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| Nkoli and Azuh Arinze |
(Sam Kargbo)--Oscar Wilde was definitely not a friend of the marriage
institution. According to him, marriage is the best way to end a beautiful
friendship. It is the road to lifelong loneliness and grief. He so despises the
institution that he recommended it only for the cowards. In his view all men at
heart do not marry. His parent's marriage may not have even made sense to him
as he saw marriage playing the opposite of what love does for mankind.
If Azuh Arinze ever read this mischievous character,
then he must have done so long after he had developed a sixth sense that
defines his manliness in terms of the allegiance he has for the first
institution established by God after the creation of man (With due apology to
non Christians). Contrary to Wilde's claim that the ideal marriage is the one
of which the man is deaf and woman is blind, or that marriage is the last
refuge for the impotent, Azuh must have enjoyed the good company of clear
sighted and virile friends with successful marriages. With the likes of the
Teco Bensons as friends, Azuh was sure to make his parents and the society
proud.
