There Was A Town....A Kingdom Without King - Ezenwenyi Stanley C

There was a town that i know, located in the south east of Nigeria. It is a town with great men and beautiful people. From time immemorial kingship has been a major source of war amongst its comprising villages. For a very long time this town lived without king in a kingdom so royal without predefined lineage of kings but with many dynasties. Though For the beautiful love that  "peace" brings in every community,great men from the town fought tirelessly for peace but made a big mistake when peace visited the town after more than two decades of chaos, a mistake that encapsulated the town into towns with kings even though they still had no king. Sadly,within a decade the name of this town was erased from the list of towns with kings,and  behold women cried, while the  men wondered with great nostalgia of the sweet ugly pain it took them to buy PEACE from the market of NEGOTIATION and AGREEMENT. Perhaps this town have not learned from the mistakes of yesterday.....Perhaps they are still driven by the thoughts of their grand parents who were engaged in fights of who is the district officer or not.....maybe, just maybe someone should tell them that far beyond the British indirect rule the town have existed,or perhaps they are all strangers in the land.

Today this town have neglected the mothers of their fathers and the daughters of their mothers. Though they decided to go into the beautiful affairs of kingship in a democratic way,they have pushed the women to a neglected zone, this town seems  not to be aware that there is no democracy without women.

In arguable conclusion,one thing this town should learn, is to correct mistakes when identified, and pay the price. For if a man makes a mistake and accepts that  he has erred,it is only wise that  the man pay for the pains of the mistake to avoid enslaving his life.

Let those that have ears hear the voice coming from the light of a full moon. Peace is sweeter than sugar and war is bitter.