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Davido is an indisputable force when it comes to Nigerian music today. Since making a major splash in 2011 with the explosive Naeto C-assisted hit, Back When, he has cemented himself as a universal leader of new school Afrobeats, paving the way for a new generation, all while churning out back-to-back hits.
His last album, the 2020 closer, A Better Time, was responsible for the protest anthem, Fem, club bangers like The Best with Mayourkun and La La with Ckay, and international collaborations with Nas, Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby. His guest features have also made songs like Adekunle Gold’s High and Young Jonn’s Dada bigger hits than they would’ve been without him.
With over ten years in the game and multiple hits to his name, it’s still shocking that Davido has released only three albums: 2012’s Omo Baba Olowo: The Genesis; 2019’s A Good Time; and A Better Time. But to be fair, it’s not that shocking, because Nigerian artists avoid albums like a biblical plague.
Following the massive success of Wizkid’s 2011 debut album, Superstar, 2012 was immediately set aside as the year for another hotly anticipated debut, this time, Davido’s. The anticipation was warranted, though. At the time, Davido had already put out Back When, taken over clubs with Dami Duro and killed his guest feature on Saucekid’s Carolina.
Playing into the image the public had given him (and, to be fair, his reality), Davido named his 17-track debut album, Omo Baba Olowo: The Genesis, which means, “The child of a wealthy father.” But fans were less than thrilled with this mid body of work when the album eventually dropped.
To mark the album’s 10th anniversary this week, I’ve decided to revisit Davido’s musical firstborn to figure out what worked, what flopped and how it foretold the type of musician Davido is today.
The Breakdown
If there’s one thing we know now, Davido is not one to back down from a fight or downplay his worth. The opening track and one of the album’s best songs, All Of You, finds him with the biggest shoulder pads you can find, singing about how he’s the best in the game. A bold statement for a 19-year-old dropping his first album.
For an album about being born into wealth, lyrics like “Back when I was broke yo” sound pretentious AF when Davido sings them on Back When. This doesn’t mean the song doesn’t slap, though, because it does. The first sign of a crack in the album comes up on New Skul Tinz with B-Red and Sina Rambo. Here, we find Davido and his crew trying and failing woefully to convince us they’re the next big thing.
The next five songs — except for Ekuro — Video, Down, No Visa with Sina Rambo and Enter The Centre with B-Red, can only be described as noise with a sprinkle of Davido’s vocals (if we can call it that). These roughly-produced songs drown out his voice and show one of his biggest flaws at the time, weak songwriting.
Ekuro is, however, a big moment for Davido to shine as he holds his own, singing about love — the song lowkey feels like the less than perfect older sibling to songs like Jowo, 1 Milli and Assurance.
With Davido currently standing as one of the kings of features, it’s surprising to see his album had five features from outside his label: Back When with Naeto C, Dollars In The Bank with Kay Switch, Feel Alright with Ice Prince, For You with 2Baba and Bless Me with May D. Feel Alright, Back When and Bless Me are tolerable, Dollars In The Bank fall flat because of its weak production, while For You fails to hit the mark for a song that has Davido and 2Baba.
Davido tries to hit high notes on Sade, but there’s only so much autotune can do. Thankfully, his vocals on songs likeStand Strong work as evidence that in this life, you have to try and try until you succeed. The album is rounded up with the twerk anthem Gbon Gbon, where Davido exchanges actual lyrics for an unknown language (or maybe it’s just gibberish).
Final Thoughts
Debut albums are either the best or worst projects on an artist’s discography. Thankfully, for Davido, it’s the latter. Omo Baba Olowo: The Genesis was wild back then, and going back ten years later doesn’t make it any better. One thing it does, though, is show us just how much Davido has grown as an artist and collaborator. A feat not many of his colleagues can boast of.
To get the hit-making Davido we have today, we needed to experience the cringe Davido we had on this album. I’m grateful for that because it’s all about the journey in the end, and Davido’s has been nothing short of remarkable.
