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Culture / Re: Horn Africans Are NOT BLACK by alanmwene: 11:32am On Mar 06, 2016 |
SomaliGuy7:You are quite right coz 9 out of 10 Somalis I have met so far looked like hardcore bengladeshis kebab shop workers But you can guess they are Somalis coz of their signature rat face Anyway,how can a Somali be choosy and proud?Shouldnt Somalis be humble,agreable,smiling....etc....in order to increase their chance for a full meal? 10 Likes 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Refuting The Myth:African Americans Vs Africans(Nigerians) In America by alanmwene: 1:23pm On Feb 27, 2016 |
Fulaman198:These aren't not a very meaningful statistics coz it just about collecting the number of people having a degree or higher,regardless of the quality of the degree.It is more quantity than quality! To dominate academics is to be the best in the universities and produce the best papers.In that respect Nigerians are no where to be seen!Next,you will tell me that enoch opeyemi ,a Nigerian mathematician, has sold the riemman hypothesis 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Refuting The Myth:African Americans Vs Africans(Nigerians) In America by alanmwene: 12:35pm On Feb 27, 2016 |
Fulaman198:sure there are Nigerians that are doing well in school ,but to say that they are n01 in uk and usa isn't true,specially in maths and physics.And it is easy to prove it. If you take maths and physics for example,there is no Nigerian teaching these subjects in the top usa scientific school(Harvard,MIT,Stanford).Just check it online and it take just 2minutes to do that,In Harvard maths and physics,mboyo esole is the only black there.In the MIT,you have one Nigerian teaching computer science and at stannford you have also 3 Nigerians teaching engineering.The 2 best Nigerian mathematicians in usa are kate okikuolu(more british than Nigerian) and adebisi agboola.And they aint teaching in great universities.Definitely you cant compare Nigerians to Russians or Indians or Indians who have produced the likes a grigori Perelman(Fields medallist for the Poincare conjecture) or manjul bhargava(Fields medallist) or Terence tao (fields medallist).Lets stop exagerations and tell the truth:asians(chineses and Indians) are by far the best minorities in academics in usa coz ,right now,they dominate in maths and physics in all the best universities in America!And I think that with the right investments francophone Africans,specially camerouneses,congoloses,benineses can give them a run for their money(specially if they are trained in school like Normal sup in France). Young Asians in Harvard:Best students in physics! https://www.physics.harvard.edu/node/441 And one of them (shu-heng shao) works with mboyo esole: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01387 Best student in maths at Harvard:Ravi jagadeesan https://cogito.cty.jhu.edu/43529/take-five-ravi-jagadeesan-mathscholar/ He has worked with mboyo esole: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05070 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: Refuting The Myth:African Americans Vs Africans(Nigerians) In America by alanmwene: 2:38am On Feb 27, 2016 |
Fulaman198:I beg to differ! How many Nigerians are professors at Cambridge,oxford or imperial college? how many Nigerians are there studying maths or physics at Cambridge,oxford,etc....? How can Nigerians be n01 in usa when you have jews,russians,chineses and Indians hijacking all the best scientific universities in USA(MIT,harvard,stanford,etc....)? If you take maths for example,the best Africans in usa come from francophone Africa: Harvard: Tchetgen tchetgen from cameroun:Mathematician educated at Harvard and full professor of statistics and biostatistics at Harvard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6lllHwFqA http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/eric-tchetgen-tchetgen/ Mboyo esole :Belgian-born Congolese mathematician and physicist and Benjamin pierce assistant professor of mathematics and physics (algebraic geometry,string theory,...) working with mathematican and Fields medallist shing-tung yau: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~esole/ Seminars by mboyo esole: http://www.math.harvard.edu/conferences/frg12/ http://www.math.fsu.edu/~aluffi/AMS_Special_Session.html Very very strong guy! Demba Ba(guinee Conakry):Msc and PHD in electrical engineering with minor in maths from the MIT and assistant professor in bioengineering at Harvard. http://users.neurostat.mit.edu/demba-ba/ If you add jelani nelson(MIT and institute for advanced studies) that all the young blacks you found teaching scientific subjects at Harvard.There is no Nigerian! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYiWm6FMmjQ For the old generation of mathematiicans,it alson dominated by francophone Africans: Augustin banyaga:The first African mathematician to be fellow of the institute for advanced studies Wilfrid gangbo:First African full professor of maths at Georgia tech anf first African to publish in the annals of maths That pretty much the best African mathematicians in usa. Idris assani:The firs black mathematician to be full professor of maths at university of north Carolina chapel hill.Very top guy 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Complex Genetic Ancestry Of Americans Uncovered. by alanmwene: 12:16am On Feb 19, 2016 |
