₦airaland Forum

mtis:
What is wrong with you with this music an fashion stuff. You think countries prosper coz of wearing skirts an singing kumbaya..Teach kids science an stuff like that an ya laying foundation of prosperity an am not talking of that fake church con prosperity thingy

For a language to be regarded as an influential language. It needs to have domination in certain fields.

In exactly what aspect does Swahili dominate Africa? Technology, Entertainment or Media?

Danielnino00:
I'm also curious about it @ ur question .... The Kenyans know a lot about our country due to the huge influence our entertainment industry has over there.. But we all know that before the stupid Kenya vs Nigeria twitter beef which was started by some attention seeking Kenyans (which also gave birth to this thread), a lot of Nigerians knew just three things about Kenya
1) Its a country in east Africa
2) Its capital is Nairobi
3) Most of it's people are ugly and hungry looking because of the appearance of their marathon runners

Gbam. Chikena..

alexxo11:
i understand where you are coming from but imagin lets say ghanaians come to nigeria and you hear one ghanian say if nigerians start nonsense there will be war in the streets of lagos.......the problem with most of you nigerians you mistake sanity with weakness.....killing of nigerians in kenya cannot take more than three days...we get our own pepe for body!!

Hahaha, whatever.

Yobeezy:
Swahili is the most spoken language in Africa with more than 100 Million speakers.
It's now even being taught in other continents like America.
Nigerian pidgin is still small and useless..
Nigerians stop raping English language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfcF6f98Gnw

A useless language swahili that cannot even boast of dominating the African entertainment industry.

If Swahili was so influential in Africa, then everyone would have been trying to learn it, including Nigerians. But no, it is the other way round. Nigerian pidgin dominates the music industry of Africa.

gallivant:
His genetics are of the warrior kind. I will explain, in Australia, the first senator of African heritage is a Kenya lady. The sitting Secretary General of UNCTAD is another Kenyan. A Kenyan sits in the Council of the International Maritime Organization, which is reserved for 20 member states which have special interests in maritime transport or navigation. The list is endless. Nigerians just make noise like empty barrels.

What bullcrap. So many Nigerians won political positions in the UK recently. Nigerians do not see things like this as very big achievements. Otherwise there are people of Nigerian heritage who are political leaders all over the western world. The list is endless!

Those people are making foreign countries better and I see now reason whatsoever why we should brag about them. Our priority should be making our own homelands better cos Obama being of Kenyan father sperm donor did not stop Kenya from being a shithole nation which is dominated by foreigners.

darfay:
You must have begged them to teach you how did you study in the UK but ended up speaking pidgin English wella. Just imagine what would happen to Swahili when our population increases in Nairobi

Gbam! It's just a matter of time before people like NairobiWalker, TayserMahiri, mtis and kikuyu1 start speaking Naija pidgin fluently.

Swahili has proven to be a very useless language.

A language that could not even foster unity and oneness among Kenyans.
A language that could not unite Kenya & Tanzania.

I mean for a language that boasts of over 100 million speakers. I expected them to have the dominant entertainment industry in Africa, forcing other Africans to learn the language and adopt to the culture, but hell NO!

The Hausa and yoruba movie industries in Nigeria are even doing better than Kenyan and Tanzanian movie industries individually with a higher viewing.
It's such a shame!

Swahili language cannot outpace Luganda in Kampala and environs as much as these little Indians boast of influence over Uganda.

Ghanaians are rapidly speaking pidgin these days, same with English speaking Cameroon.
Even French speaking countries like Benin republic are not left out in the cultural influence of Nigeria.

nwoke39:
Note oil only takes up 10% of Nigeria GDP, similar to manufacturing
but when you compare ppp, Kenya isn't close... Chances are Kenya and possibly Ghana will catch to Nigeria in nominal gdp per capita, but will take longer in ppp... and by that time Nigeria might hit 7% growth
For now let's see if Kenya and Ghana will catch up, and if they do will Nigeria over pass them

Thank you very much.
This is what people like NairobiWalker do not understand.

Life is still cheaper in Nigeria than it is Kenya. I clearly demonstrated that with our housing costs here for instance.

Kenya could manage to catch up with Nigeria in terms of income per capital (nominal), but they can never catch up in income per capital (ppp).

TayserMahiri:
If you have a wifey then you married too soon!

You are asking what cultural mark Kenyans have left on the world? Plus you think we have no nobel? All that list of Nigerians are dwarfed by one kenyan and you know him. He was at the white house and he wasnt acting! You have actors, and so do we! A list was given some pages back I presume you just lazy!

As always I say, your work Nigerians is to entertain us! Nothing else.

See this shameless soul. You want to claim Obama, the product of white brought up heritage? How did Kenya contribute to Obama's life?

