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Eldee,

How u dey nah? Who is moderating in culture? I need help.

Jenny, mah sista how u dey nah?

Huxley,

In an earlier feedback I shared with you to request a section just for your threads. You bring concise and thought provoking ideas and I'd love to share my opinion and insights on these things, but such responses require organization. Trust me I am not interested in contributing time consuming works to something that is disorganized and lack order.

In the way you are spreading these ideas around you will continue to get respondents like tekim.

Capone,

I will share a story with you. A man went on a trip across country riding on his donkey. He came passing by a group of people resting underneath a baobab tree. Seeing him on top of the donkey they queried his wisdom and asked if he did not know that riding that donkey that far was hazardous to the donkey's life. So the man got off the donkey and started walking beside it. Further on, he came to the water hole where there were some men sitting by the bank. On approaching they queried his wisdom and asked if he was stupid for walking that far while his donkey traveled bare back. Upon refreshing with water, he bode them farewell and jumped right on the donkey's back.
At this stage of the journey the man had done some trading enroute and has a huge load sitting behind him on the donkey. Further on he again came upon a group of men travelling in the opposite direction. They stopped him in his tracks. Whatttt! Have you lost your senses? Do you want to kill this poor donkey? Why is it carrying such a huge load on its back?

The moral of the story is this, it will not matter what you do, there is always something to pick on and criticize. It is human nature. Ignore the critics' tongue and relish in the praises of admirers. I'm sure there are things that Northerners criticize about the Yorubas and the Ibos. I am sure there counter criticisms between the Ibos and the Yorubas. We are all humans and should not be sensitive to these issues, we should stay above the fray and hold tight to the common goodwill that bond all of us together as a people, as Nigerians.

Ubangiji ya kyaye mu.

A gashe ku, jama'a. Yaya kuke, maza da mace? In'na murna da na zo na game da ku. Yaya ayuka da iyali?

Za n'dawo in gashe ku bayan' da na gama abubuwan da yake hanu na yanzu. N' ba yau ba, gobe Sai an' jima.

Omoovie,

ah ah, na u i see so? How u dey manage? Soon as i step foot for ground see ya name i say Oritshe me bee o, last time i run jam dis girl i laff so tey i lock jaw.

Omo, e no go tire u, Yar Adua no go come look for u unless to propose marriage, wen d'em discuss contract for Abuja ya name no go comot for list, if Obama become president na you go be im right hand pesin for Africa & Middle East, efrytime politicians and wayo piple dey distribute and share money if dem no give you ya portion of the millions d'em own go baje. ehn e go better, e remain small mah sista

Take sofly sofly do. We go eyeball again nah.

Miders, how much are you selling it for? I am interested. Send me email with price.

Olawale,

May God Bless you.


Huxley, what is that "a barbaric mind"? Are you echoing what you heard some else said or is this your genuine response. Define barbaric.

Darfur,

ehn nah, I for don reply u but i dey busy, so i don take care of da bussiness, nak dat one comot for mah to do list. Nna, se you sef go like make yoruba man come for igbo language room come dey spik nago, ehh? You must first respect da elders and the customs for here befo u go confince me to lay this shakabula down. E be like I no tell you before but nna dis ting get double barrell, he go scatter ya yansh and disembark one leg comot for ya body. If you come back here no spik yoruba na you and dis shakabula, i go put muffler take cofer da mouff so mobody go hear the canon fire. Try me!

Ogbeni Blue,

Enlee oo, eku afere yi, ede ku agba. Mo ni kin dupe lowo yin fun oro t' eba ar'akunrin lala so. Ese. Mo se t' agba, mo fi suru ko janu, bi be ko, ni wakati owo ti ori ahon n'le mi ti mo ba fi ti inu fufu se, mba ti se aida f' ar'akunrin na. Mi o fi iya mi se re rara. Eba ogbeni na soro, eba soro. Olodumare ko ma fi wa se k'onge aburu. Mi o s' ekebu e, mi o toka si e, mi o wo e, mi o ya lodo re, o de wa sinu ko fi lale mi, lehin wa igbana, mo de fi gba' rada, mo fun lesi to tutu. K' oto wa di wipe o'gbana je.

Atun ma rira, ese o, eku agba. Aranse oluwa kio ma wole ba yin.

