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ADEYEMI AGUDA, THE NIGERIAN WHITE MAN AND HIS PROUD ORIGIN By Anago-Osho

In a conversation with Adeyemi, who narrated his experience which is becoming common especially when he returns to Nigeria with his Lithuanian wife and children. He said, “At the Lekki Art and Craft Market, I saw an art work that I liked. I asked for the price and the artist replied, One million Naira”.   “I responded, negotiating for sixty thousand Naira. The artist looked at me and said in pidgin English, “which kind oyinbo man be  dis?”. Eventually  I bought the art work for eighty thousand Naira. Mr Adeyemi spoke Pidgin and Yoruba with antiquitists and artists at the Art and Craft market and everyone was awed. He could be easily taken for a European which he inherited from his English mother. It is an excellent upbringing that his family brought him up in the cultural environment of his ancestors. During his tour to Badagry, accompanied by Gideon, in a customized Korope air conditioned bus by Loving Lagos, at the smoked fish market, Adeyemi spoke in Yoruba as he intro...