Monday, 22 February 2021

How do other African countries view Nigeria

I'm South African and used to stay in Sunnyside Pretoria, aka Lagos. I have a good number of wonderful friends, colleagues and acquaintances from West Africa that I met during university days, that I met now professionally as colleagues and clients, those people I know socially and I can safely say my former neighbouring was 50% West Africans. My view of Nigerians are the following, in no particular order:

  1. They are well spoken: yes there's pidgin but most Nigerians are eloquent and expressive sometimes a bit over-the-top;
  2. They are quite industrious: but can also be cut-throat and unethical in business;
  3. They have a wonderful reputation of being scammers and conmen and this one is felt globally. Yahoo boys, email fraud etc;
  4. Nigerians are well travelled and will explore any avenue to make money elsewhere which is wonderful. But I do think it's partially because of their adventurous and get-it spirit and coupled by the fact that millions of Nigerians are desperate to leave Nigeria for a better life somewhere else. And most don't want to go back or they take long years to visit family. I know a guy who's been here for 20 years and hasn't visited, issues of papers, lack of money etc basically excuses I know damn well he has money and can easily fix his papers. His mother has been begging for years
  5. I loooooove the West African diet. Omg the food is soooo good and tasty, I've had many many soup dishes, jollof with all kinda meat. I'm a foodie and love hot food so it makes sense;
  6. I love Nigerian music. I listen to a mix of Asa, Mr Eazi with the delicious lips, Timaya, Harry Songs, Runtown whose just so fiiiiine, a few Davido tracks, love Tiwa and Wizkid;
  7. Nigerians have their many tribal prejudices and discriminatory attitudes but will come together against an outsider;
  8. I like the accent and Nollywood; the plots, plot- twist and magic im here for all that lol;
  9. Nigerians pride themselves in their sexual prowess; I mean I cannot even tell you the number of times I've been promised a great time in bed. Funny thing is I've never been in a sexual relationship with a Nigerian man, which is weird because I mean Nigerian men are hot. They just extremely economical with the truth and imcredible womanizers;
  10. Nigerians dont like parting ways with money, when they do they'll negotiate to the lowest possible amount,

11. I wanted to visit Nigerian for 2 weeks this December until I found out they dont have stable electricity supply, I don't want to be trapped in a whole new country and be confined to a hotel room because the city is dark at night. I wanna be out and about hanging out with people soaking in the culture

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