Fulaman198:
The truth is Nigerians are some of the most educated people in the world. #1 in the U.K. from an educational standpoint and #1 in the United States.

I'm not saying it's right for some Nigerians to have that despicable attitude of looking down on African Americans. Those are Nigerians that don't know better.

But in regards to educational achievement, you can't take that away from Nigerians.

mercyville:

I just showed that to you to remind you of what is going on in your country.You know this is no good time for this kind of enslavement in Africa.

mercyville:

I read this:
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been
plagued by a history of widespread violence, often
fueled by a deadly scramble for the state’s natural
resources. In eastern Congo today, the mines have
become a source of not only conflict minerals, but
also a source of human slavery.
The mines of eastern Congo are run by multiple
armed groups, many of whom have strategically
attacked and raped civilians in order to gain
control. The armed groups are then financed by
profits from the mineral resources, which are often
extracted and transported using slave labor.
Last week Free the Slaves, a partner organization
of Enough, released The Congo Report: Slavery in
Conflict Minerals , which documents slavery in and
around Congo’s mines. Research teams from Free
the Slaves and two local Congolese groups
conducted surveys and community consultations
in the Kivu Provinces of eastern Congo to
determine the extent of slavery in the area.
The report found several forms of slavery taking
place, including the use of child soldiers, peonage,
forced labor, sexual slavery, child slavery, and debt
bondage. Some types of slavery are directly linked
to the conflict such as the abduction of civilians for
forced labor and sexual slavery, and others such
as debt bondage and forced marriage are related to
other factors including poverty and cultural norms.
Child slavery is prominent among many of the
armed groups and mining operations. As one NGO
worker explained:
“If you can’t afford to pay for workers, you’ll target
children, who are most vulnerable and can be
tempted into highly exploitative situations with the
simple promise of a meal at the end of the day.”
Child slaves are often employed in some of the
worst types of labor such as diggers at the mine
sites, or porters assisting in the transport of
conflict minerals. Children, especially girls, are also
susceptible to sexual exploitation and slavery by
mine operators and soldiers.
The slaves in and around the mines in eastern DR
Congo serve as free and/or cheap labor for armed
groups, enabling them to continue their trade in
conflict minerals. To further understand this
connection and to view first person accounts of
slaves in the area check out Free the Slaves’ new
video, Slavery in your Pocket: the Congo
Connection .
Slavery in Your Pocket: The Congo Connection
from Free the Slaves on Vimeo .
Conflict in the eastern Congo is a multi-faceted
issue that requires stakeholders at all levels to
combine efforts to bring justice and liberation to
those enslaved in the Congo. Community-level
justice building could be done through rights
awareness training, self-help groups, or
community vigilance committees.

KidStranglehold:

Africans from the area of Angola were the most enslaved Africans.
But I agree a lot of AA's are in fact of Yoruba ancestry.

Jesumed:

You're asking who plays Afro Beat. Femi Kuti(Fela's son), plays Afro Beat exactly like his father and he has been nominated for the Grammy four times. Educate us on what Grammy Awards are.
Other artistes, Davido, D'banj and every other one also use infusion of AfroBeat. Just come to Lagos for the annual Felabration, and you will meet all artistes there. Ask every one of them how they've been influenced by Fela and you will be shocked to hear their response. You'll even be surprised that none knows the Franco you are talking about.

Jesumed:

Fela created Afrobeat which is still in existence all over Africa till tomorrow. Concerning number of albums, you can as well say Olamide is better than D'banj because Olamide has five albums while D'banj has just two.
Fela's legacy? Ask his son Femi Kuti who has been nominated for the Grammy Award 4 times.

Jesumed:

Fela created Afrobeat which is still in existence all over Africa till tomorrow. Concerning number of albums, you can as well say Olamide is better than D'banj because Olamide has five albums while D'banj has just two.
Fela's legacy? Ask his son Femi Kuti who has been nominated for the Grammy Award 4 times.

Jesumed:

I'm just sad this thread didn't get to front page, otherwise people who will have enough time to educate you are there. For you info, I know about Franco and I know he was nowhere near Fela. But stick to your opinion.

pleep:
black people are an inferior race, incapable of solving its issues.
It is not a matter of information/culture colonization or any other scapegoat. Black people are just deficient in IQ ( and everything else) and there is no hope of changing this.

