Court was sweet in Abuja today, no be lie.

ByMoyo Okediji

Court was sweet in Abuja today, no be lie.

This is just kindergarten o.

Those that the gods would destroy, don’t they first drive them mad?

The last presidential elections were very sweet, abi?

We collected bags of rice, tubers of yams, even ororo oil, na lie?

When I was a kid, I had a funny cousin staying with us. She would sing:

Ìgbà tẹ ń gba kọ́bọ̀-kọbọ̀

Ta lẹ wí fún

Tẹ́ ẹ wá ń ṣe “Yé è yé è

Okó tóbi!”

Me, I cannot translate Oyinbo o.

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