yes and I have a prankster that's a tacki MH a stoner a lawyer with a Nigerian background and the two characters that actually stood out the most for me were Ken and Clive yes andso there are two gay men who are ex cops brutal and on top of that they're
I recall in those early days, when I was saying these things, and I was hammered by the media all around, a professor from Oxford, , Nigerian politics became about money, which they have stolen from the Nigerian state, and more people could not get into political life.
Yes Yes. Don't start that. Nigerians -- did I say them?
And my mom was like, yeah, my son, and that's-- my dad literally hopped on the bandwagon right there. Nigerians are the ones who perfected flight.
That was what I came up with. But Nigerian cuisine, native roots was something that I never really explored. So I did a dinner based off of nuances of that, and just really took my life journey, you know?
So for example, if somebody is older, let's say, comes up to you and says, like, you should give me your seat. In Nigerian custom, you would give up your seat. Me, I'd be, like, I was here first.
When children primarily consume culture that distorts or omits people like them, their psyches become damaged. The Nigerian -born contemporary novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has spoken eloquently of the effect that a childhood spent reading British and American children's books had on her. When she began writing her own stories at the age of seven, she tells us, "All my characters were white and blue-eyed.
So we get into these recursive modes. The Nigerian economy has been described as a recursive economy. Two steps forwards, four steps backwards, essentially because of this strong man role.
And my mom was like, yeah, my son, and that's-- my dad literally hopped on the bandwagon right there. The Nigerians -- from there-- The Nigerians won-- Of course.
Well, yeah. So the tell-it-like-it-is-ness that is me is my Nigerian -ness in its true essence. Like Nigerians , we're not a great filtering people, OK? We're not the ones who are like, oh, let me make sure I coat it in all types of nice things.
on a council estate. I was raised by Nigerian parents who moved to London in the 1980s. My mother from Ondo State, coined the Sunshine State.
Well, uh you know, in Nigeria, the Nigerian society is simply patriarchal. But as a Southern Nigerian woman going to the the Northern region, not I'm not being allowed to do my work simply because of my gender, that made me feel very bad. And I did not see any woman
I'm just going to read his bio real quick. Adekunle is a Nigerian -born and bred singer-songwriter, now signed to US label Def Jam. He gained recognition from his very first release "Sade," a love song which sampled instrumentals from One Direction
Yes Yes. Don't start that. My favorite Nigerian restaurant in Peckham, I'm always there.
Yeah. I mean, without naming names, of course, there are so many people. My favorite Nigerian restaurant is in Peckham.
Even in your-- I think it was a TEDx you did about four years ago. why the heck is Nigerian music playing here?
Even in your-- I think it was a TEDx you did about four years ago. I can see non-Nigerian names as well.
as Fireboy DML. A quick intro on Fireboy. Fireboy is a Nigerian soulful performer with a sound that balances love for vintage, R&B, contemporary pop, and Afro pop. He has enjoyed a long list of musical success since his debut album that was released in November 2019,
I'm a member of Africans at Google. I'm Nigerian by birth. Today, we're going to be hearing from a wonderful author from Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro.
Because as a Nigerian girl, I'm a Nigerian men.
Because being a smart Nigerian girl, that's one of the three or four options you're given.
Son of Nigerian immigrants, my parents came to America late '70s, early '80s.
And my mom was like, yeah, my son, and that's-- my dad literally hopped on the bandwagon right there. for the Nigerian community?
So if I felt like somebody did or said something that either took advantage of me or cheated me, I always had to say something even if it got me in trouble. So being Nigerian , we are very-- we revert to our elders. So we are supposed to kind of take the backseat to somebody who's older than us.
But I'm Nigerian to the bone.
about the Nigerian women's bobsled team.
DemiGosh is Irish-Nigerian . And he's singing like this really intense hard rock, but he's singing like, oh, I love you.
As a Nigerian middle class woman, she encountered the single story of Africa when she came to the United States for university
So I'm Nigerian . And for my mom, you were either a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a failure.
Is he Nigerian ? Is he Kenyan?
UK uh of Nigerian parents um lived in Nigeria for S years from the age of 6 to
Well, no, not this accent, actually. I had a major Nigerian accent. And I end up having to-- I lost it consciously by mimicking my classmates and like trying to repeat what they were saying
No, I hear it. I'm super Nigerian , yeah. So do you think that experience of sort of being a transplant at nine years old and being different informs some of who you are
The best way to compare is to look at countries that were peers. As an old Nigerian politician of great glamour, the . He's called . Any time I run into him, he goes back to the fact that in the '50s, the countries that
to the Nigerian music industry.
So my dad's Nigerian , and my mom is Irish.
This deranged young Nigerian guy, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to bring down the US airplane by setting his underpants on fire on Christmas Day 2009.
Abdulmutallab the nigerian who had radicalized gone through training in yemen not pakistan but in Yemen and and
and a Nigerian worker in a not a very friendly pose.
finance so a Nigerian Bank we put up a million dollar guarant they lend to a gamine type program in
Even in your-- I think it was a TEDx you did about four years ago. There's more Nigerians here.
We know Nigerians are very entrepreneurial.
off and Nigerians themself complain about a culture of corruption and law breaking that's permeated all parts of
Yeah. I mean, without naming names, of course, there are so many people. I definitely feel there is a Nigerian sector, I feel there is a Sierra Leonean group or whatever, and over here, there was
You're both Beninese and Nigerian , which is awesome, because I'm also a Nigerian .
Yeah, everything has been at once, and it's such a beautiful time. Not talking about Michael Jackson-- And Nigerian Twitter, they will drag-- They will drag, you know.
It was called The Palace Nigerian Food and Philly Cheesesteaks.
Folarin Harris-- I forgot your last name. Dulo Folarin Harris is a Nigerian born comedian and entertainer whose humor and magnetic personality has earned him more than 750,000 followers on IG and counting.
And so I went to the Nigerian Embassy first thing in the morning before it opened and had written the night
But how is that relevant to a Nigerian that wants to lose weight?