Lagos-Star:
Is ‘Aboki’ A Racial Slur?

Pennywise:


Or perhaps you mean-'Is Aboki a tribal slur'?

Paschal007: What's the name of your moniker that was banned?

ckkris: Is nyamiri a racial slur?

Clitorial.Dept.:
I tire ohh. Ikenna banned me for using it.

Aboki as I understand translates to My Friend in Hausa and over the years it has been used by non-speaking hausas to address northerners (both politely or derogatory).
Very soon the will add alhaji or Eze or Sule as a racial slur.

daft1

Ile-Ife:
Aboki means Friend, Ore

jackbauersballs: The clueless mechanic is on a one-man mission to superglue the massive cracks in the Nigeria political ecosysytem, easily forgetting that Tribal Awareness is at an all time high at the moment.

Its every tribe for itself at the moment, yet the mechanic thinks Nigeria is a gasket he can just pour sealant on to fix.

Ironically, the same 'de-tribalised' panelbeater is the one championing the Ibo-not-Igbo cause.

Where i'm from, the technical term for such a clueless and unintelligent person is Olodo.

De-tribalise that.

jackbauersballs: The clueless mechanic is on a one-man mission to superglue the massive cracks in the Nigeria political ecosysytem, easily forgetting that Tribal Awareness is at an all time high at the moment.

Its every tribe for itself at the moment, yet the mechanic thinks Nigeria is a gasket he can just pour sealant on to fix.

Ironically, the same 'de-tribalised' panelbeater is the one championing the Ibo-not-Igbo cause.

Where i'm from, the technical term for such a clueless and unintelligent person is Olodo.

De-tribalise that.

bamu_hanya: @op we find it offensive from a lot of Southerner. Simply because is used to describe or degrade a person.Just try calling a MB person aboki or mallam!The first means friend and the later could pass for Mr. Or teacher. The people you call such answer Because they are force considering the environment or the see it as a norm with you n tolerate it.The word Aboki or Mallam use to be a polite courtesy in the past and it maybe amongst Northerners especially hausa speakers.Now adays people use it as a tribal slur. To mean something its not.How can someone be insulting you in one sentence and refering to you as his friend.It could serve as friend if the intentions are honest but without doubt that is not the case in a lot of ways with people from the south.So moderators are on track and correct in this regards.I also hope you try this one day.Call the person you call Aboki with his actual name and see his body language.He would be more appreciative.Moderattors position is right and its good they sanction users.Its no different from calling someone Boko-haram which means education is forbiding! Other words include awusa,almajiri,goro-chewing and a lot more.what's stop you from saying hausa people, Igala people, northern people MB people or just people.

ckkris: Is nyamiri a racial slur?

Texas.Cowgirl:
I still want to understand how 'Ibo' is a tribal slur.

Smh

MrAlfa:

Same with offemmanu! Fuckin' beats me.

MrAlfa: No hausa has ever complained of being called "aboki".

Lagos-Star:
Is ‘Aboki’ A Racial Slur?

Lately on Nairaland I found out the moderators especially the mechanic moderator of Politics section Ikenna ban people who refer to Hausa/Fulanis as Aboki. A number of my friends on Nairaland have complained to me.

This is the 1st time am told the word is offensive, unfortunately not from someone from the North but from Ikenna a champion Igbo course.

I asked my Hausa neigbour here in Lagos, what is wrong with calling Hausas Aboki, and he told me there is nothing absolutely wrong with it, that aboki means “my friend” and he calls all his friends either Aboki or by their first names. There are at least 4 hausa men with kiosks on my street all I call Aboki whenever I want to buy things from them and never has any of them complained to me that calling them Abok is offensive. I also served in Sokoto state, and I always called the Hausas around where I lived and served Aboki and never was I told to stop calling them Aboki.

So I don’t know what informed Ikenna’s decision to ban people from using the word Aboki. Or he is just being his overzealous self or making it look like he is seriously fighting for all tribes while I know he sole aim is to ban people who call Igbo Ibo against Seun’s decision that he cannot ban the use of such word.

Nairalanders, especially those from the North; is it offensive to call Hausa/Fulanis Aboki?

bamu_hanya: @op we find it offensive from a lot of Southerner. Simply because is used to describe or degrade a person.Just try calling a MB person aboki or mallam!The first means friend and the later could pass for Mr. Or teacher. The people you call such answer Because they are force considering the environment or the see it as a norm with you n tolerate it.The word Aboki or Mallam use to be a polite courtesy in the past and it maybe amongst Northerners especially hausa speakers.Now adays people use it as a tribal slur. To mean something its not.How can someone be insulting you in one sentence and refering to you as his friend.It could serve as friend if the intentions are honest but without doubt that is not the case in a lot of ways with people from the south.So moderators are on track and correct in this regards.I also hope you try this one day.Call the person you call Aboki with his actual name and see his body language.He would be more appreciative.Moderattors position is right and its good they sanction users.Its no different from calling someone Boko-haram which means education is forbiding! Other words include awusa,almajiri,goro-chewing and a lot more.what's stop you from saying hausa people, Igala people, northern people MB people or just people.

Texas.Cowgirl:


True. Just like the "ngga" term

YorubaPolitic:

......quit!

while almajiri may be offensive, ABOKI is not in anyway offensive.

tenisuga: No. Aboki is not a tribal slur or a derogatory word. Anyone who says it is must be daft.