Attitude!

There's something that really bugs me, the attitude that a lot of Nigerians seem to be embedded with. I have been in Nigeria for a few weeks now and I've learned that most girls who manage to get Brazilian hair think their shit don't stink and shop workers don't hide the fact that they think the job is beneath them and every other person on the street feels entitled. For what? I don't know.

But the attitude i get from Nigerians is appaling. The other day I went out with a friend of mine and she had to run in and out of the shop a few times to take a call and after trying to come back in the third time, she was told off by a security guard working at the shop. I was stunned.

Or the other day when I went to the grocery store, I watched 2 girls (who clearly felt like Beyonce had nothing on them) cut through a queue of people and then rain insults on their driver for not  bringing the car round quickly enough.

I mean really? Only in Nigeria. I am actually disappointed by some of the things I see and the level of disrespect people have for each other. A little please & thank you wouldn't hurt either.

A Nigerian Observer 

Life really is that simple

I don't know whether it's growing up in cities but there are things we tend to forget certain things or remain in total oblivion about them until they are thrust before us. That is probably how I felt when a friend took me on a tour of a city in Nigeria called Enugu, as a 'major' city, I had certain expectations but I was stunned when I saw these.

These were a group of settlers that just move around, set up huts and pack up and leave when the owner of the land chases them out. I was actually impressed at the simplicity of it all, they showed us round their homes, 'recreational' areas and told us how they live. Women and children stay at home holding down the fort whilst the men take the cattle out.

Life really is that simple, no school, no electricity, no ambition. I didn't think it was possible to even live like that.

A Nigerian Observer