₦airaland Forum

zanebaddo:
the same way you mentioned Obi in this article same shall your name be mentioned in a bad light insha allah amin

You can't be serious.😂

We been knew.

So he had the means but didn't pay the school?

guobe:
is it not hair products you use in taking care of it

Yes but all you need is the basics.

Anything extra is a scam. Listen to dermatologists not companies and hair gurus/influencers. They lie for money.

Styluss:
What have you been doing to make your own time productive?

Not trying to steal someone's shine, that's for sure. Keep supporting nonsense.

guobe:
she should try and have her own hair product and sell to people. I think she can make alot of money being her own hair model.

Pls don't buy any product. It's how you take care of your hair, not what you put in it.

Beverlyjean:
Seems like u belong to the streets

With you?

VeryStingyMan:


Are you just realising this? The average Nigerian is in a bubble, sexually, emotionally and psychologically repressed and trapped within the confines of religion, spirituality and morality. I remember a while back, a lot of Nigerians on here were insulting WannaHowzit and other South Africans because SA is a relatively liberal country in that aspect only to come on social media and sexualise women after coming back from church Its like a closeted gay person being upset that an openly gay person exists and is actually thriving. Don't even get me started on the religious numbskulls

I just realised this recently. South Africa is one of the least religious countries in Africa and I like them even more for that.

Nigerians are too religious, It has made them stiff in personality. So annoying.

lilyheaven:
The news was here in Nairaland, where the pastor asked them to relocate back home or any African university and complete their education, because the church was having fund issues.
But a lot of them refused, even Nairalanders encouraged them to stay back.
I believe, they thought bringing it to social media, will push those that encouraged them to stay back, to contribute funds for them 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m sure some of them are here.
Let their Nairaland brothers, that insulted the pastor, contribute money for them.

If this is the case, then I don't blame the pastor at all. If you have a link pls share

Kobojunkie:
They were promised scholarships which they didn't receive after getting there. What part makes them entitled?

It's not cool to bring it to social media to embarrass the man.

But the pastor too shouldn't have started what he can't finish.

Timatayo1:
Agbada is yoruba language yoruba own Agbada period

Okay. What does it mean. What is the etymology of the word?

ImperialYoruba:
If Africans are dressisng like Arabs

Look, dont piss me off.

Could Africans have taught Arabs to dress the way they do? Have you considered that Arabs may have learnt mode of dressing in Abaya from Africans?

When we talk of Arabs introducing Islam to West Africa sef, who were those Arabs that pioneered the expansion and transformed cultures? What did they look like, what was their culture, their belief system?

I dont see link, repost.

Why would Arabs sit down and learn cultures and practises from people they considered inferior and took as slaves?

Is that how colonisation works? Who colonised who?

Did the British start dressing like Africans or the other way around?

Check your mentions, I've sent a few links

Goalnaldo:
i was forced to ask her one day what the injection is for and she said its for sickle cell patients. Had to look it up on google to see that its used for pain and to make people "High"

Why can't they get it themselves? Sounds like 🧢🧢

HardMirror:
my dear the girl na scam. She is not going to get any record. Just watch and see. She had better go and print the record herself

Lol yeah I read a comment saying Guiness can only officially acknowledge after a year or so
She's just wasting her time

Isn't Hilda a Christian?


Dami is disrespectful for what she did, Hilda is still celebrating her win. Couldn't she at least wait a year?

She reminds me of people that propose at weddings. Very disrespectful.

Immanuel3:
Rush which South African women ?

Stop acting like you don't know he's talking about. Nigerian men have constantly expressed their lust for South African women.

But this news is interesting sha. I thought Nigerian men said we were so ugly and undesirable everywhere.

If I argue too much, you'll say I'm just supporting my fellow women.

Nigerian women are the IT girls in Africa! widely imitated.

Other african girls have started wearing Nigerian aso ebi at their wedding because they love the style so much.

Nigerians don't care anymore. They openly practise juju because they are desperate. Even on social media, they advertise kanyanmata and other juju services openly.


Back in the day, witchcraft used be done in secretly in the dead of night.

BloomingDale:
There will be no male in heaven. You all will be with your father in Hell. You can rape, murder and kill each other there. We women can’t be looking behind our backs all the time. We need rest from you guys.

Abi. If there are no ethnicities in heaven, there shouldn't be genders either. Everybody will look like a barbie doll down below

Goalnaldo:
What a coincidence. A woman who constantly buy atleast 10 pentazocine injection everyday just walked into our shop as i opened this thread.

That's the thing. In a normal country you need a prescription to buy that shit.

ConfidentialDoc:
You're now physically dependent on opioid analgesics. And that arm may be amputated if you continue.

You don't know how to give intramuscular injection and you're just injecting it directly into your skin pentazocine is only via intravenous or intramuscular route. I don't even know what to say to you.

Self medication kills.

Or he's re-using the same needle over and over.


I'm just speechless.

Who's this one again?

Hilda's body is still warm!

ImperialYoruba:
It is origin of words and etymology, nothing to do with religion.

So before religion of Islam people existed. Those people had faith, they had culture and they had language. Calling God Allah was part of their faith. There was nothing called Islam at that time.

Arabs are not all muslims, there are Arabs that practice judaism, there are Arabs that are christians and Arabs that are muslims. When you see Arab woman in hijab, she is not necessarily a muslim. She could be christian.

So as a first step, i want you to separate Abaya from being a muslim term. The way, in above example, you will separate hijab from being a muslim culture.

