The X In My Name

Just the other day, someone asked me what the X in my name stands for. She felt X is a bad mark. She said it represents ‘wrong’ since teachers put an X mark against a wrong answer in students’ scripts. She also said voters at polling stations mark their votes with an X. According to her, the mark signifies that one has just voted for a ‘wrong’ government. Well, I pondered over what she said. Then I said to her, ‘I understand. But that’s wrong, what you said about people voting for a wrong government and the letter X being a bad omen. But I respect your opinion, nonetheless.”  Then I felt obliged to explain to her what the X in my name means. And this is what I said:   

To find the value of X, one needs to open up and voyage through ages and places – an expedition of time and space. And then perhaps they’ll comprehend the mark that this X makes. They’ll realise that this mark doesn’t connote to popular and corporeal implications laid out by earthly mortals. This mark is the crosshairs of a righteous weapon aimed at the filthy and twisted individuals squatting at the top of the pyramid – the wicked and elite whose sole purpose is to dwindle the world population and take over God’s creation.  As they sit at the top of their pyramids and manipulate the world, they don’t see black, they don’t see white. They don’t see Africa, they don’t see Europe. They see the world and humans – things they should deal with. 

And so, this X is on a mission to save the world. And for doing so, this X fits in every society in every nation in every part of the world. This X is for awakening humanity as a whole, not just one race or one group of people, for humanity is facing a common threat. This X therefore, stands for Africa, Asia, Europe, America, etc. In every part of the world, any individual can solve the equation and replace the X with a name befitting and necessary for such a society. So, in other words, this man embraces all. And this man believes that for Africa’s problems to end, for world problems to end, we need to target the source. And in a war against the perpetrators, this man needs the assistance of the world. And to gain the assistance of the world, this man needs to fit in every social order of the world. Thus, this X is a name that doesn’t belong to any particular language, yet it’s a name that has a meaning in a very individual language. The local political platform is just but a granule in a huge basket of grains. It is, therefore, of no concern to me. The crosshairs of my weapon are facing further and upper, at a more dangerous enemy. When the equation is solved, when the value of X is finally found, the world, and indeed Africa in her entirety, will rejoice.