maestroferddi:
Don't you think it is rash to make a sweeping generalisation about The Daily Mail just because of an ill-conceived article.

I am an avid reader of the paper and to me they are among the best in the world.

LORDI:
Nobody said they are not the best in world.,but trying to compare KIM K and an african woman who was abused..they even ignored the fact that she was abused,raped and died in sufferings...now that's mocking.

jasper7:

Datz the point you are not getting. You expect the white man to hold a black woman who died almost 200years ago in high regard? Do we africans even hold ourselves in high regard?
We cannot go and be fighting oyibo for disrespecting us when we disrespect and embarrass ourselves everyday.
Have you ever sat down to ask yourself this question. Why is Mandela the most recognized black man ever? Because he challenged the white man and stood up for himself for decades. All our underlicker head of states wey dey fall hands around the world no get respect for where oyibo dey.
Forget it men, we africans don fall hands around the world. Nothing pass to be original and be yourself o. Olorun.
Kim don do her own, trust me before next week maheeda, tonto dikeh and the rest of the mad africans will do their own with low budget shooting and chicken pox infested bodies plus stretch marks. Tell me why them no go ridicule us?

jasper7:

Datz the point you are not getting. You expect the white man to hold a black woman who died almost 200years ago in high regard? Do we africans even hold ourselves in high regard?
We cannot go and be fighting oyibo for disrespecting us when we disrespect and embarrass ourselves everyday.
Have you ever sat down to ask yourself this question. Why is Mandela the most recognized black man ever? Because he challenged the white man and stood up for himself for decades. All our underlicker head of states wey dey fall hands around the world no get respect for where oyibo dey.
Forget it men, we africans don fall hands around the world. Nothing pass to be original and be yourself o. Olorun.
Kim don do her own, trust me before next week maheeda, tonto dikeh and the rest of the mad africans will do their own with low budget shooting and chicken pox infested bodies plus stretch marks. Tell me why them no go ridicule us?

jasper7:

Datz the point you are not getting. You expect the white man to hold a black woman who died almost 200years ago in high regard? Do we africans even hold ourselves in high regard?
We cannot go and be fighting oyibo for disrespecting us when we disrespect and embarrass ourselves everyday.
Have you ever sat down to ask yourself this question. Why is Mandela the most recognized black man ever? Because he challenged the white man and stood up for himself for decades. All our underlicker head of states wey dey fall hands around the world no get respect for where oyibo dey.
Forget it men, we africans don fall hands around the world. Nothing pass to be original and be yourself o. Olorun.
Kim don do her own, trust me before next week maheeda, tonto dikeh and the rest of the mad africans will do their own with low budget shooting and chicken pox infested bodies plus stretch marks. Tell me why them no go ridicule us?

fr3do:



abeg abeg abeg
show me one race where is no salvagery currently!
There is salvagery everywhere!

Its like you played with a lot of white doll babies

PapiWata:


You ain't lyin' my brother. Nigeria is home to some of the most amazingly beautiful and toned African women these grateful eyes have ever beheld, BUT, the makers of Nigerian films, SO tragically, go out of their way to select only the most hideously grotesque and out-of-shape female baboons ever gathered for one purpose since the dawn of time. And when I say UGLY, I refer to sort of stomach-churning, viscerally nauseating, wobbly-lard nastiness that could ever infest a nightmare to induce sudden death by virtue of sheer terror alone.

jesuslovesme123:


The word is 'savage', not 'salvage'. But don't worry, I get your idea

So you agree that there is savagery everywhere? Thank God - at least we're on the same page as that's concerned.

fr3do:


I'm not going to correct it, make e dey like that.

Screaming africans are savages wont reduce the jungle justice on the streets but it will produce more self haters like papywater and jasper.

Olaone1:
Just read this disheartening rubbish written in the ultra Right-wing British paper called the Daily Mail. I can't be a***d to paste the exceedingly disgusting piece here. Be clever and see how the piece is worded. This is low even for the Daily Mail. Sad!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2834564/The-19th-Century-Kim-Hottentot-Venus-s-big-bottom-sparked-global-scandal-200-years-certain-Miss-Kardashian.html

maestroferddi:
I have just read the article and just cannot situate the jumpiness that is being displayed here.

