As a Nigerian who grew up in Nigeria and currently living in the United Kingdom, I am here to tell you the difference between the two societies.
- In Nigeria, we eat 7 square meals daily whereas in the UK, we only eat once a day
- In Nigeria, the trees stay fresh all year round, unlike in the UK where the trees hibernate during the winter
In Nigeria…… if by now you are still reading, it most likely means you have gotten the picture. You haven’t? then come with me
Dear content creator,
What’s with all these baseless comparisons and misleading of readers on your timeline? O’ụ́ gini di kàana zó? Like the Igbos of South-Eastern Nigeria would ask “what exactly is the bone of contention here?” why this need to present your life’s limited experiences as
absolutes?
Are you aware there are those whose only perspectives of the UK or Nigeria are your supposedly i-witness accounts? Do you know that our knowledge is only as rich as our lived experiences?
Let me buttress with the following examples:
Let us say you lived at steeply Magodo 2 with its great drainage system. And I lived at Banana Island where when it rains, you get to waddle through the pools, will we honestly have same views about Lagos rains?
Can you please just stop? Especially if all you know about Nigeria was from living in one region all your life?
Imagine an expat who lived, worked and played within Ikoyi for two years with sporadic glimpses of the mainland while heading to the airport? then imagine her fellow countryman who has worked as a missionary for ten years in same country, whose accounts of the country would be richer?
Furthermore, Portsmouth in southern England is an Island city with heavy limescale deposits. That makes the water very hard and unfriendly. On the other hand, my visits through the midlands, North, uplands of Scotland, Wales reveal very soft water which tastes sweet like rain water.
Imagine, if I come here writing how the UK has only hard water which is undrinkable and hardly foams?
Yet, you come here and cascade your narrow views as a universal set.
in your quest to position as a subject matter expert in your field you can do us the favour of crafting it like ……
“From what I know and based on my exposure…..”
Social media is misleading enough. And you owe it to your readers to do better by balancing your narratives.
