Pondering over the Emir of Kano, Air Peace tango this week, I
couldn’t help but remember the wisecrack by Sarah Churchwell, the 51-year-old
professor of American Literature, who wrote: “People who are given whatever
they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of
proportion.”
That
is exactly what is happening in this contrived hullabaloo.
For those not aware, the story is that the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, who was returning from Banjul, Gambia, missed his early morning flight from Lagos to Kano.