I was shocked when people could actually fill their tanks, by themselves, at gas stations in this country. I was used to the system in Naija where the attendant puts the gas in your car.

FemiEddy:

my brother, in the north, Na lepers dey do d Kulikuli o, with deir hands.........I doubt if dey hav changed

Like for real

tensazangetsu20:

I went to more than 20 weddings there and they were all like that. Even my Ghanaian friends see it as normal. Only the extremely elite bloody rich people cook in their weddings. Normal people just use pastries.

but there's is normal for a wedding, it is Nigerian system of food and drink partying that is abnormal

kingui:

Like for real

Now u are shocked

tensazangetsu20:
They don't serve food in Ghanaian weddings.

Every Nigerian knows how weddings are done in Nigeria with all the owambe and everything. Our west African neighbours are totally different. The first Ghanaian wedding i went to was a very big shock to me. The venue was like 3 hours from school so I went hungry. I thought it's like Nigerian weddings where during the reception you can eat till your hearts content.

Well after all the church buohaha. We were just served 2 buns one coke and one tiny chicken. I thought that was an appetiser and the main course is coming. Only for people to start going and I was told that was the end of it. I was shocked to the bone. After that before I go to any Ghanaian wedding I make sure to stuff up my tummy.

That country is very weird.

Makydebbie is this true they don't serve food oh my Gawd

FemiEddy:

my brother, in the north, Na lepers dey do d Kulikuli o, with deir hands.........I doubt if dey hav changed

Whatttttt!!!! oh my gawd never eating kulikuli again

Fulaboy so this is how u are ... and I've been feeding me Kung n kulikuli

Chukazu:


but there's is normal for a wedding, it is Nigerian system of food and drink partying that is abnormal

Chale If you know you can't feed people then do a court marriage. You don't expect me to leave my house buy gifts and waste my whole day and come and eat buns. Wtf.

FemiEddy:

Now u are shocked

I no buy agin

Lalas247:

Maydebbie is this true they don't serve food oh my Gawd

100% true. What is most celebrated in Ghana is burial/funerals. I went for a wedding and I was given snacks, but if it's burial now they'll cook and make merry like it's a wonderful thing. The thing weak me honestly.

Tensazangetsu20 is right.

Mehn it's Bulgaria o, where you nod ur head up & down to emphasize 'no' and shake ur head sideways for 'yes'

we just had to bring tribalism into dis again.... #shameonyou

Lalas247:

Whatttttt!!!! oh my gawd never eating kulikuli again

Fulaboy so this is how u are ... and I've been feeding me Kung n kulikuli

So kulikuli sef dey play role for your body

Went on a one week trip to Singapore.
In my connecting flight I was the only black person on the fully booked 767 and I recall the ticket attendant kept looking at me like say I miss road when I wanted to board.

Despite being a "global" city the only other black person I saw was on a movie set being shot in the street.
You can't chew gum in public and could get arrested and charged a fine for that. Overall, it is a beautiful and super clean place.
I cancelled my proposed trip to Bali an even more obscure destination.

Still love travelling, guess I just won't be doing that alone.

elopee3000:
I can't stand amala and ewedu mixed with gbegiri that's ugliest food in the world

I ate it this afternoon and your comment did not shock me

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tensazangetsu20:

Ask the Ghanaians o and they claim to have the best jollof rice on the continent . That country aside light and the relative security, there's literally nothing there. The people there are very boring and the women omg. Very very boring and very dull. Lemme close my mouth before they come for me [/s]

So what are you still doing there?

gnykelly:
THE IBO HEREDITARY SYSTEM

what is the worth of a woman : in ibo tradition, an unmarried woman has no right in her fathers property. not even a say.

even when married and she never give birth to a male child she will not be allowed to inherit her husband property.

the female gender is seen as an object of satisfaction and if she doesn't meet up she is thrown out with contempt.

at their marriage the female gender is seen as a commodity that need to be sold her value tally with the things that the family had spent on her. if she had a degree education her bride price is of higher value. than those without education.

in the Ibo culture when a man cheat it is easily overlooked. but the case of a woman will invoke the curse of god and eternal damnation.

I see this things first hand during my service in the eastern part of the country.

I am of the feeling that the Ibo tribe need reorientation on civil ways of taking care of the child and not to see her as just an object because it is affecting the self-steem of an average ibo lady.

azin i weak o as yoruba it's normal thing, all my aunt's got a share of my grandparents properties. but them first they sell the daughters and disavow them

the case go worse if her husband dies, shave head, Drink the water used in washing the corpse et al

FemiEddy:
The day I saw how they process Kulikuli in the north.....

How do they prepare peanut cake (kwili-kwili)?

