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Brother Ehimwenma,
If you read the posting I sent to you titled TEACH
YOURSELF GUOSA LANGUAGE, I am sure you will no doubt understand the full meaning
of the Guosa Language. Therefore, let me address the issue of WAZOBIA, to save
time.
In 1950s, when the 'Redifussion' or house-to-house
Radio speaker boxes were introduced into Nigeria by the then Nigerian Broadcasting
Corporation, the Federal Government of Nigeria was finding a way to disseminate
the News broadcasts by duly translating it into the various indigenous Nigerian
languages so as to get to the grass roots. Therefore, they decided to translate
the hourly News bulletins into about nine different Nigerian languages, namely:
Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Efik, Kanuri, Fulfulde, Izon, Tiv respectively. This
was very cumbersome as it took lots of minutes or hour to end the vernacular
news broadcast and most other non language speakers were not interested listening
to other languages no sooner theirs was translated.
Consequently, when the Military men came into power,
they decided and spruned the number of languages down from nine to just three,
namely: Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba languages only and tagged it "WAZOBIA", meaning:
"Wa" (come) in Yoruba language; "Zo" (come) in the Hausa language; and, "Bia"
which also meant (come) in Igbo language respectively. In other words, (come,
come, come), i.e. it was a matter of everyone wanting to speak and be silence
at the same time - how stupid! The name WAZOBIA was given by the late talented
musician - Roy Chicago.
And then Nigeria embarked on radio and television
translation of news in what they called the three major languages, and sent
all the other languages into the cooler, for them to groan and get lost, as
if the country did not belong to them as well. This single action is what has
led the country into its present doom of the "Federal Character syndrome", (you
must come from any of those three major languages and ethnic groups) to be heard,
recognized and given reasonable political appointment no matter your talent
and accredited professionalism!
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
Holy Land
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