It was the end of the Mayan long count calendar. With less than forty-eight hours to go, emotions were really high; will the world really end? Will the Nibiru prophecy come to pass? These were the questions that were running through my mind. I come from a little village in Oyo state in Nigeria. My father is the village school headmaster and easily the most educated man in the area. He is over six feet tall and has an incr...