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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Fulaman198(m): 6:04am On Oct 25, 2013 |
AnOlderAmerican, please be careful of displaying any content that may be personal. This includes pictures as well. Pictures can be distributed online rather easily. 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 7:21am On Oct 25, 2013 |
@AnOlderAmerican, Please ignore him. Don't engage in further battles with him, ok? 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by EEngineer1(m): 9:12am On Oct 25, 2013 |
Two nigerians ganging up against me to protect an American, imagine two moderators taking sides with a foreign entity to bash a constant forum user. This scenario can be seen in our government today and in many african societies, u guys are blind to his insults to me but hastily rush to condemn me. As for the older American, it will be my pleasure not to engage u again. I rest my case |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Wulfruna(f): 9:26am On Oct 25, 2013 |
Bro... Don't play the Nigerian solidarity card. We read your comments. They reek of sarcasm. You really weren't expecting reasonable Nigerians to have your back, were you? 4 Likes |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Fulaman198(m): 9:32am On Oct 25, 2013 |
E-Engineer: E-Engineer it is nothing to do with that, it is more to do with your tone and how you address people. In our culture, this African culture we are supposed to have respect for our olders no matter where they are from. But you are disrespecting an older man. I know your parents raised you well, Nigerian parents instill in our brains to always respect the elders. Why do you use such harsh intonations to address him? There are other ways to go about it. 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by RedEboe(m): 8:10pm On Dec 21, 2013 |
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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 5:41pm On Dec 24, 2013 |
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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by BlackLeopard(m): 11:45am On Aug 27, 2014 |
Don't know I heard dat story as 'lazy, suicidal, an dumb' The way I been hearin' it was 'not gonna work for assholes, free-spirited, an' smart as Bleep not workin' for slavers as dem slavers ask' But yeah, stats to the points. |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by benELOHIM7(m): 3:20pm On Sep 08, 2014 |
did i hear u say the yoruba man is lenient and peaceful. oh he was peaceful enough to have sold off my grand dad's buildings in lagos after the war. lazy lots
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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Mwenyi: 10:37am On Oct 14, 2014 |
Tesiday: There is a tribe like that in every African country. LOL! There Baganda in Uganda are the most successful and arrogant tribe. They believe rest of the country is conspiring against them. Intent on destroying them. They are quite hated and no one wants to entrust them with power. The rest of the tribes work together to keep them in their place by clipping the feathers on the wings so to speak. They tried to break away from Uganda too. The central gov't had to crashed them. In Kenya they have the kikuyu. The largest and most successful tribe. They are equally arrogant. They are found in every corner of the country buying up land. They are hard working and gifted businessmen. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Mwenyi: 7:22am On Oct 15, 2014 |
bigfrancis21: I have heard the same thing. Question is how come igbos look like(some can fit in with AA) like AA who are mixed with white and what not? Are some igbos mixed with non african? Did some european slave traders have their way with igbo women and knocked them up? How can unmixed west african have european eyes http://www.mobo.com/sites/default/files/images/news/lemar.jpg This is typical west african http://liveofofo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-300x360.jpg |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 2:43pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
Mwenyi: During the slave trade era, slave masters purchasing slaves on the bight of bonny hardly made it into the Igbo hinterland. They dealt directly with the African slave dealers at Opobo and Calabar(non-Igbo communities along the coastline). The modus operandi of the Igbo slave trade was thus: the slaves were captured from several Igbo villages in the hinterland and transported to the coastline citites mentioned before for sale. Very few white slave traders, if any, had direct contact with the Igbo hinterland. Owing to the hinterland nature of Igboland and very few cases of direct exposure of the natives to the white slave traders, interracial relationships between Igbo women and white slave traders on the Igbo hinterland were infinitesimally minimal, if any, and are yet to be documented. This rules out the option of part European ancestry for some Igbo, well, except those borne out of recent interracial marriages. Not all AAs have European ancestry. In most cases, you can tell if an AA has substantial European ancestry(very light skin color) or not. In some cases you can't but they do. However, the percentage of those having paternal European ancestry originating during the slave trade era(not recent interracial marriages between blacks and whites) will not be more than 20%, in my own estimate. Very many AAs are still without European ancestry, i.e 'pure africans'. When people compare Igbo looks and AA looks the comparison is usually between Igbos and the non-European looking AAs. As to the picture of Okonjo Iweala you posted, yes she's African. However, dark skin doesn't automatically define an african. I could post for you a thousand and one pictures of Africans(Yoruba, Fulani, Igbo) who aren't dark skinned. Many Igbos, for example, are light-skinned naturally that you wouldn't think of them as Africans(using your yardstick of measuring an African by dark skin color) if you met them outside the shores of Africa. The Igbo population is made up of both dark skin and light skin individuals in a ratio I'd comfortably put at 70:30. The light-skin phenomenon of Igbos was well-documented during the slave trade era (a best pointer to this documented phenomenon is the 'red eboe' phrase referring to light-skin Igbos during the slave trade) which indicates it had always been a part of the population pre-atlantic slave trade era. Remember, these people mentioned are also Africans. Lemar isn't the first person I've seen having grey/hazel eyes. During my undergraduate days in UNN, I came across a nice light-skinned middle-aged woman who was a manual typist from Nsukka who had the same hazel/grey coloured eyes. Such people exist in Africa but are very few. The Igbos refer to the eyes as 'anya buusu' in Igbo. The causative gene for the eyes is fiercely recessive in nature and only shows up when two heterogeneous people having the gene come together, of which the chances of having an individual born with it in Africa are slim. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by fightforchange1(f): 11:09pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
bigfrancis21: calling that event slave trade isnt accurate...its should b given the moral weight it deserves... call it HOLOCAUST! |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Mwenyi: 4:22am On Oct 17, 2014 |
Jayvarley: I believe igbo are mixed somewhere along they way they might not be aware of it. I met this nigeria igbo dude, he was thick(not fat) like AA types with caucasian body type and complexion and hair I have seen on people mixed with darker indians in my country. Could their claim to middle eastern origin have some truth to it? Then have you some with hazel eyes and a couple giving birth to a white kid. And from what I have seen light skin igbos do not often have typical west african features like Okonjo anybody observed this? . 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 4:42am On Oct 17, 2014 |
fightforchange1: Holocaust is a term that refers to the wilful mass extermination, either directly or subtly, of a people of certain race, ethic group, political party etc. The slave trade wasn't aimed at mass extermination of Africans though I do agree that the extremely inhumane conditions Africans were subjected to, such as the horrible conditions of the plantations in the caribbean, or the stifling conditions of the slave ships where Africans were bound in chains like sardine and the tortuous long 3 to 6 months of the middle passage journey to the Americas they had to endure, qualify to be called holocaust intentional. 1 Like |
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