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The Acculturation

The Acculturation

Em came from a middle class family, the Coles', the patriach, Coker Cole, was a out of luck Danfo driver who plyed the Mainland-Island route, across the Third Mainland, the Eko Bridge, the Carter Bridge,, the matriarch, Storms Cole, and in the outskirts of the Island at the slums of Gbagada attended the prestigious Kings School, whose tuition and entrance fees had been above their means and would have been nothing short of a dream had her paternal relatives' Briggs not intervened, and this Good Samaritan effort had been the focal point for their presumptuous presumption and their entitlement had been succeeded by the Deux ex Machina role that the Briggs had played, who had a plethora of secrets, who had an incestuous marriage, have been in a reverse unconventional Oedipus Complex situation, he witnessed some oddities, two had been caught and paraded on the assembly ground as the fucker and the fuckee by the principal, Cele was rumored to r**e Mayor while boys slept, a gender fluid choir master was rumored to be homosexual, two students had been caught m**********g.

So when the school made it compulsory for the acculturation trip to the three indigenous regions and tribal land of the big three tribes and he made his choice. Along with his classmates and teachers in a Toyota Hiace bus, and when they arrived at Abeokuta. They lodged at IBD Hotel.

The next day boarded they had an English breakfast, and boarded a Toyota Coaster Bus to the Olumo Rock, the head of the delegation exchange pleasantries with the tour guide, and the tour guide tried to establish a rapport with the students all to no avail, they climbed dusty steps along with the tour guide, and the tour guide told them the history of the Egba people and how they had his at the Olumo Rock, during the Ekiti-Parapo, they departed and they drove to the Wole Soyinka Library, where Carly got introduced to Wole Soyinka who he would later set out tto read his full catalogue, with the exception of Ake: My Years of Childhood, You Must Set Foot at Dawn; A Memoir, A Man Died: A Prison Memoir, Ibadan; The Penkelemess Years, Isara: A Voyage Around Essay, The Interpreters, Season of Anomy, and Chronicles of the Happiest People on the Land of Earth, Mandela's Earth, Idanre, That evening they visited Fela's museum and he got a first-hand knowledge of his father's favorite musician, Fela Kuti.

The next day, they had the usual, and drove to Covenant University in Ota, upon seeing Faith Tabernacle he had a recollection of his previous visits there during Shiloh. On several occasions he had witnessed remaking of Biblical miracles like the Blind Bartimeus, the Deaf and the Dumb, the Woman with the Haemorrhage, the Cripple and the Leper.

On other occasions were the truth and dare games he played with his peers that had orchestrated s****l orientations and awakenings. On getting to the Covenant University, he compared the buildings to the ones he had seen at the University of Lagos.

That afternoon they paid a visit to the Ota Farm, which he came to know was owned by the former military leader and President, Olusegun Obasanjo, whose largese was comparable to the Cocoa plantation in Ibadan whose proceeds had been used to build the Cocoa House. By evening, they paid a visit to the Redemption Camp, and he recollected visits to the Camp in which he would accompany his mother.

The next day they observed their morning ritual and drove to Akure to pay a visit to the Idanre Hills, the tour guide hugged the leader of the delegation and waved at the students and they waved back, he narrated how the people of ufe ke lived there for eight hundred years before their descent.

They drove back to their lodge at Abeokuta, and they passed the night at Abeokuta resultant the rumoured Oro Festival in Akure, ritual killings, which Carly had first heard about from his uncle who was the head of the Amotekun.

The next day, they drove to Ile-Ife and lodged at the Hilton Hotel and they drove to Ijesha to pay a visit to the Erin Ijesha Falls, and the gender fluid tour guide narrated how the Ijesha people had hid on the mountains. They drove to Ife to attend the Osun Festival, at Osun Osogbo Grove, which was almost as old as a millennium, and drove to their hotel before nightfall,.

The next day they drove to Ado-Ekiti, and they lodged at Dreamview Hotel they paid a visit to the Ikogosi Warmsprings, they stripped to their pants to swim at the water, the boys and girls were separated by the delegation of the opposite s*x, on the cold and hot parts of the stream, less the maxim it's a men's world materialize, and the supposedly weaker s*x prevailed in a struggle of unpredictability. By afternoon they drove to Abeokuta and arrived in the evening.

The next day they uncovered several iPads, iPhones, iPods, that had been stolen by Cele, to everyone's sheer amazement and his embarrasselmemt shortly they set out for Lagos, the EVs, the flying cars, the robotics, made him happy to be alive in 2030.

Soon Lagos was hit with a cyclone, the Tafawa Balewa Square, Dodan Barracks, Presidential Palace Complex, NICOM, Union Bank Marina, St Nicholas Hospital, CMS Cathedral, Bar Beach, the Eko Hotel, the Radisson Blu, 1004, the Civic Centre, Famfa Towers, Churchgate Towers, Admiralty Way, Oriental, Makoko, Banana Island, Eko Atlantic, Eko Towers, had been hit with torrents and the only safe haven for dying minutes was the Mainland, and the Mainland Campus on Agbado, was their stronghold, where the Marina School trip was diverted and the parents and guardians were informed of the whereabouts of their dependents, and when the Cole family seemed to be keeping African time at injury time, Briggs, touched down the helipad in a chopper with his family members he got on board in awe and even more awe when they touched down the helipad of his mansion on Billionaire's Row

There he was isolated because of his illegal immigrants status and when the New York sank, he witness many people dying and he thought he would died, and when he swam to survive.