African Style

If you see me eating eba with my hand

Make you no laugh me, I am keeping to my culture.

If you see me eating ugba and okporoko

Don’t be surprised oh

That is my salad, brother.

If you see me

Pouring libation in Africa

Make you no laugh me,

I am talking to my ancestors.

If you see me breaking kola in Africa

Don’t be surprised oh,

That is my way oh.

Na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na

Na na na na na na na

Mama ma ma ehhh x2

African Style x4

In the year 1975

I travel to Oyibo man country

Ala bekee, Ala bekee

Obodo ndi ocha x4

When I dey travel, I carry my eba with me

I carry some ogbono ehh

To Oyibo man country.

When I dey travel, I carry my eba with me

I carry some ogbono ehh

To Ala bekee ehh

(Obodo ndi ocha)

When I reach,

My brother, I no like their food ehh

I no like their food eh

In Ala bekee.

When I reach,

My brother, I no like their food ehh

I no like their food ehh

In Ala bekee ehh.

I carry my eba

I carry my ogbono soup eh

I begin to chop am

I begin to chop am, brother.

I carry my eba

I carry my ogbono soup eh

I begin to chop am

I begin to chop am, brother.

The Oyibo people

The Oyibo people wey dey there

They begin clap for me

They say na magic me I dey do for them x2

I tell them say

No be magic I dey do oh

Na chop I dey chop

African wakkis ehh x2

They say if na so,

You are committing suicide

You are committing suicide

We go call police eh!

How can you prove

This big thing you dey swallow

Say na chop?

Which kind chop be this ehh x2

Policeee eeeehhh

Policeee ehhhnn

Poliiice!

He is committing suicide oh

The black man wey dey here

Is committing suicide oh

The black man wey dey here

Is committing suicide ehh

Policeee eeeehhh

Policeee ehhhnn

Poliiice!

He is committing suicide oh

The black man wey dey here

Is committing suicide oh

The black man wey dey here

Is committing suicide ehh

Policeee eeeehhh

Policeee ehhhnn

Poliiice!

He is committing suicide oh

The black man wey dey here

Is committing suicide oh

The black man wey dey here

Is committing suicide ehh

(Guitar Solo)

Ziggima oh

Ziggima oh

Ziggima o oh

Ziggima ooh x2

You see, in the part of Africa wey I come from

Anybody wey dey chop fufu with fork and knife

E get as we dey describe am

At first, we fit call am Onye bekee

Or we go say:

O n’emezi ka onye ocha

I jiri agaji

N’nma n’eri utara

I wudi onye bekee, wudi onye bekee x3

Onye bekee

Nwa mama

Onye bekee ifugo

Nwa mama x 2

Dede Rogers

E Jim aka n’eri utara m oo

A wudim onye Africa oo

Awudim onye Africa

Chief Eddy Nwoku

E Jim aka n’eri utara m oo

A wudim onye Africa oo

Awudim onye Africa

I jiri agaji

N’nma n’eri garri

I wudi onye bekee, wudi onye bekee

I jiri agaji

N’nma n’eri utara

I wudi onye bekee, wudi onye bekee

I jiri agaji

N’nma n’eri garri

I wudi onye bekee, wudi onye bekee

I jiri agaji

N’nma n’eri utara

I wudi onye bekee, wudi onye bekee

Onye bekee

Nwa mama

Onye bekee ifugo

Nwa mama x 2 (fade)