When the Igbo
trader speaks you may laugh at him, after all you are all polished and
educated. Until you see his bank statement then you’d know “you just cut ya
nose to spite ya face” (lol!!!). Those guys are interrigent o! No matter how
dull and difficult some of their conversations and social skills may be beside
your cultured, intellectual self, their grasp of industry shows they’ve got
something upstairs that all your fancy certifications, complicated analysis and
business models have not yielded you. What is this magic apprenticeship model
they got working for them? Sometimes we doubt the efficacy of all our education
to put food on the table or make fundamental impact when finally these guys
hire you for peanuts or become your employers while they cart in good money. A
trip to Aspamda market would wow you. Alaba nko? Oho!! Balogun market kwanu?
Gbam!! Apapa/Wharf? Sontinelse!
As the majority
of graduates search for jobs without a clue about enterprise or a skill to set
up shop somewhere, they hungrily wonder whether all these years learning
positioned them on top or put them under. We must underscore the virtues of
apprenticeship early. Learning by doing from established and successful
business models; not abstract book knowledge jo!
These Igbo
people can be found on the North pole successfully selling ice to the Eskimos.
Abeg shine ya eye. Learn a thing or two hundred from them cos Naija people dey
minister o!
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