When I saw this tweet from Gbenga, I practically rolled off the map of Africa laughing.
This will interest @MrBankole and others who love to tell us to #KeepCalm 🙂 Courtesy of @mariovallereyes pic.twitter.com/duWaCipkDz
— ‘Gbénga Sèsan (@gbengasesan) November 26, 2013
It is true. The meme has come a long way from its World War II origins and is indeed getting old and overused, frankly by more people who have no respect for the simple communicative form of expression it embodies. Which is precisely the reason why it gets used every single day. It is just so simple, is very adaptable and pretty effective at getting the point across.
The keep calm meme has served TechCabal well in our seven months of operation. Come with me down into the archives and relive the best of TechCabal’s keep calm memes, as well as the posts that inspired them.
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Keep calm and join the Cabal
Keep calm and leave Nigeria – by Victor Asemota
The great Nigerian internet land grab
Building your startup on the side is freaking hard
Wakanow needs a shopping cart feature
A post I have been writing for the past seven months
What are the best keep calm memes you’ve seen or come up with? Disqus comments can take pictures, by all means, share.
