F@@K Jane Goodall: Why We Shouldn’t Mourn The Deceased Anthropologist

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No sooner had news broken of Jane Goodall’s demise than we had statesmen falling over themselves to eulogize her.

On social media, the footage of her hugging a chimpanzee, which was released to the wild went viral for a few hours, which I imagine, would have tugged at the heartstrings of those who like that sort of thing.

But this writer takes a contrary view.

I honestly believe that there should be no sacred cows and we should deconstruct and eviscerate the legacies of those whom we have been taught to revere.

Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama, Tina Turner, Lee Kuan Yew, Nelson Mandela have all been given the special treatment by yours truly and I have no problems doing the same thing to Jane Goodall.

Contrary to the nonsense which millions around the world have been made to believe, Goodall was someone whose language on the subject of population control gave folks the impression of an eugenicist.

In her statement through the Population Matters, she said that population growth of poor people must be curbed, owing to its degrading effect on the environment.

What was especially instructive about her pronouncements was that she wasn’t referring to…