Comedian Chigurl (real name Chioma
Omeruah) is really funny and sometimes we do not know people’s journey through
life and what they go through to get to where they are today.
Omeruah) is really funny and sometimes we do not know people’s journey through
life and what they go through to get to where they are today.
Chioma shares on her journey through failure, learning different foreign
languages(speaks French Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and pidgin) embracing comedy and many more at
TEDxEuston.
Was able to transcribe her inspiring story below:
“Before we get started, Education did
not do a damn thing for me. I am a person that sorta failed in school, I failed
maths with dignity and when i got P (Pass) in Maths, I would celebrate it and treat
myself to lunch cos i had a ‘P’…but look at me today, education did not help me get to
where I am today.
not do a damn thing for me. I am a person that sorta failed in school, I failed
maths with dignity and when i got P (Pass) in Maths, I would celebrate it and treat
myself to lunch cos i had a ‘P’…but look at me today, education did not help me get to
where I am today.
After I failed in military school, I had to
repeat year four and I told my daddy, daddy don’t worry i would go back to
school and he looked at me and said ‘get out of my sight…he didn’t want me to embarrass him, as per a whole daughter of a chief airforce officer, repeating… so he changed my school but after that i failed again, i left Nigeria and left to abroad,
he was like Chioma you talk too much so you are going America to do Law.
repeat year four and I told my daddy, daddy don’t worry i would go back to
school and he looked at me and said ‘get out of my sight…he didn’t want me to embarrass him, as per a whole daughter of a chief airforce officer, repeating… so he changed my school but after that i failed again, i left Nigeria and left to abroad,
he was like Chioma you talk too much so you are going America to do Law.
He didn’t care if i was interested in Law or not, he just wanted me to go School. I loved talking, doing crazy things, making peeps laugh but he insisted I went to School.
I did
criminal justice for two years and I was failing so badly and I was on AP (academic
probation) for two years, I was failing woefully. So I decided to switch to
languages, my mum said i should study french so that i would at least have a major
after graduating from school. but my dad was like why would i study french, in
school despite all the money he paid for school fees, they (family elders were like what will
french do for you…) anyway, I did not listen, I studied french and got my first job three months after School as a Language teacher.
criminal justice for two years and I was failing so badly and I was on AP (academic
probation) for two years, I was failing woefully. So I decided to switch to
languages, my mum said i should study french so that i would at least have a major
after graduating from school. but my dad was like why would i study french, in
school despite all the money he paid for school fees, they (family elders were like what will
french do for you…) anyway, I did not listen, I studied french and got my first job three months after School as a Language teacher.
I developed myself and also learnt Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin…you see, i was a crazy teacher, I was crazy even to my students. Sometimes I would be like, hey dearies if you pass this test, i would dance on this table for you…and when they pass i would truly get my ass on the table and dance for them, yea, i was that crazy.
After being in America for twelve years, my dad said I should come home….but he passed away a
month after i got home….i had nothing doing in Nigeria sha but then one day in my house, i started doing this
funny voices thing, and started the Chigurl character and send to my friends…and somehow, it spread and many people started
sending it around, and it got back to me via BC, and they were like have you
heard this funny chigurl, she is funny and razz, and I’m like wow, hat’s me…and that was when i hit my breakthrough, with people calling me around.
month after i got home….i had nothing doing in Nigeria sha but then one day in my house, i started doing this
funny voices thing, and started the Chigurl character and send to my friends…and somehow, it spread and many people started
sending it around, and it got back to me via BC, and they were like have you
heard this funny chigurl, she is funny and razz, and I’m like wow, hat’s me…and that was when i hit my breakthrough, with people calling me around.
You can watch video (HERE)
