Read this now and could not help but share. This accurately depicts our behavior. Nigerians and our wahala crying more than the bereaved. Nigeria i hail thee

MANDELA'S BURIAL...fleet heading out to Johannesburg with the
largest official delegation to the funeral.
And that is not counting the convoy of private
jets of uninvited Nigerian state governors that
will head out to Johannesburg for the obligatory
I-was-also-there ritual. And that is not counting the chartered flights that will convey half the
National Assembly to Johannesburg. And there
could be private jets of opposition leaders
claiming to have been invitedto the funeral by
Jacob Zuma the way they were invited by Barack
Obama to the democratic convention. Anesh Maistry , my diplomat brother, knows one or
two things about the size of Nigerian
delegations from seasoned experience. He’d
better advice his people to start preparing. Does
O. R. Tambo International Airport have enough
room for the impending torrential rain of jumbo jets from Nigeria?
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One final memo to our South African friends
before I move on with my one ear to my regular
internal Nigerian migraine. This talk of the
possibility of a low key burial that I’m hearing, is it true? You guys should not play with bad thing
o. In Nigeria, passage to ancestorhood after a
life well lived beyond 70 is an occasion for
carnivalesque of epic proportions. Depending on
your means, you empty a brewery and send
several cows to meet their maker. In a certain part of the country, ruinous bank loans are in
order for aso ebi and days of owambe partying
to usher the departed into a gentle breeze of
bliss alias “afefe rere”.
I warned you guys yesterday that we could be
hitting Joburg with about a hundred jumbo jets – half of us uninvited. We don’t travel for low key
affairs. So, I must warn you that it is never
beyond us to do these things properly on behalf
of the owners of the affair. It is never beyond
us to do things properly on behalf of Africa and
the black world. When it comes to spending our petrobillions, we make it our responsibility to
weep louder than the bereaved. Ask brotha
Barack Obama. When his people in America
showed signs of not knowing how to organize a
proper fund raiser for his last Presidential
election, we gathered together in Lagos and organized one of the most expensive fund
raisers in history to fund the re-election of
brotha Barack in America. The fund raiser was
led by the then Chairperson of the Nigerian Stock
Exchange.
Never mind that it was completely illegal and there was no way to get the money to brotha
Barack. To this day, we still don’t know what
happened to the funds raised but we taught the
Americans a vital lesson in how to organize an
electoral carnival. I’m saying this just so you
know that we are perfectly capable of returning to Abuja from your reported low key affair in
Joburg to organize a proper and befitting
funeral of Nigerian proportions for Madiba. You,
the real owners of Madiba, may not even be
invited but we’ll do it before the world’s
cameras in order to teach you how to party. We could shut down Lagos and Abuja for a week of
partying. Do not say we did not warn you. -
By Pius Adesanmi