Abagworo: Igbos are not mixed and not even as light skinned as people make it seem. We have more light brown skinned people than most other Nigerian black ethnic groups but not in any way white skinned. Is singer Chris Brown light-skinned?

ezeagu:
No it is NOT, unless you have DNA evidence of this from all the testing that has gone on on the coast. Again, even the Wodaabe scored low on Berber DNA, Igbo people (both dark and light) have been tested and there hasn't been any case of ANY European ancestry.

Again, even the Wodaabe scored low on Berber DNA

shymexx: ^^^^Most of the light skinned Africans were mostly raped during colonial times...

Interracial marriages weren't really common during that period...

I read a book a couple of weeks ago and the most affected/raped were: Edos/Itsekiris, Egbas, and Igbos...

ezotik:
i always thought the ekitis were the ones stereotyped as light in yorubaland.
and i often wonder why european surnames is more prevalent amongst yorubas who most times are the elites in yoruland.

shymexx:

Egbas have the most European names in Yorubaland and probably produced the highest number of slaves(from Yorubaland) during the slave trade, hence why most of the Saros and Amros who return to Nigeria after the slave trade had Egba ancestry... They were involved in so many wars and at the receiving side of almost everything that happened during that period... Don't forget they had to move from Ibadan to where they're located today in Abeokuta...

My maternal grandma is Egba and she looks mixed race - and most people from her family have the same colour tone.... The Ekiti mixing should be a more recent one, or bleaching cream..

ezotik:
lol @ bleaching cream.
anyway, so a yoru with a euro surname is likely an egba. ok
but why do yorubas with euro surnames are mostly in the elite class?

tpia1: the prominent features are indeed very pronounced, but most igbos with prominent features, and who are light skinned, would still not be mistaken for mixed.

two totally different facial structures here, the only common factor is light skin, which is probably one reason for the confusion.

igbos have a differing range of phenotypes, but all are generally recognizable as igbo.

besides, people tend to ignore the capoid features in igbos as well, not sure why.

tpia1: all light skin igbos arent necessarily mixed.

however, a number of light skinned igbos are indeed, mixed.

what's the skin tone of the facebook lady? She looks like a regular nigerian to me.

Exactly, she looks regular Nigerian.

To me as Well

Yet that "skin tone" is always claimed to be a sign of Mixture

Her facial structure looks Black African to me

Her lips..

Her nose...

Obviously she is wearing a weave so we know her hair is "Black African"

...I dunno bro...

For some reason i think the Igbo Mixing stories have been grossly over exaggerated.

Mixed People Usually Can tell Mixed Black people from regular Lightskin Black People(Yeah i know it sounds mad crazy)

A Lightskin Black Person with two black parents tend to look different from a Lightskin "Black" Person, with One Black Parent.

Like for example...

My Body Hair...is different...

I am Like Roy Jones Jr Complexion...

But i noticed Black Dudes with Less Admixture and Usually Two fully black parents have this thick nappy Chest Hair Like RJJ







My body hair Lay Straight, and Flat

Once again, Hair tells more about admixture than Skin Complexion.(IMO)

shymexx: There's mixing everywhere...

Most Irish and Germanic people also have minimal black ancestry...

If you want the pure caucasoid race - you need to hit scandinavia and siberia for that..

Negroes were also the first to settle in Northern Europe, so there's racial mixing everywhere and it's nothing to be ashamed of...

shymexx: East and Central Africans have the most pronounced African features on the continent and they're mostly Bantus...

~Royal~:

You think East Africans have more Pronounced Features than West Africans?

Subtract The Nilotics

You serious?

Nilotics are prominent for obvious reasons

But, The Rest of the East Africans features can't hold a candle to West African Prominence (Imo)

The Features of West Africans are the most Stark in contrast to me.

shymexx:

What's Berber? - that's another term for Arabised Moors(black people) who became light-skinned due to excessive inter-breeding with Arabs... FYI, Tuaregs are also classified as Berbers and most of them are dark-skinned...

However, why is the Haplogroup R1b (the most frequent Y-chromosome haplogroup in Western Europe) more dominant among Igbos and Edos than other Nigerians?

ezeagu:
Berbers are different from Arabs, there have been lighter skinned people living in north Africa (Libya) since Ancient Egypt. Where did you get this R1b European nonsense from? There are absolutely no signs of mixture in the Igbo population, through ancestral DNA, through facial features and build, through to actual history and so on. Igbo land was actually the last place in Nigeria that was visited by non-Africans so when did this massive migration of Europeans happen and how comes non of us have heard of it? The Igbo are more similar to the 'pigmies' of the central region of Africa than they ever will be to any population outside (or even inside) of Africa. Igbo is genetically similar to the Mbundu populations of Congo. Until you can show me a study which says otherwise, your reply's won't do much in favor of your argument.