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How many hours have you spent waiting around for people who are late? How many times have they eventually arrived, be it for an evening out or a business meeting, and instead of apologising, they've laughed it off and said "I thought we were going on African time"?


Africa has a bad reputation for time-keeping. Why is it that the concept of time for Africans differs from that of the western world?


Do you think this relaxed attitude to time is healthier and less stressful? Or is it holding Africa back? Is it part of our makeup to take things easy and not let the clock govern our lives? What are your views?

How many hours have you spent waiting around for people who are late? How many times have they eventually arrived, be it for an evening out or a business meeting, and instead of apologising, they've laughed it off and said "I thought we were going on African time"?


Africa has a bad reputation for time-keeping. African philosopher John S. Mbiti thinks the concept of time for Africans differs from that of the western world. Why is that?


Do you think this relaxed attitude to time is healthier and less stressful? Or is it holding Africa back? Is it part of ou rmakeup to take things easy and not let the clock govern our lives? What are your views?

eKWutoZiaM:
Wats the big shame to naija?, that they are tryn to clean up our image?, You guys just shamless tweets I swear.

Trying to clean up our image? Then why can't they start from the top and work their way down to the bottom then?

man get to survive, man must wack!

Eziachi:
Sentiment apart, who will truthfully argue that we are better of now than we were during the colonial rule? Some one said that Zimbabwe had two engineers before their independent and also Congo, he claimed had two whatever before their so called freedom. I wonder whether now they both had a truck load of graduates, whether they are buidling skyscrappers and flying to the moon. I will bet my backside that those two engineer before independent worth three times more than the post colonial 419 new ones. Mind you, most of those new PHDs were maybe obtained from the internet universities of Kansas.

Take certain inhumane racial laws away from the equation, African will be better off with the Europeans in charge . Nelson Mandela knew this when he came out of prison to accomodate everybody. Leave South Africa to Africans alone, everything will all go up in smoke in seconds. But Africans like OBJ and Mugabe will be the first to disagree because of their monumental failures.
It's in our DNA to love what is ours eventhough it's pinching out backside. No one ever says his mothers soup is rubbish, even when you knew it's more than rubbish.

Well said Eziachi

swing4real:
@Poster

Are you out of your mind or what? How would u ever thought of that my brother?.We are better off without the Europeans.

Come on swing4real we don't have constant light, students finish school with little hope of getting a good job, our leaders are all corrupt i could go on and on. Am sure if our colonial masters would come tomorrow and take over Aso Rock we go see a big improvement in the economy in less than a year from now

nuzo:
Statistics show that Zimbabwe had only 2 indigenous engineers when independence was declared.
Now, what does that tell you?

Nuzo i agree with you that there were not many opportunities for indigenous Zimbabweans before independance, but look at Zimbabwe now? Am sure those 2 indigenous engineers plus all other skilled professionals would checkout immediately if they had the chance.

Pastor AIO:
There is something about self determination that is so much more preferable regardless of the outcome.

If I fail, if I succeed
at least I lived as I believed
no matter what they take from me
they can't take await my dignity

because the greatest love of all
is happening to me

Learning to RULE yourself
is the greatest love of all.

Me too am a fan of Whitney Houston, but when will we Africans learn to rule ourselves? I don't think it will happen in our lifetime. Do you?

Ibime:
@ Poster. I cannot believe you. Ian Smith? Jesus! Thats like saying Black South Africans were better under apartheid.

Ibime am not going to comment on whether Black South Africans were better under aparthied but look at South Africa now since when Thabo Mbeki took power there are 150 rapes a day, the police are so corrupt, car jacking and crime is rampant, talkless of AIDS.

well life isn't fare.

we just have to make the most of it

If 100 people were stopped at random throughout Zimbabwe and asked if they would rather see Mugabe as their president or Smith, were he still alive, the majority would say Smith - that is assuming they were able to give their answer without fear of retribution.

After having a fierce debate with friends about the current economic situation in Zimbabwe. I am convinced that Zimbabwe would be a better place if Ian Smith was still in power instead of black African rule. My friends disagree with me saying that Ian Smith was a racist dictator.

So my question is despite the huge corruption during the colonial time by our colonial masters "was Africa better off under during colonial rule?"

@ iice

thanks for replying me

Hello guys April fools day is just around the corner and i desperately need some good sms text jokes i can fool my friends with back in nija. Do any of u guys have any good jokes we can fool our friends with on April 1st?

Can somebody tell me how to post a topic in nairaland? I've been searching thru threads to findout how and this is where it lead me too. So pls pls somebody reply me.

When i was a child and went on holiday to warri in nigeria for the first time. We learnt how to make kites using old newspapers and the stick from broomstick we would use eba to glue the kite together and buy thread to attached to the kite. We had great fun flying these things and having battles trying to destroy each others kites. It was really fun man

Can i marry an illiterate? Why not, i once had a girlfriend who worked in a bar next door to my house. Things didn't workout though but thats nothing to do with her illiteracy. I could have married her, but we're still good friends till today.

nobody really stands out from da crowd but Yakubu is the best to me.

of course its a tradition for a married man to have a girlfriend. Back in the days we men were allowed to marry more than one wife according to our culture and traditions. Now dat we are all Christians we get to manage just one girlfriend.

Thanks for the advice guys. Its sincerely appreciated.

We miss nigeria because, We love our country.

Hi everybody. Can somebody pls answer my question. Is it true that anyone who has been refused a U K student visa has to wait at least six months before they can reapply again?

How necessary are BIG Weddings? Well if you come from a [/b]BIG[b] Family, your people are making [/b]BIG[b] money and your Family name is [/b]BIG[b] then a [/b]BIG[b] wedding is necessary.

why should people be building big expensive churches when most of thier congregation are struggling to eat two square meals a day? It dosen't make sense. Churches should spend more money on thier congregation who r human beings and less money on thier Church buildings which is just blocks and cement.

Am so surprised because i didn't believe that a Tottenham Hotspurs thread would be here. I thought it was only Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd. Well thanks to didoflex for starting this thread. Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspurs. And am Tottenham till i die. 

we don wack una. i just say make i visit this thread to yab una small

GLORY GLORY TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR TOTTENHAM 2 CHELSEA 1. FOR BETTER FOR WORSE, FOR RICHER FOR POORER, IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH AND TILL DEATH DO US PART. I BE TOTTENHAM FOR LIFE.

Everybody knows that Obama's going to win.

i found a rats paw in my kentucky fried chicken

coca cola coz its the real thing

Since your so emotionally attached to him. Just adopt him. But i feel for you Onyeka how can you face your people in nija and tell them d truth? I would hate to be in your shoes.

Great prayer but i've recieved similar messages dozens of times via text