The Authorpreneur

Serial Ranter Warning... It's a long one!!! Dear parents, you have turned your kids into modern-day cyber and holy zombies. A child is born into a religious home and immediately placed on a rigorous school calendar that sees such a child leave the house as early as 7am. The child wakes up earlier than usual to observe morning devotion and then stays back in school for a compulsory lesson only to close by 5pm. Sometimes you see a child in their uniform as late as 7 or 8pm, such a child left their house as early as 7am! To learn what? This activity goes on 5 days a week, round the clock and weekends are worse, homework from all the subjects to engage them with more averageness from their average minded teachers. You forget to play with your kids, You are always so serious like the teachers they abhor and fear. You think fear is respect? We don't love who we fear. We hate who we fear. Because we hate fear. You never smile and play once in a while, ...

There was this time like that when I was still in Junior Secondary School, I think it was in JSS2 or so, I can't be too certain but one thing I cannot and will never forget is the incident that happened to me. It was the day the thief became the owner, and the owner punished instead of the thief. It was on a very hot afternoon, our break time was 11:30am to 12pm and so once it's 11:25am, our system was already shutting down and preparing for break time, we were just waiting for the time keeper to go and do his/her job and ring the bell. Unlike the oyibos, who once the bell goes off, students stand up and leave whether the teacher likes it or not, here in Nigeria, if you dare leave while the teacher is still in the class, you are finished. So I went out with my classmates and friends to go and queue first and buy my favorite, one sausage roll #20, one buns #20 and one bottle of zobo #50, the remaining #10 was for chewing gum. My lunch money was always #100. Some ...