Fulaman198:


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hi fulaman theres a tribal bash thread brewing and I think the thread will be unproductive, can you close this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/2510076/which-tribe-most-unfaithful-marriage

foxxynik:
Because we have a dauran as a president!

are you talking about Obama or buhari?

boboLIL:
She wil marry a lady.....cos 0bama prefer same-sex marriage to normal...


Dah man is a clown

lmao

[b]It has been 13 years since Halle Berry and Denzel Washington made history on the Oscar stage, taking home statues for Best Actress and Best Actor. In her acceptance speech, Berry — the first black woman to win the category — proclaimed that the “door has been opened” for other deserving actresses of color to win the honor. History has proven this to be an overstatement. Only 10 black actresses have been nominated in the leading role category, and Berry is still the only winner. There’s no hope that will change at the 87th Academy Awards this Sunday — no people of color are nominated for acting.

Hollywood has consistently snubbed minority actors and actresses. Some movie studios justify their diversity problem with economic arguments: In a leaked e-mail to Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton, an unnamed producer warned against casting Washington in films that would be marketed overseas: “I believe that the international motion picture audience is racist — in general, pictures with an African American lead don’t play well overseas.” Such judgments reveal Hollywood’s outdated mindset and ignore the rapidly changing demographics and tastes of international moviegoers. Africa, in particular, has remained a perennial blind spot, threatening to become a missed business opportunity for Hollywood. Movie watching is growing rapidly in several African nations, and there is evidence that black leads attract the attention of that growing audience and others.

International moviegoers deliver nearly 70 percent of the industry’s business today, with nearly a third of that global box office coming from Asia — especially China, Japan and India. The industry is courting that audience by producing high-tech films that wow on Asia’s growing number of 3D movie screens, and distributing more films with Asian characters and settings. “Life of Pi,” the 2012 film about a shipwrecked Indian boy, shocked movie executives by earning nearly 80 percent of its sales in foreign markets. South Korean actor Byung-hun Lee was cast in the 2014 movie “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” which grossed $42 million in its opening weekends in East Asia, more than half of its total foreign opening weekend sales. Now, when industry decision-makers look beyond U.S. shores, their first question is, “Can this sell in China?”

But that view is short-sighted. Movie-watching in African nations like Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa has exploded in recent years, alongside a rapidly growing middle class hungry for entertainment that reflects local perspectives and phenotypes. Nigeria’s film industry, dubbed Nollywood, is already home to the world’s third-most-valuable movie industry, worth more than $500 million and bested only by Hollywood and India’s Bollywood industry. Producing nearly 50 movies a week, mostly with low budgets and local actors, Nollywood now churns out more films than its California counterpart. And Africa is not the only place with a growing black middle class with a desire for movies with diverse stories. In this hemisphere, Colombia has 5 million citizens of African descent, and 50 percent of Brazilians identify as black. Hollywood would be wise to court these customers now, as they develop new behaviors and spend newly found disposable income.

Certainly, Hollywood films built on black lead characters rarely have been runaway hits. Will Smith’s “Independence Day” is the only one to have cracked the global top 50-grossing films — and that was in 1996. But this has less to do with the race of the actors than with the expectations of the studios. When industry executives limit their investment in films anchored by people of color, their low expectations become self-fulfilling. For instance, international sales made up only 7.1 percent of revenue for last year’s “Think Like a Man Too” — but the film was released in only 11 foreign countries (and earned half its international take in Africa). But when these films are well marketed, they succeed overseas. “The Butler,” for instance, was release in 43 countries (but not China), and earned 34 percent of its revenue abroad. And “12 Years a Slave,” boosted by its Oscar recognition, generated 70 percent of its sales in the 48 foreign countries where it was released.

With movie after movie after movie, films with black directors or black leads have struggled to get funding, industry attention or international box office support — and yet many have gone on to outperform studio expectations. For industry executives, “it’s becoming harder and harder to bury their heads in the sand and pretend there’s not this demographic earthquake happening,” Darnell Hunt, director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, told The Washington Post. “At some point, it’s not going to be sustainable. They’re going to have to start making movies that people of all colors will want to see.” While some actors from the African diaspora have been awarded by the industry — Lupita Nyong’o and Chiwetel Ejiofor, for example — Hollywood seems to ignore their ability to appeal to cross-cultural audiences.

