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CONCEPT OF FREEDOM
I know lot of scholars have said so much about leadership, but leadership must also be seen clearly from the view point of FREEDOM. FREEDOM is from two words "FREE and DOMINION". Without missing words, I'm saying a leader must have the liberty to dominate through unique and exceptional gifts, talents, quality of life and the rests. A lot of folks think that freedom means the absent of law, work, labour and order, rather it must be seen as embracing RESPONSIBILITIES.
Discussing freedom won't be complete if not been put side by side slavery. Slaves always wait for instructions, runs their master tasks, can't take decisions on their own, don't worry about what to eat because their master does that, slaves are not creative, they only execute the creativity of their masters.
From these qualities of slaves, obviously slaves can't be a leader, it negates every quality of a leader. Slavery can also be seen from the lens of pain, poverty, labour, oppression and the likes. This always make me understand the series of governments Nigeria have had over the years. Its natural for a man that has been oppressed to oppress others, a man coming from poverty can't handle riches. 99% of Nigerian government are slaves. They have never experienced true freedom.
A slave is told when to wake up when to work when to eat, what to eat etc, but freedom puts the responsibility on one. A free man now must think of what to eat, when to eat, work to feed himself, choose to sleep and a wake up at a particular time.
To be continued tomorrow.
...this piece was written by OLADAPO AFOLABI, an Art innovator and Catalyst for change.
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