Obaba Museum

‘🎶🎶Things Fall Apart when the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the land.
Things Fall Apart when the centre cannot hold, Things Fall Apart, Fall apart, fall apart…🎶’

You may be wondering why I started with a song, right?
Well, many of us familiar with the tune probably watched the movie ‘Things Fall Apart’ (An adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s Novel) produced in the 80s with favourite Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, starring as Okonkwo (the central character).
Achebe paints a vivid picture of the Pre and Post Colonial Igbo Society. He argues that things began to fall apart when anarchy was released in the land as a result of the white man’s arrival. His(the white man) arrival in any form often symbolized disruption, disorder, disunity and disarray either as a missionary, District Officer or Soldier.

Why all these story? I just wanted to explain what happens when a nation/individual decides to forsake it’s history, culture, norms and values. Change they say is the only constant but you know it’s either for better or worse. At what point did Nigerian citizenship become a disadvantage? Well, just sit tight, grab a popcorn, drink or whatever and let’s find the ‘Y’ in historical timeline ‘X’.

Today we are told if you would love to get a dollar note you should be ready to part with N650 at least but just like yesterday the value of the dollar could really not stand the might of the Naira. Few days ago my dad recounted tales of his days at university where scholarship in a government institution was prestigious, in fact you really would not regard private universities. But today makes it 150 plus days of total shutdown in all government owned higher institutions of learning quite a lot of students have moved on.
Was the white man really the emblem of anarchy or simply a figurehead of a well organized crime to disrupt the centre? It’s left for you and I to judge. Let’s hear your take.