Love: The Only Nucleus*

Whatever name the Creator is called – God in English, Allah in Arabic, Yahweh in Jewish perspective, Olódùmarè in Yorùbá, Dieu in French, Dio among the Italians, Jumala in Finnish language, or Unkulunkulu by the Zulu people – by those who believe in His existence, it must be recognized that Creator is the Force that exists before human creation. The Creator actually is Love. With love as the basis for human creation and existence, God gives humans everything – land, seas, waters, the solar system, intelligence, air, animals, and so many – to enjoy them equally. Despite the thousands of years of human explorations and research, all the goodies of the Creator have not been discovered. In reality, such would never be accomplished because that is what make Him the Omniscient.

As God so much love the world and He gives all to humanity without taxation, why is there unfairness and injustice in the world? Why are there boundaries and racial discriminations? Where are there poverty and deprivations in a land where some are extremely wealthy? All these and more exist in the globe because there is no love. In most cases, the feelings are that those who are in political offices only legislate and enact only laws and bills that practically works in their favour and POLITICALLY advertise some which theoretical work on paper for the masses. How true is this?

The primary cause of all problems in societal administration in the world today is attributable to one factor – power.

Power, as concept, is not the problem of human world and it would never be. The quest for power in order to dominate others has been the poison to peace and equality. Since the beginning of what transformed to present-day world, disequilibrium has been the reality in so many ways through history, migration, resource sharing etc. Partiality, racism, strict immigration laws and economic neocolonialism have become toxic to love.

Love is the only divine gift that connects

humans without any criterion or reason.

Even in the United States of America, history and reality show that non-existence of love is the catalyst of inequalities in race, religion, aboriginality etc. From the angle of history, the disequilibrium had long pushed those who were first settlers in what becomes the present-day United States to the lowest point on the ladder of political stratification in the country. It is arguable that no one among them – the Algonquin or Algonkin, the Cheyenne people, the Delaware also known as Lenape or Lenni Lenape, and Ojibwa or Chippewa and others in their category – had never emerged as a president or vice president. The same is arguably the experience in the circle of politics in Lagos, Nigeria. Ironically, those who enjoy the benefits of migration are now the crusaders of anti-migration laws. And such people are the rulers of the aborigines. Why are all these possible? There is the use of power to dominate territories where LOVE only should reign!

Love, without racial interest, quest for financial supremacy, or any form of motive for domination is the only thing that could end wars, political impasses, struggles for nuclear superiority, terrorism, and economic collapse. Since the 1920s till date, over 10,000 national and international policies have been initiated, passed, practised and popularized in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean by governments and hundreds of agencies. Till now, hunger, inequalities, underdevelopment, overpopulation and more are getting far away from declining. Why? Because there is no love in all the policies. This is similar to the declaration of Michael Jackson in a lyrics that reads: “They don’t really care about us.”

If love forms the totality of what everyone does, the world would be a place of equality. But with the continuous consumption of small fish by the big ones in the spheres of human existence, the actualization of such might exist only in Alice’s Wonderland.

Akinlolú-Prime Samuelo

writing…

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*Dedicated to my Ìféolúwarèmílékún who is a year older today!