There is so much to be said about this tour. My first instinct was to go into critique mode. But I have thought about this for a while. And honestly for a 21 year old I would say he has done something beautiful. Something that will be remembered for a long time. He did more for African tourism (once you remove the really embarrassing Nigerian part of it) than any tourism board in Africa in the past few years. He was a young man having the time of his life, coming with no pretence of expertise or philanthropy. Just doing random stuff he enjoyed. Sometimes chaotic. Often genuine interactions with people across the continent. We saw the funny, the interesting and the ugly (again, thanks Nigeria). I see a rare example of a young streamer who has gone beyond the sometimes banal streaming culture to do something truly worthwhile.
To be fair, I’ve followed his streams recently across many African countries, Nigeria is the least interesting place I have seen so far.
Lagos isn’t even the place to show the beauty of Nigeria, but but…
This was Botswana 👇🏽
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ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth.
A man is wearing a Patel, new season LV and a gold mic talking about “when fat people run out of jokes they turn to the church” 😭😭😭 please @druski we need part 2
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I remember listening to Roy Keane talk about how David Beckham would turn up with the latest cars, wristwatches and all of those stuff
Like, Becks was taking “life outside football” for footballers to a new level, he was getting endorsements from not just sport wears like adidas, but also from non-sporting brands.
Becks was on the front cover of newspapers, his hairstyle was mad, his dressing was mad, everything was crazy.
Roy Keane said all of these didn’t bother him as captain of the team because Becks will still deliver on Saturday.
I’ll never have problem with footballers doing stuff outside of football. Ffs they’re humans too.
Alphonso Davies and Leao are on twitch, Doku started his YouTube channel like many other ballers, including Lamine who just started.
In the words of Roy Keane, “my problem will be if they don’t deliver on weekend” or their life outside of football starts affecting them on the pitch.
“Lonely at the top” by Asake is a very deep song. I also remember Ruud Gullit talking about life of footballers, you really cannot walk on the street like everyone, Haaland cannot just enter the shop whenever he wants to, their lives can be lonely, and that’s why many are becoming active on social media. Recently, Woltemade said he had to beg his best friend to move to Newcastle from Germany, because he was lonely.
I’ll never talk down on Boniface being active on social media or Iwobi or Bassey, what else should they be doing away from football? Not living like a normal human being?