The 10 People You Meet in Nigeria – Part 1
1. The Alhaji (alhajius alhajius)
General Characteristics:Â Usually Hausa, Fulani, or Yoruba, instantly recognisable because of the massive voluminous sleeves of his agbada or baban riga, The Alhaji commands attention in any kind of gathering and is impossible to ignore. He will most likely be rich or powerful or both and if not surrounded by a retinue of servants or followers, they are probably within shouting distance or can be summoned at will. Will probably be fat (especially if Yoruba) but skinny Alhajis exist too.
The Yoruba version (Alhajius Yorubarius) is likely to have the leopard whiskers facial scarification that run as four horizontal lines across both cheeks. Always eager to spread their love and money around, Alhajis tend to have several wives.
Natural Habitat: Â Anywhere large concentrations of Hausa or Yoruba people are found but most especially Lagos and other Yoruba states, Kano and other Hausa states, and Abuja, which is a neutral location but has more of the Hausa variety.
Notable Habits: Â The Alhaji is given to uncontrollable bouts of compulsive sleeve gathering.
Related to: The Faded Glory Monarch, The Cash Madam, and The Aristo.
Natural Enemies: The Aje Butter Pastor
In Real Life:
To Be Continued…….
lolololol…this is great, can’t wait for the other ones.
LMAO!!!Sugabelly….U are in your element ehn?!
our Alhajius never fail to show themselves…waiting for part 2 oh.
This is awesome fun. I’m expecting the next one.
Lol! I love this, Cant wait for the other 9 types of people.
i love this post! soooo funny! can’t wait for the rest! you are a genius! My dad is an Alhaji Hausarius- the skinny kind! lol
Hilarious, can’t wait to see the rest 🙂
Haha, I’m glad you guys liked this post. There are a whole lot more coming up.
@Sabirah: Hahaha!! Your dad is an Alhajius Hausarius.
Oh my goodness! Too funny!
lool! this is hilarious! cant wait for the rest
This is really good and really funny. Can’t wait to read about the others.
ps: Are sleeve-gathering,agbada-wearing non-muslims also alhaji?
hahahahaha!!!
I love the drawing 🙂 this post is just pure jokes! waiting on part two…
Babangida is not Fulani, check yourself before you wreck yourself
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@Anonymous September 3, 2011 7:54 AM……. you need to take a chill pill ok.
Sugabelly this is all kinds of funny… don’t make us wait to long for the others.
hey dear, IBB is not fulani. He’s from Niger state and his origins are actually in yoruba land (Badamosi is his middle name). But yea, Northerners take that blue-blood ish serious so therefore IBB is NOT fulani. Nupe will be more appropriate.
LoL @ Aje Butter Pastor… Nice Post.
You never did come back to this series!!!!
@Fluffycutething:
I did! I posted Part 2!! ^_^
haha,lovely post. I like the owambeniferous chick, lol. let’s see the next ones. New follower here… http://vickyolisa.blogspot.com/
Love this article and how true!
I love your drawings and the article and the Latin names. LMAO Laff go kill me die.
Glad you like them!! Thanks for reading! ^_^
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