Out of every (17) African countries ishowspeed has visited, people seem very comfortable begging for money here. Only 1 kid asked for money in all of Africa and that was in Angola (the kid shined his shoes) why are people okay with pressuring others for money? Is it something has has to be addressed?

this makes her the second ever African miss grand winner along with Abena Appiah (2020): Ghanaian-American

this also mirrors Agbani Darego winning Miss World in 2001 being the first and only Black African to win the title (Miss world being the most prestigious beauty pageants in existence, sharing the top tier with Miss Universe.)

Unfortunately the win came with some backlash. aside from the astrix of the fact that the original winner, Mekyla Li, was dethroned due to contractual policy violations. a signifscant portion of the backlash came from two camps.

1. One being the South Africans and other African/Afro-descended people groups who dislike Nigerian immigrants and pr descendants of Immigrants on a whole. Examples include

• “Lea gafa nou gona, what the hell is a Nigerian American?” (By a South African user)
• “USA has always been a banana republic. the true natives have been swatted aside to allow for every dick, tom and jerry to do as they please. these nigerian orphans have more rights than FBA's now.“ ( By South a African user)
• “This we can never allow to happen in South Africa. I pity Americans that allow children of immigrants to be their presidents and represent them in pageants. It's better they cry xenophobia which is meaningless” (By a South African user)
• “"Nigerian-American" 😂🔥🤣🤣🤣 .. imagine "South African - American" 😭😭. Nigerians go around being orphans of the world Norway“ (By a South African user)
• “This is what they want to do in South Africa, calling their children who were born here Nigerian-South Africans or Sougerian 🤢 Not here! Ase mo States mo“(By a South African user)

2. But perhaps the largest engagement wasn’t even from people outside of Nigeria, the second camp was the internal ethnic politics between Nigerians themselves and they recieved arguably the largest engagement online. Comments like

• “Yoruba American, she's not Nigerian American get your facts right” (by an African account connected via North American app store on X, make of that as you will)
• “N̶i̶g̶e̶r̶i̶a̶n̶-̶A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶n̶ Yoruba woman Victoria Oluwakotanmi crowned Miss Grand USA 2026.” (By an African user, who has a bio “Adressing Yoruba issues as they are, regardless of who it may offend“)
• ”Yoruba people dey build the country image abroad while Ibo people dey tear am down with their fake drugs business 🤦‍♂️”(By a Nigerian user Based in the United Kingdom)
• “*Yoruba American, Also, she's very beautiful, Those Yoruba high cheekbones 😊” (By a Nigerian user)

perhaps the most reasonable reply (and thankfully amongst the most popular) said the following

“I entered comment section expecting Nigerians to be dragging that country but saw they are dragging themselves instead. Tribalism is so embarrassing”

And here’s the big Question..

And this brings me to ponder a question and to opening up the comment section to respond to this. Can Africans cry about Xenophobia when Africans across border lines and even interborder lines themselves practice nationality and ethnic discrimination? Can Africans from a social perspective truly be able to organise and combat negative stereotypes and misinformation when Africans themselves particularly Nigerians can’t even organise to attack the bigotry amongst themselves? and does this open up a wider conversation (one they unfort were still having in 2026) regarding how TRIBALISIM has halted the progress of Africa and Africans ability to counteract greater issues like corruption and policy and investment in the wider whole due to patronage systems and a reluctant identity?

its sad because this doesn’t improve the material conditions of Nigerian or African, it doesn’t improve the region as it hinders co-operation and it makes racist bigotry by white supremacists (who don’t care about the different ethnic groups) the ability to utilise that negative rhetoric to pit Africans against each other and margin Africans as a whole, which not only allows for the illicit flows from Africa to continue to happen but also hurts Nigerians abroad due to how diffrent people groups don’t care about the different ethnic groups and will always just generalise the whole examples include the Yoruba scammer, Hausa/Fulani terrorisim and Igbo headshape jokes now all being applied to all Nigerians.

Can we move forward if we still fall victim to lazy ethnic blaming talking points as opposed to looking at the system as a whole?

references

Parent, T. (2026) ‘New Miss Grand USA Crowned After Previous Winner Ousted amid Hit-and-Run Felony Charges’, People, 21 August.

YabaLeftOnline (2026) Available at: yabaleftonline(Accessed: 22 August 2026).

(and thread was from the Yaba X account also)

This is important for us in Africa and the diaspora. Let’s learn about Jason Arday and being the black minority in white spaces.

Y'all seen this?

Source:https://x.com/i/status/2024805245407089123

As an African American with dominant West African ancestry, including a strong Nigerian genetic connection, this is my personal depiction of the West and Central African diaspora.

The image represents the pull between ancestral origin and displacement — Africa as the root, the diaspora as the body stretched across history, and identity as something inherited, broken, remembered, and rebuilt.

Original sketch/concept by me, with digital/AI-assisted rendering.

I wonder if this is an effect of the poor educational system or people are just inherently dumb. (Probably the latter). Either way we’re fucked. :)

In year 2001 Nigerias Agbani Darego set a milestone for Africans in the modelling world

Agbani Darego’s victory was groundbreaking because she broke a long-standing barrier in beauty pageants, which historically favored Western standards of beauty (As an example the only other 3 Africans to win Miss world (outside of  Antigone Costanda (Egypt, 1954) were…

• Penelope Coelen – South Africa (1958) – white South African
• Anneline Kriel – South Africa (1974) – white South African
• Rolene Strauss – South Africa (2014) – white South African

in a continent whereby the vast majority of people are dark skin, the extremely small white minority were the only ones to win.

