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THE BABY HAS ARRIVED - PRE-NAMING ANNOUNCEMENT
Empire of Scars: The Legendary History of Nigeria
My Dear Friends,
At last, the cry of a long-awaited baby has been heard!
Our baby, whom we collectively conceived and whose intellectual foetus has been growing in the womb of history for FOUR WHOLE YEARS, has finally been delivered. What began as an idea has matured into an heirloom; what started as a dream has found its way into the hands of destiny.
Four years of sweat. Four years of sleepless vigils. Four years of descending into the deepest caverns of our storied past, to bring our history into the light in its purest and richest form.
Today, the cord is cut. The cry has been heard.
Ladies and gentlemen, the baby is here!
That baby for whom your congratulations have been so warm, your encouragement so reassuring, and your anticipation so infectious is none other than our long-awaited book project:
EMPIRE OF SCARS: THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF NIGERIA.
This book is our attempt to bring those stories home, to illuminate the shadows of our past, interrogate the scars of our journey, and preserve the lessons from yesterday that tomorrow must not be allowed to forget.
But, dear friends, every child deserves a befitting naming ceremony, and a project of this magnitude must not be ushered into the world through the back door.
Prepare yourselves for a dignifying launch, one worthy of the labour, the vision, and the historical significance of this noble undertaking.
Yet, before we discharge this bouncing baby from the delivery ward and formally present it to the world, there is a peculiar privilege reserved for our friends in the diaspora. They shall have the first glimpse of this beautiful creation, a taste of the intellectual harvest we have laboured for four years to bring home.
And then, my dear friends here with me at home, our own copies shall follow at the grand launch and beyond as the princes and princesses that we are.
The scars are real. The stories are older than the scars. And the griot has found his voice.
Empire of Scars is finally here.
Shall the LEGENDARY J.O.E begin?
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Good Evening Severally...
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
Is there any substitute for one’s family? No. But, the lesson would soon be learnt by either the husband/wife that demonizes his/her family in order to embrace the inlaws. You dont caution a curious child not to play with fire…
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
The sad truth is that many young men will refuse to learn from the mistakes of older men who have already walked the road they are about to take.
Wisdom is not only about learning from your own mistakes, it is also about learning from the consequences of other people's decisions.
Don't let pride make you pay for a lesson someone else's experience could have taught you for free.
Dear Young Man,
Under normal circumstances, never assume that your wife's family can possibly love you more than your own family.
This recent trend of newly successful men demonising their own families while adopting their wives' as substitutes is a disease that must encounter a vaccine, and soonest. It makes absolutely no sense.
A young man emerges into fortune, builds a home, accommodates his wife's mother, her siblings, and perhaps even finds a confidant in her father, yet almost entirely abandons his own family. And somehow, there is always a justification for it. An emotional biography carefully assembled to rationalise the weakness of men.
Suddenly, every husband's family is evil, cruel, toxic and inhabited by demons that must be cast out, while every wife's family is made up of angels and saints deserving of adoration and canonisation.
Really?
Of course, there are genuinely terrible families, and marriage does not require you to tolerate abuse or endure toxicity in the name of blood relations. But when a man must systematically vilify his own family to prove his loyalty to his wife's, perhaps the problem deserves a more honest interrogation.
Marriage is not a funeral for your family ties, and success should not become the burial ground of your roots.
Learn to establish healthy boundaries, protect your peace, honour your wife and respect her family. But do not allow the emotional politics of marriage to turn you into a stranger to the people who knew you before fortune gave you a new identity.
Blood is not always thicker than water, I agree. But neither should marriage become an excuse to rewrite history, manufacture villains and canonise an entire family simply because you have found a new home.
Wisdom is knowing how to build a new family without needlessly destroying the old one.
Good Morning Severally...
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
He who has ears, let him hear...
Dear Young Man,
Under normal circumstances, never assume that your wife's family can possibly love you more than your own family.
This recent trend of newly successful men demonising their own families while adopting their wives' as substitutes is a disease that must encounter a vaccine, and soonest. It makes absolutely no sense.
A young man emerges into fortune, builds a home, accommodates his wife's mother, her siblings, and perhaps even finds a confidant in her father, yet almost entirely abandons his own family. And somehow, there is always a justification for it. An emotional biography carefully assembled to rationalise the weakness of men.
Suddenly, every husband's family is evil, cruel, toxic and inhabited by demons that must be cast out, while every wife's family is made up of angels and saints deserving of adoration and canonisation.
Really?
Of course, there are genuinely terrible families, and marriage does not require you to tolerate abuse or endure toxicity in the name of blood relations. But when a man must systematically vilify his own family to prove his loyalty to his wife's, perhaps the problem deserves a more honest interrogation.
