Millions of chickens have had their lives cut short as a result of the Avian Flu. Eating patterns have changed the world over with many people shying away from chicken delicacies.105 people are alleged to have died world wide as a result of this outbreak. How the disease reached Nigeria is a riddle to be solved.

It is increasingly dawning that courses of action generated in the East have a bearing in the West. Policies in the North have a bearing in the South. We are related. Relationships can be beneficial or harmful. Relationships can be nurtured to sustain benefit or harm.

How do African countries relate with each other? How do they relate with the rest of the world? How do individual citizens in a country relate with one another and themselves? What is the aftermath of this relationship?

The authors in this issue examine subtle aspects of relationship, grounding them in the local, yet traversing the global. They discuss the “bad” flu that dominates these relationships and concur with the fact that the avian flu should be gotten rid of to pave way for a positive flu that will spur individual liberty and all that appertains to honest wealth creation.