mercyville:Why don't you address the main issue here? The main issue here is your ancestors selling more of their people than any other African ethnicity.It is what all genetic studies say my man. You should focus on trying to understand why this happened instead of bringing up irrelevant issues.Kongo-mbundu kings were the most educated of all black Africa kings at that time and they understood better than anybody else the politics of slavery.That is why they rose against the enslavement of their people.They did it diplomatically by sending the first black ambassador to the Vatican to ask the pope to take position against the slave trade.the pope refused and sided himself with all the white powers.Kongos and mbundu decided for war and defeated Portugal. Why didn't your Yoruba ancestors fight against slavery?Granted they were pretty uncivilised at that time and could come to terms with the white man sophistication |
Culture / Re: Complex Genetic Ancestry Of Americans Uncovered. by alanmwene: 9:43pm On Feb 14, 2016 |
mercyville: We aren't talking of child labour in a war zone:We are talking of the slave trade that lasted 400years and depleted Africa of its human ressources! This study shows that yorubas and igbos were the most enslaved ethnicities in the whole black race .It is all crystal clear! This is not surprising coz these two ethnicities never put a single full 8hours shift against the white man The kongo law never allowed kongo-mbundu people to be slaves.But we know for fact yorubas and igbos even sold their own igwes and obas for food,clothing,... Anyway,the past is the past!Lets hope they wont do it again. |
Culture / Re: Complex Genetic Ancestry Of Americans Uncovered. by alanmwene: 6:19pm On Feb 12, 2016 |
@Ritchiee Back then,people were arbirtrarily classified as kongos,igbos,yorubas,akans............But this genetic study has shown that between 70-80% of the slaves taken from Africa were actually yorubas.Igbos come second with 10-15% and the rest of Africa contributed around 10%.The kongo law never allowed kongo people to be taken as slaves.All kongo slaves were civilians caught in the war between Portugal and kongo.Now that the dust has settled with this study,we know who did what during these very dark hours of Africa history.People should come clean and atone for their sins. |
Culture / Re: Complex Genetic Ancestry Of Americans Uncovered. by alanmwene: 12:13am On Feb 12, 2016 |
KidStranglehold:Unlike yorubas,igbos,binis etc....Kongos and mbundus fought the white man and portugueses never conquered the kongo kingdom:Civil war destroyed kongo. Kongos never sold their own people like yorubas or igbos! ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11fqBax7xM 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: Six Reasons Why Other Tribes Must Always Respect Yorubas by alanmwene: 11:48pm On Dec 22, 2015 |
Jesumed:And femi kuti is you definition of a great musician? I asked you to give the names of Fela kuti musical descendants who are known in Africa and you failed to give me any.The music,dance and guitar style created by Franco are still here living Thanks to great talents like Papa wemba,Koffi olomide,Fally ipupa,Awilo longomba,..........These guys just changed Franco original beat to make it more commercial.And all these guys conquered Africa not by composing and singing in English but in their native language.Fela was a great musician,but saying he is the greastest African musician ever is an exaggeration. This is what a call great music!Great vocals,great guitar,great arrangements ......Can you put a Yoruba afrobeat that sounds as great? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2zvf5nU6fg 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Six Reasons Why Other Tribes Must Always Respect Yorubas by alanmwene: 2:54pm On Dec 22, 2015 |
Jesumed: Jesumed:Who plays afro-beat?Dbanj?Davido?....We all know what grammy awards are.Had fela did all his career in Yoruba like franco did his in lingala,I doubt we will be having this discussion.Franco legacy is there in the best music ever in Africa.nobody can contest that! 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Six Reasons Why Other Tribes Must Always Respect Yorubas by alanmwene: 11:44am On Dec 22, 2015 |
Jesumed:Fela produced 47 albums in afro-beat and sing mostly in broken English and Franco produced 100albums in his native language and created a style of music(rumba) that far outlasted him and made Congolese music the greatest music ever to come out of the African continent.What is fella legacy? 1 Like |
Culture / Re: I Have Officially Decided That Black People Are Beyond Reason. by alanmwene: 2:37am On Dec 22, 2015 |
