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This
cynical advert below, should not be allowed to pass without comment. It
has been in circulation on social media in the last 24 hours or so. It
speaks to the depth of the cynicism, innovativeness, creativity and the
desperation of an emergent and predominant generation of Nigerians.
At face value, it tells us that Nigerians see a business opportunity in everything and anything. But the flip
side is that classical tragedy means nothing to them, they will impose
the comedic and the burlesque on it and conflate the semiotics of the
forms in so doing. The Nigerian majority is particularly hard of
hearing and any society where anything at all is interpreted not in
normative but profit terms is in trouble. This guy who is identified by
True Caller as DK Cosmos using an Airtel line, is obviously unconcerned
by the tragedy of a Nigerian Presidency that is allegedly, sorrowfully
humiliated by rodents - for him it is a profit opportunity.
This is the real Nigeria if we may so admit. Soon, other business owners would exploit this attention-grabbing marketing line, and thus further ridicule us as a collection of people without values and a much-needed generosity of common sense..."They chased the President, don't let them chase you!".
This is the real Nigeria if we may so admit. Soon, other business owners would exploit this attention-grabbing marketing line, and thus further ridicule us as a collection of people without values and a much-needed generosity of common sense..."They chased the President, don't let them chase you!".
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