We will remember 2020 for many things: a scary pandemic, a global shutdown in response to said pandemic, the rise and fall of the Houseparty app and, for music lovers, the surprise takeover of Omah Lay.
Armed with kickass melodies, relaxing mid-tempo production and romantic declarations like, “You don burst my eyeglass”, Omah Lay quickly became the year’s breakout artist. And in the same year big shots like Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, Tiwa Savage and Olamide all dropped well-received albums, Omah Lay somehow managed to remain a major fixture in the musical conversation.
His debut EP, Get Layd,was a significant departure from what Nigerians were used to at the time. Carefully blending R&B and Afropop, Omah Lay wasn’t singing about shutting the club down or living his best life. Instead, he delved into honest conversations about love and sex. And with everyone stuck at home trying to figure life out, the EP felt like the comfort music we needed at the time. A classic case of the right time and place.
Unlike most of the habits we picked up during the pandemic (Is anyone still baking Banana bread every day?), Omah Lay’s music is one thing we haven’t been able to shake off. His second EP, What Have We Done, gave us the reflective Godly and Can’t Relate, as well as a fitting remix to Damn alongside 6LACK. Features with Olamide and Ajebo Hustlers followed, further cementing his position as a hitmaker.
In all of this, Omah Lay has maintained a narrative of longing. He’s either longing for love on songs like Bad Influence, for understanding on songs like Can’t Relate, reciprocated feelings on Attention, closure onUnderstand or peace of mind on Godly.
Can Omah Lay maintain this emo boy narrative with the world back on the dancefloor? But most importantly, will it slap like it did two years ago?
The Breakdown
Omah Lay sets the stage with the album’s opening tracks, Recognize and I, in which he tries to convince his listeners he’s destined for greatness (although a part of me feels he’s trying to convince himself). The introspective tracks are followed by the sex-driven Bend You and the early single, Woman. On the Blaqbonez-esque Bend You, Omah Lay gets pornhub-level graphic, talking about all the ways he could make his girl “shake like say she get epilepsy”. While Woman also involves some backbreaking, there’s a promise of romance and a possible pregnancy since he has no plan of pulling out.
EmoLay (Emotional Omah Lay, get it?) makes a comeback to talk about using alcohol to escape imposter syndrome and loneliness on I’m A Mess, before admitting to another escapist vice, marijuana, on the reflective Temptation. He, however, finds himself, and some solace, on Never Forget and Safe Haven.
We finally get to vibe on Soso and How To Luv, which has a sprinkle of amapiano and lyrics that shout Kcee out for singing Limpopo. Omah Lay calls on Tay Iwar to assist him to the finish line with Tell Everybody, a song that successfully straddles the line between seduction and emotional yearnings. It might not get the love it deserves now, but best believe Tell Everybody is bound to be a fave after several listens.
After an emotional rollercoaster, Purple Song closes the 14-track album that still ends up with a run time of less than 40 minutes. It feels right to end this way as Omah Lay sings about not letting his love go no matter what. While the song sounds like an ode to a love interest on first listen, it’s better to picture it as Omah Lay’s love letter to music.
Final Thoughts
Omah Lay has always been honest with his music, but Boy Alone finds the Port Harcourt native digging deeper than he’s ever done before. His ability to create melodies and laidback music while addressing heartbreak, longing and loss sets him apart from most of his peers today.
While the production feels monotonous and makes the album sound like one long song sometimes, Omah Lay’s lyrics get the MVP title for deftly sharing stories that feel authentic to who he is. On Boy Alone, nothing feels contrived or made up. You can vibe all you want, but last last, you’ll listen to Omah Lay’s story.
Hey! It’s Steffi O. and I’m captaining the So You Don’t Have To ship yet again because the gorgeous, gorgeous Astor is relishing this time away from you. Such betrayal, I know. But it’s forgivable because this week, I’ll be recapping the deeply infuriating British true-crime documentary film, Tinder Swindler.
