Nigeria

I’m a BIG fan of Nollywood movies.
My favorite actress is Nigerian, Uge Ocho.

I want to go to Nigeria, get a video camera, some local people that want to get their Jim Kelly on, and make a Nollywood epic. It can be done. You ever seen a Nollywood movie? They’re all epic. They make Bollywood films seem terse.

It’s gonna rule. It’s gonna be the African Escape From New York. Except they’ll be escaping from Lagos….maybe going to New York….via JFK, probably. Then again, NY kinda sucks these days. Maybe I should Escape my ass up outta here for a minute. Hmm…where could I go?

Wait…I have an idea.

I would love to go to Nigeria just to say I did visit a great place in Africa,hopefully when I do go I can take my children and grandchildren.So right now I will be patience and maybe one day this can come true.

I met a man from Nigeria and he told me of crazy expieriences he’s had. It sounds so interesting, and different.

Ok well Im already a little worried and not sure now how to feel I want to go to this place and i AM going here next month booked and everything. Im under no illusion about it my partner is Nigeria and thankfully I feel a little safer as I am going to stay with his family there so Im sure I wont be mudered or robbed. Not sure but hopeful! Yes its dangerous, yes its corrupt but then where isnt? I could just as easily be stabbed and killed by a gang of marauding youths in London if you watched the news these days! As the sayings go Power corrupts and love of money is route of evil!

Well, I’m cheating in a sense because my father is Nigerian and we lived there when I was young… so it completely changed my life… Being American Nigerian has added so much culture to my life and going to school there as a child enriched me in ways that I recognize often in the way I approach life and overcome obstacles or limits to what I believe I can be. Most of all its provided me with a much broader view and approach to people, cultures, diversity on whole.

my partner was born there and his cultural background really grew up on me. I want to see where he comes from, see the nature and visit a continent I have never been

I’ve actually been here before when I was like two, but as I grow older and see my cousins continually travelling back “home,” I just get so jealous because I don’t even remember what it was like. Year after year, my parents promise that we’ll go but then some financial difficulty comes up and then the trip gets shifted. It’s really good to go when your in school (before college), and also with your family. I’m almost a senior in HS and still haven’t gone! I’m trying to get my parents to get to saving money so we can go and my brothers can experience it too but I don’t know. It just sucks.

My parents were born in the villages of Nigeria.I have been as a child and as a teen….christmas time is the best time to go, seeing as everyone has hit their happy peak. It is my homeland, not perfect, but home. Being and american nigerian I get the best of both worlds…..sometimes a burden but I hold it with a smile. To all my niga peeps…much luv…and to all my niga babies…”don’t forget niga ooh!!”

I´d like learning about people and their histories. Spend all the time there with openned eyes and mind.
Find parents, may be.
Find the other side of my culture.