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Publisher: unibenpublisher
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 68
Copyright: 2015
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Ethics and Morality
STATEMENT ADDRESSING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ENVIROMENTAL IMPACT in the book What Must Not Be Lost.
What Must Not Be Lost is an African periscope of the unique social cultural mode of living of the African people which carries in itself the instrument and standards of value measurement as well as action modulator of the African people. In such morally conscious echelon, the African moderates his/her attitude towards the other in economic perspective where, not the commodity or the money matters but the being for the other in provision of needs. Hence is such economic dimension, ‘What Must Not Be Lost’ crystalizes the African non monetization attitude and his/her value for the money and dignity of the human person as an end in itself and not a means to an end.
Environmentally, What Must Not Be Lost, shows the ontological relations between man and his environment. It lauding the African interconnectivity with the universe and his/her dependence on it as well. Thus, the African develops a care conscious attitude to the environment bearing in mind that any harm done to the community or environment, affect the hegemony or stability of the community. In this aforementioned, What Must Not Be Lost is a re-echo of the African inter relativity to his/her universe and inter community to his/her environment
‘What Must Not Be Lost’ re affirms like Senghor, Nyerere, Kaunda, Okolo and many other African and non-African scholars, the unique essence of the African as a social being. Hence it is the Negritude, Ujama, Humanism and bantu as well Ára adugbo’ of the African in his/her social mode of being with the other in the world. This social implication, modifies the Africans relations with his/her fellow man in a very ‘good conscious’ dimension and thus modifies his/her thought, words and actions as a being in the world.
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Excerpt
CHAPTER ONE
Akanni arrived from his farm where he had spent the greater part of his time that day. The twilight appeared gently in the sky which showed that darkness would soon descend upon the land. He dropped the antelope which he killed when he was returning from the farm. He had always noticed the sound of the antelope whenever he passed that route, but he never believed he would be lucky to kill the animal. He called out to his wife. Asake, who was busy preparing grounded corn meal to make ‘Ogi’ for her child who was starving, but Okiki, could not eat because of the severe fever he had. Asake took him inside, and tried to forcefully feed him. She heard a voice
from outside the hut, she kept mute, but later she heard the voice the second time and knew nobody could sing that way except her husband. She quickly finished feeding the baby strapped him on
her back and dashed into the passage to see her husband.
‘’E kaa bo bale mi’’ she went down on her kneels to greet Akanni.
‘’Kuule Ayaa mi, bawo ni aba ile’’? Akani replied her greetings.
‘’Adupe’’, Asake answered.
She rose and told Akanni about Okiki who had not been feeling fine.
‘’Take these leaves, boil them, and let him drink from it, Okiki will be fine’’. Akani handed the leaves to Asake.
‘’Go and take alook at what I have got out there,
Asake, I have a surprise for you:’’ Akanni said.
‘’Me, Asake? What surprise Oko mi?’’ she asked.
There you go again, that was what you told me some days ago that you had a surprise for me which I later found out to be a snake you killed.’’
Asake said with a smile.
‘’Hmm, women and their impatience, was it
because I did not tell you the other day, would that be the reason you want to hear this from me? Look if you do not wish to go, then, let me go in and have my bath. I will need to visit the
youths to discuss vital issues with them concerning our town’s development and how wecan bail Ojulade kingdom out of their
predicament. ’’
Akanni rose and left for the bathroom for a
shower. He had just finished rinsing his face when he heard a sharp cry from Asake who was outside, he didn’t bother to rush outside because
he knew the reason behind her cry...
‘’Omo obirin yi pelu eru biba saa,’’ I don’t know
when you’ll be brave. There are women who have killed big animals which their husbands could not even wait to behold. Even ordinary rats in the house, she runs like a person who had seen a crocodile. She once poured hot “ewedu” soup on my leg, simply because she thought she had
stepped on a snake, not knowing that it was just a log of wood. It was only Eleduwa and of cold water that saved me that day, my skin would have peeled off.’’
He hurriedly took his bath, dried his body with a towel and came out of the bathroom to find out why she had disturbed him with such a strange noise.
‘’Asake, what is it again this time?’’
‘’Olowo ori mi, I am very sorry, had it been that I saw the antelope immediately, it would have been better, but when I got outside, I saw it moving so I had to get a stick and hit the animal to be completely sure it was dead. It’s not easy killing an animal that possessed the same breath like humans.’’ Asake explained.
‘’Oh! Well said. Well. Where is my food?’’ Akanni asked.
‘’Oh Olowo ori mi, your food is on the table.’’
Asake replied him. Hmmm, I trust you with that; you can kill a man with food even before his time.
Akanni said joking and Asake replied him with a smile.
‘’ When will you be back from the meeting? Asake asked.
‘’Well, it depends on the issues raised by the youths. It is enough Asake, take the antelope to the kitchen and prepare dinner. How are my children?’’
He looked around, expecting to see where Okiki was lain.
‘’You know your son, he took little out of the pap I forced him to take, I think he is sleeping now because he told me that he was sleepy’’.
‘’Ok, that is not a problem, at least that gives you time to finish your cooking before he wakes up, I
have to go for the meeting now, I will be back before dusk.’’
He left the hut and walked towards the road that led to the market place. Asake quickly placed a
pot on the three cooking stones that were made to balance the pot so that the water would not spill on the firewood. Wet wood hinder the water
from boiling fast. She left the pot and moved
back to where she was sieving the water from the corn at the backyard. She put back the white sieving cloth and wrung it to free the water from the real “ogi” and poured out the chaff in the sieving cloth, she placed them into the basket and took them out for the goats to eat. She went inside to cover the water so that the “ogi” would settle down. By the time she got back from the kitchen, the water she placed on the firewood had boiled. She put down the water and picked up the antelope by the tail; dipped it in the boiling water so that the fur would be easily removed, she then proceeded to scrub the antelope. She made sure she cleaned the room thereafter.
‘’Ise Obinrin poju ti okunrin lo… he has left now, I will be the only one to do all of these,’’
She went inside to check if Okiki had woken up,
Okiki was still deep asleep . She left the room and quickly rushed into the kitchen to boil the antelope. That was what she was doing when Okiki woke up and he told his mother that he
would eat.
‘’But you slept not long ago, wait a little so I can boil the antelope and you can eat from it.’’
She did not attend to Okiki, not until she finished
the cooking. She put down the pot from the fire and placed it on the ground, and she quickly served Okiki some soup and fufu. She adjusted her wrapper, and opened the window for cross
ventilation.
You can come outside for fresh air if you are hot. She told Okiki. She closed the middle sized door to prevent goats from entering. She remembered a funny experience she once had with a stubborn nanny goat that got into the kitchen unnoticed
and consumed the fufu she had reserved for her husband’s dinner. The aftermath wasn’t funny at all. Once beaten, they say twice shy. In order to avoid such an experience the second time, she was careful enough to secure the door, and later went to spend some time with her child.
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