“Shall we make or mar”

The above caption of this piece is borrowed from the title of the late Dr. Bernard Fonlon’s thought provoking Book, written at a very critical time, just a few years after reunification, the first ten years, to be precise. This was at a time when the founding spirit of the reunification enterprise was beginning to be systematically pulled off its hinges. With so much global appreciation which accompanied the book in those days, today, it can only be seen by the present generation as a writing on the wall, warning that, as early as that, the country was about to…