HISTORY

HISTORY! HISTORY!!

History: this is the word that enlightens us

This is the word that cannot be denied

This is the word that cannot be rubbished

It has its impact upon generations

The freedom movement was a product of history

It was conceived in the belly of history

Powered by history and limited by history

The independence of African nations

The voyage of Christopher Columbus

Was a by-product of history.

We can say by way of illustration

That there would not have been a Montgomery Bus Boycott

If Martin Luther King had never lived

But that the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Would not have become an icon without M. Luther King’s leadership

History provides opportunities for everyone to make up

And to made the world a better place than we met it

History is events of life that champion the cause of the good and the bad

All my actions today will become events in the history of life tomorrow.

For although Martin Luther King didn’t start the boycott

He was there and ready when the people called

And tell us today from the grave

That no greater tragedy can befall you or me

Than for the people to call and for you or me to be unready

As for the rest of us, there is nothing more to say except

Martin and Malcolm X did their historical duty

And now we historians and citizens of our nations must do what is needful

By breaking free of the fashionable and

False dichotomies that distort them both

History had favoured many men and women

Who pass through this world just one time

And changed the hand of the clock

Turn the tide and make a wave

Can America forget Martin Luther King?

Can America forget Henry Ford?

Can Nigeria forget Obafemi Awolowo?

Can the continent of Africa forget Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkruma?

Can the world forget Mohandas Gandhi?

No! No! The history of the present world cannot be completed

Without the historian making a big reference to Bill gate,

A man who champion the Information Technology Breakthrough.

The history of the church in the 20th and 21^st century,

Can not be completed without some notable men.

Men Gani Fawehinmi, Beko Ransome Kuti, Wole Soyinka and other freedom fighters and nation builders who left their comfort zone to make Nigeria a desirable place.

Men like Benson Idahosa, an evangelist and a reformer,

Men like Tunde Bakare, voice to our nation, radical opposition to corruption

An angry revolutionary, a man who choose to be different in all ramifications

A man who is passionate about a new Nigeria,

Prophet to the entire globe,

History will also favour me,

Because I intend to write one when am I alive,

I will do my best,

I will print my foot path on the sand of time,

In my days and time Nigeria will flourish,

History of the world is an open book,

I will write mine as long as I live

So that the generation coming after me can relate with and learn from.

All of us will be history book the world will read long after we have gone

When that book is open what will the world read about you

Will they read with disgust or with happiness

Will they thank God you came or curse the time you spent.