Facts you didn’t know about us Africans…………………………
ONLY Africans…….
1. Are engaged for 5 years or more
2. Never bother to divorce, they just separate
3. Are late to church, work, and everything else
EXCEPT when the disco is free before 9pm
4. Refer to diabetes as ‘SUGAR’
5. Show up at weddings, showers, graduation,
birthday parties with a new outfit on with nails and
hair done but no gift
6. In relation to number 5, they eat like parking boys
and take a plate home
7. Consider ‘clubbing’ or ‘henging’ as a monthly
expense
8. Leave bills (instead of insurance money) behind
for surviving relatives.
9. Borrow money for a wedding.
10. have mothers who can use curse words and
religion ALL IN ONE SENTENCE e.g. “Lord, give me
strength because I’m about to knock the hell out of
this child”
11. spend the car insurance money on everything
EXCEPT getting the dent fixed.
12. invite co-workers and all of their friends to
their child’s 1st birthday party which happens to have
a professional DJ with only about 3 kid (including the
child) in attendance. And then expect the guests
to donate for the party
13. Start every sentence with “Me I…”e.g. “ME I
donno why you are saying that I always say ‘Me I’.
14. Say ‘Spend’ when they are staying the night
elsewhere from home, e.g. “Are you going to spend at
her place?”
15. Put in iron rods in all windows and main
doors…referring to them as ”Burglar”
16. Use “My God” as an exclamation mark e.g.”My God”
what are you doing?”
17. Believe “Ati” is an English word for “What?”
18. Think it is cool to drink and drive and get
away with it “I don’t know how I got home that
day..the way I was soo drunk!”
19. Think all their economic and social problems
are caused by their presidents……..look at Libya’s case when in fact some have never been
to school.
20. Pack up all their earthly goods to go to
“shaggs” for a week in December, only to pack them all back
again after that one week and return to “Tao”
21. Call travelling “flying out” e.g. She flew out
(no one ever seems to wonder where all these Kenyans
fly to)
22. Think that taking a clerical job in a company
is better and “cooler” than toiling in their parents’
family business.
23. Prefer washing cars and dishes in USA to
toiling in their 20-acre tea farms in their countries.
24. Call their homes “at ours”. e.g., “At ours, we
eat beans every day”
25. Complain for five years about poor governance
and corruption then vote in the same clowns back to
parliament.
26. Have a chief Justice with a stud
27. Go on strike for one day and expect the govt.
to resign!
28. Sit back in their homes and expect their Ministers to
“bring Development”
29. Refuse to insure against anything and expect
you to bankroll them when calamity strikes… thro’
Harambee.
30. Sit calmly and sometimes cheer as a mad man
drives them in a ramshackle at breakneck speed to
certain death.
31. Drive with their windows wound up when they
get to city centre because of 4-year-old brats armed
with human feaces, and still claim to be free people!
Sounds so true, eh?
I hope you are still African by
all standards. Me, I am a true African by blood !!!!
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