This guy is more Nigerian than most of us are. Thumbs up.

AlpineSnow:


Haha. Don't know where Yaba is. I'm kenyan. But I'm in the states now.

Here are some of the works that made me so familiar with Nigeria:

- Nnamdi Azikiwe's Autobiography
- Some works by soyinka (I've only read snippets of Soyinka coz he's too smart for me)
- "The Nigeria Civil war" by John st Jorre.
- A host of works by Achebe.
- Multitude of short stories by Nigerian authors.
- I've read three books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- " Sunset in Biafra" which is a criticism of Biafra by Elechi Amadi who I think was an Efik man or something.
- A host of historical vignettes on Nigeria.
- "My Command" which is Obasanjo's autobiography of the civil war with a focus on his role as commander.

Essentially, I've read a lot about Nigeria and know quite a bit about it. And I just discovered nairaland last week.

Xavier9ja:
won't u visit sambisa, monguno or any north eastern state. they are really cool place

WINCH!

Generals02:

Nigeria ofcourse. I thought you were out the country?

Ion know yet. Not soon tho

Adaezeagu:
WINCH!

lol..... sambisa no b tourist center.gate fee na even free o.

Adaezeagu:
WINCH!

cute babies u got....gosh, wen will I become a dad??

AlpineSnow:


Thanks. I guess you might say I'm literary inclined. My mom was a librarian/teacher and that's how my interest in literature began. Yeah, I'm definitely going to wait till you folks sort out this election thing. And I'm definitely not going to Maidaguri.

ha ha ha I love this guy

even tho I'm extremely ashamed that you know much more of Nigeria than I do I'd like to correct the foreigner impression. u no be foreigner lai lai Kenyan

Xavier9ja:
cute babies u got....gosh, wen will I become a dad??

Tanx 4 the compliment
They belong to my bestie

MrCork:



...which Nigeria??...that place that they have Goat, life chickens and lions chasin people up and down?? ...wher Police drives Police car with no engine??... bro I juss came bak from that place and didn't even see ordinary trafick light...FOGGGERRRIT!!! (no oofeinse)

BAD BELLE

Adaezeagu:
Tanx 4 the compliment
They belong to my bestie

wao

I guess what makes u sound like Nigeria is dat, Nigeria dont really like details, we only like going straight 2 d point which u did perfectly... If u really want 2 know the typical life of an ordinary Nigeria try our comedy club but make sure u understand pingin English perfectly den u will Enjoy Naija.

Adaezeagu:
BAD BELLE

..sweeery we don't hav mosssskito in London...but u people r use to moooskito as big as goats...i le?

...so how can I bad belle?

toprealman:
VISA DENIED.

WHY

MrCork:




...really ...so chino Achebe road a book that made him go to Nigeria which still do not hav electricity for the past 20 years....abi? Bro I juss arrived bak in London from Nigeria and Insted of stayin for 2 week...I ran bak afta 4 days. I don't mean to sound rude but that place look like a village.. How can a police man ride bycycle from one state to another.in 2015?.. Only in Nigeria. I rest ma case! (no oofense)

You can't even spell well yet you are ranting.

Smh for you.

Londoner.

AlpineSnow:


Thanks. I guess you might say I'm literary inclined. My mom was a librarian/teacher and that's how my interest in literature began. Yeah, I'm definitely going to wait till you folks sort out this election thing. And I'm definitely not going to Maidaguri.

U said u are from where.??
I am nt going to buy that lie jarre.
U are a nigerian. Haba.

kilmix:


You can't even spell well yet you are ranting.

Smh for you.

Londoner.

...can't spell but gotz moiney that 99.9% of u people in that place....ok..apat from mechanic or taxi driver job..how many of u can afford suit ? (no oofiense)

MrCork:
..do u realize when I waz in Nigeria last week ..the moment I step outter my hotel to go for a walk... 3 life chicken chased us across the road for no reason....and this is the Nigeria u want me to bring ma london white friends to??.... FORGERRRRRIT!!!

