There was a discussion about why East and Southern Africans have a tough time distinguishing Nigerian and Ghanaian English accents. Nigerians and Ghanaians were at odds trying to understand how this confusion can even exist. Even though they admitted that neither could they distinguish East African accents. Some Kenyan guy inquired whether these West Africans couldn’t really distinguish a Kenyan and Ugandan accent and was surprised when they responded yes. For someone on the ground, its hard to fathom this especially when you know that these guys speak different. However some people forget that most people travelling the world, doing business, schooling, corporate activity are usually mostly from the educated lower middle-class upwards, who spend a significant amount of their lives in urban areas, institutions and societies. Chances that they will tend to have an almost similar accent are usually higher. Especially when the countries they come from are neighbors and people move around them more often than to other places.
East Africans (Ke, Tz, Ug, SS) without the tribal influence on their accents tend to speak the same style.
If you locked this lady somewhere and all you heard was her voice, I would have thought she is Kenyan
SS-Australian
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Ugandan (Navio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye-6BHcMuag:18
Kenyan and Tanzanian (Vanessa & Madondo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwFv1mw84F8
I now understand why a West African would have a hard time distinguishing a Kenyan from a Ugandan Accent. Because they mostly meet these people.
Of course there is the issue of most South Sudanese refugees schooling in Kenya before moving to other countries, same for Somali refugees and Some Kenyans schooling in Uganda…Vanessa Mdee for instance schooled in Kenya I think. These are some of the factors too.
…Aaaaand then there are punk asses like this one >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMcrI_qxF4:39
Wut Tha ferk is wrong with this negro and his weird one.
And just so you know, some southern Nigerians think Northern Nigerians speak English with an accent closer to that of Kenyans or what they perceive to be the Kenyan accent.
Disclaimer Edit : Not comparing who speaks English better than who. Think of it more along : How geographic dispositions affect human traits. Robert Nagila obviously transcends all defining characters of what we would expect him to sound like, which is why he sounds “Weird”. Gladly, he is self-made weird.
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