Hi guys I just wanted to know if there is a Somali community in Abuja or Lagos. It will be helpful.
Thanks

Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

Isiolo:

Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

Hello, I'm a Black-American guy and would like to ask you if it's true that most Somalians and Ethiopians do not consider themselves to be blacks? I've heard this mentioned alot, is it true?

Hero:

Hello, I'm a Black-American guy and would like to ask you if it's true that most Somalians and Ethiopians do not consider themselves to be blacks? I've heard this mentioned alot, is it true?

Somalis and Ethiopians in general see themselves as being Black people, but different from other Sub-Saharan Africans. You have to understand, there is a massive barrier between Somalis/Ethiopians and other Sub-Saharan Africans in terms of geography. We are as distant in terms of geography and culture as the Arabs and Berbers are to Sub-Saharan Africans. But obviously, Somalis/Ethiopians consider themselves Black, but the definition of that word gets watered down according to the individual whom you are speaking to. I know I am a Black-African and I am very proud to have membership in that group.

And no matter what the critics say, Somalia & Ethiopia are the only pure Black nations in Africa. Free of European/Arab genetic or cultural pollution.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/f/f1/280px-Official_LanguagesMap-Africa.png

So you consider Islam to be an indigenous Somali religion then?

Isiolo:

Somalis and Ethiopians in general see themselves as being Black people, but different from other Sub-Saharan Africans. You have to understand, there is a massive barrier between Somalis/Ethiopians and other Sub-Saharan Africans in terms of geography. We are as distant in terms of geography and culture as the Arabs and Berbers are to Sub-Saharan Africans. But obviously, Somalis/Ethiopians consider themselves Black, but the definition of that word gets watered down according to the individual whom you are speaking to. I know I am a Black-African and I am very proud to have membership in that group.

And no matter what the critics say, Somalia & Ethiopia are the only pure Black nations in Africa. Free of European/Arab genetic or cultural pollution.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/f/f1/280px-Official_LanguagesMap-Africa.png

@ part in bold.

Humm, I don't know if you were joking or not with that comment, though if you were serious in stating that, then I must say that I find it very odd that you would state such a thing. As far as I know, it's quit a popular thing for Ethiopians and Somalis, Eretrians and Sudanese as well, to make it know rather quickly in such discussion that they are mixed with some form of Semite and or Italian mixture in which they absolutely are convinced they all have with the exception of those who they claim are fake Ethiopians simply because they don't posses the swerve hair, narrowed nose and dimmed skin complexion.

londoner:

So you consider Islam to be an indigenous Somali religion then?

Never heard that one before, though I do know that some do consider Judaism to be so.

I think Londoner was being sarcatic.

Hero & Londoner, if you look at the map I posted, you will see that Somalia & Ethiopia are the only two nations in Africa whose only official language is an indigenous one. In every other Sub-Saharan country, there is a second language that is also official. Also, there are probably the least number of Whites to be found in those countries as well. If you visit the capital of any major African city, you will see Whites and Indians every 15 meters - I have yet to witness that in the aforementioned countries. Maybe civil war is what keeps them at bay -- a bullet a day keeps the Whitey away.

But that's not the topic. The topic is about the Somali community in Nigeria. My only knowledge is that Liberia has more Somali residents than Nigeria. I LOL'd when I first heard that.

@Isiolo, I wasn't being sarcastic at all.

If you are  going to claim that Somalia is free of Arab cultural pollution, then you have to totally ignore the massive influence of Islam in Somalia.

You are correct, its not the point of the thread. I dont know about Somali communty in Nigeria, but I do know this, it will serve you well not to look down your nose at Nigerians because of their colonial past when you get there.

londoner:

@Isiolo, I wasn't being sarcastic at all.

If you are going to claim that Somalia is free of Arab cultural pollution, then you have to totally ignore the massive influence of Islam in Somalia.

You are correct, its not the point of the thread. I don't know about Somali communty in Nigeria, but I do know this, it will serve you well not to look down your nose at Nigerians because of their colonial past when you get there.

Absolutely. Also I've heard that Somali illegals were amongst the ones behind the misfit copy cat "Taliban" assaults carried out last year in Northern Nigeria in which were rather quickly stomped out by the Nigerian military. As Nigeria continues to make its way into advancing its economic and social status-- I'll be rather worry of some of these folks who are attempting to stream in from many of these rather radical nations Like Somalia, Sudan and Lybia, in that I feel that they may cause them problems down the road. Problems of the Terroristic type as many of them appear to be extreme puppets/slaves of the Arabians.

This thread has really degenerated into something completely different. Aren't there rules against off-topic posting?

And when the hell did Somalis carry out attacks in Nigeria? The point of this topic is to find Somalis in Nigeria and now Somalis are fighting wars there? I think you lost me in this topic.

Isiolo

those are the kinda things that happen here regularly on nland.

topics give birth to other topics

May be u could go 2 the dating and meeting-up zone to meet ur people

@ Isiolo, the funny thing is, it was actually you who was responsible for helping the discussion to go off topic in the first place, lol.

Maybe it would have been better to have made that claim to hero's initial question, rather than engaging him.

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tpia:

there's no race or country on earth that Nigerians havent dated or married, so yes, there should be Somalians in Nigeria by now.

Isnt Tai Solarin's son married to an Ethiopian? I'm not sure though.

So is one of Ibru's sons. Ethiopian or eritrean

Thanks guys.

I though that there were Somalis in Nigeria, many of them, but that isn't what I'm hearing here.

Who said Ethoipians and Somalis are not pure Africans?

ikeyman00:

somalan

how many people u shot back home

Hehehe! Bros you wicked oh!

As for Somali communityin Naija, They must be blending in with northerners, Haven't seen them in the south at all.

(Off topic; Somali are distinct peoples of African origin, with distinct phenotypes. Again they are of African origin. Their phenotypes and genotypes are distinct to adapatations of Arid African regions vs Tropical adaptations i.e elongated vs Robust features. However this is not true 100% of the time.

I heard some are in Lagos

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Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

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Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

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Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

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Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

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Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

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Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.

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Isiolo: Hello. This is an old topic, but I was surfing this forum and I found this to be interesting. I don't know if you still post here, but you'll find this shall you need it.

I am a fellow Somali so I could help in this department. I don't know the number of Somalis in Nigeria, but I know quite a few who recently went to Lagos. They are there for business and it is a good place to be.

I lived in Kenya for quite some time, and you most likely did as well - or South Africa, and neither place is friendly to foreign business competition which is a bit f-cked up. In Nigeria, you will find that vastly different. They don't care who you are, if you have business to offer they will accept it. If I get to do study abroad, that will be my first African destination.

Here I come, Lagos 2009.