Tinder Swindler documents the failed attempt at the love of three British women that left Nigerian women shouting “God forbid.” The documentary premiered on Netflix on the 2nd February 2022, sparking a much-needed discussion on hypergamy; the whimsical belief that Cinderella’s story isn’t just a fictional story. The main theme is based on the delusional belief that people like Jeff Bezos casually sign up on Tinder with the hope of finding love in the sea of hopeless romantics.
The doc starts with what seems like an ad for love, listing all the reasons you should find it on Tinder. Like an all-you-can-eat buffet, the first two love-struck women, Cecilie Fjellhøy and Ayleen Charlotte and the best friend, Pernilla Sjoholm, describe the different types of weird men you can find roaming these Tinder streets. I’ll give it to Tinder’s legal team on this one, though. It was a smart way to let us know that, regardless of the documentary’s title, the shit that went down in the film has absolutely nothing to do with the app.
What they really meant
As they continue to spew lies from the pit of hell, the women swipe through profiles of people that look relatively normal. But of course, normal is never enough. We finally get to the swindler’s profile, a man named Simon Leviev, and a tag that says billionaire’s son as his name is typed in on google.
After Pernilla proceeds to throw in a clause on googling names before saying yes to a date, she swipes right for a match on Simon’s profile and heads to destruction with her co- victim, Cecilie Fjellhøy. Next, a subtle confession from Pernilla on the reason she swiped on Simon Levieve’s page, a short segment of the shit that goes down with the fake billionaire playboy from Israel.
Probably sis
Ominous music plays and in the next scene, the women recap their initially magical relationship with the billionaire son who’s really a fraudulent pauper.
Cecilie is up first and continues with her slightly irritating explainer on love as she recalls the fairytale from Disney classic, Beauty and the beast. She goes on about the similarities between her and Belle, as she tries to connect dots between real life and a movie about sentient kitchenware. Anyway, like Belle, she’s waiting for her charming prince. Let’s just note that Cecilie has been on Tinder for 7 years in two different countries and has connected with 1024 men. Talk about a stellar record for chasing men online.
Cecilie describes her prince charming as a handsome beach lover looking for long-term love. She quotes Marilyn Monroe’s famous line from the movie, Gentlemen Like Blondes, as a less than subtle hint that her dream man has to have a shit ton of wealth. And because of that, Cecilia decides that Simon Lieve is the Beast to her Belle and swipes right on his profile.
Once she swipes right on his profile, Simon immediately texts for them to link up at the four seasons, which should’ve been the first red flag tbh. Cecilie arrives and waits nervously at the hotel reception, the elevator door finally opens and Simon Leviev walks out, introducing himself to Cecilie as the CEO of LLD Diamonds, son of the billionaire, Lev Leviev, The Prince of Diamonds. Cecilie is immediately caught up in his web of lies.
Is Google non-existent in Europe? Or am I missing something?
Simon blows Cecilie’s mind by flying her to Bulgaria on his private jet. Cecilie explicitly said she’d be stupid to pass on the offer. Only one part of that sentence made any sense, but we won’t get into that. She messages her surprisingly sane friends who tell her it’s shady stuff but she types YOLO.
Things progress and like every playboy, Simon balances out the lies with hints of truths. Why? To make Cecilie feel comfortable. The plan works. Even after confessing about the dangerous men that are out to kill him, she decides to stick by him. He even confesses to being an ex-convict in Israel, but Cecilie sees it as a chance to prove her love to him by saving him, which is exactly what he wants her to think.
He continues to woo her in the following weeks, sending her flowers and flying to Oslo by 1 a.m. to spend time with her at her parents place. Please remember that this is a man dangerous men are already after. Cecilie also gives him a cute book on how to date a Norwegian girl and 11 things she lovesabout him. Cute stuff right?
