AAs have strong ties to the southeast and the general southsouth region.

I think you'll like those places.

Dont know nigerian citizenship laws and yes to your first question.
They are also very good looking like AAs and you`ll feel quite welcome there i`m sure.

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When we were living in Lagos my mother had dual citizenship and she's American. They used to call her Oyinbo lady even though she was black but because of her accent lol.

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Yes it is possible to get a nigerian citizenship or u marry a nigerian girl and for your second quest Oyinbo, means in yoruba a white man

the real meaning goes, Oyin, means honey while Bo means Covered, so the real meanin is eni ti oyin bo in yoruba which means someone that the bees hoven covered.

@nakita, what bee stuff are you talking about? Oyin wo lo boju oyinbo?

mergefree:

So does that mean i won't be viewed as black

That doesnt matter. You will be welcome wherever you do visit(Southeast, South-South, Southwest).

In the southwest, if you manage to master the local language, Yoruba, you are effectively considered a Yoruba. They will never ask where you came from unless you stress it.

However, keep your wits about you. You will need them. In nigeria.

hmmm @ thread.

kodewrita:


In the southwest, if you manage to master the local language, Yoruba, you are effectively considered a Yoruba. They will never ask where you came from unless you stress it.

100% wrong.

you're confusing real life with nollywood.

kodewrita:

That doesnt matter. You will be welcome wherever you do visit(Southeast, South-South, Southwest).

In the southwest, if you manage to master the local language, Yoruba, you are effectively considered a Yoruba. They will never ask where you came from unless you stress it.

However, keep your wits about you. You will need them. In nigeria.

LOL, even when a bini man speaks yoruba, they still call him "omo Igbo", talkless of you? HEHEHHEHEHE, come and let them insult you from morning till night. you better go to southeast or southsouth, do not come to southeast unless you can stand being mocked.

(BLUNT TRUTH)

tpia@:

100% wrong.

you're confusing real life with nollywood.

I grew up in the southwest. My church was half-Igbo, half-Yoruba. same for my neighbourhood (well less Igbo anyway). But they bought land, married local girls, started businesses and lived fulfilling lives. Any insults or jeers are just from the sociopathic fringe present in any society. Of course, you dont expect to become a chairman or something similar there but everything else is yours for the taking (tongue in cheek). And they are always excited when non-Africans speak their language fluently. A missionary priest made that mistake and his house almost became a barn with the quantity of free yams he got.

^^if you're catholic then you should know catholics take their priests very seriously and yes, the priests can get lots of gifts from the congregation regardless if they speak the local language or not.


and if you marry a local girl and you're non-yoruba, then yes, it might give you a bit of an edge. Same as what applies everywhere. Besides, most of the ones marrying local girls might have been born, raised or are otherwise familiar with the area.

however, none of this means people dont trace your ancestry back a few generations.

the only time it might not matter much is when people are younger and are interacting with each other.

and that's for yorubas, dont know about other groups.

How come u have only been mentioning Yoruba and Igbo, what about Hausa?

@ mergefree >>> I am cool with black Americans. I dunno much about others.