BaebieHot:
The African traditional wedding attires are magnificent outfits that makes a wedding ceremony stand out. They are very distinctive, with a rich blend of colours; containing every traditional African elements that makes them vibrant and elegant.

Different cultures have different wedding attires, each one just as beautiful and enigmatic as the other. Here are 10 of our favorite African traditional wedding attires on the web. SOURCE:http://oddastic.com/10-african-traditional-wedding-attires/

1. ZULU (SOUTH AFRICA)

see image below

2. MOROCCO.

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3. NIGERIA.

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4. GHANA.



5. ETHIOPIA.



6. UGANDA.



7. ERITEA.


8. SOMALI




9. IVORY COAST.


10. RWANDA.

I always will rep Nigeria of course but I feel Ghana, Ivory coast and morocco was pretty to but I felt the picture for Nigeria was good but I have seen much better as far as I am concerned when it comes to repping Nigeria, also number 1 which was south africa mentioned the tribe that traditional attire was from, it would be nice if they did that for Nigeria, cause Nigeria can not be summed up with just one picture

Stillfire:
Talking or acting white is more of a black American term.
Educated AAs who speak correct English are often accused of trying to talk white.
But that's their problem.
In Nigeria, we don't say you're trying to talk white.
Some Nigerians feel you have to borrow foreign accents in order to be posh, not white. Some even fake a black american accent, lol.
For example Chimamanda Adichie and Wole Soyinka speak properly but it's still Nigerian accent. This is how they teach you in Nigerian schools to speak. But Toke Makinwa and those radio hosts in Nigeria often speak with borrowed accents. Some may have been brought up abroad like Toolz, so she gets a pass but majority are fake.

I agree, excellent response

Hila12:
Speaking white would mean speaking in (or similar to) a borrowed accent 'foh nè'

You have freedom to speak in whatever way you choose so long you are audible, coherent and your pronunciation's good, communication will not be breached.

Mindful however, there is a fine line between sounding white and 'sounding like a clown'. If you must speak white, do your research and speak it well.

So true, it's the accent actually when they are speaking proper English that Nigerians use to say whether your acting like someone you are not, this excludes nigerians born overseas though

To Nigerians speaking proper English doesn't mean your talking white cause I never witness nigerians criticize Nigerians when they speak proper English however if they over do it like using English words that even English people rarely use as much for example it becomes obvious their acting like someone they are not. When it comes to acting white it depends on their mentality and cultural connection for example nigerians are neutral when it comes to race, they dont criticize nigerians blackness based on what music they listen to, achieving higher education, speaking proper English, and etc but how they go about it culturally.

With some african Americans though it's extreme, speaking proper English, your education, being neutrally black instead of thinking like a Afrocentric, listening to music considered non-black, and etc equates to acting white to them.

Fulaman198:


Just like Yoruba and Igbo people connect with their kinsmen in neighbouring countries.

Exactly it's like Igbo Nigerians connect with Igbos from Cameroon and Yoruba Nigerians connect with Yorubas from the country of benin

macof:
We need to concentrate on West Africa, African continent is too big for this project of unified currency and military

Another thing, we need to reconstruct our boarders, this colonial countries must be dismantled and we rebuild new nations, true nations built on ethnic homogeneity

I agree, a unified currency in west Africa will be tough but a military Definately yes.

One tribal nations will be good but I don't see that happening

There's nothing wrong with it, they connect with people of their tribe regardless of their nationality or country of origin. This is nothing new though Hausas and fulanis have always been like this.

I heard about this lady on world news, I hope she wins

igbo2011:


Jewish people would not congradulate Adolf Hitler's grandchild. The Armenians wouldn't do it to Ottoman leadership. But us stock holm syndrome weak minded slave thinking Global Africans would. This is why we are in our situation. The way we think and see the world.

You have some points and I'm not hyping will and Kate, they are like other couples out there but because of their royal connection they get special attention and treatment, which is they way the world is but Why would Jewish people celebrate hitler in the first place? It's the same way africans are not celebrating their old colonizers, which is not will and Kate, so this has nothing to do with William and Kate having their second child. There's nothing wrong in you not congratulating them but don't put down Africans doing that and equate it to black africans being down. I don't agree with past things Europeans did to africans but this has nothing to do with William and Kate new born baby. Create a new topic about what you are trying to bring up but don't do that in a thread like this one that has nothing to do with the topics your bringing up.

Udmaster:
I don't think so because every country in Africa will benefit due to the monetary value behind the currency.

True countries struggling will gain but others not struggling will just be in a stable state. I don't see big african economies agreeing to one currency when they still have problems in their countries. It's not that simple, I don't see countries like South Africans or nigeria agreeing to that

igbo2011:
I hope you all are not Africans. Look what those wicked "royal" people did to Africa for hundreds of years. We have Stockholm syndrome!

lol, there is nothing wrong in congratulating William and Kate in their new born baby girl

Udmaster:
I am a strong believer that we Africans have what it takes to develop our wonderful continent and match up to the western world.
Here are 5 ways I think A.U should adopt inorder to develop Africa.
1} ONE CURRENCY- Africa 54 countries should come together and have One currency which will be spearheaded by a Central Bank Of Africa. This Continent have the costly and highly wanted natural resources to add monetary value to this Currency. It will be the most valued in the world and poor African Countries will benefit greatly from this decision.
2} A BIG JOINT AFRICAN ARMY- African should have one big gigantic Army which will be well equipt and fortified. This kind of Army will crush Boko Haram and all terrorist groups in Africa.
3} INTRA- AFRICAN TRADE- Lets put an end to this "made in china" mentality. Let African 54 countries trade within themselves and help each other economy. For example, let start seeing "made in Botswana" products in Nigeria, or "made in Gabon" products in Zambia.
4} AN ANTI- CORRUPTION COURT IN AFRICA- Any Corrupt African President should be arrested by the Big Joint African Army and prosecuted in this African Anti-Corruption Court.
5} ONE AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE MASTERPLAN- African cities should be renovated, rehabilitated and built with one style of Infrastructure masterplan.. Europe did it after world war 2 and beautify their cities.. Africa should adopt it.
6} ACTUALLY TAKE BACK OUR MINERAL RESOURSES- Our minerals are owned exploited (together with local populations who are the real owners.) from the colonial times till now.
Raw materials from Africa go to create jobs (after their colonial exploiters transfer most of the profits back into their own economies) for industries in Europe and the US.
GOD BLESS AFRICA.

Good list and I agree to a extent but number 1, I don't think so cause some african countries doing better in their currency wouldn't want a one currency with a country that isn't up there in par with them cause it will bring down their own currency. Why do you think England didn't agree to join the Euro

Fulaman the 5 ways to develop Africa thread I can't reply on the thread for some reason

panafrican:
It is not a failure because this type of campaign takes time to reach the intended goal.

I agree, if you just read up about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism
it is understandbale why it's impossible because it is not that simple, black people worldwide are not a monolithic group or have the same mentalities of moving forward or how they want to be represented. Black diasporians have a racial mentality that ties into their culture, especially african americans but Africans it is more deeper then just race, it includes nationality and even deeper tribe. I think for economics through African countries particularily sub-saharan African Pan africanism makes sense, which has been happening but we can do more. but outside that its fairy tales

bigfrancis21:
@Anonymous6,

I'd strongly recommend that, if you want your thread to get the attention of readers that you need and have your message passed across, you translate your message into text, arranged into paragraphs and kept averagely short. Most nairaland users are in Nigeria and are terribly limited by bandwidth limitations, especially mobile users. Thus they are unable to stream videos. There is very little way they are going to view the video you just posted.

I didn't realize this thanks

Fulaman198:


Sure

thanks

theendishere:
My sister, the whole truth is adding up to a crescendo. We shall all see the entire contraption that has held us down for so long as people. Pls, i encourage you to read the powerful material titled 'IS EDUCATION IGNORANCE?' at www.noahklub., www.facebook.com/noahklub
You will be shocked. We need to start making noise to the roof.

thank you I'm going to check the link now

Rafikizolo:
Agreed, but to clarify, nobody here hates Somalis, all things that are said about Somalis are in defense. Axum and Ajuran are always coming here and causing trouble. I dont see any threads started bashing Somalis, in fact most threads that are pan-african are very positive, but it is the destructive Somali minority that appears and causes enough of a commotion to drove people mad to defend themselves.

you took the words right out of mouth. Nigerians in nairaland rarely talked about somalis until the nutty Ajuran/axum/... started talking about Black Africans in negative terms, his crazy superiority views or saying bantus 24/7, a term we are not familiar with because West Africans are not bantus in the first place. He likes to start crap with Nigerians with one useless topic thread after another in our own forums, so nobody should be surprised that Nigerians are defending themselves. The Op needs to put her energy into shutting Axum the lunatic down, that would help. As for me I don't have any issues with Africans with horn of Africa origin, I have some friends from there and they are nothing like Axum, Thank God.

Fulaman198:


Do a password recovery

Fulaman can you put this thread on the front page, and please add some african history videos to the thread as well:
https://www.nairaland.com/2210533/european-distortion-african-history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mYBvYiUkXY

There is alot of ignorance of africa, and I felt this thread should be based on African history, the truth. Please post videos of African history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5f0JxwR-0k

Rajosh:
Ghanaians been copying since the beginning. That's How they copied two Indian films (race and ghajini) and they turned it into one film ( staring Yvonne okoro, Yvonne Nelson, John dumelo and majid Mitchell). can't remember the name of their own for now.

True I have heard which was even mentioned in Ghanaina media at times that some of the movies were copied from Bollywood

TerryCarr:

clearly he was wrong

AMEN lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa0st_aMjmA

goofyone:
Interesting article. Countries in Africa have themselves to blame for this unforgivable notion among Americans that Africa is a country. African countries have not set up established media to tell their own stories. Always waiting for CNN, BBC and the likes to take the forefront in telling their stories. That can only have sad consequences.

I agree especially with CNN, BBC and Aljazerra are slightly better but in the end of the day we need our own media as a continent, there are only local or to a extent national ones that are never watched international except for africans living abroad.

dapipson:
A Yoruba Muslim lady ever told me that " do you know that if there is a religious crisis, this Hausa Muslim Will kill us? " this keeps me wondering till today.

Thats one of the reasons Yoruba muslims tend to intermingle with themselves then intermingle with muslim Hausa's to a extent. I think theres is a respect amonst them in the end of the day cause I don't see both groups insulting each other like crazy but there is a quiet separation between the two and has to do with what you mentioned now.

It is a complex issue with Nigeria but in the end of the day it all boils down to the not so pretty history of Nigeria and the bitterness that resulted from that which has recycled it self today. Until Nigerians face and discuss these issues the source, cases like the story you mentioned will repeat itself.

well Lets hope this news means they will progress past the level they are in to further heights cause this news is not as surprising even though its good news

lol really?