After a few months, Cecilie finally begins to question why a billionaire’s son is randomly on Tinder and could possibly be a player. She doesn’t think as far as him being a fraud yet, but at least she’s thinking now. She goes online to check his Tinder profile and finds out he’s been active in a different country. When she confronts him, he denies everything and basically tells her she’s blind and has no clue what she’s talking about.
Next up is Pernilla Sjoholm
Pernilla Sjoholm is based in Stockholm and swipes right on Simon’s profile as soon as she sees it. He texts immediately and asks her out to dinner. They meet up and spend the evening doing a shit ton of expensive shit. (Insert picture of Simon and Pernilla painting the town red)
By the end of the evening, she lets us know he was too short to be her type and wanted to just be friends.
Again, lies.
By the next day, she sends an “I miss you” text to Simon and slowly falls for the short guy she wanted to simply befriend. Immediately after this, Simon asks her to come on a trip to Amsterdam with him and she sends her passport details for him to book the ticket.
Like I said last week, there’s some kind of epidemic going on abroad
As Simon jets between cities and his two ladies, the plans he has starts going into full gear. First, he sends a picture to Celilie with him and his bodyguard beaten up and bruised at the hospital. Celilie panics and he uses this staged tragedy to conveniently ask for her a credit card he can use that won’t be tracked by the people trying to kill him.As the Belle of this sad love story, Celilie doesn’t hesitate to save the love of her life. She orders a platinum American Express credit card and ships it off to Simon that evening.
In a few days, the credit card is maxed out and he sends a receipt with a credit of $2250 that never gets to her account. He then asks her to get on a plane to Amsterdam and bring $25,000 cash because it’ll be untraceable. Blinded by love, Celilie uses the hands that could have easily typed “How is Lev Liviev’s son broke” to search “How to get a quick loan.” Again, God forbid.
She gets the cash and her biggest fear is getting caught by airport security. When she gets to Simon, he tells her how grateful he is for his little Belle keeping him safe. Next, his bodyguard, Peter, informs him of a security breach and Simon decides to delete his Instagram account for safety. He also asks Cecilie to make her account private so his enemies can’t get him through her.
Peter calls again later that evening and asks Simon to turn off the lights in the apartment and get on the plane outside. Cecilie is distraught as her prince charming is whisked away to Stockholm for safety. All this danger and the prince leaves his princess in the apartment that’s under attack.
Anyway, when Simon arrives in Stockholm, he texts Pernilla for a very spontaneous rendezvous that makes her feel special. They end up at a nightclub with an ocean of women rubbing up against Simon. Simon is going hard with the girls and blowing Cecilie’s loan for the night. Pernilla is not impressed (maybe jealous) and decides to leave and link up the next day.
By the next day, our sexy Israeli playboy is in Sweden with a maxed out credit card. He calls Cecilie and asks her to call Cecilie to fix the issue and get the credit limit up. To do this, she needed to be employed to show credibility to the back. So Simon signs her up as an employee at LLD Diamond and asks Cecilie for her passport details to complete the profile. Honestly, at this point I wanted the film to end, but I stayed for you.
The plan works and Cecilie is on the LLD Diamond payroll earning $94,263 per month. Successfully pulling off the charade, Simon is back to the spontaneous trips around Europe. Only this time, he takes his Belle, Cecilie and his bestie, Pernilla.
A crime-filled threesome for Valentine’s Day anyone?
Simon credits the account with $250,000 but the money doesn’t drop immediately and Cecilie bankrolls the whole trip. She takes out loans to pay for business class tickets, expensive meals, and luxurious trips. They fly from Mykonos to Paris, Vienna, Switzerland, and Rome. Cecilie is basically taking out $20,000 every two days. Please note that the $250,000 never got to her account.
She still believes it’s her life’s mission to save Simon and he plays right into it. He sends a voice note while he’s in Amsterdam and lets her know that everything they’re going through together is for life. Wasn’t that her cue to run? By the end of the trip, Cecilie is in debt for $250,000 and she’s slowly getting agitated.
