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Ex-aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, shares 36 years throwback photo in Disneyland. Gistvic Reports.

Reno said Nigerian accent is cooler than ice as it has opened several doors for him for over 36 years he has been crisscrossing the world.

He wrote:

"This is me in Disneyland on August 26, 1983. I first became resident in California at the age of 9. Yet, I still speak publicly and deliberately in my Nigerian accent. For the over 36 years that I have been crisscrossing the world, I can't count how many doors my Nigerian accent has opened for me. It stands me out from the crowd and turns heads. Why would an American consider an American accent as something interesting? They have 300 million people already using it. Ditto for the United Kingdom. No. Those guys want to hear another accent. Don't succumb to inferiority complex and change your accent to fit in. What is wrong with standing out? Be yourself. Your Nigerian accent is cooler than ice! And while you are it, don't change your Kayode to Kay or your Ikechukwu to Iyke. Teach them how to pronounce Kayode and Ikechukwu. I assure you that your uniqueness will open more doors than your feeble attempts to conform "

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Reno has been getting it right these days. he spoke the truth, always be original!!

i hate fake people, i detest them a lot

Some people think speaking with american accent makes them smart and intelligent, it is good to speak fluent english but don't ever compromise that for your mother's tongue, too many wannabes in the world today.

By the way how is the name Reno different from from Kay and Iyke?

Good one��
Don't mind those americana wannabes

Your friends are using their saliva to count money But you are using yours as lubricant.My friend you are bewitching yourself.�

Not like our footballers and other sport men who after spending few years in Europe start faking accent. E.g Mikel Obi

Wendell Simlin

Kingosytex:
Reno has been getting it right these days. he spoke the truth, always be original!!

i hate fake people, i detest them a lot

Very nice point he made today.

Slay queens take note some will even form to the extent that they'll tell you they don't understand their local dialect as if they spent 10 years in America or the UK but all their lives mostly have been in the village until they moved to the city.

Depends. Some people’s Nigerian accent sound sweet, some sound horrible. Same thing with Americans or Brits. Not all sound good. Some sound horrible. I think the human ear just finds certain sounds and accents appealing. Find out what makes your voice sound best

Dah this man don old o

This guy was a rich kid sef.

Not now anymore that Instagram shorthand name has come to stay!

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Originality is the watchword

Your parents were rich, to send you aboard.

Y don't you let your twin sons to school in Nigeria.

Nigeria accent kill you there.

"And while you are it, don't change your Kayode to Kay or your Ikechukwu to Iyke. Teach them how to pronounce Kayode and Ikechukwu. I assure you that your uniqueness will open more doors than your feeble attempts to conform "



.....or Chinedu to 'Ned' Most ridiculous. Not even 'Nedu' but 'Ned'..............tufiakwa

Anybody wey use American accent beside me dey always look like proper fool(Maga) for my face... Twisting ur tongue in ur fada's land to claim superiority is a crime against humanity i swear down.

Nice advice. I heard you bear Wendell Simlin

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Ex-aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, shares 36 years throwback photo in Disneyland. Gistvic Reports.

Reno said Nigerian accent is cooler than ice as it has opened several doors for him for over 36 years he has been crisscrossing the world.

He wrote:


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Source: https://www.gistvic.com/2019/06/my-nigerian-accent-has-opened-doors-for.html

Doesn't seem to be working any more. Dude is jobless on social media.what does he actually do these days?

Fallacy

So Reno na ajebota

Biko, help me ask some of my people with tribal marks wey dey speak American accents say nah who dem dey fool.

This is so true, I remember when one of my colleagues told me that she had always wanted to tell me that she loves my accent. I was so flattered, no need changing and sounding fake in the process. #YouDoYou

Very nice point there.... Not like all those people that will spend only 2 months and come and be speaking wanna gonna wanna gonna when they return.... Nonsense

Exactly 10 days after I was born.

Your Nigerian accent or your father's affluence or influence
On a serious note, I'm a proud Nigerian any day, any time

This is his first sensible thing have seen him write and many here will concur with me.
Kudos to him.

Funny, I was in London around the same time too. First stayed with my aunty who was in a council flat with her 3 kids. Two were boys

I remember sleeping in the boys room. There was a bunk bed and an extra bed. I slept on the extra bed.

Both boys wet their beds and the room stunk of stale urine.

Worse, they'll change bed spaces the following night not minding sleeping on the others pee. The stench in the room was something else. Those boys wan finish me.

We (my dad and 3 other siblings) later moved from there to a detached house in Surrey. I spent only a week then as I had entrance examinations into secondary school.