One world, different strokes, 2030 world cup

This is the 21st. Century.

Some herbalists pour blood of a goat on Kwara United players before their CAF Confederation Cup match in Niger Republic

‘Victory’ is measured in the toll of the dead and of destroyed structures. The global spirit is dampened by it all as no one can explain the rationale for such needless destruction that is impoverishing the rest of the world in different forms.

Yet, the crisis goes on with the real threat and possibility of an escalation that can ultimately destroy life on earth. Yet this is probably the most ‘advanced’ period in human history.

In this same period, in another part of the world closer home, a Nigerian football club, Kwara United FC, goes to Niamey, Niger Republic, to honour the second leg of an African continental Club competition.

As the players are alighting from their coach at the Stadium of their hosts, a small group of men, with one dragging a small goat tied by the neck, openly starts to splash and sprinkle the fresh blood of some animal on their opponents, players and their officials, and chanting some incantations.

It was an unbelievable scene straight out of the dark ages, absolute barbarism. It was a distraction, fear, mental torture and trauma for the visiting players about to play a crucial continental football match.

Shockingly, up till the time of writing this, there has been no reaction from the organisers of the championship, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, probably because, even in the 21st Century the world still ‘quietly’ accepts these dark spiritual practises as a reality of life, practised in different religious forms and shapes in different parts of the world despite the overwhelming evidence that it is all inefficacious. Otherwise, an African