Life Abroad

You Africans value family. That's why you send money home. We love our own in the Bush family too, but we don't send money. We just rotate the American Presidency. …

In trying to be grammatically correct in the English language, or to imitate the American accent, some of us who did not learn English as a first language deviate from …

You should never use your real name online. There are cyber witches and wizards crawling on our village network and they can use your name for medicine…

How long have you been in America? More importantly, how long will you be in America?

We buy gifts for everybody when we go to Nigeria, but when they come to America with the adire and aso oke, they sell it to us. How would they …

Why do Nigerians visiting America get all judgmental about the way we live here? Don’t they pay bills in Nigeria? They don't? Ah, that explains why they never have electricity …

Poor kid, probably thinking Africa is on another planet and you guys must have travelled in a space ship to get here…in my days as a child, all we knew …

Poor kid, probably thinking Africa is on another planet and you guys must have travelled in a space ship to get here…in my days as a child, all we knew …

Poor kid, probably thinking Africa is on another planet and you guys must have travelled in a space ship to get here…in my days as a child, all we knew …

No our police don’t work for the government or the people. They are self employed. You’re thirsty? When we go out to change your Dollars to Naira, we will buy …

Excuse me, the plane will not take off unless you fasten your seat belt and switch off that phone…Why do Nigerians ring up friends to inform them the plane is …

First I heard of McGreevey, I was just arriving the United States and he was giving Christie Whitman a lot of sleepless nights…

First I heard of McGreevey, I was just arriving the United States and he was giving Christie Whitman a lot of sleepless nights…

"No, you cannot drive my car; you have no driver’s license." "I don’t need a driver’s license to drive! I have been driving in Lagos For good ten years without …

Nigerians in America are not threatened by the West Nile Virus. What variety of American Mosquito will kill a Nigerian where the elephant-like ones in Nigeria did not succeed?

In Nigeria, we specialize in sending the youngest ones around to buy the smoke and beer…