lalasticlala:


https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/endsars-uk-author-under-fire-over-claim-she-named-protesters-soro-soke/



https://twitter.com/mstrishlorenz/status/1529788479521050626?t=fRyqs9pmVJ_sd1Q5RN-99g&s=19

"In particular, growing urbanisation and access to new technology are defining this generation. Enabled by the megacities in which they live and by access to technological advances - which together offer opportunities that were out of reach or simply did not exist for previous cohorts - a creative, entrepreneurial and self-assured generation is emerging; global in outlook but rooted in and proud of their Nigerian and African identity. This cohort exhibits a confident outspokenness and a tendency for creative disruption, leading me to name them the Soro Soke generation (Soro Soke means 'speak out' in the Yoruba language)."

sogodihno:
"Soro soke"

Yoruba lagba

This is our incoming president in 2023


Haters should go to hell with their useless 5% votes

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?

MrAAA2:
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.

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.

sonofElElyon:
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

Princrbamz:
Soro Soke

bigdammyj:
Reading...


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

codemaniacs:









English is not your native language so you guys don't know how to use it and don't understand it...

In English language, what she means is that she created the word soro soke.

Stop suffering from colonial mentality..

codemaniacs:









English is not your native language so you guys don't know how to use it and don't understand it...

In English language, what she means is that she created the word soro soke.

Stop suffering from colonial mentality..

MrAAA2:


Perhaps you suffer from racial inferiority complex. Excerpts from a verbal interview is enough for you to say that?
Did you read the response from the publishers on this issue? How do you understand it if you understand spoken and written English?

GGirll:
Soro soke was trending with the exit of saraki dynasty in illorin governorship election in 2015 or 2019 I can't place the actual year, to now see this white woman claiming it, shows how much these whites have been raping African countries, now boldly trying to steal our language on top of the suffering in their laboratory, called Nigeria.

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?

sonofElElyon:
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

sogodihno:
"Soro soke"

Yoruba lagba

This is our incoming president in 2023


Haters should go to hell with their useless 5% votes

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

Iretii0511:



She’s not bro

sonofElElyon:


But I'm sure she didn't see this nairaland post

Iretii0511:



It’s been on Twitter bro. I think the cable even had an article with this title.

https://www.thecable.ng/understanding-the-sorosoke-generation

Ajibade123:
few days before #endSars the term soro soke was already trending on the internet due to one one Lola Idije video that went viral
incidentally it falls with endSars protest
this woman claiming she named the movement is really absurd
what do this people really take us for self ...dumb monkeys??

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

Ajibade123:
few days before #endSars the term soro soke was already trending on the internet due to one one Lola Idije video that went viral
incidentally it falls with endSars protest
this woman claiming she named the movement is really absurd
what do this people really take us for self ...dumb monkeys??

King44:
if I were a lawyer and I know the channel I can go through and sue the life out of her and the book, I would do just that and claim damages then compensate myself and the victims the dead for their effort or if I dey the right position. i go sue her career

Aystarz:


We still never sue the assholes down here who ordered the shooting and the dummies in uniform who obeyed it.
Many youths got injured, and some died, but here we are moving on as if nothing happened. Nationally, whether politicians or the masses, we all have blood on our hands.
The dead won't stop crying!!!