Lalas247:

Whatttttt!!!! oh my gawd never eating kulikuli again

Fulaboy so this is how u are ... and I've been feeding me Kung n kulikuli

I tell u, I immediately lost appetite for Kuli-Kuli

makydebbie:
[s] So what are you still doing there?

Left there immediately I graduated. My university years there were the worse years of my life. Only business can take me there and nothing else. As much as I hate and despise Nigeria, I will take it over Ghana anytime any day. Ghanaian food is horrible, the club's are horrible even though there is a bit of nightlife just be prepared to be bored to death. As for networking forget it because there are hardly any self development programs.

tensazangetsu20:

Left there immediately I graduated. My university years there were the worse years of my life. Only business can take me there and nothing else.

Good for you. Funny you couldn't school in Nigeria isn't it? Mtcheew.

tensazangetsu20:

I went to more than 20 weddings there and they were all like that. Even my Ghanaian friends see it as normal. Only the extremely elite bloody rich people cook in their weddings. Normal people just use pastries.

If dem no wan waste money for wedding, burial ceremony wa nko? Wey d person don die throw away....
That reminds me of my pple (egba rewa) that reawaken a corpse of 40 years, some Golden jubilee set. Dem go turn him back and celebrate it as if Nigeria just came out of recession. 2 reasons tho, either the shildren were too young when the late parent died or there was no much on them as at the time obituary departed. They half wise now, recession things.

makydebbie:
Good for you. Funny you couldn't school in Nigeria isn't it? Mtcheew.

you sound too ethnocentric, stop that be a little more accommodating

tensazangetsu20:
They don't serve food in Ghanaian weddings.

Every Nigerian knows how weddings are done in Nigeria with all the owambe and everything. Our west African neighbours are totally different. The first Ghanaian wedding i went to was a very big shock to me. The venue was like 3 hours from school so I went hungry. I thought it's like Nigerian weddings where during the reception you can eat till your hearts content.

Well after all the church buohaha. We were just served 2 buns one coke and one tiny chicken. I thought that was an appetiser and the main course is coming. Only for people to start going and I was told that was the end of it. I was shocked to the bone. After that before I go to any Ghanaian wedding I make sure to stuff up my tummy.

That country is very weird.

You are lucky they didn't give you tofee (sweet)

Ashanti/kumasi people abi?

PDPGuy:
I was shocked when people could actually fill their tanks, by themselves, at gas stations in this country. I was used to the system in Naija where the
attendant puts the gas in your car.

makydebbie:
Good for you. Funny you couldn't school in Nigeria isn't it? Mtcheew.

Trust me if I had a time machine nothing will make me stop foot into that country. Nothing. I was just blown away with all the hype. You can't blame a 16 year old naive boy.

Franky826:


You are lucky they didn't give you tofee (sweet)

Ashanti/kumasi people abi?

I was in Accra all through. Very boring country men.

jericco1:
Mehn it Bulgaria o, where you nod ur head up & down to emphasize 'no' and shake ur head sideways for 'yes'

this one thick

kachiz:
I served in Effurun, Warri in Delta state.

Growing up, people that mostly suck something from nylon are either children (those in nursery and primary school).

One day I went to my school staff room to collect a textbook from one of the subject head teachers only to see her sucking beans from nylon/waterproof in the staff room and all the teachers didn't look at her differently.

I shock no be small , it was more like disgusting to be precise but I comport myself last last.

I later noticed most of the teachers do that.


Talk of culture shock


**Disclaimer: I am not implying that all Warri and Delta people suck their food from nylon before you people start coming my head.

Ewwwww

Macmoni:

ipod..fufu smells more dan rotten egg

U obviously ate the pooly prepared one.well prepared Fufu is better than garri and tuwo. I eat it for a living.

Piiko:
you sound too ethnocentric, stop that be a little more accommodating

If I'm not like that towards my mother's land, is it your father's land I should be passionate about?

tensazangetsu20:

Trust me if I had a time machine nothing will make me stop foot into that country. Nothing. I was just blown away with all the hype. You can't blame a 16 year old naive boy.

Yea your education was wasted. That'll be all for today, have a nice day.

Mobsync:
I also served in a village in the north (they are neither Hausas nor Fulanis) and I saw several things that shocked me.

1. Women drink more than the men.
2. The children, some as young as 7, attend night parties like crazy.
3. Female children suddenly reappearing and appearing. (they often travel to their boyfriend's place).
4. SS 3 students that cannot spell their names. Many can't even speak English, only Hausa and their local dialect.
5. Young children getting married. A 14/15 year old Hausa girl in JSS 1 got married. Also, another girl in the community got married and pregnant. She was as young as 12.
6. Any man that impregnates a woman automatically marries the woman.

There're a lot but these are few. I was so shocked to the extent that everything stopped surprising me.

Lastly, the children got pregnant anyhow.

which state and local government?
?