When Quail Eggs Become a Miracle Money Making Product in Africa

If there is something interesting – and indeed surprising - about Africa, it is a continent where smart fastidious individuals can capitalize on the gullibility of others and make millions within the twinkling of an eye. It is a place where even monkey’s red ass, sweetly coated with a little lie and persuasion, can be marketed as omnipotent product and sold for millions of dollars for simple minded individuals.

Little wonder, therefore, why recently, some avaricious Africans have marketed quail eggs and meat as wonder drugs against all kinds of sicknesses such as diabetes, Anemia, Aids, tuberculosis, chronic pneumonia, stomach ulcers, bronchial asthma, impotence to name just a few claims. Even though there are no scientific findings to back up the claims, many gullible individuals are spending much of their hard earned money buying the 'miracle product.' To crown it all, some people in Kenya strongly believe eating quail eggs could make their favourite English Premier League club like Manchester United, win a match. Excuse me! Ok, I guess you perhaps will start to understand why quail eggs must have become an essential commodity in the UK, Kenya and a host of other countries, where those club supporters are continuously munching quail eggs uncontrollably in the hope that their various league clubs will benefit from the quail egg miracle. You still don’t understand why soon quail eggs will take over from khat as the national past – time munching delicacy in Kenya? Logically, the club with the most supporters that eat much of the miracle quail eggs, wins more. Interestingly, looking at the miserable position Manchester United is occupying in the Premier League table, could it be that the club’s supporters have minimized eating t...

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... wife left me after 50 years of marriage. Now she wan’ come back after she heard what I can do in the room. You wan’ try me? Me, I thank quail egg and the government that publicized it.” One 76 – year – old Nigerian, Julius Ochene boasted.

Of course, our reporter did not take up Pa. Ochene’s challenge, so it was difficult to ascertain his claims, but she knows one thing for sure: the placebo – effect is to medicine what quail egg is to crafty quail egg sellers. It is not strange to believe that a placebo works more on gullibility. As far as some people strongly believe in the quail egg as a natural healing and miracle product, many iniquitous elements out there are bound to enrich themselves immensely from the placebo – effects of that belief.

The above story is a parody. It is entirely fictitious; therefore none of the characters mentioned in the story are real