Yoruba Murphy Afolabi, a Nollywood actor, responded to those who had made fun of him for having a thick Yoruba accent by saying he would continue to speak that way till he was very old.
When asked about his Osogbo accent and how it had been exploited to make fun of him, the actor revealed this in an interview with BBC News Yoruba.
The way Osogbo natives pronounce their “s” differs from the way Lagosians do, according to Murphy, who also claims that if he attempts to speak with an accent other than Osogbo, no one will be able to understand him.
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He did, however, advise people not to associate with him because he will continue to speak in this manner until he is very old if they do not feel comfortable speaking to him because of his accent.
He said:
There is nothing like someone is making fun of me. Your place of birth is your state. You can’t give birth to someone in Osun state and then you go to Lagos and say you want to have hairs like your father. I was given birth to in Osogbo and everyone knows that in my village, the way we pronounce our ‘S’ is different from the others. if you want to force yourself to speak like a Lagosian, people would hardly hear you. This is the way I’ll talk till I grow old. Whoever doesn’t like it should not play with me.
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