.SO Is it illegall to go for walk in Nigeria...bro am goin bak tonged..laters!

HIGH FEVER

Adaezeagu:
HIGH FEVER

^^^^ this one clearly Neva been to London..u can tell har name....they don't usualy hav nice English name like Susan, Wendy, Sharon, billy or Jamie....she rather be adadodzozogugukaka (no oofense)

u must have read well ooo maybe u think Nigeria is that great shea?.... Nigeria is a nice place to live when u have enough money though

Na so

MrCork:



...can't spell but gotz moiney that 99.9% of u people in that place....ok..apat from mechanic or taxi driver job..how many of u can afford suit ? (no oofiense)

Murdering English.


Meanwhile he's somewhere in the slums of Aba looking for garri to drink.

You are very silly not to have listed Borno State.Haven't you heard of the Caliphate if you pretend you have not read about it.Borno is where you should visit right now so that your historian instinct will be practicalised.
By answering each an every one,you have not just proven you are a bloody Nigerian,but a sturrborn one at it.Don't reply me,just follow my instruction.

kilmix:


Murdering English.


Meanwhile he's somewhere in the slums of Aba looking for garri to drink.

...so u want to compare pekam to Nigeria ?... That place where u people hav moooskito lookin like butter fly?... May I remind u that we don't hav mossskito hear in London.and unlike u people..we only hav them in zoo ( no oofense)

AlpineSnow:


I'm flattered. I'm foreign. Never set foot in Nigeria. I've read a lot about Nigeria and know quite a bit about it. I'm not sure that convinces you, but it's the truth.

I hope they grant u visa easily o....cos naija visa sef dey hard o....na we the citizens no knw o

not a bad idea to visit during the election period

MrCork:



...so u want to compare pekam to Nigeria ?... That place where u people hav moooskito lookin like butter fly?... May I remind u that we don't hav mossskito hear in London.and unlike u people..we only hav them in zoo ( no oofense)

Chinedu you better face your spare part business before ur Oga sack u.

Be forming Londoner here..

U have never been to any airport road sef.
Let's not even talk abt going inside an airport or entering a plane.

AlpineSnow:


Aha...of course *face palm*

It must be a British commonwealth thing then.

I think so too

Welcome to Nairaland, I thought it was only girls who fancy Nigeria as a country.

Your the first who loves it without the usual political ish most non Nigerian guys portray here.

Foreigner ni immigrant ko, bros de. Wer u de abeg, no come add to d wahala wey we d face for d country.

AlpineSnow:


Not much other than where they live. But I do know that they were incorporated into Biafra when Biafra's map was demarcated. Some of them sympathized with the Igbo, while some of them feared that if Biafra were to succeed, then they would be the minority group with the Igbo being the majority. The fact that Maj-Gen Phillip Effiong, an Efik man, was second in command to Gen. Ojukwu didn't help matters. So some of them kinda rebelled (not with arms) and were locked up during a good portion of the war by the Biafran Secret Service. Elechi Amadi was one those locked up. He gives a good account of it in his book "Sunset in Biafra".

I don't really anything else about them.

Elechi Amadi is an Ikwerre man, not an Efik person.

metorichmond:
Foreigner ni immigrant ko, bros de. Wer u de abeg, no come add to d wahala wey we d face for d country.

Why will you tell him that? Don't Nigerians travel to other people's countries? So why can't other nationals come to ours? Persin dey admire your country and you no like am. Na wa for some of you. Una don chase the guy comot for hin own thread. Nigerians!

@Post

OP, you are always welcome to visit.

goldfish80:

You can come and witness the elections first hand to add to your Nigerian experience. It would be an experience to last for a lifetime. You might even write a book about it.

lol. guy, u bad o.

Quote1:


You write like Nigerians.

exactly. You can always tell a nigerian from the way he arrange the sentence. Even the british from whence Nigeria gt its english write differently compared to us. It is hard to explain hw we write but it is not hard to identify a nigerian write up.