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Career / Re: 3 Reasons Companies Are Dumping Interview For Assessment Center by AAinEqGuinea: 2:06pm On Jul 20, 2017
Every company I've worked for used assessment tests but yet when hired I've shared the office with most sociopathic and psychopathic coworkers I've ever met. I mean beyond the wall insane people in IT: useless 4chan and Reddit personalities undecided who are/were the most underperforming ediots I've ever met. it's only a matter of time before they'll know how to beat your test

Makes me miss college days cry
Politics / Re: I Rejected Biafra With Only 5 Igbo States, I Want Rivers, Benue Too– Nnamdi Kanu by AAinEqGuinea: 10:44pm On Jul 19, 2017
Laff out loud.... Ignore the fact that the FG offered 5 states. FG caved faster than Nnamdi, so much for their "one Nigeria" that only makes their corrupt richer. It's safe to assume that the highest screamer can get all of Nigeria for any price as they offered 5 states not to a billionaire, not even to a sovereignty, but to a person's so-called terrorist movement.

Of course we want to believe that Nnamdi is lying and somehow the FG is finally telling the truth. I guess his supposed lie was intended to involve negotiating with the FG which Kanu despises and a lie leaving out 2 important states. Lies aren't usually designed to make the liar look bad.

Well done Nnamdi. You've done it.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by AAinEqGuinea: 8:01pm On Jul 19, 2017
freshest4live:

Are you really from Equatorial Guinea or it's just a moniker?

Both. But only the Gods truly know.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by AAinEqGuinea: 7:49pm On Jul 19, 2017
gallivant:





















cool love it

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Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Vows To Resist Islamisation As He Visits Anambra by AAinEqGuinea: 5:03pm On Jul 19, 2017
United4lyf:
He discovered the worth of the nation of Islam which is more or less a political movement, they have nothing to do with Islam,He converted to Mainstream Islam and went on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

That's right. A rebel who spoke courageously against both American and NOI injustices; which in today's form is Nnamdi against the hypocrisy of UK/Britian, Africa, Nigeria, and Igbo injustices.

Above all, i hope you're ready for a fight (but i sadly don't tjink you all are), to firstly fight off gallant plantation mentalities from the west, north, and Kanu's own backyard who are quick to remind anyone that they'd kill again to protect their white amalgamation. So maybe at this junction Kanu shouldnt resemble Malcolm X bc it's only a matter of time before he has to beg the UN to intervene and help solve yet another black African problem, to keep his own brothers from killing him and his followers. You cant bite that helping hand too hard, like a Malcolm X would.

There's more to point out, but i hope for now that you're more concerned with outcomes rather than who i think Kanu embodies.
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Vows To Resist Islamisation As He Visits Anambra by AAinEqGuinea: 10:57am On Jul 19, 2017
Xaddy:

Are you sure you are okay? Malcolm X aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was a Muslim. Are you sure you know anything about anything? Don't ever in your life compare that sorry excuse for a thing called Nnamdi Kalu with Malcolm X... NONSENSE!!!

You didn't watch the video. He soon discovered their worth.
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Vows To Resist Islamisation As He Visits Anambra by AAinEqGuinea: 10:47am On Jul 19, 2017
BetaThings:


Yet the Right Wing (a major support base of Trump) hates muslims. So what is the basis for the falsehood


Circa 2001 is America's basis of widespread islampohobia.

Since then, viral propaganda like this doesnt help both the image of black ppl and Muslims:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iCmE94Om8

Anecdotally speaking, Black Muslims are some of the most disciplined, insular, and distinguished ppl compared to the wild black herdsman, Boko haram, and caliphate seeking variety of Africa. Albeit black muslims in America have become completely useless towards addressing any greater causes (their HQ is in Chicago, a battle even they won't confront) but for the most part theyre cool.
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Vows To Resist Islamisation As He Visits Anambra by AAinEqGuinea: 8:51am On Jul 19, 2017
Nnamdi's former reincarnate traveled a similar journey

Malcolm X Exposes Nation of Islam PACT


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFr4GACTGX4

Nothing but evil seems to follow that religion.

