African Time image (Nigerianeye)

When you ask someone when you should expect them? 

Are these the responses that you receive and accept? 

After 5 (“by God’s Grace”) 

Araaand six 

Upper Week 

Before 2 

Soon 

Later

These “Nigerian responses” often

mean there is no real commitment to attend to your request.

“AFRICAN TIME is the perceived cultural tendency, in parts of Africa and the Caribbean toward a more relaxed attitude to time. This is sometimes used in a pejorative sense, about tardiness in appointments, meetings and events. 

It includes the more leisurely, relaxed, and less rigorously-scheduled lifestyle found in African countries, as opposed to the more clock-bound pace of daily life in Western countries.” Wikipedia  

African Time has become an awful #excuse that is holding us back as a people. We must each start with ourselves and individually commit to changing our attitude towards time. 

Being late, whether it’s for your event or someone else’s, is rude, disrespectful, inconsiderate, irresponsible, smacks of indiscipline, and is most unprofessional.  

• Plan 

• Prioritise 

• Prepare Start this week right. 

Have a great week and don’t forget to BE ON TIME! 

#beearly #beontime #dontwastetime #timeismoney #timematters #discipline #focus #nomoreexcuses #timemanagement