From Pant to Pad: Femicide and Occultic Economy.

The rising scourge of femicide and its link with money ritual had been at the center of my thoughts prior to COVID-19, but after the pandemic, it assumed a different dimension. I started to think about the occult in relation to my work on fame and celebrities. Specifically, I remember women's anxiety over disappearing underwear prior to COVID-19, and later it became women's sanitary towels. The worry was that either of these could be used for ritual purposes to gain money.

The assumption that money comes from magic and supernatural sources not linked with verifiable labor, profit, investment, and other rational modes of wealth generation is at the center of what Jean Comarrof called an occult economy. More so, popular Nigerian film has tied wealth to the occult so much so that it has become ingrained in our popular imagination and interpretation; even a certain Nollywood actor has become synonymous with it.

When a society does not teach wealth generation, people think money comes from some magical source. If it comes from a magical source, then it can automatically disappear. People who teach supernatural wealth generation have a 'verifiable' source of wealth generation, which comes from your tithe, offering, and more. Even the countries we run to have a source, whether it is by plunging, pillaging, dispossessing or destabilizing other economies to gain access to resources. Along these lines, the children of Israel got the gold of Egypt as wealth; God did not rain money from heaven. Even though manna was from Heaven, it was not ready-made food; they still had to work to transform it into edible food. They gathered, ground, beat and baked (Numbers 11:8)

These and many more like them are why I have issues with certain theology and doctrine such as miracle money, supernatural ATM deposits, or God transporting you from a toilet to any foreign country. These kinds of teaching deaden people's thinking and abscond them of responsibility, creativity, and innovativeness. It could be why those who took your gold gave you God. They took your land and asked you to look to heaven for your sustenance.

My late father took me round a lot. I saw how he bought acres of land, market stalls, and forestry and acquired leases to properties, so I saw how earning correlates with value creation. Years ago, a child in the faith community I served asked me to give her Jesus account number so her mom could transfer money since she forgot to give her offering. I thought so; this child thinks God receives the money.Miseducation begins when we are halted from questioning things and accepting vain assumptions that have not produced results.

Wealth comes from value creation and entrepreneurship. The wealth that you make without adding value is a vacuum. It is why people eat excrement, sleep with mad women, and cut another human being into pieces in a despicable way. Even animals in some places are not subjected to the kind of cruelty Nigerian women have experienced.

Someone wants to make you rich, but you have to go to the bush to look for him. Someone wants to make you rich, but he is not on some global financial rating connected to verifiable wealth. There is an African proverb I first heard from Dr. Maya Angelou: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt".

This has been on my mind, and I thought to let it out. picture trying the Gen Z pose.