I spend lunch pondering why a certain type of Nigerian thinks that our cultural experiences are valid only when we can render or express them in their English equivalents. Why should àkàrà be described as “bean cake”, for example? And must àgbálùmó have an English name, even when the terroir in the United Kingdom could never support its cultivation? Fela Anikulapo Kuti was sure what this is. “Colonial mentality” is what happens when a people’s experience of…
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