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I disagree. The reason we translate it into English is because of our own multi ethnic language and culture. The Igbo man wants to make it easy for the Edo man to understand him, and wants the Kanuti man, etc, to understand him. Vice versa. It’s not the English man we try to impress. But the gen z and some village brought up gen X won’t know how it was growing up in cities far from your local lingua franca, and trying to explain nri ji to a Yoruba man and differentiate it from akpu

I understand his frustration and message. It is not going to solve the problem of 500 years of brainwashing and inferiority complex

Ema is not pounded yam!! Before you come for me, I served in Iruekepen, Ekpoma, Edo State and even stayed there for another one year after NYSC. Ema is like fufu not pounded Yam!! Just like Kpukpuru is like fufu in Ondo State

Ema is pounded yam in English Language

@mlffx_ Ema isn't pounded yam. Ema is made from cassava and pounded yam is made from Yam. They are two different things.

@mlffx_ Lmao, where did you learn this from?

@JasonID4 My Landlady said same thing, I even asked around to be sure

@JasonID4 Edo State has a variety of languages and cultures. Maybe that's where the misconception comes from. For an Edo person who speaks Edo language and lives in Benin City, Ema is made from yam and called pounded yam in English.

@mlffx_ @JasonID4 He is right the esan people call fufu Ema, while we Benin call pounded yam ema.

@mlffx_ @JasonID4 And I'm wrong?

African always cry like oyibo beg them to adopt their culture. Your people love white names and white wedding, make una shutup. Na inferiority complex the worry una

This is rubbish. Nigeria is a multi lingual country. As an Igbo person, I don’t know what Eko is. Same with others who are not Edo. The reasons why we feel a need to translate is cos of our language differences. It has nothing to do with not being proud of their African names.

This is apt! Iyan, Eba, Moinmoin, gari, akara etc should retain their local names. Also, people should know it's not a flex to give your child English names. Neither is it a flex that your children can't speak your native language.

I think this explanation is unfair to all meals tho. You don’t see people renaming Egusi soup, Ewedu, Gbegiri, afang and the rest. We’ve also got our pride man. Eba, Amala, fufu etc. we don’t bend over backwards for no one. There must have been an explanation for this ones you chose. 🫥

It’s even funny as we see it insulting to use hands to eat Eba so we have started using spoon but when we travel to country like turkey, Dubai we use hand to eat rice there traditional way. Nigerians should be proud of their culture and way of life

Lols This is crazy. Nigeria is a multilingual country. Even amongst ourselves we have to translate it. No be everything una go carry ring light dy disturb person. There are heavier matters.

Now do jollof. Wait, that is known globally ... though the ongoing battles about whose is best may not be as widely understood. 😉

I don’t know how to say it but he’s right and wrong, when a particular food from a particular region has many language it’s best to give it a university language… why not use awedu or oha, there is no other native name just it, if it gets to international standard it’ll remain

Last I checked we all call it fufu the world calls it fufu sha

Japan has general language China has general language even Ghana has general language including South Africa but we don't have except English so for all tribe to understand we have to use English. My brother try and think next time before you set ring light

I get your point but the analogy does’t hold. Sushi is a general term, unlike pounded yam which has different names across tribes. It’s hard to explain ourselves to foreigners when we cant even agree among ourselves. Even this video is in a foreign language, not our local dialect

Nigeria does nt hv a common language other than English.u don't expect Nigeria 2 call pounded yam Ema in edo language or iyan in yoruba language coz other tribe won't understand it n u don't expect all Nigeria 2 call it iyan it will cause fight makin 1 language superior 2 others

We are a diverse people here in Nigeria. Most of the time, we didn't and still don't understand ourselves. We don't even speak pidjin English the same way. Tell someone from the north Nni Ji, Iyan, he doesn't get it. But say - pounded yam and they do. That's the genesis.

I agree ( haven’t thought about this ), but will Black people agree and stop doing such ?

Its bcos in Nigeria we have several languages so it gets confusing if it's called a different thing in every restaurant. Common sense.

Brotherman, look at it this way. In Japan, it is generally referred to as sushi. But in Nigeria itself it is neither generally called either ema or iyan. Our multi ethnicity must internationalize label.

Do you know how many languages in Nigeria? These countries you mentioned have just one central language but we don't. You have already called pounded yam two different names from two different languages in Nigeria. Pounded yam became a centralized name for it.

These videos are funny. When your national language is English, having an English name for a food that has other cultural names isn't uncommon. Most of the cultural names that stick, do so for foods notably/primarily from a particular region. Dead the agenda

Him never hear of cassava flakes wey be drinking garri.

This problem is mainly amongst Nigerians. Other African countries don’t rensme their foods. But these Nigerians online chefs, be doing a lot of renamings. It’s mostly out of inferiority complex.

Sound pan-African views. Thank you for standing up to the demon of self-cultural degradation and second-placement. Africa is rising. We shall be comfortable in our skin once again! 💪

Beautiful

God bless you sir. Preach! 🔊

@RBG_Mama_Moto check it out. Guilty as charged.

Oga, shut up please! Nigeria 🇳🇬 is a multicultural country with over 350 languages.

This guy is sound

Chukwuma and they translate it Chuma

Nigeria is filled with ignorant people, a lot of us went to school but we still think like closed minded illiterates, so fast to speak rubbish at words of wisdom, even if he may have gone too hard in trying to explain his point, at least, we can't just discredit facts he has said

Who be this guy 🥹🤗

It may be worth noting that French-speaking Africa tends to keep the traditional names of their dishes, with some of the names eventually making their way into the official French. Some local dishes are attiéké, alloco, foutou, foufou,and kabato

Gbam!

That's why this country can never be one, which are we going to call it now that everybody should accept?