Coffee was once considered satanic in Europe because the women thought it made their men impotent. But when Pope Clement VIII tasted it for the first time, he moved for its acceptance, declaring it delicious & equipped that it should be baptized.
& it is not because you are stoic like Zeno. You can't speak through fans because you don't have them. Disses don't build fanbase, hits do. Classic albums do. But you thrive on disses because you are lazy & will rather covet than create. Hence why you have more disses than hits.
It is erasure. We knew Nnamdi and Azikwe as nationalists who fought for Nigeria's independence. Not just their position. In Funmi's case, she was reduced to the woman who first drove a car when that is like her tinniest achievement. It is due to reading we see the erasure.
School taught me about his political trajectory, achievements and political roles. Which is their duty. Anything beyond that is a biographical profile and that really concerns nobody who wants to listen to our political history.
You are wasting your time explaining this to a Nigerian. Imagine asking if white Brits are marching in Nigeria for their cultural norms to be integrated. As if we do not already speak english & practice their religion. He doesn't understand the colonialist vs the colonized.
That means your head is sitting on your neck for fancy & you exist only because God needed your mother to stop disturbing him for a child. You are small. You are empty. Leave the internet & go be useful with your life.
In my debut column for @trampset, i join in the ongoing debate about Nigerian/African literature.
Below is the link to the essay. Kindly read, share & engage. Thank you.
Like yourself when Cassava Republic instructed you to bash Adichie online & you gladly obliged. It failed to create the fanfare you anticipated so you reverted to taking subtle shots. John please stop waxing lyrical about morality, you are not clean. Go and sit down.