Recently, at my sister's wedding i had made a promise to denial entry to all late-comers on my wedding day.

What is Culture?

Culture is the way of Life of a given set of people

So OP kindly leave our culture alone... It's bigger than you

But we keep to church time na

meobizy:
It’s very obvious why anyone will come for those events late; they are boring. If you come late for a movie na you do yourself. I recently learned white people don’t come extraordinarily early like the article cited as an example. White people normally arrive a minute to the event’s start. I assume their daily lives are boring hence any form of stimulation is readily accepted. Africans live interesting lives so catching our attention is no easy feat; we choose to come at whatever time we appoint for the event and not the event dictating our movement.

@ bolded.. Bros take am easy oh... Na Africans you give all this pride

In my humble submission... I think to meet up with events as an African IN AFRICA we need more than 24hrs in a day. ( Our activities are so enormous that it doesn't fit into 24hrs/day)

ekevwe:


We just have to be discipline to overcome it. I termed it as laziness time. Not Africa man time.

Seconded

fuckdemrepented:
What is Culture?
Culture is the way of Life of a given set of people
So OP kindly leave our culture alone... It's bigger than you

HMMMmm.......

virginboy1:
One of the setting in Nja deviod of the African Time factor is when people are going for a JOB INTERVIEW .

i once attended a job interview very late. They called me to be sure i was coming. When i arrived, the other applicant has had over one hour nap.

So for even job interview, Nigerians still observe the African time

Enoch07:
e no go ever end. na Africa mentality issue

The whole of Europe has trains
The train service is optimised to run according to time. Otherwise, trains will collide with each other.
So everybody is forced to be on time to catch the train. Otherwise wait for another train.
There is a a big clock stationed at the city centre always. Any town you go has a "Town Centre" with:
1. a clock tower
2. A library
3. A church
4. A court
5. A train station
Everybody in the town knows the time. They don't need wrist watch. They can always see the big clock..

So stop blaming Africans for what we never prepared for. Train is not our life style.

Japan also has bullet train service and the Japanese, likewise are extremely time conscious. The two go together

fuckdemrepented:
What is Culture?

Culture is the way of Life of a given set of people

So OP kindly leave our culture alone... It's bigger than you

Exactly

uuzba:

The whole of Europe has trains
The train service is optimised to run according to time. Otherwise, trains will collide with each other.
So everybody is forced to be on time to catch the train. Otherwise wait for another train.
There is a a big clock stationed at the city centre always. Any town you go has a "Town Centre" with:
1. a clock tower
2. A library
3. A church
4. A court
5. A train station
Everybody in the town knows the time. They don't need wrist watch. They can always see the big clock..

So stop blaming Africans for what we never prepared for. Train is not our life style.

Japan also has bullet train service and the Japanese, likewise are extremely time conscious. The two go together

oga what's your problem with train na, we're talking about African time here. we go late to church, wedding, school e. t. c how can we change that attitude

While we are addressing african time

Lets also address, people wasting your time when you get to a place very early

meobizy:
It’s very obvious why anyone will come for those events late; they are boring. If you come late for a movie na you do yourself. I recently learned white people don’t come extraordinarily early like the article cited as an example. White people normally arrive a minute to the event’s start. I assume their daily lives are boring hence any form of stimulation is readily accepted. Africans live interesting lives so catching our attention is no easy feat; we choose to come at whatever time we appoint for the event and not the event dictating our movement.

Truly!

Those white folks live a very boring and uninteresting life..

They all kno dis.

Enoch07:

oga what's your problem with train na, we're talking about African time here. we go late to church, wedding, school e. t. c how can we change that attitude

The two go together.
People don't just do things because of magic
Something causes them to do what they do.

It will not change cuz some see it as a way of showing there new dress or a kind of pride to see ppl wait for them and they will just stroll in like make una give me standing ovation

uuzba:
The two go together. People don't just do things because of magic Something causes them to do what they do.

and that something always happens

meobizy:
It’s very obvious why anyone will come for those events late; they are boring. If you come late for a movie na you do yourself. I recently learned white people don’t come extraordinarily early like the article cited as an example. White people normally arrive a minute to the event’s start. I assume their daily lives are boring hence any form of stimulation is readily accepted. Africans live interesting lives so catching our attention is no easy feat; we choose to come at whatever time we appoint for the event and not the event dictating our movement.

This is the dumbest stuff ever written on nairaland.

May God help you

pocohantas:
Yes I created it in Culture section because it seems to be our way of life.


How do Nigerians do it?

They are always on time for a movie at the cinema, but never for appointments, lectures, occasions, trainings...etc

In fact, it is now an aberration to be an early bird. I looked like the odd one out sometime ago because I was right there on time. A meeting scheduled for 9am, there I was by 8:42am and no one in sight but the speaker. They started trooping in one after the other. It took us about 90mins to get a reasonable number, just enough to start the meeting.

Today something similar repeated itself.

It is so annoying. Don't they have clocks or what? Why are many Nigerians not time conscious?

I have only attended very few public events that actually started on time with a reasonable number of people. We have to wage a war against this menace called African Time.

