How to tell an African from an African

It comes, as something of a surprise to many Africans to discover that all Africans look the same to non-Africans. How do you tell a Nigerian from a Kenyan? And I am not talking about passports or clothing. The easiest way, of course, is the name for example Ogunkoye can only be a Nigerian and Njoroge a Kenyan. And where do the Dunns come from? They are surely from Liberia or Sierra Leone.

Surely everybody knows that the loud and cocky ones are the West Africans; the brooding ones and sly ones are the North and South Africans; the East African always say yes even when they disagree violently. If you want to be more specific, the Cameroonians will borrow money to buy Champagne whilst the Ghanaians think they invented politics.

The Congolese think they have the best music and the best dancers. The Nigerians have a THING about clothes, and the Ethiopians think they have the most beautiful women on God's earth. Moroccans think they are French, and so do Burkinabes.