General Forum > You know You are African if you...
If you would dump a pair of jeans for African print, any day!.
You would rather eat pounded yam than burger and chips.
know where to buy goat meat
(1) If you wallet has more phone cards than business cards
(2) Instead of buying plastic containers, you just use the butter/margarine, coffee container, ect to store food.
(3) If you have a closet in the house that looks like a mini market
(4) Instead of people calling, family just shows up at your door.
(5) If everyone that is your friend or your families friend is your cousin
If the temperature of your house/flat (in autumn/winter) is comparable to that of a sauna.
If your daughter/ child has like 15 names (as in my case) cuz all your relatives have chosen one for him/her
If you have more aunties and uncles than your grandparents had kids.
if you call everyone older than you "uncle" or "auntie" even if then are not biologically related to you.
@ Kunle, that's the same thing I was refering to. :(
-If when you wake up,your skin is still the same.
-If you like gettin som'thin done bfor the sun sets.
-If you wake up to thank GOD for being African.
if you have so much plastic in your house that non African visitors think you are permanently holding a tupperware party
If you press your clothes the night before (cos there might not be light the next morning)
if they call your fathers name in your primary school you will start a fight
if acquiring the normal things of life feels like luxury.


1.) You know the meaning of your name.
2.)Have a bucket in your bath, and don't see anything wrong with it.
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