Or rather, we may date outside our very own culture but when it comes so you’re able to relationships we’re told to stick having “our personal”.

Overall uncle place it if you ask me [I am Congolese], “If you married a beneficial Nigerian, how would your cope in the event that he planned to retire in Nigeria? Consider this. I question he will need certainly to move back into Congo. You are going to merely pass away when you look at the Nigeria. Like curtains wisdom.”

“Zero Nigerian, Ghanaian otherwise Jamaican man try welcome in my home. Whenever you are attending marry a foreigner, get married a white man.”

They certainly were the language one to decrease out-of my friend’s mother’s mouth when her child informed her she is dating an excellent Nigerian man given that she try sick of Congolese dudes

Why must We time a not known society? “As to why? Just why is it ideal for me is that have a light people than it is as having an effective Nigerian?”, said my pal as a result, defiantly tricky her mother, back at my dismay (anybody knows better than in order to problem a keen African mother!). (suite…)