Friday 29 March 2013

GOSSIP, AMEBO, ASIRI !!!...........YES YOU.



GOSSIP!!! One act most of us engage in knowingly and unknowingly. Most of us can't even live without engaging in such activity on a daily basis. For a real Nigerian its not called gossip rather AMEBOR!!! 
According to Vincent Adepoju the Nigerian Pidgin English term  "Amebo" can be said to demonstrate the positive and negative potential of communication beyond its role in fulfilling the most immediate needs  as a fundamental human quality and value.


However  Bella Naija's post "Amebo-Yes, I'm Talking to You"  gave a clear explanation of Amebo. As a  noun she described it as a person, mostly a woman, of Nigerian descent, of questionable, cowardly character and low morals, esp. one who delights in EXTREMELY idle talk; an unproductive individual; a silly twat and as a verb, Amebo, is to concern oneself about other people’s affairs; to go about causing havoc by spreading false or private information; to be cowardly as to not being able to stand by comments or information that one has made. Similarly it examines its expanded generic meaning as it entered into Nigerian public discourse as referring to gossip, in relation to personal and public demonstrations of this phenomenon in different parts of the world. 


Personally, its just an individual who is either idle or jobless that carries out conversations, reports and information about other people that are not confirmed as being true. A simple nonentity. 

Please describe gossip or an amebo in your words. 


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