Some relatives of hers speak igbo. Her only brother met his wife in Nigeria. Could she be Nigerian?

For well over two centuries, the United States has been vastly more diverse than its ruling families. Now the Obama family has flipped that around, with a Technicolor cast that looks almost nothing like their overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly Protestant predecessors in the role. [size=14pt]The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili, Luo and Igbo;[/size] and even a few phrases of Gullah, the Creole dialect of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Very few are wealthy, and some — like Sarah Obama, the stepgrandmother who only recently got electricity and running water in her metal-roofed shack — are quite poor.

“Our family is new in terms of the White House, but I don’t think it’s new in terms of the country,” Maya Soetoro-Ng, the president’s younger half-sister, said last week. “I don’t think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.”

The families also share a kind of adventurous self-determination. In the standard telling, the Obama side is the one that bent the rules of geography and ethnicity. Yet the first lady’s family, the supposed South Side traditionalists, includes several members who literally or figuratively ventured far from home. Nomenee Robinson was an early participant in the Peace Corps, serving in India for two years; later, he moved to Nigeria, where he met his wife; the couple now live in Chicago. Capers Funnye Jr., a cousin of Mrs. Obama’s and a rabbi, was brought up in the black church, he said, but as a young man, he felt a calling to Judaism he could not ignore


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/21family.html?pagewanted=all

Lol, is that why she has hairs all over her body? j/k

FUNNY ENOUGH I DID NOT SEE YORUBA THERE.but that does not mean there isnt trace of it in that family.The bolded part is not aimed at yorubas but becomerich.he claims to see everything via satelite including that michelle obama is yoruba.

You all fucking wish!

I also read this in THISDAY two days ago, and wondered who in the Obama family is connected to Igbo.

egheleghe:

FUNNY ENOUGH I DID NOT SEE YORUBA THERE.but that does not mean there isnt trace of it in that family.The bolded part is not aimed at yorubas but becomerich.he claims to see everything via satelite including that michelle obama is yoruba.

ROFLMAO You people won't kill me ooo

zulu lady

nigeria cant be touch by your whitey-south! _{carry style de look for someone we go bazuka u}! hmmm not lookin bad at all

brainless zulus mind me the nigerian, be royal as a servant to your white oga!

Hmmmmm, una don start.

I thought L.L. Cool J was the igbo boy?

earTHMama:

Lol, is that why she has hairs all over her body? j/k

Whether she has hairs all over her body or not,Obama loves her and she's his 1st lady and America's 1st lady.Stop hating,jare.

earTHMama:

Lol, is that why she has hairs all over her body? j/k

semid4lyfe:

Whether she has hairs all over her body or not,Obama loves her and she's his 1st lady and America's 1st lady.Stop hating,jare.

Whats hating here,it doesnt sound hating atall.

Just funny u knw.

earTHMama:

Lol, is that why she has hairs all over her body? j/k

LOL
She's a typical Ekiti girl
Can't you see her bow legs

LOL
She's a typical Ekiti girl
Can't you see her bow legs

But Karmamod has no bow legs.

You all fucking wish!

Whats your own, mrs mandela?

Nigerians and jumping guns. Why do we love claiming that which isnt ours?

But Karmamod has no bow legs

Im about to bow them!

Negro_Ntns:

Im about to bow them!

ROFL!
let her catch you

lmao! Osisi, you know her well. She has no sense, just cutting everyone with that razor tongue!

Im about to bow them!

How, are you a pedophile? Her bones are still young and brittle. _{Oh, I forgot you are from the tribe of Ishmael.}

hahah

How, are you a pedophile? Her bones are still young and brittle. Oh, I forgot you are from the tribe of Ishmael.

Oh Lord! . . .here comes Mrs Huckleberry Finn! What tribe are you from?

Oh Lord! . . .here comes Mrs Huckleberry Finn! What tribe are you from?

Tribe of Judah.

earTHMama:

Tribe of Judah.

Ma quale Tribe of Judah, she's one of the decendants of Jezeebel. that's why she hates men,

Ma quale Tribe of Judah, she's one of the decendants of Jezeebel. that's why she hates men,

I don't hate men, I only set the evil ones straight. Jeez.

Really?
She looks Efik to me o, like she would like eating fish a lot. I bet she smells like fish.

Really?
She looks Efik to me o, like she would like eating fish a lot. I bet she smells like fish

Abeg, Efik women are not that ugly and masculine.

LOL!

How can Michelle be masculine with all that hips?

LOL!

How can Michelle be masculine with all that hips?

She may be padding up besides, some men like NegroNations have big hips. Check out her biceps na.

Hmmmmm, una don start.

I thought L.L. Cool J was the igbo boy?

Roflmao

Being that nearly 60% of the AA slave descendant population is of whole and or of significantly large proportion Igbo descent-- it is very possible that she may be of some significant amount of Igbo descent. I'll tell you one thing though, her mother looks very Igbo and she herself has some very distinguishable comparisons about her.

@Earthmama

The way you start threads on NL, is it a cry for help?

My prayer this year is that you find a husband to keep you busy . . . . . . . Olabowale has signaled offline that he's willing to consider you as his wife.

Hmmmmm, una don start.

I thought L.L. Cool J was the igbo boy?