THERE IS ACUTE AND CHRONIC OBI-SESSION IN NIGERIA

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu There is obsession and there is Obi-session. The diff, as the advert says, is clear. The 2078-page Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language bought for me by the legendary South African poet, Dennis Brutus, in the University of Pittsburgh, USA, back in 1989, defines “Obsession” thusly: “the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.” “Obi-session”, on the other hand, can be defined as the domination of the thoughts and feelings of an entire country by one man named…

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