Mercy Aigbe gives me wood!
I love her round, flat, baby face!

axum:




desperate to always claim

There's no claiming. The fact of the matter is you said Cushitic people don't live in Tanzania and I've proved you wrong. Like it or lump it, many Kenyan and Tanzanian Bantu ethnic groups have Cushitic ancestry! Deal with it!

Godagesil:
A couple of things. As a geoscientist I noticed that the map you show of Africa overlain by other countries looks to be Mercator projections of the other countries, so the map is only showing a distortion over distortions. Try doing the same exercise with the Peters Map Projection. Africa is large but so is China and South America. You are only perpetuating misleading information.

So what!?

Godagesil:
As to the Phenotypes of Africa. I had an ancestor, a great grand mother who was probably a Quadroon, or even a Mulatto. My fraternal twin grand father showed traits of his African ancestry as did his sister but none of his other siblings did. While my father and I am "swarthy" we exhibit no obvious African traits.

Good for you!

Godagesil:
Now doing about 5 minutes worth of research I was able to find out that only about 1 million slaves were imported into the United States during the period of slavery. They all came from the West coast nations of Africa. Central and East African peoples were enslaved in Egypt and the Middle East.

What's your point?

Godagesil:
So if any of that is true, and I believe it is, the phenotypes that were enslaved and imported into the US were all of West Africa, countries such as Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo-Benin Ivory Coast, Sierra Leon, Guinea, Congo and Angola, all what would be called the Niger-Congo linguistic group.

Cameroon and the Congos are in Central Africa while Angola is in both Central and Southern Africa.

Godagesil:
Your arguments about African Diversity start to fall apart when you take into consideration the facts above. I take it your argument is primarily you want to downplay the role admixing of Caucasian blood might play in the diversity of appearance in Black Americans. The easiest way is to do a DNA test.

Straw man argument. Nobody was downplaying Euro admixture in Aframs.

Godagesil:
Admixing in North America was a fact in at least the early colonies like New Orleans. Due to the dearth of women, there were a lot of mulatto children being born and the colonial men were chasing after Native American women causing poor relations between the two groups. The solution was to import French women from the prisons throughout France and send the to New Orleans. There were still too few and Mulatto kids continued to be born, and with it their mothers and they were freed through manumission resulting in a relatively large free black population. The Code Noire was written to keep the mulattos from marrying full blooded African Blacks, reserving the coffee colored mulattos, Quadroons and Octaroons for the Creole men who continued to have kids by them. There were even Quadroon Balls, with the same purpose, to march out the young mixed race women so they could be selected to be a mistress to one of the wealthy Creole (it means native...as in original colonist) men, who would then support her and her kids for life and place them in a home up on Rampart street in the north French Quarter. So you can imagine after several hundred years of this, starting in the early 1700's, there was a lot of admixing going on. Beyoncé, Halley Barry, Vanessa Williams and too many other beautiful "black" women are really products of this kind of admixing of racial groups. The mass migration after the Civil War and the Great Depression of southern blacks to northern cities, just mixed it even more. I have been to rural areas of southern Virginia, Mississippi and Louisiana where the blacks were indistinguishable from those you see in the Congo or north East Africa. The only real way to determine if the variability you see in American black "phenotypes" is to do a DNA profile. That would show for certain that most Americans of African Ancestry are really Americans of mixed African and European ancestry. My daughter now knows that she has Native American and English from her mother, and German, Scottish and African from her father. There is a reason Black Americans and White Americans look so distinct when compared to the groups from which they supposedly came.

Oh my god who the hell cares!

axum:



Cushitic people don't live in tanzania, as Cushitic people came from the Highlands of ethiopia, and settled in the Horn. Idiot, you can't make up lies, we have google.

What Cushitic group lives in Tanzania 7,000 years ago, when their was no such identity. lmao


You can clearly see the map, and the languages relatd to Cushitic (Afroasiaitc : Arabic, Hebrew, and Ethiopian languages) all are in the Horn of Africa and travel toward North Africa and the Arabian peninsula.

