The Days of The Jackals: The Roots Of Violence And A Search For The Remaining.
What does it mean to remain nonviolent in a violent world? In our beloved country, Nigeria, millions of people are threatened by the violence of unemployment. Several millions are living in the violence of subhuman conditions caused by want of food and shelter while a few are wallowing in the profligacy of the wealth stolen from our treasury. As a result of the dismal conditions they find themselves in, millions are devoid of self-respect and faith in God. Hence, the message of God can become meaningful to them only if it assures them of some morsels of bread and less oppression. Confronted by the common knowledge that violence yields only to superior violence vis-a-vis, the Christian ethics of nonviolent resistance, the author wonders whether being nonviolent implies that the Christian must fold his hands and wait for justice to fall from heaven when oppressive powers and structures that victimize and dehumanize people become the unwritten law and the constitution of the land and are thus defended as being legitimate and necessary at all costs by a conglomeration of ruthless and faceless security agents. Must he just idly watch the common people as they are turned into things, numbers and instruments to be used and abused by those in power who think that they have a divine right to corrupt and overthrow the fundamental principles of love, peace and justice? These and many more are the type of questions raised in this book.
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