Nigerian social media personality Saida Boj has criticised Nigerians who celebrate Halloween, questioning why people in the country embrace a foreign cultural celebration.
In a statement making the rounds online, Saida Boj expressed displeasure over what she described as Nigerians’ excessive admiration for foreign cultures, particularly the celebration of Halloween.
She questioned whether Halloween was part of Nigerian tradition, suggesting that people should pay more attention to their own cultural practices rather than adopting celebrations from other countries.
Expressing her frustration, she said:
“Is Halloween a Nigerian tradition? Oversabi don finish Nigerians. Them no rate us but we rate them too much.”
Her remarks have sparked conversations about cultural identity, with the statement likely to generate different reactions from Nigerians, particularly those who participate in Halloween celebrations.
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Read some comments below:
@ifedayo:”Celebrating Halloween in Nigeria is just an avenue for some people to showcase their witchcraft gift”
@Victory Nnabugwu;”I have never agreed with 99 of her statements on socials, but you see this one, I am 💯 with her. Embracing their culture and calling ours witchcraft is another level of stupidity and lack of identity.”
@Ricken:”Not a fan of Saida but in this one she is spot on. I agree. Nigerians genz una no get sence o. For copying a foreign culture. U see I remember even as far back as 1999. No Nigerian ever celebrated such. Due to d advent of smart phone and Internet we are now seeing africans in africa who have nothing too do with a foreign culture participate in scenes of horror and death. It could be a culture of death.”
@Victor Ayeni:”Halloween celebration by Nigerians is just one of the examples of how the internet and social media keeps shaping people’s cultures. We weren’t collectively socially conscious of that celebration until we began to interact more with the West via the net. And speaking of festivals honouring the dead (which was the original intention of Halloween), the Asians have theirs, the Hispanics have theirs, and we Africans have ours too, but once a practice is Western, people tend to sanitise and adopt it, but if African, they tend to demonise and detach themselves from it.”