I’ve got the daughter of a Nigerian Yoruba customer here with me this week for some product training and I’ve just asked her what Yoruba society is saying about their two wayward sons. She reckons that it’s a taboo subject, the family names are common enough in South East Nigeria and the usually energetic Nigerian media haven’t managed to, or wanted to, track down the close families for comment. Someone, somewhere must be hanging their heads in shame and wondering where they went wrong as good Christian parents. She feels the whole episode is a frightening symptom of a much deeper identity crisis that is affecting all traditional African society.