Wulfruna:

Fela may not be the greatest African musician who ever lived. But he was a far more legendary music figure than your Franco.
I doubt you will find 10 people outside of Central Africa who have even heard of the man. (I hadn't heard of him until now.) The name 'Fela', however, is recognised across the African continent and even outside it.
Even you, a Congolese, have heard of Fela. I'd wager no one on this thread knows or have ever heard of your man Franco.

scholes0:

Bahahaha!
It started becoming funny (and ridiculous) when he started saying that Oprah, Chris Rock, Trey Songz, Chris Tucker and some AA's with obvious white admixture didn't look 'West African" but looked "Bantu".... Lmfao.... What is the WA look? What is the Bantu look?
This Niggur was probably using his Paternal family members from Kumasi as a proxy yardstick for what all West Africans are supposed to look like or something. Because I know that even within Ghana it is well known that the Ewes of the Volta region many-a-times have a different look from the Akan groups.

Ihuomadinihu:

Sorry! Bantu is not a race or ethnic group,it is a linguistic group from West Africa. You can jump into Limpopo river if you don't like it.
If West Africans are Sudo sahelians in your twisted mind,then Bantus are also Sudo sahelians from West Africa who migrated to East Africa.

Ihuomadinihu:

Lol. Bantus can come from Jupiter. The essential thing is that they are a Niger Congo people: a group that cover West Africa too! So they can't come from Jupiter but from West Africa.

tpiar:
Yoruba were not the most enslaved though, probably Angola, or SE .
@ Morrowcaligari.
btw you dont seem Hausa.

Radoillo:

have the top three poorest countries on the continent (DRC, Zimbabwe, Burundi)... then I thought, "Why indulge this infantile, trolling dimwit?" So I deleted it.

Radoillo:

LOL. I tire, bro. I was actually only patronizing him.

scholes0:

Who told you he is smart?
He/She/It behind that username is as stupid as fck....
Bantu isn't even an ethnic group, it is a language group. Someone like Wangari Maathai, Paul Kagame and Jacob Zuma are nothing alike, yet, they are all Bantu language speakers. (speakers of a lost West African language offshoot, looooool)
Stupied will always be stupied.
It is like comparing German and Bengali people and saying , they belong to the Indo-European tribe.....

Ihuomadinihu:


You can keep living in the 17th century but this is 2015 and Nigerians and Igbos who have been compared to extremely intelligent people like the Jews are way above you all

Ihuomadinihu:
Unfortunately,i don't see any need for the superiority assertions. I thought he had a valid reason for creating a seperate Bantu race and identity. Whatever Bantus have produced, Igbos alone have surpassed you over and over again not to talk of West Africa put together.

Ihuomadinihu:
Hol'up! What is so special and unique about Bantu genetics? I don't see what qualifies Bantu to be a race,otherwise Igbo would have been a race a long time ago!

Ihuomadinihu:
Lol,i'm tired to say the least.
All i see is someone trying so hard to seperate himself from his Parent family eventhough Genetics,Linguistics and traditions are against him!
Bantus migrated out of West Africa,displaced and even absolved whichever people they came across. It's obvious they would display peculiar cultural,genetic and linguistic features which may or may not be found in West Africa.
Swahili is a result of the interaction with non Bantu groups,the language contains words borrowed from Arabic language. There are also few words from Hindi and Portuguese in Swahili. Even in my culture,there is nothing like a homogenous Igbo people. People pick up certain things born out of growth/change or interactions with foreigners. Does that make anyone less Igbo?
I don't know much about Northern Africa but ritual killings occur in Nigeria,Congo,Tanzania to South Africa etc

This type of argument is tiring.

Radoillo:
I'm going to try and avoid getting into a lengthy debate on this because I do not think that anything will come out of it.
First, it is clear you do not understand West African cultures well. If you did, you would know that they don't all have elaborate pantheons of deities. Some do not have well- defined gods like the ones you mentioned: they recognise a high god, some spirits and pay particular attention to venerating the ancestors.
Second, related peoples do not have to have identical cultures. In the course of hundreds or thousands of years of separation, their cultures will tend to grow apart and show marked differences with only overarching similarities. What you are doing is fixating on the narrow differences and overlooking the broad similarities within the Niger-Congo group (a.k.a Bantu + West Africa group). That approach is amateurish.
Third, I see where you mentioned genetics. Yes, it makes sense that Bantu groups will have some collective genetic difference(s) from West Africans. When a people move away and become isolated from a 'parent' or a related stock, they will tend to develop genetic peculiarities of their own through processes like gene mutation and all that. On a more removed level, Bantus are still genetically 'cousins' with West Africans.
You can look at this paper for the genetic commonalities of all Niger-Congo groups (including Bantus):
http://m.mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/3/1255.full
Also did you imply that ritual killings and ritual mutilations do not exist in the Congo and Bantu Africa? Bwahahaha! Bro, please!
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 and blackness is multiple.We aren't the same coz we have the same skin color.

