Misconception of "AKATA" By Our American Brothers, “Matter's Arising”.

   I have watched a video broadcast by one of our African-American brother, from another mother on American Diaspora platforms and he was complaining about Nigerians using the words “AKATA” to refer to them. They are angry because it is a derogatory words that remind them of their past.

  Our elders says that an elder should not be around while a goat gives birth with a rope on its necks. As we do not have any progressive minded elders anymore, who will issue a statement on behalf of us on this burning issues, due to they are busy looting the money meant for the development. Anything that does not give them access to looting, is off no interest to them. So far so good, let me act as a progressive elder to remove the rope on a goat on a labour before it gives birth. By apologizing and also intervening on this derogatory matter before it turned out to something bad or turns out to a xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in the USA.

  You have made mention of Nigerians not taking responsibility of the Slaves trades crimes, despite being involved. My brothers from another mother in America, we have not apologised on the issue of the slave trade yet because Nigeria is a concentration of the highest selfish, self centred black idiots with misplaced priorities. Who lives a life of hope and prayers, that is why nothing is working in this part of the world, despite being the highest concentration of religious people, who goes to church in the morning, and commits atrocities in the night. 

  It's funny that our stupid forefathers had sold our brothers because of mirror and whiskies. Under Biafra, we will do the needful but the problem is that, Biafra is not something that is coming soon until a natural occurrences happens before we will have Biafra. Right now, those championing the course were looking for Guinness world record with the bloods of our Youths in the name of fruitless and misplaced agitation.

  Pardon our manners because many of us from this part of this world have from one way or the other used the word “AKATA” to describe mainly the Nigerian American base, not the African-American. Well, I believe that many are using that to describe a particular Nigerian travellers and it was not intended on a derogatory but as a way to make jokes with them. The truth is that, in our societies, people uses different words to describe some people. For examples, we use Oyibo to describe the white people. We also called Nigerians living in America “AKATA and Amy guys” and so on.

  In fact, to the best of my knowledge, not everybody knows the history of the Slave-trades because of a routine educational system. The truths remains that, majority of our males students pays the lecturers to graduate while the females ones, sleeps with the lectures to graduate. So how will they study or lean anything useful. The educational systems was designed in a such a way that people do not have information after graduation.

  The origin of the words “AKATA” to the best of my knowledge, started when we first had an encounter with the Nigerian who had travelled to American and stayed many years without coming back home. And when they had finally returned, the types of characters most of them had displayed then, was strange to the locals. Which had made the villagers started calling them “AKATA”.

  For example, most of the people came back with their hair plated or fried. And some of them started acting strange and being arrogant with certain intonations. Thanks be to God that majority of them have changed. Now the word has been spoken out loud, I hope and believe it will get to the ears of our people that the words AKATA means different thing to your people. Once again, I do apologize on behalf of our people including me because I have used that words very often just to make jokes with nothing serious about it.   

The views expressed on this article are solely the authors opinion and I take the responsibility of what I have said here and it might differ with your own views, which is understandable.

Written by,

P. O. Iwuama, ( Bc, MA)

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