An Expository Analysis of the Bread of Life Metaphor in John 6:35 and its Implication for Stomach Infrastructural Taxonomy in Nigeria.
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2023
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In all human travails, starvation appears to be the most worrisome. As a Yoruba adage “Bi ebi ba ti kuro ninu
ise, ise buse”. Translated literarily, it means whenever food is removed from problem of poverty, that poverty
is defeated. It is no longer news that Nigeria in the contemporary times has become an amphitheater of socio-
political agitations, culminating in all sorts of criminal activities such as armed robbery, kidnapping, ritual
killings, internet fraud, prostitution and all sorts of social vices. Looking inwardly, however, starvation cannot be
ruled out as the basis for such socio-political unrest because “a hungry man is an angry man”. While the political
class are found wanting in providing conducive environment for comfort by their promise and fail attitudes,
others have been engaging in what they termed, “stomach infrastructures” in Nigeria. Since its inception in
2014, the rate at which stomach infrastructure is being rampantly engaged is no doubt becoming a taxonomy in
Nigeria. This paper examines the historical background of the bread of life metaphor in John 6:35 and applies
it in expositional form for the contemporary Nigerian context. Findings reveal that Jesus’ audience had been
subjected to acute poverty by the powers that be and were desperate to survive by all means. The paper concludes
that giving peanuts to citizens from our collective patrimony might be doing more harm than good to the peaceful
co-existence of the Nigeria nation..