Antoeni:
Life na Turn By Turn
PDB Delegate Snatches Yahoo Boy’s Girlfriend..

Make yahoo boy go collet delegate daughter na.

Even set, how much delegate collect wey we nor go hear word? Dem collect reach 100k yankee? Wetin boys dey collect on a regular.

bigdammyj:
Reading...


Lagos Gov. Babajide Sanwolu, addressing "End SARS" Protesters and someone from the crowd shouted; "SORO SOKE WERE"

Your head get oil.

BabaAgba79:


Do we know how to read between the lines at all? The author did not say she invented the phrase. Of course, the phrase Sorosoke is a Yoruba phrase. The author only says that she named this new Nigerian Generation, "Sorosoke Gneration"! Who has ever named this generation so?

Someone with common sense. . . .

This is how those foolish white people behave...they try to take credit for what they didnt create..that's was how they lied that mungo park discovered river Niger..later now they will say she is the one that started #endsars# protest..

What an insult!

see how tinubu bigots would avoid this thread

I think we are changing or misunderstanding the narrative.
She said she named them the Soro soke GENERATION, that doesn't mean that they she coined the words Soro soke, she only referred them as a 'generation'.
Just like if I write a book tomorrow and made reference to the 2019 elections, then referred to PDP supporters then as an "Atikulated generation". Would that mean I coined Atikulated?
In the same vein, Mongo Park never wrote he discovered the River Niger. His task was to map the course (flow direction) of the River Niger, which he couldn't finish.
Blame your poor teachers, the current affairs books you read, all made in Nigeria by Nigerians.

femiasaolu2014:
This is the email I sent to the publisher of the book:

Soro Soke: Cultural misappropriation and false claims by Trish Lorenz
I will like to add my voice to the voices of other 60m Nigeria youths who organically coined and adopted the phrase "Soro Soke" as a moniker for the struggle against police brutality and corruption in October 2020 which your client Trish Lorenz now claims to have coined.


A cursory glance through her social media handles yields nothing to that effect. There were no mentions of the phrase before, during, and after that period when the entire world was focused on the country. #EndSars

Therefore, it is criminal, false, and denigrating of the memory of hundreds of Nigerians who died for the cause for Ms. Lorenz to make a false claim that she named people who participated in the acts of civil disobedience "The Soro Soke Generation".

It's baffling that a foreigner who can't speak a language now claims to have invented an already existing phrase in the same language.

A case of "Mongo Park" discovering the River Niger all over again?

I, therefore, demand that the book be pulled and that false claims be redacted from it.

Also, an apology should be posted on your handles and Ms. Lorenz apologizes for the false claim.

Failure to do this will lead millions of Nigerians to leave negative reviews on Amazon and other book stores, write negative think pieces and reviews online, and do everything possible to ensure that the book doesn't sell.

Resistance is futile, it will only cost you millions in revenue.

Kindly accept the assurances of my warmest regards.


And here is their response:


RE: Soro Soke: Cultural misappropriation and false claims by Trish Lorenz

Dear [Redacted]

Thank you for your email regarding Trish Lorenz’s new book “Soro Soke”.

There was no intention by Trish Lorenz or anyone involved with the book to appropriate the Yoruba expression ‘soro soke’ or the phrase ‘soro soke generation’, and no such claim is made in the book. Rather it was an unintentional turn of phrase in a single interview, the text of which has now been corrected. Soro Soke was chosen as the title due to its use as a rallying cry and call for change among young protestors in Nigeria – something which is made clear in the book.



The Nine Dots Prize, Cambridge University Press and CRASSH

This is now educated people do things. Kudos to you.

Antoeni:
This Man Once Said

Make God no allow make them kill you......

Somebody should show her my phone case or she is the one who invented it too

Favorolasupo:
This is how those foolish white people behave...they try to take credit for what they didnt create..that's was how they lied that mungo park discovered river Niger..later now they will say she is the one that started #endsars# protest..

Learn to read, research and comprehend.
She is not taking any credit on the movement rather for her hard work in writing it. Something your fellas did not see any reason to do apart from tweets and posts.
Mungo Park never said he discovered River Niger, he only discovered the flow path (tracing where it began to were it merges in Lokoja, and its major tributaries and how it empties into the Atlantic ocean) for the River mapping project for the West and he couldn't finish the project due to illness and death.

Seredebe:


It was Otoge that sent Saraki parking, not soro soke

You know your news brother

Thanks..mr historian..keep it up.

MrAAA2:


Learn to read, research and comprehend.
She is not taking any credit on the movement rather for her hard work in writing it. Something your fellas did not see any reason to do apart from tweets and posts.
Mungo Park never said he discovered River Niger, he only discovered the flow path (tracing where it began to were it merges in Lokoja, and its major tributaries and how it empties into the Atlantic ocean) for the River mapping project for the West and he couldn't finish the project due to illness and death.

She is right in that she named the protesters as a whole the "soro soke generation "
She didn't claim to have originated the protest slogan "soro soke" but she was ingenious to have applied it the way she did

I can't really see much of a problem with this

I can't fault her. Which Nigerian author or publisher deemed it necessary to write about the event?

She's writing our history for us, and she can as well write it however It pleases her.

Muhylonaire007:
if she say na she name am soro soke, ehn na she na

@bigdammyj, exactly. It was this incident that informed that expression. I think it's irresponsible reportage on her part. A lame attempt to take credit for what she didn't earn. Sad!!!

So know it now Nigerian youths you have been named Soro soke youth!

Jibsonified:


I don think that was Soro Soke, it was “Otoge” in 2019

Yes you are right

kokomilala:
@bigdammyj, exactly. It was this incident that informed that expression. I think it's irresponsible reportage on her part. A lame attempt to take credit for what she didn't earn. Sad!!!

She should be sued by the Nigerian youths, soon she will claim she was d one that named them lazy youths too

Antoeni:
This Man Once Said

You think say you dey wise.

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We need to learn to write our history ourselves.
And encourage our authors.

Seredebe:


It was Otoge that sent Saraki parking, not soro soke

Ok, you are right, then I heard that soro soke during end SARS, can she claim what she doesn't even understand....I know she must have been told the meaning but this is so despicable of the so called intelligent white skinned.

Am not buying nor care to read this

Antoeni:
This Man Once Said

You're a mumu man

Irresponsible Reportage- A Lame Attenuation Of White Supremacy

Somebody asked why she did it. Well, it's a lame attenuation of white supremacy and back-door plagiarism. That was how these white people claimed that blacks were slaves originally. Joyce Carey's Mister Johnson and Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness encapsulated and helped to perpetuate this false notion. But Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Alex Haley's Roots began to dispel these assertions.

Nigerians should flood twitterphere with reactions that will drive her to recant that false claim.

Na one guy during end SARS in Lagos propounded that soro soke were when sanwo eko was talking
Osun governor, Oyetola swf collect