Lala,

Mo r'esi too ko pada si mi. Gbolohun to pe obami ninu je, olorun ko ma ba wa ninu je. mo de sofun e l'akoko nigbati oya nu si mi, mo s'akiyesi wipe bayi ko lan s' oro ni ile K'aro A J'ire. Omo're kan ko gbodo huwa ni bi iwo ogbeni yi ti fi huwa simi. Oru mi loju. Mba si ti fun e lesi, sugbon mo mu suru, wipe ki' nduro kafi ri eniti yio wole wa ka gbolohun re, ki won f'oju agba wo. Ti k'iba se wipe o sinwi, mi omo idi e t'ofi wa di wipe iya temi l'ofin s' ekee'bu. Oro die l'anso f' omo l'uabi, t' oba denu a wa d' odindi. Leyin igba ti mo ka esi re, mo r'aworon re. K'osi eniyan na ti yio fi iya temi pe gbolohun ti wo pe ti ko si ni r'owo mi. Sugbon ori yo e, mo fi ti omo re obirin kekere ti o wa ninu aworan re mo fi yonda. Omo kekere ni, mi o gbodo fi ibinu gba ireti lowo omo na.

Ma kanu ko, sugbon ki n'to pari oro mi, mo wa fi eyi fa e leti. Mo fi eyi fa e leti, mo se ikilo fun e gidigidi, mo fi akiyesi fun e, ti mo gba tun gbo abi ti mo ri if'ojudi lati odo re si mi, oluwa eledumare ni mo fi se eleri, mi o mo ohun ti ogboju le, sugbon ma gbe ohun ti oma gb' ojule e ma fi r'anse si e.

Awon agba, ti won ba se ikilo won a ma ka awe Odu Ifa ti 'n be n' isale yi. Okan ninu awe Eji Ogbe niyi. Ar'akunrin, pele pele d'owo re oo. Sora re, Sore re, k' Olorun ko so e. Ma ya'nu, ma s' a'fojudi. Gambari a ni kadan kadan, mo so fun e, kadan kadan e. Ma je kin gbe e sepe.

K'ama fi k'anju jaiye,
K'ama fi wara-wara n'okun oro,
Ohun aba fi s'agba, k'ama fi se' binu,
Bi aba de bi t' o tutu,
K'a simi-simi,
K'a wo waju ojo lo titi,
K'a tunbo wa r' ehin oran wo,
Nitori ati sun ara eni ni.

Ma se itumo Odu yi ko ba le wo e leti dada.

Let us not engage the world hurriedly,
Let us not grasp at the rope of wealth impatiently,
That which should be treated with mature judgement,
Let us not deal with in a state of anger,
When we arrive at a cool place,
Let us stay tranquil,
Let us contemplate about the future,
And let us give deep considerations to the consequences of things,
And this, because of our eventual passing.

Ola,

In all intellectual discussions it is my intent to be generous and trusting and give everyone a benefit of the doubt for what may later turn out in their work to be an unauthorized copy/lift from someone else's original and authentic contribution. There is no way to know upfront who is legitimate and who is not. I do not bleed my opponents, I put the sword within their reach and lay back and enjoy the dialogue, at the appropriate hour they know what to do.

I have trust in Imhotep's ability to respond satisfactorily to my question. I have seen his work in other rooms and I do not believe he has use for the sword.

I hope to chat again with you my friend. Hopefully we will run into one another on these inquisitions for truth.

Take Care

Lala,

mo se b' omo K'aro E Jire ni wo pe rare? Bi ose l'ewu ki ato, bi a sen wole sinu ile yi be lan' pe gbolohun ero. E'nle oo! Se dada ni oo! Alafia oo! Ekaro oo, Ekasan oo! Be ni wo ja wole bi digbolu'gi l'osi wan fi enu shata awon arailu. Pele pele d'owo re ooo. F'arabale ko ka ewe to siwaju nago ti mo ko, ko fi oye se tele inu fufu. Ta b'ogbo mi ye?

Silent devil

Gabryl, do they have a child in the family? If me and my girlfriend have a child, yes I see nothing wrong calling her mom. If no child between, no I will find another word to use. Calling her mom does not diminish my knowledge or rub me of the sense of priority of which womb I came out of. I know who mammie is and I know who mom is, calling her that is an affirmation of motherhood (I repeat affirmation, I didnt say validation, I dont want you ladies jumping on me "oh negro, what an insult, you got some nerves" )

