Re: Which Nigerian Tribe Has The Prettiest Girls?

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USnaijagirl, I never mentioned that I could tell what tribe a person specifically comes from, though I can very often tell what region their ethnic group is from based on their features, and I can tell with about 98% certainty that that girl you posted is either of an Eastern ethnic group and or a northern. The western region is extremely unlikely.

Now if I had to narrow my guess down even more so--- I'd say that she was very most likely of Eastern Ethnic descent, do to her lip, nose and eye structure in which are all extremely commonly found amongst Eastern ethnics. This lips, precisely are very popularly found amongst the Igbo. So she could very well be an Igbo girl, though I'll keep my guess regionally based and just say that she's most likely an Eastern ethnic descent. Plus her look is very familiar to me, do to the fact of that it's very common amongst African-American girls-- and experience thus further tells me that she must be of Eastern ethnic descent. 

Though on another note. She very well may be a northerner, of Hausa descent,  do to the fact of that many of them do tend to have an Ibodic look to them, share comparable features to a large percentage of African-Americans as well.

@ USnaijagirl: are you aware that quite a number of Sierra Leonian returnees who came back to Nigeria, could be of Yoruba ancestry? You might want to do some further research on your Sierra Leonian ancestor.

ever heard of Samuel Ajayi Crowther?


no biggie- I just get exasperated by myopia, thats all.

Yes, I'm 100% African-American of Igbo ancestry continuously extending back nearly 13 generations in this nation starting in the early 1600's. I'm also of some German and Scottish descent from about 4 generations back, and  Cherokee Native American going back 3 generations. This is your typical lineage of your average African-American.

Humm, it's nice to see that you rep your families homeland, and you feel such a strong attachment. My wife is Igbo and was, along with her sister, born and raised here in the US as well. They weren't raised with a strong connection to their parents birth place and do not identify as being Nigerian-American, choosing to identify as African-Americans in that that is the group in which they most identify with growing up here in the US. I actually know quite a few other Nigerian and Africans in general who were born and raised here in the US who hold the same ideology.

Much in the same way as all past studies often become outdated and proven less accurate over time as more intense study is done on the topics being observed, the same fate has taken hold of Du Boise's work in this regard. His work is outdated and continued study in this field has further isolated down the genetic makeup of the African-American, and the group is continuously showing it self to be of Igbo descent as a majority ethnic entity. We aren't the only ones though, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Cubans and Bohemians are also proving to be of majority Igbo descent, while groups like the Haitians, Dominicans and Jamaicans are also registering large tracks of Igbo lineage.

For the first time in history, the Igbo are being looked at as just as much if not more so of a primary group in the slave, just as the Yoruba were seen as so for centuries, though renewed intense studies are showing that the greater portion of their presence here in the AMERICAS as a whole when it come down to actual numbers reach little further north than Brazil and the immediate surrounding nations,  while the size of their cultural presence spread much more densely beyond that region and thus gave many the impression of that their numbers in these many other areas of the AMERICAS was much larger than they really were.

 Though, knew insight into the African-Americans have shown that in actuality the so Few Yoruba were brought here that their cultural presence is extremely limited and not existent in our history while that of the Igbo is everywhere along with the Senegambian and Angolan ethnic additives; the two other groups in which were brought to the US in rather comparative large numbers as the Igbo.   

I know for a fact that I have Native American ancestry. In that my mothers grandmother (my great-grandmother) was a full blown Cherokee. She and my great grandfather, who was an African-American men, ran a store together down in a small town  in South Carolina.  Though I know well of what you speak of with this great desire for many African-Americans to make claim to having Native blood when in reality many of the ones making the claim do not, and are simply thinking that they do because of the fact of that they are fair skinned and or have "good hair" as they say, and or many narrow features about their face's. You know, old-school glamorized beliefs in which have been passed down of the years through many of our generations families.

@ tpia-

O I have done my reaseach. The question is have you done yours?

I just hope you do know that there were just as many Yoruba slaves as there were Igbo slaves being exported during the slave trade!!! The only difference was the location of where they were being shipped or destination for example, North America vs./ Central South America. 

"These six major groups of freed people of color were known as the 'Settlers'.[7] The Liberated Africans are also the ancestors of some of the Creoles and they provided an influx of new immigrants comprised of mainly Yorubas and Igbos."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Krio_people

Notice how it says both Yoruba and IGBO!

