Me: What do you think about Baba Ijebu?
Nigerian: Baba Ijebu? How can you ask an educated person that kind of question ? Baba Ijebu is for touts and Illiterates. Stupid people will be wasting their small money. Baba Ijebu ko, Baba Ekiti ni.
Me: What about MMM?
Nigerian: MMM is God sent. You can’t understand it. The kind of returns I am making on it cannot be explained. You don’t need to analyze it. Just do it.
Me: What do you think about suicide?
Nigerian: Suicide?? Olorun ma je, Mo taka oshi. How can I kill myself? How can I wake up to go and jump off a bridge? Why will I tie a rope around my neck? Am I mad? Suicide is not African. It is for Oyinbos who have eaten and are full.
Me: What of unprotected sex?
Nigerian: Aaaaah, Osha mo, Fiyen le, Mi o le fiyen para lailai. Ora yen ma n da se duro, Awa nawo steady steady ni.
Me: Any thoughts on mental health?
Nigerian: We need to care for each other. People are really depressed. You know a lot of people on Twitter and Facebook suffer from depression. We need to reach out to people. Church people need to stop condemning people just because they are ill.
Me: So can we go and extend this mental support to “Taju Danger”?
Nigerian: Who is “Taju Danger”?
Me: Taju Danger is the one that walks naked at Ajose Roundabout
Nigerian: Chineke me, I reject it in Jesus name. Me? Go and talk to a madman? Onyeala ?? Back to sender. Let his family members go and help him
