1. Having to go on both knees to greet elders.
2. All the hymns in church sounded like this.
3. Having to call everybody older than you sister and brother.
4. Eating swallow every day and for the rest of your life.
5. Taking so much Ewedu it has become your favourite drink.
6. Jamming to Sunny Ade, Ebenezer and Kwam 1 and losing all your home training.
7. People ruining your name because that’s the Yoruba way of pronouncing it.
8. When you hear Tope Alabi and know it’s time for another lit Yoruba movie.
9. Oleku, Yemi My Lover, Toluwani, Saworoide and the rest were the best movies ever!
10. You and your home training.
11. Having so many aunties in your family and remembering all their names.
12. Using left hand is a taboo.
Na wa o!
13. Collecting sweets from strangers is a recipe for flogging.
14. Knowing how to pound yam and make Eba is more important than a lot of things.
15. Having all the weirdest and funniest nicknames.
16. Having one million middle names that your mother manages to remember when you get into trouble.
17. When there are different names for all the beatings that exist in your house.
18. Your parents, when you try to eat your meat before finishing your food.
19. Learning 1000 hilarious ways to insult people in Yoruba.
20. Your mother, when you tell her you want to marry from another tribe.
21. Your mother, when you try to open up to her.
21) A Yoruba Mother is a natural confidant.
“Mummy, I think Tunde is cheating on me.” “Why won’t he cheat when all you do is eat?” — WALE LAWAL (@WalleLawal) June 11, 201422. You, whenever you hear there’s an Owambe happening soon.