"The Liberated Africans came from all over West Africa and some Central African countries; of the tribes that settled in Freetown, Sierra Leone all belonged to Nigerian tribes and none were native to Sierra Leone. Most however, were Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Akan."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Liberated_Africans

The preceding excerpt says that they even came from other ethnic groups outside of Nigeria and even West Africa!! Sorry to ruin your fantasy but they were not just of Yoruba ethnicity.

In fact, there was even a point in time when Igbos where main export coming from Nigeria’s Calabar port:

"Calabar was a major slave trade port from the late 17th to 19th centuries. Though lacking the impressive forts found in Ghana and Senegal, Calabar sits in the Bight of Biafra, a region from where approximately 25-30% of Africans transported to the new world as slaves left Africa. This percentage represents the largest single point of exit."

Yes. There was a point in time where Calabar (not Lagos) was the major export post where slaves of various SouthEASTERN ethnicity esp. Igbo also Ibibio and other minority groups were the major export. And let’s not forget that before actually reaching the new world they made stops in other parts of West Africa including Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc.
Now in return, After the slave trade was abolished, many liberated Africans and Creoles came back to Nigeria (Mostly From Sierra Leone) to help with education Missionary work etc. This helped with Indirect Rule that the British chose to employ. Do you think they only came to the Yoruba territories? Lagos? Are you serious?? Can you know about the first Presbyterian Church and how it was actually located in Calabar eastern Nigeria??? Did the Igbo not convert to Christianity as well; you really think it was just the Yoruba?? Come on!!!
So I’m pretty confident about my heritage and my history and I know what I’m talking about. There is a possibility that the returning creoles were of Yoruba descent that’s very possible, but not any more possible than them being Igbo or any other ethnic group. And this just may account for why some people have already guessed that I look Yoruba (I still don’t really see it) but hey you never know. Is it a possibility? Yes. Is it likely? Probably not, according to what I know about my heritage ect. and my parents’ account, but it is a possibility. I think that would be the case for all of us. No one is racially pure, u have to look further back in time to know that.
 But next time how about YOU do the research before trying to say that things are myopic. Let’s not allow ignorance get the best of us. 

@ D-reloaded

Thanx for noticing. I am Igbo. I may not look like the typical Northern Igbo because I am actually Aro-Igbo. Aro people are a mixed type of Igbo people. That's what allowed us to establish a hegemony over the entire Southeastern territory during the slave trade, capitalize off the wealth, while instilling fear in our neighbors!!!LOL!! Umu Aro che-che-che Kwenuuu!!!

@ Hero

I know, this is something that I've noticed here in the States myself. Most Igbo born here, you can't even tell they're African let alone Igbo. It's crazy, the 1st generation blend right in w/ African Americans and their culture, what we depict as Akata culture (no offense) although this is something that most elders and older generations, don't like and don't approve of. But the Yoruba Nigerians that are born here, let's just say you can almost always tell that they're Yoruba, LOL!!!

Also yeah, I'm also aware of how mixed African-Americans can be. You say you're of predominant Igbo ethnicity going back quite a few genrations, but also Native American, and parts European, that's cool, and it's also cool that you acknowledge all parts of your identity it's what makes you who you are and this is something hard for black people to do, esp. Africans (this is from my experience, I've actually been guilty of this). You'd be suprised with what you find down your line if you either just look at all or look hard enough. Even Africans aren't as pure as they think. You'd think that Igbos are one of the purest races you'd be SUPRIZED!. I was. I found out that I'm not only Igbo but as well part Hausa/Fulani, Creole (so many possibilities here for creoles are a mix of people), and possibly Ibibio/Efik, Ekoi, Portuguese (for I am Aro-Igbo and Aros intermarried). It's crazy!! 

Good job at making this thread about you. Does the "Aro" stand for Arrogant?

Yeah, I'm part Igbo and Kraut just like you. We could be kin folk, my Sista. By the way, you've mentioned my squinty eyes; well such eye form is in fact very common amongst both Igbo and Cherokee groups in whom I share genes with,  so it's no wonder that I and many others in my family have this eye shape along with many other African-Americans.

ad what part is igbo

Hero,

You make many assertions without putting out any proof or documentation. I would like to see documentation that the Epicanthal Fold (what you are calling squinty eyes) are common among Igbo? I know they are common among different native Native American groups but the only groups in Africa that it is common are in the South.

much easier to assume all blacks in Africa and anywhere in the world, are Igbo.

Now almond shaped eyes are peculiar to Southeastern Nigeria.

Observation.

@usnaijagirl


I think you're quite confused.

Am also sure your story has plenty of gray areas.