It started as a clip.
Forty seconds.
Grainy livestream quality. Janet's excited voice. A sudden camera flip. Dayo mid-sentence, speaking Yoruba without hesitation.
That was all it took.
Within an hour, the clip was no longer Janet's livestream moment.
It was everywhere.
Nigeria found it first.
Twitter NG moved like wildfire when something smelled like pride. The clip was screen-recorded, reposted, trimmed, subtitled, memed, and reposted again before sunset.
"WAIT. HE SPEAKS YORUBA LIKE THAT???"
"Not the accent being clean too 😭"
"Ah ah this one no be learn-from-app Yoruba o."
"I cannot even speak half of this and I was born in Ibadan 😭😭😭"
"He didn't forget home. That's the difference."
The comments split into waves.
First wave was shock.
Second wave was pride.
Third wave was analysis.
In Nigeria, it wasn't just about language. It was about identity. It was about claiming someone before the rest of the world decided to claim him differently.
