Maybe because they aren’t all 7 foot tall, but that’s I all is see when I look at the homeless sleeping on the pedestrian bridge of Dopemu bus stop in Lagos, also when I see the hundreds of young men carrying load for customers in the farmer’s market of Ilepo Lagos, Nigeria.
I see sportsmen in fact as this a follow up article to the previous one, where I posited that the Diversification of sport is the way out of Nigeria’s hopelessness and Look at all those courts.
For when you look at it the essence of our energy is sexual and it revolves around competitive garishness as man is naturally tribal and insular so he all he does that for the sake of competition a better use of their time would be to engage them in sport, and allow them find sustenance and meaning to their lives through it.
Look at the average footballer in England, he is not the most educated, but through running around on a field he is able to buy a house, marry a wife and find himself attending the same stadium to either play or watch his team play, discuss the same old games and analyse it with his friend till he dies, What a beautiful life if you ask me.
As his mind is majorly occupied with the same stuff, he is able to find end in itself in the sport, for sport offers an end inn itself and through the wringing of his body his soul is purified.
In Nigeria, I see a problem and I see a solution, the teeming and overflowing population of youth(problem) and the senseless accumulation of cars (solution). Where each man have bloated his ego to extend to having a car or two
What if, through dissuading Nigerians form the senseless purchase of cars and aligning them to see the vast untapped land in major part of the country to create football fields and sport centers or even better still, how about basketball courts, I mean if a group of 10 friends of the same calibre decide to invest the same sum of money (3 million(the amount of money of cars the average Nigerian buy)) in creating a small basketball team where winner get to to go home with a sum of 1 million you would create not just employment but also purpose to many Nigerians. It really doesn’t have to be a big league immediately something small in many communities and local government completely privately managed is enough to add spark and purpose to the lives of many Nigeria
When I look at the bulk of hopeless Nigerian youths and the amount of cars on Nigerian road, I see a problem and a solution, I see a ready made answer to the major problem of Nigeria which is a diverting of our energy and resource which is our people to a waste of sport gambling and cyber crime when they could be much more.
If only Nigerian can only sell the cars build basketball courts and pay them a stipend and a purpose it would reduce drastically the general tiredness of life and hopelessness that running amok in today’s clime
I wouldn’t want to talk about the politicians, for I don’t know them but if you do, or know those big men with 300 cars in their garage they are just allowing them to decay, tell them they are sitting 300 basketball courts with an average of 20 players in each of them in their garages.
Redefining Cultism
In the wake of what seem to be a sad death too many, I posit the aversion of young and youthful energy to sport where we can not
Since man is tribal in nature and the competitive spirit in our monkey mind is subsuming we can channel the energy many young Nigerians use in being cults to being sportsmen but if they want to be insular they can do it under the canopy that doesn’t have to bring pain and tears to their families.
Imagine if the Ibadan Pirates were to play a basketball match with the Port Harcourt Vikings where the energy that they would have earlier expended in killing themselves is expiated on the courtyard. And all the angst will be enveloped under the swivel of hips, wring of muscles, sweat and what ever revenge and recurrence no matter how potent and vengeful can be enjoyed by all and sundry provide employment and entertainment while providing purpose for the would be cultist now acting as sportsmen brandishing their logos in a more saner and acceptable way, and if there is a need to inculcate people in it, once your philosophy tallies with them and it doesn’t bring any hurt or pain to them or their families, who wouldn’t bravely draw a tattoo of your logo for the very ephemeral life that they intend to spend on earth.
In hope of a better clime, where there are as many basketball courts and teams in Nigeria as there are churches and mosques, I can only hope to find tether and lather with an article like this.
>s
Comments
Post a Comment