In Life And In Death …04

 Glowing eulogies and tributes have been flowing in the direction of former President, Buhari who passed on Sunday, July 13, 2025. He was buried on Tuesday July 15. May his soul rest in peace!

A couple of days before his demise, I posted the last in a series of cartoons which I started 14 years ago. Conceived with the thought that “life imitates art”, the cartoons “In life and in death …1-3” were based on fictional characters – party leader, Chief Lathief and Mr Johnson.

Based on a real-life character, the cartoon below helps to corroborate the idea that life, indeed, imitates art, or is it “art imitates life”?

In Life And In Death …03

 Like I said in earlier posts, we feel obligated to speak well of the dead, whatever the devil they were in life and to spare no expense to give them a once-in-a-lifetime burial.

We have also found a way to take this convention to extremes. A sort of, “I come to praise Caesar; not to bury him.” We give glowing eulogies and tributes, either to conceal something or in anticipation of what we are hoping to get out of the tragedy.

In Life And In Death ...02

We buy into the social convention that obligates us to speak well of the dead, no matter how imperfect they were in life.

We even go beyond that, in our part of the world. We not only speak well of the dead, but we also spare no expense to give them a “befitting” burial, even when we’d starved them in life!

In Life And In Death ...01

We buy into the social convention that obligates us to speak well of the dead, no matter how imperfect they were in life.

We even go beyond that, in our part of the world. We not only speak well of the dead, but we also spare no expense to give them a “befitting” burial, even when we’d starved them in life!