Kisiang'ani's woes in the city amid sweet village chronicles

Outgoing ICT PS Edward Kisiang'ani. [File, Standard]

My holiday from political thoughts continues. I will probably return to that landscape soon. For now, however, I continue sharing these sweet chronicles from Emanyulia, our amazing home of wonders.

Like the people of Umuofia, in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the people of Emanyulia flatter themselves with the thought that they are great souls from the land of the brave. You recall the moniker "Umuofia obodo dike," in Achebe's all-time classic? Yet, we avoid unnecessary trouble. We avoid people who break the heads of messengers. People like that Prof Edward Kisiang'ani can violently open up your head with a metallic crowbar, remove your brains and throw them to dogs, if you write things they don't like. Kisiang'ani is a man of letters. He has read all books in world history. He knows everything about man, civilisation and conquest; from prehistory to world exploration - and beyond. He knows about the rise, decline and fall of empires. About powerful emperors who became nothing and, especially, about the end of the glory that was Rome on the Tiber!