Comments on naijablog: How to get Baba to read your newspaper

Hi, Jay?I thought you said you didn't like Binyava...

2007-09-03T11:37:00.000+01:00

Hi, Jay?
I thought you said you didn't like Binyavanga's article?
It seems it got under your skin, cuz this one reads a awful lot like it.
Lovely...
And you see how poorly we get satire?

@anon 5:51pm "And the writer can whine until he is...

2007-08-31T10:12:00.000+01:00

@anon 5:51pm "And the writer can whine until he is blue in the face, Baba sits atop his Otta Kingdom, enjoying the fruits of his labor"

Shouldn't that be "enjoying the spoils of corruption"?

Or "the fruits of other people's labour"?

@anon1: I love my eba and ewedu, like that. Maybe ...

2007-08-30T18:13:00.000+01:00

@anon1: I love my eba and ewedu, like that. Maybe an akpu sometimes, but eba and ewedu (ewdu) is not overrated!

Nice piece

@ anonymous: i 'm assuming that you're yoruba, so ...

2007-08-29T17:54:00.000+01:00

@ anonymous: i 'm assuming that you're yoruba, so from one yoruba to another - pray tell, what do you eat your eba with??

haha! funny."interview the likes of Andy Uba, Bode...

2007-08-28T22:22:00.001+01:00

haha! funny.
"interview the likes of Andy Uba, Bode George, Ahmadu Ali, Lamidi Adedibu and other animals called men." haba, if only it were that easy.
...a sachet of viagra with every newspaper? now thats an idea.

@AnonymousW.T.F is this about ..."And the writer c...

2007-08-28T22:22:00.000+01:00

@Anonymous

W.T.F is this about ...
"And the writer can whine until he is blue in the face, Baba sits atop his Otta Kingdom, enjoying the fruits of his labor, while this writer boils in his own Yoruba-hatred, dreaming to one day own even half as much as (the very Yoruba) Baba does"

???
Please stop being silly.

i didnt think this was particularly funny or cleve...

2007-08-28T20:21:00.000+01:00

i didnt think this was particularly funny or clever and i thought it tried to style itself on the Wainaina article we all enjoyed so much- found it abit plaigiaristic in that regard. Surprised you posted it J.

@ravenchukwu, the article is packed with reference...

2007-08-28T17:51:00.000+01:00

@ravenchukwu, the article is packed with references to OBJ's Yoruba-ness. From the "start every article with a Yoruba proverb", to "ori re ko dara". If that isn't blatant proof of this man's mischief, I'm the King of Spain!

@ anon 4:10p.m., if you know any region of Yorubaland where eba & ewedu is the norm, please let me know. It is hilarious that this man writes about eba & ewedu, when it is a well-established fact that Baba prefers abula.

And the writer can whine until he is blue in the face, Baba sits atop his Otta Kingdom, enjoying the fruits of his labor, while this writer boils in his own Yoruba-hatred, dreaming to one day own even half as much as (the very Yoruba) Baba does.

@anonymousI have absolutely nothing against yoruba...

2007-08-28T17:00:00.000+01:00

@anonymous

I have absolutely nothing against yorubas in general (unfortunately I have to resort to the traditional defense of the bigot: "virtually all my friends are Yoruba") - and I see no evidence for your conclusion that the author of the article harbours any hatred for Yorubas.

To describe the sentiments expressed as showing "hatred" for Baba is taking things to a ridiculous extreme. OBJ is obviously not on Mr. Okonkwo's List of Favourite People but the fact that he criticises him and makes fun of him hardly means that he bears him any ill-will.

I like to consider myself a detribalized person (or maybe "untribalized" since feelings of ethnic pride or loathing were never really inculcated in me in the first place). I generally only draw attention to these differences in the interests of conversation when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to be funny.

Oh puhleez, first Anon, Eba and Ewedu go very well...

2007-08-28T16:10:00.000+01:00

Oh puhleez, first Anon, Eba and Ewedu go very well together and the article had none of the vituperative bashing you're ascribing to it. It is funny and mostly true!
Did he really kill someone over eggs???

Geez. Hatred for Baba and hatred for Yorubas in ge...

2007-08-28T14:19:00.000+01:00

Geez. Hatred for Baba and hatred for Yorubas in general. Not just the writer of the article, but raven chukwu as well.

Eba and ewedu do not go together. In the writer's haste to bash a dish popular with South Westerners, he lets his hatred get in the way of common sense. Yorubas do not normally eat Eba and Ewedu (or ewdu as he spells it).

Dear Lord, when will this orgy of self-pity end? The writer mentions Biafra, as if that is on Baba's mind today. Baba had nothing to do with the implosion of Biafra. And no amount of screaming from the rooftops about Baba's part in fighting the Biafran army will bring back the 1*10^6 who died during the war. Move on, like, yesterday!!!

Brilliant. Laughed especially at the thought of "B...

2007-08-28T12:15:00.000+01:00

Brilliant. Laughed especially at the thought of "Baba" rushing to the centre spread to sneak a peak at the expo to his exams.
Unfortunate though that everyone had to wait till he was out of power before all the ribbing began. (I mean the guy was a one man comedy show even without external commentary).

Had to seek out other articles by the author online and found that he is geographically removed and full of charming self deprecation.