Nigerian men in Uk do not get along with Jamaican women because most of them are a bunch of idiots who try and imitate Jamaican men. When they try and imitate their men. Jamaican women get pissed off and can't get along with them. Do you all know how many Nigerian men in UK are that silly and that insecure about their nationality?

Hisssssssssssss, bunch of pathetic rapscallions.

ROSSIKE:

j-girl said:

I'm not sure what hole you crawled out of, but you need to understand that Nigeria is a very very cosmopolitan country, which has absorbed, re-fashioned and re-disseminated the full spectrum of popular global trends for well over a century.

Most universities for instance have a reggae club, packed with reggae buffs and Nigerian rastas with authentic paraphernalia. Their club nights in huge halls resemble any dancehall scene in Kingston or Montego Bay. Whole musical bands, some highly successful, have risen up for at least the past 30 years, feeding dedicated Naija reggae fans in their millions.

Take 2face for instance. His  popular song African Queen plays around the world including on Jamaican radio till date. It sounds like something by a Jamaican, with its heavy reggae influences. But to my knowledge 2face never stepped foot in Jamaica before he sang that tune. He won the MOBOs, Kora Awards, MTV Awards etc for that song. He could do that because he grew up in that scene right there in Nigeria.

Due to this long term exposure to these global currents, many young Nigerians into the 'yard' thing who've never left the country speak passable Jamaican patois when rolling or fooling around with their crew etc. The same social connection exists in other genres, from Afrobeat to Juju, to R&B and hip hop.

So, a good many of the guys you think are 'trying to imitate Jamaican men', are actually just being themselves, having been into that whole scene wayyyy before they left Nigeria.

The problem stems from what some of you foreigners expect an 'African' to be like I think. But Naija is just too  cosmopolitan and complex for such presumptions.

Well said, but very wrong conclusions

Those patois speaking Nigeria are just trying to be Jamaicans. Period.

No Nigerian speaks passable Jamaican.

We are talking about a group of people still struggling to articulate their ideas in English language

ROSSIKE:

lagbaja20 said:

How many Nigerians have you met? How many people do you know? How old are u sef? I hope u know some of us have been around in Naija for a loong time.


You've just shown yourself to be a daddy's girl/prat who was probably never let out after 4pm. Why don't you let those of us who've been hanging out before you were born tell it like it is?

^^^

This is becoming ridiculous

Just so you know, I know more Jamo wannabe Nigerians than you will ever know

You might as well say: Rap music originated from Nigeria, and that the Nigerian rappers like eedris AbdulKareem are just being themselves

I understand how you feel, but the truth needs to be told.

Rossikk:

^^^ Don't write about things you don't know.

The roots of hip hop are found in African-American music and '[size=48pt]'ultimately African music[/size]. The griots of West Africa are a group of traveling singers and poets who are part of an oral tradition dating back hundreds of years. Their vocal style is similar to that of rappers. The African-American traditions of signifyin', the dozens, and jazz poetry are all descended from the griots.''

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music#Origins

chiogo:

LOL@ Rap music being Jamaican.

Yea. . .if you count Busta. 

I see you are illiterate 

Like I said [size=28pt]Rap music is Jamaican and American, end of story[/size] nothing more, nothing less.

MzDarkSkin:

I see you are[b] illiterate[/b] 

Like I said Rap music is Jamaican and American, end of story

MzDarkSkin:

<<<< see I am laughing too!

chic2pimp:

Who says they don't?Some of em' do will others don't . . . . .However Nigerian Women and Jamaican Men is an entirely different issue altogether. 

MzDarkSkin:

yea. I don't think Caribbean men for the most part are really into African women.
No offence. I think they are quicker to go to AAs and Latinas than African.
it COULD be from stereotypes but who knows.

chic2pimp:

I definitely think it has something to do with stereotypes. i.e They see education as unnecessary rather than a priority and also the Babby Daddy sydronme.

right. luckily for me I come from a JAMO family where the men all have degrees and have made use of them.
It is a shame how much we black folks judge and separate from eachother. I think God allowed slavery to happen
so we would appreciate our diversity and no matter where we go, we are resilient and soulful, therefore
one but only a few of us see it this way. Some Caribbean ppl HATE being classified as African, and some Africans
would rather we not refer to Africa as the 'Motherland' (as one miserable Nigerian man told my mom and her cousin after
they turned him down lol, smh).

For some reason it's the wanting to sample curiousity of African men and the "wanting to know Africa" traits of
Caribbean women that draw them together. The clash comes when it's time to 'tame' us West Indian Amazon warriors LOL