SOUL'E RHYMEZ WORLD

  The internet has been agog for a few days with a lot of people condemning the killing of one Deborah Yakubu, who was gruesomely murdered and burned to ashes by an irate Muslim mob for insulting their most revered prophet. I stand against the killing and hope that the perpetrators are brought to the book, but I felt that the death could have been avoided if Deborah had learned to respect the beliefs of other people as long as they do not hurt her.   The news going around was that she expressed her displeasure about a post dropped in their class WhatsApp group, but that was not the full truth; she was not killed for expressing her displeasure over the message. Her crime was insulting the pillar of other people’s religion. She went too far by adding the following sentence to her message when referring to the Muslims’ most referred prophet, “Prophet of Nonsense”.   Many people felt that her killers were wrong and they were right, but not too many people, except...

As a writer, I developed over the years, what I refer to as a “God Persona”, which is why nearly all my readers believe I am overly authoritative, arrogant, insulting, or always targeting a particular person or people with my works, but it is not an issue for my audience that have crossed to the “T” of KLT relationship with me; it only helps them to recognize my works anytime they see them.                   Creating “God Persona” writer’s voice is one of the toughest things in my writing career; it is a lot tougher than the writing itself. Moving people from the belief that I am arrogant, insulting, and always targeting certain people that I have personal issues with, to the level where they understand that it is just my way of passing my message is really hard. Many of them have given up. Because of the “God Persona” stance, many people believe that I will never take their corrections, and do not bother correcting me. These are some of the ...