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Health / Re: 5 Types Of People You Are Likely To Meet At A Lagos Gym by AAinEqGuinea: 4:44pm On Jul 18, 2017
Most of the list doesn't bother me as much as someone who doesn't wipe off equipment after use

[img]https://asianbodybuilding.files./2013/02/sweat-in-gym.jpg[/img]

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Phones / Re: Comment The Most Funniest WIFI Name You've Ever Seen by AAinEqGuinea: 8:28am On Jul 17, 2017
+Bill Wi the Fi guy
+UrMomshotspot

Religion / Re: Nnamdi Kanu’s Life Is In Danger, He May Die In The Struggle – Primate Ayodele by AAinEqGuinea: 8:35pm On Jul 16, 2017
If anything happens to Kanu, he'll be beatified as a legend/God in my history books. Another legend like Malcolm X who tried elevating the minds of blacks but killed by his own African ppl.

History repeats itself, ho'es still aint loyal dont ever try to save em

I think many Nnamdi Kanu supporters may have prepared for his death when he was wrongfully imprisoned

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Family / Re: How Should Parents Handle A Kid That Watches Pornography? by AAinEqGuinea: 8:16pm On Jul 16, 2017
No worries, he'll likely graduate from his collection to be like 95% of men on the planet who also love s.ex. Second to owning dogs, porn has always been man's second best friend and before that it was prostitution, which is modern marriage rebranded.

Can we stop acting as if this world is anywhere close to being pure for any child? When it's normal that a child can be walking down a street and witness someone being burned alive or a rap.e victim lying dead in some gully, you've lost any ability to judge what anyone is seeing at this point, let alone be concerned with porn in someone's phone.

But try this OP, maybe it's not too late to remind him that what he's feeling is normal for his age:
Parents Explain Masturbation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vPqxSVaG4

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Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Looks Dapper In Suit (Photos) by AAinEqGuinea: 6:24pm On Jul 16, 2017
Solid man!!

Look at that dapper trouble maker Nnamdi Kanu who started this sudden talk of restructuring and reform cool Don't let up Nnamdi, take no prisoners.

There was once a time, as Nnamdi would say, when men had to secretly listen to Radio Biafra while hiding under their wive's wrapper. grin you have freed these men and many others from their bondage.

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Culture / Re: Why Do Africans Refer To African Americans As Only Americans? by AAinEqGuinea: 5:51am On Jul 16, 2017
Fulaman198:


I'm sorry, but to be an African one must practise an African tradition or culture. The Africans that Westernise themselves for instance in Europe are NOT Africans because they practise European culture. They even had the audacity to call themselves "Afrikaners" yah ok. Their language is a Dutch-derived language from the 17th century. I have watched videos of YouTube where a Dutch man and Afrikaner spoke on the phone with no issue understanding one another. That just goes to show you how similar the two languages are.

Fulaman, long time no speak, but hope all is well my man.

Hardly any Africans practice African traditions and culture the way we would want to imagine. We just cant take the traditional song and dance from many African traditions but exclude everything else that has been apart of Africa for a long time. Your critique is extremely rigid so lets not hold back any punches. If one believes that an outward expression of African culture is the requirement of Africanness then you would have to endorse the practice of skull mining, cannibalism, kidnapping and human sacrifices, polygamy, herbalist and charms (all deemed illegal in Nigeria) committed by practitioners believing that they're also preserving tradition. By your critique these are the purest African you don't ever want to meet.

There are many levels of social evolution in which at some point no one's African anymore. Consider African Muslims or Christians? It doesnt matter if Jesus was a Black/African man, Christianity would not be a global religion if not for white western evangelism. Muslims, for the most part, brought their sword to African traditions. As you're aware many Africans in Nigeria and other places have made Christianity/Islam a religious additive. They should be considered less African based on traditional and rigid standards, but do they know this? We can go further down the slope until we realize that it's probably absurd to put someone's Africanness on trial.

I know there's something deeper in the Black man's soul at play. Animosity and tribalism on this level isnt birthed out of nowhere, especially for AA's (or Caribbeans or Brazilians) who didnt surrender their African customs by their own free will -- you know this is true, but yet your African critique is so rigid that it excludes everyone but the most fearless and criminal (and thus the most African).

