Who is the Real illiterate by Mkpisi Ndi Egede.
As we enter a New Year, we have to look deeply into our mindsets, we have to circumspect to enable us circumvent the infertility complex that is weighing us down, especially in Alaigbo.
As a writer, I have met many who think to be a great writer you must have impeccable and impeachable English, which I disagree with in all letters, because it is a foreign Garb that enslaved us and expect us to dwell in Bondage in perpetuity, whereas they give no rat ass getting ours right or even wrong.
When we write our feelings, your own will leave the message and start sifting through the words and letters to see if you crossed all T and dotted all i, if not they will consider you illitrate, but not even Queen Eliza can be able to pronounce OKA without crippling it the way it sounds right to them but meaningless, which was why they Anglicanized OKA to AWKA, ONUICHA to Onitsha, Enu Ugwu to Enugu.. I was driving in Anambara with GPS and the English guard who was giving oral directions mispronounced almost all Towns, but the one that pissed me off more is that the Lady can't even pronounce Nkpo, She simply spell N.K. P. O ..
No English person can pronounce Aguluezechukwu but we can pronounce photosynthesis..
Writing is ability to communicate and the reader understood without aid of Dictionary or translator, some will write in Jaw breaking words and pat self on the back for being a English orator, but they have not wondered who they are talking to, if the reading audience actually understood what they wrote or they just glance through and try using imagination to arrive on what they think they read, which I can tell you is simply effort in acrobatic myopism, just like a Preacher who climbs a Pulpit and started Bambozzling the Congregation with strange and high sounding words in place of English, he is making noise and some may clap for his stupidity but not from the message, as he delivered no message at all, he simply moan and rave just playing to a bushy gallery.
English is like every other language with many dissents, they also transform from the one spoken in the days of King James the dread who translated Bible to fit him after he have burned millions of Bibles and killed many Christ Followers, but following an advise from one of his Advisers, he translated Bible into Archaic English and he may have exhorcise or withered out parts that may have caused him sleepless night, which was the reason he burnt many prior.. But moving on..
So the new Generation of English people consign his (King James) days as antiquated and a newer English and Lexicons come to play, so not many of them will understand even our people who think they have mastered the language.
Trying to be impeccable with English is like one trying to be impeccable with IGBO, the question should be which version are you lettered inn and with?..
Trying to show off as English Master is like one trying to show off as Igbo vested , but which version?.. Owerri has her own dialect, Nsukka too, Abakiliki version which sound more strange even to us..
Imagine an English man come to Nigeria and boasting of his knowledge of Igbo language and one from Anambara, I mean Ezigbo Anambra met him and he is speaking NSUKKA language with finesse, do you think he is communicating?..
Or he laced his Central Igbo with Abakiliki which he termed Vocabulary, even Ndigbo will wonder who taught the person that jargon..
So is English when you Labour to speak or write with words that many can't grasp, what you need is a new Brain not new words, as for me Mazi Odera POg JP, Last Born Mpa Nnukwu, Mkpisi Ndi Egede, I do not write to be considered Prolific, I write to right the wrongs in our society and not to show English prowess, the qualifications doesn't define me one bit.
I don't write to impress the queen or Elites, I am just a bad prophet who can be called Dibia Onu ike , adiro agbalu Ekperima afa (A Diviner with Voice of a Gong, who can't divine for a Criminal as his voice which carries his Divination will Echo round the neighborhood and expose the Criminality of the Patron).
So when I write, don't come expecting to be bambozzled with Jaw breaking words or Romantic wordings, I Pen down the ills raping my hood and to me it is a serious business, which was why I love stepping on toes, especially the ones bu agada gbachiri Uzo.
Therefore as Election is about to happen, let me kindly make all the apologies in advance because I won't be standing with hands Akimbo and another DUMBO will be handed our dying state and he or she will rape us without protection or lubricant..
We want a Leader who is creative and manifesting of great and innovative works, not one ga eji anyi Amu Afia or natad one who think we are all peasants who need grains of Rice and rejected sauces to live on.
Delegates in Anambara state(They are the ones who elect Candidates From Aspirants and Party present the Delegate chosen as Flag Bearer to the Electorate, leaving the choice of chosen from the bunch) , the Kitikpa that will visit you, if you vote because Aspirants gave you Bribe of any kind, that Kitikpa is pregnant, just take the money or gift and tell the person to screw self, then Vote right for Posterity and new Birth.
We should stop asking God to intervene in our bad days created by bad choices and bad Governance , as he handed us the Decanter to make things right every 4 years, but if we sale our souls once again as we usually do, the Whore is us hence.
I can authoritatively pronounce that Anambara is not Cursed, we can be the Cure, but onye si na okwero, otoro enwero Nwanne gbasaya otune..
I am Mazi Odera POg JP and Last Born Mpa Nnukwu and I come in peace, but just know that 2021 aburo Maka shinning teeth as Ogbanje ga agba and I choputaed nothing..
Having my beakfast of Pap with Pine apple, good for Onye Amuma.
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