To a Nigerian parent, failing = coming anything but first.
1. “Your mates that passed, do they have ten heads?”
2. “How will you pass when you keep following lazy people. Better change your friends and change your destiny!”
3. “Shebi if you’ll stop following girls/following boys/playing football/living/breathing, you’ll have time to pass.”
4. “Can’t you see so-so-so-and-so’s child?”
5. “When you won’t stop pressing your phone.”
6. When you ask for anything at all. “this is where they will see you; if it’s to pass exam now, you can’t pass.”
7. “You want to bring shame to the family?”
8. “You think you’re doing us? Keep failing.”
Thanks?
9. “Someone will just be wasting money on school fees on you.”
10. “You can eat but you can’t pass.”
11. When you want to go out with friends. “The friends you want to follow, did they pass their exam?”
12. “When I was your age…”
13. “If you don’t want to go to school tell us.”
14. When you mistakenly oversleep. “That’s why you failed.”
15. First day of holiday. “Have you read your books.”
16. When you try to explain why you failed the exam. “Did you write all these explanations down in your exams?”
