condralbede:
Idoma...beautiful costume

EBIXANDRA:
Thats tiv costume, this is idoma

EBIXANDRA:
Thats tiv costume, this is idoma

Ihuomadinihu:

Don't be tired oh,pls.
Easterners might have borrowed in the past but they are reaching back to their traditional cultures.
If you say tying headgear made of Asoke is a Yoruba culture,i will agree. But the popular headgear inported from China and India, No, it's a Nigerian thing.
I noticed that of Northerners,but it's not my business.

cutietokunbo:



Cool

You are a lady and for that reason alone( as far as argument is concerned otherwise I ll be here till Monday), you won and you ll continue to win in advance.

I totally agreed with things u have said and unsaid.

You are my neighbour in Europe and I think it ll be nice if we could communicate in French instead of English.

French Henceforth:

ME:

Bonjour-Good afternoon

Comment va le travail -How is work?

Pavore9:


Ok, me am looking forward to my sister's own, so l can dance Ada, Ada in my father's compound!

Why not do your own, so peeps will come and dance ada ada for you?

Rosemary216:


hmmmm... i dont tink fulanis fix eyelashes like brooms oooo

Ihuomadinihu:

D'accord! Merci. It's Saturday,so no work. Comment tu t'appelle?

cutietokunbo:

Comment la France et comment allez vous?

dechandel:
Why not do your own, so peeps will come and dance ada ada for you?

Ihuomadinihu:

Je vais bien,merci. Je ne suis pas parle francais oh.

cutietokunbo:


et-su à School in France?

shikaan:
my sister's traditional wedding
i think she looks beautiful!!
am surely going to miss her....

Ihuomadinihu:

Igbo is 100 percent African. Fashion evolves,it is not static. Even what we call indian and Islamic clothing evolved over the years. Men were tying loin clothes before they could spurn/ weave cotton and before the discovered silk worm.
The authencity is all about making it your own,so that where ever you see it in the world,you will easily identify it.
We should be more concerned on who is producing the materials.

TheEqualizer:


Hahahaha!

The same Iboswho were running around in alaibo less than 100 years ago almost stark nak3d invented shirts, huh?

cutietokunbo:

et-su à School in France?

Ihuomadinihu:

I have seen stark naked Yorubas,it's all over the net.

Ihuomadinihu:

U must be tired indeed.
Je me suis rendu pour les vacanes. So je ne pas parel bien francais.
Bye.

TheEqualizer:


You don't even know my ethnicity and I basically posted on what I saw on the thread, and my critique's based on what was on thread. So why bring Yoruba into it? Are you scared of Yoruba or it's inherent that you have to measure everything with them for/as-a relevance/standard? Which one?

I can see shirt, t-shirt, blazer, and suit. Are all these traditional African clothes?

sokera:
very nice , check this out Malaysian wedding attire...

Ihuomadinihu:

Yes,i wrote Yoruba because they are notoriously known for writing Ibo instead of Igbo. If you are not Yoruba,then that's for you.

Like i said,everyone has infused Western attire into their clothes. Even the one's tying wrapper wear boxers or trouser for decency. I have seen unclad people of all Nigerian cultures. Contrary to your assumptions, unclothedness depicts Maturity and decency before the white man came to Africa,but of course ,every culture is different. I can't remember any World culture that wasn't naked or half naked before they felt like adopting clothes.

You can't base your assumptions on a few picture cos they serve a purpose for white men and his supposed superiority over native Africans. unclothedness doesn't mean underdevelopment or unexistence of clothes. Isn't it ironical,that the people that called Africans primitive, and taught us that unclothedness is not good; are now descending into another level of primitiveness, by walking naked up and down the streets?

Besides,the igbo guy is not wearing a suit,a tie or a blazer. Your description is very wide and hasty.

TheEqualizer:


Isn't this profiling? Once again, you're showing inherent prejudice/insecurity about the Yoruba. If a white person were to profile you this way, how would you feel? More so, isn't 'Ibo' what is in the Nigerian constitution and all other scholastic sources about an African tribe in lower Niger region of present day Nigeria?