Marriage is not a funeral for your family ties, and success should not become the burial ground of your roots.
Learn to establish healthy boundaries, protect your peace, honour your wife and respect her family. But do not allow the emotional politics of marriage to turn you into a stranger to the people who knew you before fortune gave you a new identity.
Blood is not always thicker than water, I agree. But neither should marriage become an excuse to rewrite history, manufacture villains and canonise an entire family simply because you have found a new home.
Wisdom is knowing how to build a new family without needlessly destroying the old one.
Good Morning Severally...
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
“Marriage is not a funeral for your family ties, and success should not become the burial ground of your roots”
Dear Young Man,
Under normal circumstances, never assume that your wife's family can possibly love you more than your own family.
This recent trend of newly successful men demonising their own families while adopting their wives' as substitutes is a disease that must encounter a vaccine, and soonest. It makes absolutely no sense.
A young man emerges into fortune, builds a home, accommodates his wife's mother, her siblings, and perhaps even finds a confidant in her father, yet almost entirely abandons his own family. And somehow, there is always a justification for it. An emotional biography carefully assembled to rationalise the weakness of men.
Suddenly, every husband's family is evil, cruel, toxic and inhabited by demons that must be cast out, while every wife's family is made up of angels and saints deserving of adoration and canonisation.
Really?
Of course, there are genuinely terrible families, and marriage does not require you to tolerate abuse or endure toxicity in the name of blood relations. But when a man must systematically vilify his own family to prove his loyalty to his wife's, perhaps the problem deserves a more honest interrogation.
Marriage is not a funeral for your family ties, and success should not become the burial ground of your roots.
Learn to establish healthy boundaries, protect your peace, honour your wife and respect her family. But do not allow the emotional politics of marriage to turn you into a stranger to the people who knew you before fortune gave you a new identity.
Blood is not always thicker than water, I agree. But neither should marriage become an excuse to rewrite history, manufacture villains and canonise an entire family simply because you have found a new home.
Wisdom is knowing how to build a new family without needlessly destroying the old one.
Good Morning Severally...
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
Ẹni to ni Baba oun la
Ẹni to ni Baba oun o l’owo;
Ẹnu ẹ lo wa yẹn.
@LegendaryJoe, Thanks for the wisdom shared; but will they listen and learn?
Dear Young Man,
Under normal circumstances, never assume that your wife's family can possibly love you more than your own family.
This recent trend of newly successful men demonising their own families while adopting their wives' as substitutes is a disease that must encounter a vaccine, and soonest. It makes absolutely no sense.
A young man emerges into fortune, builds a home, accommodates his wife's mother, her siblings, and perhaps even finds a confidant in her father, yet almost entirely abandons his own family. And somehow, there is always a justification for it. An emotional biography carefully assembled to rationalise the weakness of men.
Suddenly, every husband's family is evil, cruel, toxic and inhabited by demons that must be cast out, while every wife's family is made up of angels and saints deserving of adoration and canonisation.
Really?
Of course, there are genuinely terrible families, and marriage does not require you to tolerate abuse or endure toxicity in the name of blood relations. But when a man must systematically vilify his own family to prove his loyalty to his wife's, perhaps the problem deserves a more honest interrogation.
Marriage is not a funeral for your family ties, and success should not become the burial ground of your roots.
Learn to establish healthy boundaries, protect your peace, honour your wife and respect her family. But do not allow the emotional politics of marriage to turn you into a stranger to the people who knew you before fortune gave you a new identity.
Blood is not always thicker than water, I agree. But neither should marriage become an excuse to rewrite history, manufacture villains and canonise an entire family simply because you have found a new home.
Wisdom is knowing how to build a new family without needlessly destroying the old one.
Good Morning Severally...
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
Blood is not always thicker than water, I agree. But neither should marriage become an excuse to rewrite history, manufacture villains and canonise an entire family simply because you have found a new home.
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
99%of those supporting the wife would not tolerate a quarter of what they support if table turns.
Teach your girl child to make her own money and stop seeing them as poverty alleviation
Men should take their sons as their best friends and stop leaving them for their mothers.
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
A wise friend once told me: “Protect your wife from your family and your family from your wife”
I suppose we can extend that to include your wife’s family too.
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
That is something I noticed, women always love it when they dominate their homes, is something u can't take from them
LEGENDARY J.O.E retweeted
Come to think of it, can't men think that, it is a circle that could count against him if his own children start their own family. Can't we break this circle of, all my father's/mother's family are bad, and as a result of that, i will build a new family out of my wife's relation