All the Nigerians abroad representing Nigeria had a strong connection and upbringing of their Nigerian heritage, heck many of them even speak their local dialects.
Break my head in two if Obama knows a single word in Luo dialect.

FYI, the American entertainment industry is worth more than twice the economy of East Africa. You can see the power of it's wealth in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Nigeria is targeting that mark.

Keep hating while Nigerian artistes keep on raking in money from concerts in Kenya and sales of their records.
IrokoTv (the netflix of Africa) now has kiosks all over Nairobi and are raking in the subscription payments of Kenyans back home to Nigeria .

I have asked this question and will keep on asking it till you shameless little Indians give me an answer.

How on earth does Kenya influence the life of the average Nigerian or west african? Which brand of yours takes in our money back to Kenya?

jaycent:
WTF? If you're a Nigerian as you claim then why that so much hate on Nigeria/ Nigerians. The kind of you Nigerians are the ones bringing bad names to our country..no matter how bad kenya is, kenyans will never say bad about there country insted they will promot there country with good image and people will think there country is good they will rush to there country..not only kenya both other countries too. But we Nigerians will never do so..every country has there own problem but they will never talk bad about there country..see lemme just tell you the truth if you talk bad about your country you are killing yourself, it just like you're telling people how bad your family and you tink you're doing the right thing but you don't know you're killing yourself. That's how it is when you're talking bad about your country. I'm igbo and Nigeria is my father land...i don't know biafra as my father land..no matter how bad Nigeria is..i must fight for my country Nigeria..stop the hating on your country and make your country. Mr sufferNsmiling.

I pity you if you think that sufferNsmiling is a Nigerian.

He is not a Nigerian. He has been exposed long ago and that is why you see people like us do not reply him.
Completely ignore him for your own good.

nwoke37:
If you actually look behind that spectacular promenade and marine drive in Angola... you'll find ugly dilapidated buildings, and the roads are bad...
Angola and Nigeria's development standards aren't that far apart actually... In some areas Nigeria beats Angola... Just because you see a spectacular marine drive and promenade, you suddenly think Angola is Dubai/first world...

But i think i kinda understand what you mean, beautiful skyscrapers have a way of making one believe a society is developed... Sadly in the case of Angola, it's not developed...

Eko Atlantic will trump whatever Angola has... And by the time Eko Atlantic is fully finished(35 years) Nigeria might actually be second world and comparable to where China is today..

Exactly bro.
Sky scrappers give a very deceptive view of development.
Only very shallow people will use sky scrappers as a criteria for development.

mtis:
It’s not like Kenyans like killings but truth be told. You can’t just go to another dude’s house n create sh*t there. First it’s not Igbos alone here (entire Nigeria is represented).second you guys got this loud mouth thingy an folks can pick you up anywhere. Third stop bragging my friend..naijas disappear a lot in this side of the continent. Kenyans are calm people but war like if sh*t falls down.

What am trying to tell you is that Kenya is not Europe or even South Africa. We don’t take shit lying down n sh*i is happening whether you like it or not

Lastly there are nice Nigerian folks here whom I do respect. They pay taxes n other stuff n they’re welcome to stay. Actually many of your rich folks are investing here lot…But we don want punks here please

Why must you guys make all these announcements? Do whatever you like with Nigerians in your country.

There are Nigerians almost everywhere in the world and the population of Nigerians that will ever be in Kenya cannot affect Nigeria as a country one single bit.

As the largest country in Africa and among the largest in the world I expect our people to be everywhere.

Ghanaians deport some Chinese poeple cos they were thieves. I do not see how that stops China or affects them in any way.

TayserMahiri:
At least do shyt with your oil money. In Angola they built skscrappers! You've built nothing except a new sea route to Europe.

And btw, skyscrapers are a sign of wealth the world over.

This is the dumbest statement I've read since I joined this forum.

How many sky scrappers do European cities have?
Only an irredeemable fool will say sky scrappers are a symbol of wealth.

Good work op!

These memes made me LOL and brought back mixed feelings of my parents..

nazablossom:
The ones that don't believe in beating to discipline a child, they will sit you down and open a history book for you on how you suppose to behave. The advice would take so long that you wish were beaten.

This was exactly my Dad. He hardly beats you, but he could talk to you a whole day!

themodernman:
The one thing I'll avoid totally is the autocracy that comes with having to respect one's senior. I hate that thing to the core cos it only ends up destroying the self-esteem of an individual, especially the lastborn in most cases of whom I am unfortunately one-everybody transferred their aggression and vented their frustration on me but I had no one to let off steam to. So it all just built up till it turned into hatred, frustration, damaged self esteem and eventually depression.

I'll have the courage and boldness to apologize to my kids when I wrong them without fearing disrespect from them....this is what my mom and siblings NEVER do, infact they won't even keep quiet or bribe you with gifts sef like other families do, they'll rather twist it all till they find a way to absolve themselves of them and possibly even push it to your doorstep.

