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Old Jun 17, 2009 , 09:39 AM   # 6 (permalink)
Default Re: The Travails Of A Stranger In Igboland (Part 2)



Originally Posted by akuluouno View Post
Villagers,

I think this villager deserves our commendation for his work. It is just that he used his trip to Owerri to describe his adventure to Igboland. Owerri is just one species of Igbo. I wish he will make it to other parts so that he can gauge the other spirits of the Igbo nation.
Reminds of the GLO advert presently running on CNN which talks of Hausaland,Yourbaland and Niger Delta Delta but consciously omitted Igboland. It even went to talk of Benin and others nations in West Africa where GLO has its network.
I like the advert. GLO has serendipitously split Nigeria into various lands and consciously omitted Igboland because the man was confused whether to call it Biafraland as well as not to attract the attention of UMYA to his mischievious acts seeing what he went through under Baba.
God bless this author. Sorry for narrowly missing being welcomed with open legs. You would have tasted that Owerri girls are good. Waillahi. God bless GLO for advertising the disintegration of Nigeria on CNN. God bless every Villager this morning 17th June, 2009
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Aku-Nwa-mama,

Oh! So you saw what I saw with Glo? I am alarmed at that advert. It reminds me of Federal government adverts. When they want to advertise evil things (hard drugs, 419, prostitution, fake products, treasury looting, authority stealing) they will use names like Emeka or Emillia. But when they want to advertise positive things, they will use names and pictures of Ibrahim or Amina.

A good example is the MDG office where thousands of glossy posters are made with shots from Northern Nigeria only. I mean all of them, that I saw.

What do we do with Glo? Can we mobilize our people to reject a network that has rejected them?

Just what do we do...?

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