| Reuben Abati |
As much as I cringed reading some of Dr.
Reuben Abati’s words this past Sunday in The Guardian newspaper, a
sense of eiyaaa overwhelmed me. It was so obvious that the task before
the erudite ex-columnist was to catch a porcupine with bare hands.
Abati’s piece reminded me of my mother
when I was in primary school. I was flogged silly by the labour master
for not bringing “handwork” to school one time and hell almost broke
loose.
Handwork required tedious work, and it
was a necessity and part of the school program. At this particular
occasion I came to school empty handed and the labour master could not
bear my audacity of hoping he would not ask me for it.
