When a 'Nationhood' was about- KAKADU.

When a 'Nationhood' was about - KAKADU (Series 1)

KAKADU, a true manifestation of a mirror play, and a bare reconnaissance of our understanding in the true sense of the word- RECONCILIATION.

To know that kakadu once existed pushes my thought deeper into the abyss and I could only continue to ask, when was a nation? Was it the geographical location, the people, their reasoning, language or sense of being? These are questions beyond whatever answers we dimmed fit but, a true starting point for a nation truthfully willing to take the lessons of KAKADU, as one that is potent enough to unravel the missing link between the starting point, the gulf, and the rot we scurry in like a pig, having a filled day in an extremely meshy mud.

Once upon a time, there was a commercial social gathering spot where all that counted was just your coming in... as a matter of fact, when you get to the entrance you drop your worries, enter, and enjoy a new sense of being! That was all that was required of you.

Everybody looked forward to this sense of being every weekend. KAKADU felt like heaven on earth. A true nation irrespective of our boundaries was forming. Language or where you were coming from was not a passport to enjoying and sharing in the merriment that was the hallmark of the spot. All that mattered was get dropped at the motor park, enquire about the location of the spot, come in and the rest is not necessary... then fire struck, and KAKADU vanished, even with its own kind of people.

Those left behind are just historians who would not see the sense in the ideological existence of KAKADU even though fire had burnt the real one. Rather, they retell the story with pain such that it keeps the divide so strange and wide apart: they have refused to stomach kakadu, instead, they regurgitate  it and cut everyone off the real sense of being.

KAKADU is a musical piece that hopes to give true meaning to what reconciliation between two people(s), nations, continents etc. is all about, all else we will continue as mere historians who can only relate the story as we saw it and not necessarily as it was.

Makinde Adeniran