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Came across this really nice article (doesn't happen
often... ) written about me by writer, Joy Isi Bewaji,
which was shared on www.happenings.com.ng. Please
read below...
Schadenfreude. Pleasure derived by someone from
another person’s misfortune. There is something about
Linda Ikeji that seems to bring out this morbid emotion,
even in people you wouldn’t ordinarily consider to be of
the morbid sort. Something about the No. 1 blogger in
Nigeria, West Africa, Africa that people seem to always
expect her to be a constant Freudian slip; a perpetual
error of sorts for their entertainment;
a gladiator who upon slaying all adversaries, squelching
their ruin beneath his sandaled feet, proceeds in order
to meet an insatiable bloodlust, to hack himself to bits
to the rousing applause of the constantly cheering
crowd.
Her slips are patented, with the keenness of a 90 year
old museum director, methodically curated. In a
multiverse of bloggers, that contemporary vocation now
practiced by hundreds of thousands, Linda Ikeji alone
and always, is held to account for the excesses of the
trade; scapegoat, saddled with communal sins and
driven into the wilderness to perish.
Her moments of oversight, which aren’t any more
frequent than any other blogger, are exaggerated, acts
of unforgivable heresy that unites, pitchfork flailing
around the raging pyre, the cyber-angry, the cyber-
frustrated and the cyber-deprived.
Apart from her faithful followers, not too many a
favourable word has been written about her in our
public spaces, in praise of what is surely one of the
most important crafts of our increasingly digital times.
No. Linda is always wrong.
She is wrong because she is rich, her gains gleaned off
of peoples misfortunes, and hell and horror, with very
little creative effort required on her part. A concept that
pulverizes the minds of the sort of people who believe
your back must be scarred, your ligaments torn before
you can get ahead in life, and even then, we all know
the ultimate reward lies for us beyond the grave.
So how dare she have access to riches here?
How dare she squander hers here? On a bag, on a
Range, on a House, on her business, on a private jet…


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