Social Commentary 1 (early\/mid 2007?)
\nI am (sitting) at the UK VISA processing center and a couple of guys behind me made the following interesting “comments”
\nPersonally, I think the more vocal of the two was just using it to bolster up his confidence level – he probably had the hibbie-jibbies!<\/p>\n
Wetin dey London way no dey for Nigeria?
\nIf I dey ok wetin I dey go find for London?
\nBut I no dey ok
\nTo get job – yawa, you go school gan – fuckup
\nObasanjo no like as them they give us VISA, but they gat to
\nIt is their right and they must give us
\nNo be them colonise Nigeria?<\/p>\n
If I wan go anywhere I go go – even London
\nLondon na paradise?
\nNa place wey God make
\nand if I wan go I go go anywhere I like
\nNa only paradise wey no sure for anybody<\/p>\n
You know say Oyinbo no dey like wey you sit in front of am, dey beg
\nHe go give? Lai lai, never!
\nBut make you sit show them say you
\nknow your worth for Nigeria, say you just wan go spend a few days come back, na dat.
\nOnce you get VISA, you go just dey sleep
\nYou no go hungry again. You open eye (wake up), na hin you go dey think about till you close eye
\nYou wake up like dis look round, say I still dey but soon …
\nIf anybody call you from London, you go say
\n“soonest, I go show”<\/p>\n
You enter London you come tire
\nYou go dey feel like say make you come back home again
\nbut he good make everybody at least try am
\n. . . .
\nIf na DHL (US VISA drop-off\/collection), you go queue like dis, you go siddown for sun
\nthe guy (agent) go mean
\nyou go dey take money beg dem
\n(comparing the cool airconditioned environment with TV in which we were to the non-welcoming DHL compound in Ikoyi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Social Commentary 1 (early\/mid 2007?) I am (sitting) at the UK VISA processing center and a couple of guys behind me made the following interesting “comments” Personally, I think the more vocal of the two was just using it to … Continue reading