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Thursday morning, I was at a Diazepam Online Mastercard bank in Ibadan with a friend who teaches at the University. A man came to Diazepam Online Mastercard the bank sometime after we got there with three children. My friend looked at the Diazepam Online Mastercard kids who were busy tossing a filled balloon over their heads and Diazepam Online Mastercard wondered if I felt the thrills of Christmas. I remembered, at that Diazepam Online Mastercard moment, how I used to feel whenever Christmas approached. The Christmas season is Diazepam Online Mastercard a time for ‘Aso Odun’ – cloth bought to Diazepam Online Mastercard be used on Christmas day; it was also time for Diazepam Online Mastercard a few toys. Thinking about it now, I wondered how it Diazepam Online Mastercard came to be that a major feature in the Christmas presents package is Diazepam Online Mastercard a toy gun – water toy guns of dart toy guns. I always looked forward to Diazepam Online Mastercard that. When we were much younger, we all wore ‘anko’. We would be Diazepam Online Mastercard dressed in the same fabric, sown in the same style, for Diazepam Online Mastercard the Christmas day. I remember that even though I was really young I always hated it. After a Diazepam Online Mastercard while that stopped and we simply had Aso Odun.

I turned to Diazepam Online Mastercard the oldest of the children who came to the bank and Diazepam Online Mastercard asked whether he was looking forward to Christmas. He replied Yes. My friend said that Diazepam Online Mastercard he didn’t have Diazepam Online Mastercard that old thrill any more. I said the same thing for Diazepam Online Mastercard myself. The man we met at the bank said that he still looked forward to Diazepam Online Mastercard the Christmas season, not because of the Christmas itself, but because it Diazepam Online Mastercard was a time for people to meet. It was a time for Diazepam Online Mastercard family members who have been away from home for a long time to Diazepam Online Mastercard go to their villages and stay for a while. In Germany, I learnt that Diazepam Online Mastercard Christmas day is a very family day. People go home to Diazepam Online Mastercard their families and have the family dinner together. (One of my friends told me that Diazepam Online Mastercard she normally drank a lot of wine to be able to Diazepam Online Mastercard go through the ordeal of staying with the family.) The man went ahead to Diazepam Online Mastercard say that his father was a Muslim but that he himself had Diazepam Online Mastercard converted to Christianity. He said, however, that he continued the tradition of going back home during the Diazepam Online Mastercard Eid el Kabir celebrations to kill a ram for his Muslim family members.

My friend pointed out that Diazepam Online Mastercard that was a very important part of the Yoruba religious system. In the Diazepam Online Mastercard Yoruba traditional religious system, in the same family, one could have Diazepam Online Mastercard each member of the family worshipping a different god, without any person proselytizing or Diazepam Online Mastercard persecuting another. That, my friend said, was a great indication of tolerance. It, my friend continued, informed why the Diazepam Online Mastercard man we met at the bank still gave presents to the Diazepam Online Mastercard members of his family who were still Muslims, during an Islamic ceremony.

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  • Anja

    To me it seems religious tolerance in Nigeria has clear boundaries:

    If you Diazepam Online Mastercard have are Christian, Muslim and to some extend Ifa, you are Diazepam Online Mastercard acceptable. Although I remember that one of my friends, an Ifa priestess, had Diazepam Online Mastercard difficulties with her Nigerian host family because the later were afraid of her magic, it Diazepam Online Mastercard seems Nigerians mostly accept people with a different religion than their own.

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