Nigerians and Fake accents

My reaction too!!

FAKE ACCENTS:

This is a really touchy topic for me because  I am one of those people who enjoy realness anyway that they can get it.

Sooo a friend of mine who went to Ukraine a couple of years ago to study medicine came back last month and  you can imagine my excitement na; my home girl I hadn’t seen for a long time was back. In my head I was already preparing all our hangouts and all our outings I said I would take her to the beach, to see a play, we would gist plenty plenty gist and all that craziness ( I was already planning picture poses for Instagram). Three days after she got back I went to see her and I’m quite sorry to say this but I was disgusted. Now don’t  get me wrong she was looking like a million bucks oo but when she came to meet  me at the estate gate this was how she greeted me word for word  and I quote “ Oh my God, Oh my God Alexandra it’s you innit I can’t believe it. Bloody hell you look positively smashing I’m going mental just looking at you. Oh my God Nigeria is gonna be a great laugh with you innit?”  she said with a very thick british accent .

Now for those of you who know me very well you would know that I have neither  tact nor diplomacy nor patience in general and I am quick to air my opinion on any subject matter. But to my surprise I was totally speechless as I was looking at this my friend and then it hit me the crashing waves of disappointment and not only was I disgusted I was let down badly.

Many of you reading this would think that I was disappointed because of her fakeness  but no my disappointment stems more from the fact that my babe was not intelligent enough to know that six years in Ukraine would mean a Russian accent and not a British one and also that she felt the need to fake it for me her supposed bestie.

As sad and as pathetic as that case may  be it is unfortunately the case with many Nigerians and west Africans in general. On the radio you would be bombarded with so much fake accents I’m beginning to think it’s a criteria to get a job as an OAP. I wonder when this culture began a couple of years ago that wasn’t the case. 

BRUH!!!!!!

Even when you meet someone for the first the person would try to come and be forming “toush” and would be giving me serious fake accent. ( Most people dey gbagaun inside the fake accent sef).  When you’re talking to someone on the phone it’s the same even some of these returnees (I don’t know if you can call some who went to the U.S for just three months a returnee) would be giving me American accent when it is China they have been in all this while. There is God oo!!

Personally I see this trend as a sign of the deep rooted inferiority complex we black west Africans have. Everything the white man says and does has to be better than our own. That was how we were first carted off into slavery.  In our music videos in our movies we all want to copy the western world. This culture of follow follow would be down fall of many Nigerians . I mean where is the originality, where is the creativity?? We have used fufu to swallow our brains but we need to get it back. Our celebs don’t even help matters at all some of them ( I refuse to call names) would even bite their tongues in the process “ she is good people”… how can??.

Please there is nothing shameful in having in having a good Nigerian accent. Indians don’t hide theirs by faking  even in their movies they speak it with pride as they are shaking their heads LOL!! And neither do Russians nor Germans nor Arabs nor Spaniards. So then why is Nigeria’s own different why do we keep aspiring to irrelevant and unnecessary things. We should try to copy white people in terms of technology and health care but not in terms of day to day living because with the high rates of suicides they have and massive abuse against black people and their serial killing  we should know that their lives and accents and mannerisms are not worth copying.

C’mon guys even our president  GMB has very thick and in depth Hausa accent so why are we all not following his lead. Please let the fakers stop it. Nigerian accent is a thing of beauty and we should all be proud to be citizens of this great nation. Please all our OAP’s stop with the accents we know it’s fake you only sound stupid.

Now for those of you stubborn goats that will not hear word . if you must fake an accent please do some heavy research to be sure you won’t be caught. Don’t go and form Spanish accent when na only Cotonou you go.