Good morning cool people of the world. Traffic
is crazy today in Lagos city and that is because kids are back in school.
The traffic situation in Lagos has been good for
the last few months but with schools back in session, we are about to face that
notorious traffic that the city is known for.
This would last until December when our brothers from the East go
back to their villages. Hopefully, the work that has been done on the roads by
our good Governor will reduce the traffic.
Before I zoom in on today's topic, permit me to take a detour and
talk about the pop act Sean Tizzle. I
have already written about the singer before but today I just want to touch a
little bit on him
On September 17, 2016, a
video of Sean Tizzle
walking out of an interview was posted on the Internet. What led
to Mr Tizzle pulling a diva move and walking off? He was simply asked if he
bleached his skin.
That's a fairly legitimate question if you ask me. If you seeDenrele Edun won't you ask him if he is gay? And it
is perfectly alright to ask D'banj if he truly got married a few months
ago. Every celebrity has a narrative and Sean Tizzle's narrative presently
hovers around him bleaching.
Sean Tizzle can do whatever he wants with his skin. He can admit
that he bleached or he can deny. However, at this point in his career (which is
shaky) he needs all the love he can get from the press. Giving the middle
finger to a journalist who was just doing his job is uncalled for. Hey, we
shouldn't expect much from a man with cheap contact lens anyway.
Now today's main gist. Blood is thicker than water, but Nigerian
blood is thicker than normal blood. Jidenna Theodore Mobisson,
known in Biafra and in music circles as Jidenna is truly a Nigerian man despite his
many years in obodo oyibo (overseas).
Covering the latest edition of ThisDay Style, Jidenna broke
down his ideal woman. " I don’t think I could be with
any woman who does not know how to run a business or cook Jollof rice,"
said the classic man.
Igbo Kwenu! The man has said it himself. If you can't be a
business woman and can't cook, it's nothing for you. This is a man that was
brought up in God's own country but he has not allowed his brain to be washed
by all their 'isms'. He knows the 'koko'.
Baby girl with 10,000 followers on Instagram and Twitter, if you
cannot cook Jollof Rice that can make angels rejoice, nothing for you. Even an
ajebutter like Jidenna won't be rushing home to when he knows you can't whip up
a steaming hot plate of Jollof Rice.
What is about food that causes so much argument online? In Black
America, a black woman's hair is a sensitive issue and among young Nigerians,
food is equally sensitive. Hardly a month goes by without an argument erupting
on Twitter about who should cook in a marriage.
Let's be frank about this, just as men expect women to cook in a
marriage, women expect men to handle most (if not all) of the financial
responsibilities at home. Take your minds out of Twitter for once, in
mainstream Nigeria, a woman who can't cook and a man who can't take of his
family are seen as useless.
In these times when gender roles are fluid, who should cook in a
marriage should not be an issue but in like most things Nigeria is playing
catch up. One day we wouldn't be stuck up about traditional roles.
Till then it feels good to get home from work and you meet a hot
plate of Jollof Rice and give her money for her hair.
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