MyWeku

by Japheth J OMOJUWA

I am certain of a bright future for myself. I see it in the little leaps and successes I have achieved on the way there. I see that brightness on every turn of my journey to that legendary top. No government policy can stop this dream of mine because it is not built on the vagaries and inconsistencies of a national government but on the foundations of a common world.

As bright as this future looks, it becomes a dark abyss when seen through my bigger picture; my origin and identity. I come from a society where poverty has become my every other neighbour, where success is defined in materiality, where the quest to amass wealth through means illegal and evil reigns supreme. If this society continues its plunge down the tortuous path of underdevelopment and mediocrity, my big picture would be a mass of dirt, penury, destitution and every pain imaginable. If it crashes on the wall of tribalism and lawlessness, my small picture success would become a bastard of sorts because if this happens, I’d be nothing else but a lost citizen of an old forgotten country. This is why I am not just Japheth Omojuwa………..

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