The fact that there are still only a handful of brick and mortar cinemas in African markets shouldn’t be a disincentive for Hollywood to invest there. This is an advantage for the film industry and a ripe opportunity to innovate. As some did with land-line phones, African markets are starting to leapfrog past past movie screens and go straight to video on demand. Streaming services, like Netflix, are disrupting traditional movie distribution in Europe and in the U.S., and studios have struggled against movie theaters to develop partnerships for online distribution. They won’t encounter that pushback in Africa. In the past three years, Iroko TV, described as “Netflix for Nollywood,” has amassed more than 5,000 titles and received 1 million unique hits monthly from 178 countries, according to Reuters. While some movies are distributed for free, consumers are willing to pay a $5 monthly premium subscription. Iroko has expanded into South Africa, and opened offices in New York and London, recognizing the opportunity to reach movie fans in the far-flung African diaspora.​

Hollywood has the potential to capitalize on Africa’s growing demand for movie entertainment, if it lets go of its prejudices and outdated presumptions about black lead characters. While Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony won’t make any racial history, it’s clear that Hollywood risks missing a win-win if it continues to make decisions about its future by relying on assumptions from the past.[/b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/02/20/why-africa-is-hollywoods-biggest-missed-opportunity/

Bitterleafsoup:
Check out the guys

Sammy Sosa looks like a ghost, lol

Bitterleafsoup:
More Men disgracing themselves!

Lmao

Bitterleafsoup:
I guess your right Sis it is really hear breaking. The funny thing is most of the top models in Western World media are dark brown it is such a contradiction! Not to mention Caucasians take serious risk tanning as well! I guess we all want what we don't have.

I know what you mean lol. Some people are just weird in their thinking

Afam4eva:

I understand why they do it and i really have no qualms about it. I'm only disturbed by the double standard and as much as i believe that the white people have done a lot of harm to people of color all over the world, i think there should be a level playing field of some sort by people of all races. If there is an issue with white people having an organization then same thing should be applied to black organizations. It all depends on what these organization are created for. It it's to celebrate the uniqueness of each race then fine my me but if it's to encourage some form of superiority then i'm not a fan. We always seem to overflog what the white people have done to us but we seem to forget that it's the same white people that abolished most of the things they were known for.

Yea true, the thing about beauty pageants is it was never equal between the races which is sad and still lingering today. that's why this world and the society in America is complex and very messy only God knows when everybody will be respected equally

Bitterleafsoup:
Look at these before and after photos. In my opinion the lighter skin did not help the individual look better.

The photos you put up are hilarious

Bitterleafsoup:
All my life I always thought darker skin tone was beautiful. My light complexion shows any little scar and takes months if not years to fade.
I was always perplexed when I saw family and friends using lightening agents and wondered why the obsession with light skin?

I read once:
Nigeria's dangerous skin whitening obsession
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/04/20134514845907984.html




Recently, I took a survey of my Facebook friends (which I have over 1,000+ ) In my comparison the brown to dark complexion ladies had a higher percent of being married versus the lighter women.

Skin bleaching comes with hazardous health consequences. The dangers associated with the use of toxic compounds for toning aka skin bleaching include blood cancers such as leukemia and cancers of the liver and kidneys as well as severe skin conditions.

We have to embrace the skin we are in, using dangerous chemicals that are harmful to your health will not guarantee you success or a mate.
What it can do is damage you inside and out for the rest of your life.

I think the bleaching issue in Africa and Asia is a result of European colonialism and it's raring it's ugly head now. I guess when skin injuries and etc increase in that part of the world they will think before doing that mess but for now we will just have to see micheal Jackson clowns

Afam4eva:

I know there's still some form of racism but let's not lose sight of the fact that blacks represent just 13% of the US population. It's not like they're a majority that should be felt all the time.

