By Gimba Kakanda
ABUJA (Sundiata Post) The Jabari Tribe of Wakanda are arguably middle-class Nigerians, the portrayal is beyond mere ethnic accent, the mannerism of M’Baku makes a case for such comparison.
Middle-class Nigerians, in the words of a certain expatriate friend, are “boisterous and arrogant,” and to a South African friend “too conscious of social status, especially before those they think are beneath them materially or intellectually. They always want to pose as Oga, isn’t that what you call big men?”
I had corrected such stereotypes several times, that what they interpreted as arrogance was possibly a manifestation of confidence. A non-Nigerian social development worker once told me about how a Nigerian PhD shut her down at an event, citing that the subject being debated was his specialization and so it’s only natural that he knew more than she did.
The Jabari are an impressively confident tribe and showoffs, fitting into my non-black friends’ impression of the middle-class Nigerians.
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