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(By Toni Kan) - Celebrating Nigerian Entertainment
Icons: A Tribute
“That night the King could not sleep: so he
ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in
and read to him.” Esther 6: 1 (NIV)
In
ancient times, before Martin Luther and Gothenburg, there existed a select
group of individuals whose duties were to record, dutifully and in painstaking
detail, significant events that were taking place.
Their
writings were called Chronicles or Annals.
Those
men were called Scribes and they were an essential part of a King’s court. In
today’s world, a Scribe would approximate to a personal lawyer who would
prepare a man’s last will and testament or a Confidential Secretary who is
privy to all that concerns his principal.
But
above all, in the more democratic times that we live in, the modern day Scribe
is the journalist, the man or woman who through his writings, records (almost
always in a hurry) for posterity, the doings of the people.
