A Nigerian lady studying in Germany has shared her culture shock moment with a professor, saying Nigerian schools and their “godlike” lecturers made her grow up seeing professors and doctors as people you couldn’t approach freely.
“Nigerian schooling and university. Ah, you people really messed up my head,” she began. “You people made me start seeing professors and doctors as God.”
According to her, she had been trying to locate a new classroom in one of the university buildings but got lost after asking several students who couldn’t help.
One student advised her to ask a professor nearby for directions.
“I said, ‘Ask professor?’ I couldn’t believe it. Because in Nigeria, you don’t just walk up to a professor like that,” she said, laughing. “You’ll think twice before even knocking their door.”
She said the professor, a woman who was teaching a lab class, didn’t just give her directions — she actually left her students and walked with her around the building to find the room.
“My sister, I shock! This woman left her students and followed me around, looking for the class,” she recounted. “I was like, so you people are human beings too? Nigerian professor and doctor, you people are not God o!”
The lady said the experience completely changed her perception.
To top it all off, the same professor later told her students not to call her Doctor or Professor — just her first name, Petra.
“I said, Petra ke? In Nigeria? You dare not!” she exclaimed. “You will call them Prof, Doctor, or Sir/Ma till your tongue tires.”
She concluded by saying the experience opened her eyes to how much fear and hierarchy dominate Nigeria’s education system.
“I need to correct a lot of mentality I carried from Nigeria,” she said. “I need to start seeing people as human beings, not gods.”
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