{"id":1003,"date":"2010-07-19T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T10:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.feelnubia.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2023-01-17T09:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T09:47:57","slug":"tongues-the-story-and-slang-behind-ghana-must-go-gmg-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/index.php\/2010\/blog-misc-and-opinions\/tongues-the-story-and-slang-behind-ghana-must-go-gmg-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"TONGUES: The Story and Slang Behind Ghana Must Go (GMG) Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3336\" src=\"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-650x488.jpg 650w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-250x188.jpg 250w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-50x38.jpg 50w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-100x75.jpg 100w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-350x263.jpg 350w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-450x338.jpg 450w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-550x413.jpg 550w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-800x600.jpg 800w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GMG-bag.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h1>Ghana Must Go: A Bag and a Story<\/h1>\r\n<p>My name is Admassu, and I was 21 when I first touched down in Lagos. The air was hot, the city alive, and my head spun with words I didn\u2019t understand. Everyone was speaking English. Sort of. The version of English they spoke was faster, richer, laced with meaning. They called it <em>pidgin<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p>From Nigeria to Ghana to Kenya, I was chasing roots. But what I found along the way were <em>tongues: <\/em>playful, coded, sometimes sharp, sometimes soft. Slang isn\u2019t just street talk. It\u2019s memory. It\u2019s migration. It\u2019s resistance.<\/p>\r\n<p>I remember the first time I saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deportation_of_West_African_migrants_from_Nigeria\">Ghana Must Go<\/a>\u00a0 (GMG) bag in Lagos.\u00a0 I stayed with a cousin in Surulere. One evening, we were off to the market when he yelled, <em>&#8220;Admassu, grab that GMG bag!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>I looked around, confused. GMG?<\/p>\r\n<p>He pointed to a loud plastic bag with blue, red, and white checks. I laughed. \u201cWhat\u2019s GMG?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>He smirked. \u201cGhana Must Go.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>I thought he was joking. He wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\r\n<p>There was a story behind the name of the bag. For the &#8216;unschooled&#8217;, these plastic bags are called Ghana-Must-Go (GMG) bags in West Africa. The bag derived its name from the public antagonism that followed the influx of Ghanaians into Nigeria between 1975 and the early 1980s in the aftermath of the economic devastation of the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\r\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<p>It turns out that between the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nigeria&#8217;s economy was booming with oil wealth and job opportunities. Ghanaians flooded in, looking for work as teachers, drivers, cooks, and pretty much whatever work they could find to earn Naira, which was stronger than the Ghanaian Cedi. In those days, it was not uncommon to find Ghanaian PhD holders who were working as drivers. Although it was welcomed at first, the\u00a0surge of illegal migrants led to government action to expel them when the economy dipped. When the Nigerian government turned on the migrants in 1983, a mass expulsion began.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Ghanaians had to leave fast. No time for fancy suitcases. So they grabbed these cheap woven plastic bags from roadside traders. The kind you can throw on a bus or carry through the dust. These plastic bags were commonly purchased luggage bags that were grabbed hurriedly for the unceremonious trips that Ghanaian returnees had to make to get back home.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sold by petty traders around airports and motor-parks, the simple bags soon became the breakout star of the story. And that\u2019s how the name &#8220;Ghana Must Go&#8221; was born: a\u00a0simple bag with a loaded past.<\/p>\r\n<p>Everyone in Lagos knows the GMG bag. It\u2019s the butt of jokes. A symbol of hustle. But also of survival. In recent times, the bags have gained notoriety for being the preferred choice of politicians for conveying looted public funds. Some say it\u2019s become the <em>politician\u2019s favourite suitcase<\/em>. Often stuffed with cash and moved in the dead of night. Plastic doesn\u2019t leave fingerprints.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>At the airport, I saw a family using one. A toddler was asleep on top of it. Life goes on.<\/p>\r\n<p>In Ghana and Kenya, they also had their versions. In Accra, they don\u2019t call it Ghana Must Go. They just call it a bag. But when I explained the Nigerian name, people laughed. One woman said, <em>\u201cAh, we know that story. But we didn\u2019t name the bag after ourselves!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>In Nairobi, I heard similar slang layers. People said \u201cmkokoteni\u201d for carts, \u201cnyama choma\u201d for grilled meat, and \u201csocks\u201d for stolen Wi-Fi. Each slang word was a tiny window into how people lived.<\/p>\r\n<p>I started collecting pidgin slang as I travelled. \u201cOmo\u201d in Nigeria means child, but it can also mean <em>\u201cwow\u201d<\/em>, <em>\u201cyou messed up\u201d<\/em>, or <em>\u201cthat\u2019s deep.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cAbi?\u201d means \u201cright?\u201d and \u201cwahala\u201d means \u201ctrouble.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>In Ghana, \u201cChale\u201d is everything\u2014<em>hey<\/em>, <em>friend<\/em>, <em>let\u2019s go<\/em>.<br \/>In Kenya, \u201csasa?\u201d means \u201cwhat\u2019s up?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Pidgin is local. But it spreads. It tells you who\u2019s in, who\u2019s out, who remembers, and who forgets.<\/p>\r\n<p>I may have grown up in London, but after this trip, I speak better <em>African<\/em>. Not the dictionary kind. The street kind. The kind you won\u2019t learn in school\u2014but you\u2019ll hear in the taxi, at the bus stop, at grandma\u2019s house, and in WhatsApp chats.<\/p>\r\n<p>Share Yours\u2014It\u2019s How We Keep the Tongue Alive.<\/p>\r\n<p>Do you have community slang where you are? Do your people have a word that means everything\u2014and nothing at once? Share it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Because when we share slang, we share memory. And when we share memories, we build a home.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>#GhanaMustGo #AfricanSlang #DiasporaJourney #FeelnubiaVoice<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Read more stories about<a href=\"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/?s=language\"> languages<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Must Go: A Bag and a Story My name is Admassu, and I was 21 when I first touched down in Lagos. The air was hot, the city alive, and my head spun with words I didn\u2019t understand. Everyone was speaking English. 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