Simon asks her to fly to Amsterdam to pick up a check worth more than he owes to prove he’s still the “Prince of Diamonds.” Of course the check bounces and at this point, she breaks down as she recounts the experience on the documentary.
Next, she decides to be with her mum in Oslo and blocks Simon. I just wondered whether she had amnesia. This is a man that had her credit card details, passport and parents’ address. So blocking him on Whatsapp was useless.
When she gets to Oslo, there’s a message on her mother’s landline waiting for her. It’s Simon. He drops a weird cryptic message: “To action, there’s a reaction.” Our swindler was quoting Newton’s law.
Once he knew it was over with Cecilie, he moved to Pernilla. He pulls out the same pictures he sent to Cecilie about being attacked by dangerous men and asks for $30,000.
Unsuspecting Pernilla was in a tight spot, but she decides to also take out a loan for her billionaire friend. Cecilie, on the other hand, is drowning in debt from nine loan companies and checks herself into a psychiatric ward. She’s now on a mission to expose Simon.
It turns out his real name is Shimon Hiyut and articles pop up on his fraudulent activities with three women in Finland three years ago. It turns out that his ex-wife was one of the victims that testified against him. So why was she going on trips with him after being released? At this point, Cecilie is infuriated and is ready to expose her charming prince.
When love clears from your eyes
So she contacts a Norwegian newspaper agency and shares her Whatsapp conversation with the journalists who agree to run the story. They do more investigations and contact an Israeli journalist, Uri Blau, and he finds Shimon’s last address in a shantytown in Israel.
They meet his mother and she claims she has had no contact with Shimon since he turned 18. The mother denies everything like a hard criminal and storms into her apartment.
Reaching another dead end, the journalists decide to speak to the police officers that confirm Simon Liviev and Shimon Yehuda Hayut were the same people. Turns out the guy had been a fraud since his late teens; stealing from former employers and forging papers. He had been wanted by the police but he was able to flee the country. With all this information, Simon was still missing and Pernilla was the key.
Erlend Arntsen, one of the Norwegian journalists, reached out to Pernilla on Facebook. At this point, she had already loaned him $40,000, so when she saw the text, she’s losing her shit.
Everything continues to unfold, they finally see that he’s a bloody liar using love-struck women to fund his lifestyle. At this point Pernilla is enraged and decides to lead them to Simon on a trip they planned to Munich. The journalists trace Pernilla to a hotel and hide across the street taking pictures. Things go left from there because they need to take lessons from John Wick. Simon notices the camera man and he shoves Pernilla in a car as he zooms off.
Luckily, Pernilla’s cover isn’t blown and they’re able to keep tabs on Simon.
In the next scene Pernilla confronts him about being a fraud and he loses his shit over the phone. Simon denies everything and let’s Pernilla know there will be a price if she crosses him. Like any normal human being, she’s frightened because no sane person signs up to be with a conman.
For her protection, she decides to make it public and most of the internet questions her sanity. I believe most of those people were angry Nigerians.
Eventually, the post about the Tinder Swindler gets to a Dutch woman (money bag), Ayleen, also dating Simon. She immediately sends it to him on Whatsapp and confronts him. I don’t know why these women kept expecting him to admit he was a criminal. Why?
Of course Simon denies everything and she recaps the same story we’ve heard Cecilie and Pernilla narrate about falling in love with a billionaire’s son and ending up in tears.
Along the way, Ayleen let’s us know that a scorned woman is the deadliest enemy. She decides to play the players game and keeps up with her role of the love-struck girlfriend. She had a plan. Ayleen keeps up with sending him texts, calling Cecilie and Pernilla bitches and gold diggers, telling him she trusts him wholeheartedly and other irritating things lovers do.
