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To Ambazonia: "You can't Win"
By Wanaku Verdzekov · · The Cameroons
Date note: Undated Facebook post, estimated to about 2021.
Tags: win-what, aphorisms, kommunity
To Ambazonia: "You can't win."
Question: win what?
A run of short AMBA lines from the same time:
- AFRICA: All men are born EQUAL… by WOMEN.
- AMBA: Stealing is NOT a way to make a living, even if you are learning from politricksters.
- AMBA: Take your pick: a FUNCTIONAL small kommunity, or a DYSFUNCTIONAL "one and indivisible"?
- AMBA: It is easier to land a roving probe on Mars than for a kommunity to have basic food and housing in Ibalikumato.
- AMBA: Separation talks? You must have an ALGEBRA person, or else the West will run money circles around you until the "politicians" get dizzy and faint.
Ija'iku fɨlasi!
— Wanaku Verdzekov
Reading & grammar
Reading level: Gr 8–10
Understand
- What question does the author answer "You can't win" with?
- Explain "All men are born equal… by women".
- What does the Mars-probe comparison say about Ibalikumato?
Grammar focus: wordplay. "All men are born EQUAL… by WOMEN" twists a famous phrase ("all men are created equal") into a joke with a point. Wordplay rewards careful reading.
Try it: Twist a famous saying to make a new point. Explain your twist.
Discuss: "A functional small community or a dysfunctional big one?" Which would you choose, and why?