₦airaland Forum

NewNigeriaMind: Na you generalized it............read your comment again then come back with an answer.

HATER OSHIII

dont8: Good for you then, but you can do more.

NewNigeriaMind: I hate it when people make sweeping comments. speak for yourself dear.

I still have two copies of DKM album in my car.

Alaye is always played everyday in my car.

Madam park well

byvan: Nne kedu ka imere?

Bigsteveg: Well, dat maybe u..av seen cases of women who are not even managers, who even when dey get home, wanna dictate....check out most of our celebs (i have seen diff cases), most of them are more concerned about their public image dan their home.

dont8: Cut him some slack, do you think in all your wildest imagination that music is all about good lyrics? If that is the case, do you know the lyrics to Awilo or Koffi Olomide's Makossa?

But for your info, Nigerians danced to makossa as if their lives depended on it years back.

tandj: APC from my POV has and will never be an opposition. Its more like a party of people seeking out revenge one way or the other cos they were sidelined.

We don't know what an opposition means. Yet to form one.
Politics in Nigeria like all other establishments still mean biz of enriching pockets.

Shame.

luvinhubby: APC is not an opposition party, but rather a political platform fashioned by aggrieved politicians that lost out in the power tussle for the federal, seeking to have access or a return to Abuja influence.
I, for one, would love an opposition party built around a radical ideology by men whose character reflects the ideology, that will give PDP a run for their money nationwide thereby limiting & curtailing the impunity of PDP.
When you call an organisation 'bunch of crooks' & turn around to poach manpower from them, you simply want crooks or men with crooks mindset as workforce as the caliber of staff determines the trajectory of the company and that is APC for you.
I believe we need a viable opposition, but APC do not represent that to me, maybe, just maybe,.a Labour Party, swelled up by politicians of noble & technocratic background can do that for us, but definetly NOT APC.

Bigsteveg: Wish u could, the main message being passed to her from her mom is "You might be
president of PepsiCo. You might be on the board
of directors.But when you enter this house,
you're the wife, you're the daughter, you're the
daughter-in-law, and you’re the mother.You're
all of that. Nobody else can take that place. So
leave that damned crown in the garage. And
don't bring it into the house."

EnlightenedSoul: An extremely multi-faceted article. I'm not sure what to address first!

I think about all this quite a bit. Like you, I'm on the fence regarding the topic of bride prices. Interesting are the sentiments expressed in the song you shared btw! Personally, I feel it's an outdated practice. Still, despite having been born and spent most of our time in the West, all my older siblings have gone the traditional route, bride price included. Not surprisingly, when I expressed my thoughts, my folks had the exact same old-world parental reaction expressed in the article; it was inconceivable. Nowadays, I've even noticed people compete in the areas of "grandest bride price" and "grandest wedding"!

Inter-ethnic African unions/relationships are still full of hurdles, at least in my case, but I feel it shouldn't be so terribly hard to incorporate something of both cultures within the ceremony. Like you, I value the idea of a cultural wedding, and like you, I also feel there are quite a few traditional practices that are better buried in the past - weddings aside.

It's very easy for those of us living outside the "box" to cherry pick what we like about our respective cultures, but there are those who live it everyday, and in reality it is they who hold the reigns. Changing even one aspect of a local culture is easier said than done. There is a certain comfort in tradition, and people are generally not creatures of change. Society also has a way of shaping the perceptions of the populace. Before some purist suffers an aneurysm: when I say change, I do not mean westernization but rather a local cultural innovation, especially within certain areas, and within reason. It shouldn't mean a complete change of identity.

I feel we desperately need to free our minds in order to move forward.

Zahrabinnta: Yes,the bride price aspect is meaningless,traditional weddings are great and all but when money is being exchanged over a human head it makes some men think that they own the wife.

jackymfon: if it were your sister, would u say this?

bukatyne: Cococandy

This your new moniker invokes thoughts

edwife: Byvan,i can't post in the food section,don't know why?

How are you? ,glad you back!


Yipee,still waiting for the remaining ones.

stanech: The Igbos are like the jews hated for their brains so I get why you guys hate them so much. Jealousy