African Time
If there's two words that I hate to hear, especially when it comes to an event that I plan on attending, it's African Time.
Basically, what those two words mean (for people who aren't familiar with it) is that irrespective of the time placed for an event to start, Africans will always arrive at their own time, which is never on time. Some few months ago, I had seen this tiktok of two foreigners who were typically running to one of their Nigerian friends wedding, they had the traditional yoruba attires on and were in a hurry because they felt they were about ten minutes late to the event, only to get there and realized that they were the first to arrive.
I went to the comment section and of course all I saw there were Nigerians laughing and telling them about the infamous African time. I don't know if I'm too old or too strict for this generation but I hate african time, especially if it's an event or program that I'm attending because I would always want to be there on time, and the last thing I want is to get to an event and wait another hour or two before it begins. That's an hour or two that I could have spent doing something important or even just taking a nap and relaxing.
I had once written about something relating to this topic in the past, but what prompted today's post is my lecturer. My school had it's SUG (Students Union Government) election today so there wasn't suppose to be any classes today. The school had released a memo, instructing all the lecturers to postpone their lectures because today is meant to be a lecture free day, to give the students time to go vote.
Well, due to the fact that I'm a final year student, our lecturers decided we didn't deserve the break, so one of them decided to schedule a test today, while the other one scheduled a maths class today. Mind you, I already had a date with my bed today (because I had no plans to go vote), a date that I was now forced to cancel. Well the test came and went but where my anger lies is with the maths lecturer.
If there's one thing I hate more than maths itself, it's getting taught maths at night. According to the time given to us by the lecturer, we were suppose to begin the class by 3pm and finish by 4pm, but nope, we started by 5pm and ended by 6pm. I'm sure that if the class didn't get too dark for us to see anything, this man wouldn't have called it a day.
This was one of those days that I rediscovered how stressful it can be just by sitting at a spot for hours. And now that the whole of my body aches, all I want to do is sleep till it's noon tomorrow but I can't do that, because tomorrow is Saturday, the most stressful day of the week for me.
So please, coming from a Nigerian to his fellow Nigerians, can we please stop African Time and stick to 9 O'clock if we say 9 O'clock... Thank you.
o.o malaysia has that too. u have to add 30 mins to one hour to whatever the event is usually lol
That means it's not just an African thing then.. It sucks!
haha i can tell you its definitely not a japanese thing :). if u late there oh boy
Oh, I had no idea they had such a habit. Every culture has its own thing.
It's a very bad habit, one that has to stop.
It's true that I am serious in case of study but if I were in your situation then I might not go to attend the class test. I actually don't care such kind of class test even if it cut a little mark in my final exam. Besides I hate those person very much would delay things after fixing a time.
I almost went home too.. The only reason I didn't was because this was my first time attending this class and I didn't even know who the lecturer was.
People here in our country do not care about time at all, the time given to them is never spent on marriage or any other function and they wait for an hour or two and leave again. The concept is still running here and many times the event ends and the guests are still there.