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GistMedia0:
A light-hearted but moment has gone viral online after a young "ajebo" child (a Nigerian slang for children raised in comfort or luxury) stunned her mother with a surprising reaction during her first-ever visit to a local market.

The mother, who took her daughter along after several pleas to "experience the market," the little girl froze shortly after they entered the busy environment. Observing the confused and slightly alarmed look on her face, the mother asked, “Chidimma, what did you say?” To which the child replied, “The market looks weird. I want to go home.”

The innocent remark quickly made its way online, where it sparked a heated debate.

Many netizens reacted with amusement, recalling their own childhood memories of being carried on their mother’s back to the market while still in diapers. "I’ve been going to the market since I was a toddler," one user joked. Others felt the girl’s discomfort highlighted a growing gap between modern-day 'ajebo' children and real-world exposure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mGUd1dg21k

jetguy:
To some of us that was born in the ghetto, we still thanks God for our life...
As a streets nigga, we can survive anywhere we find ourselves...
Even though, we were not born with a silver 🥈 spoon 🥄, but we can still use it..

NJV:
Must everything come online?? Imagine videoing your child in the market just to create content for online gist and views. Na wa for today's women sha

ElSudani:
Why should a ten year old be going to the market by herself? You are talking an extreme position to justify nonsense.

PrivateSeal:
Spoilt brat

No be Ur mama & papa steal d destiny of the people in the market

Agugbadin:
But why must it be Igbos all the time are other tribes not using the social media.Exposing the innocent child to viral comments in itself looks weird.Must every thing come online.

Kewekubosineh:
What are you saying? Ten years old of those days can go to market and do household chores.

Unlike now, you spoil them with unnecessary petting like the story above.

Children should be exposed to vicissitudes of life from infancy. Not petting. Because you can't be there for them forever.

ElSudani:
Thank you o. I was just taking the current situation of the country into consideration.
What is weird is a 10 year old being afraid of a market place. Hope nothing more serious is going on there.

bazoodo:
of course before colonialism men held charge in societies. We had kingdoms and women were seen and not heard. In fact you dare not try to be heard as a woman. However today women want to not only be heard but be in charge. So their own values are now forced down everyone. So the destruction of Africa started from the colonialism not African men per se. If African men had been able to fight them and won then it would have been a saner climate today

PrivateSeal:
Spoilt brat

No be Ur mama & papa steal d destiny of the people in the market

papyjaypaul:
I still don't understand why African women change their surnames. It is not an African culture but many of them don't even know what they are doing. It is African culture they think is backward while European or American culture they think is woke is the one that will maltreat them and mislead them.

The British saw marriage as a transaction which makes you the woman his property. In Africa, marriage is between families and you are not his property. You are the child of your father and your family name is intact. If you divorce him, there is a way to go around it but you do not take his name. No be your husband born you or own you. The British brought this culture of theirs under colonialism and you adopted it. You adopted their white wedding. Now you want to adopt their gay nonsense but your forefathers tradition and polygamy is the worst. It's the one that deprived you of freedom. It's the one that took your surname. It's the one your mothers were slaves, mumu and too calm. You better take some time to learn about your history and stop condemning everything using European brain and Arab eyes. The people you think are more advanced than you don't respect their women the way Africa does. Quote me anywhere. But our women want to eat their cake and have it. They want me and women to be equal in marriage. They want to be the head of the house. Go on and find out. The other woman I read already took 2Face's surname in Caps. This one here cannot change her ig name 🤡 Your African culture already knew what to do when it's marriage, divorce or death. No culture is perfect but if you listen to most Nigerians, they don't even know their culture. They just want to be like oyinbo wey no get culture. Oyinbo wey de oppress women. Oyinbo wey you get right pass them but dem deceive you to think you are oppressed.

Keep fighting for fake freedom and be abusing Africa, saying what we have here is patriarchy, is this or that. Until you taste the other side, you won't know how much freedom you had from those who love you. Una go get sense by force.

papyjaypaul:
There is nothing like that. The problem is that we do not appreciate our culture and history. Do you know that markets are connected to the Oba? The Iyaloja is a member of the King's cabinet and the King gets to know the feelings of the people through what the market women say? Our mothers worked and earned without problem until the British colonialists came to destroy our system of government. It won't happen in Igbo markets because historically Igbo don't have the same system but the story of Funmilayo and Aba women's rights should have taught Nigerians some lessons about who they are. Alas!

Our society has been destroyed by Western ideas and some people who call themselves feminists without knowing who they are will say their fathers are misogynistic and all that nonsense. They don't know how powerful their mothers were before oyinbo came to destroy what they had. Now the oyinbo are contaminating their minds the way they did in the west to make them compete with men instead of us working together as a society. Everyone had their roles, both men and women. The same British called our fathers idiots for giving their women so much freedom such as Iyaloja!!! They did not allow women participate in their own democracies, today women are looking for crumbs to eat in that thing they call percentage whatever. They are begging the Presidents to give them space. How foolish can Africans be!

Do your own research on why we had the Aba Women Riot and the Abeokuta riot, all led by women. Even in Black America, women were tired of being lied to because they saw white massa sleeping with them and giving them false hopes. Women are protectors of the society. Today I saw one boy on Nairaland who said a woman without 500k should not get married. Women in Nigeria have been raped off their power and deceived with feminine rights by oyinbo who make them hate their ancestors and love fake oyinbo rights. The women did not take a careful study of how these oyinbo gave their own women rights and when.

Before you reply me, if you choose to reply me, listen to Prof first and reflect on who we historically are. If you don't know your history, you will repeat the mistakes of the past



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hZ2DmS0bk

Kajaard:
Lol , this is even a very neat market by NIGERIAN STANDARDS

That means if she goes to markets like Oshodi or Mushin she will just faint

Rossikk:
Those areas are not rough like before, man.

hopedey:
Many mothers failed their children

jamalkareem:
She is used to farmers market ,neat and well organized so anyone blaming her is used to suffer head ,poverty bad gon is not a must she experience the bad life which most of the commenters are used to .

PrivateSeal:
Spoilt brat

No be Ur mama & papa steal d destiny of the people in the market

Metordman:
product of poor parenting. But later Night club, sisha, piercing,2sum,lap dance,fast food, iphones,yahoo boyfriends, postinor 2 WILL NOT LOOK WEIRD

GistMedia0:
Even this boy was shocked after hearing that.

hopedey:
Many mothers failed their children

GistMedia0:
Even this boy was shocked after hearing that.