Wow, its always interesting to see the Ivorians hate the french so much and yet they all speak french, many of them not even teaching their native language to their children. Abidjan is the only place in the world outside of france where people speak french as a native language.

they are igbos. they are just igbos NOT the combination of igbo or yoruba or any other tribe

why are they are so pretty? we are just blessed!

Most of the women posted appear mixed or light except for maybe the dark sudanese lady. Are all of the other women(besides the two I posted) mixed?

most african countries who ever the father is(the father is around 99% of the time)

In Ghana, Senegal, and amongst many Berbers its whoever the mother is. But anyway, I talked to a congolese in Austria and she said that the African men just stick it in whatever and leave.

Mhh. I wanna know why and I am going to find out.It could be personal .I know ethiopians love keeping to themselves and have their own way of doing things.Its usually not easy to see them intergrate with other communities or assimillate their cultures.They always create their own 'small ethiopia' everywhere they go.

You're right, we have one here, maybe even two. However it helps them alot, if all Africans did it they would get more respect I think. Ethiopians use their country like a brand, most other Africans use Africa as a brand. Maybe they have too much pride and their is too much resentment due to the lack of them being colonized(they were only occupied for like 4 years). In West Africa many of the countries did not band together against the Europeans, they fought amongst each other. From what I understand Menelik worked hard to unify Ethiopia because he knew the Europeans were coming.

Alot of times in West Africa you will read about leaders wasting resources trying to expand in the opposite direction the Europeans were advancing. Not only did they waste precious resources doing this, but they weakened the other empires/nations making it easier for the Euros to advance.

I am Nigerian and I talk to Ethiopians about Ethiopian history

Ethiopia, the place every African seems to love to hate. I have never seen more hatred between between people than that the Kenyans have for the ethiopians.

I cannot speak for whether Ethiopians hate Kenyans equally because I have never asked them. However I do know that the mere subject of Ethiopia has sent more than one of my Kenyan friends into a rage.

Vivika so you are at NYU for business huh? I agree with you, ur business skill cannot be measured in grades because most people with high grades are cheating anyway. What type of business would u like to start? Btw, we should go out sometime lol, i can send u a pic if u want,

What do the future hold? Wont be surprised if armed robbers attack with helicopter gunships, air to surface missiles and fighter aircraft.

Dont worry the Libyans and Malians will be selling them cheap!

freecocoa have we talked before?

Arabs brought Islam to Nigeria? Is that so? You may want to do your research.

Whether the Fulani or the Malians brought Islam to Nigeria, the Arabs gave it to them it makes no difference.

Did you not see how we banned homosexuality in Nigeria? Maybe you forget.

You banned homosexuality as a result of the christianity and islam that the West and Arabs brought.

That was our greatest mistake. Imagine if West Africa had adopted canon, guns and such. We would have send those invaders back home. The fact that some Africa empire were able to kick europeans axx with just bow and sword confirm it.

Yea I got that info from this book

http://books.google.com/books?id=a81BcvfRXWkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Charles+Rathbone+Low&hl=en&ei=rFfHTerELurG0QHJ_KnwBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false


BTW, warfare in Africa was just different from European warfare. It appears they had a sense of fairness and other things involved, in one of the pages in the book above, when the British commander finally captures an Asanti general, the general complains that the Europeans bring knives to a gunfight. He complains that the Euros get in close and stab his men while they are reloading or whatever. Why the Asanti didnt carry knives as well is beyond me, but, hey.

I am American and even I search for mercy johnson.

Wow, its interesting to see forts being built by West Africans. They never adopted the same kind of siege warfare the europeans used. By that I mean they didnt use cannons, at least thats what one british military official said. Even when the Kongolese were given cannons they did not use them. They preferred blockades and such.

You all keep quoting the bible. How do you know what African traditions were there before Christianity?

If things did not go along with Christianity or even Western culture, the missionaries told people to stop doing them because it was bad christianity. So you all dont know what practices were there or not.

For the man who said Berbers were Caucasian, did you know that the Sanhaja or Zenaga were once one of the largest and most powerful Berber confederations? The Tauregs are also descended from them.

Say hello to your Caucasian brethren



Taureg Woman



Libyan Berber woman

I am talking about the heart of darkness the[b] sub Sahara Bantu Negroes[/b] such as yourselves that were pretty much stuck in the stone age/ early Iron age before you were colonised by the British.

Actually there are no Bantu native to Nigeria

Also, most of west Africa is not bantu

You picked the wrong site I guess

Learn English, savage.

Aprendate espanol, salvaje

Do not reply to this provocative thread. Notice the name of the poster, (Rhodesia) probably a frustrated white Zimbabwean and a nostalgic of Apartheid time.

If stayed in THEIR part of the country that was gifted to them there wouldnt have been any problems.

here in the civilized world we do not r ape people, tribal savages like you are not welcome in England.

Really? Is that what happened when the colonists came to America?

Blacks being the majority in Brazil, if they unite they can soon have a Black President.

Look at their lady president, doesnt she look black to you?

I read the article, he raped a girl, served his time and has been an exemplary citizen ever since, whats wrong with that?

this is just what west africa needs!

we have been practicing Judaism for thousands of yrs is nothing new,religious practice of igbo Jews is similar with the Jewish culture in Israel the evidence was there eg  circumcision eight days after the birth of a male child, observance of kosher dietary laws, separation of men and women during menstruation,

how come the british commanders and missionaries made no mention of this in their writings? No anthropologists, nor arabs, nor even sierra leonians in Igboland made any mention of this at all 120 years ago.

Why don't you go and sell your ideas up North to the die-hard almajiris who are ready to kill anything that crosses their path.

If we bring food and security they will listen.

Your problem stems from this idea that ''traditional African methods'' are somehow definable or static. For your information, AFRICA is a huge, diverse continent that cannot be said to have a single 'traditional' form of anything! There are as many ways of doing things as there are languages (all 2,000+ of them). The Nubian urban convention vary from those of ancient Kerma, as do those of Kano from Benin. Just as the Yoruba methods differ sharply from those of the old Monomotapan region. And what myriad differences separate Timbuktu and Ife from ancient Meroe, Napata or Thebes?

So how can you talk of 'traditional African design'? It makes no sense. And the idea of 'western cities' is actually highly misleading. Some of the African cities I've mentioned were in existence thousands of years before there was any 'white' city. So the very idea of urbanity is an African concept.

I didnt say it wasnt. You forget many of the greatest African cities were DESTROYED. You also assume that "traditional african" means one, it does not, it means the ways familiar to and originally african. That could be for any society. Many of the largest African cities were in west and central africa, and they were destroyed. Even Sokoto was sacked by the British.

THOSE cities posted (there are dozens more across Africa that look like that) are AFRICAN cities through and through

Can you explain to me how they are African cities through and through when they were not built using traditional African methods of urban planning? Many of the features of precolonial African features were dismantled by the Europeans because they felt that they were inferior. This along with a change in society, has lead African cities to not only have the same problems European cities have(which according to European explorers were non existent previously) they have the same problems MUCH MUCH worst than European cities. This is due to the fact that the African cities the Europeans built in most cases were not designed to be cosmopolitan but merely places to store people to work on their infrastructure projects.