Ayleen’s plan is to sell everything Simon owns and cash out on some of the money he lost. An entrepreneurial queen. Simon eventually catches up, but it’s a little too late. At this point, the “Prince of Diamonds” changed his name to the “Homeless king.” They still couldn’t arrest him, but at least he was losing his shit.
After weeks of grovelling at Ayleen’s feet, Simon decides to change his name and leave Amsterdam for Prague. With his luck run out, Ayleen catches up on his plans and leaks his travel details and fake name, David Sharon, to Interpol.
Simon was arrested at the airport and the first person he texts to help is Ayleen. They finally won! At least for fifteen months.
Our dear swindler was released and is still living his baby boy lifestyle. Only this time, he has a business page where he gives business advice for $311. It’s the audacity for me. Anyway, Simon is back on Tinder while Cecilie, Pernilla, and Ayeesha are still paying off their debt almost six years later.
If there was ever a definition of life is a pot of beans, this is it. I suggest you denounce everything and anything that has to do with love, but don’t allow my bitterness spoil your Valentine’s Day plans. Jus
Once upon a time, Astor recapped an insane Christian book that claimed the devil created football as a tool to destroy humanity. The article’s popularity made him turn his recaps into a weekly series named “So You Don’t Have To“, where he finds batshit crazy pieces of media (books, movies, etc) and recaps them for your pleasure.
Hey! My name is Steffi, and I’ll be captaining the So You Don’t Have To ship this week because the gorgeous, gorgeous Astor is taking a well-deserved break. To shake things up, I’ve decided to serve some American pop culture content sprinkled with Nigerian madness for flavour. This week, I will be recapping the super chaotic TLC reality show, 90 Day Fiancé.
Specifically, a recap of the Nigerian storylines on show. Because everyone knows those are the wildest.
For those who don’t know, 90 Day Fiancé and its spin-off shows follow the lives of Americans with nothing better to do with their time and money than to chase love in strange places. They throw caution and their ATM cards to the wind for a chance at love. Here’s a breakdown of the Nigerian-flavoured mess on the show so far.
In 2018, Michael Ilesanmi joined the second season as the first Nigerian, with his American sweetheart, Angela Deem. The show chronicled their love story and engagement through the third and seventh seasons. After getting married in 2020, the producers cast them on the fifth and sixth season of the spin-off shows, 90 Days Fiance: Happily Ever After?
The second Nigerian to come on was Usman Umar. Usman came in on the fourth season, but his love with his American sweetheart, Lisa Hamme, didn’t last long enough for them to be a part of the spin-off like Michael and Angela did.
So what happened within this chaotic timeline for Michael and Usman?
Let’s begin with Michael Ilesanmi, a 30-year-old car dealer living in Lagos, who manages to get a 52 year old American woman named Angela Deem to fall in love with him on Facebook. A few months after being wooed by her “sexy Nigerian man,” (as she called him at the time), Angela packs her bags and heads to Lagos. Why? To put a ring on the man she likes. Beyoncè be praised.
A match made in heaven, wouldn’t you say?
As soon as Angela arrives at the Lagos airport in episode one, she runs into Michael’s arms and does something that’s supposed to be a kiss but looks more like her vacuuming his tonsils with her tongue. Many Nigerians aren’t used to PDA so the innocent bystanders that have to witness this face-sucking are visibly shook and disgusted. Between the airport and checking in at the hotel, Angela sucks her “sexy Nigerian man’s” face about twenty times.
I saw it and you have to see it too.
The clerk at the hotel knew exactly what was playing out in front of him.
The best (and most jarring) part of the episode is hearing Angela talk about how hard she’s going to “trump” (bump genitals with) Michael that night. It makes me want to gag, but I’m impressed by how she uses Trump as a sexy verb. The next morning, Angela wakes up a satisfied granny. Michael, on the other hand, not so much.
I wonder if Nigerians can start using Bubu’s name as an euphemism for knacks.
