1. When you try to explain why you forgot to bring out the chicken from the freezer.
2. When she is laughing with her friends and you come and add mouth.
3. When you ask her where to put the groceries.
4. When she sends you to go and bring her bag from her room.
5. When you ask her if you can go out and visit your friends.
6. When you eat from your party pack before she inspects it.
7. When you bring home a girl that can’t pound yam.
8. When she wants to send you on an errand but it’s raining.
9. When she asks “how many times did I call your name” and you try to answer.
10. When she sees you wearing anything that is not a suit or trad.
11. When they offer you food outside and you accept it.
12. When she makes a seller go from N3000 to N300.
So respected veteran actress of the Hollywood industry made a really controversial statement recently, when she was in Berlin heading up her first international film jury.
When she was asked if she was familiar with world cinema, particularly films from Africa and the Middle East, she said she had recently seen the Jordanian film “Theeb,” about a Bedouin boy on a hazardous mission in the desert, and also “Timbuktu,” about Islamist militants taking over the fabled Malian city.
But what really caught everyone’s attention was:
The thing that I notice is that there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And after all, we’re all from Africa originally, you know. We’re all Berliners; we’re all Africans, really.
This statement followed an uproar over the all-white Oscar acting nominee selection for a second straight year. The brouhaha forced the movie industry to confront how blacks, Asians and Latinos are represented in Hollywood.
It later came to light that Meryl Streep’s “We’re all Africans, really” comment was a direct response to a question about Arab and African films, not a response to questions about the Film Festival’s all white jury, as originally suggested.
But according to science, we really are all Africans, so even if she was taken out of context, she’s might still be right.
Watch the video below:
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Featured image via The Daily Beast.
