Whether we feel insulted or slighted, it is us. It doesn't pretend to mingle with the flashy dazzle and drums rollout high up there in different city capitals and Abuja where the paparazzi tumble one over the other to get those exclusive front-page winner pics that conspire to deceive the world that the oil boom really glitters around this resource endowed nation. Naaah. The doodle leaves all those for the soft-sell Decepticons.
Rather, the doodle elects to reflect the life of the hussle that defines the true Nigerian spirit. Across the country, those who still can, will fly the flag or don dresses with our national colours and whisper some words of prayer for the country, mixed with the legendary "Happy New Month" tradition while enduring the hassles that come with public transportation in one of the tripartite means so depicted.
And the best part? They smile through it all. Fela may be remembered in all these, for better than most, contemporaries and all, he best captured the Nigerian: SUFFERIN' AND SMILIN'.
That is us. For the 54th time.
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