Na me, no fear.

#Tribute: This is Nigeria. Anything you see, you just have to take it like that.

Also at

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

I'm rewatching #GameOfThrones from the beginning.

One thing that stands out in season 1 is how many plot lines were built and then completely subverted.

Crazy!

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

By the time Mbappe retires, he'd have hanged the World Cup goal scorer record where no one can touch it. 30 goals easily.

Come back to this post in 8 years.

[City! @dolapocarter]

You disrespect Don Carlo Ancelloti

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

Dem say e no de track back 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡

[Adika @Adikastakes]

Mbappe scored a hattrick in El Clasico and Real Madrid conceded 4 goals. Real Madrid fans blamed Mbappe for that loss🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

France has turned up the heat. Sorry to Sweden.

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

Oliseh man, my god!

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

@tobyasky This is true. Only Morocco play with the requisite level of confidence.

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

Remove Barcola. Bring in Cherki. Unleash maximum creativity from this team man.

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

Finally!

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

France is due a goal already!

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

France is due a goal already!

[Didier Drogba @didierdrogba]

Honteux ce penalty non sifflet sur Nicolas Pépé pfffffff a quoi sert la VAR?!??!

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

That was a foul on Pepe. Damn!

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

No sense of urgency in this Cote D'Ivoire play. Do they know they're losing?

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

Sané is washed

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

One of the reasons I stopped seriously writing satire is that I came to my own Peter Cook moment. Cook, the brightest of the British satire boom, watched the movement he helped build curdle into something he no longer recognized as resistance. He had once joked that his comedy club was modelled on the Berlin cabarets that did so much to stop the rise of Hitler — a joke that contained, even then, at least some admission of satire’s limits. By the mid-1960s, the joke had stopped being funny even to him. He said Britain was sinking, giggling into the sea. It was drowning in its own laughter, amused to the very end, entertained all the way to death.

There’s a sketch he wrote, less quoted than the line itself, where a group of young journalists who have sold their souls to a newspaper proprietor console themselves by sniggering at him behind their hands at his cocktail parties. A snigger here, a snigger there, one of them says, as if it adds up to something. It doesn’t.

It is important that he implies that a snigger isn’t a form of protest. It is what one turns to when one lacks the courage, or the institutional standing, or the political opening, to do anything else. It replaces the fight rather than starting one.

I had a very successful column, as well as multiple series in different satirical styles, from the How To series (which became a book), to my love letters to General Buhari. I enjoyed the task, and saw myself aspiring to be an heir to satirists like Peter Enahoro (Peter Pan) who wrote How To Be a Nigerian in the 1960s. But like Cook, I also saw that Nigerians were sinking giggling into the sea. I felt and still feel complicit in the facetious distractions and the trivialisation of crimes and dysfunction so bad Nigeria could be a ravaged war zone without any order or functional institutions. I always say that the effectiveness of satire is directly proportional to the ability of a society to feel shame. Nigeria is a post shame society. As we say, you cannot shame the shameless. What good is mockery of power when power is impervious to mockery? Where the mirror that you hold up to power is shattered beyond repair?

And so if you ask, when you criticise Nigerians making jokes at a time when the country is sinking, when people die daily at rates worthy of a war torn country, did you not do the same thing by writing a book of satire, the above is part of my response. I could of course try to distinguish my work from the banal humor in the skits that respond to the criminal actions and inaction of politicians, but that would be the easy answer.

Nigeria is at such a dangerous point that there is nothing to laugh about, even if the laughter directly mocks power.

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

Heartbreak for Japan.

[Na me, no fear. @Azaya69]

Vinicius just got denied the goal of the season.

What a run!

[Seth Wickersham @SethWickersham]

'No rules, no protocols': Inside the system that produced the reigning World Cup champions https://t.co/0kYwtezTOs

[K @Damocleansword]

No issues with him rooting for his country in the world cup, but Trevor Noah's silence on the xenophobic uprising there is hella disappointing.

[TONARI ART @artoftonari]

You should have this painting.

[cyn🌸 @cynugwudike]

the entirety of lagos is a ghetto, there’s no demarcation

like at all