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Leadership of a Bad Brother – Level Seven

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:June 18, 2017
Post category:Musings Social Crisis UCGFs
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Leadership of a Bad Brother – Level Seven

When the realm governed by the Bad Brother witnesses a steep hollowing out from the inside by the purposeful preponderance of evil, excesses and abuses to the point everything that held it together is so polluted and its rules irreparably unenforceable, a power vacuum is created. That is the art of negotiating oneself out of power by sloth. Folly. The high and mighty in society that once gave credibility and legitimacy to the realm turn their honourable backs and with convenience depart gradually if they were not expelled earlier. The least among men devoid of rectitude, creativity and intelligence then come into ascendance and potentially power by hunter-gather style ambition. The realm then hollows itself out further till the skin breaks from the inside to the surface. Only the memories remain and the smell.

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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 11 – Slavery?

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:February 21, 2017
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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 11 – Slavery?

To be in a UCGF (University Campus Grown Fraternity) member in 2017 under the terms and conditions they operate in recent times is unusual. Of their free will, you become a slave unless you are a “Slave Master” or his favoured client. The fight to be a slave master is the goal of many an unwitting ambitious UCGF member or rookie, except where does it get them? (See: Nothingness: Fraternity Ladder Ambitions http://wp.me/p1bOKH-zC). (more…)

Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: 10 – Poor Imitators

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:February 17, 2017
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Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 10 – Poor Imitators

University campus grown fraternities (UCGF) have done either good or evil to the societies in their countries of origin (e.g. the USA) is debatable. In the American-formation, with no idealisation intended, their “honour codes” are both formidable and adhered to. “Honour among brothers” is a precious matter for American fraternities. Interestingly, their Nigerian imitators as ‘free-for-all fraternities’ are observably oblivious to the meaning of honour and devoid of working honour codes. It may be the reason UCGFs in Nigeria are more like “street gangs” than collectives of educated men. (more…)