‘Through A Baby’s Eyes’ by Dr. Ayo Adene
I : The Answer. With everything my eyes have seen, in the many years I have spent living in Europe, about the near-pathological disposition of white people as a collective, less particularly as individuals, towards a race-based view of the world; And, with how that stunning realization has cleared my eyes of all the fàbú by which I was raised; I have at several junctions been disappointed in the generation that came before us: namely, our parents, and our teachers. I have been disappointed in them, because they hid the truth. They did not do enough to warn us, considering the alarming scale of how race & racism envelop everything, and determine how the world relates to us, and us to them. Nearly all of my professors, consultants and teachers at the University of Ibadan, and particularly at the College of Medicine, trained in…