The African Bigmanism and the marginalized!

The grand passion of Africans under class and marginalized under-achievers is to talk familiarly with “exalted personages” and entertain them with buffoonery.

Little do grovellers care whether the big man is laughing at their tinseled erudition or mocking at their lowly status.

Bigmanship by affiliation tickles the opportunist, who would endlessly crave the indulgence of the personality cultists for material advancement.

Among personality cultists are politicians in high office, chief executives, top government officials and other movers and shakers in society, who can link one to power blocks.

The politician speeds away at top gear, with gun-toting junior military cadre, excitedly clearing the crowded traffic jams for them to pass the people they are supposed to govern.

He borrows money from banks and does not pay back. The fund is written off as bad debt.

The politician breezes into the Director’s office, causes all those being attended to, to go out and wait.

He spends leisurely hours, after he had been served with beverages and shown other courtesies. He later emerges, without apologizing to the people he kept waiting for hours.

Contracts are routinely awarded to personality cultists, who would then sell the contract papers to the highest bidder.

Africa is full of all sorts of dishonest men and women, who cover themselves with influence peddling, mesmerization of the marginalized, under-achievers and the feral under-class.

The personality cultist does not want to be in the company of academics, thinkers, honest men and women and people, who see through their ignoble chicaneries.

This pen portrait of the African big man and political personality cultists is to hold up the mirror for them to see the emptiness they represent.

Hopefully, this unmasking of the irreverent personality cultists and arrant bigmansm, will block the life-giving arteries of our mangled societal ethos.

You should never worship man-made gods!!! Do not marvel at them until you have known his pedigree.

Yeah! There is only one God, the Creator of the universe. Every man-made god is a counterfeit.