PaperLace:
When my inlaws came to collect traditional marriage list, after we gave them our list _they gave us theirs. They said their son is not cheap. My dad shock !

We thought it was small something.
As we opened it, it was actually neatly typed and sealed.
Naso we see 1big male goat, 1 big bowl of fufu, kegs of palmwine. They kept on emphasising on the BIG.

If my mum does not give out my own list for wedding, i no dey marry. No be money they spend for my head

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

The number of folks who feast on pythons in this forum. I am still in shock!!


O pari

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 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.

Wedding without jolof rice, is that one a wedding?

Culture shock

@Op it should be heard oooh.

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 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.

Hahahaha damn! must have been a huge shok. khikhikhi nawa o. #NaijaForLife

Angelsss:
The Durbar display in the North...

Durbar display is actually not shocking, I look forward to it sef.

Mine was Amala, served in the west, first time I saw someone eating Amala, I actually throw up.

As corpers we were always invited to parties but I kept on refusing to eat Amala until one yoruba babe took it upon herself to initiate me to Amala,

I took the challenge and tasted Amala Oooooboy..... It was heavenly it was so smooth and goes down easily I never expected to be that good.

Democrat1c:
The eating of Amala and Ewedu by Yoruba. That creepy food irritates my marrows. The soup sometime appears like the sh*ts of Jedi Jedi patients.

ipod..fufu smells more dan rotten egg

Chommieblaq:




Wedding without jolof rice, is that one a wedding?

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

What shocks me most especially here in Nigeria is the food, I have a lot of Yoruba friends, I school in the West but I've not been able to taste their soup with little or no oil, the leaf types etc. Even at the cafeteria in school, I manage to eat their beans(with stew). I don't hate it but I've not tried it.

The North where I was born and raised, I still find their fertility rate very unacceptable, and some aspects of their food.

Although this don't shock me anymore.

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 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.

I no understand oo...could it be that it's just that particular wedding?

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 woman omg. Lemme close my mouth before they come for me

No mind them jare

Afam4eva:

I no understand oo...could it be that it's just that particular wedding?

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.

highchief3:
Mine was Amala, served in the west, first time I saw someone eating Amala, I actually throw up.

As corpers we were always invited to parties but I kept on refusing to eat Amala until one yoruba babe took it upon herself to initiate me to Amala,

I took the challenge and tasted Amala Oooooboy..... It was heavenly it was so smooth and goes down easily I never expected to be that good.

The last time i ate amala was about 15 years ago and it was also the first time. I have to be able to summon courage to eat certain foods because mere looking at them, i just give up. It's funny that a lot of people including my siblings can kill to eat Amala.

that men in certain cultures/religions wait until adulthood before they get *circumsized* #owch

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.

Na waoo

Democrat1c:
The eating of Amala and Ewedu by Yoruba. That creepy food irritates my marrows. The soup sometime appears like the sh*ts of Jedi Jedi patients.

I can relate. Grossly disgusting.

Went with my dad on a medical trip to India, Pune specifically a couple of years back.. Almost everyone had a form of paint on their forehead. Made a couple of friends there and found out they had different gods and u decide who to pray to. Everyone had a mini shrine/temple and den there's a major temple on almost every street... Oh and their love for spices is crazy.. And I feel in love with the variety of fruits dey had.. I became a regular visitor to their fruits market. Dey has close to 4 varieties of apples, had Okra d sizes of cucumber and some of d fruits dey has were a whole lot different from what we have here..

Democrat1c:
The eating of Amala and Ewedu by Yoruba. That creepy food irritates my marrows. The soup sometime appears like the sh*ts of Jedi Jedi patients.

common!
don't be closed minded, douse your curiosity and try eating it ,you gonna enjoy.

the way I reason it is...if that is the only food available in the world and you are dying of hunger am sure you would gladly eat and thank God! ...if you travel to a country where there is no Nigerian food, sure you would make do with whatever food you are offered

its actually healthy, regardless the appearance.

that is the beauty in our diversity

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

Brother please why are you shock because I like eating that thing but have only seen it being done in NTA Am express

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.

Chai! Ghana

can't say I have seen something too weird abt a culture-food or live. because secondary school has tot me how live any where liveable and eat most things eatable, so much as it isn't human or human faeces.

Father, test running his daughter before finally giving her out

kingui:

Brother please why are you shock because I like eating that thing but have only seen it being done in NTA Am express

my brother

Democrat1c:
The eating of Amala and Ewedu by Yoruba. That creepy food irritates my marrows. The soup sometime appears like the sh*ts of Jedi Jedi patients.

Plenty of Igbos queue everyday to buy and consume amala and ewedu in Lagos here. They must be Jedi Jedi patients then.

Chommieblaq:


Durbar display is actually not shocking, I look forward to it sef.

imagine, someone wrote what was a culture shock to her, and you are saying it is not shocking (sic). Are you her?

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.

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.

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.

Afam4eva:

I no understand oo...could it be that it's just that particular wedding?

No my uncle married a lady from there and that was also my parents beggest shock that year, this one was not that both parties did not have money.
I heard that when they came back to the village that year my aunty made sure the G.woman attended every traditional marriage within the time frame and she was also as shocked as we were when we went to her place.