I asked for an ode to the hardworking Nigerian. The machine refused.
2 corrections · 18 sourced · 4 not yet sourced.
Corrections
What we got wrong
Said
The film's description first reported that the image model made 8 faults in 27 first drawings.
Now
15 faults in 27 first drawings, from neutral words. A stricter recount on 4 October, picture by picture, found 7 more that the first count missed.
Corrected 4 OCT 2026 · The film's description (video/scripts/the-ode-i-refused.description.md)
Said
Seven in ten people in Nigerian prisons have never been tried
Now
Nearly two in three are awaiting trial: 65.2 per cent of people held in Nigerian prisons, June 2026 (World Prison Brief). Seven in ten was true in 2020, at 73.8 per cent, and is out of date.
Corrected 8 OCT 2026 · Published on this page; not yet voiced in a film
Sources
In the order the film says them
Of every hundred Nigerians who work, eighty six work for themselves.
World Bank, SL.EMP.SELF.ZS, 2025
The world average is forty six.
World Bank, SL.EMP.SELF.ZS, 2025: world 46.4
In Britain, thirteen.
World Bank, SL.EMP.SELF.ZS, 2025: Britain 13.1
Eight in every ten Nigerian women are in the labour force
World Bank, SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS, 2025: Nigeria 80.7
more than in Switzerland, Denmark, Britain or America
World Bank, SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS, 2025: Switzerland 62.2, Denmark 60.8, Britain 57.3, United States 56.3
Two in three working Nigerians have no contract and nothing underneath them if the week goes wrong.
World Bank, SL.EMP.VULN.ZS (vulnerable employment), 2025: Nigeria 66.5
three per cent unemployment, which Europe would envy, counts one hour of work in a week as a job
World Bank, SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS: 3.06; held out of the instrument's score for Nigeria because the published rate counts one hour of work in a week as employment
The ledger said fifty nine, not eighteen.
The Country Instrument's sourced record, adopted.json (Nigeria ledger 59), published in the correction film I was wrong about Nigeria; the ledger pillar is computed from three World Bank series: adjusted net saving (NY.ADJ.SVNX.GN.ZS), carbon dioxide per head and public spending on education
The country rose in every period.
The Country Instrument's sourced record, instrument/record/adopted.json (28.6 in 2001, 34.4 in 2016, 37.1 now), published in the correction film
You drew white people in our clinics.
The channel's own record: the evidence pictures found on disk, "A Western clinic where a Nigerian hospital was asked" (Lead, 3 October 2026)
You drew our cities as villages, red earth and thatch, again and again.
The channel's bias ledger, 2026-10-01 to 03: Nigeria drawn as a village, red earth, mud walls, thatch nobody asked for; and the evidence file's thatched shelter drawn for a zinc awning
You could not draw a Kalabari elder's hat in six attempts.
The channel's bias ledger, 2026-10-02, The Invitation: a Kalabari bowler hat drawn as flat caps, straw hats, wide brims (six attempts)
You heard our Pidgin as Jamaican.
The channel's bias ledger, 2026-10-02, The Envelope: Sani's Pidgin line voiced as Jamaican, five takes
Nigeria: one hundred and forty four kilowatt hours.
World Bank, EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC, 2023
The world average: three thousand five hundred and fifty nine.
World Bank, EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC, 2023: world 3,558.5
America: twelve thousand eight hundred.
World Bank, EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC, 2023: United States 12,839.3
A Nigerian works with a twenty fifth of the world's power behind them.
World Bank, EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC, 2023: Nigeria 144 against world 3,558.5, a ratio of 0.0405
Divide output by power and a Nigerian hour returns eight times the world's.
World Bank, SL.GDP.PCAP.EM.KD, 2025 (Nigeria 17,119.9, world 50,671.7) divided by the electricity ratio: 0.338 over 0.0405; stated in the film and then refused, because sector mix drives it
Not yet sourced
Said without a source on record
It is a country with almost no employers, so everybody becomes their own.
A woman who did everything right cannot enforce a contract if the court takes nine years.
Seven in ten people in Nigerian prisons have never been tried
the share of you who work is still near the top of the world