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Crime / Re: Nigerian Sodipo Kunle Williams Pleads Guilty To $12million Fraud In U.S. (Photo) by AAinEqGuinea: 1:17pm On Jul 15, 2017
who caused this

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Politics / Re: BIAFRA: Uwazurike Tackles Nnamdi Kanu by AAinEqGuinea: 1:11pm On Jul 15, 2017
Above all, at least this puts the silly accusation that IPOB, Radio Biafra, and Biafra's actualization manifested from Buhari's 2015 win to rest, a contest which Nnamdi encouraged Biafrans not to engage, political apathy consistent to his advocacy now.

Like him or not, the man Nnamdi is solidly steadfast.

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Family / Re: 8 Things Guys Above 30yrs Do That Show They Are Still Mummy's Boy by AAinEqGuinea: 11:11pm On Jul 14, 2017
Yea, I'm fvcked too. Might as well burn me alive like a Badoo.

I'm over 30 and still scared of my ma, grandmas, and aunts. undecided

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Celebrities / Re: D'Banj Congratulates Wizkid On His New Album by AAinEqGuinea: 10:32pm On Jul 14, 2017
Pzlatan:
This album will go places

The 2Pac for this generation has arrived

[img]https://writerzblockblog.files./2013/07/praising-black-man2.jpg[/img]

Do you think he'll keep 'kid' in his name when he's over 30?

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Celebrities / Re: D'Banj Congratulates Wizkid On His New Album by AAinEqGuinea: 10:00pm On Jul 14, 2017
IamOpemipo:
Real recognise real, baba open the way for them boiz,
Album already causing major damage all over the world
One for me on repeat!!


Yea Microsoft Groove is pushing Wizkid's album pretty hard. The first I've seen on MS's FP

Btw... so many 4:44 suckers grin

Btww: Wtf is MI these days?

Politics / Re: Yoruba Youths Storm US Embassy Over IPOB Suit Against Army by AAinEqGuinea: 10:09pm On Jul 13, 2017
Crazy how many American Nigerians/Yorubas point out the many layers of corruption plaguing Nigeria from the politicians and spreading to endless social artifacts including the army and police, to now have them in court defending them when other Africans seek justice against the same entities they decry.
Politics / Re: Yoruba Youths Storm US Embassy Over IPOB Suit Against Army by AAinEqGuinea: 9:45pm On Jul 13, 2017
I now see where nygggas get their (army) boot-licking, c.ock-blocking genes from.
Celebrities / Re: Faze Hangs Out With Akon (Photos) by AAinEqGuinea: 7:55pm On Jul 13, 2017
You've inspired me Faze. :O


Dem be two, later become three
They run things together, live in peace and harmony
Then suddenly, Biafra disagrees
Then dey go solo
The other two follow
Oh no no no
The world dey vex right now
Say the three, them dey do their thing individually
But remember, some day, them go leave each other
Cuz truly none of them be brother

And in case you don’t know it
This na true story
That a little misunderstanding go reign within us
If we break up not to wake up
See, I foresaw it
Cuz Nnamdi once told me
My son, you are on your own
You have the upper hand
You go make am as Faze alone

Politics / Re: Andrew Anglin Rumored To Be Living In Lagos – CNN by AAinEqGuinea: 7:27pm On Jul 13, 2017
BlowBack:


Obama is ISIS



Maybe true.

So what's wrong with Trump? He's flawed too right?

Youve overdosed on 4Chan and now they have you talking like them, going crazy Lol. You only saw the word CNN in OP and went crazy, red pill diarrhea everywhere.
Politics / Re: Andrew Anglin Rumored To Be Living In Lagos – CNN by AAinEqGuinea: 5:29pm On Jul 13, 2017
If true, where's the jungle justice at NIGERIA?

Considering that many would gladly kill or torture Nigeria's own for bs like possessing charms, being an alleged witch, baseless Badoo accusations, petty theft, advocating for Biafra...


