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Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by AloyEmeka8: 3:06am On Jun 02, 2010 |
Why do Yorubas from Oyo origin mostly light skinned in comparison to other Yorubas?. I am not talking about bleached ones like Akala but many Yorubas from Oyo state are light skinned yet their sister state Osun has the darkest people in Nigeria as its indigenes. Are they genetically different from the rest of Yoruba race or is it their climate? |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by 0hsisi: 3:09am On Jun 02, 2010 |
There is I nothing I won't read on this forum. Why is the buttocks area the darkest part of the body? |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by ChinenyeN(m): 5:27pm On Jun 02, 2010 |
Correct my if I'm wrong, but aren't Oyo people 'Yoruba proper'? So, it would make sense if they're also genetically different from other Yoruba. |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by AloyEmeka5: 3:30pm On Jun 03, 2010 |
0hsisi: Because we forget to rob Tura that side. |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by sherlock229(m): 7:44am On Sep 08, 2021 |
AloyEmeka8: Hmmm interesting analysis, I'm yoruba and I notice this too, of course it's easy to know when someone has bleached or not, so most natural lightest skinned Yoruba I've seen are usually from Oyo state, my Dad is very light skinned,his mother too is very light skinned, i saw a woman who look fulani in feature and very light skin but has Oyo accent in a bus one day, I'm also light skinned,same as some of my siblings.. then again my mom is also from Oyo but she's dark asf and same with most of her family, my mom family dark ,my dad family light skin lol . But yes northern Yorubas are usually the lightest |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by IjapaTiroko: 12:26pm On Sep 08, 2021 |
It has nothing to do with climate, and they aren't different from the rest of we Yòrùbás. It's just a high concentration of people who's skin isn't producing as much melanin as others. PS: The true colour of one's skin shows on the a$$, vulva, and manhood |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by niggadee(m): 6:19pm On Sep 08, 2021 |
AloyEmeka8:ondo people are most fair skin complexion in yoruba land 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by Abohboy: 8:46pm On Sep 09, 2021 |
sherlock229: I know Ijebus who are also very light skinned so it can't be climate or because of the DNA of Oyo yorubas |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by RedboneSmith(m): 10:01pm On Sep 09, 2021 |
It is interesting that a 19th-century explorer (I can't quite remember his name now) also wrote that the Oyo subgroup are lighter-skinned than other Yoruba groups to the south. Which is odd, because from personal experience, I would have thought groups in present-day Ondo State are generally lighter-skinned than Oyo people. At the end of the day, all these na anecdotes. No one has any empirical evidence to back up any of these. 3 Likes |
Re: Why Are Oyo People Light Skinned Naturally? by Probz(m): 11:20pm On Sep 09, 2021 |
RedboneSmith: Not all anecdotes are false. The OP isn’t the only one to observe that Oyo (and, in your case, Ondo) people are lighter-skinned and neither am I. Empirical evidence has never really been used to account for our complex demographical needs so until then anecdotes do have to be listened to. From my own observations the OP isn’t wrong. 2 Likes |
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