Founder of the social learning platform, Naspire – Olatunji Adegbite put together a study about Marlians. He considers what makes them tick, how they behave and how their qualities can be harnessed in ‘Inside Life: The Inevitable Rise of Marlians in Nigeria’.
Netng examined the study and created this list that shows you five signs, other than loving Naira Marley’s songs, that proves you are a Marlian. They are:
1. You are probably a Marlian if you are a free-thinker, opposed to rules and law enforcement and if you strongly believe that rules were created to be broken.
2. You believe that Naira Marley and Fela have the same mandate. If you are one of those people that believes that Naira Marley stands for the same things Fela did and that they can be compared because they both went to jail, then you are probably a Marlian.
3. You are a Marlian if you think that cybercrime (Yahoo-Yahoo) is Africa’s way of gaining back our stolen wealth from the Western world.
4. There’s a high chance that you are a Marlian if you strongly believe that you do not need a formal education to be successful in life. If you agree that you can make it by any other means other than the legal way, then there’s a likelihood that you are one of Naira Marley’s citizens.
5. If you are loud, bold, unashamed about airing your opinions, and unabashed about acting as if you have ‘no manners’, then you are most likely a Marlian.