sukkot:
nah its mr cork and that nigga shymmex lmao

Ishilove:

^^

Mr Yuuumy's younger sister, one of those Nigerians in diaspora who would like to drain the African blood flowing in their veins, but since they can't resort to brainwashing themselves.

DanseMacabre:


You know as e dey go na.

cyberdurable:
please I stay in peckham... Where can I buy hydraulic soup?

lepasharon:


Lol I find that so funny seeing how the natural hair movement didn't start in Africa.

Neither did the embracing of african gods start with ppl in Africa.

You lot are more self- hating.

blackboy:
Pekham has a very strong Jamaican community and no ghetto. Yes, the Nigerian community is represented.
Looking for Nigerian food in England is no sweat. Very common, Malta Guiness, Ndomie, yam, plantain, even many Nigerians food only restaurants.
Main issue be I resist eating them cause why would I leave naija to continue eating naija food.. I make it clear that when I'm just spending a month why not Oyinbo food and when I get back eat naija food

AllTheWayUp:

Naija ti takeover PECKHAM,

Ishilove:

The western media brainwashed many Africans at home through subliminal programming, so natural hair movement started as rebellion in the West itself against the imposition of the white man's ideals on beauty. This had NOTHING to do with self hate.

Lies. Where did you hear that from? BET?

Smh

Ishilove:
I see my Cele peeps doing their thing up there

What touched me most deeply in the entire article is the quote:

"If a language dies, so does the human spirit. A people without a culture will lose their self respect."

This is a most profound statement. Many Nigerians, at home and in the diaspora try as much as possible to emulate the western culture, ignorantly assuming that it will make them appear 'posh' and 'classy'. They don't realise that if the Westerners despised their own culture the way Nigerians do theirs, we won't even have a culture to emulate.

I have been speaking with a client who insists on being more American than the average American. When we talk on phone he introduces himself as Mr Yuuummy (Yomi). He speaks with an exaggerated American accent, even though his 'Yoruba-tic' intonation still manages to burst though. When I met him one to one I was unimpressed because of his whole fakeness. These kinds of Nigerians will go to Europe and the Americas and be more native than the aborigines.

Is it inferiority complex? A lack of self respect brought about by the despising of their own unique culture? You go London and instantly forget you're a Nigerian. Your children grow up to see themselves as English people because you have made sure they see their roots as 'inferior'.

Your culture is what makes you stand out from the average Joe. Own it. Be proud of it. Fly the flag wherever you find yourself outside the shores of Nigeria.

Just don't fly the flag and disgrace us sha. Our rep is already bad enough as it is.

Ishilove:
I see my Cele peeps doing their thing up there

What touched me most deeply in the entire article is the quote:

"If a language dies, so does the human spirit. A people without a culture will lose their self respect."

This is a most profound statement. Many Nigerians, at home and in the diaspora try as much as possible to emulate the western culture, ignorantly assuming that it will make them appear 'posh' and 'classy'. They don't realise that if the Westerners despised their own culture the way Nigerians do theirs, we won't even have a culture to emulate.

I have been speaking with a client who insists on being more American than the average American. When we talk on phone he introduces himself as Mr Yuuummy (Yomi). He speaks with an exaggerated American accent, even though his 'Yoruba-tic' intonation still manages to burst though. When I met him one to one I was unimpressed because of his whole fakeness. These kinds of Nigerians will go to Europe and the Americas and be more native than the aborigines.

Is it inferiority complex? A lack of self respect brought about by the despising of their own unique culture? You go London and instantly forget you're a Nigerian. Your children grow up to see themselves as English people because you have made sure they see their roots as 'inferior'.

Your culture is what makes you stand out from the average Joe. Own it. Be proud of it. Fly the flag wherever you find yourself outside the shores of Nigeria.

Just don't fly the flag and disgrace us sha. Our rep is already bad enough as it is.

cyberdurable:
please I stay in peckham... Where can I buy hydraulic soup?

solarview:
My good people making waves

seguno2:


Will you agree if others say that they are developing Lagos

lepasharon:


Lol why were the Africans at home more prone to brainwashing now? Why aren't theAfricans at home rebelling too. They are surrounded by ppl who look like each other but it's so funny how they hate themselves even more. The conscious movement too started with blacks in dispora, I may not fully agree with the message but they are attempting to be afrocentric.

cyberdurable:
please I stay in peckham... Where can I buy hydraulic soup?

AreaFada2:

The bolded is very easy to say. Facts remains that being a Nigerian (a country their president say is corrupt) is not easy. Are people flying Nigerian flag at home in Nigeria?

