Who in here is Nigerian?

[JaneiR36]

Well in the schools I was it was always a choice. Except that one time in primary school they tried to tell the girls to cut their hair. I had a friend that had like shoulder length hair (definitely natural). She always wore it in "thread." She just ignored them.

My Mother on the other hand always brags about how she decided two of my sisters would wear "low cut" in secondary and how every other mother on the block decided to do that too because their hair looked so neat. By the time it trickled down to me being in secondary school, the choice was already made and I didn't even once consider growing my hair (not in primary school, either). They tried plaiting my hair once when I was a little girl... I cried and cried till they took that crap off... (although, I think I may have asked for it, I can't quite remember

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In secondary school, especially the "J" girls would have trouble finding someone to plait their hair weekly. I think the solution to such a problem should be to bring more hair women to the school, not force all the girls to cut.

I relaxed my hair shortly after finishing secondary school. That was the first time I was growing out my hair and relaxer was the way I knew to do it. Even with all the knowledge I have about hair now, though, I'm not sure I would do it any differently

 

[Champagne_Wishes]

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JaneiR36 said:
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Champagne_Wishes said:

Chichi, I'm curious, are you Fulani?

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lol... anyone else find this funny?

(A bit of an inside joke, "ChiChi" is clearly identifiable as an Igbo name to any Nigerian. Just don't rub any egg in my face by telling me you're not igbo!!!)

By the way, I always thought Nigerian diets were for the most part carb-based. Sure they'll toss in vegetable soup and and meat into the mix but the main thing on that plate would be rice, plantain, bread, yams, potatoes, garri (processed cassava), amala... the list goes on....

I remember when my Mom made salad in my home town around Christmas time and no one would touch it! <puzzled look> "huh? we're not goats?!?!"

Oh, and definitely fruit, though. Fruits go in and out of season and I remember we'd always stock up and keep buying them like no mans business because that particular fruit might not be around year round.

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Well I'm glad that you are laughing at my expense

. But I was just curious because she said that her hair type was a 2 and I thought she was Fulani or part Fulani. My bad. Anyhoo my mom and my cousin nickname is Chi-Chi.

 

[Champagne_Wishes]

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katie said:
Every Nigerian I ever met has been a doctor.Quite a few come to Trinidad(where I am from) to work.I have met about 10.All doctors.Weird eh?Just seems like medicine is a very popular profession there.Or may I am just stereotyping..lol

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Ehhh somewhat. But I have to admit that I have three doctors in my family

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[Champagne_Wishes]

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bAbyGirLbX said:
I'm sure many of you can back me up here ... but typically many Nigerian parents want there kids to be docs, lawyers, engineers or involved in a business related field. Check out any university and we are all up in those majors!!!

As with the short hair cuts Chimma is right. Almost all elementary and secondary schools in Nigeria require girls to cut their hair short. It's suppose to be a method used to prevent them from being distracted in class. In my opinion, once many of them leave school they try to grow their hair out and end up doing tooo much damage to their hair. For example..my roommate and her friends all had braids in their hair last week, then took them out and relaxed their hair and two days later had braids in their hair again. Then they wonder why their hair break soo much. This may be an overgeneralization, but this is what I have witnessed with friends and family members.

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I guess it's true to a certain point. My mother harped on me to be an engineer when I was little. But I didn't even like it sounded. Then she pushed me to be a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist. But I just assumed that since she is a nurse, she thinks any career in medicine is the sh**!!! I know people in here who have family members in the medical profession can probably back me up here.


Also I wanted to add. I think that some women overprocess their hair and that's just due to plain ignorance on hair care. Shoot even my mom knew not to relax my hair after wearing braids soon after. But then again she went to beauty school before going to nursing school. But that is another story...

 

[Champagne_Wishes]

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bAbyGirLbX said:
I'm sure many of you can back me up here ... but typically many Nigerian parents want there kids to be docs, lawyers, engineers or involved in a business related field. Check out any university and we are all up in those majors!!!

As with the short hair cuts Chimma is right. Almost all elementary and secondary schools in Nigeria require girls to cut their hair short. It's suppose to be a method used to prevent them from being distracted in class. In my opinion, once many of them leave school they try to grow their hair out and end up doing tooo much damage to their hair. For example..my roommate and her friends all had braids in their hair last week, then took them out and relaxed their hair and two days later had braids in their hair again. Then they wonder why their hair break soo much. This may be an overgeneralization, but this is what I have witnessed with friends and family members.

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I didn't know that. My mother told me that it was to prevent certain scalp afflictions...

 

[napster]

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Champagne_Wishes said:
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bAbyGirLbX said:
I'm sure many of you can back me up here ... but typically many Nigerian parents want there kids to be docs, lawyers, engineers or involved in a business related field. Check out any university and we are all up in those majors!!!

As with the short hair cuts Chimma is right. Almost all elementary and secondary schools in Nigeria require girls to cut their hair short. It's suppose to be a method used to prevent them from being distracted in class. In my opinion, once many of them leave school they try to grow their hair out and end up doing tooo much damage to their hair. For example..my roommate and her friends all had braids in their hair last week, then took them out and relaxed their hair and two days later had braids in their hair again. Then they wonder why their hair break soo much. This may be an overgeneralization, but this is what I have witnessed with friends and family members.

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I didn't know that. My mother told me that it was to prevent certain scalp afflictions...

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Same here.

 

[Nefertiti0906]

In my area of Nigeria, well at least my family we didn't eat a lot of carbs, we ate A LOT of vegetables and seafood which was incorporated into our soups or other dishes. Our meals were very balanced.