White god's too powerful? cool

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Politics / Re: Andrew Anglin Rumored To Be Living In Lagos – CNN by AAinEqGuinea: 5:07pm On Jul 13, 2017
BlowBack:
CNN trying to blackmail Storm Troopers for outing them out as fake news.

They tried discrediting Breibart, Zero Hedge and 4chan as racist cesspools and key sources of fake news all because these sites exposed both the Obama WH hypocrisy and Hilary Clinton's very crooked dealings.

Only Pained Zombies who hate Trump for winning and putting an end to their jihad wet dreams still remain glued to watching garbage from the order of fagg0try

Fvck outta here protecting those smut sites,... but nevermind bc you sound just as autistic and triggered as those stvpid Bleep. Good Morning, CNN is just now doing what Fox News has been doing for years. Yet you sound so convinced that youre not full of sh!t

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Crime / Re: Man Sells His Wife And Daughter To Ritualists For N270K In Lagos. Photos by AAinEqGuinea: 3:45pm On Jul 13, 2017
Angelanest:


According to Ada, the man scaled more than ten fences before getting to her estate, he ended up in a church and God arrested him.



cool
Culture / Re: Why Do Africans Refer To African Americans As Only Americans? by AAinEqGuinea: 2:35pm On Jul 13, 2017
Konquest:


^^^^^^^^
@AAinEqGuinea

Just a quick one...

I wrote that Whoopi Goldberg's DNA
test indicates that her direct ancestry
is Equatorial Guinea. The correct
country is Guinea-Bissau which I
originally intended to type. Guinea-Bissau
shares direct boundaries with another
West African country called Guinea-Conakry! Quincy Jones has a paternal
lineage with the Tikar ethnic group
in Western Cameroon.


When you do intend to visit Nigeria, please
do your due diligence, always keep in
touch with the American Embassy/American Consulate in Lagos, have a network of friends from Nigeria and in
the U.S. who can put you through your
movements in Nigeria and the TRAVEL
Section of Nairaland
and everything
will be fine.

There are dubious people in a lot of
countries of the world who always
look for loopholes to take advantage
of people with foreign accents, so you
have to move or walk with some swag
so that will show them you know
what you are doing and where you
are going! grin


I would suggest you visit Obudu Mountain
Resort in Cross River State by air and a
quick visit to Uyo in Akwa Ibom State
which is next door.


Inagbe Grand Resort in Lagos State
is also a great place to visit among
other locations like Badagry's slave
trade era relics.


The hilly city of Jos and the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja also have
fantastic natural and geological views.


You can also contact credible tour guides
who will make your visit memorable
and have your 3rd-party mobile tracking
apps on your mobile devices just in case
anything happens in a worse case
scenario. I hope this helps.


I'll have to research Tikar and other lost/sold tribes everyone wants to forget. Tikar.. the name sounds pretty cool.

worry not...I already planned out my trip to Nigeria. I plan on first and foremost conducting a self-guided tour of Makoko... and who knows, maybe I'll meet legendary Kidnapper Evans himself to see how much my life is worth, and then over to Kuje Prison to see the horrid prison cell where the Great Nnamdi Kanu was once held captive by the tyrant Buhari, Britian's new visiting president, and lastly entering and winning the Goodluck Jonathan lookalike contest.

This trip will be amazing.

reverendwillie:


Fulaman could you elaborate on ^that^ a bit more?


Ngo40 check this out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxycSHD92-g

Hmm... if you don't even do right by other 'purebred' Africans how will it be possible to receive African Americans properly...? If you don't even love yourself how is it possible to love anyone else...?




Poor girl. Sounds like her Africanness expired. Quit notice served.

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Culture / Re: Why Do Africans Refer To African Americans As Only Americans? by AAinEqGuinea: 11:09am On Jul 10, 2017
Konquest:

^^^^^^^^^^
@AAinEqGuinea

I appreciate your response.

First off, I think the DNA test you took
is a first step towards that renewed sense
of self-awareness among Diaspora's.
In the late 2000s, I read about Whoopy
Goldberg having her direct maternal
ancestry in Equatorial Guinea as well
and the iconic Quincy Jones had a direct
paternal ancestry leading to the Bamenda
or West Cameroon (Anglophone Cameroon).