I understand what you are saying but I think because of what african American women have went through and what they still go through in America when it comes to social and beauty image which is not positive but better from decades ago however far from perfect. so I think they do it to uplift african American women and girls to a extent

Afam4eva:

But blacks are allowed to contest in those pageants and have won in some occasions.

Yea but overly under-represented though

ikbnice:
i am beginning to notice the comic side of these our Kenyan brothers. Was it not there that a lawyer tried to sue Isreal for killing Jesus Christ?

ojun50:
That guy has being dreaming while standing

lmao

[b]Nairobi (AFP) - A Kenyan lawyer has offered US president Barack Obama 50 cows and other assorted livestock in exchange for his 16-year old daughter Malia's hand in marriage, a report said Tuesday.

Felix Kiprono said he was willing to pay 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats in order to fulfil his dream of marrying the first daughter.

"I got interested in her in 2008," Kiprono said, in an interview with The Nairobian newspaper.

At that time President Obama was running for office for the first time and Malia was a 10-year-old.

"As a matter of fact, I haven't dated anyone since and promise to be faithful to her. I have shared this with my family and they are willing to help me raise the bride price," he said.

Kiprono said he intended to put his offer of marriage to Obama and hopes the president will bring his daughter with him when he makes his first presidential visit to Kenya, the country where his father was born, in July.

Obama's Kenyan grandmother, who is in her early 90s, still lives in Kogelo, in western Kenya, home to a number of the president's relatives.

"I am currently drafting a letter to Obama asking him to please have Malia accompany him for this trip. I hope the embassy will pass the letter to him," he said.

Kiprono dismissed the notion he might be a gold-digger.

"People might say I am after the family's money, which is not the case. My love is real," he insisted.

The young lawyer, whose age was not revealed, said he had already planned his proposal, which would be made on a hill near his rural village, and the wedding at which champagne would be shunned in favour of a traditional sour milk called "mursik".

Kiprono said that as a couple he and the young Obama would lead "a simple life".

"I will teach Malia how to milk a cow, cook ugali (maize porridge) and prepare mursik like any other Kalenjin woman," he said.[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/kenyan-lawyer-offers-livestock-wed-obamas-daughter-report-150054452.html

Afam4eva:

What about White pageants?

don't they exist already

Afam4eva:
That racist show should be stopped by all means. lol.

yup its funny, I feel black pageants should continue and even be bigger worldwide

Miss Black Pennsylvania's call for contestants caused a debate among Patch readers, with some saying the event is racist.

[b]A pageant’s recent call for black contestants in Pennsylvania has prompted a firestorm of feedback that the event is “racist” against whites.

Numerous Patch sites in Pennsylvania posted a story Tuesday that the Miss Black Pennsylvania USA organization is currently seeking contestants for its annual pageant.

The story sparked a debate among readers, with some saying the event, which has been going on since 1986, is racist.

Some readers said the event was flat out racist and suggested the creation of a “Miss White Pennsylvania” pageant.

“A Miss White Pennsylvania pageant would be shut down for being racist,” wrote one reader on Lansdale Patch’s Facebook page in response to the article.

“Please give me more information on this pageant’s counterpart, Miss White Pennsylvania,” another reader wrote.

Others said segregation in any form is a step backwards.

“There shouldn’t be a white or black miss Pennsylvania pageant. Why are people trying to segregate our state? The existing miss Pennsylvania pageant has no race restrictions on who enters. This seems like a step backwards for unifying our people,” a Lansdale Patch reader said on Facebook.

Yet some readers were quick to put the pageant into historical perspective.

“Our entire race was not restricted from basic human rights for over a century and we’re pissed off because black people have had a disadvantage in almost every aspect of life and are seeking to build themselves up. Some white folk need to get with the program and realize that most of their parents were the ones that restricted blacks from entering a single one of these white pageants until the early 70s,” a user responded via Lansdale Patch Facebook.

Winners of the Miss Black Pennsylvania pageant will go on to compete in the Miss Black USA 2016 Pageant.

According to the organizers, the mission of the Miss Black USA Pageant is “to provide educational opportunities to outstanding young women of color and to develop the whole woman – mind, body, and spirit.”