I don't get involved in empty political correctness induced by trying to mask one's insecurities. Keep me out of it.'Igbo' is a recent creation.




Conflating two different issues, while obfuscating the tangent of discourse shows you have something in there you're trying too hard to mask. The thread is about 'African traditional clothes' and I believe I've a right to question the 'African-ness' in all the western clothes presented as being African. People walking nak3d is off-point. The question is: are those clothes African or not?



I can't remember implying anything about the Ibo guy. If my memory hasn't gone blank, I remember listing all the western clothes among the pictures posted, without singling out anyone. Why the insecurity?

Ihuomadinihu:

You are just one of those people that quote because they have no other alternative.

Igbo might be a recent creation to you,that doesn't mean that ibo is right. Ibo is a creation of those that can't prononce igbo correctly. It is against the phonlogical and linguistic rules of Igbo language. We now have a standard Otography which contains /gb/, it is better you respect that and write it correctly. What prejudice? Everyone on Nairaland,know that yoruba write ibo instead of spelling it correctly. You are only engaging in inteferance.

Secondly,if you go back to my earlier comments,i limited my views on only IGBO ClOTHING. You are the one extending it to other attires,so you might want to respond to your questions. Your description and references is too far from what on my subject matter.

You made mention of Igbos running around naked ,apparently you felt they were the only ones walking naked at that time. Obviously unclothedness is something to make fun of according to you.

TheEqualizer:


I didn't quote you, you quoted me with hateful/needless profiling; and I responded.

It seems you're losing it mentally, and you might need to book yourself into a mental home. This is what happens when people become inherently prejudiced/insecure, chasing shadow, when no one is chasing them. Are you sure you're not scared of your own shadow as well?



Isn't the Nigerian constitution a Yoruba constitution? I remember vividly that Chinua Achebe used 'Ibo' in all his books; does that also make him Yoruba? And are Yoruba the only ones who use 'Ibo' loosely? You don't even know if I'm Yoruba or not, but because you're insecure, I've to be Yoruba. Why are you trying to force Yoruba on me?

No, it has always been Ibo/Ebo...the use of 'Igbo' is a recent creation. It's just like Kongo/Afrika/Bini and Congo/Africa/Benin. While the former are as old as when they were named, the latter are recent creation. And the onus is on whoever is using the words in whatever context to pick and choose what's suitable for him/her; you can't force it. I don't see people from Benin complain about the use of 'Bini' loosely sometimes, why are you different? What are you insecure about?



I'm not interested in what(not) you limited your views to. I posted an observation about more than on attire without singling out anyone. So why are you so pained about it?



No, the premise in which I implied that was a response to what you said. You and I know that shirts are African by any stretch of even the most deluded mind's imagination. So why say it's part of you traditional attire?

More so, I never made fun of 'unclothedness', you're the one twisting my observation, while making a mountain out of a molehill due to your insecurities.

Ihuomadinihu:

Igbos have never claimed the manufactured shirts originally,so that suggestion comes from you. What i pointed out was your shady remarks that Igbos were running alone naked and now claming to produce shirts. My responds was that Igbo attire is very African eventhough they borrowed the european shirt,so you can take or leave it.

As for Igbo and Ibo, official documents,newspapers,Embassies,Waec, passports,Cerificates etc don't recognise ibo. Igbo is the only official name for Igbo people,anyother spelling is a misnomer and outlawed.

Chinua Achebe wrote some of his books before their was an authorized and standard Igbo otorgraphy and alphabet. I don't think i need to stress myself by explaining that Ibo was the incapacity of pronoucing Igbo correctly.

TheEqualizer:


You don't even know my ethnicity and I basically posted on what I saw on the thread, and my critique's based on what was on thread. So why bring Yoruba into it? Are you scared of Yoruba or it's inherent that you have to measure everything with them for/as-a relevance/standard? Which one?

I can see shirt, t-shirt, blazer, and suit. Are all these traditional African clothes?

Angelou:
you must be a tiv

Lemon12:
Tiv attire ..... Cool on her

adeitoro:

why ar you denying your tribe yoloba man
stop lieing, omo yoloba.