stillwater:

There is the Nigerian look. As far as I'm concerned, it's not something to be antagonistic about. Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa have their looks. There is nothing tribalistic about it either. People with green eyes does not take away the average look of Nigerians. Kenyans, Ethiopians have their looks. Has nothing to do with ignorance in my opinion.

it's not something to be antagonistic about

Leave Ethiopians out it, Kenyans? go to Nairobi!

There are no looks peculiar to Nigerians

People that are familair with the faces KNOW them, although not always correct.

Pweety4me:

People that are familair with the faces KNOW them, although not always correct.

i dont really subscribe to the idea of phrenology as an ideology but to get militant over the fact that people can generally tell who is from where, is just laughable.

kandiikane:

That is true sometimes you do get them wrong. .But because you are familiar with certain groups of people you tend to assume where they are from because of their looks when you first meet them and most of them time you are right. .


I study accents and can pick up where someone is from. .Although people generally know an "African accent" that is it for them, they do not know that there are different accents to the "African accent"

Yes, there was one guy i used to see in my 'institution' didn't know him very well or anything but always thought he was Nigerian but turnt out he is congolese were actually quite good friends now (not becus of dat ofcos)

You can never be too certain.

9jaganja:

Leave Ethiopians out it, Kenyans? go to Nairobi!

I can't see the difference in tribal looks seriously,  I know bororo people ect look different but others like TIV, Igala, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa,  etc,  all look alike if you ask me and there is no look in Igbo land I haven't seen in a Yoruba.

Then the Nigerian look,  Seriously how do you even establish such fallacy if can establish that Nigerians look different hahahahahahahah Booooooom yeah!!!

stillwater:

Yeah you can find a look peculiar to a group in another ethnic group, but it won't be in the majority among that group. If you've lived in Nigeria for a considerable number of years, you can begin to tell people apart like 70% of the time.
There's nothing wrong with speculating on people's looks, it's just normal human perception.

I won't be shocked if I was told this lady in the photo is Kenyan.

First of all, my child hood was spent in 3 different countries namely England, US, Nigeria,

When we returned to Nigeria, I wasn't looked at differently by people instead I'm Oyinbo pepper which is what they called every light skin person in my neighborhood! So that gives me the Idea that they are used to my kind of look which to me trounces the "Nigerian look",

9jaganja:

You know, I won't be shocked if that lady is Ethiopian or Ghanaian,  Funniest part is, You will find South Africans/Tanzania with same look,  In Nigeria's case, I won't be surprised if she is Nupe seriously

In England, we were just like every other Nigerian kid in any Nigerian occasion we go to,  which tells you nothing un-Nigerian about our looks,

have an Ogoni name (kenunle) from my uncle's friend who said I look like his Nephew (Kenunle), Again, No "Nigerian look",

In Abuja, I met lots of Fulani people who look like kenyans

Now, The US is the only place me and my sis know we are mixed

tpia@:

fulanis do not look like kenyans unless you're referring to a hamitic/cushoid appearance found in[b] some [/b] kenyans.

maybe somali or araboid ones.



what are you mixed with?

Now, I'm saying, if there is any look exclusive to Nigerians, I will be identified as mixed race in Nigeria because I'm at the border line between Afin and oyinbo,  

That I lived in England/US didn't take away from my Yoruba culture cause that's how mama raised me,  so it couldn't have been the way I behaved that made them call me oyinbo pepper

How would you describe Regina Akia?

9jaganja:

You know, I won't be shocked if that lady is Ethiopian or Ghanaian,  Funniest part is, You will find South Africans/Tanzania with same look,  In Nigeria's case, I won't be surprised if she is Nupe seriously