Michael spends the rest of the season trying to turn Angela into an African queen. There’s a hilarious episode where he takes her to the market to price goat meat, which leads to her almost passing out on the market floor after seeing a severed goat head chilling on a table.
Later on, Michael’s mother and aunt pay a visit to discuss grandchildren, which is funny as hell because Angela is 52 years old. Things take an even crazier turn when they start talking about Angela being a submissive wife. Let’s just say that Angela isn’t too thrilled by this idea.
Angela’s response: “Just because you have to be submissive to your husband doesn’t mean I should. I’m an American.”
The sex must’ve been spectacular sha because even after all the madness with Micheal’s family, Angela still proposes to him at the end of the season, making her Mrs Angela Ilesanmi.
This purple suit is giving Willy Wonka.
It looks like Michael’s village people are working overtime, though, because his K-1 visa gets denied. There’s no confirmation on why he hasn’t been able to get the visa throughout the show. All we know is that Michael is on an agenda to fertilize Angela’s eggs by all means. When she’s back to the States, he offers to ship his sperm to her for an IVF procedure, but Angela is not having it because she doesn’t want him wanking into a tube in front of some doctor without her being present.
Without her sexy Nigerian man close, Angela starts feeling insecure about being old and wants to lose some weight. She uses the money she’d saved up for the IVF procedure on a gastric bypass for weight loss. Angela returns in the spin-off show, Happily Ever After, as the hottest grandma you’ve ever seen. Michael, however, doesn’t approve of her smaller boobs but doesn’t have the balls to tell her during their steamy, phone sex session in episode 12.
By the end of the season, it’s revealed that Angela might’ve had a fling with the gorgeous doctor who performed her surgery. Michael loses his shit and things get pretty heated between he and Angela at the reunion episode (90 Days Reunion: Couples Tell All) and she storms off the set, but not before flashing her new boobs at the camera.
I’m not sure where their relationship stands but I feel so sorry for Michael. Three years of this insane rollercoaster and our guy still hasn’t fulfilled his mission that we’re hinting at right now but won’t explicitly state to avoid wahala. Sorry, Mikey.
Up next is, Usman Umar; a Kano-based Nigerian rapper popularly known as Sojaboy. Sojaboy is introduced in the fourth season, along with his American sugar mama, Lisa Hamme. He even made a song for her titled, I love you. It’s truly the worst thing I’ve ever heard, and you need to listen to it.
When the show starts, Lisa seems like a calmer version of Angela. The only thing they have in common is that they both like a good genital meet & greet.
Usman tries to ride the wave of being a popular artist and takes Lisa for a performance at a nightclub. The club girls scream and flock around the self-proclaimed superstar as he walks in, and Lisa is obviously pissed. She spends most of the season being jealous and trying to frustrate Usman’s music career, but he doesn’t falter and remains focused on his goal that we’re hinting at right now but won’t explicitly state to avoid wahala.
His family initially doesn’t support his relationship with Lisa but they come around after he assures them, in Hausa of course, about the certainty of moving to America. Usman marries Lisa but things don’t end well for them. The couple didn’t spill the full tea in the reunion episode (90 Days Fiance: Tell All) but in interviews, Usman hinted at him feeling controlled in the marriage. In 2020, he filed for divorce.
Don’t worry about Usman, sha. He’s back on the show with another American milf on the current season.
There’s clearly some kind of epidemic in America that needs to be studied
Usman the Sojaboy is onto the next mission-filled adevnture with his new catch, Kimberly Menzies. After Kimberly slidesinto his DM as a super fan of the show, Usman takes the opportunity to get closer to her, and thus begins their relationship. So far, she’s flown to Tanzania to support him with a music video, bought him a Play Station 5, and a Macbook.
Usman seems to have hit the jackpot this time, but he’s been friendzonning Kimberly. He refuses to have sex with her, but she’s adamant about getting him in bed. We’ll keep watching and see how it goes for Usman and his horny horny mamaon the season of the show currently airing.