Since 1986, the Miss Black USA Pageant has provided winners with scholarship money, international travel opportunities, modeling contracts and leadership development, the organization said[/b].
http://patch.com/pennsylvania/lansdale/call-black-contestants-ignites-debate-over-racist-pageant
http://www.missblackpennsylvaniausa.org/

django1:


That gabby girl though. I'm proud of her sha.

yea she has made history

Frican:


Yea, really funny...

I guess thats the way the world is now a days

I heard about this lady on the news, I found it funny but strange at the same time because how long did she think she can get away with that lie and I'm surprised the NAACP didn't do a background check lol.

michelin89:
Let's start from Bukky
Lovely woman
Flawless Skin
She glows
Heavy though
A very typical over 40 Nigerian woman

Funke
Lovely eyes
Flawless Skin
Dull
She has a local look
Too heavy for my taste

Ireti
Pretty face
Glowing skin
Flawless
Too much make up
Too heavy
A funny body structure

Conclusion: None is better than the rest!

lol

Congrats to them both, I'm surprised though they didn't do a big Yoruba engagement.

tpiadotcom:
The gymnast lady got more negative publicity than this though.

most of it from fellow black women.

Which gymnast, was it that gabby Girl in the Olympics

Fulaman198:


The funny thing is that both Williams sisters worship the ground white guys walk on (as they only court white males).

We'll it goes both ways in a way, I mean they did that to seal, Dennis rodman and Kanye west and these men only ended up with white women. I may have my opinion about each of them but I'm not against it cause it's their life in the end of the day, this includes the Williams sisters as we'll. To be honest though Venus & Serena Williams have been made fun of in the media when it comes to their features and beauty by not only white people but black people, which I have seen on other online sites when they are brought up, and when it comes to the question of black American men wanting to go out with them, many don't consider her a ideal women they see as someone to go out with, they may support her in her career but going out with her is a different issue entirely. However those white European dudes that have a chocolate woman craze tend to be the men the Williams sisters tend to end up going out with. To be fair though I don't think the Williams sisters have issues with black men cause Serena was going out with rapper common for awhile before they broke it off and he is a african American male who is also lighter then her
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/39338/20150223/common-serena-williams-split-relationship-rapper-spotted-getting-cozy-ex.htm

He is the only black dude I've seen her serious with, so I doubt Serena has issues with black men

ChinenyeN:
Based off current trends, I'd say that what the report suggests is very feasible. Of course, I'd like for my people to have a huge population. I mean, why not? But we have to admit, this is probably going to be the worst thing to happen to the continent since colonialism and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The rate of technological and economic advancement for Sub-Saharan Africa is so poor, relative to population growth. It will only really lead to more instability.

True based on how things are right now, population is growing faster then the progressiveness of the continent of Africa, Time will tell I guess

This is nothing new, they have been hating on Serena and Venus Williams since they entered the profession and sport of Tennis; and the hate has just gotten more intense cause Serena has been breaking records for years now. Let them keep hating and give themselves blood pressure while Serena keeps winning, stacking millions, and enjoying champagne in a Tropical Island

OlaoChi:
Those Before girls are not looking good at all but I'll always prefer flaunting my natural hair than some attachment

Some of the girls in the before look good but the one that is second to last on the right, OMG she is not looking good at all lol but I don't see anything wrong with natural at all, over weave that looks like horse hair. The after independence photo the females are pretty but the weave on some of them are outrageous and looks like the hair can be used as a mop.

muafrika:
Good. We need to fill up this continent.

I hope we don't have any population control accidents like ebola and tetanus vaccines and maize laced....those hormones that make people stop giving birth.

Already happening.

Beware of "free" immunizations. And free UN food.

lol, I agree Nigerian should beware of any quack doctors and fake medication cause its a issue in Nigeria however vaccinations from legit and safe health places are meant to help not hurt. Vaccinations is what eradicated polio from Southern Nigerian and almost Northetrn Nigeria until crazy northern muslim radicals said the vaccinations are used to sterilize the girls, which wasn't true and guess what polio rared its ugly head in Northern Nigeria as a result.