raised are of profound depth. Unfortunately most Nigerians view religious matters from a spiritually infused rather than from a rational-logical perspective.
The irony of all these is that the religions we are killing ourselves over are foreign to our lands which have been set up to financially drain us for eternity while interestingly we do not command any modicum of respect from them. As a Nigerian, African and black person, there is nothing we get in return apart from having lost our original spiritual identity, have ourselves denigrated racially at will while carting our scarce finances in the billions annually to already relatively richer societies.
Fela was spot on when he sang ‘dem go dey follow Bishop, follow Pope, follow Imam, dem go go for London, go for Romu, go for Mecca, dem go carry all de money, dem go start to yap themselves…’ which today is a sharp reflection of our reality.
I have often pondered what would our societies have been like if our own traditional religions had been war-mongering conquerors of history, where would Olodumare, Chukwu, Ubangiji, Oritsemobiyor, Abasi, Oghene, etc., have been today?
I guess this was what Fela was also referring to when he sang, ‘someday follow follow dem close dem sense, I say dem close sense, if you dey follow follow dem book, na inside cupboard you go quench…cockroach dey, ikan dey, rat e day, darkness dey…my brother make you no follow book o, you gonna lose your way…
From all indications we seem to have lost all sense of our original spiritual template and cloaked ourselves with the white and brown man’s spiritual identity.
Please continue with your wise profound challenges to the status quo, there are those of us who see your point of view.
Respectfully sir,
Dele Owolowo
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