Imitation happened when an unsuspecting philosopher one day found himself equally outraged by South African president Jacob Zuma's Big Man building project in Nkandla, awed, all over again, by Milan Kundera's Immortality, and numbed by the monument to hubris generally known as "the highest basilica in all of Christendom”, Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire.