Emilokoiyawon:
Ameyo Adadevoh (born Ameyo Stella Shade Adadevoh; 27 October 1956 – 19 August 2014) was a Nigerian physician.
Her great-grandfather, Herbert Macaulay,[1] is one of the most celebrated founders of modern Nigeria. Her grandfather was from the illustrious Adadevoh family of the Volta Region of Ghana, to which she was very much connected, though she lived in Lagos. Her father was also a physician and former Vice chancellor of the University of Lagos.[2]
She is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian Government.[3][4] On 4 August 2014, it was confirmed that she tested positive for Ebola virus disease and was being treated.[5]
Adadevoh died in the afternoon of 19 August 2014.[6] She was posthumously praised for preventing the Nigerian index case from leaving the hospital at the time of diagnosis, thereby playing a key role in curbing the spread of the virus in Nigeria.
MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE

Fulaman198:


Thanks,

That's a great article, and I agree with everything she has said. As a black man, I did experience racism in the United States despite being from a foreign country. In fact another Fulani man (Amadou Diallo) was killed in New York when I was still a teenager in 1999.

I don't understand why the United States is such a racist country. Maybe it's because of this racism, often black women can not be themselves and do whatever they can to imitate white women. They should not do this and should be themselves and be proud of their beautiful African culture(s).

Both black men and women alike suffer in the United States, that's for sure.

Fulaman198:


I guess that's my question why do "White European men" come second for African women? What do they see in White European men? I don't get it. To me, the darker the better. That's why I'm attracted to females with dark features (African women - Especially Fulani women being my #1, then other African women, then Indian and Arab). I like women with dark hair and dark eyes, with a bit of colour on them. I'm not into women who are kind of not tanned. I don't know why.

Fulaman198:


ROFL, it's not like that. I didn't have any partners in the states when I schooled there. I had an interest in 3 girls during University when I schooled in the states (thank Goodness that only lasted for 5 years and now I'm back in Naija).

One girl was a beautiful girl from Senegal who spoke fluent Fulfulde/Pulaar so you can understand it made me happy to be able to speak my native tongue with her being from Nigeria. But guess what, she had some strange fetish for white guys.......White guys shorter than myself, less well-built and whatever I'm not even going to whine about it because it makes me look like a fool.

Another girl I had a crush on was a beautiful Ethiopian girl who also seemed to have a strange fetish for white guys and ignored her Ethio bros ROFLLLL (they told me that something is very wrong with African women in the states, but the same can be said about the men).

The last girl was a Yoruba girl from Abeokuta who also had some strange fetish with white guys......


So my question is why only white guys? I can understand that sometimes you see men of other ethnicities, whether they are Arab, Indian, Asian (Oriental), Hispanic, etc. But African women have a tenacity or propensity to pursue white males only........They place them on a higher pedestal.

For me however, I don't believe in IR and lots of white girls were attracted to me, and tried to befriend me but I wasn't interested. If I could not be with an African woman, then my next choice with probably be either an Indian girl or Arab girl. White girls are definitely nowhere near the top of my list. So why are white guys on the top of the list with African women?

DashMeYansh:
Yesterday I was taking a casual stroll through my nairaland District then I hit my toe on the Carl Ikeme National Team news. He is A Biracial. I felt disgusted when I saw this "Girl" ******* Ranting about how he wasn't Nigerian and he isn't Black. She was just spewing Thrash that made me sick.

The problem isn't far stretched. Is it that they have low self-esteem and feel less comfortable about their Body. In my High school I Dated 2 Caucasians and I didn't really feel the hatred. I also dated a Kenya. But there was this particular Naija babe in my high school that hated me for life.......maybe she had a crush on me.

When I got to college, I started dating a Latvian Beauty then I got the full blast of their hatred. Snide Remarks here and there, even the African Babes that I thought I was cool with became enemies overnight. African Americans, African Beauties, The occasional Racist Potbelly I wasn't spared.

It just baffles me that when my guys see me, they are genuinely happy for me(maybe because they know bits just a fling). African guys really don't care.....while my Black Sisters see me as a Traitor to Motherland.

African Diasporans what say you......?

Cc: Bigfrancis21, odumchi, fulaman198

bigfrancis21:


Right. Criticism when done in a constructive way still does not go down well with the AAs. One trait amongst AAs that pisses me off is the 'I dont care attitude' that most of them have. They do things without thinking about the consequences or public image. I understand that growing up amidst racism and institutionalized racism they had to grow a tough skin to be able to survive but I think it has gotten to the extent that they don't care at all to listen again. I am speaking from personal experience myself. An AA male colleague of mine just would never take correction from our supervisor without giving her stories of his so-called life circumstances no one cares about to listen. It doesn't matter where you've been or where you're from. Just listen, take corrections and do your work. He never listens to corrections without wallowing in stories of self-pity, how he should be excused for his unprofessional behaviour because, according to him, he grew up in the streets and nearly almost went to jail. This guy would leave the work environment at will in the middle of a very busy time with customers to go downstairs and roam about, or plainly sit down while others are busy attending to customers, or takes stuff anyhow as he likes to take home, or won't take out the trash that he is his job to do. As soon as our supervisor leaves for the day, this guy just doesn't do sh!t anymore (called eye service in Nigeria). In fact, he has free 1 hour or 2 being paid for doing nothing. He zooms off and next you'll see him is 5 minutes nearing his clock out time he comes to 'show face'. You remind him to take out the trash as he is leaving and he gets all defensive with you and starts throwing a tantrum. Next, he calls you a hater and for the next couple of weeks he'll come to work and won't talk to you, expecting to be pampered for simply trying to correct him. Maybe his momma at home raised him pampering him like a baby but you don't expect people at work to pamper a full grown adult man in his late 40s. Stop being a child and grow up. You can't tell him nothing. We understand that you were lucky in life by not going to jail, but the past is past and you are being given a chance to make things right. Accept that you have issues about yourself to work on and improve on yourself. Quit giving silly excuse for being plain lazy and unprofessional at work. Having considered his issue deeply, I came up with an idea on how to tame his excesses and shared it with others which they all liked and adopted. 1, 2, 3 weeks passed, we could see the effect wearing off on him. As we speak, there has been much improvement. He has become more professional, stopped leaving at intervals when we are busy, stopped 'stealing' office stuff to take home etc. He still has one final issue which we are still working on to get him to stop - being loud-mouthed and talking too much. Anyway, that's for another day.

Plus several other personal encounters i've had with others.

Self-criticism is quite a hard job for many in the AA community to do and that is the only way we learn and grow.

I honestly think that Tommy is doing the right thing because even constructive criticism wouldn't work neither with the audience of his message. I guess he knows his people to well to know better.

bigfrancis21:


I do really think that the Tommy Sotomayor guy is doing a great job by being honest and upfront about issues concerning the african american community. To be honest, from my observation African Americans hate to criticize themselves or admit that they have issues in the first place which should be worked on. Everybody, group, tribe and nation on this earth has an issue. They love to put the blame on others for every issue that they have and hate direct confrontation or being told the truth. Tommy and I share similar personality. I can be very direct about issues and will always tell them as they are.

In life, sometimes we just need to stop and do some soul checking on ourselves, for that is the only way that we can grow. If we choose to keep on ignoring that there is a problem and act like it doesn't exist or blame it all on others except ourselves, then there can never be improvement.

Tommy is just being real with AA issues and the tirade of response comment and speeches coming from AA ladies is representative of their preference to rather deny that there is a problem than admit that there is a problem and seek ways to improve.

Now, some people might not like my words but I am just keeping it real.

Moana:
you failed to answer the question. how long does she take to do that? what does she do to her hair before sleeping?

FYI i will not stop putting in hair extensions because it takes me 3mins to straighten the hair before lectures and all i have to do before bed is tie it up in a bun and go to sleep. i have fine hair that breaks like no man's business in winter. i will not move around with hair that i know is hard to maintain because someone somewhere thinks its degrading and shameful. Maybe your wife has the time and energy some of dont have to spend hours on her hair before going out of the house all in the bid of pleasing her husband.
I content with my extensions that take lesser time to maintain. If it gives you sleepless nights all well thats your problem and i will not lose an eye because of it.

While you are still forming undiluted African kindly ask your wife to stop shaving and using tampons on her periods, because this was influenced by white people. Black people never shaved. Thank you

aim5:


As long as you don't wear weave.. it's fine to me.

aim5:


Hmm are you Igbo?

aim5:


Good to see that you're natural. Nothing more sexierr than a black woman who wears her natural hair... it's so beautiful.

aim5:


I take it you don't like him haha and are you Nigerian American like me?

Ishilove:
Interesting. I actually agree with the article although I won't say I'm not guilty of some of 'sins' illustrated here. I stretch my hair with chemicals every three months, not because of inferiority complex but out of necessity. My hair is very thick and stubborn so it needs to be managed. Only a man will condemn relaxer use outrightly.

