SO YOUR PARTNER IS NIGERIAN

A Survival Guide to Meeting the Family

von Nervous Guest The

66 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Nobody warns you that one hello isn't enough.You have met someone. You are serious about each other. And in three weeks you are going to walk into a room full of their family, in a language you already speak, and still get it completely wrong.That is the strange difficulty of meeting a Nigerian family as an outsider. English removes the vocabulary barrier and none of the others. Nobody tells you that greeting the room collectively does not count as greeting anyone. Nobody explains why every woman over forty is Aunty, or which elder expects you to kneel, or what to do with a plate of food you have already declined twice.Most guides to Nigeria are written for business travellers. They will teach you how to negotiate in Lagos and what to tip at a hotel. None of them will tell you what to do when the room goes quiet because you used somebody's first name.Inside- Ma, Sir, and the respect system hiding inside plain English- Which Nigeria you are marrying into: Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and why it changes everything- When to kneel, when to squat, and when a handshake is the wrong move- Who counts as an Aunty, and why she is not related to anyone- Surviving the owambe: aso ebi, spraying money, and the dance floor- The questions you will be asked, and how to answer them warmly- Money, remittances, and what gets called black tax- Church, mosque, Ramadan, and why Sunday has a schedule- Illness, burials, and the instinct that will fail you- Bride price and the introduction ceremony, explained properly

Written by an outsider, for outsiders. This is not a book by a Nigerian writer sharing their culture from the inside. It is a book by someone who went through what you are about to go through, got things wrong, asked a great many questions, and wrote down what would have helped on day one. An insider often cannot see what is confusing, because none of it was ever confusing to them.Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups and over 500 languages, and no book this size can cover all of them honestly. Where this book and your future mother-in-law disagree, she is right.It will not make you an expert. It will get you through your first Sunday.From The Nervous Guest, the series that began with So Your Partner Is Filipino.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176449587
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published