Adegboyega Martins writes on 'JAPA' viral Nigerian Internet English (Pics+Videos)
Trending Nigerian slang “Jaapa” is the word on every Nigerian youth's lip. Just after we recovered from the ‘ShoMoAgeMi’ madness which was invented by veteran Nollywood actor, Jigan, who used it in one of his comedy skits which portrayed him as a too meek a person who is easily bullied. Funny! The word ‘Jaapa’ will definitely be registered in the Nigerian urban English as the street is adopting it in every sentence. Although we haven’t seen an hip-hop music to appreciate this word as at the time of writing this but trust Nigerians we are sure to see a Yoruba movie being titled ‘Jaapa’ in no time. One seemingly good thing about this is that linguistics/languages students have a new word to study as we’ve seen from past experiences project titles of the likes. ‘Jáapà’ –A Yoruba word which can be translated in context to mean ‘to elope’ ‘to detach’ ‘to dump’. Though many believe it’s a vocabulary majorly for the Yoruba demons, slay queens, broken hearted baes, wicke
