When We Made Men

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When We Made Men When We Made Men

Author: Tito O'tobi

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Published: 2014

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A storm of political incidents forces a 13year old boy of the Yoruba ethnic group of South-Western Nigeria to take a philosophical yet seemingly childish entry into his nation's socio-cultural and political landscape.He writes his experiences through a whirlwind of events and changes the system of government.What will you see if you look at the political landscape through the eyes of a child?A 13 year old boy of the Yoruba ethnic group of what used to be South Western Nigeria gets caught in the intriguing world of changes sweeping the political landscape in his native Yoruba state, which in itself, is a fragment of the Nigerian state broken up by coups, corruption and ethnic disputes. The raging storm of political antecedents forces the boy to take a philosophical yet seemingly childish entry into the world of his nation's cultural, social and political landscape. With historical information supplied by the few adults around him, scholarly storytellers who believe that history and past incidents are the best predictors of future incidents, he is forced to take the role of a rising younger generation whose heroic actions can clean the past mistakes of the men made by the nation’s corrupt political class, he puts down his thoughts and experiences through a whirlwind of events. His story forms the trigger that eventually establishes a new system of government in a state where democracy is considered a failure. What will you see if you look at the political landscape through the eyes of a child?Will these responsibilities become the initiation of a good man made by the politics played around him or be the birth of a new generation of men carrying the genes of the old class.