KARMA TO THE DUSTBIN

Zoba De Great
2 min readDec 12, 2021

Hands chained, stripped naked, they were taken away in hundreds with undersized boats. Many died before they reached their various destinations like Liverpool where they were auctioned off to a life of suffering, pain, sorrows, tears and death in the hands of their slave masters.

About a hundred years later, their slave masters went back to meet their brothers and colonised them in the most dehumanizing manner and destroyed everything they had. In the words of Achebe, things fell apart.

Hundred years after, while the children of the slaves are shot and killed indiscriminately, their brothers at home are under severe neocolonialism where suffering has become normalcy.

Where was KARMA?
Answer: in the dustbin.

It was 50 years ago that a tribe took it upon themselves to exterminate Igbos, with the support of other neighbouring tribes and British overlords, massacred hundreds of thousands of defenseless civilians and soldiers, starved millions to death for the simple reason of being Igbo.

It's been 50 years, that same tribe, through Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, Bandits and others are still actively exterminating the Igbos.
Their punishment? Choicest top government positions, abundant wealth, power and authority and well secured future for ALL their offsprings that are reasonable.

Where was KARMA?
Answer: the dustbin

They plundered the nation's resources, fed off people's suffering, profited from bribery and corruption and laid the precedent for what we are going through now.
Their punishment? Oxford trained children who are well equipped with quality education, investment and vast wealth to keep the family empire going as they get set to fully take over from their father.
The reward for the masses? More years of suffering, pain and hunger.

Where was KARMA?
Answer: where it rightfully belongs; the dustbin.

When you become honest to yourself and monitor real life events, you will carefully discard Karma to the dustbin, because it neither exists nor works in any situation.

Karma is an illusion harboured by the conquered to make themselves feel good about their inability to surmount life's challenges. It is the illusionary refuge of the weak.

The tragedy of KARMA is that it prevents the conquered from planning and actively revenging and also prevents them from forgiving and forgetting. So they live in perpetual hurt and hatered while their conquerors celebrate and enjoy their conquest.

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Zoba De Great

A Journalist and Writer who is optimistic about finding the cure to death