Pat Ashinze wrote...


About Mark Zuckerberg and his low-key visitation to Nigeria

I would love to make a point out of the
unprecedented gospel of simplicity and dress
docility that fellow Nigerians have started
preaching as of now.
Its all about the visit of Zuck and the admonition of simplistic dressing that fellow Nigerians have been talking about in recent days.

Ever since the young and vibrant Billionaire
stepped his geeky feet on the silty terrains of
Nigeria;
Both men and women, young and old, informed
and uninformed have rented the air aloud with
photographic frenzy, admiring the smooth
lifestyle of the T-shirt and Trouser-on-sneakers
dressing fellow.

We all have been singing his praises on our
fleshy tongues and a lot of big dreamers have
reinforced their resolutions, humbly aspiring to be
like the nerdy moneybag in the nearest future.
It's a good conviction, indeed a great resolve
Personally, I am much awed by the guy.

Well, after a huge surf through the bottomless
internet, as it is, and it has been noticed, it seems Everyone has been reiterating
scold-somely and admonishingly on fellow countrymen,

They've been saying,
"See Zuckerberg, He's a mighty billionaire and is
in fact the 6th richest man on earth, all he puts
on are simple dresses while our small yeye guys
here in Nigeria put on Suits and corporate attires
as if they will be the ones to judge everybody at
the end of days,
They dress and walk with empty pomp and
pageantry, They do this, they do that!"

Hmmmm,
You see, Simplicity is a great virtue; as a matter
of fact, every moral and sane-psyched man must
at one point in life acknowledged it's life saving
and appealing attribute.
Little wonder, why Da Vinci adjudged it as the
'Greatest Form of Sophistication'

Give it a functional approach,
Mark Zuckerberg can dress the way he likes and
prefers you know..
He can put on a simpleton's cloth and go
anywhere he likes as he deems fit
He can be this and be that as he pleases so, you
know..
Why??
He is the lord of His possessions
He is rich beyond considerable
He has no boss
It is his undefeatable and seemingly inaccostable
way of life.

So the point I am trying to prove here is that we
must not castigate the Suit-wearers and the
Corperate dressers in an unsent bid to inculcate
a you-must-dress-simple-by-force tradition.
They are working under someone,
They are servants to the decrees of a somebody.

It is expected of them to dress conformingly.
We must not abuse the average life Nigerian who
puts on ostentatious or flashy clothes on to his
place of work or wherever his cerebellum directs
his legs to,
Its who he is, it's what is required of him.
We must not deify the White man just because
he has chosen to come simple.

We must put on good clothes and think good
thoughts and strive and fight and work our way
out until we become the lords of our empire...
Then we can dress as we like...
Corporate or Zuckerberg-like.

But as it is, we must be logical and we must not
reject the entreating hands of common sense
and moderation
"You only hoist your flag when you have a land
of your own"
In a nutshell,
Let Zuckerberg be Zuckerberg,
Let us be us!.

...
© Pat Ashinze


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