The Miss Nigeria United States 2016 beauty pageant, recently held in the US, where “Abuja State” was represented as one of the contestants, VICTOR OGUNYINKA (@vogunyinka) brings to bare the undertone of the exercise, which raises the question, does charity still begin at home?
Home? Gone are the days when the home is that place where you grow with your family. These days, your definition of home is made easy… it is wherever you grow up!
As if that’s not bad enough, the cliché “no place like home” is also fast going into extinction, when statistically, more than 40 per cent of the world population didn’t grow up in where should be regarded as home (ask President Barack Obama and even dwellers in Ilorin, Nigeria).
All these are besides the point. While growing up, our parents and guardians did their best to enshrine some wits into our heart by continuous repetition… the one that most of us never understood is the saying that “charity begins at home.”
First, who or what is charity again? My guess is one of two things: it’s either a name or an act(ion).
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