You may wish to retake the DNA
tests at DNAland and/or AfricanAncestry.com which are very
perfect. A U.S.-based Nigerian from
Delta State who goes by the name
of "waphyguy" on YouTube did his
DNA test from DNAland and it showed
his ancestry to be of Yoruba[Itsekiri mother] and Esan[Edoid, with an Urhobo
father]. This test was indeed ACCURATE!


To find his 2 YouTube videos
online to gain deeper insights into
what I mean, you may wish to Google
Waphyguy or use the YouTube search
box and the 2 DNA video results will
instantly pop up. I intend taking mine
too because I have always been interested
in genealogy and world history.

I will try to post the YouTube videos
here later or you can kindly do that for
us.

I'm aware of Oyotunji, a Diasporian
Yoruba community in South Carolina
were AAs speak Yoruba and have a king
or Oba who visited Nigeria in 2017 to meet
with other Royal Fathers like the Ooni
of Ife. So there are AAs, Cubans, Brazilians, etc, who are connecting with Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia
just like the iconic Alex Haley of the Junta Kinte and the
"Roots" fame. grin



The objection of a lot of right thinking
people to NNAMDI is that he in his
delusion included several surrounding
states and non-Ibo Nigerian ethnicities
in the so-called map of the enclave of Biafra WITHOUT consultations and
permission and this is what has led to
communiques being issued by up to 8 ethnic groups expressing anger and disgust by the inclusion of their
territories in the map without any
referendum. This was the same mistake
the bearded leader of the secessionist
group did in the late 1960s that led to
needless deaths of over 1million
people! He has also preached hate
messages and then you wonder how
TACTLESS a person can be in a
multicultural country like Nigeria.


I believe that if a defined Federalism
that suits Nigeria cannot
be attained, then that country is better
off splitting after a United Nations
organised referendum into about
11 new countries who can continue
to do business with one another in
peace!


Take charge! grin






I'll have to check out the official AfricanDNA test one day.

I'm going to visit Nigeria one day but moreso for business and some sightseeing. cool

Micro-countries are what keeps Africa moving. Who'd ever think tiny Eq Guinea could manifest with no bloodshed? You don't need the UN for that,looke how useless they were in Darfur, Sudan, etc.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Ghana Launches First Satellite by AAinEqGuinea: 5:18am On Jul 10, 2017
Ghana must go.. to the Moon and beyond cool

Love this.
Culture / Re: Why Do Africans Refer To African Americans As Only Americans? by AAinEqGuinea: 5:03am On Jul 10, 2017
Konquest:

^^^^^^^^^
@AAinEqGuinea

It is all about semantics. I prefer to call
African-Americans or people with
African ancestry in America as "African-Americans. For black immigrants in
the U.S., I prefer to use terms like
Jamaican/Cuban/Haitian/Barbadian-Americans, etc.


DNA tests from DNALand or AfricanAncestry show that about 1 in 4
African-American men have a direct
white/European male ancestry and
not Continental Africa! Many Diaspora
Africans whose forebears were deported
from Africa on board slave schooners are now taking patrilineal
and mtDNA tests to find their roots
in Africa and it is near accurate especially
via DNAland and AfricanAncestry which
have a large DNA pool from ethnicities
in Africa.


Last but not least, there is NO legal
entity or nationality called biafra. It is just
a utopian or imaginary entity that was
not even recognised by the United Nations
in the late 60s.



I once took a DNA test from this incredulous company named "ConnectMyDNA", admittedly it was a cheap DNA test compared to most pricey ancestral tests, but at least it gave rise to my NL moniker. It was fun and affirmed what I already knew.

This test claims to compare your DNA with modern populations so it's not a ancestral test, if one is even possible.

They first rank your DNA by continents and my strongest match was Africa. undecided If interested you can further see your strongest matches within each continent and my strongest matches within Africa are Eq Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa and others, my weakest DNA link was Nigeria cry We cant possibly run from this science. I can post pics of the results if you'd like. What's interesting is that my second continental match was South America, with the strongest match within South America being Bahamas, a popular slave destination. So there probably was a slave ship once titled Jesus who carried us away to His promise land.

