An Enlightening Workshop
The Healing from War Workshop [see previous article] was the first of its kind in Nigeria. It couldn’t have come at a better time. Our country is facing a lot of challenges. Wars are ravaging the country.
War is synonymous with destruction. It brings in its wake climate change, famine, poverty, depopulation, and economic destabilization. Incessant wars draw a country backward and cause the indigenes [Native people] to migrate to other places.
In their sessions people poured out their dislike for war. A highlight for me was when Onii Stevenson (the Area Reference Person for North Central Lagos, Nigeria) called for the total liberation of Africans from slavery. Julian focused on the effects of war and how we can end or avert it. It was an enlightening workshop.
Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of wide world change
(Present Time 189, October 2017)