pleep:There is nothing wrong with being inferior!Everybody cant have an IQ of 200.Come to think of it,you don't need that much IQ to lead a peaceful and happy life. |
Culture / Re: Six Reasons Why Other Tribes Must Always Respect Yorubas by alanmwene: 2:26am On Dec 22, 2015 |
Wulfruna:What do you know about music?What do you know about African music?Fame and talent are two different things!Anybody who doesn't know Franco,doesnt know anything about African music.Fella was a great musician,but to say he was the greatest African musician ever is a lie. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Six Reasons Why Other Tribes Must Always Respect Yorubas by alanmwene: 1:26am On Dec 22, 2015 |
Correction:Fela was a great musician,but not the greatest African musician who ever lived.He was more known for his militantism than his musical prouesses.Musically,luambo Makiadi alias Franco,the father of Congolese modern music was ways greater than Fella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOl931WovCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLsdZIzleWU 3 Likes |
Culture / Re: Origin Of The Bantu Peoples: Eastern Nigeria/Western Cameroun? by alanmwene: 10:50pm On Dec 19, 2015 |
scholes0:your are typical west Africans Sudaneses:fake,resentful and hypocrits! I can count 100threads on this forum about yorubas or igbos descendants in brazil,america.etc......100s of threads about how African-amercans descemd at 80% from igbos;how yorubas culture is the most dominant force in the Americas......How the Igbo race is the most intelligent and the most enterprising race in Africa....When it comes to glorifying your races,you claim all types of people as igbos or yorubas,but when bantus do the same thing,your resentful nature takes over.Bantus don't open threads about you,why are you so obsessed about bantus?The fact is bantus had ways more influence in the new world than all the rest of African races put together and we gonna celebrate that again and again.Their orishas put aside,yorubas had zero influence in the new world.Brazil isn't the country of orishas ,but the country of Samba(kongo) and everything about Brazilian esthetic (swagg,football,charisma,etcl....) Jamaicans are more congoleses than anything else and reggae has its roots in kongo music.Jazz,blue,tango,salsa,etc....are bantus creations.....and we are proud of that.You can console yourselves by thinking we are all the same,but we aren't!Be yourselves and be proud!Resentment and jealousy wont get you anywhere! 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Why Did The Bantu's Migrate From Eastern Nigeria To Central And Southern Africa? by alanmwene: 3:51pm On Dec 18, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:Ok!You have been upgraded:From now on,you are an honorary bantu! |
Culture / Re: Why Did The Bantu's Migrate From Eastern Nigeria To Central And Southern Africa? by alanmwene: 9:16pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:You obsessive desire to link bantus to west Africans is worrisome!Why don't you claim ghanians,tchadians,senegaleses,etc...who belong to the same sudano-sahelian race like you?Sorry mate,you have nothing in common with bantus!Africa would be a better place if it can be divided along racial lines:West Africans stay with west Africans,bantus with bantus,nilotics with nilotics,arabs with arabs,etc... * |
Culture / Re: Lies About Oyo Empire by alanmwene: 10:51am On Dec 17, 2015 |
tpiar:Why are bringing angola in a fight between hausas and yorubas?That is cowardice!Fight back instead of shifting the blame on somebody else Anyway,the past is the past.What is matter is today!What is up today with hausas,yorubas and angoleses? Luanda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gCvgtJDhm4 kano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH80o2W5Ybc Ibadan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVBNCGxMaYI 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 4:28pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
Radoillo:How come there are ways more Nigerians in congo and Zimbabwe than congoleses and Zimbabweans in Nigeria?With all this war,congo is still a better place to live than Nigeria. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=728226 http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=729330 http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=674930 http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=724834 http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1751984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY72owVie-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-YbzWO_z60 The war is almost over and the descendants of Mwene Nimi,The Mwene Kongo are waking up .You better hurry up coz we will catch you and recreate the great Kongo kingdom 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 12:58pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
