The use of language and law, the level of thinking, the problem-solving skills, the pattern of feeling and behaving are all aspects of a culture of every human society. Human social and political behaviors are based on culture. What people do and do not do, what people like and dislike, what people believe and do not believe, and what people value and do not value are all based on the culture in which they are born. But the elements of human culture are not innate; they are learned. Therefore the way a person thinks, solves problems, uses language, feels about issues and laws, and behaves in the company of others are all learned behaviors molded by his or her culture. The Yoruba man is like every other human being from every other part of the world – he is molded by his culture. The Yoruba culture has condemned the Yoruba man to a life of misery and criminality because his culture contains many backward elements that push him to maladjustment and anti-social behaviors. In this paper, I will discuss how the Yoruba man views the place of law in his society. I will show that if Rod Blagojevich was a Governor in a Yoruba state, he would have been illegally impeached in light of the damning evidence against the Governor.

Even if his pessimism doesn’t seem wholly warranted, a sense of foreboding surely is, which is why his warnings have to be taken seriously. Mr. Phillips writes that the inventors and marketers of the new financial instruments didn’t entirely understand them. An executive of Fidelity International says a panicky feeling has set in on Wall Street because no one knows where the risks really are. The finance minister of France observes that investments may have reached such a level of complexity that no one can assess them. And Charles R. Morris, in his own gloomy book, “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown,” reports that even Citigroup’s chief financial officer “did not know how to value his holdings.