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African women are not jealous and don't have issues with African american women. In Nigeria, Nigerian women are not even thinking of african women as much to think in that level, so where does this light skinned issue come up. I think you are just trying to start a a senseless fight on a nigerian forum for the sake of it.

Since you put pictures up of african american women for some reason, I decided to put some videos/pictures of Nigerian & Ghanian women
Nigerian women

TIWA SAVAGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CFZpC_QZs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxPqkwahxe0

AGBANI DAREGO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MuIclvZ5cg


GENEVIEVE NNAJI

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

DAMILOLA ADEGBITE

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

STEPHANIE OKEREKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaz5U5HndCg

OMOTOLA JALADE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbB00YHlJXI

OTHERS:
Nigerian women
https://www.nairaland.com/732446/top-10-most-beautiful-nollywood


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-_HIoEBE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S4S-2sMS5w

Ghanian women
https://www.nairaland.com/834416/top-ten-most-beautiful-ghollywood

kingston277: Canadian really, of Caribbean decent whos family owns property in both lands.

Interesting, you seemed knowledgeable about cultural politics in african countries, so I was curious about your background

I love British & nigerian accents, not into oriental accents to much

carletta: Let them pls return our sense of accountability!

Amen, I pray in general most Nigerians reach that level

kingston277: Does this look like external influence to you?
Oyotunji village, USA
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Since the "factors" you gave were at least partially inaccurate, it is important to remain objective and look for solutions then back then up with sources. This includes anyone who has something to contribute, no matter where they come from. I have contributed to this thread and placed sources to back up my reasonings. This, hopefully will strike a cord with people looking for change by enlightening them so they can properly tell their position in history.

Are you Ghanian or Caribbean?

TerryCarr: true but most of these places still practices there cultures, religions, customs and languages even in urban areas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4CeVzbHRZI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3DufVsktc

you made a common Fallacy that westernization should equal modernization which is not true. you can have your hospitals, schools, roads etc with having to adopt "white" culture like most of the gulf nations
[img]http://www.dubaicustoms.gov.ae/NewsImages/01dcAnnual%20Book%20Fair02.JPG[/img]

so why can't Africans do the same
[img]http://3.bp..com/-7i7AE7bLz9w/Th8paUq87vI/AAAAAAABpts/gQ_RycH7kO4/s1600/DSC_4156.JPG[/img]

Amen, there is nothing wrong in going to the hospital and wearing a suit for a job interview but that shouldn't stop you from practicing your culture, ridiculous. In the middle east and Asia they practice their culture but still have their hospitals, factories, schools, restaurants and etc but its a issue with when africans do it. Good example

alienYOUTH: History is only relevant if it helped achieve a laudable Today.

It is also relevant when it teaches people of their identity as a person culturally and ethnically historically and etc. Being born and raised in America from Nigerian parents made me appreciate that, and will always be part of my identity.

History has taught Nigeria that they don't want war again but if their history is not taught, they are risking a possibility of a repeated history of backwardness

DarryOsh: I get you. I was actually appalled when last year, on a thread on nairaland, I learned that the government had decided to scrap history as a subject in schools. Before then I always felt history was not prominent enough in our curriculum. I learned the real stuff of the Nigerian civil war from Chimamanda ' s half of a yellow sun. Before then my erroneous belief about d war was as follows:
'the easterners decided to secede because oil was discovered in their region. They were greedy. There was a war, a few died. '
I was so ignorant, I was embarrassed to learn about my ignorance . That was when I started to wonder why all the schools I attended never offered history. I think history should b Compulsory in primary and secondary schools.
Recently I read about the Oyo empire when someone created an elaborate thread about it. It was a shock to learn that I come from such a great place with great history. Of course I knew a lot about the British, Greek, Egyptian and Roman empires but very little about my own Oyo. It is such a shame . We need to teach history as a compulsory subject.
We need to the proactive steps. Our museums are practically dead.
And another problem seems to be that we hardly 'export' our art to d world. If not for movies who would know that in India it is women who pay dowry. But I think it's easier for them sha because they retained their language as lingua franca unlike us.

I didn't even know this but I am not surprised cause some Nigerians don't appreciate their history. It makes sense now why some Nigerians are not appreciating their arts & sculptures, they will just know their history from their elders I guess. However even with history being taught it did not change most Nigerians behaviors, it just slightly caution them. I guess history will be a extra-curricular class now in Nigeria(cause I have heard from Nigerians that most schools offer it on the side but they are not part of the main curriculum). Lastly it could be that the Nigerian government doesn't want to take responsibility for their wrong doings in the past and each tribe in Nigeria has a different historical account to tell that maybe they think it isn't worth it, which is sad.

I do and majority of Africans I have bumped into, particularly the Nigerians do. Nigerians have pride in the culture whether they are Igbo, Yoruba or Hausa and etc.

If you go to the western world like America or the UK many Africans have cultural festivals and clubs. Their are Igbo, edo and Yoruba cultural associations in many states in America however I do feel their are some lost Africans and there are some Africans that do take it for granted and don't appreciate as much as they should

TerryCarr: most of you guys worship a middle eastern god it does not matter if these things are religious or not. how many Greeks a "fetish" worship of Athena or Zeus? or does fetish only apply to Africans

Good point, Some Nigerians don't know how to separate the difference between art and stone worshiping. The Italians and Greeks are Christians but still appreciate their art of Zeus, Athena, Hercules, and etc. So why can't Africans do that?

