₦airaland Forum

Where is potable?

Why all the girls dress up and look like ugly men? Except Sade Adu.

Tunde Baiyewu of the Lighthouse Family

naijapikin2:
These ones dodged the bullet

In a way..

Kudos to them doing nigeria proud.

Tribal jingoists will soon take over this thread in

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Here they come.

Yoruba and igbo warlords.

Nigerians have been japaing since the country was created.
These are highly successful japatians.

Racoon:
Apart from Sade Adu, I don't know these other artists. Keep shining and winning guys.

Seal is even more popular than Sade Adu.

I know folks like you, will bring in TRIBALISTIC TALK into this. e no dey hard una

Pristine664:
Even before clicking the link, I already knew the list will be dominated by Yorubas descendants. 😂

If Grammy was a Nigerian award, some persons would have accused them of nepotism in favour of the Yorubas and marginalisation of the Igbos.

If Forbes was a Nigerian or even African organization, some persons would have accused them of nepotism in favour of Yorubas and marginalisation of the Igbos..... And many more


My advice: For your own peace of mind, stop seeing Yorubas as your competitors because they are blessed differently.

Shaybo

CodeTemplarr:
What about portable and osupa?

no be only osupa...imole nko

So Darkoo is brit...the rate I do see in Nigeria when...was thinking she just street girl trying to feel among

uuzba:
Nigerians have been japaing since the country was created.
These are highly successful japatians.

😳😳😳😳😳. Just watch out. That word will soon become very popular.

JAPATIAN😁😁😁😁

Okay

So

11. PORTABLE

West Africans are celebrating the rise of our folks in the UK drill scene but one lateef want to make it all about tribalism . Stormy is Ghanaian, Dave is (benin) Nigerian, pa salieu is Gambian, headie one is Ghanaian, skepta is yoruba , tinie tempah is igbo .

Tinie tempah ft wizkid , Dave ft skepta , these rich men don't play tribalism but one lateef from ikirun , who went to free secondary school at ansar-udeen sec school is championing bigotry . You'll just die poor Sara 😂😂

Racoon:
Apart from Sade Adu and Seal, I don't know these other artists. Keep shining and winning guys.

Tinie Tempah - Invisinble ft Kelly Rowland.

Racoon:
Apart from Sade Adu and Seal, I don't know these other artists. Keep shining and winning guys.

what of skepta and Dave

Racoon:
Apart from Sade Adu and Seal, I don't know these other artists. Keep shining and winning guys.

lol....listen to Tinnie Tempah's..... Written in the stars and Invincible(ft Kelly Rowland) songs...

Seal and Sade are good too

Racoon:
Apart from Sade Adu and Seal, I don't know these other artists. Keep shining and winning guys.

what of skepta and Dave?

Lema is nigerian

Germi9:
Lema is nigerian

lemar.....av got that guy's songs on my phone like for decades now .....

The list is incomplete without Lemar Obika - If there's any Justice in the world.

Racoon:
Apart from Sade Adu and Seal, I don't know these other artists. Keep shining and winning guys.

Sade Adu? I am sure you don become grandparent already....lol

Cynthia Erivo is bigger than most of these artists and she's Nigerian from Mbaise

What about Tunde Baiyewu of Lighthouse Family?

I know Yoruba will lead before I opened the thread. What a tribe!

IvarTheBoneless:
Always Yorubas.

I was shocked one day when an elderly ibo man told me point-blank that his tribe will do anything to become 2nd Class Yoruba

Even take tribal marks.

always wear your helmet while running after buses at busstops you won't hear .now what is the sense in this your senseless comment.what is your tout ID let me check something

Racoon:
Apart from Sade Adu and Seal, I don't know these other artists. Keep shining and winning guys.

Me too. Apart from Sade Adu,seal,skepta and tinnie tempah. I dont know the rest too

What about Lemar

Makamatic:
West Africans are celebrating the rise of our folks in the UK drill scene but one lateef want to make it all about tribalism . Stormy is Ghanaian, Dave is (benin) Nigerian, pa salieu is Gambian, headie one is Ghanaian, skepta is yoruba , tinie tempah is igbo .

Tinie tempah ft wizkid , Dave ft skepta , these rich men don't play tribalism but one lateef from ikirun , who went to free secondary school at ansar-udeen sec school is championing bigotry . You'll just die poor Sara 😂😂

Ikirun ke you no talk okuku

Ganjafama:
The list is incomplete without Lemar Obika - If there's any Justice in the world.

I searched throughout the first page for this but no one mentioned it. Thank God for you.

Na so so Gen Z full everywhere.

Lemar should be far above Skepta or wetin be that name.

DonAbba:
Yoruba amaka

What is your tribal pride in seeing them adding value to the British economy and society while Yoruba land rots away, deprived of basic things of modern life taken for granted in Britain

anonimi:
David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.