Sep 22 2009
‘District 9′ Pisses Off Nigeria
District 9 may have been a great allegory about Apartheid, but there are some Africans who have missed the forest for the trees, and are now pissed off about the role that Nigerians played in the film.
“I was so angry,” said Umeano, a Nigeria native living in Atlanta. “They were showing Nigerians as corrupt, eating aliens, saying they have sex with aliens. I could not watch that.”
Why do they want to denigrate Nigerians as criminals, cannibals and prostitutes who sleep with extra-terrestrial animals?” said Dora Akunyili, information minister. “We’ve had enough with the stereotypes they have branded us with … we are not going to sit back and allow people to stigmatize us.”
Even though yes, Nigerians were potrayed as unusually cruel and sadistic in the film, ALL HUMANS were portrayed as cruel and sadistic in the film. Sure, Nigerians were eating and sexing and scamming the aliens, but the “International Coalition of White People” of whatever the international aid group was called was literally abducting aliens and butchering them in labs to try and understand how their weaponry worked. They put them in the camps in the first place and would routinely execute any alien that got out of line.
And by the way, can we remember that we’re talking about savagery toward IMAGINARY ALIENS here? That being said, I do sort of wonder what Prawn tastes like.
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All I’ll say is this - a few years back, I had to do some work for a company that operated in Nigeria (this was when I was doing commercial litigation, not med mal) - and Nigeria is by far and away the most corrupt place on the planet. It’s horrible.
Not to mention - countries are shown in a negative light all the time in movies. Americans being portayed as corrupt, greedy assholes. Germans protrayed as Nazi fanatics.
This type of thing just happens - it’s a Science FICTION movie. It’s only offensive if it’s true and from the sounds of it, it is.
Between this and the PS3 Slim commercial, it makes me think that Nigerians have very thin skin when it comes to people commenting on them, even in jest.
I live in South Africa and the Nigerians are pretty bad here. They run lots of drug syndicates all over the country. They call themselves “The Nigerians”. I would advise comming up with a different gang name not to draw attention to their nationality. To actually stop the drug trafficing would be first prize of course.
BTW, District 9 was AWESOME! I would like to take a tour through the shacks of Lesotho, should be interesting.
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Hmm, whats wrong with having sex with aliens??
The truth hurts (except for the bit about the aliens). Anyone who has ever been to the moetie market in JHB will agree.
Yes Nigerian politicians are greedy and corrupt and should be shot all together. I get it nigerians are money hungry mo-fos, we are, no two ways about it but if you’ve lived the lives that most of us have lived you’d probably understand. I have rarely not found a ‘nigerian’ stereotype funny, until the alien sexing/eating came along while i can see the point it was making, it was still very…annoying. I suppose it’s different when the finger is pointed at you in a grotesque manner^^;
I have worked with nigerians before and they are all corrupt. Right down to the tiniest baby. The fact they are annoyed by this movie shows how utterly stupid they are as a people. There is nothing nice about Nigeria and it is hated by all other African countries as being the most corrupt and most of their citizendry are in jail all over the world.
These people should stay in their own horrible country and not be able to come to America. I don’t want them here. They are also rapists and murderers.
Madison and Cathy Haig, you are disgusting people, call yourself people. Do you know the number of times I have been stabbed in the back by my white ‘friends’ or the indian girls bitching about me??!?!
Do you know how many times someone has pestered me because they think I’m about to shoplift.
I live my life, over compensating for the shitty reputation that has been placed upon us. Let me tell you, the whole world is CORRUPT, just because most countries know how to cover it up doesn’t make it any less.
It’s out of control in Nigeria and the average Nigerian desperately wants change, So PUH-LEASE don’t come here with your lack of knowledge.
Equally, there have been people who have been lucky enough to experience and know great Nigerians, who have been so kind and giving towards them, and they believe that we are all angels, that’s wrong too.
Please grow up before you start inciting suicidal thoughts into people’s minds - I mean what do you want me to do now, that I have been told that I am an awful, corrupt person.
Oh yes, getting pissed off at a movie, doesn’t prove it’s true.
The reasoning in this post…
Ahhhhh…
@ Lc
You’re kidding right? I didn’t claim Nigerians are corrupt, that would be stereotyping, racist, and judgmental. I claimed that Nigeria is corrupt, and it undoubtedly is.
Why is it that to get any business done in Nigeria, government officials need to be bribed? Why do foreigners doing business in Nigeria require kidnapping insurance, bodyguards, and armored cars for transport? Why is it that cops pull over vehicles and threaten imprisonment unless they are paid cash on the spot? These aren’t myths, they are truths I know from experience. Nigeria, plain and simple, is a corrupt, dangerous place.
You could say that the United States is a world bully, playing police to get what it wants without caring about the fate of people in other countries, and I wouldn’t get all bent out of shape about it. A lot of Americans would agree with you.
You may be a delightful, honest person, but Nigeria is a bad, bad place. Sorry, but you’ve really misinterpreted what I’ve said.