FUNNY: HOW YORUBA’S ‘GUDU GUDU MEJE’ WAS ORIGINATED

Some Ibadan Chiefs went to a meeting with an Oyinbo District Officer.

In the course of the meeting, the Oyinbo man was so happy with what the Ibadan Chiefs had to report via an interpreter and he kept saying good good good good good yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

One of the Chiefs counted the number of the goods [7] and yeah [6] and when they got back to Ibadan, he reported to Ibadan folks that the Oyinbo man “se gudu gudu meje ati ya ya mefa”