Images are of The Palms Shopping Centre, Lekki
Thanks very much for the comments guys and keep them coming, lets get a nice big user group going. Also, for every comment, the commentator gets a new Range Rover Sport courtesy of Range Rover (or is it TATA Motors of India, I'm not sure). Your car is on the high seas, please be patient...
Thank you very much for your comment on big men in Naija. It's an interesting comparism, but unfortunately not true. Just for you my reader, and any other non-Nigerian reader (any Naija person that asks such a question should be ashamed of demsef) here is the definition of a Nigerian Big Man (read, accompanied by Fela music)
A Nigerian BIG MAN, is one who due to his prowess in collecting money by all and any means (political,, importing & exporting, unknown business (ahem), 419, real estate, oil and gas, construction or otherwise) has gained not just the financial muscle but also the political clout and the ability to weld it like a club to steamroll over any other common man who is not equally as big. Common men also include the police, customs, his tenants, pedestrians who dare to enter the path of his big car or any other such commoners. The big man title actually came about from the girth of the man's kneck and his belly brought about by consuming copious amounts of beer, meat and other rich foods as he started to realise he could buy whatever he chose.
An addendum to the above, is that as Nigeria is now an emerging economy (goodness knows what it was before this phase), we now have the new emerging phase of Big Manism. We (as I am aspiring to belong to this group) are the new breed of big man. Working in the nouveau legitimate businesses of Oil and Gaz and banking or entrepreneurship or having made our money from the booming stock market or the emerging real estate bubble we drive Range Rover Sports, ML 65 AMG's and other similar hot vehicles (you can see why I aspire to this group). We now go the gym regularly so have trim figures as opposed to the bloated figures of old, and we take leisurely strolls in The Palms Shopping Centre holding the hands of our wifes (not various concubines like the BIG MEN of old, (this bit I'll have to go back and confirm, please bear with me).
So henceforth, if anyone asks you what a big man is, you will be able to answer with clarity and forthrightness - Amen.
Thank you very much for your comment on big men in Naija. It's an interesting comparism, but unfortunately not true. Just for you my reader, and any other non-Nigerian reader (any Naija person that asks such a question should be ashamed of demsef) here is the definition of a Nigerian Big Man (read, accompanied by Fela music)
A Nigerian BIG MAN, is one who due to his prowess in collecting money by all and any means (political,, importing & exporting, unknown business (ahem), 419, real estate, oil and gas, construction or otherwise) has gained not just the financial muscle but also the political clout and the ability to weld it like a club to steamroll over any other common man who is not equally as big. Common men also include the police, customs, his tenants, pedestrians who dare to enter the path of his big car or any other such commoners. The big man title actually came about from the girth of the man's kneck and his belly brought about by consuming copious amounts of beer, meat and other rich foods as he started to realise he could buy whatever he chose.
An addendum to the above, is that as Nigeria is now an emerging economy (goodness knows what it was before this phase), we now have the new emerging phase of Big Manism. We (as I am aspiring to belong to this group) are the new breed of big man. Working in the nouveau legitimate businesses of Oil and Gaz and banking or entrepreneurship or having made our money from the booming stock market or the emerging real estate bubble we drive Range Rover Sports, ML 65 AMG's and other similar hot vehicles (you can see why I aspire to this group). We now go the gym regularly so have trim figures as opposed to the bloated figures of old, and we take leisurely strolls in The Palms Shopping Centre holding the hands of our wifes (not various concubines like the BIG MEN of old, (this bit I'll have to go back and confirm, please bear with me).
So henceforth, if anyone asks you what a big man is, you will be able to answer with clarity and forthrightness - Amen.
3 comments:
Oh! now I understand exactly, well almost exactly what a big man means. Its remarkable that we have similar here in Shinsaibashi.
Nna Muna,
We don find you. You land well.
Remi-Niyi
wow very interesting blog! i love reading about returnees or should i say aspiring BIG MEN
anyway I'm expecting my range,blood red,no fancy gizmo!
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