She said she was Ibo And spoke with a fake accent Wanna’s and gonna’s Littered her speech Not a trace of Igbo, in her exotic accent.
She smirked boldly As I answered my phone Greeting my friend natively In a lavish of deep expressions So deep, only Ndi Igbo can share.
With a ****** passport She spoke better than most Britons She was born in her village Yet all she knows is “bia” She thinks she’s cool, I think she’s lost!
The whole point of wooing her An “mgbe-eke” from the east Was so we could regularly, take a break From all formalities and English And bask in mother tongues…
I might as well be yoked With a foreign damsel For the whole purpose of looking within Is defeated if your tongue is white And we can only commune in “oyibo”
Call me tribalistic Call me uncivilized Call me superficial if you will But what you call vernacular The same is my root. I am proudly Igbo!
Its Igbo NOT Ibo. Bia means come (in Igbo) Ndi Igbo means Igbo people Mgbe-eke means village girl (literally) Oyibo means English (can also mean white, as in white person)