What is it about the average man that simply attracts him to ‘taking a chance’? Do we just have a craving for living on the edge or is just a natural aspect of our make-up that makes us embrace gambling’ willy-nilly? I am not sure if I am able to proffer a water-tight explanation of this phenomenon but this much I do know about the average man: he will try ‘anything and everything’ in his search for a way out and the means to make his life more meaningful. His reasons may not be altogether plausible, but who cares anyway? In a land where everything has seemingly turned to a game of chance; who really cares? The scramble for scarce resources and political clout in the third world especially has created citizens that have no clear hope of a better day in sight. That natural aphrodisiac that every human needs to keep him going from day to day, month to month, year to year has long been replaced by fear, insecurity, lack, class restructuring, loss of a fee