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What Amanda Gorman reminds us of the ‘unity’ of poetics and politics
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By Segun Ige
ORGANIC unity, theoretically speaking, speaks of the interconnectedness which exists between ‘form’ and ‘content’. As far as form and content are concerned, the bottom line is that whatever could potentially hold some liquid, for example, is no more significant as the liquid itself: Both are equally useful and necessary to serve a singular purpose.
Practically speaking, as Scripture tells us, the branches cannot do anything without the vine and, conversely, the vine cannot do anything without the branches. As intrinsically woven as the spirit, soul and body tend to be ‘organically united’, poetics and politics are as perennially powered as the living stream of consciousness flowing between them replenishes day by day.
The Nigerian education sector needs to start ‘‘growing up.’’ The sector needs to start embracing the social realities the pandemic has created. There’s a lesson to learn from every crisis. Crises usually come at unexpected times.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,” says Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities.
Yet even though Dickens may have been describing the highs and lows of the French Revolution, he could as well been tellingly providing a trompe l’oeil of the ins and outs of the year 2020.