Murmures

The sheer weight of indignation and revulsion of most of Nigerian humanity at the recent Boko Haram atrocity in Yobe is most likely to have overwhelmed a tiny footnote to that outrage, small indeed, but of an inversely proportionate significance. This was the name of the hospital to which the survivors of the massacre were taken. That minute detail calls into question, in a gruesome but chastening way, the entire ethical landscape into which this nation has been forced by insensate leadership. It is an uncanny coincidence, one that I hope the new culture of « religious tourism », spearheaded by none other than the nation’s president in his own person, may even come to recognise as a message from unseen forces (…)

[Read Wole Soyinka’s full tribune]
Published by The Guardian, March 6th, 2014.