In Nigeria, a person whose future was stolen by MKO Abiola will come here in 2024 - suffering from the poverty that Abiola engineered for him in 1984 - furiously defending the man's memory because he thinks his interests and MKO's interests are aligned.
In the same Nigeria, another person who went to school with MKO's grandchildren and grew up in ensconced in the socioeconomic stratum that escaped the effects of MKO's poverty-intensifying activities - or even benefitted from them indirectly - will come here and explain to the first person that MKO is one of the reasons for their poverty today.
The first person will then start bitterly arguing and hurling insults at the person who should actually have less of an incentive to even bother, because he somehow thinks that he and a billionaire somehow share something in common.
It's very fascinating to watch, and the more I see these strange phenomena, the more I understand why the British Navy had to send warships to fight actual wars to stop West Africa from selling more people after it had successfully spent 3 entire centuries cheerfully exporting kidnapped human beings in exchange for mirrors, umbrellas, corrugated roofing sheets and gin.
As a people, we need a psychiatric intervention.