Yoruba aka the Ngbati Ngbati People, can be very creative and crafty with words. They are never caught pants down (no pun intended) in weaving tapestries of language without much ado…
Sorry to cut you short. Did I hear you mention weaving and tapestry or something like that?
Yes, you heard me right. So, what’s cooking?
Nothing really. I’m just wondering if that’s the reason why you, people, get am for adire (tie-and-dye) and KIJIPA cloths for Upper Ogun and Oje market for Ibadan Mesiogo?
You are never serious . How does weaving tapestries of language translate into weaving KENTE and KIJIPA like the descendants of Osagyefo for Ghana?
Sorry if that infringes on your sensibility.
Apology taken. As I was trying to say before you leapfrogged into my mouth, the typical African in their traditional cultural setting draw a lot of their imageries from the floral and fauna, coupled with historical and prevailing circumstances. Thus they are rich in anecdotes, allegories, metaphors and “stinging oxymorons” that turn theirs into a PARALLAX world.
Really?
For instance, see how a typical Yoruba person sees the OGBENIOJA of GBOGBO AGBAIYE who is given to abusing and yabbing anybody that crosses his path.
Sample?
Trust my Ngbati Ngbati people. It doesn’t take them time to baptize him with names like ENU OROFO, EIYE IBAKA, OROPO, ENUPOJU, GALA ALATA SUESUE (spicy Gala-snack) ELENUUGBORO, ABEFELE OLONI, TULETULE…”ati be e be lo and so forth, and so fifth.
O ga o! Isi gaju! But duro na (tarry a little), can you substantiate with facts and figures the rationale behind the re-Christening of the OGBENIOJA OF WASHINGTON AND GBOGBO AGBAIYE as ABEFELE OLONI?
Maawo e! We gather dey write elegies, deliver eulogies, pay tributes and busy pleading to the Biblical women of Jericho to stop crying, and here you are asking whether somebody dey do graduation or a prince “dey chop king” (prince’s coronation as king). That’s the story I wan tell you abi no be tory!
No be story o!
Wetin e be?
Amebo! Gbeborun ni.
You dey craze? Teitileko (listen attentively) as I open book on ABEFELE OLONI, BABA BULLY. ELENU RAZOR…
O ya! Make you talk am.
Sure, why not if not? The man don use im presidential tongue to make unpresidential, derogatory remarks severally about people, place and thing as if e be Mr. Noun wey we don know for primary school days. The latest is his umbrage against Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born US congresswoman whom he called GERBAGE and suggested she should go back to her “hell of a country where they shoot each other on the streets” (of Mogadishu?).
Iro ni! Na lie! You mean he said that?
Look at you! I say “tetileko’! You won’t just listen. Remember Stormy Daniel, the stormy strumpet who stormed out of his love nest over after-service-cnarcges disagreement? Se you remember how he abused the hell out of that girl saying she is not pretty after all, but ugly like a horse.
You don’t mean it? Do you?
Yes, I do. He said her head has the shape of a horse’s head after reexamining her, post match review, as it were.
He said that? And what did the poor girl say in response?
Sorry, that is CLASSIFIED info. and I don’t want to disclose that for now lest he sends Airforce ONE drones on a search-and-destroy-the -stupid-fool mission to Africa. Excuse the self censorship.
O ma bloody se o!
You haven’t seen nothing yet. He is used to calling the out-going congress woman, Nancy Pelosi, “Nasty Nancy”, when she was the House Speaker. He looks down on immigrants as ‘jiggers’ that should be thrown across the fence, back to where they came from. Both blacks and browns are nothing but undesirable elements that should go back to their “shithole countries”, shithole countries like, according to him, Nigeria and Haiti. He called Mexico, a next door neighbour country that sends its worst people to America: criminals, jail breakers, arsonists, drug addicts and rapists to come and pollute the crimson red blood of Americans.
Wow! By the way, Is it only the Mexicans, the Haitians and the Nigerians that he loathes (hates?) so much?
Don’t mind the Baba Alatika, ABEFELE, ELENU RAZOR. The South Americans, the good people of the Caribbean and the entire Asian continent are easy, cheap game for his SHAKABULA Dane gun of a mouth. There was a time, true to his razor blade mouth, he took the Asians to the cleaners saying there is scarcity of cats and dogs in America because they, the Asians, have eaten up all the cats and the dogs. “Asians are eating the cats and dogs”, cried the crocodile with the proverbial CROCODILE TEARS.
Ah! Iro! Na lie! How can a whole OGBENIOJA descend so high and ascend so low?
Even the thing don make you “confusion” your grammatical self. Take it easy. You know what and how he calls CHINA?
How?
JAINA! He leaves people, especially women, wondering all the time what exactly he is alluding to any time he pronounces China J A I N A.
I hope it’s not What I’m thinking. If so I’d advise he doesn’t say it to the hearing of women in VIRGIN ISLANDS, VIRGINIA and those pretty cabin attendants on VIRGIN AIRLINE FLIGHTS or else, RERE go RUNUN wallahi, tallahi.
Lobatan! Abefele dimeji (razor mouth don multiply).
God forbid bad thing.
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