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Nurture in Nigeria: I Rebuke it!

Paul ColettiPaul Coletti|12:40 UK time, Thursday, 25 February 2010

Solomon Sydelle.provides a peek into Nigeria. Here she talks about how religious imagery is used in everyday speech in "Naija" culture, especially when talking about ailments:

The way some Nigerians use Christianity is a real turn off for me. . . I made the mistake of telling the person that I and my children were sick with coughs and colds. No sooner had the statement been made than did I receive a shrill reprimand. "Ehn? Don't say that! Rebuke It!!!!!!!"

To which commenter Kpakpando says:

A few years back, I had a diagnosis of clinical depression, something was seriously wrong with me. Whenever I tried to talk to my mom about how I felt, it was "I rebuke that spirit of sadness n'afa Jesus" or "taa, don't claim it" or my favorite "the devil is a liar! Is there nothing that God cannot do" she asked me. Well I believe God already did something for me & it came in the form of Prozac and psychotherapy.

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