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Sista (f)
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@BabosisiHaving lived here a while and observed different features of AA,I personally believe that most AA from originally South Carolina and Georgia are of Igbo origin.
Most of my AA I see there have Igbo features,skin tone and could easily have been mistaken for an Emeka or Nneka.
Wesley Snipes looks like an Nsukka man proper while Taye Diggs could have been from Nawfia.
Modified: I posted wrong tpic before, here is the right topic. I was referring to this topic below. http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=27881.msg670262#msg670262
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babyosisi (f)
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Maybe those are just female features since no males seem to have them
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NINETOFIVE (m)
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Maybe I misunderstood you sista.
yes 9 to 5, do you know about a place called Ibo landing near Charleston South Carolina named so because most of the slaves that passed through there were mainly Igbos in origin.
They were the least obedient slaves,I read,protested the most and the ones sent to Haiti committed suicide than work as slaves,ask any Haitian there is an area called Ibo something. in Haiti where that suicide story is told in their history.
Having lived here a while and observed different features of AA,I personally believe that most AA originally from South Carolina and Georgia are of Igbo origin.
Most of my AA I see there have Igbo features,skin tone and could easily have been mistaken for an Emeka or Nneka.[ Yeah i know the place and about the history of the place, and there was a story of some Jews that came to pay homage to the Igbo men that committed suicide than live as slaves, the Jews said that it reminds them of their history when their men casted themselves through the wall or something can't remember clearly. |
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GNature (m)
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babyosisi/9to5
Thanks for posting those lovely pictures. I recall seeing them on the BBC website and was as happy then as I am now (seeing them again). Its nice to see the west (for once) not portray us Nigerians/Africans as poverty ridden people as commonly displayed on their tv media (e.g. CNN).
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superman (m)
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hope yall not referring micheal jackson to janet jackson! hahhhhhhhh ha what am i talking about.
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Ugwumba (m)
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Sometimes, the right decision to make when you discover that ignorance is paraded as 'research' and 'knowledge' is to resort to a 'golden' silence.
This proverb is so deep in meaning, that only those who see the light can understand.
The skeleton ceases to recognize the flesh which covered its shame - so is life.
Ndibanyi, Ilu ka'm turu. Ekelem unu.
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babyosisi (f)
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hope yall not referring micheal jackson to janet jackson! hahhhhhhhh ha what am i talking about.
Is it just me?. I find it difficult to comprehend this superman of a man. Leave those weed alone man!!! |
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EastnEuSis (f)
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from Babyosisi from: superman on Yesterday at 01:46:11 AM
hope yall not referring micheal jackson to janet jackson! hahhhhhhhh ha what am i talking about. Is it just me?. I find it difficult o comprehend this superman of a man. Leave those weed alone You are definitely not the only one Sister, Superman needs to quit smoking weed. |
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superman (m)
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weed ke? hahahah ununna disown me before now una don come again ha? forget weed dear we are soldiers in god s time! in his time we shall arise for real to make a massive change in nigeria so emm when the time comes hope you picture weeed ha haha. but then your sense of humour might be a concern, not my problem love! emm yeah
now lets see if i can help you out a little bit, break it down for my soldiers across nigeria. someone pasted the ndigbo wedding picture rite in which someone was alluding to those individuals on that picture look too nice to be igbo, well na foreign body ha.
so if you wondering how that phrase came up ( like my magic stick in the middle of the night ha ). wonder no more babes. we are a true soldiers with great sense of humour, however as a soldier you dnt have a choice, you got to be clever, like me hahha
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GNature (m)
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Is it just me?.
I find it difficult to comprehend this superman of a man.
Leave those weed alone man!!!
@babyosisi It is not just you at all, a lot of times I just can't understand what the dude is talking about. I hope he takes your advice though 'because he really needs it. |
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superman (m)
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babysosis ha
my experince in this life we living as a soldiers is some people like to take you as a fool but watch when they get to know you, what a nightmare course jealousy is the order of the day. be careful dnt let them see you. na waa oo for this pppl
babysosis I'm coming to your house with my african america friend ! hope you dnt mind smokers ha
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Sista (f)
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@Superman
Ha ha, super, you sholl is crazy but you ma man, you ma man.
