Monday Okpebholo: Why Edo gov shouldn’t be mocked over English – Reno Omokri

Monday Okpebholo

On this Edo State Governor and his difficulties with the English language, his critics display the deepest inferiority complex and colonial mentality. Is intelligence defined by your ability to speak English? How many Chinese speak English? Yet, they are taking over the world. India is currently the fastest-growing economy on Earth, with a growth of above 7%. Yet, Indians do not speak English. They speak mostly Hindi.

You cannot speak your own native language, and you mock a man fluent in Bini and Esan, the two most spoken languages in Edo State? Please fact-check me: Ability to speak multiple languages is a sign of deep intelligence. Senator Monday Okpebholo is more intelligent than you who can only speak English.

This is the pseudo-intelligence that is destroying Africa. We have translated the Bible into almost all African languages, yet we do not have science textbooks in any of our languages.

As a people, we define intelligence by our ability to speak fancy, high-falutin English—the snootier, the better. Yet, we cannot feed ourselves, build our own infrastructure, or develop our indigenous military-industrial complex.

Better learn from the Lukumi Yoruba. The more their singers and movie directors release songs and movies in the Lukumi Yoruba language, the more the world accepts them. The more they do the same in English, the less the… CONTINUE READING.