WE NEED TO CORRECT THE NOTION WE ARE WOKE AND BECOME WOKE.

I’m taking a stroll on a Wednesday morning when I see the local butcher walking towards me. More like walking towards his house in his trademark aggressive yet swagger prance with so much agility for a man in his mid-forties.

He holds his phone cum radio closely to his ears as he walks, and out of curiosity, I then stall to listen to the radio and it is an indigenous radio station – Yoruba to be clear-cut where they are reading the papers and relaying to their listeners the occurrences of the day.

And then it hits me! This is a supposed ‘Illiterate’ who first thing in the morning is getting acquitted to the happenings of the day probably after saying his prayers.

Flip that scenario to the average millennial or Gen-Z way and then you would observe the divergent difference – We are so engrossed in priding ourselves as being ‘aware’, ‘politically correct’ and ‘enlightened’ among others that we either don’t know we are not or are actually sentient about the irrelevant things.

But what do we do early in the morning? Almost impulsively, we flip through our phones sourcing for remnants of our unfinished WhatsApp chats, refreshing through for new Instagram/ Twitter feeds, checking what is(not) trending that we even forget to get ourselves aware of what is happening to us as a…