Lerabari's Blog

I love travelling. I didn’t realise this until my national youth service in 2010. Of course, I had travelled even beyond the shores of Nigeria before that year, but there were things I experienced in 2010 that made me discover this part of myself. Truly, life is a journey, and if you’re deliberate and taking note of certain things about life, you’ll find out that life can be a journey of self-realization. Let’s get back to my love for travelling. When I and a childhood cum close friend, Boma, had heard that the NYSC posting list was out, we were apprehensive or somewhat anxious about the list. We needed to see where we had been posted to, majorly because we didn’t want to be posted to any ‘dreaded’ place. We didn’t ‘work’ our posting, so it was expected. Come to think of it now, I wish knew some things then, that I know now, like the fact that THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S. Maybe I wouldn’t have been worried. And to think of how things panned out, there was no need to worry about where I w...

Pronunciation = /ˌzen.əˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ The recent happenings in South Africa has taken center stage for the past few weeks, trending on different social media platforms and steering a lot of reactions. However, the question is, do we truly know what this word means? Has the term ' xenophobia'  been loosely used in the situation in South Africa, or is it a euphemism for the atrocities being committed in a country laden with so much history in the African continent? Let’s take a closer look at the word, vis-a-vis the actual occurrences in SA. Xenophobia, according to the Encarta Dictionary means “fear of foreigners: an intense dislike of foreign people, their customs and culture, or foreign things”, and The English Dictionary describes it as “a strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners”. This acute disdain and fear of things and persons is an offshoot of Cultural Revolution, which a group of people may adopt for reasons best known to them. They could either fee...