"Naamu" joke from Côte d'Ivoire

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Continuing the discussion from Dɔnkili Delight | Dounya Te Soyé - Volta Jazz:

  • Ayi! What’s the joke? :ear:
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I wikl try to tell it in Bambara:

Wagati min Ouatarra sera, ministres bɛɛ appel jaabi “Naamu”.

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I think there’s some mistakes in there, but is the gist: when Ouattara arrives and he calls the ministers, they reply “Naamu”?

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Since Ouattara has taken power, the minsters reply by “naamu”.

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Funny but also a bummer that it’s kinda poking fun at him for being Jula (and/or the use of an African language)

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Yeah its a critique of government claiming that under Houphouet-Boigny the government was more representative ethnically

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