These Hilarious Tweets From #YouKnowYouAreAfrican Will Make Your Week

If you’re still experiencing #IfAfricaWasASchoolwithdrawals, you now can still have nostalgia-filled laughs with #YouKnowYouAreAfrican.

Twitter users @Curate_Africa and @UNcubeOthungayo set off the hashtag today, prompting a flood of hilarious (and true) tweets on how one knows they’re African. Users followed suit touching on saving the meat for last when savoring your dinner, using part of the onion sack as an exfoliating sponge (now you know how our skin is so smooth), stew filled ice cream buckets, plastic bags full of more plastic bags, and more.

Take a look at our favorites below:

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when MS Word highlights your name in red

— Ntagusa Ole Tako (@Ar_ch_ie) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when ur Mom says "bring him here for Caster Oil" pic.twitter.com/qaWJVQzlwV

— dikgang (d-trix) (@dikgangmosopa) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when guests visit pic.twitter.com/XJNvm7T9qn

— Brian Mbunde ™ (@Brianmbunde) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when the only time you eat these ???? is in December pic.twitter.com/DG9N7EutBf

— MisUnderstood (@Aunty_Pelo) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when your mom calls u from outside to switch off the TV she's watching

— ✨: ( :✨ (@b_ngwekazi) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican

When you find this in the freezer with leftovers inside instead of ice-cream ? pic.twitter.com/oq9cHdloyo

— IG: Sthee_Gee (@Sthee_Gee) August 29, 2016

When your mom wakes you up to go greet the visitors #YouKnowYouAreAfrican

— Talib Jim (@TalibJim) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when you believe an itchy palm means loads of cash is coming your way like: pic.twitter.com/2RN4iixcvr

— Caster Van Niekerk (@UNcubeOthungayo) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when you finish all your food in a plate and only eat your meat last ??

— Sphindile (@Sphii) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican if this happened to you when you were young.... pic.twitter.com/3G5hxdOpGM

— IG: Marutla Thapelo (@thapza777) August 29, 2016

When English is not your first language but you are expected to sound like a polished English speaking western #youknowyouareafrican

— Naps'R'Us (@delusionalbee) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when you send your kids to school only for them to be told their natural hair is untidy.

— LeKings' Speech (@Kgosi_LeKing) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when taking this with you to the bathroom means new & Fresh beginnings ! pic.twitter.com/0tzjKfDpns

— Comedy Central AF (@ComedyCentralAF) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican

*at a funeral*

Random Person : you have grown so much last saw you when you were 2months old do you still remember?

— C•A| Winston (ZW) (@Curate_Africa) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when instead of fixing the damn potholes, they make signs warning you about them ? pic.twitter.com/S4vaaaifVH

— Riaz Snow ❄️ (@riazbapoo) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when there's a plastic bag full of plastic bags in your house

— Lord of Nyotafell (@This_isTino) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican if you use soap till it gets to be like this pic.twitter.com/uLC43fNG2H

— Tangie (@__Gatzby) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when every person with dreadlocks is called Rasta

— Mars (@Datmarianndage) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when your home television set is set up like this.

? that cloth Fam. pic.twitter.com/hoPte5Y2GN

— Caster Van Niekerk (@UNcubeOthungayo) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican

When "drink a lot of water" is the cure and answer to everything

— C•A| Winston (ZW) (@Curate_Africa) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when there's always that aunt who've appointed herself as Chief Director of Dividing Food.. pic.twitter.com/dSHM7sbNZq

— Mokgatla Molepo (@JerryJedaMolepo) August 29, 2016

If your parents own a glass like this #YouKnowYouAreAfrican pic.twitter.com/XBJf2JfHUm

— LK. (@YohBoyLK) August 29, 2016

When they offer you some food and you've to look at your mom before accepting it.#YouKnowYouAreAfrican

— Talib Jim (@TalibJim) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when you ask for coke at a spaza shop, and they ask you "Which one, sprite or fanta ?" ?

— Sydwell Selana ? (@SydeeThaaBee) August 29, 2016

#YouKnowYouAreAfrican when you tell your mom you thinking of taking a gap year and shes like.... pic.twitter.com/CGqj6DFXXs

— Ntshuxeko Ndhlovu (@BlackkCellence) August 29, 2016