{UAH} Letter from Africa: How Nigerians obsess about life in the US
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Gwokto/Robert Atuhairew,
-- Why is it that a lot of people at home still have a very wrong impression of what life is really like in the Western world? A majority still think it is paradise. Why? Is it because those who are in the diaspora often sell a wrong version of their actual experiences in Europe and the Americas? Thats why a lot of middle aged men here in the UK fall into a lot of trouble. Instead of marrying locally here with women who already know their social-economic situation, they go and import a wife from Uganda, who comes with totally unrealistic expectations of what life in the UK is like. They think they are going to live in a mansion, the husband has a limousine and a chauffeur and everything is hunky dory in a land of gold and glory. But reality quickly sets in when they discover most people here survive on debt- any salary that comes into the bank disappears in two days!!! Not suprisingly, nearly 70% of marriages where the wife is imported from Uganda, without having known the husband before, end in divorce within 2-3 years. Add to that some girls in Uganda look at marriage as the quicket way of getting to Europe- so they just go throught it as a meal ticket, which they quickly through away once they get the right papers.
Why cant Africans tell the truth? Or have we now become eternal dreamers- we expect some of our wildest dreams to actually become reality one day?
Bobby
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