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You see any time I come across promotional material for Nigeria, all I see is natural landscapes (God's creation that we had nothing to do with), people from different ethnic groups within the country dancing and probably our footballers celebrating a tournament win, to make matters worse they sometimes contain excerpts from videos from the 70s showing cocoa production in the Southwest and the groundnut pyramids of kano- where are they now? I get disgusted and wonder; are these what we are all about? Can we not be like other countries that flaunt their highly educated and efficient workforce, new, shinny and vibrant cities that are well maintained and industries producing advanced goods showing a robust economy, in addition to natural landscapes and whatever cultural or sporting icons they may have? What exactly is our problem?

The way they make dances so prominent in the TV adverts in particular just makes me sick- it is like we are saying: Hey everybody! we are Nigerians and the only thing we are good at is dancing like a group of mindless people.

Some might argue that such things are used to portray Nigeria because we have little-else to present to the world. If that is so, let us wake-up and start doing whatever it takes to stop presenting dances as our major contribution to the world and remaining foolishly happy when people from the western world tell us that we have a "rich culture."

true.

why cant we build copies of western cities like china is doing.

my advice is you for to seek out better montages for tourism in nigeria rather than you coming here to lambast on the little one we have. below are the adverts from europe, americas, asia, etc:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTgGs56SKu0[/flash]Croatia

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0aylHuBHKQ[/flash]Egypt[/td]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6SBNCGgK_E[/flash]Malaysia

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWeBVBqo2c[/flash]India

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cB8OcCjc8Y[/flash]Brazil

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2rEb52pp1s[/flash]South Africa

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tk5OoSw0m0[/flash]Canada

[flash=425,349]http://blip.tv/play/AYKw0yAC[/flash]Cross River State, Nigeria

Can you tell me the difference? Presentation is the key!

@Saintneo, you do not get my point, most of these videos are for tourism promotion purposes. It becomes a problem when a country like Nigeria cannot offer the world anything but dance. What about manufacturing, construction, ICT, agriculture, financial services etc. It is not patriotic to condone mediocrity in our country, let us tell ourselves the truth so that we can begin to move forward. I mean promoting our country as an all-round progressive and profitable investment destination, not just people who dance their productive time away in the name of "rich-culture".

Have you seen lush green plantations, heavy duty manufacturing, bold new cities and industries in Nigerian adverts? Even the landscape photography is poor. We need to get serious and leave this ridiculous level we are at.

Okay dude! got your point now.

Great post I agree with you 100%

worthy of note.

Any links to prove this assertion that all we are exporting to the world is dance. If not I will pass it off as poster's jaundiced opinion.

The second YouTube video about eygpt was probably the worst tourism ad In the history of humankind