You cannot live in a foreign land and expect all to remain as if you were in Nigeria. It cannot work. In Nigeria, there are people in Lagos whose parents are Ijaw or Efik or Urhobo. Their Lagos born kids cannot speak Ijaw, Efik or Urhobo. Despite ease of travelling back to village and having relatives visit often.

Even Asians that traditionally have close-knit communities are struggling already despite appearances.

People under-estimate the influence of the society: education system, media/TV, social life on foreign-born kids.
Most African/Nigerian parents are hardworking people with kids attending breakfast club, school & after school club. What time have they to impart all that culture?

You need to have been through the grind to truly understand it. The UK society works because every working person puts in their very best, not bare minimum. Including Nigerians.

Our bad rep in diaspora is an extension of the rot back in Nigeria. What exactly works in Nigeria to be envied by the world? Corruption, poor governance, cultism, armed robberies, a country with massive crude oil that imports petrol & kerosene, high unemployment, 419/yahoo yahoo, poor healthcare system, poor education system where even a UMTE data correction is a problem, etc.
Fact is there is hardly anything about Nigeria to fly.

Individual Nigerians are bright, enterprising and so on. They would have been if the country was called "Floraria" after Flora Shaw.
It is easy to be idealistic but Nigeria as it is and has been since 1960, is hardly anything worth it. No wonder our elites are fighting over the spoils. Only the plebs are still oblivious.

That "Ajegunle" Peckham happens to be within a few kilometres of several NHS Foundation Trusts (Hospitals) of world class standard, within kilometers of elite universities like UCL, Imperial College, King's College, LSE, etc. And there are Peckham born and bred Nigerian kids in these schools. 24/7 of electricity and decent schools for their kids too.

For many in Peckham, they cannot imagine living anywhere else in UK. Especially many elderly ones. It is their little piece of Lagos.
The illegals they are talking of, over time they gradually regularize their status, many through their UK born kids or on humanitarian grounds. Some get deported.

cyberdurable:
please I stay in peckham... Where can I buy hydraulic soup?

Built2last:
Yea

Just like Bradford to Asians and middle Easterner.

Likes attract

Ishilove:

Change begins with you

sukkot:
nah its mr cork and that nigga shymmex lmao

MICHEALADEX:
Go to iyana oworo walk 5km into the 3 mainland bridge and nose dive. Am sure you'll find one only if you survive it. Omo ale jatijati hydraulic to pa e danu

NubiLove:


You can buy it in some food stores in Peckham, just go out and ask around in the market.

Ishilove:
I see my Cele peeps doing their thing up there

What touched me most deeply in the entire article is the quote:

"If a language dies, so does the human spirit. A people without a culture will lose their self respect."

This is a most profound statement. Many Nigerians, at home and in the diaspora try as much as possible to emulate the western culture, ignorantly assuming that it will make them appear 'posh' and 'classy'. They don't realise that if the Westerners despised their own culture the way Nigerians do theirs, we won't even have a culture to emulate.

I have been speaking with a client who insists on being more American than the average American. When we talk on phone he introduces himself as Mr Yuuummy (Yomi). He speaks with an exaggerated American accent, even though his 'Yoruba-tic' intonation still manages to burst though. When I met him one to one I was unimpressed because of his whole fakeness. These kinds of Nigerians will go to Europe and the Americas and be more native than the aborigines.

Is it inferiority complex? A lack of self respect brought about by the despising of their own unique culture? You go London and instantly forget you're a Nigerian. Your children grow up to see themselves as English people because you have made sure they see their roots as 'inferior'.

Your culture is what makes you stand out from the average Joe. Own it. Be proud of it. Fly the flag wherever you find yourself outside the shores of Nigeria.

Just don't fly the flag and disgrace us sha. Our rep is already bad enough as it is.

Ishilove:

"If a language dies, so does the human spirit. A people without a culture will lose their self respect."

This is a most profound statement. Many Nigerians, at home and in the diaspora try as much as possible to emulate the western culture, ignorantly assuming that it will make them appear 'posh' and 'classy'. They don't realise that if the Westerners despised their own culture the way Nigerians do theirs, we won't even have a culture to emulate.

Just don't fly the flag and disgrace us sha. Our rep is already bad enough as it is.

Chiefly:


Language is actually the only thing that separate us Animals, peeps don't know just how important Lang is, everything concerning human existence is embedded in language. lose your language, you lose your identity.


I sorry for all this naive people wey dey form porch

cyberdurable:
please I stay in peckham... Where can I buy hydraulic soup?