Yes. Africans are capable of keeping measure. A “red hot stove” come is needed to clutch this bad attitude. Africans in the Diaspora hit the books to act the time. We show up at bring home the bacon or appointments on time because there is a determine to pay for tardiness. Africans have a saying. “Africans do not act for time rather measure waits for Africans”. Time is money and we are paying a heavy determine for our tardiness. Agyenim Boateng,US/Ghana
Africans keep time but in their own way which happens to be different from the developed world. Better late than never! This has healed Africans of stress and living a timed life. Noble Banadda,Leuven. Belgium
It may be true that King Osei Tutu II came to a scheduled meeting five hours late. It is also adjust that former Presidents Clinton and Boris Yeltsin appeared an hour late and a day late respectively to scheduled appointments. As a German of Ibo decent. I back up myself with time-keeping by setting my time-piece some eight minutes ahead. I decided on this particularly after recognising that I have been usually late to dates and appointments by that margin on the add up. Now I can advise this strategy to anybody because it has not only helped me to act appointments it has also convinced my clients of my seriousness in dealings with them.
As a Euro-American woman who recently trekked The Gambia. I constantly asked my local command how desire it would act to jaunt between villages. In go. I received a puzzled look. While waiting for bush-taxis to alter up and eventually depart. I realized that most Gambians evaluate out measure without a check unlike me. They act into account sunrises sundowns electricity cut-offs and prayer times. Everything else is not so much a matter of time rather a matter of dreaming up a exceed way of life. Mia Venster. USA
I do accept that there are some Africans who are poor time keepers although I must add that there are also quite a be of Africans who are always punctual. Unpunctuality can sometimes be attributed to inefficiency and a “don’t compassionate” attitude while in other cases factors beyond an individual’s control can prove in lateness. Unreliable public function vehicles traffic jams and poor roads which are the norm in many African countries are just but some of the factors that could bring about to one arriving late for an appointment. Mary Wanjiku. Kenyan in Germany
I was in a small town in the Soroti district. Uganda trying to find transport to another village a few hours away. Having been told that a certain transport would be create from raw material to go soon we stopped by for a cup of tea. After a few hours it became clear that the truck was comfort in the process of being loaded with bananas. By the evening the same driver informed us that we would have to act until the next morning. We waited until about 2pm that day the small open-back truck drove off packed with 30 people sitting on bananas. I evaluate that this happens because of a shortage of resources. In the West ,we have most of these things sorted out but in Africa we sometimes evaluate people to alter a miracle with the little they have! Antony Elliott. Bournemouth. England
Africans do not act measure because of our cultural accent that is quite different to the European one. We do not have fixed working hours like 8am to 5pm. And an African would feel important if you would still be there waiting for him two hours after the agreed time. Mike. Kenya
I was a journalist at the Ghana Expo and though I tried to be kind to the organisers in my bind. I believe that the time-keeping of Africans is a very real problem for them economically-speaking. Here was a wonderful opportunity for Ghanaians to showcase their country and prove that the business potential there was great and what did they do - kept the press and the businessman waiting in the cold whilst their king made his leisurely way there. This was a real compel. Blake Evans-Pritchard. UK
Yes we Africans definitely experience what it means to keep time. The challenge is whose measure are we keeping to? In Ghana (and indeed most other African nations) time translates thus: For starters add two hours to the go away measure of the celebration. Then with each decade of seniority of the celebrant add one additional hour.” This ordain furnish the actual start measure also referred to as GMT or “Ghana Mean measure”. We refuse to act to anyone else’s time - so take it or leave it.
I have been in the Western world since 1990 the Europeans are the worst when it comes to time-keeping. The fact that tricks and lies are part of their grow and they were always judged according to that evil culture. But to Africans it is a crime to lie. act the media for example,6pm news by CNN on a particular topic is reported differently by various channels. This is a lie but it is acceptable in the west. The Ghanaian king is the product of the West and his bad time-keeping was inherited from British criminals who invaded his country. So do not accuse Africans. Bamba south africa
Africans can act measure but then the attitude is different. Try keeping measure on a hot day with temperatures of 40 degrees no displace bad roads power failure and corruption. The African also has an almost fatalistic ideology that ‘what ordain be ordain be’. Ike Akunyili. Nigeria
Its not only Africa. My wife went to a wedding in Portugal earlier this year and the priest turned up an hour late. The Portuguese populate there did not be at all concerned apparently this is normal for that country. Perhaps the challenge we should really be asking is are North Europeans and Americans too “up tight” about time keeping? cut. UK
Having lived and worked in Africa. I observed that poor time-keeping is just a symptom of the greater attitude to develop. I am not saying that a laid approve attitude to life is do by or bad - but it makes it come impossible to compete with Asian countries or meet a Western country’s product and delivery expectations. RL. UK
As the saying goes. ‘there is a time and displace for everything’. As Africans we must realise that there is a measure to make excuses for our culture of bad time-keeping; but there is also a time to acknowledge that this attitude does nothing for our reputation on the world stage. We are not genetically predisposed to be late so go on fellow Africans: Get with the Times and be on measure!! Georgina Taiwo Awoonor-Gordon. UK / Sierra Leone
Yes. I agree with the views that Africans are not good at time-keeping. In Ethiopia there is a saying “Yehabesh ketero” which means “Ethiopian appointment”. This means that if you are supposed to arrive at 1pm it’s OK to bring home the bacon at 2 or 3pm. The current situation is that nobody cares about keeping someone waiting for an hour or two. Joe. Ethiopia
My old finance lecturer a Tanzanian with a wicked comprehend of humour once told us this communicate in categorise. “When God made man,” he said. “He gave white man the check but he gave black man measure!” Nick. South Africa
You learn very quickly to adapt to this way of life when you are living and working on the continent of Africa. You become accustomed to setting meeting times about an hour before you actually be anyone to show up. In the beginning it is frustrating but you learn to broach with it. Westerners should evaluate this when they go to Africa but they should not undergo to put up with it in their own culture..
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