Radoillo:
It took me only a few seconds to find Southern African Bantu names starting with 'R': Reneilwe, Rataba, Ramotape, Ramaseatsane, etc.

Am I to assume that these names got there R's from the Nilotes, too?

muafrika:
@AlanMwene
Are you disputing the West African origin of the Bantu people. Or do you just believe they did not leave any relatives behind.
*The Kikuyu language has alot of words starting with "R"
* Not all Bantu languages use the prefix "ba" to make a word plural. Swahili doesn't. It uses many, like wa, ma, Vi, same like many other Bantu languages. The Swahili synonym for "bantu" is "Watu".
There are some common West African/Bantu Words. Like Mema, which means good(plural) in Swahili. West African tribes use variations of the Swahili word "Mwenye" which is a word referring to or bestowing ownership.
Most genetic studies are done by outsiders who use more speculation than facts.

Ihuomadinihu:

Sorry to bust your bubbles! Bantu cannot be on its own. Bantu,Igbo and Yoruba belong to the same Linguistic family - The Niger Congo Group,hence the similarities in culture and language.
What is Sudano Sahelian race biko?

Ihuomadinihu:

Thanks. That's what i have tried to stress in this thread and previous ones. We tend to give too much attention to this bantu stuff. Bantu,igbo,yoruba etc are part of the same linguistic group. Speakers of bantu languages only split from that family and migrated to different geographical zones thereby creating a distinct language group. Similar circumstances exists between igbo and Yoruba. At the end of the way,bantu is very much related to the aforementioned languages and other benue -congo languages.
One cannot possibly touch on bantu without treating igbo. Bantu is just a mini aspect of a bigger family.

muafrika:

You are quite mistaken. Italians were defeated. ..
You must be confusing it with Somalia, which as much of a failed state (name given to countries where the Western economic, social and political systems have collapsed) as it is, has held on to its culture and has closer ties to the middle East.
Ethiopia is a very closed society. Except for Somali-Ethiopians, its not an islamic culture and has less ties to Islamic countries. Unlike the neighbouring Sudan and Somalia, its not a member of the Arab league. Very little Western aid and NGO evangelism there. It's been an autocracy for a long time.
As for the military aid. Must be greed. And the prospect of having a little more of control of the rebellious Somalia-Ethiopians. And the Eritrea n's, who by the way, support the alshabaab with arms. There is also the fact that the international economy is so designed as to necessitate the most independent of countries to cooperate with the world powers.
There is that great famine which was very publisized that I believe created that impression of a handout country. Most of the land is fertile and actively productive.
Poorer than Zimbabwe Kleek? I doubt.

muafrika:

Ethiopia does have an advantage over other Africans trying to break free of external control, they are uncolonized by the West. Till now. Thats why the Headquarters of the African Union is there. It's a free country. Despite what international media prefers to portray it as.
They are just now considering joining the WTO¡¡¡
It's also true that Ethiopia's protectionism with regard to who is allowed in as an investor serves the Ethiopian people very well. Most Ethiopian industries and investments are local.
Kleek, Ethiopia is an example of a working, autonomous African political, social and economic system.
This is Ethiopia....Addisababa

Ednite:

F.Y.I top three countries with the fastest growing economy in the WORLD are
1 china
2 india
3 ethiopia
i am not trying to make my country superior but we Ethiopians believe in our selves not a foreigner. there is only one telecom here, and that's ethiotelecom. was it because air-tel don't want to or MTN also doesnt wana work here? NO! we rejected because we believe we Ethiopians are able to run a telecom, the same goes to our banks, we own allll of it. and lot of investors want to invest in our country more than any other African country because it's soo peaceful. we sweated to turn our country to a royal. Now look at all of the companies here, their plan for 2025. you will get inspired with what they are doing. Even look at Ethiopian airlines, running to have 140 destinations for 2020 having 90 destinations currently. It was not supposed to be a reason but, ask if we have oil? NO! ask if we have port? NO! we built this country. no other foreigner have a hand in it. even they were trying to ruin it stealing our statues, heritages can u believe it? we have many heritages stolen by Italians, Germans and Britain in their museum!

tianamsh:
I gotta say this thread is funny.
Can someone please give the definition of Bantu.