There's nobody that can't manage Time.... It's jxt Value system and whether the value system is right or wrong is another topic entirely.... Someone who is late for an event, would not be late if opportuned to meet a highly placed personality....

Sadly it's now part of our culture..

Most times, the organisers do create room for African time in their scheduled programme just to accommodate this unpleasant trend

The only two institutions that work perfectly in Nigeria presently are God and the devil. The positive one is for God, while the negative one is for the devil. Even if one steal and become successful, it's the lord's doing; and charlatans masquerading as men of God will praise and pray for the person ceaselessly. If caught in the process of committing felony, it's devil's handiwork. Nobody is being praised for doing good, and nobody is being blamed for doing bad.
The same thing applied to timing in Nigeria social life and other functions. Going early to an appointment is in fact a punishment; because you will meet nobody there. When eventually people started trickling in into the even center, they will give all sorts of excuses as to why they come late; ultimately African time.
If our leaders do not address the issue of timing in our society it will be very difficult for us to progress; though many see it as insignificant. Anything that has to do with human existence is timing. If nobody addresses the issue if timing, then no need of complaining of backwardness in our society.

meobizy:
It’s very obvious why anyone will come for those events late; they are boring. If you come late for a movie na you do yourself. I recently learned white people don’t come extraordinarily early like the article cited as an example. White people normally arrive a minute to the event’s start. I assume their daily lives are boring hence any form of stimulation is readily accepted. Africans live interesting lives so catching our attention is no easy feat; we choose to come at whatever time we appoint for the event and not the event dictating our movement.

I remember when fire boy,Rema,crayon etc came to uniport last year.Before the time for the event reached,some many people were already there.No African time for that kind occasion oo but some of these people come late for the exams.How can your exam be starting 9am and you are coming 9:20am.

pocohantas:
Yes I created it in Culture section because it seems to be our way of life.


How do Nigerians do it?

They are always on time for a movie at the cinema, but never for appointments, lectures, occasions, trainings...etc

In fact, it is now an aberration to be an early bird. I looked like the odd one out sometime ago because I was right there on time. A meeting scheduled for 9am, there I was by 8:42am and no one in sight but the speaker. They started trooping in one after the other. It took us about 90mins to get a reasonable number, just enough to start the meeting.

Today something similar repeated itself.

It is so annoying. Don't they have clocks or what? Why are many Nigerians not time conscious?

I have only attended very few public events that actually started on time with a reasonable number of people. We have to wage a war against this menace called African Time.

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Africans take pride in coming late.

That's why other continents have entered 21st Century and Africa is still in 17th Century.

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:What is Culture?Culture is the way of Life of a given set of people So OP kindly leave our culture alone... It's bigger than you Exactly

Orissodiq:
I believed in #AFRICA TIME before i traveled to the North for my NYSC (SOKOTO) one of the MALAM that have a shop close to my house invited me to Aure (wedding) and it was stated that they gonna start d wedding by 10am. I tot dia will be African time like we used to do in d WEST and went dia with my friends around 11 or 12 only to c that they have finished all the programs including d food as well. I missed like 2 events like dat.

this is really true in sokoto, there was this groom that went late for his own wedding, they actually started the program without him, he only mate the phase of it.

The worst is when you have an appointment with somebody and after 30mins, you call him, he would say, '?"I am close". Little would you know that he is at home.

jackslow:
this is really true in sokoto, there was this groom that went late for his own wedding, they actually started the program without him, he only mate the phase of it.

Lol... Dis is so funny o
African time is so worst in d WEST but not that much in the North

Na every time una dy address "African time" for this forum ??
Leave us with our time na

pocohantas:
Yes I created it in Culture section because it seems to be our way of life.


How do Nigerians do it?

They are always on time for a movie at the cinema, but never for appointments, lectures, occasions, trainings...etc

In fact, it is now an aberration to be an early bird. I looked like the odd one out sometime ago because I was right there on time. A meeting scheduled for 9am, there I was by 8:42am and no one in sight but the speaker. They started trooping in one after the other. It took us about 90mins to get a reasonable number, just enough to start the meeting.

Today something similar repeated itself.

It is so annoying. Don't they have clocks or what? Why are many Nigerians not time conscious?

I have only attended very few public events that actually started on time with a reasonable number of people. We have to wage a war against this menace called African Time.

It is a cursed society.
U can only find such aberrations in cursed societies.

Why was this thread pushed to front page?

I love keeping strictly to African time in everything I do.

My own way of addressing it is that on my wedding day anybody that comes late will not be given food

naijadrivablog:
The worst is when you have an appointment with somebody and after 30mins, you call him, he would say, '?"I am close". Little would you know that he is at home.

True talk @ “I am close”. Just like when women say “I’m almost ready”, you go wait tire.

bluefilm:
I love keeping strictly to African time in everything I do.

You are indisciplined.

Orissodiq:


Lol... Dis is so funny o
African time is so worst in d WEST but not that much in the North

Good to know northerners are time conscious. Would never have guessed that.

pocohantas:
You are indisciplined.

Nke ahu gbasaa gi.

O gbasarodi m at all.