‘Anything for the boys?’
My Serbian friend keeps gushing about the general friendliness of Nigerians. She loves everything about us: our literature, pop culture, and our general pleasantness. One day, as she was repeating that particular song, I cut her short. ‘What exactly do you mean by our friendly nature?’ Imagine my surprise when she answered that it was the way Nigerian airport officials treated her whenever she came into Lagos that formed her grossly inaccurate perception.
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