Opportunity Insulter

One can only market shit, if only one can package it very well. Pius, one of the most incisive Public commentators of our times, really knows how to package and market insult across board. He is an equal opportunity “insulter”.

Being an eminent connoisseur of words, this broda of mine, could dress you in borrowed robes, with venerable embroidery of words that seduces the undiscerning nostrils of the un-initiated, into seeing you in great odor, even when, like the unspeakable tyrant, proverbially one walks around aping the pomp of a non-existent office.

He knows that neutrality has forever been the refuge of scoundrels. He did not want to directly accuse me of being a scoundrel. So, he went into the packaging business.

In the African cultural tradition, where respect for elders is a cultural good of eternal legitimacy, a child can only get away with calling his father a beast, if he can creatively package that insult, and clothe it in the garbs of valor. To successfully call his father an animal, a child would, as Nigerians would say, “use style” to proclaim in the hearing of all, "Papa, you are a lion"!

The kid, aware of his mission, knows that the lion is the king of beasts. The unsuspecting Papa, would smile, and congratulate himself for his prowess, without even giving a thought to the fact that his son has just called him a beast.