Sis/Bro, I know you have tried making papa countless and no matter how hard you try or study, it never just turns out right.
It sounds so simple: add hot water and stir, but anybody who’s ever tried making pap without causing heartbreak knows the truth… Akamu is not your mate.
It seems we need a manual on how to make solid pap, or better still, maybe there are just some people that the pap chooses to work for and that’s totally fine, right?
How the Utmost heartbreak begins
You boil water with confidence, excited to prove that you can do this. You wait for the water to be hot enough to get feathers off a chicken before you finally pour it into the pap.
While you pour the water, your hands begin to shake, as you call upon all your ancestors to help you, but lo and behold, your confidence begins to diminish as you watch your pap turn into Yoghurt, the watery version.
In your heart, you know you did everything perfectly right, no mistakes, and yet the pap decided to betray you without looking back.
My love, I’m here to tell you that it’s not you, it’s the pap that has decided to look face before working.
Only Certain Aunties Have Pap Powers
There are chosen ones. Aunties that make pap so smooth, you’ll question whether she has a degree in Pap Engineering.
You try her method word-for-word, yours still ends up looking like tea that missed road.
This is why some households have one person certified to make pap. Others? You’re sent to buy bread instead.
If your job is to buy the bread and Akara, accept it with honour.
Dear Pap, A.K.A(Akamu/Ogi) Can we Know Our Offence?
Some people wake up with intuition: they just feel the right time to stir.
Others measure water with scientific accuracy and still produce breakfast trauma.
Adding milk and sugar to a failed pap feels like makeup on heartbreak, it’s still pain underneath.
You swallow your lumpy pap, disguising to your friends that that’s exactly how you love to take pap. omo the lies pap makes us tell
When Pap Works, Oh, the Joy!
Sometimes the pap decides to work out of the blue, but trust me, if you try again, you’ll flop woefully.
This is the pap’s way of giving you “A pap view once success” No reason am, it happens to the best of us.
At the end of the day, Pap selects its students.
Don’t fight it, respect the ogi, honor the Akamu, and if you haven’t been chosen, carry your kettle and walk away with dignity.
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