While the rest of the world is receiving a
deadly hiding at the hands of the coronavirus pandemic, we in Nigeria seem
distant from this global anxiety. We are complacent, living in cloying bliss,
expecting deliverance from an outsourced ‘invisible hand’, if Covid-19 finally
hits us the way it is crowding on the others with a threat to wipe them out.
The nations of the Americas, Europe,
Australasia, and a few here in Africa are panicking, resorting to wild and
extreme ploys to outwit the disease. Even in wartime, World War 2, Europe
wasn’t as mortally frenzy, didn’t reach for the uttermost ends its nations are
aiming for at the moment. They sense danger. It’s universal insecurity communism
and ‘rogue’ countries like Cuba and North Korea and Iran were not able to
unleash on mankind at their apogee. Military allies have broken pacts and all
are becoming recluse, shutting their borders.