Ano,

Thanks for your acknowledgement and praise. When we look back in our history, it is a painful recollection. It is a necessity to look back so that our march forward can be led by the right foot. The ways of the white man is not harmonious to our nature and for our land, we need a return to who we are in our core. The return will not be without bloodshed, I promise you that, and so be it. In order for something new and better to be born, the old must first die. We need a new birth as a people. There are so many things we need to consider for legitimate return to our roots and customs. Today, none of anything we do in our life aspects is authentically ours anymore. The soul is the part of us that talk to the divine authority. Our communication to God is achieved through religions that were brought to us from foreign lands. The body is the part of us with which we interact with one another, our image is portrayed in shirts and suits and skirts and pants and jeans. To one another, even though we look alike, yet we are foreign in our interaction, we are cold and distant. We are going through in our generation whatthe Irish went through in the 1600s when landlords taxed the farmers to death and forced millions of them to emigrate out of their land. Today they live in America as Irish Americans, they did not forget their ancestry back in Ireland, they are proud of it, but they are nonetheless happily resettled where they are in their adopted country of USA. I predict in about 100 to 150 years from now that story will be true for us Nigerians, and bythe way many Africans.
Again, thank you.

Gabryl,

A lot of times in our responses to your inquiries we forget that you are new to our culture and trying to learn and understand it. Our responses to you are often short and direct, lacking in fiber. The root of the usage of that word mom is a deep one. Africa is a land of rhythym, we are very intimate with nature. Nature is romantic. Our languages and tongues are spiced with that romance so that we use affectionate words and romantic terms to call onto one another. Physical atributes even become words of endearment. Like in Yoruba, Adu'madan for blackbeauty. If you have gap in your front teeth, which some cultures see as a flaw, you get Eji-wunmi for delightful teeth, Agun t' asholo for tall and lengthy for the fabric yardage. So when a man and woman are cohabiting or dating words of endearment between them take different forms. In the olden days, women are married off at early age to men well advanced in age. By custom, the age difference forbids her to call her husband by name. So she will address him as Baba Negro or Baba Gabryl or alternatively use a word of enderament as I already mentioned. He is not forbidden to call her by her given name but is free to exercise the desire to give his wife an endearing name, like Eleyinju ege for enchanting eyez. It builds bond and intimacy between the couples. I dont speak all the languages, but without exception we all carry this similarity in our individual customs.

You cool with that?

Darfur, you and I no go see eye to eye for this one you don start so o. mba mba, nna, I see ya footstep for outside her village you and I go have plenty misunderstanding. Ye hear me? If i so much as hear the dogs at her father's house bark at a stranger this shakabula go accidentaly discharge and I no joke, na double barrell. Go build ya palace for darfur and make I just tell you now, efen sef this girl disappear by some miracle and dem tell me say darfur no get hand for the vamooze me maself no go kuku care I still dey carry this shakabula come for ya pursuit simple for the fact for that statement wey u don make so. Ah, nna that na strong statement o, make you no make that statement again for here.

She is doggone stubborn and won't listen but cuss me out. Im still waiting on your email TOH, you piss me off. Whats taking you so long?

T, you and your look alike sister need to get it together, which is it, pidgin or Queen's grammar?  (shuu, i forgot how to spell, i think grammar is correct).

I guess I will start writing in igbo and hausa, cut yoruba and english out.  Get your wazobia book out, you gonna need it

Oh TOH, stop standing up for your sisters. You know very well how conceited some of them are. , oooops, did i say that?

Babe, it takes a passionate sweet mmmmmmuuah from you to hush me up Where were you last night we had fun in Yorubaland and my God, can you please teach your sister Toyin how to speak Yoruba,, Ko gb' ede, sugbon o m' ekebu se.

T, on the surface its incomprehensible why, without provocation, a man would whack his woman or the woman would daze her man. However, there are undercurrent tensions in every relationship. Application of Logic and reasoning or the absense of it in a relationship is in effect determined by a dynamics beyond the conscious effort of the parties.Sometimes, as in the case of the subject in the post, the aggression has a hold on her. It becomes symbolic- the innate feminine power that arouses the animal instinct in a man and enslaves him forever into her spell. There is actually a myth associated with the behavior. The taming of the bull.

I agree that there should be no physical aggression but,

, she should get slapped back?
You mean she should get a welding iron rammed a quarter of a foot up in her ass

T,  

<That goes for guys as well you have these quick to slap girlfriends!!!>

Women usually size up a guy and calculate the consequence before they slap him. If he has a soft demanour about him yes, he will be a run over. Women that slap mugu guys end up in mortuary, or something close to that. Wicked

Ope ni fun Olodumare. Ise nko, so n'lo? Oko e n'ko?

I can do that for you. Free? Nothing is free. If you are willing to payEmail me and tell me how much you will pay per month for the service