Biafra:
Why cant Africans form their own boundaries without bloodshed or international polity like many other countries, when these are your brothers we're talking about? Its not like they are going anywhere, Biafra will remain next door.

Nigeria chokes the life and potential out of people who choose to remain. You know that this is true. Somehow theres this belief among AAs and Africans alike that there's dignity in the end of endless suffrage. For Nigeria, it's suffrage accompanied by quit notices and threats for anyone who dares leave to start over on lands belonging to them. Nothing against the Nigerian people, but there is so much more wrong with Nigeria. Even Buhari doesnt want to remain in Nigeria. Last year Aisha was in America at the same time Nigeria's soccer team was in America practicing in Atlanta for Rio. She flew back home and left the Nigerian soccer team stranded during the 2016 Olympic games in Rio. The whole world saw this. That's when I knew I had enough of Buhari and Nigeria's polity.

There's more to their incurable mayhem and their madness, but if not for Nnamdi the Nigerian govt wouldnt bother with this new idea of restructuring. They should be praising Nnamdi for helping apply efforts to finding looted funds and then reflecting on other forms of social chaos that they have fueled all while they stuff their greedy pockets and taking pointless foreign trips every week... all in the name of Africa and everything pure.

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Culture / Re: Why Do Africans Refer To African Americans As Only Americans? by AAinEqGuinea: 3:59am On Jul 10, 2017
reverendwillie:
What and who defines the expiration of one's Africanness I'd say the events and conditions that led to the present customs and beliefs of the particular group of people in question. There's a lot of variety within African culture itself but there's still those dominant traits that are shared from within that identify and distinguish them from non African cultures.

I think it also could depend on the context in which Africanness is measured since there's a white man Africa and a black man Africa, there's a significant contrast between the culture of black man Africa and what African Americans practice. The social values and family dynamics between the two are set apart considerably which may explain why some Africans may use that against AA's to point out how American they are. Most second and third generation Africans in the US might also still speak an African language and have an African name that connects them to a specific locale.

Ironically, if we use the white man Africa viewpoint AA's could argue continental Africans are quite American themselves with their kfc, smartphones, fords, airplanes, general electric products etc.

In my opinion we blacks just need to scale back the pettiness and semantics a bit, AAs had a very unique experience let's all recognize that and move on, whites from America to Australia sure as hell know they're european so I would hope we're capable of doing the same at some point plus the perception of who's African or not between a diasporan African and a continental African is trivial to dominant culture.

Well said, especially your last paragraph. There is a bigger purpose out there to be more concerned with, but there's this indulgence I have to address.

You learn a lot about a country from talking, helping, but ultimately observing and what I'm seeing happen in Nigeria and Africa as a whole is that despite all non-African attributes AA's possess, young Africans still love and in many cases mimic everything about what AAs establish or are allowed to establish. If not AAs, then without question most Africans chase European social norms. Proficiency in English rather than a native language on JAMB exams, and then theres capitalism, democracy, religions, colonial names, modern architecture, etc, etc all foreign assimilations in which the only distinguishing factor that one has left is name and lingua.

Again I couldnt agree more that its petty but there seems to be a granular element that I'm interested in. It's like asking why Jesus is always depicted as a white man, and the retort is almost always "it doesnt matter what color he is", and I'd further prod with "if it doesnt matter what color he is, why does he always have to be white?". Petty on the surface but at its core lies more interesting psychology that I'd wish to validate.

Haiti is an Associate Member of the African Union, likely destined to be apart of the AU in the near future. They've retained what most would consider to be African culture. But some African culture in its purest form has many dark elements that I'd rather not remind anyone of as we see remnants of it everyday on FP with disclaimers. Charmers/herbalists (which I like), ritualism, jungle justice, polygamy are all apart of, but not mutually exclusive to, African culture. Many Africans remain true while many Africans have abandoned it especially once foreign religions like Christianity made a sacrilege of these norms. African culture doesnt seem to be static after all, so hate it or love it I'd argue who's the authority to claim that AA culture isnt an evolved form of Africa?

Thanks again. Best of the luck in this world.

