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I thought it would be good to come back with some lively afrobeat from the inimitable Black President.

Food for thought that traverses many layers:

GENTLEMAN

04:40

I no be gentleman at all o

I be Africa man, original

07:19

He go sweat  all over

He go faint right down

He go smell like shhh*t

He go piss for bodi he no go know

LADY

0:55

If you call a woman African woman no ‘gree

She go say, she go say I be lady o

1:48

She go say market woman na woman

Update 30/11/2008: I’m still processing this, but it’s interesting to observe the perceptions of and baggage the labels “gentleman”, “lady” and “woman” carried in post-colonial Nigeria by the elite; the men wanting to regarded as gentlemen in the (inappropriate) way that they dressed – deducibly like Englishmen, despite the hot sun; the females regarding the term “woman” to be reserved for the lower social classes who work in the market because “lady” was perceptively superior to “woman”. I wonder if this is simply because lady is the counterpart to gentleman or if it’s also connected to Lady, the title of nobility (wife of a Lord) given the colonial history. Why would the term which depicts an adult female (woman) be a derogatory term? I’d be interested to know what you think.