This morning
news reached me about a Nigerian launching a Canada-based online publication
called Gatewaymail. The
founder is the Nigerian journalist based in Canada, Femi Shodunke, who launched
it this past Friday, September 4, 2015.
It will feature general news and exclusive interviews, with a focus on Nigeria and Canada. Having served in Nigeria for 30
years and then researching and writing
about the country, especially about its Christian-Muslim relations, for another
ten years, I deeply welcome this venture and hope to read it regularly. Well,
at least, somewhat regularly. Mr.
Shodunke, welcome. Feel free to contact
me at < boerjf@hotmail.com >.
Nigerians are
a lively people who tend to respond to each other’s writings in very robust and graphic
manner that can be both humorous and disgusting. As a special friend to Nigeria,
I want to advise Mr. Shodunke to reign in the language of his people who
respond to your articles. Femi, I suspect you want to be taken seriously in Canada. If I am right, then you won’t want to have
your publication associated with such diatribe. You don’t want Canadians laugh at your
publication and at those who respond. You want to be respected. Please take this suggestion from a friend of Nigeria seriously.
Just in case
you’re not sure what I mean, Femi, I reproduce a short dialogue from two
Nigerian readers who have read the story of the launching of Gatewaymail in the
Nigerian newspaper Premium Times.
That’s definitely not where you
want to go with this new venture in Canada.
To the readers of this
blog: I have
deleted the names of and
references to the names of the writers of the materials below and refer to them
simply as “Writer 1” and “Writer 2.” Sometimes
I use ellipses. The first one is a UBC student; the second lives in the USA.
Non-Nigerian readers of this post do not need to have all the Nigerian acronyms
translated to get the drift of this exchange.
Writer 1: Here you go again, marshmallow head …. Have tried to
investigate who the editor is before making your usual tribalistic and
senseless comment? I live in Canada
and without any doubt the best country to live on the planet. Ask anyone you
know if at all your coconut head of your type will know anyone living in Canada. I am
not sure you will get ever get the visa to come here base on your Facebook
postings. Instead of enouraging the editor, all you could do is to throw your
filthy beaks full of horse manure at this laudable venture. At least he is not
engaged in your own 419 vocation. Pity you dud brain. Just a hug a zamboni.
Writer 2: It's amusing Mr.
Knuckle head , to hear you bragging about Canada , a country that the economy
is almost in the toilet now , and the only part of Canada where any form of
activity is going on now is Alberta , and that's because of the oil there, but
sadly , Alberta is now in crises too , since the price of oil has dropped . I
dislike people that boast. If I may ask you, are you a Canadian citizen ? For
your information, I have a dual citizenship, as a Nigerian and as a US
citizen. I hold the strongest passport in the world. I can travel to almost all
the Countries in the world including UK,
Canada, Australia, etc., visa free . I also
hold the passport of one of the Carribean
Islands . That makes it 3
valid passports . By the way , you know the value of the Canadian dollar has
dropped by 30 cents , compared to the green back ( the almighty $US) . So now
I've beat you off your pants. What next
?
Writer 1: I don't need three passports to
travel to anywhere in the universe. I only need my Canadian passport, dunk head,
because I am honestly employed as a professional. So you know that much about Canada. So tell
me then why is USA,
always at the bottom of the barrel in terms of their social services? And while
you at it, how come your fellow black brothers and sisters are now the
endangered species in your USA,
dumbo Chudi. Canada
has always been in the top three countries in the universe the rest of the
world wants to live in. Screw head Chudi I have traveled extensively in USA
before you ever connived your way to USA, so you cannot even compare your
coconut head to what I have achieved since I have been living North America.
And the purpose of education is to be functional, and you Chudi, what have you
learnt about America democratic dispensation that you have been able to
transfer to your country of birth assuming you are not some type of Biafran
renegade AWOL. I still believe in Nigeria
hence my penchant for fighting for the betterment of it regardless of what your
fellow 419 brothers are doing here in North America
to soil its image. Just yesterday your brothers were caught with loads of hard
drugs in UK,
and your fellow brother by the name ..... was just put in jail for 419 in here
in UK
again along with all his accomplices, and so now what are you are going to do
about that, marshmallow head Chudi …? Have you tried to assist DSS in Nigeria to fish
these people out. I hope you are gainfully employed in USA and not
running from FBI due to your soiled cupboard. At least I know that most of the
jailbirds in Houston, Texas
are your friends from SE/SS in Nigeria
after the Mexicans. And if you know so much about the current state of the
world economy you will remember that your USA was saved from bankruptcy by
Obama in the 80s. Canada
is still the envy of the rest of world in terms of GDP, skunk head Chudi …. And
there you have it. I can teach you more world lessons if you need it, but I
don't have time for a dumbo of your type.
Well, you get
the drift of it, I believe. If you’re just publishing for Nigerians, Femi, go ahead,
use all the scuff you want, but if you want Canadians to join you… We’re just too polite for this kind of lingo,
humorous as it is. We won’t take you seriously, just shake our heads and laugh.
And you know, I’m probably going to be one of your most tolerant non-Nigerian
readers. I can take a lot of gaff, but that’s not true for most of us.
And now I’m going to try to access Gatewaymail and invite you to do the same. Let me know what
you think of it.
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