 

[Champagne_Wishes]

Well in my family, we eat plenty of dried fish or stock fish, rice because we force our mom to make it, okra, moi-moi, akara(sp? "You know, the fried bean stuff"), soups, yams, fufu (Man my daddy eats that like everyday. I haven't eaten it for about seven years. I'm sorry but I get tired of certain food after a while.) and a whole bunch of stuff.

 

[napster]

I bumped into a discussion once at an African-American meeting where some people were arguing that you had to be 'mixed' as a black woman or man to have type 2 or 3 hair.
I calmly brought out my Dad's pic from my wallet and showed it to them.My Dad has 3b and 3c ALL over his head and he aint mixed.He's pure African,from Nigeria.Lol,well,the discussion took a different turn after that.

 

[napster]

If i may add,i was under the impression that Ibo women have such beautiful thick hair cos of all those veggie delicacies they eat.

 

[Champagne_Wishes]

My hair was a type 3 when I was younger (not anymore *lol*)and I have a cousin who's hair is def. a 3. His hair might change but let him worry about it. What I need to do is drink more water because my hair is so freaking dry and winter doesn't help it much either. I need to move to Florida *lol*.

 

[JaneiR36]

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Nefertiti0906 said:
In my area of Nigeria, well at least my family we didn't eat a lot of carbs, we ate A LOT of vegetables and seafood which was incorporated into our soups or other dishes. Our meals were very balanced.

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hmm... I guess there's something to be learned

So are you saying that on some days you would just whip out the soup with the fish and that's all you would eat? We ate a lot of soup too containing beef or chicken or fish, but it was always served with eba or pounded yam or in the rarer cases, ekpankukwo (sp.!). I describe this as carb based or carb centered, because from my understanding, low carb would involve avoiding the starchy part of the meal altogether and getting complex carbs from mainly green vegetables instead. But if I'm misunderstanding, I stand corrected!

 

[napster]

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Champagne_Wishes said:[/ I need to move to Florida *lol*.

lol

 

[napster]

hmm,i'm thinking about transitioning...been thinking about it for a while.I live with my sister(using her id from another hair forum) and she recently did the big chop.She's been trying to get me to stop perming my hair ever since..i dunno...it's a big step to take..

 

[brandy]

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Nefertiti0906 said:
In my area of Nigeria, well at least my family we didn't eat a lot of carbs, we ate A LOT of vegetables and seafood which was incorporated into our soups or other dishes. Our meals were very balanced.

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Same here

 

[Nessa]

So many nigerians, I am going CRAZ---Y!!!

 

[Nefertiti0906]

Hi JaneiRS6,
In response to ur question, I guess our definitions of carb-based is different

. We eat our soups with gari (I think other parts of Nigeria call it eba). The gari (which is carb-based) is balanced by our soups, which is entirely based on green vegetable, and it also has seafood, chicken, meat, etc... Again, this is based on my family. My father studied nutriton in school so we're always eating vegetables.

 

[fine_beauty]

Ditto (even drinking garrium sulfide....gari with very cold water, milk, peanuts, and fish is in an effort to balance the meal.... I think I want to shak some gari.... anyone want some?)

 

[JaneiR36]

Nerfertiti, that's what I meant. See, until recently, that wasn't my definition of carb based either. I would have just called it a balanced diet. But from what I've been learning recently, a lot of the simple carbs do in fact convert quickly into sugar and are not healthy to be consumed in the proportions some of us seem to eat them. It's good to know gari (usually pronounced "kari" in Oron) is a complex carb... mainly fiber or something, right? Damn... we had that thing almost every afternoon with soup except Sundays when we ate Pounded yam and peppersoup with chicken.... Mmmm....

Oh, by the way, people, what's with calling pounded yam "fufu"? In Nigeria they were very different things, but now everyone seems to call anything white fufu.

 

[JaneiR36]

double post please

 

[Nessa]

Doesn't anyone remember,
GARI
Semolina(semo for short)
Fufu

 

[Champagne_Wishes]

My family also calls fufu farina. We eat it with soup or stew.

 

[JaneiR36]

Just got a lesson from my Mom:

Apparently, in the Hom-ec books, anything that's pounded and moulded is refered to as fufu, including garri! So pounded yam = "yam fufu", garri = ... uh... "fried cassava fufu" and the sticky fufu also made from cassava that's white (the only one I knew to really be fufu until now) is simply "cassava fufu"

WHATEVER!!!

 

[Chichi]

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Champagne_Wishes said:
My family also calls fufu farina. We eat it with soup or stew.

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So do we

. So what does everyone do here in the States? We have African markets nearby but in a pinch, I think that my Mom uses Farina or Cream of Wheat

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Chichi

 

[obsessed]

i'm nigerian. i also have 3c/4a textured hair. my mom had beautful near waist length natural hair when she was in her teens. now her hair is bra strap length. it is thick and relaxed now. my hair was very thick and soft when it was natural. my hair is now very fine and relaxed. It is often referred to "white-girl hair"

b/c of it's texture when i get it done at the salon. it is currently 4 inches away from bra strap.

 

[EgyptianSand16]

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[EgyptianSand16]

anyone eat their gari with powdered milk and lots of sugar

 

[fine_beauty]

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i luv fufu and ogusi soup

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You mean 'egusi' soup? There's nothing like gari on a hot day! Cools the body like nothing else

 

[EgyptianSand16]

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[Champagne_Wishes]

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EgyptianSand16 said:
anyone eat their gari with powdered milk and lots of sugar

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That is the first time I heard anyone eat gari like that. Nothing wrong with it but that is news to me. I'm a simple girl who eats her gari with honey or sugar. My mom takes it to another step and adds peanuts.