Leaving For Nigeria In 3 Weeks: What Do I Need To Know?

  YES - I got my visa, so everything is settled - - - very soon i will see igboland :-)

@blacksta

what do you mean by stay away?

is it by train or bus?

Why dont u do wot tourist do, log on to the tourist website for the country u want to visit, it will tell u all u need to know.

udode,

You are yet to invite me for the wedding. At least I live close by and wouldn't mind coming to share with you.

 ;d

@olu

thnx - -  i have some ideas of what to expect. Of course I will adapt to the culture and the people, actually i am already trying my best here (learning igbo for example) lol, but it isnt easy i tell you!

additionally i have already been in touch with the family through the phone, i have sent them gifts and i will bring some more when i am going now, so I am pretty sure they will welcome we warlmy!

Hi Udode,
You are welcome to this great Nation. How was your trip. Hope you are finding it interesting here in Nigeria. May God continue to protect you in all your journeys.
Let's know about your experience and challenges.
Love From your fellow Nairalanders.
Olumide

guess who's back

wow what an exciting trip, i had such a wonderful time,
i dont even know where to start

-the food (delicious) omg i ate nice soups and fresh fruit and and and, anything was just delicious, except for the usu (sorry i dont know how to spell this in igbo - its bat), i didnt like that one sooo much, but it was ok
- the people were just amazing. wherever i went, all the kids and all the people looked at me, oyibo here, oniocha there, it was unbelievably nice and the people where so open and welcoming, nno everywhere, we (white people) could really learn something from these people
- the house(s) - lol a real adventure, as i didnt stay in a hotel i could experience real nigerian life, as well in lagos as in the village i have stayed with the family, which was wonderful. these people are so close together, anything you do you do it as a family, you cook, you eat, you drink, just amazing. something we dont usually do here in europe. I enjoyed listening to radio 90.90 at night, taking a cold shower outside the house while looking at the stars, eating fresh mangos every day, drinking gulder and palmwine :-)
- the language, wow igbo is really hard, especially the pronunciation. but at least i could manage some words and i was never ashamed to reply ntakere ntakeri if someone asked me if i speak igbo, it always made them laugh, and me too of course
- highlits i would say was the trip from aba to lagos by bus (the engine broke down after 2 hours) and we had to wait for 3 hours in the hot sun before we could manage to get a lift, it was very an exciting day and after 13 hours of travelling i finnally got to bed, another highlight was a wedding, and a traditional zeremonie of one guy in the village who became a red cap member :-)

Summary: I am already planning to go again over christmas, i just loooooved it!!!

oh thnx, people that have prejudices like you mentioned, i am not sure if my experience will help, because those people have either never been to nigeria before or they must be very ignorant of other culutres and habits,

yes i have tried bat and other bushmeat (something like a rat too, ) lol
because i think you can never say that you like or dont like something unless you try it!

 

I am sure you would have known, since it is not in peaces, so if you eat bat you see the head of the bat, and if you eat the bushrat you see the head and the tail of that too :-) lol
unless you eat it in the dark :-)

i will try to fix some, but maybe by next week, im tooo busy for now :-)

im glad u had a great time 

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u must think like a nigerian and act like one. U must turn to an hustler to aclimatize easily with 9ja