Assibi’s World
Assibi Obudu woke early in the dawn hours and gazed out across the Atlantic Ocean from his flat in New York City. He could see the Statue of Liberty outstretched arm with torch ablaze as if to catch the fire of the sun.
He ran to work in his sweats feeling the breeze of the cool morning invigorating him, a man from the equator, now at the center of world power, in the northern city of the American empire, New York. But Assibi was no citizen of the American empire. He was a servant of the World. Nigerian, yes, US schooled sure, but his loyalty and his life belonged deep in the heart of the United Nations.
He loved the last part of his jog up the steps that led into that magnificent building that flew the flags of all nations under the banner of peace. Olive branches formed arms that embrace a world of conflict with the hope of lasting peace. It was to that symbol he turned his life to but the violence he was combating was not between man and man but between man and nature.
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