Radoillo:Don't worry for me! Dem people below need you more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ0BgtG07hE |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 12:25pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
scholes0:before spewing craps,make sure you get your facts right! An slowpoke lke you cant know that kagame is culturally bantu but biologically Nilotic(Tutsi).Since when have tutsis become bantus?As for bantus being a mere linguistical grouping,please go through the link below,and provided your monkey brain can make sense of anything in there,tell us what is said. http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2014/02/18/002808.full.pdf |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 11:10am On Dec 13, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:You need a good bath right now my dear Einstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLUE45C6vOo Maybe you should use your big brains to clean up this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX-cP9jWFag and live like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI6L5YatANM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R47hnU9FpNg |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 4:06am On Dec 13, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:are you seriously going to compare igbos to bantus?You are a serious joke! The whole igboland cant even be compared to the tiniest bantu country (equatorial guinea) in terms of infrastructure and you are here talking about igbos.Igbos cant even be compared to hausas or ashantis and you are here wanting to compare yourselves to people who own half of Africa?The day igbos will produce something like the kongo kingdom that spans more than 4 countries(drcongo,angola,congo-brazzaville,gabon,south east of cameroun) will be the day you can talk.Until then,go back to your Igbo shithole. |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 7:17pm On Dec 12, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:bantu genetics gave bantus the edge to conquer 1/2 of Africa and bring civilization almost everywhere in Africa.Bantu genetics produced nelson mandela,king shaka,queen nzinga,lumumba,eusebia,samuel etoo,great Zimbabwe,the Kongo kingdom,kimpa vita,samora machel,agostinho neto,kimathi,etc........Bantu genetics is the reason why 8 out of 10 best countries in black Africa are bantus.Comparing igbos to bantus is like comparing a mouse to an elephant. |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 4:08pm On Dec 12, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:You didn't give an answer as why bantus don't have cult of deities like igbos or yorubas.Why is that the worship of god/gods is inexistent in bantu groups? It is a truism to say that bantus are related to west Africans coz all Africans are related anyway.But to suggest that bantus are cousins to yorubas and igbos is an aberration.Maybe you should start looking towards Ghana coz you stand a better chance to find cousins there.Genetic studies have consistently show that bantus are a race which is distinct from other races in Africa.This a fact not a fiction! Last but not least,have you ever heard of a young Congolese man/woman caught with human heads/parts? As Africans we must accept that Africa is diverse!We aren't the same coz we have the same color of skin |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 3:55pm On Dec 12, 2015 |
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Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 1:56pm On Dec 12, 2015 |
Radoillo:I know that one of Mandela first name was ROhilala.Maybe you should ask a south African to pronounce it for you and you will appreciate the heavy influence khoisans click language has had on southern bantus languages.My question is why these types of names don't exist in kikongo,lingala,chiluba aka aka the core bantu languages? Some more questions for you: 1-You said bantus share the same culture with igbos and yorubas.Why is that there isn't a single bantu group that has deities in its pantheon? Igbos and yorubas have Ogun,Ikenga,Oya,etc......but bantus have zero deities.This is a fact that has always baffled whites colonizers .It is can be said that bantus know that god exists but they don't worship him. 2-Why is that there are things yorubas or igbos do that bantus don't do?For example,congo has experienced war for over 20years now,but you have never heard of aingle case of a Congolese person caught with human parts whereas this is a daily occurrence in igboland and yorubaland? |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 10:10am On Dec 12, 2015 |
