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kojeiwa (m)
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Are you an Ajepako or Ajebota? Why do you think you are Ajekpako or Ajebota?
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naija_diva (f)
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if i can get the meaning to both words than i'll give my answer.
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kojeiwa (m)
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You are an Ajekpako if most to these applies to you when in Naija. Ajebota the other way around.
1. If you were born and raised in Nigeria before traveling abroad
2. If you attended a public or government school
3. If you lived as a tenant or in a family old house
4. If you know almost every household in your community
5. If you didn't have a maid, driver, cook and etc. You and your siblings have to share the house work.
6. If you hardly stay home
7. If you grew up only speaking pidgin English or your dialect
8. If traveling abroad isn't a guarantee. You just hope for it
9. Can't just travel abroad just for vacations or general visit.
10. If you bought most of your belongings yourself, or got it free through a relative used, or through Christmas or birthday gift.
11. If you didn't have generator at home growing up. Had to deal with NEPA taking light.
12. Don't have to take permission to leave the house every time
13. If you have to struggle or hustle your way to get rich on your own, not through rich dad assistant or parents inheritants.
14. If you had to hustle to make ends meet
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naija_diva (f)
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i guess i'm neither.
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kojeiwa (m)
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@naija_diva
If more than half of those applies to you, then you are an Ajekpako
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naija_diva (f)
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but it has to do mostly with the naija way of life. i'm under the american way of life. like for example, its rare to find people in america with drivers, and house maid. in naija, anybody could have one. i wasn't born or raised in nigeria and i always speak english. so some of those lists apply to me from an american stand point and then some of them apply to me from a nigerian standpoint. so i can' t really choose.
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kojeiwa (m)
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That is why i said if you were born and raised in Naija before traveling abroad and all this happened when living in Naija.
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naija_diva (f)
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You are an Ajekpako if most to these applies to you when in Naija. Ajebota the other way around.
1. If you were born and raised in Nigeria before traveling abroad
2. If you attended a public or government school
3. If you lived as a tenant or in a family old house
4. If you know almost every household in your community
5. If you didn't have a maid, driver, cook and etc. You and your siblings have to share the house work.
6. If you hardly stay home
7. If you grew up only speaking pidgin English or your dialect
8. If you had to hustle to travel abroad or your relative that helped you travel abroad had to hustle to travel abroad themselves or won the visa lottery.
9. Can't just travel abroad just for vacations or general visit.
10. If you bought most of your belongings yourself, or got it free through a relative used, or through Christmas or birthday gift.
11. If you didn't have generator at home growing up. Had to deal with NEPA taking light.
12. Don't have to take permission to leave the house every time
13. If you have to struggle or hustle your way to get rich on your own, not through rich dad assistant or parents inheritants.
14. If you had to hustle to make ends meet
okay u tell me what i am. 1. no 2.yes 3.no 4.no 5. no maid, house cook, or driver 6. never home 7.no 8.no 9. travel if i have time and don't have to work. 10.no 11.no 12. sometimes 13.no 14.never |
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kojeiwa (m)
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You are an Ajebota.
Most of those thing applies to me, So i consider myself an Ajekpako. I am proud of be an Ajekpako because i tend to
appreciate and value what i have become now and i can talk about what i have been through in the past to get to
where i am now. Ajebota always have opportunity waiting for them, Ajekpako on the other hand, have to go seek for
the opportunity themselves.
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naija_diva (f)
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okay, i get it now. your last post was more understandable.
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$$Rhino
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i am a first class Ajepako, wasnt born with silver spoon, but worked hard to have silver spoons  |
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iice (f)
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A mixture 
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chiogo (f)
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same here, am in d middle.
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samsilo (m)
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Full ajebota , our neighbors used to call us that when I was growing up. But unlike some, I am striving to achieve more than my parents |
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blue-sky (f)
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im in the middle
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bolorunfem (f)
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O-ri-gi-na AJEPAKO (boldened and underlined) if u know what I mean. Did all of those and many more, your list wasn't even complete, let me help u with these additions: - No pipe borne water, had to fetch water from the stream/river (Ogun river) - No gas/electric cooker, had to use kerosene stone (and sometimes firewood)! The list is endless, quite, quite long. But now, to God be the glory for bible says 'better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof' and 'do not despise the days of small beginnings'. Know what I mean? |
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ifyalways (f)
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@ poster i would want to digagree with you on some of your descriptions about ajekpako esp the one of " going in and out of the house without your parents consent or knowledge or permission" i be ajekpako,yes a proud one at that BUT neither i nor my brothers walk out or in of the house randomly.we have set down rules in almost everything we do,our movement inclusive. AJEKPAKO MOI  |
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Imani (f)
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Ajepako pickin to the core  |
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Siena (m)
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Ajepako pickin to the core Little Imani, how's things with you? |
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iice (f)
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i be proper ajekpako to the letter.am proud of it.never would have been better if its the other way.am striving hard now to make my kids be ajebutter with ajekpeko values of life !
Feel you! |
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Imani (f)
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Little Imani, how's things with you? How dare you call me "little"  at 6 feet I know you have been ajebota all your life but show some respect for the real "hustlers" like me |
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Siena (m)
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How dare you call me "little" at 6 feet I know you have been ajebota all your life but show some respect for the real "hustlers" like me Lol, next time I'm down in Braintree, I'll come with my tape measure! And show you some "respect", Siena-stylee! |
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dkingsgirl (f)
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Proper Ajepako, can't see myself an Ajebota. it would have been boring
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iykedee
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Some of the stuff apply to me and some do not. So I guess I'm mixed breed, kind of like ajepakoish-botta, now ain't that sth?
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uchetobi (f)
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whatever man
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almondjoy (f)
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Half and half! American-Aje/Nigerian-kpako!!!! Agenegbode live!!!! I am an aje butter because "ma shit don't staaaaaaaaank"!!!!!. I am an aje-kpako because I have Nigerian roots!  I'm neither.
Really?  |
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en-fuse (m)
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I think I would be half mongrel half pedigree. |
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britgirlee (f)
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none mate  |
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RichyBlacK (m)
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Ajepako for life!!! No shaking, nothing dey happen! Ajepako vs Ajebota! We go bust bottle for them head! |
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ikamefa (f)
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am prolly a mixture can't decide jare ! leaning strongly towards ajepako side! |
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