Did You Hawk Anything On The Streets As A Child ?

how do u mean it was sweet.
they still sell it and its still sweet

are u really 20?
so u ate tht when u were 8?

i ate the fish last week with soaked garri and very chilled water

hahahahahahaha funny u 

On market days since my grandma wasn't home to cook she'd give me 5 naira to buy moi moi. One day I bought smoked fish with it and I enjoyed. I prayed I wouldn't be caught because it wasn't good for children to be eating a whole fish alone. 

Gone are those days!

just hearing that o!

Who said that only people that hawk don't have hard working parents? Just because someone is in a certain circumstance doesn't mean they are lazy. Plus the people that hawked (worked hard) as children understand the meaning of humble begining.

PS. Not everyone has to answer. Therefore if you didn't sell as a child and find it offensive then don't reply to the thread.


To answer the thread. I left Nigeria when I was six, so maybe I did. I do remember selling sheets of paper at school in the new country we migrated to. My parents were teachers and they would get these ruled note papers. I would take some to school and if someone needed paper I would sell it for $1/paper.

 ;DYes i hawked 'tongsownomonpere' for 45 years of my childhoood Dont even try guessing how old i am now. 

My Dad intentionally set us to hawk on one particularly holiday!

I was still in secondary school then(boarding school) with two of my siblings,so we came back on a holiday and my Dad  gave us 80 naira each then to start-up any business of our choice and i choose bread business,i used to wake-up 5:30am to cew-up in a bakery to buy a bread for sales each day and it turns out to be a wonderfull experience for me, cous i learn alot as a kid then and it has help me in Life.

Infact from the sales i make,my Dad bought all what i requires for that session with my profit and i still has some money left,infact i will never forget that experience.

Yes I did.

When I was staying with my cousin in childhood. I was about 8 - 9 years old. I hawked pure water  

Then it was called Ice-water. 1 Naira each. One day I sold all my water but before I got home back. I misplaced all my money.

Damn!! I was really maltreated.  

Thou later on my parents discovered I was hawking and took me away from there.

My own was fun. I started hawking at d age of 9yrs while i was in  pry 4, then stop at 16yrs when i was in S.S 2. I started with akamu in d morning b4 going 2 sch, after sch i hawk eko (Agidi), banana, plantain, santana(akpu) firewood, etc. I wil never 4get d day one guy bought plantain frm me, 4naira, collected 46 naira frm me, asking me 2 wait for him 2 bring 50 note frm his room, i waited for him outside d old house frm 2pm to 6pm, not knowing dt his house was not there,he played me 419. Another one happen wen i saw people playing agbo (3 whort card)  they wil ask u to pick out the odd card, fully convince of the real card, i paid to pick the winning card, to my greatest supprise, i was wronge, i was advice to pick another one, off which i did, i was wrong again, until all the money i sold was gone  b4 my 2eye was open. I told the young man to refund my money, that it belongs to my mum, he drove me away. I went home to tel my mum that i misplace d money inside the market, dt my pocket has a hole inside. I never reveal d secreat to anybody except today. It was fun!

I hawked just for a day.

I said a day because after walking round our environ no body bothered ask me for what I was selling.

In order to make my uncle's wife happy I decided to buy one for myself.


On the following day, she was dead silent and we never talked about it ever again.

I hawked, tomatoes, pepper, ice water, soda/mineral, cooked ground nuts, Okra, crayfish, mango and other things I can't recollect. I hated pepper the most! many times I had to go around the corner and cried my eyes out because the oozing pain was too much coupled with the scorching sun. I thank God sha! now am in washington state US and in pharmacy school! can you beat that?

why does it have to be "tufiakwa i didn't" 


hawking must be an interesting experience. I think I would have had fun hawking if i had the opportunity to. just i wouldn't like the shame n association w/ poverty lol plus that would be less time to focus on studies

Aww, that's so touching!! 

I know, right? LOL

@topic, Nah.

Never hawked but used to help my parents sell eggs and chickens in the early 90s. We'd go around nailing "chicken/eggs for sale" signs around the neighbourhood or help take the eggs to buyers too lazy to come get it themselves. I learnt how to grade eggs and sell them for the highest profit those days.

Now each time i go buy eggs i always look for the largest size.