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Nigerian Married Men Are More Single Than The Single Men – Katarina Ataman
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Nigerian Married Men Are More Single Than The Single Men – Katarina Ataman
A Nigerian residing, Russian woman, Katarina Ataman, is looking back at her early days of arriving Nigeria, after spending 5 years on the west African country.
According to her, she was a newbie, a baby to the Nigerian ways of life when she newly arrived, 5 years ago.
The Country had forced her to learn and unlearn a few things in the last five years. Katarina left her country at the early stage of the war, and has made Nigeria her home in the last five years.
Katrina while looking back, shared the culture shock she experienced in Nigeria. According to her, she had confirmed that Nigeria is indeed an English speaking Nation, but she didnt know that they have another more common English called, pidgin.
She said from outside the airport, she could hear everyone speaking pidgin, but i dont know if that was to her, or amongst themselves.
Most definitely among themselves, because they don’t automatically assume a foreigner understands pidgin, especially being that she is a white woman.
So, the first thing she said that shocked her, was the pidgin English language that a generated, simplified English language in Nigeria.
Despite browsing it on Wikipedia, before her arrival, where it said thdnatiknL Nigerian language is English, she was shocked when she came face to face with the language being spoken by everyone.
She said it took her about 3 to 4 months before she could understand what was being said. I think she did okay by getting the hang of it, within three to four months.
She revealed that the second culture shock for her in Nigeria, was the food. According to her, they don’t eat spicy food in Russia, but everything in Nigeria is actually spicy. I guess she had no option than to just learn how to eat spicy food, and adapt to it.
Her third culture shock was the generator sound. For those who don’t know, Nigeria doesnt have a 24 hours electricity, except for the solar homes and all, but the general public can’t brag about the use of electricity for a full 24 hours,
but some estates or communities, get more lights than their neighbouring counterpart, because an influential person lives there, maybe they pay more money as a community, to secure the lights, or they have installed solar panels.
So what most homes use to sustain their electricity when the lights are out, are generators. Katrina termed it her third culture shock in Nigeria, because the background sound of the Nigerian atmosphere is the legendary generator sound.
It fills the air, and takes over the quiet night sound. While she was not particularly calling it a bad thing, she revealed that she had gotten so used to the generator sounds whole she sleeps,
so much so, that when there is night, and people didn’t need generators, she turned on her white noise, because she needed a background sound to sleep, to hell her feel like the generators are on.
The fourth one, she said was “malaria”. She had her first malaria at 24 years in Nigeria. She felt like it was time to go meet her maker, because a firdg time malaria, will leave you feeling that way.
Malaria is a sickness you get when you are biten by a infected mosquitoes. See mystique need the human blood to survive and procreate,
but not all human blood are good. Being an over populated country or humans, as well as mosquitoes, it is normal that most people are already with their fskr share of malaria.
Many People treated malaria every month kn Nigeria, which is why the malaria medication companies,
are cashing out big time. But let’s not digress. So many people get biten by mosquitoes that has come in contact with a malaria blood, and they juts have it to everyone the meet.
The good thing though, is that malaria is very much curable, but it is also a deadly disease, especially for first time travellers to Africa in general,
or Nigeria specifically, and that’s why you will have to start a start your malaria prophylactic a few weeks before you actually embark on your trip.
This is simplified if a company is in agreement of your trip, but horrible if you afe incharvebof your trip, because you might not know the things yoh need to do, and tht leaves you vulnerable.
The malaria prophylactic introduces malaria intk your body, which breaks you down, and yoh have the same symptoms as you would, when you have malaria, however, this is a controlled dose, so thsg your body can get conversant with it, and produce antibodies against it.
These antibodies will be the ones to fight the real malaria, when you get biten by mosquitoes in Nigeria. This simple process can be the difference between life and death, for those people going into Nigeria for the first time.
Some people face a real life situation of malaria, while thrift body struggles to find out what it is, and how to fight it. Introducing the controlled version of if, will prepare your body for the worse version.
The 5th shocker for Katrina the Russian, is the fact that Nigerian married men are more restless on the streets of lagos, than the single and searching ones.
Some lie about it, where others own it with their full chest. Katrina had to add that to her lagos culture shock. I see she knows better now, after falling a victim to the legendary Lagos married men issues.
Conclusion
After going through Katrina’s culture shock list, I don’t thing she lied in anyway, because all of her points are valued, and confirmed. Not even exaggerated, I love her already.
