WHAT THE BLACK MAN CALLS HUMILITY
Few days after the 7th richest man in the world paid a visit to Nigeria, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg Caused fracas on social media because of his dress sense, I was reading Chimanda's "Americanah" for a second time and this excerpt caught my attention.
"...People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought- to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet - and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility. He did not boast, either, to speak about the things he owned, which made people assume he owned much more than he did..."
And how terrible it is that we tend to see humility this way, we see humility as refusing to follow trends, which quite well every proud person could easily adopt to be referred to as a humble man at death.
It is a notion we need to tackle, we need to stop, and we need to fight against.
To be humble is to see life as a place where we do not own, it is seeing everything we acquire as vanity, it is seeing oneself as one who exist on a platform of privilege. Inasmuch as it is like breaking away from the norm, there is more to humility than our physical nature and presence.
Don't judge a man as humble because he wore polo and jean from America to Nigeria, Africa is hot brother, he is playing smart. A tee and jean would allow ventilation than a suit and knotted tie (just joking)
@mcchimefrancis
