Small thinking is the African man disease. Doing my small thing to survive As far as it feeds me and my family As far as I have a nice car As far as I have a big social title As far as I have a nice house That is it. That’s the end of our world We don’t yearn for innovation and grandeur We don’t project ourselves beyond and above today and tomorrow We have no project to conquer the world and spread our civilization We have no will to power and affluence All we want is a small shop in the corner or a position in a cubicle Ending up glamorous beggars in nice suits, spitting clever sentences, quota filling employees and subalterns for everyone else. Sex is our dominant thinking Alcohol is the fuel of our drivel Greed had turned us into monsters for each other Corruption has made us lazy and content. How to awaken the African man? Small thinking is the African man disease We want everything to be handed to us We import ...
Other names Echú, Exú Venerated in Yoruba religion , Santería , Candomblé Region Nigeria , Benin , Latin America Ethnic group Yoruba people Image from wikipadia From the time of the first English translations of Yorùbá words in the mid nineteenth century, Èṣù has been rendered as "devil" or "satan".The first known instance of this came from Samuel Ajayi Crowther's "Vocabulary of the Yoruba" (1842) where his entries for "Satan" and "Devil" had Eshu in English. Subsequent dictionaries over the years have followed suit, permeating popular culture and Yorùbá societies as well. Lately, many online campaigns have been set up to protest this, and many activists have worked to correct it.There have also been quite a number of academic work examining the mistranslation. The translation on Google Translate took up the same earlier mistranslations. This led to a n...