The Blonde Called Nigeria

Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
15 min readJan 14, 2017

I have collected one thousand and one blonde jokes. But, I stopped collecting the day I asked a veteran collector how many blonde jokes there are and he responded, “None, they’re all true.” I find stories about blondes, very fascinating. They remind me of Nigeria, our Nigeria.

The other day in Louisiana, a young blonde, who wanted genuine alligator shoes, combed stores after stores in search of a reasonably priced one. Frustrated at the price the store managers quoted, she barked at one store manager, “I think I will go into the swamp and catch my own alligator so that I can get a…

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Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo

Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo is the author of "This American Life Sef." He is also the host of Dr. Damages Show, 90MinutesAfrica & HaveYourSay247. He teaches at the SVA.