Beyond Tribe And Tongue — Fiction

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Here's a story of the spaceship that landed in Nigeria some few months ago, this spaceship housed about some seventy aliens who we don't know what they came for, either they were a threat to us or not.

They landed in a very small village in Anambra state, one of the igbo speaking states in Nigeria, come see the way everyone was running helter skelter, it was early in the morning, father's who had made their way to the farm that morning started running back home, children who were on there way to school ran back home to meet their mothers... Everyone was scared...

Each parent told their kids to keep their voices low and his in the rooms while they(the parents) peeped from their windows to behold the sight of the beings coming out of the spaceship. They've never seen anything like that before....

Some people were calling the only police station in the village to please come to their rescue, but before the police arrived, one of the beings(aliens) came forward and said something loud in Yoruba....

"Ẹ káàárọ̀… ẹ jọ̀ọ́ ẹ ran wa lọ́wọ́." The alien said in Yoruba. Meaning.. "Good morning, please we need your help."

But then, nobody understood a single word.

When the police came, they stood at a distance and asked this aliens what they want and what they were doing there, but this aliens didn't speak back in English, they replied in Yoruba, one of the police men who was there quickly grabbed what language the alien was saying, but he couldn't understand much and neither can be reply them.

Immediately, the armed forces and all have been informed about it, and everyone was on guard, they decided to not do anything but because very watchful, that was how they managed to direct this aliens to Oyo, since Oyo is a Yoruba speaking state in Nigeria, the government felt people in Oyo will understand them better and know they they want...

Immediately this aliens got to Oyo, they stopped or couldn't speak Yoruba again, they started speaking Hausa, what is this... Oyo is not an Hausa speaking state, why this stress, hope this aliens aren't trying something funny... The government increased their guard and moved them to Kano State, while declaring a state of emergency in some areas and asking people to be very careful and watchful.

On getting to Kano State, journalist from all over were already around, crowds were much too, even though they asked people not to come out, everyone wanted to hear from them.

Guess what, when this aliens were about to talk again, they spoke Igbo language. Everyone was confused... What is going on, what is happening, what is this...are this beings trying to play smart with us, are they trying to study us and know how to penetrate into us...what exactly....

And trust social media to become a battlefield with these things... People started insulting one another, tribes against tribes insulted each other, asking why no one could even agree to bringing people together, people of same nation but with diverse language, why can't we come together at a place and ask this beings some questions and allow them respond in any language of their choice.... If such is done, even if they respond in Hausa or Igbo or any other language of ours, we won't be lost or feel divided...

About a week ago, before this aliens bade us goodbye, they made a video that went viral in every platform, we don't know how they did it, but they did. In that broadcast, a tall being who seems to be their leader came out to speak, guess what.. it spoke in English.

"We've been studying humans for a very long time, you humans are very intelligent. You've built machines, you've found cure to a lot of illnesses,. you've went up the sky and down below...still, you won't stop dividing yourselves... You fight and divide yourselves by tribe, color, language, race and even religion. And we doubt if we can do business with, or trust a divided people with the knowledge and help that we brought....." It paused, then continued... "When you start seeing yourselves as one and as humans, we will come back and help you change your world.... together."*

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