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superman (m)
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hahah ha yes sista i appreciate the love ! one day they will understand, but for now i can only hope we dnt loss more souls in plane palaver
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Drusilla (f)
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Those are pictures of African Americans, having an African wedding? Or are they supposed to be pictures of Continental Africans having an wedding?
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GNature (m)
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The pictures are actually Continental Africans having a wedding. Folks on this thread have commented on their resemblance to African Americans. Sista thought some of the ladies look like the wayans brothers  |
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Sista (f)
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@Gnature
I didn't say they looked like the Wayans brothers, I said I could see some of the same features between the Igbo African women and the Wayans brothers like the nose, smile and such.
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GNature (m)
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oh, my bad, I guess that's what I was trying to say.
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babyosisi (f)
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A few weeks ago on another thread someone had accused sista of trying to "catch"a Naija man.
Sista you can catch superman,he is quite a catch lol
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Sista (f)
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@ Babiosisi
I believe that was you who accused me of trying to catch a Naija man.
Yes, I am pretty sure that Super is a good catch, LOL
Seriously though, Superman is alright with me.
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GNature (m)
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A few weeks ago on another thread someone had accused sista of trying to "catch"a Naija man.
Sista you can catch superman,he is quite a catch lol
LOL hahaha I don die ooo ! Great catch indeed |
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Drusilla (f)
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If those are supposed to be CA's, then I must have been at that wedding. I know every one there.
Don't tell me. This is supposed to be a Nigerian wedding?
Those are supposed to be Nigerians and not African Americans right?
Yawn.
African Americans, I suggest that you get your DNA tests really really close to Nigeria.
It seems every last one of us AA has a twin Nigerian.
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nilla (f)
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i think most AA would have Nigerian origins.
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babyosisi (f)
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@ Babiosisi
I believe that was you who accused me of trying to catch a Naija man.
Yes, I am pretty sure that Super is a good catch, LOL
Seriously though, Superman is alright with me.
no,no. I was the one who came to your defence remember I think it was the thread started by 9 to 5 saying African women were stupid. |
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babyosisi (f)
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The first time my mom came to the states,she told us AA looked very Igbo and she often pointed out people that looked like people she knew back home.
Many also think Jamaicans are mainly of Yoruba origin.
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Drusilla (f)
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Funny thing about it, is that, I would have thought that the clothes were so typical of AA who are trying to look more African.
LOL
Apparently, we TRY really good. I would have never guessed that for REAL African looks.
What is up with us and purple? LOL
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nilla (f)
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purple = royalty |
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NINETOFIVE (m)
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African Americans are definitely mostly from Nigeria, I can see mostly Igbos faces, Yoruba faces, benin faces and even rivers, the only faces i 've not seen in African American's is just the Hausa faces, no wonder why they want to kill us all because we don't have nothing in common with them not even history.
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babyosisi (f)
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Another reason I would believe that a lot of African Americans have Igbo origin would be the reunion culture most African Americans have and their ability to relate to 3rd and 4th cousins as though they were siblings.
Igbos are the same way.
An Igboman in any part of Nigeria or in anyother town in Igboland would always see himself as a stranger of some sort and would seek to unite with his kin usually at Christmas time and would have a home built in the land of his forefathers irrespective of where he was born or grew up.
A yoruba man in Lagos on the other hand would call Lagos his home and him and his kids would refer to themselves as Lagosians even though he is originally from Okitipupa.
An Igbo man from Umuahia living in Enugu will never claim to be from Enugu
even if his own father and him weere born and raised in Enugu.
We always claim the land of our ancestors as our place of origin.
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GNature (m)
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i 've not seen in African American's is just the Hausa faces, no wonder why they want to kill us all because we don't have nothing in common with them not even history.
The hausas are one of a kind aren't they ? |
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