I went through hell in my family to the point that I decided to stay away from them and pray for their prosperity without my help. I pray they never need my presence to make it in life cos I honestly can't stand their disgusting behaviour.

Like yesterday my elder sister, a 38year old lady drank purewater, put the remaining in a cup and dropped it on the sofa. She does this most times but I always remove it for her without even telling her, till yesterday when some of the water from the pure water had spilled on the sofa makimg it wet, because the cup had turned sideways. I told her gently that the water she puts on the sofa has now made the chair wet, instead of her to accept her mistake and say oh thanks jarey, she rather went defensive by saying she puts it in a cup now and it's not supposed to pour out that way. I was just pissed off internally, cos was she even supposed to put purewater nylon in a cup and place it on a sofa in the first place?

I just logged off her matter cos i knew then that she was a waste of time and a lost course.

Yes this is a very crazy way many parents raise their children. In a way where the senior has too much rights and the junior none.

Well, to an extent I think it depends on you the junior one and how you compose yourself.
I had an elder brother, though with 2 years gap, but I never let him dominate or control me. For what?

I had a friend exactly my age with an elder sister also 2 years older than him and you can imagine that he could not call his elder sister by her first name, he must say Sister this, Sister that, all in the name of respect. He had to even greet her every morning.
Such nonsense would never work for me! Although maybe cos my parents did not enforce it.
Even if they did, I know how to demand respect my own way.

If I was in your shoes. I would prepare myself to be very independent from an early age and as soon as I entered university, I would never go back to that mad house where I would be treated as a servant all in the name of seniority. Even if I go back, I would spend less than a week and I will never laugh or smile with any of my sibblings for any reason whatsoever.
The only one who can boss me is the person that sponsors me. No other bloody person can in the name of seniority.
I hate that concept.
I have younger ones who I'm far older than, but I prefer them calling me by my first name and not adding Brother to my name. I do not let them do any chores for me. Even if I want to send them on errands, I do it in a very friendly manner and I always try to tip them and appreciate them for it.
I hate people bossing other people's lives in the name of seniority.

One idiot will just sit down and order his younger one like a servant to go and bring him a glass of water all because of how many years age difference?

Africans must stop these crazy cultures. They are disgusting.

kayus89:
How many expatraites speak pidgin in Warri clown?I didn't mingle with the locals

Those who stay long enough do. I have seen whites who spoke pidgin.

kayus89:
Where did you get your stats from clown?My friends never spoke pidgin

I got my stats cos this is the city where I have lived the most of my life! I am in Warri right now.

darfay:
It is only possible when dragons rule the world again.Dont tell me about my hometown
Next time you would be able to lie better

It is very obvious that he is telling lies.

kayus89:
It is possible-my friends didn't speak pidgin english.

You cannot live in Warri and not speak pidgin English. I was born in Warri and have lived there for many years.

Mind you, I have always lived solely in middleclass areas in Warri and mostly interracted with middle class people, yet I still speak pidgin very well.
99.9% of the people in Warri can speak pidgin.

safarigirl:
the North is not the only part of Nigeria

Where were they when he was failing serially?

North East and North West can never help Buhari win. He won in 2015 thanks to votes from South West and North Central, and right now, those regions are not smiling with him

You are talking off point. North East and North West been voting Buhari for ages, so, they are not what he used to win.

Thank you hitting the nail on the head.

Majority of North-east and North-west always vote in one direction just as the majority of SS/SE.

The people with the winning votes are usually the SW & NC..

TayserMahiri:
Senegal too. I was to support Nigeria but I wont. Unless they invent a Juju Chant.

Ogbeni carry your support go fry Akara. We nor want!
We nor dey fain bad belle pipu support.
I no say una just dey wait make dem win Naija comot for the cup make una laff. Una plan don fail.

obaaderemi:
Na di world cup o. I see say da Little Indians don dey clear small small. The tin even beta as e deh now becos no mata wetin pesin talk before dem Little Indians no dey gree.

I dey with you bros.

Jay254:
What Kind of desparation is this, you guys are so stupid. You glorify whites as if they are demi gods to you.

The power of God does not choose race I wonder why you guys see the pastor instead of the miracle from the Man of God.

We have prophet Owuor who pulls crowd all over the world, what we see is the power of God in Him but not his race like the stu.pid Nigerian.

I am talking of foreigners bowing to Nigerian ancestral culture and you are telling me about how a Kenyan prophet practices a foreign religion christianity which was brought by the same white people?

Nigeria has the biggest and richest Pastors and prophets in the world, but some of us take no pride in that.
We rather take pride in whites bowing before our own ancestral cultures and religion.

Shebi you sabi say your mumu don tanda sha?

