What we failed to feel towards humans we felt for Cecil
News of an American dentist slaying a lion has literally shock the net and other media outlets around the globe in recent days, this isn't surprising as Cecil was supposedly lured and tricked to his final moments on earth. These is an outrageous brutality and should be condemned with all morality, but the scale of the response to the lions death and mass public and media outcry are powerful reminders of our misplaced priorities as the superior creatures that inhabit the earth.
This is not to say at the least the life of any being is worthless, especially when such life is taken not to feed as it's commonly done in cases of cows and sheep, but to boost the ego of some comfortable dentist whom lives far away from Cecil and can be rest assured that he's immune to any threat the beast might present. To feel towards the loss of another life are important as they are part of what constitutes humanity.
My reservations if I may are however enormous and I wouldn't prefer to bore distinguished readers with them, thus I will cut straight to the chase, if only the millions of. Syrian refugees, Iraqi's Afghanistani's Nigerians and countless of millions fleeing either war or repressive regimes or terrorism as the case maybe received such continuous media coverage to the extent of beaming a portrait on the Empire State Building wouldn't we be more humans?
The case of Cecil is rather sad as many Africans myself included upon his death never had of a famous lion coined "Cecil" but he's the news and the other of the day, the media continues to filter news and reports to suit a certain class and serve the interest of a certain. We as humans need to reflect and re-appraise our priorities as we have lost course and favored the spread and displayed outrage over the killing of a lion over; millions that have been for years starving and continue to across the globe, over thousands maimed and killed incessantly by extremist, over hundreds of thousands displaced with no where to call home, yet we sit in the comfort of our homes and tweet or update our status over the killing of an animal that could easily harm us if we cross his path!
Yahaya Yakubu
PhD Candidate
News of an American dentist slaying a lion has literally shock the net and other media outlets around the globe in recent days, this isn't surprising as Cecil was supposedly lured and tricked to his final moments on earth. These is an outrageous brutality and should be condemned with all morality, but the scale of the response to the lions death and mass public and media outcry are powerful reminders of our misplaced priorities as the superior creatures that inhabit the earth.
This is not to say at the least the life of any being is worthless, especially when such life is taken not to feed as it's commonly done in cases of cows and sheep, but to boost the ego of some comfortable dentist whom lives far away from Cecil and can be rest assured that he's immune to any threat the beast might present. To feel towards the loss of another life are important as they are part of what constitutes humanity.
My reservations if I may are however enormous and I wouldn't prefer to bore distinguished readers with them, thus I will cut straight to the chase, if only the millions of. Syrian refugees, Iraqi's Afghanistani's Nigerians and countless of millions fleeing either war or repressive regimes or terrorism as the case maybe received such continuous media coverage to the extent of beaming a portrait on the Empire State Building wouldn't we be more humans?
The case of Cecil is rather sad as many Africans myself included upon his death never had of a famous lion coined "Cecil" but he's the news and the other of the day, the media continues to filter news and reports to suit a certain class and serve the interest of a certain. We as humans need to reflect and re-appraise our priorities as we have lost course and favored the spread and displayed outrage over the killing of a lion over; millions that have been for years starving and continue to across the globe, over thousands maimed and killed incessantly by extremist, over hundreds of thousands displaced with no where to call home, yet we sit in the comfort of our homes and tweet or update our status over the killing of an animal that could easily harm us if we cross his path!
Yahaya Yakubu
PhD Candidate
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