These lyrics are the handiwork of Iyare Izevbaye at the age of about ten or eleven,
Gaga Ekeh at an age slightly less, a palm wine tapper that distributed palm wine on Sunday mornings, Wole Soyinka, and the lifetime of nothingness and pleasure that was my childhood:
Chairman wetin you dey find for overseas o?
We tink say you still dey for home...
A I forget, e just pass the time
For da meeting of all di share holders...
Chairman, you sabi waka o...
We look for you from Gongola to Jinja
For ABeokuta, dem say you just comot...
Your executive kekelemu pass us for Lagos-Ibadan expressway...
I will cease, for the moment, so that you can appreciate what I'm saying. That
at that age we'd dare to take a monumental work to pieces, without even tinking,
is a necessary precondition of humanity. You do not yet know the children of
Africa. My IQ is still over 200...
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