First of all, the article was a contribution by a South African white writer. The piece is, in all intents and purposes, a quasi- historical narrative of life in time of slavery. Granted that it is unsavoury, but we can't wish the fact of slavery away:it did happen. A better argument would have been to show that the author's account reflected historical inaccuracies.

I did not see where the article drew parallels between Kim K's predilection to flaunt nudity to African culture. Instead, the author was highlighting the fact that people have almost always been drawn to curiosity. He juxtaposed Baartman's case of over 200 years ago with the stir Kim K is causing at the moment. I just cannot see the connection with racism.

PapiWata:


Kai, Fredo don kill me finish today. Anyway, diariz God, and na only you fit wakka come begin dey insult a whole Double Chief like me.

fr3do:


if it were a black writer, I would have accused them of internalized racism.
Slavery happened, history is not going to change but the way it is appreciated changes. The writer wrote as if its the 1940s, he made the way the south african woman was brutalised seem normal, the writer potrayed her people as somewhat subhumans when he explained the whole storing of fat after drought.

Oga, you wouldnt be narrow-minded if you see this article as what it really is- Nastily racist and insensitive.

maestroferddi:
Most of what passes as an attempt to assert black consciousness is actually gravitating towards victimhood.

Why the narcissism with Western view of Africa? Does it mean that we need the whites to validate our originality and orientation?

The writer depicted a situation where Europeans two century removed were displaying derision and stereotypes about Africans. He went forward to point out that the very stereotypes the people were disdaining end up being aped by the same ignorant people some years later. One can surmise that he was averring that people tend to denigrate what they don't understand or better still that people hide under bigotry to display insecurity and inadequacies.

I personally believe that we Africans should get our acts right instead of continually being engrossed with subjective opinions of others. The moment we start doing the needful, our susceptibility to the vagaries of human perceptions would be diminished considerably.

maestroferddi:
Most of what passes as an attempt to assert black consciousness is actually gravitating towards victimhood.

Why the narcissism with Western view of Africa? Does it mean that we need the whites to validate our originality and orientation?

The writer depicted a situation where Europeans two century removed were displaying derision and stereotypes about Africans. He went forward to point out that the very stereotypes the people were disdaining end up being aped by the same ignorant people some years later. One can surmise that he was averring that people tend to denigrate what they don't understand or better still that people hide under bigotry to display insecurity and inadequacies.

I personally believe that we Africans should get our acts right instead of continually being engrossed with subjective opinions of others. The moment we start doing the needful, our susceptibility to the vagaries of human perceptions would be diminished considerably.

maestroferddi:
Don't you think it is rash to make a sweeping generalisation about The Daily Mail just because of an ill-conceived article?

I am an avid reader of the paper and to me they are among the best in the world.

maestroferddi:
Don't you think it is rash to make a sweeping generalisation about The Daily Mail just because of an ill-conceived article?

I am an avid reader of the paper and to me they are among the best in the world.

maestroferddi:

Why the narcissism with Western view of Africa? Does it mean that we need the whites to validate our originality and orientation?

maestroferddi:
I have just read the article and just cannot situate the jumpiness that is being displayed here.

First of all, the article was a contribution by a South African white writer. The piece is, in all intents and purposes, a quasi- historical narrative of life in time of slavery. Granted that it is unsavoury, but we can't wish the fact of slavery away:it did happen. A better argument would have been to show that the author's account reflected historical inaccuracies.

I did not see where the article drew parallels between Kim K's predilection to flaunt nudity to African culture. Instead, the author was highlighting the fact that people have almost always been drawn to curiosity. He juxtaposed Baartman's case of over 200 years ago with the stir Kim K is causing at the moment. I just cannot see the connection with racism.

fr3do:


what do our people watch and listen to?
Is it not mostly media run by the whites?

The other day, a lecturer said something like '' in america, things are done orderly, here in Nigeria, we are all monkeys hopping about, yes we are all monkeys''

I shouted '' sir, speak for yourself''


you do not know the psychological effects of bad media. It will likely make you pessimistic and an unbeliever.
There is an observation that majority of our vastly read minds are internalized racists and self haters.

jasper7:
I have read that article and dailymail just shared a piece of history. Not as if they were saying fiction. The thing the african folk always fail to understand is we can never be like the whites. We cannot be better than them cos we try everything within our power to be like them. We have forgotten ourselves, our tradition and culture is lost in the chaos of the mad african. We have to be ourselves to be the best. Shikena!