The Governorship Debate:)
This is just one clip of the governorship aspirants debate in Lagos state! Its hilarious! It is only in Nigeria that the issue of age has any bearing in the public domain. In many 'yoruba' homes a child born one day before the other is 'older' and this difference in age is stressed throughout the lives of the pair. In many instances the prefix 'sista' or 'broda' is appended before the given name of the child, for example sista Yemi or broda Kola. For unfortunate brides who happen to be married into families where 'tradition' rules they cannot call children born before they were married into those households by name. Pet names are thus thought up and proffered by the hapless bride who is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea so as not to cause offence in trying to navigate how best to treat her in-laws who should by right call her 'Sista'. I once had a colleague who was much older than me, I did not know how old he was, but...