Thread by @DavidHundeyin

I'll tell you guys a story about why I started avoiding Nigerians at university. So September 2008, I started at Hull Uni, which had/has a very sizeable Nigerian student population, both home and international. One of the guys I started with was my classmate from high school here

First thing he did was find a group of Nigerian guys who wouldn't have looked out of place at a street corner in Paiko or Molete, and they started the usual club/girls/mean mug thing that Nigerian men seem constitutionally obligated to do. I drifted away because I had no interest

Two months in, I heard he won a bet about convincing a girl I knew to have sex with him. News was everywhere and I found it revolting because a) I didn't need to know and b) The entire purpose of being 6,000km from home was being defeated by acting as if we were at ABUAD🤷🏽🤦🏾

Then one day I get a call that the Nigerian community needs to go beg for this guy. Turned out he tried it on with another girl (British-Nigerian) who didn't have his time, and she apparently said something about his mom. So our hero had to defend his mother's honour of course.🙄

So he marched to the Esk Building, which hosts a 500-seater lecture theatre where she was, and in full view of nearly 500 witnesses after a lecture, slapped the living christ out of her. His hands drew blood and left an imprint and everything. He was arrested. MMA was calling🙄

So then we had to organise ourselves (both international and home Nigerians) to go beg the girl not to press charges, lest he end up in jail, followed by a flight to Lagos. She agreed and that's how he didn't get deported.

A year later, I unwisely got mixed up with this guy again and lent him some money. Without paying back, he came to ask for more and I had a little facebook rant (didn't name him). Next thing I knew, this dude came with some St Lucian roughneck to my door to start a physical fight

The stereotypes Black people facef weren't enough. This dude from Lagos was determined to become a newspaper headline and crime mugshot. Thankfully my housemates backed me up and it didn't escalate (though the neighbours called the police).

The reason I'm telling this story is to illustrate that Nigerians have a severe cultural deformity wherever we are, whichever socioeconomic stratum we come from. We are loud, brash, violent, arrogant, misogynistic and unteachable. It's not "a few bad apples" anymore!

Saying "it's only some Nigerians" is like white people or men saying "it's not all..." Clearly it's not all of us, but it's enough of us! We go everywhere and act the absolute goddamn fool because we think we have some imaginary importance that we don't. It's a cultural defect!

Whether it's some hustler in Ghana trying to augment his income by robbing locals he thinks are fools, or the international student in England who thinks his pride outweighs the UK justice system, these are symptoms of the same cultural sickness Nigerians suffer from.

So yes, Ghanaians and others will continue to profile us and treat us funny - because we have done and continue to do things to earn everybody's distrust.

We think we're the absolute shit, and we're really, REALLY not. Just look at our country for heavens sake.