I’ve met quite a lot of people outside Nigeria and realized allergy is a thing. They have various types of allergy; talk about pollen allergy, grass allergy, food allergy etc.

When a foreigner told me he has pollen allergy, I was wowed; back in Nigeria, if you attended a public secondary school, you must have “chopped” a plot of bush crowded with tall elephant grasses. This must have made you a great acquaintance with pollens. Some very ignorant ones back in the days even played with the Mucuna Pruriens, popularly called werepe in Yoruba and survived it. In developed countries, allergies are serious medical conditions believed to bring about death.

Do you have any type of allergy? Is it food allergy? What type of food? Are you lactose intolerant? Is it nut and you can’t take Nutella & co?

This is like a social experiment; you are not eligible if you are from a very rich home, or born abroad. This is for street born/Ajepako pikins...

Does allergy exist because we create a room for it (as in developed countries), or is it non-existent if we have no option than to be tough(as with the lower and middle Nigerian classes)


Mine: I don’t think I have any allergy; I loathe creamy milk though, I don’t like the taste but it doesn’t mean it will make me sick.

See growing up in dis country is enough to reset one's system and cure anyone of any allergy dey were born with.. Na who don chop beleful dey remember allergy

Nbotee:
No b who don chop beleful dey get allergy?

Exactly my point bro....me wey chop plenty plots of bushes for my school, wey grass leaves and seeds go enter my uniform, na where allergy wan take come...me and pollen be padi now...


Or me wey be say na wetin my parent give me I dey chop, else na hunger allergy I know. If they give me Nutella chop, who am I to say I’m allergic to nuts?

I think it’s a rich people/ developed country thing

I hate honey....


But doesn't mean it hurts me

few hours after taking corn flakes, an attack of dry cough will be my companion.
happened when i was a teenager and still does now that I'm all grown up.
the painful part is that i really love eating corn flakes,it just doesn't like me.

Sugar, get awful stomachache after eating it but cannot stay away from it no matter how hard I try.

Which mumu allergy be dat, where d allergy wan come from wey I never see complete three square meal chop......my belle na democracy... stomach of the food, by the food and for the food.