There is linguistic link in all the expressions and imagery of Agbada/Abaya and Buba/Boubou. They sound more related than unrelated. In image they look the same, and with a single alteration you could erase the difference between them. Do you agree?

Most Arabs are muslims and not Jews or Christians.
Why should I separate hijabs and Abaya from Muslims when wearing those items are requirements in Islam? Those items were cultural before they became muslims but now it's has become religious.

Christians may veil but they in no way need to veil like a Muslim does. Hijab and abayas are not requirements in Christianity.

If Africans are dressing like Arabs, an Arab muslim taught them that, not a christian.

Yoruba's and other coastal West Africans aren't desert people so have no need to dress like that.


Why are you trying to find a link if you say they aren't related? What is your point?


Can you please address the links I've given? All you're doing is talking based on your feelings with nothing to back it up.

ImperialYoruba:
Whose historical trends?

The advantage in Western Sahel over rest of West Africa is written record, nothing more.
But Yoruba also had records of history, it was done in art forms. The advantage of one over the other is what gave upper hand to Western Sahel, but it does not in anyway put origin of Agbada at their doorstep.

See, Arabs call flowing gowns Abaya. To follow the migratory trend you alluded to,,,,

1. Arabs took Islamic culture to Sahel with Abaya

2. Western sahel call it Boubou, not Abaya.

3. Western sahel brought Islam to Yoruba. So where did Yoruba get the idea of Agbada, a cognate with Abaya? Neither fulani, nor Hausa or even Kanuri call it Abaya. These are all Islamic culture around us Did the language term "Abaya" lept from Arabia and singled out Yoruba as its destination?

It doesnt take rock science to understand what happened.

They are going to call it boubou, not abaya since they don't speak Arabic.
But Boubou is an africanized abaya.
Muslims on the East Coast are also wearing it. The common denominator is Islam.

If you're saying Agbadas don't come from Islam. Why are you saying it's the cognate of Abaya?

Why are you linking them together if you insist they aren't related?

Please address the links I've given. Let's stop going around in circles.

It just has extra calories.

Creeper:
A lot of Ghanaians used to live in Nigeria before they were kicked out. And I believe Nigerians learnt Jollof rice from them, the same way Nigerians copied highlife music from them.

Ever heard about Ghana must go? Well, that’s Nigerians kicking Ghanaians out of their country.

Anyway, jollof rice originated from Senegambia region and must’ve later found its way to Liberia/Ghana via Mande speakers who are indigenous to Senegambia, Liberia, Ghana and a host of countries in West Africa. Then it got to Nigeria via Ghanaians.

The link isn’t accessible.

People are just getting defensive over this. It's just history. Agbada/boubou is NOW yoruba, but it's origins don't lie within yorubas.



https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/boubou/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%20has%20been%20suggested%20that,until%20the%20late%20nineteenth%20century

Gppgn:
so why do you think it impossible to dine with God? Is it not in your Bible?

Okay 👍🏽 😂😂

Creeper:
At bold: I believe you’re alluding to Ijebu’s “Aso Olona”. Ijebus traded those clothes to Nembe Ijaws and I think Igbos got it from them and co-opted it as their traditional cloth.

And you’re right - agbada most likely has Yoruba origin. Danshiki as well.

Dashiki doesn't mean anything in yoruba.

It comes from the hausa word Dan ciki

Creeper:
You can’t compare jollof rice which most likely came to Nigeria via Ghanaian immigrants in the post-colonial era and style of dressing. Yorubas have been wearing clothes since time immemorial.

Islam also got to Yorubaland in the 15th century during Oyo empire, which was the 2nd empire Yorubas built, after Ife empire’s decline.

So, I doubt agbada got to Yorubaland via Islam.

Ghanaian immigrants? That's possible. But the dish is now Pan- West African. So who's responsible? Sahelians are the only group of people that move around the most.

What do you think of the link?

Guestlander:
More like you have no answer to the question being asked.
Once again, since agbada and Iro and buba were traditionally worn by Yorubas and you have told us agbada was inspired by some Muslims. Then, who inspired Iro and buba? Yoruba men and women obviously did not evolve from different continents.
If you cannot answer the question please ignore it.

Historical trends have shown that information and culture in West Africa usually spreads from the far west sahelian countries (Mali/ Senegal) This happened with Jellof Rice & Islam,

And do yorubas really think this didn't happen with Agbada?

In regards to your question on iro & buba. Have a look at this:

https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/boubou/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%20has%20been%20suggested%20that,until%20the%20late%20nineteenth%20century.

ImperialYoruba:
It is not actually. It's about which attire fitted better, or authentic, for an Ibo person, Agbada or Isiagu?

The origin of Agbada veered into Yoruba, quite naturally. It can extend, appropriately so, into discussion on Iro and Buba since some persons also brought up talks about Boubou...which infact is nothing but Buba.

Is Buba worn all over west Africa? Or quintessentially yoruba?

Guestlander:
Just answer the damn question if you can or you can ignore it and continuue to pretend it is not relevant to what is being discussed.

How is iro & buba relevant to this discussion?

If you have any points to add, do that instead of asking rhetorical questions because you have nothing to add.

ImperialYoruba:
Its like asking for sources of the first military to fight war on horseback. Where will you find that? Any race that says they were first to fight on horseback cannot prove it beyond paper article. Paper article also claimed Columbus found America, which native Americans dispute.

So how do you use source to make a proof without swallowing bias?

Get away from source. I gave you enough info that correlated in support.

Bring me origin of Agbada if it is not Yoruba. Which ethnic group originated it?

Lol. In other words, you're just talking based on your feelings.