Month: January 2024

PROUD AND STUBBORN…

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But our ancestors were proud and stubborn, and they paid no attention to your commands.

Nehemiah 9:16, New Living Translation

  1. The Two Sisters

Pride and stubbornness are twin sisters.  They often go together.  Where you find pride, you are sure to find her sister too, and where you find stubbornness, pride would usually not be far.  They often go together, and they usually would not stoop for any on the way, unless it serves their vanity well.  Their backs are elegant and stiff.  Not even for common peace would they easily bend.  Peace on their terms or trouble for everyone, until their back is broken, suddenly, as the wisest man once warned (Proverbs 29:1).

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JARA

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In the market culture of Nigeria and certain parts of Africa, a buyer usually receives a bonus, commensurate to the amount of purchase.  Retailed foodstuff, particularly grains such as rice, salt, groundnut, and beans, are usually sold in standard measures of “cups,” “bowls,” “basins” and “bags,” described by different terminologies in the different language cultures.  In certain parts of Nigeria, the term for describing that bonus is jara.  For example, if you bought a standard “bowl” of rice, the seller could scoop you an extra handful of rice as jara.  If you bought two or three “bowls” of rice, you could get two handfuls.  It was not a compulsory part of the bargain, but it was the expectation of every buyer and the responsibility of every seller to give good jara.  Besides, it was an important incentive for retaining customers.

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