Are you even an African child raised in an African home if you haven’t been traumatized one time in your life? But hold up! You didn’t know you were being traumatized that year until later years of your lives. Now that you’ve grown and exposed, let’s travel back on memory lane with these signs you grew up in an African home.

If you can relate to all, I can tell you had a handful of your parents. If you can’t relate, congratulations on escaping childhood trauma.

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Signs You Grew Up In An African Home

African parents especially mothers are never beating the allegations of being toxic, they wear it like a badge of honor and are very unapologetic about it.

How do you know if you had that typical African home experience, here are ten signs you grew up in an African home:

Sundays Are For Rice

Let’s throw it back to a typical home where rice takes over the kitchen followed by a sweet aroma of beef stew. Whether you’re from an elite African home, one thing is a common denominator, rice must make its way to the Sunday menu.

Whether African mothers had hidden celebrations they had to honor or an untold relationship with rice, we sure enjoyed a change of delicacies after having Garri and soup for the other days of the week.

The Money The Visitor Gave You Belongs To Your Mother

The visitor gave you money and you want to pocket it? It’s the audacity for me. No! Tell me where you ordered your audacity from because I need a full dose of it. You dare not as an African child hide the money given to you by the visitors from your mother, it’s an unspoken rule that you bring it out or face the wrath of being denied food.

You Will Not Kill Me 

You’ve probably heard this phrase more than you heard “ I love you”  from your  African mother. That’s how African parents send warnings or give advice. You may be wondering what you did wrong that warrants them thinking you want to kill them, don’t worry, it’s their way of asking you to be careful.

Put It On My Head

African mothers have sarcasm for days. It’s an inherent gift from God. No one is as talented as an African mother when it comes to sarcasm. You ask an African mother where to put something and she goes “Put it on my head”, don’t fall for it guys. It’s a trap to throw their flip-flops on you.

I Took First In All My Classes

One of the signs you grew up in an African home is the “I took first in all my classes” statement. In an attempt by an African parent to encourage you to study, they resort to taunting you with how they were top of their classes and how they were unbeatable in school activities. 

Don’t ask for proof guys because it’s never available and another trap to yell at you. Don’t fall for it!

When Are You Getting Married?

The question “when are you getting married?” is one of the signs you grew up in an African come. This sign come handy and available for your perusal. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an elite home or just an average African home, giving them grandchildren is the only thing that matters.

But here’s the plot twist, you’re not permitted to have any friend of the opposite sex nor are you permitted to hang out with anyone but somehow amid your quarantine, an African mother is expecting suitors. Say delusion three times and an African mother might just appear.

You Don’t Talk Back At Your Parents

You must be drinking breweries of courage or a sipping a cup of audacity every morning to think your opinion matters as an African child. One of the signs you grew up in an African home is that your parents are demi gods and do no wrong. 

You don’t question their authority, you don’t give your opinion, and certainly don’t talk back at them.

Don’t ask what will happen if you do because the real OGs know that it’s safer to jump off a moving trailer than talk back at African parents.

Oya Come And Eat

If you’re expecting an African mother to apologize to you, we’re sorry to be the bearer of bad news that you’re in for a long ride. African parents and apology cannot be found in the same sentence not even as a mistake.

One would think it’s taboo to have an African mother apologize, maybe it was in their generation

Expressions “Oya come and eat” and the likes,  accomplish the job of an apology. When an African mother tells you these words, what she means is that “ I am sorry for my actions”.

Yes! That’s how African mothers apologize. Any surprises? Then you didn’t grow up in an African home. 

You Have Uncles And Aunts You Are Not Related To

The dictionary meaning of an uncle or an Aunt is that they are your parents’ siblings, right? Oh well, the African home has another meaning to that. One of the signs you grew up in an African home is that anyone older than you is referred to as an uncle or an aunty.  

It’s simply an unwritten rule in the African home that you address them as Aunty and Uncle. Who made the rule? I guess we’ll never know. lol

They Do Not Expect You To Cry When They Beat You.

In an African home, if you cry while being beaten, you receive more beatings. Here’s the plot twist: you are expected neither to cry nor to stay silent while being beaten.

Let’s say you can cry but not for too long or too loud. Yes! An African mother beats you and then in return tells you how to process the pain. Do you call it toxicity? Well, we’re all seeking answers. Lol

Conclusion

I bet how many Nigerians would say they didn’t experience a typical African home but if you’re wondering if you truly are from an African home, we hope these signs you grew up in an African home serve as pointers to your roots.