Fight The Darkness

So I’m reading the BBC website, and I happen to spy an article entitled “Nigeria bikers’ vegetable helmets”- How can you not read an article like that?

First, it turns out that the helmets are made of pumpkins and it is partially in response to the new law requiring motorcycle helmets, and it is mostly about motorcycle taxis.

Why is it on this website?

Stories have also appeared in the local papers highlighting passengers’ fears that the helmets could be used by motorcyclists to cast spells on their clients, making it easy for them to be robbed.

“Some people can put juju inside the helmets and when they are worn the victim can either lose consciousness or be struck dumb,” passenger Kolawole Aremu told the Daily Trust newspaper.

The darkness is everywhere.