Over the years, I have noticed a pattern but I wasn't really keen on talking about it and I had even forgotten about it. That's until I stumbled upon a comedy skit that brought up the thought again in my mind.
Why do idols cherish poverty?
That's the thought that has been on my mind for years now. This thought didn't just originate from thin air, no, It came about as a result of watching too many Nollywood movies in the past. A time when Nollywood movies were great with great actors, especially the ones with traditional settings.
If you were an ardent follower of Nollywood movies, especially during the times of Pete Edochie and other veteran actors, you will agree with me that they usually portrayed voodoo priests (native doctors) as poor wretched people. These voodoo priests lived inside the deep parts of the forest and they depended on the little offerings brought by customers who come for consultations or charms, before they could feed.
Surprisingly, they have the necessary charms and rituals to make a pauper become rich but they themselves dare not partake in such a ritual and get rich. They would have been warned by the idols never to aim high or think of becoming wealthy. Personally, that idol is simply selfish. Giving others wealth (even if it's for a short period) while their attendant priests live from hand to mouth, mtchewww.
This is not even what is angering me. It is the fact that when these idols want to choose someone to become their attendant priests, they go for poor people. Can't they go for rich people like Dangote, Obi Cubana* or even Otedola to appoint them as the next voodoo priests to be attending to them. Rather, they would be looking for someone who can barely drink garri (cassava flakes) and be appointing up and down. *Is it that their HR department is short-sighted?
Let's look at another angle. What were some ancestors thinking when they made covenants with such idols, exchanging a good portion of theirs and their children's destiny for one flimsy thing or the other.
Hmm, I am so glad I was not born during such periods when idol worship was a thing in Africa, before the advent of Christianity. The idol that will make me serve it in rags as a priestess will try hard, lol.
This goes without saying. How can one idol thingy appoint me to serve it without making me wealthy?
Is this playing? Or Is this joking? That idol better park well or I'll use my broom and dust pan on it ASAP without looking back.
Thanks for reading.
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