Subj: Fwd: How to tell an African from an African
Date: 7/28/00 12:54:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: [log in to unmask] (FLAVIA MWOMBELA)
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>From: June Warioba <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Danny Kiondo <[log in to unmask]>, Stacey Tucker <[log in to unmask]>
>CC: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: How to tell an African from an African
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>
> > >It comes as something of a surprise to many
> > Africans
> > >>to discover that all
> > >>Africans look the same to non-Africans. How do you
> > >>tell a Nigerian from a
> > >>Kenyan?, and I am not talking about passports or
> > >>clothing.
> > >>
> > >>The easiest way, of course, is the name, for
> > example
> > >>Ogunkoye can only be a
> > >>Nigerian, and Njoroge a Kenyan. And where do the
> > >>Dunns come from? Freed
> > >>Slaves--they are surely from Liberia or Sierra
> > >>Leone.
> > >>
> > >>Surely everybody knows that the loud and cocky
> > ones
> > >>are the West Africans;
> > >>the brooding ones and sly ones are the North and
> > >>South Africans; the East
> > >>Africans always say yes even when they disagree
> > >>violently. If you want to be
> > >>more specific:
> > >>Cameroonians will borrow money to buy Champagne
> > >>whilst the Ghanaians think
> > >>they invented politics.
> > >>The Congolese think they have the best music and
> > the
> > >>best dancers. The
> > >>Nigerians have a "THING" about clothes, and the
> > >>Ethiopians think they have
> > >>the most beautiful women on God's earth.
> > >>Moroccans think they're French, and so do
> > >>Burkinabes.
> > >>Algerians hate the French.
> > >>Sierra Leonians smile profusely.
> > >>Liberians can't get over America.
> > >>
> > >>All East and South African countries have the same
> > >>national anthem, but the
> > >>South Africans sing it the best.
> > >>The South Africans have no hair; the Zambians and
> > >>Kenyans have prominent
> > >>foreheads.
> > >>
> > >>The West Africans have short memories and never
> > >>learn from their mistakes;
> > >>the concept of order and discipline must have been
> > >>invented in East Africa;
> > >>the words don't exist in West Africa, especially
> > in
> > >>Nigeria.
> > >>
> > >>When a cabinet minister is caught in a corruption
> > >>scandal, he commits
> > >>suicide in Southern Africa; in West Africa he's
> > >>promoted after the
> > >>next coup d'etat.
> > >>
> > >>In athletics, the divisions are easy: from 800m to
> > >>the marathon the East
> > >>Africans hold sway; the West Africans are only
> > good
> > >>at the sprints.
> > >>South Africans can only sing. But when it comes
> > to
> > >>football, the North and
> > >>West Africans dominate the lesser-skilled East and
> > >>South
> > >>Africans.
> > >>
> > >>IT'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING IN THE
> > >>WATER................................. BUT
> > >>WHEN IT
> > >>COMES TO SKIN COLOUR, SURELY ALL AFRICANS ARE
> > >>BLACK.
> > >>ALL BLACK???
> > >>"If you think EDUCATION is expensive, try
> > >>IGNORANCE"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
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