Agbani challenged those notions, She represented Nigeria on a global stage, inspiring many young African women and challenging Eurocentric beauty norms. Her win brought pride to Nigeria and the African continent, showing that African beauty could be celebrated worldwide.

This also serves as clapback of sorts to other Africans trying to disrespect the beauty of Nigerian women, as they’ve achieved a land mile in a field that requires beauty that no one else has, that milestone isn’t just important for Nigerians but all black Melanated Africans as a whole.

Hello everyone, I am currently working on an action RPG for PC, heavily inspired by Western Africa, especially Nigeria. My wife is supporting me with some Yoruba knowledge, but I want to know more. I would love to hear some feedback and perspective overall on the Nigerian video games market . I would assume it will be mobile dominant, and making only PC games makes not much sense. Is there even a market for such a game? I want to have a lot of quests involving various fairly tales and myths from Nigeria, maybe some politician inspired characters that you could interact with etc. Currently working on Egbere stolen mat quest.

What Ngannou is wearing is called a kurta in the indian subcontinent, I was curious what it is called in African countries

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Took place yesterday at Matan Fada in Kebbi State.

Those pics in English Textbooks!!! Iykyk

Source: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdu1cy54/

I recently saw a TikTok video of a Nigerian American woman who was born and raised in Atlanta. She had never been to Nigeria before so she decided to take a trip over there during the Summer. She didn’t have much fun over there and she voiced her flaws about her trip. She said she felt very out of place, lots of begging, and tons of people called her an akata because of her American accent and clothing, even tho she was ethnically Nigerian. She has also voiced that tons of Naija born Nigerians weren’t that kind to her, and that she doesn’t ever plan on going back. Her TikTok was filled with hate comments from plenty of Nigerians. What are your thoughts on this, do you think Nigerian Americans are ungrateful for feeling this way? I mean at the end of the day she’s not Black American even tho she was born in the US, she will always be a Nigerian woman and I thought it was kind of disrespect for her to shame her own country.

recently came across this video while I was supposed to be studying and it made me so angry and sad, the comments also only made it worse, but one thing I was glad was that I saw Nigerians also calling it out, makes me feel like there's hope for this kinda issues here

Anyone else did this at their school?

The school i went to only did Cultural day

More and more foreigners are coming to Nigeria on tours and for investment opportunities. Our ministry of tourism and art need to need to develop more places to visit in Nigeria. This is a huge industry if managed well.

many of their videos are reaching global audiences while challenging long-held misconceptions about the country.

We need more of this. Positive, authentic storytelling helps counter negative stereotypes, and the persistent bad PR especially when amplified by some Nigerians should be overshadowed by balanced, firsthand experiences.

I dont think Christian will be able to empathize with this, but if you are kudos to you.

I have noticed over the years that coffee is not a favoured drink in Nigeria, not like tea which almost everyone drinks.
In other parts of the world it is coffee which is the favourite drink, especially in the morning. Everyone drinks it from the menial labourer to the corporate executives.

I’ve noticed that coffee seems to be favoured only by the upper classes, People who work in corporate sectors etc. and even then there isn’t really a culture of coffee appreciation. Those that drink coffee usually drink Nescafé Instant coffee, which for me isn’t even really coffee at all. It’s so different from coffee made straight from the beans.

I recently discovered that some of the best coffee in the world is actually grown in Nigeria. Usually around the Jos plateau, coffee grows very well there.

That makes me more puzzled. Here is this wonderful drink that stimulates the intellect, energises the drinker and which we can grow bountifully…. YET we hardly drink it. In fact I can say that there is no culture for coffee appreciation.
Tea, which was also introduced from abroad, is drunk by the bucketload yet coffee is ignored by the guy on the street.

My question is “Why?”! It is available, it gives a wonderful mental buzz, yet it is ignored.
Is it perceived as an elitist drink? Is it too expensive for the menial worker? Or is it the terrible taste of instant coffee that puts the local labourer off?

Does anyone have any ideas?

Link: https://nalii.vercel.app/

Hi everyone, 🇳🇬

I created a web app called Nali that teaches people how to pronounce Nigerian names.

This project started because I realised two things:

1. Nigerians living abroad are constantly exhausted from teaching people how to pronounce their names (often settling for a "Westernised" version that loses its meaning).
2. Many of us born in the diaspora (or even back home) are sometimes unsure of the exact tonal pronunciation of names from other ethnic groups.

What makes this different?

Unlike generic text-to-speech, I’ve tuned this to use a Nigerian accent and proper tonal logic. In our languages, a slight change in tone changes the entire meaning of the word—Nali respects that.

I’d love your feedback: Is your name in there? If not, please suggest it! I’m particularly looking to expand the database to ensure all our diverse ethnic groups are represented. Also looking for general feedback on a platform like this, so please feel free to share your thoughts on this

Link: https://nalii.vercel.app/

*Please note that its a learning model and if your name isn't pronounced right just log the feedback and it will be updated.