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When it comes to Shell management (the actual thing itself, not that they manage to manage very well), 'nitwit' is being nice!
A 'bribe-taking boob,' a 'perverted dwarf,' insanely arrogant twits too numerous to count... these are all going into my book, coming out any day now. It shall rip the rotting veil off just part of the Nigerian aviation scene, when it's not the locals who come off worst, no. Not that they shall come off all that well, it is just that they merely run the asylum, when I was one of the inmates, an expat.
High atop Potash Hill one may find all these starry-eyed young idealists, non-racist, non-sexual, vegan, even... they all, to a man... Whoops, to a person, want to believe that Africa and Africans are victims of colonialism, when I occasionally speak the incorrect truth and get called not just 'old' but 'a racist' for doing that. Top cover, however, is provided by a highly-placed friend who spent a while in Nigeria working for the Ford Foundation. Her sojourn got off to a rough start when she left her new shoes outside her hotel room to be cleaned. You can guess how that one played out, and the rest of her stay was not a lot better. So she hates the place, in a very quiet way.
One school friend is mixed Sierra Leonean and Jamaican... he knows what I am talking about, and we often have a good a laugh about the Potash Hill view of Africa. We had one kid, a mulatto, rabbiting on about Mother Africa, when I told him that, of the three of us, I could pass for Oyingbo, my friend could pass for African, but he was nowhere, just some 'Yellow Man!' Two of us were falling over laughing about this; the third one was not a happy bunny, but what of that?
My own feelings are, ah, mixed. I can well imagine how much of a mess things are in, but on the other hand, I really do miss the people I came to know there, full of life and clever... too clever. Ah well... 'Never say never.'
Shell Management, yes indeed. Why do I have the feeling that I must have met that man in a previous life?
A 'bribe-taking boob,' a 'perverted dwarf,' insanely arrogant twits too numerous to count... these are all going into my book, coming out any day now. It shall rip the rotting veil off just part of the Nigerian aviation scene, when it's not the locals who come off worst, no. Not that they shall come off all that well, it is just that they merely run the asylum, when I was one of the inmates, an expat.
High atop Potash Hill one may find all these starry-eyed young idealists, non-racist, non-sexual, vegan, even... they all, to a man... Whoops, to a person, want to believe that Africa and Africans are victims of colonialism, when I occasionally speak the incorrect truth and get called not just 'old' but 'a racist' for doing that. Top cover, however, is provided by a highly-placed friend who spent a while in Nigeria working for the Ford Foundation. Her sojourn got off to a rough start when she left her new shoes outside her hotel room to be cleaned. You can guess how that one played out, and the rest of her stay was not a lot better. So she hates the place, in a very quiet way.
One school friend is mixed Sierra Leonean and Jamaican... he knows what I am talking about, and we often have a good a laugh about the Potash Hill view of Africa. We had one kid, a mulatto, rabbiting on about Mother Africa, when I told him that, of the three of us, I could pass for Oyingbo, my friend could pass for African, but he was nowhere, just some 'Yellow Man!' Two of us were falling over laughing about this; the third one was not a happy bunny, but what of that?
My own feelings are, ah, mixed. I can well imagine how much of a mess things are in, but on the other hand, I really do miss the people I came to know there, full of life and clever... too clever. Ah well... 'Never say never.'
Shell Management, yes indeed. Why do I have the feeling that I must have met that man in a previous life?
