Transcript · Yoruba → English
Yoruba → English transcript
Have you seen it? I’ve already japa’d.
If you like, keep mocking me, I have already avoided stories that touch the heart.
If you like, avoid yours too, just stay quietly at home and don’t do that Christmas.
They say that if God is watching over a person, the person too should watch over themself.
I have watched over myself. I only know God.
If they go and frame me, that means I’m finished.
I don’t even understand Hausa, I don’t understand Fulani. “Come on.” All I know is “bring money.”
If I now go and tell a Hausa person “Ba kudi” at a time like this...
...they’ll beat me properly. Please. Let’s be careful. Madness is what
tells me not to travel. Madness tells me not to travel, to stay, to go and do “okigbe” and “ayeta.”
Do “ayeta” and “okigbe,” does that one work against sacrifice?
What if they go and slash me with a cutlass and cut off my arm?
Hmm, I’ve said my own. Come on, let’s run. I’m already up.
End of transcript · 175 words · machine translated
Original transcript (Yoruba)
Ṣe ẹ ti ri? Mo ti japa o. To ba wu ọ ma m'ẹ, emi ti avoid stories that touches the heart. To ba wu ọ ma avoid tiẹ, ma duro nle jẹjẹ ko ṣe Christmas yẹn. Wọn mọ n sọ wipe t'Ọlọrun ba n ṣọ yan, k'eyan ma ṣọ ara rẹ. Emi ti ṣọ ara mi. Ọlọrun nikan mo ni.
T'wọn ba lọ gbe mi, t'emi ba jẹ niyẹn. Emi o dẹ gbọ Hausa, mi o gbọ Fulani. Zo mana. Ba kudi ni kan mo ni. Ti n ba dẹ lọ sọ fun Hausa "Ba kudi" ni moment ta wa yi... ...igbo rẹrẹ. Ẹ jọọ o. Jẹ k'ama ṣọ ara wa. Were kan ni ki n ma travel. Were kan ni ki n ma travel, pe ki n duro, ki n lọ ṣe okigbe ati ayeta.
Ṣe ayeta ati okigbe, ṣe o ma n ṣiṣẹ lara ebo? T'wọn ba lọ fa mi lada ti apa lọ ge? Hmm, mo ti sọ t'emi o. Zo mana, ka sa o. Mo ti gbera.