See if you really did use google you would've found info on cushitic ethnic groups in Tanzania. For example you would've found info on the South Cushitic languages. There's also Cushitic ethnic groups in Tanzania like the Iraqw, Gorowa, Alagwa, Burunge etc!
There used to be far more Cushitic ethnic groups until the "Bantu" came and absorbed them.
Many Kenyan and Tanzanian Bantu ethnic groups like the Kikuyu, Meru, Sukuma, Swahili, Mijikenda have significant Cushitic ancestry.

Bantu beauties with clear Nilotic admixture/features

Nilotic Reference Points:
Apajok Wal - South Sudanese Nilote


Ajuma Nasenyana Kenyan Nilote (Turkana, I believe)


Now for "Title Post"
Eva Ndachi - I think she's a Luhya/Luyia


Desire Luzinda - Ugandan Bantu


Juliana Kanyomozi

Nigerian Pidgin English is fucking awful.

Abeg, jare, na wa o, joor, dey. The Bleep does that mean!?

osystein:


What physical features are those? Bantu is a language group, not physical features.

Seems like you don't know the people you're always hating on.

Here are the regions that speak a Bantu language.
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muafrika:
Thats right. The Bantus practiced assimilation and made leagues with the tribes they encountered rather than their total annihilation or perpetual animosity. The further they moved, the more tribes were assimilated. The Eastern Bantus assimilated most of the short statured tribes who occupied the region before them, from whom they get some physical features like the prominent forehead/receding hair line, rounded lips and beautiful large eyes. Like the Sukuma beauty above. The average height also gradually decreases eastward for the same reason, with a few exceptions.

Exactly! There is no such thing as typical Bantu features. When the Bantu Expansion took place (about 4000 years ago) they met and assimilated different African peoples. This is why there isn't a unified bantu look and bantus can even be distinguished genetically as well. The Bantus in East Africa have a lot of Cushitic (they used to occupy as far as Southern Tanzania) and Nilotic (like in Uganda and Western Kenya) admixture. The Bantus around the Central African rainforest absorbed quite a bit of "Pygmy" genetics. Southern African Bantus have a lot of Khoisan/Bushmen genes.

muafrika:
I have always thought that Ghanaians have Bantu features. I think they are related.

Bantus are genetically West African.

Bamileke Attire - Looks freaky but awesome.

ochejoseph:
It's very easy to criticise without cross checking the Facts, it's even easier to criticise blindly because in a blind state the individual is in a state of darkness and oblivious of what is happening in the surrounding !
Until we understand the past appreciating the future and the present might be difficult!

It was Nicholas Sparks who said
That "You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter"

I leave you with sights and visuals of the how President Jonathan Met our Rail way system and it's current state as at this morning!

Happy viewing Happy weekend
&
God Bless Nigeria

Oche Otorkpa (MNSM)
www.twitter.com/ochejoseph
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Not bad! Still from what I've noticed, Nigeria still has a major trash problem. You guys need build better sewers, build some recyclling plants. Nigeria has the largest economy in Africa yet you guys are wasteful!

deemaj:
Nigeria is a diversified country with different beautiful cultures. In every traditional marriage, we see different lovely men and women coming together in our lovely traditional way. Please let's celebrate our beautiful country with lovely people. Below are some traditional marriage pixx.





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I love Traditional Nigerian Attire!

TheRealMrStan:

http://olorisupergal.com/latasha-nwugbe-unveiled-as-konga-ambassador-for-plus-sized-women/

I wanna piece of that!

Ada Abanobi, Hakeem's Olajawon daughter and Foluke Akinradewo are gorgeous!

I've never tried Nigerian fast food! Is it any good?

SexyFox:
Shrinkage.
First pic, 8 in the morning.

Second pic, 3 in the noon.
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I love the hair!
You're also very cute as well!

Of America isn't Nigeria's friend. America is supplying Boko Haram! They've nearly always supplied and funded Islamic Terrorists.