The Choice before an Empire

By Kayode Oladipupo

The Choice Before an Empire provides a philosophical understanding of the major political parties contending for dominance in the political space of a nation in need of purposeful leadership to save it from cataclysm due to corruption, directionless leadership, gross economic mismanagement, erosion of values, ethnic and religious mistrust, poverty, ever growing youth unemployment, uninspiring followership and docile civil force . The book x-tray the spiritual and philosophical connotations of the symbols of the political parties and provides the readers with how the symbols of the parties interpret the behavioural and attitudinal communications of their leaders once they get into office.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kayode Oladipupo
• Release date: Jan 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9780463635278

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THE

CHOICE BEFORE

AN

EMPIRE

BY

KAYODE OLADIPUPO

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Choice Before an Empire provides a philosophical understanding of the major political parties contending for dominance in the political space of a nation in need of purposeful leadership to save it from cataclysm due to corruption, directionless leadership, gross economic mismanagement, erosion of values, ethnic and religious mistrust, poverty, ever growing youth unemployment, uninspiring followership and docile civil force . The book x-tray the spiritual and philosophical connotations of the symbols of the political parties and provides the readers with how the symbols of the parties interpret the behavioural and attitudinal communications of their leaders once they get into office.

The book will surely evoke different reactions from different interest group. It is a satire that will refresh, enrich the readers and better equip them to make informed decision that will engender a new and better life for the nation.

Kayode Oladipupo, attended the politically conscious University of Ife, Ile- Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University. He is a passionate teacher of Leadership for Result and Transformational Leadership Development. He isa specialist in Community Capacity Enhancement and visible speaker in seminars, conferences, radio and television programmes.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1Chapter INTRODUCTION1

2Chapter THE FORLORN HOPE5

3Chapter THE HOUR OF DARKNESS7

4Chapter BEFORE DAWN16

5Chapter THE AWAITED DAWN21

6Chapter THE UMBRELLA AND THE BROOM33

7Chapter LET THERE BE A HOME37

8Chapter Name SAMPLE UNFORMATTED38

INTRODUCTION

The Choice Before an Empire by Kayode Oladipupo is the musing of a writer about his troubled nation. When a people are imperiled through the acts of omission or commission of their leaders, survival becomes a collective as well as individual responsibility. In that quest, even words become weapons of war and of freedom – from fear, misrule or bad governance and, in contemporary Nigeria, corruption.

Oladipupo employs words at their strongest to express his objection to the goings-on around him. In a democracy, this is acceptable if the objects of anger are governance structures or institutions in which, as citizens, people have a stake. Words are an alternative to war; when words fail, war takes over as we have seen on at least one major occasion in our country, when we had to fight a gruesome civil war.

The writer’s language which may be justifiable, in our circumstance, may also be tempered by moderation, unfortunate and undesirable as the situation may be. Oladipupo borrows from contemporary descriptive political language such as ‘nest of killers’ – coined by Professor Wole Soyinka – to register his disappointment at the turn of events in his country, after the harrowing experience of military rule when compatriots had thought that with the advent of democratic rule, the worst was over for his land. The truth is that there have been political killings in both democratic and military dispensations in Nigeria. What efforts have been made to unravel those behind the killings and bring them to justice is another matter altogether. Both