Beyond Politics!

One major attribute of poverty is competition borne out of insecurity.

Real class defies these things and looks the way of the ordinary in the journey to sophistication. This is why in very poor neighborhoods, everyone is competing to “show”, by engaging in the primitive acquisition of material goods they have little or no need for, without necessarily thinking of how to escape poverty.

With the poverty of the mind being one dimension of the poverty spectrum, you can still find “big men” who, rather than stay on their lane, continue to poke their nose into the affairs of others who care less if they exist or not.

On this space, I have read how some persons busied themselves with comparing the guest list at a wedding that is entirely a private affair. This is how poor people can be even when they are manifestly rich. It reminded me of the days when my friends and I sat to argue who was Richer between 50 cent and Eminem. In simple terms, it is “akiko ndi mgbu”.

— Mazi Ejimofor Opara