I’m not sure why such a big issue is being
made about AFCON and more importantly its opening ceremony. Yes we pulled off
an amazing opening ceremony for the soccer World Cup (the biggest tournament IN
THE WORLD). Is the AFCON really that important? The way I figure it we can just
put things together and it’s all good. It's just like making a sandwich; you look in the fridge, see what you got and put together the best combination. Why do you need to go all the way to the mall to make a sandwich... come on. Check these ideas out below and tell me
what you think:
1. Just
get Mandoza, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Angelique Kudjo to perform and we’ve got our opening acts.
2. Give
Desmond Tutu a couple more sips of wine than he usually has for communion, give him the
microphone and he will do the rest.
3. Pastor Mbhoro knows how to show people a
good time. Get him to MC the entire event, sing one of his “mbhobho” songs and at the end of the show pull a soccer ball
out of a woman’s…. umhhh I’ve said too much already.
4. For
fireworks we can have armies from all the countries in Africa currently in war
to shoot their AK47s in the sky… Arm them with blanks in case they get carried
away.
5. For the glow-in-the-dark lighting temporarily
remove a few of the new e-tolling structures and mount them on the stadium.
They can charge the stadium 50cents an hour so as not to lose any revenue.
4. Instead of hiring 500 - 1000 people to jump around, dance and hold up some
smart boards that make one big picture just get the youth league in the stadium
to toi-toi about something and douse the stadium with loud music to mask
whatever their complaining about.
5. Display
more Nigerian culture in the ceremony, setup a dark Hillbrow kind of scene with
big dark men on a corner selling *SOMETHING* then slapping some young girl in
skimpy clothing.
6. And if all else fails President Zuma takes one for the country
and performs the popular mshini-wami fully dressed in traditional clothing.
Then he performs one of “JZs” songs with his wives as the video-girls.
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