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@iamNeare Na Osaze Odemwinge side of the pitch

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@saniyusuf @asemota No single reflection of common sense.

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@Tech_babby Refuse to be misinformed.

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@asemota @saniyusuf If him read those books, mek i sleep outside 😂

He'll rather prefer staying empty n loud.

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@AfricanPatriot_ Another useful idiot!

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@Chetuyachinago You're debating with a useful idiot that doesn't understand what he or she is reading.

Right from the very first line of that screenshot, a lot is wrong.

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@Abu_The_Truth You no lie.

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@_AsiwajuLerry One of the useful idiots.

School isn't a scam after all.

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[H_R_V @SpacemanAp]

The thing about Propaganda is that it’s designed to work on stupid people.Bc if you’re smart enough it either doesn’t work or you’ll see through it quickly. You’re not the target audience. It’s target are stupid people & there are plenty of them. It’s a numbers game.

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@neo_officialll Everything is a joke to you people.

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@Xodwabantu Foolishness dwells in thee.

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@viyancefavour Useful idiot

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@MichaelAjobo Thank you @pshegs

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@DavidHundeyin @Lazlo_DC It's clear he didn't read, or maybe he read but didn't understand.

Or na olodo after all.....he is so confident with saying "baba for hood". Typical Nigerian.

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@SpacemanAp You dey mind belly dancer.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is how history gets incrementally rewritten because nobody pushes back on narratives like this.

In reality, no generation in Nigeria ever actually "listened" to Fela. At NO point was he ever embraced by Nigeria's western-educated classes. He was always an outsider and a rebel that they treated with suspicion or outright hostility. Even the wealthy or educated who liked him had to literally hide to do so. His music was (and to the best of my knowledge still is!) banned from radio nationwide, and it eventually got to the point where he made less money in Nigeria - his primary audience - than outside it.

I grew up on a street where a few houses away was Air Vice Marshall Funsho Martins, across the street was Governor Ita Ikpeme, around the corner was Fidelity Bank MD Reginald Ihejiahi, and so on. These were the people I would often overhear having conversations with my dad, and to them, Fela was an "amugbo boy" (weed smoking loser) and community penis who used the guise of African pride to cover for his lack of personal discipline. They had no respect for what he stood for, and I personally was not allowed to listen to Fela's music while I lived under my parents' roof.

Fela was never loved by the people who were politically aware or active in Nigeria. The only people who wholeheartedly embraced Fela were the poorest and most powerless. And even at that, they lacked the education to fully understand his message beyond simple complaint and criticism of the Nigerian government. All his words about colonialism and imperialism flew completely over their heads. It was like explaining the International Space Station to someone who has never seen an internal combustion engine before.

I hate the narrative that Nigeria ever truly embraced Fela or his message because that is a laundering device for Nigerians to avoid asking themselves what on earth was so important about that message that a military government invaded his house, raped his wives and killed his mom, while the global "human rights" yappers provided cover for that government and never sanctioned them for it.

Saying that there was a generation that "listened to Fela" is an easy and disingenuous way of dismissing Fela's work and refusing to examine what made it so important that we're still talking about him nearly 3 decades after he died.

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@Joe_brendan_ Suddenly, you guys are now experts in geopolitics bcos of one afrobeats report.

Once the barn is on fire, the rats run outside.

I guess, we're now seeing the rats.....wailing, cos their hideout is exposed.

More to come!!

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@islemonjuice I've been shouting this in my state too. Dem wan use hotel kill us.

More hotels with everything new administration that comes into power.

Hotels, lounges, promotion of 21:00 - 05:00 workers everywhere.

Build factory na.....ba bu!!

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So solve the problems we're facing in this country, traitors have to be put in their place first before we proceed with anything else.

Traitors - (Nigerians) working against Nigeria.

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@OurFavOnlineDoc Well...good morning

Na so everybody go still dey shout "in big 2030...."

We never ready yet, idiots too plenty for the country, especially the boomers.