My Fav Books

  • A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
  • All the Names - José Saramago
  • An untamed state by Roxanne Gay
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Cujo by Stephen King
  • Efuru by Flora Nwapa
  • It by Stephen King
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Lasher by Ann Rice
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • So Long a letter by Mariama Ba
  • The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Arma
  • The Dark Tower (all 6) by Stephen King
  • The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
  • The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Tick Tock by Dean Koontz

Thursday, August 28, 2014

The fear of Ebola!


So Charles Sawyer made his way to Lagos, Nigeria. Died Here. Infected 13 Nigerians with the Ebola Virus Disease. 4 officially dead.

Not being one to panic, I definitely was scared of contacting the virus. Who wouldn't be? Here's a disease that kills its victims within three weeks, had no proven cure and is quite easily transmitted. A disease no known man was immune to, no prevention vaccines, Nigerian doctors were (still are) on strike and other than Lagos state, the Nigerian government was totally unprepared for such disease. (Which leaves the sanity of the Nigerian Minister for information, Labaran Maku 'questionable' since he claimed on International media that Nigeria was adequately prepared for the Ebola virus)

Trust Nigerians! Handshakes were doled out suspiciously if at all. People avoided any form of contact with others especially in large gatherings and of course the plague of the HAND SANITISERS.

We always turn the strangest things to fads. Offices hung large dispensers of hand sanitisers in their reception areas. One could say a high percentage of Lagosians acquired a 50ml bottle of sanitiser. When you open a door; sanitize. When you shake someone you couldn't refuse their hand; sanitize. When you touch a surface that seems Ebola prone; sanitize.




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