I love northerners especially in holding some aspect of their culture. Coming to Abuja, I saw people wearing kaftan to corporate offices as corporate dress.
My first interview in Abuja, I was amazed seeing them wearing their native dress. Guys and ladies. It was strange to me.
My first interview in Abuja, I was amazed seeing them wearing their native dress. Guys and ladies. It was strange to me.
I got talking with Musa from Sokoto. I was so inquisitive on how no one was disturbing them over their attire. He told me it's normal. He asked why I put on tie and tuck in shirt inside my trousers instead of wearing my Igbo attire. He narrated how he admired Igbo dress.
"Mark, you too should be proud of your identity", he said.
This got me.
I came to Abuja from the east where it's even expected as Igbo language teacher to wear English wear for interview.
In the whole of southern Nigeria, it is indecent to wear native attire to offices.
This got me.
I came to Abuja from the east where it's even expected as Igbo language teacher to wear English wear for interview.
In the whole of southern Nigeria, it is indecent to wear native attire to offices.
But in the north, it's appropriate and advisable.
A southerner who's in high position will not even listen to his fellow southerner dressed in his native attire but he'd gladly bow to a northerner dressing in his native attire. Get this wrong at your own peril. Reality is here.
A southerner who's in high position will not even listen to his fellow southerner dressed in his native attire but he'd gladly bow to a northerner dressing in his native attire. Get this wrong at your own peril. Reality is here.
From job interview to corporate offices, northerners gladly dressed in their native attires. But Maazị Ogbonnaya in Enugwu, Imo, Abịa, Anambra, Asaba or Ebọnyị cannot wear isiagụ for an interview or corporate office. His fellow Igbo will adjudge him indecent& unprofessional.
Olayinka in Ogun or Lagos will be adjudged unprofessional for wearing agbada to job interview or corporate offices. He'd be said to be pompous, not humble.
You see, both Igbo and Yoruba see northerners wearing kaftan as normal. They even joined them in Abuja to wear kaftan.
You see, both Igbo and Yoruba see northerners wearing kaftan as normal. They even joined them in Abuja to wear kaftan.
But back home, both Igbo and Yoruba will always frown at anyone wearing native dress to work. Job interview, you could be disqualified. You could be queried. You could be sacked. Wear coat of many colours, you dress well. Kpọọ tie ọchịcha, you have dressed well.
Ndị mgbu.
Ndị mgbu.
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