A sad commentary.Īs we all now know, most people don’t want messiahs. I use ‘unlikely’ because the narrative, erroneous as it is, has been that the female gender always needs ‘2k urgently’. When the very peaceful protests for police reform started, little did we know that help would come from the unlikeliest of places. Again and again, like history has shown us, Nigerian women rise to the occasion. We used to look up to our democratic heroes as the messiahs, but now we know that not all heroes wear capes, neither do they always wear agbadas.Īmayo Stella Adedevoh‘s posthumous birthday hit different this year when we remember her selflessness, rising to save a country from a potentially deadly crisis, the ebola virus. When the pandemic hit home, we quickly realized that we’d be needing new dictionaries for this generation because the definition of ‘heroes’ took different dimensions. The year chuwenty chuwenty has proven to be a year that will never be forgotten. It’s a most surreal time to be alive, and particularly to be Nigerian.
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