Folks will read Linda Ikeji and Whizkid fighting over Hermes bags, Bentleys, who slept with who at what age, and follow such “discourse” with rapt attention, digesting and dissecting with considerable mental effort.
Then Okey Ndibe or Moses Ochonu or Bamidele Ademola-Olateju will write 700 words about how to move Nigeria from an unreflected society to a society grounded in thought, the same folks will read the first ten words and, without any effort at mental application, you will hear: “too long!”; “the writer did not offer solutions”; “na English we go chop?”
When next you carry your yeye solution search to my Wall after spending ten hours of your life philosophizing on Linda Ikeji’s bags and Whizkid’s cars, I will send you to find the solution to Nigeria’s backwardness inside Linda Ikeji’s bag or Whizkid’s Bentley. Shior!
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