dblock:

People from Bourgainville and parts of Solomons are the Darkest Melanesians



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thank you for the addition dblock, i want to include the tribes in New Guinea as well, especially the tribes in the highland area and port moreby as well.

clemcykul:

am envious of their thick woolly tainted hair, so african, so mixed, so beautiful, and so indigenous , love em

Hi, Clemcykul as far as these people being mix, i seriously doubt it, because most of the mulattos i have seen in Africa and other parts of the world don't display the same blondism like Melanesians or Aboringines from Australia. Therefore, i consider these people to be a distinct group altogether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DlCcdEyoc&feature=player_embedded

This video is a love letter to the people of South Sudan from the people of North Sudan, we wish our southern neighbors all the luck and hopefully they will be a prosperous nation. From the people of Northern Sudan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DlCcdEyoc&feature=player_embedded

We from the North wish them all the luck and hope they prosper in their new nation. viva South Sudan

cap28:

ababda - have you heard of a lady by the name of Kola Boof? she's the author of a book called - diary of a lost girl.

the book talks about how northern sudanese arabs enslave south sudanese black africans, her father (who was an egyptian married a black oromo woman (from somalia) spoke out against it and he was murdered along with her mother, she was adopted by an african american family and now lives in america.

Unforunately, I have never heard of her.

pleep:

. . . Some 'nubians' are very dark. haha but I apologise this is the last tine I will post uncited information. Lol

But that's what I heard, no joke. I'll be the first to admit that I don't know that much about Sudan.

You were probably thinking about the people in the Nuba mountains in South Kordofans which borders southern sudan today. They are called nuba, and most of them look like this lady.

http://i.images.cdn.fotopedia.com/flickr-3082066125-hd/People_around_the_World/Arab_States/Sudan/Nuba/Nuba_peoples-Logol_people-hd-4.jpg

pleep:

^^^ I heard that from a sudanse guy, dont shoot he messanger ooo Maybe it should be southern sudanese Christian I dunno. Or maybe it just happened once


Btw that was a funny video ls that normal procedure?

This is the young people in Northern Sudan Today, whichi is not much different from western kids nowadays.


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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzH_YUpW0pM&feature=related

pleep:

^^^ I heard that from a sudanse guy, dont shoot he messanger ooo Maybe it should be southern sudanese Christian I dunno. Or maybe it just happened once


Btw that was a funny video ls that normal procedure?

Indeed, among the Ja'alin in the villiages or country side that is normal procedures. It is usually the family of the groom and not the groom himself that take the lash and prove their family valor and bravery to the brides family. It is rather symbolic. However the younger generation in the cities don't abide by age old customs, and if a foreigner marries a person of the ethnic group mentioned, they are not required to follow Ja'alin traditions, since they are not Ja'alin.

@Pleep

Self hating North Sudanese women often get with Chinese contruction workers so they can have lighter skinned children[i][/i]

As a Northern Sudanese women, where did you get that information? The cultural gap between the two groups is so large that such relationships is nearly impossible, and you have to factor in the religion angle to this as well. As far as fair skinn people within Northern Sudan we definitely have plenty of those kinds of people, and some is mistaken for other nationalities. If a Northern Sudan marry someone from the outside it is normally someone from another arabic speaking country, due to cultural similarities.

If a Chinese man marry a Northern Sudanese women, he would have to go through this, this is the Ja'alin tribe which is one of the largest group in the north.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duTaW4Wb2v0&feature=player_embedded

lol

indeed the fulani is a very diverse group of people, here is a few fulanis from this kanuri website.


http://www.kanuri.net/kanuri_and_their_neighbours2.php?aID=232&cID=

website above

k.o.n.y:

So what about this
http://youtu.be/PrhmyqS-Qn4

Now you are starting to sound really silly. Yes some Sudanese is influence by other forms of music, but do you think the whole society dance in the same drum, and there is not one Sudanese culture, because Sudan is extremely diverse, you see every African group within her border in abundance. Also, to let you know the artist is from Southern Sudan, which is its own separate country now. Just to remind you, I am from the North.

It depends on the culture of Africans, and you must remember language plays a important role. People in my region do listen to some american music, but we also listen to our own musican, Ethiopians music, as well as Egypt. For me, I am more traditional and starting to get into my own Sudanese music.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJ7li-7Zwo&feature=related


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZtSTXz1PE&feature=related


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb19MFctgUs&feature=channel_video_title

We have our own culture my friend. However i am from the other side of the African continent.

Sorry to bust your bubble, we in the nile valley hardly think of your people, No offense.

Re: Igbo Art (Nka Igbo)
« #49 on: March 26, 2011, 12:24 AM »

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IKENGA



The Ikenga may be nothing more than the ancient Egyptian god Khenmu



KHENMU

Other Names: Chem, Kemu, Khem, Khnum Patron of: the creation of people and animals.

Appearance: a man with the head of a ram.

Description: Khenmu formed a triad with Anuket and Satis, and was possibly a Nubian god originally. The worship of Khenmu dates to the earliest of times in Egypt, the Unas Pyramid Text indicates that his cult was already old when that ancient document was written. Called "the Great Potter," Khenmu was the creator of people. He sculpted them out of clay from the Nile, held them up so that Ra could shine his life-giving rays upon them, and then placed them in the womb. His wife was the lioness-goddess Menhit, and their son was Hike. Originally a primal force deity of creation like Ptah, his role was later modified to fit him into the pantheon of the state religion.

Worship: Worshipped throughout Nubia and Egypt, his cult centers were Elephantine, Sunnu, Abu, and Semnut.

I think Jen33 assessement is correct that deity the igbos worshiped did came from the nile valley. Overall, the art being displayed on this trend is excellient.