Ngo40:
I appreciate you doing this thread.
In my opinion, I think that white Afrikaans (Afrikaners) are moreso African than black Americans simply because that is where they were born and bred.
As unfortunate as it is, black Americans do not know their history...and it's virtually non-existent in American history books. So they don't know...and the extremely little bit of info they do know, paints the continent of Africa in a bad light.
So what they relate to is the American culture.
I'm half black American....and have recently developed a strong interest in Nigeria practically because I have a direct descent through my dad...and it is in my blood.
However, the culture I really know is the one I was born and raised in....America.
Many black Americans even hate to be called African Americans because they have been indoctrinated to believe that Africa is a horrible place unfortunately. And I really don't know how the black community can recover from the hundreds of years of slavery.
It's so unfortunate but the slave trade really desecrated the black community.


AA's for the most part had their history taken from them, and youre right that today many AAs dont care to try to find their lost history. Small factions have created their own version of African history; Gullahs and Zulu Nation among many others. There are some who believe that AAs were in the Americas prior to the Europeans, even while African history would suggest that, no, they were sold as slaves, but are now somehow no longer African bc their history and culture were usurped by force. Interesting.

The non-existent African history missing from textbooks is rich but also very dark in the retrospect, somehow we want to ignore the dark parts which I love. Africans leave the continent for the same modern but dark reasons too. This is by no means an excuse to abandon African history, but abandonment is seen from both Africans and AAs (no one wants to claim the history of people who were variants of unclad and cannibalistic bushmen, instead every tribe except the enslaved were advanced, even built pyramids). So when the smoke clears who's really African in the midst of all this evolution?

Most AA's have let themselves go, but when I look back at some parts of African... it makes the worse of Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, St Louis combined look like Disneyland. This is not a slam on anyone but the parallels are there. The Zoo-like behavior, as Nnamdi Kanu would say, is in their DNA, which remains stronger than any social construct including culture. Somewhere in the dark man's DNA also lies more answers, which further explains the effort behind attempts to apply continental schisms from all sides when we know the obvious-- AA's are from Africa, and when Europeans or their rape blood isn't involved they will act like many Africans. Nnamdi Kanu would collectively call this "land people mentality", and I'd strongly agree.

This is great, thanks much.

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Politics / Re: A must read: The Greater Igbo Nation – By – Ishaq D. Al-sulaimani by AAinEqGuinea: 7:44pm On Jul 09, 2017
xmich:


The real curse of disunity amonge brothers in Africa today is the invasion of the Europeans and the division of the people along religious line and countries. then they lived in harmony and there was no need of such umbrella unity as history was been passed orally from generation to generation and every one know where he or she belonged.

The disunity is also perpetuated by insecurities and inferiority coupled with what another poster stated above, staunch fabrication or allegories.


I created a post that would maybe touch on unity bc there seems to be this effort by many Africans to disjoin African Americans and others from Africa (likewise many AAs don't care about Africa, but not all). But even the so-called learned act as if enslaved Africans vacated their land and culture by choice. The discussion remains to not be a spirited one but i can't help but point out a basic point in reality that most Africans want to forget, which includes the fact that Africans would still be selling each other into slavery to this day if it were not for European embargoes. Look at another African today and admit "if it weren't for embargoes I'd help sell you and your people into slavery too, later come question whether you're African or not". Kanu also mentioned this a few times on Radio Biafra, this among other inconvenient truths that i loved. Most Africans had no moral objection to abetting slavery which comes by no surprise to what theyre sensitized to now, this includes AAs as well.

Talk to most Africans now, and somehow their history paint their ancestors as being too advanced or witty or stubborn to have been enslaved. The comfort in teaching and living a romantic lie is strong, but i guess everyone needs a religion to lean on.

Sapiosexuality:
Nice story. My only problem with history is the nature of man. Humans have shown to lie for selfish reasons. Propaganda is now a tool amongst every regions of the world.

In Nigeria alone, you've TVC, Nations and Punch lying for the west; Daily Trust, Liberty Radio, lying for the north; while Authority and The Sun lie for the east, etc. Bunch of liars confusing everyone and sowing discord everywhere.

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