Yahoo boys hide in the most unlikely locations.

ByMoyo Okediji June 24, 2019May 21, 2023

So, we went to this village that is blessed with very fast network facility, because at home we hardly hit one bar on our cellphone bandwidth service. You can always trust to hit four bandwidths in this village. We saw a really posh hotel in this village and decided to check it out, buy some drinks and use their fast network services.

The food here is great. The deco is wonderful, and even a couple of peacocks stroll the ground to display their plumes and make sweet trumpet sounds.

Lo and behold, it turns out to be a den of yahoo boys, with their fair-weather ladies hanging out with them.

The first day, they looked at us kinda suspiciously. But they continued with their work, all decked in designer wears, and ragamuffin hairstyles and ghetto-style pulling down of pants to show off their colorful underwear.

They were also spending money yafuyafu on expensive wines and dines.

We kept away from them, turned on our computers and worked on our projects.

The second day, the same thing happened, but we noticed the yahoo guys were eyeing us suspiciously.

The third day, they were all gone. The hotel was empty and shut down its services. The staff told us they couldn’t turn on their generators for us because they had no lodgers.

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A HISTORY OF THE YORUBA NATION

ByMoyo Okediji October 3, 2020May 21, 2023

Who are the Yoruba people?

A mayor of the British army, Alfred Burdon Ellis, who served in West Africa for about two decades, published a book about the Yoruba people in 1894, the same year that he perished of malaria fever.

He wrote the following in the book:

“The territory now inhabited by the Yoruba tribes is bounded on the west by Dahomi, on the south-west by Porto Novo and Appa, on the south by the sea, on the east by Benin, and on the north by the Mohammedan tribes from the interior, who have within recent times conquered and

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ENGLISHMAN IN BENIN CITY, 1981, (Part Three)

ByMoyo Okediji July 9, 2020May 21, 2023

They took Obaseki to a native doctor in Benin, straight from the police cell.

I ran into him about six months later when he was released.

His condition had deteriorated remarkably. He looked gaunt and shrunk. He must have lost about fifty pounds, (and he weighed not less than 175lbs and stood at 6’ tall when he assaulted Steve). His face had dark blotches and rashes all over it, and he moved with a stoop that made him look much shorter, as he gingerly carried his tray of food from the counter to a table.

I knew that he saw me as I entered the Ekewan campus cafeteria. But he quickly averted his face, pretending that he didn’t notice me. I went to the food counter to place my order. I decided I would surprise him by joining him at his table once I got my food.

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ReDoMi

ByMoyo Okediji September 25, 2020May 21, 2023

Life is simple yet complicated in the ReDoMi civilization.

How do you say ReDoMi?

The vowels and consonants of the RedoMi people are so simple that all you have to do is open or close your lips to pronounce their words.

The consonants are especially straightforward. They contain no strong or forces sounds, not even a threatening hiss of the ZZZZ is allowed. That is too much of a snake strike for a people of the infinite dimension. Only the gentle “s” and “sh” are allowed into this linguistic tone.