all4naija:

What is the Ghana supply to neighboring countries? You don't produce enough electricity from the overrated Upper Volta River sh*t! You are all nothing but lying midgets!

all4naija:
Let's help them and including Ghana. We might not help Ghana in time because the people disrespect us a lot.

spectroscopic:
Background:
American (overall Boss; title of office = President/CEO)
Nigerian (staff) (me)
Ghanaian (staff) (colleague of mine)

My Ghanaian colleague and I were chatting with our boss. My colleague and I are at the same level, more or less; each extremely professional, with PhDs to boot.

Unfolding event:

The discussion happened during a dinner organized by our organization and the boss was going around meeting his staff and getting introduced to them; he is a new appointment. I was seated with the Ghanaian whom I considered a brother, and with whom, quite frankly, I have always gone along well. Besides, we are the only Africans in the organization.

The boss sat with us for quite some time chatting, compared to the time he took with others. I presume he did this because we were the only people ''different'' from the rest, and he would have been naturally curious to learn more about us. So he really chatted with us for a long time. In the course of the discussion, he had asked my colleague if he was Nigerian and he said ''No''. ''I am Ghanaian'', he went on to say, ''but Ghana and Nigeria are at the same wavelength'', he added. The boss replied, ''but you guys see things more similarly in Ghana than Nigerians do, as far as I know''. At that point I got really edgy, thinking the boss wants to throw a bombshell at Nigeria, and I am Nigerian.

To my surprise, it was my African colleague who did. Hear him. ''Sure, Nigerians are much more corrupt than us, and they hate each other with so much passion''. He continued, ''they always want to rip you off your money, and they kill each other in real time'' (that is, in reality) and online as well''. I was thrown aback and felt extremely betrayed, but I could not, and would not, start an argument, with a new boss around who is eager to know his staff, but who apparently knows one or two things about Nigeria (where I happen to come from). You know what they say in America about the ''angry black man'', right? So I was not about to lose my cool.

''So where are you from?", he eventually asked me. In a split moment I was torn between saying Nigeria or Biafra (I am Igbo, BTW). Saying Biafra would have given me immediate ''immunity'' from the problems associated with the name, ''Nigeria''. But then the boss, elderly enough to know about the Nigerian civil war, would immediately have asked ''Biafra? Do you have a new country now'', and all that kind of stuff. Then the discussion would have become even more tortuous and perhaps messier. ''I am from Nigeria'', I said smiling. ''But I am American too'', I added (just for disclosure, I hold a US citizenship see thread https://www.nairaland.com/1974578/received-us-citizenship-today-im

He turned his head and looked at the Ghanaian. ''Did you know he is Nigerian? he asked. ''Yes I know, but he is a different Nigerian from the ones I described to you,'' replied the Ghanaian. I could see that the boss was surprised that someone could speak so negatively about the heritage of another right in their face without any respect or regard for their presence.

I did my best to conceal my consternation with the Ghanaian until the boss left. I then tongue-lashed him, after which I stormed out on him. Since then, he has been apologizing but I find it hard to forget the betrayal, even though I know that the mutual hatred and killing accusations he had made about Nigerians are not far from the truth. Although I do not want to hate Ghana as a country because its citizen disparaged Nigeria the way he did, I feel I have to watch my interactions with this particular Ghanaian.

Lessons learned:

Nigerians should stop the morbid hatred they have been exhibiting, both offline and online, against each other. The world is reading and watching, and cyberspace has made everything accessible these days. Nairaland has been a ''good'' online resource for outsiders to learn how hateful we have been towards each other. If I were the Nigerian authorities, I would ban Nairaland at this point. The minders of this site have done a bad job promoting the unity of Nigeria.

As for me, I do not know if I have made any hateful and ethnically disparaging comments on Nairaland in the past. If I ever have, that would be the last such comment I would make here, and I ask to be forgiven.

If Nigerians must live together as citizens of one country, which I believe we should, then we should begin to actually live together. It is not for nothing that God (or is it the British ) brought us together, 250 ethnic groups. We should make this work.

Thanks for reading.

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If you said 92% of South Africa's drug supply, i would agree with you on that, but economy in general, there is no nigerian company in SA. Yes, nigerians do hair dressing and shoe repairing.

lezz:
So well-worn. How many times will you use that dry line? You desperately need new materials

all4naija:

[i]I thought you were. Ghanaian?! Excuse me?! Jeez! Ghana is a tiny nation. We remain your lords and saviors! Accept that and move on.

all4naija:
You need to look at yourself in the mirror, charcoal face! Black ghost with red eyes! Bwahaha... You are a complete image of Satan indeed.

all4naija:
[i]You are nothing more than a brute. A lowlife with chronic insanity. I feel for your family(whom you don't respect) and your pathetic nature that is draining your reasoning faculty(

all4naija:
Ghana. Where does that word even originated from? It sounds more like carnal as in carnal mind![/s]

all4naija:
You won't see those midgets to come and read this now! If it is to pass insults on Nigeria they would be falling over themselves to do that in charcoal faces.

Go Nigeria, the true GIANT of Africa.

all4naija:
I don't know what Ghanaians, the most smelling humans alive, think they are. Those irrelevant charcoal dwarfs! Jeez! Go and f**k with your ugly xenophobic Zulus in South Africa. Those savages who expose their peanuts and bosoms in public.

Greenbuoy:
This isn't funny at all! I'm proud of u all tryn defend the greennation but we should rather keep things clean and as positive as possible. Getting better is all we should be focused on! When you look back n curse the mofo who's been behind cursing u all day, u get slowed down!
THE NIGERIAN ATTENTION IS INVALUABLE, LET US NOT GIVE IT TO these cheap guys.

OXYGEN01:
Don't mind those burnt charcoal smelly chimpanzees.They should be counting dead bodies by now.Onua ...me ni kum wae.

OXYGEN01:
So will they also say they have train networks in their useless country? Hahahaha what a joke of a country. SMH
BEST TRAIN IN nigeria.

OXYGEN01:
I can only see some bunch of DARK UGLY BURNT CHARCOAL with guns. No wonder boko haram always defeat them.They can't even see themselves at night

ideatoprince18:
......I've said it all black goat ...if Ghanaians are offered for ritual they wud b rejected. WHY? .....xos you cannot offer an ancestor to an ancestor ...... even ur name shows that u hate Ghana so much that u had to pick a Nigerian name .....even d Nigerian name u picked display ur stupidness...

MrDude:
Quote from a former Defence Minister, Godwin Abe "the volume of water generated in Ghana is not enough to flush toilets in Lagos State, the number of teachers you have to pay salaries in the whole of Ghana is not more than Western Nigeria so that is that. And the whole of Ghanaian Armed Forces, if you choose to know, is not more than just two brigades of the Nigerian Armed Forces, period. And yet those ugly azz coal burnt gorilla wanna compare with the almighty nigeria?

ideatoprince18:
..... sorry I don't chat with back goats

OXYGEN01:
I tell u ma niqqa!