Asides that, yes, I agree with the hair fixing thingy. I haven't fixed a weave in three years and I have no intention of ever fixing ever again.

Well, we have the media to blame for the 'Whitification' of the black woman.

aim5:
Yeah you have your Tommy Sotomayor types who aren't exactly uplifting black women. But he does point out ratchetness, which I can't hate on. Other than that, I'm repulsed by him.

And I know it's difficult, but black women, especially in the Western world have to not give a damn about European/Western ideals of beauty. It's sad when you have black women wearing weaves and bleaching just to be accepted.

aim5:


Skin Bleaching is a problem. But I find the topic to be very annoying because you'll have some Nigerians shouting up and down that you can't be light without chemical enhancements. As you're right America is multicultural and unfortunately, black beauty is at the bottom of the totem pole. Latinas, whites, Arabs, Indians (from India) are propped up by the media as more attractive. Personally I think black women shouldn't listen to mainstream media anyways. Y'all don't need to seek white validation. Just my two cents.

aim5:


I basically meant that the media plays the narrative that darkskinned women aren't seen as beautiful as lighters kinked women. You know that's true.

ketekete:
She's loving the outfit.

XanonymousD:
I'm an American woman and I have a 3 month old boy by a Yoruba Nigerian man (we a re not married)... Long story short I wanted to discuss our child having both of our names (hyphenated) however he did not like this idea and walked out on us (without signing the birth certificate) when my child was 2 days old because I would not back down to my idea and suggestion and hasn't done anything since (also, when he left I gave the child my last name). His reason that he is not around is because having my son name hyphenated is against his culture and he doesn't feel like he's being recognized...
But I do not see how that can be an actual reason you completely abandoned your son ...

I just need an inside of what exactly he meant by that ... He has not done much for the child since I told him I was pregnant (I can seriously count on one hand how many things he purchased for him).

I just need opinions I guess .... & if anybody have (reasonable) questions about anything I'm more than happy to answer them.

ketekete:
Dear Mod, pardon me as I have no idea which category this photo belongs to.

This is a photo of a German lady that loves Nigeria so dearly. She was pictured last Sunday in Bremen, Germany during the African football cup organized by a Nigerian, Chief Tala Awolola, which is also the most popular African gathering in Germany.

source: http://ketekete.com/beautiful-german-lady-puts-on-nigerian-dress/

DaBullIT:
Yorubas


Spreading culture and tradition since 1909

Mchayy:
Olamide Baddo opened up to Andre Blaze about his life, career and more in a recent interview.

Olamide told Andre that his baby mama is not just a random chic but he’s not sure if he will marry her.

In his words, “We’re very cool. We’ve been cool from way back and we’ve been together for almost 5 years now. It’s not just some random chic that came around from nowhere. That’s just it. But the question of marrying her, that one is very hard to answer because Olamide is not God. Only God knows tomorrow.”

Olamide who claims to be the baddest artiste in Nigeria said his major fear is not making heaven.

According to the ‘Shakitibobo‘ crooner, “My major fear is not making Heaven; the second one is failure. Nobody thought it was going to be this big for me…or for someone coming from Bariga, and you’re not even doing like Pop, RnB or something. You’re rapping, like rap doesn’t even really sell like that in Nigeria. And now you’re coming from the ghetto, and you’re not doing English rap. But glory be to God, I did a lot of hard work and it has paid for me. The grace of God has really helped me as well.”

http://nexthop.com.ng/im-not-sure-if-i-will-marry-my-baby-mama-olamide/

Freemanan:




ANONYMOUS6 Where is your source?

superduperjay:
very very beautiful. lovely thread op. culture and history is really deep.

fatdon2:
This rating is absolutely
incomplete! So, Funke
Akindele isn’t rich
enough? With sevaral
endorsement deals she
has gotten over the years? Glo, Mouka Foam,
Jobberman, Lagos
State Internal Revenue
Services, to mention a
few. You need to tell us
what criteria you used pls. Thank you.

fatdon2:
This rating is absolutely
incomplete! So, Funke
Akindele isn’t rich
enough? With sevaral
endorsement deals she
has gotten over the years? Glo, Mouka Foam,
Jobberman, Lagos
State Internal Revenue
Services, to mention a
few. You need to tell us
what criteria you used pls. Thank you.

adebayor1490:
Eyah... E Kpele o

tpiander:
wasn't this out last year or the year before. . . . . .. . .I remember reading about this here on nairaland.