muafrika:There is still no definite answer on the question of bantus origin and the west African hypothesis is as valid as any other hypothesis.For sure it is certain that,at some pont,some bantus groups were in west Africa.But there is a difference between being in a place and being from a place. The kikuyu use the Rfor the same reasons the hutus use the R:The R seems to be have been introduced by nilotics!The kinirwanda which is bantu-hutu language has a lot of words starting by R,but 8 out of 10 rwandeses with names starting by R(Rwema bisengimana.Rupiya,Ruheza,Rwagazore....)are tutsis.That suggests an outside influence on the hutu language. I am aware that some bantus groups use "wa" or "a"or "ab"....instead of "ba".But it is the same things Genetics studies aren't based on speculations but on facts!And genetic studies have show time and time again that bantus aren't just a linguistic group.Bantus are indeed a race! |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 1:56pm On Dec 09, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:lets suppose that bantu languages belong to the same linguistic family with Igbo and Yoruba.I have few questions for you: 1-Why is it impossible to found a single name or word with the "gb" particle in core bantu language(Swahili,kongo,luba,shona,kikuyu)?Words like IGBO,GBAGBO,ADEGBOLA,etc.....don't exist in these languages and the only time you may find them is in bantu languages that have been in contact with Sudanese languages(semi-bantu languages in cameroun or ethnic groups of Sudanese origin like the gbandis in north congo) 2-There are no bantu word or name that start by a R like in ROTIMI or RONKE.How can you explain that? 3-Neither in Igbo nor in Yoruba is the plural formed by prefixing "ba". bachinois=Chinese people bakenya=Kenyan people etc...... 4-You will never found a single word or name in core bantu languages(Swahili,kikongo,luba,kikuyu..) with the particle "kp" like in ekpe or ending with a "ong" like in sarpong,effiong,etc....The only people with these types of names are camerounese. We can go on and on genetic studies http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2014/02/18/002808.full.pdf |
Culture / Re: Re: Bantu/benue-congo/igbo Relationship. by alanmwene: 3:00am On Dec 08, 2015 |
Ihuomadinihu:Bantus don't share anything with igbos.yorubas,hausas,etc.........All genetic studies have proven this point time and time again.Bantus are on their own in Africa!Igbos and yorubas have a lot in common coz they belong to the same sudano-sahelian race.I don't know where you get the idea that bantus are somehow related to igbos and yorubas. |
Culture / Re: Origin Of The Bantu Peoples: Eastern Nigeria/Western Cameroun? by alanmwene: 3:03am On Dec 07, 2015 |
Thurgood Marshall:The first African American to be elected to the US supreme court https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgkFYZn7pk Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland and died January 24, 1993. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court where he served from October 1967 to October 1991. The 96th justice, Marshall was the first U.S. Supreme Court justice of African descent in the United States. Marshall was the great-grandson of a man born in the region now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo but brought to the United States as a slave, according Stewart A. Kallen in his autobiography "Thurgood Marshall: A Dream of Justice for All". Marshall's grandfather was also born into slavery in the United States. His father, William Canfield Marshall, was the first freeman of his family and became a Pullman railroad porter. His mother, Norma Arica, was a teacher. "Before his appointment to serve on the Supreme Court, he represented and won more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other American," according to The New World Encyclopedia. Before moving into the judiciary, Marshall was an active civil rights trial attorney, trained in law by the civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, who was his law professor and professional mentor. Marshall's law practice included appointment as in-house legal counsel to the NAACP. As a trial attorney, Marshall may be best known for his victory in the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which successfully challenged the racialist separate but equal doctrine in American society, a doctrine that was then enforced by the laws of the land. 1930 1933 A Brief Thurgood Marshall Timeline Mr. Marshall graduates with honors from Lincoln University, cum laude Receives law degree from Howard U. (magna cum laude); begins private practice in Baltimore 1934 Begins to work for Baltimore branch of NAACP |
Culture / Re: The Black Race Is Unintelligent. by alanmwene: 9:23pm On Dec 03, 2015 |
muafrika:Ethiopia was occupied by Mussolini forces and haile selasie had to run for his life and go hide in shame in England.It doesn't matter how long it lasted,the fact is it happened.Anyway,ethiopia is one the most culturally alienated country in Africa.Ethiopians cant claim to be free of colonization when they have been culturally oppressed for 1000s of years.Christianity isn't an Ethiopian autochtone religion,but an imported religion that wiped out all Ethiopian traditional beliefs.Culturally,ethiopians are like Somalis or north sudaneses.The only difference is ,Somalis and sudaneses swear by islam(an imported ideology) and Ethiopians swear by Christianity(imported ideology) |
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