NigeriaIsDoomed:
we go bend dem hier, ah bin show dem how oyibos take bow 4 our Oni 4 Brazil na how dem go bow 4us be diz

Shuoor! See me see gbege O. See as oyibo dey digwe for we Oba.

Na now I don dey sabi wetin some pipu bin dey yarn.
Pipu wey dey hala say e nor good as we Naija and Africans dey throway we culture dey kolobi the one wey oyibo carry kom..... Sotay some of us go dey carry am for head like gala, like say na we papa dem get am.

Naija pipu abeg lailai make we nor throway we culture. If not oyibo dem go just dey look us finish.

TayserMahiri, NairobiWalker, Jay254, mtis, kikuyu, jonraid et al.
Can you guys see the way white people are bowing down to a Nigerian king? This only happens to people who know and preserve their cultures and not people who go about celebrating 'blanket & tea' parties

Shebi una dey gbadun as we dey yarn for brokin?
If e too pain una, make una move sharp sharp go una side go dey yarn una own. Na we get here.

Obaaderemi, Afa na? We nor kon site you again o. Abi you nor wan folo us yarn brokin?

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Make baba Oluwa wey dey bless Naija bless our team yanfu yanfu with plenty goals moro.
Goodluck 2 our Super Eagles!

Kibera monkeys una see how our naija guys dey handsome unlike una kibera monkeys wey carry face like HIV patients.

Kpakam! As u take talk am, naso e go dey. Nothing join, nothing komot.

Naija bobos normal normal fine throway na. Na we get swag pass for Africa.

Ise! . This world cup don set die for us.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Dey pidgin don dey shut dem up so make una no stop abeg. No more English for here, make them go their Kibera forum go relate with dem village monkeys.
For nairaland we go dey dictate the direction of the discussion until all of dem don waka.

Hahaha, my guy, I dey gbadun your levels.
Mesef gree for wetin you yarn wellwell.

Na brokin we go take dey sama these Kenyans till dem go gbese comot hia kpata kpata

TayserMahiri, NairobiWalker, mtis, kikuyu, jonraid et al.

E don set for una. Lailai make I nack una oyibo again

obaaderemi:
None of us use our real names here. Your excuse is lame. You are just a Nigerian wannabe, mumu. Are you sure emeka is not what your friends call you in Ghana?

2 things here.

It's either emeka1101 had a Nigerian father who abandoned him and his mother, hence his burning hatred for Nigeria
OR
he has been so fascinated by Nigerian culture and desperately wants to join in but was rejected.

emeka1101:
You are not making sense.
Only 2% of Nigerians in Ghana are making it legally in Ghana.
The rest are scammers, armed robbers ,criminals and prostitutes.(I gave you proof)

You are just re-affirming what i said earlier.

Why are nigerian companies running to Ghana to the extent of sponsoring our league?
Its because Ghana is a same,proporous and a far better country than nigeria.

(Dont forget that Glo is the most useless network in Ghana.They don't even have more than 100 customers. The Nigerians in GH don't even use Glo)

Again Ghanaians took over your movie industry because you can't compete with Ghanaians in anything.

Your accent is irritating so it was Ghanaians that made your movie industry attractive .

We are in 2018 and Ghana is ranked of nigeria in everything.

Continue making noise

I don't understand this.

Why should a Ghanaian be answering a Nigerian name?

Are you perhaps frustrated that you had a Nigerian father who abandoned you or what?

darfay:
He his Nigerian so it is justified. Nairaland was originally for Nigerians a product of our failed educational system did this what have you guys done that comes close you bloody bastard

I just taya for this mumu mata o.

Nairaland is a forum where so many Nigerians get the latest local, national and international news and gists, advertise and promote their businesses, prospective clients and marketers meet and friendships/relationships are made.

It was not made for the larger African audience but for Nigerians.
So NairobiWalker why should you and your likes even spend so much time here in the first place?

gallivant:
What is this idiot saying? We are not a serfdom like Nigeria.Everyone is equal in Kenya. No Oba nonsense in a democracy.

Don't attack the messenger, attack the message. Why did Kenyatta say that Kikuyus have their milk in the morning while other have theirs in the afternoon?

Was I the one who made the comment?

Yobeezy:
Tanzanian songs are the best in East,central and south Africa!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wbc5ZwkAMw

Of course! This is old news. Kenyans can never sing good music except for Sauti sol.

I am Nigerian, but I love Tanzanian artistes so well, they have blessed me with their music and made me fall in love with the swahili language. Are you Nigerian?

kikuyu1:
No,Mensa member from the Middle Belt! I here to say what I have to say-only! I've no need for endless exchanges with mental midgets and emoboys. Maybe pics will be easier for your brainpower to click. But,I'm not blaming you!

Stop faking to hate your status as a privileged Kenyan over the rest.
You actually enjoy being a 2nd class citizen of Kenya after the 1st class Indian citizens and above the 3rd class likes of TayserMahiri