Onegai: Okay, so I'm going to have a rant here, because this is my specialty.
No, they shouldn't return it. We don't deserve them.
Almost all the families I know with artefacts keep them under lock and key (mine included). Because Nigerians (Africans and Blacks too) are very backwards, sorry to say this.
Monotheistic Abrahamic religions came to China, Japan, Pacific Islands and Celts and Native American Indians and so much more. None of them went crazy, carried it on their heads and despoiled the works of their ancestors. Like Africans did.
As someone who buys artefacts (for preservation) and works to being a Historical art curator one day, I am ashamed of the Nigerian Gallery of Art and the National Museum. Whom are empty and filled with people who can't tell you an Onabolu from an Dale (both Nigerian). Even the private collectors are accused of being fetish-worshippers for trying to save our history.
If we return them, people will clamour for them to be destroyed because "my pastor said it is stopping my destiny from manifesting" or will sell them off for an ipad or Nokia Lumia. We Nigerians are not even INTERESTED in visiting them (you will see more whites asking me questions about Ife, Bini and Igbo-Ukwu than a Nigerian). So let people who can value this history (which btw is a great tourist attraction and would aid our broken economy) keep them.
And if you are interested in seeing a huge collection of them, please contact me. Or better yet, contact OYASAF.

I'm glad you brought this up, the issue is will Nigerians maintain it, and sadly I don't see many Nigerians will maintain it and appreciate it. Until Nigerians take it seriously then maybe people can sleep at night that the art won't be destroyed or sold within months of it being reclaimed From the UK or France and etc.

Fulaman198: It has ethnic/tribal intonations

Hi Fulaman, there is this tribe that is insulting Yoruba's left and right, even some of the things mentioned about yoruba's are lies. It has already turned to a tribal thread, I think the thread should be closed or some of the comments minimized from Tony Christopher & Ybutterfly, both are crazy and start trouble:
https://www.nairaland.com/1803477/which-most-courteous-friendly-aggressive

Smartsyn: And they are still seeing us as those timid people they met then, to be asking that kind of question. They should just return it,it's ours and we do whatever we like with it.

True

thelastmediator: Our ability or inability to maintain it shouldn't be an excuse. If the artefacts were not preserved by our fore fathers, there wouldn't be anything for them to steal in the first place. They should return the stuffs, then if our government decides to monetise some of them after consulting the appropriate sources, so be it. In that case, it will be clear to the world that they acquire it through the right medium.

ok makes sense which i do side with but there is a debate by some africans if africa would be able to maintain it. In my opinion I think Africans should get these back but it is a good thing to wonder about

Ceasar1: You can't possibly steal something that's worthless and useless can you?.
So this alone speaks that the artefacts are immersely important and precious. As such, they should be reclaim!

thelastmediator: This shouldn't be a question to be answered by Africans, if the Europeans have any iota of integrity left in them and truly regret their past actions , they should return all the things to stole from Africa. Atleast the accountable ones. My take

I agree, the question is will Africans appreciate it and maintain it or will the sell it to the highest bidder

[b]Ethiopia successfully fought for the return of one of its national religious treasure, the Axum Obelisk.

The 1,700-year old stone obelisk looted by Italy nearly 70 years ago arrived in Addis Ababa last month to a rapturous welcome.

Thousands of people lined the streets to see what they consider an important symbol of their identity restored to them.

Two years ago a German museum handed back to Zimbabwe a soapstone carved bird after 100 years.

The Zimbabwe bird is an emblem of the country, appearing on the national flag and currency.

The Ethiopian Obelisk and the Zimbabwe bird are just two of the many traditional and sacred objects that vanished from Africa and ended up in museums, learning institutions or private homes abroad during the colonial era.

The BBC's Africa Live asks: How important are historic artefacts to your sense of identity?

What should your government do to reclaim your country's lost treasures?

Or should we stop dwelling on the past and concentrate on sorting out the problems of the present?[/b]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4544803.stm

myspnigeria: can it really be overcome? seriously doubt it

No, Racial stereotypeing will be on earth till the end of time as long as we are human. Stereotyping has existed for 1,000s of years way back into the ancient times and further then that. it's in human nature, all we can do is try to be less stereotypical as we can but sometimes in some cases there is some truth in some stereotypes so it makes stereotypes more harder to get rid of. My take is regardless of how you feel about a person or their racial community, keep it to yourself and respect that person and keep on moving on.

Sijo01: If it's for peace to reign, so be it! afterall, its a religion of peace so they will understand.

lmao

BarryX: It's Illegal in these countries and so what

Don't get the idea behind listing such countries
They have made their stand known and it's now left for the homofreaks to tread their sexual inclinations including both the penileAss folks and cuntthrobbing bit.ches to countries that allow such acts simple !

I understand you but for the media to list these countries shows some people in the western world are pissed by this.

[quote author=Mz_®ae'®ae]Pls O..itz a lie...If u check it awt ud see dat most halfcast..halfbreeds persay ar mostly half igbos..Cos igbos ar div3rse..But it doesnt rili mata..if he loves u..hell accept u nd xo will his family[/quote]yup tell her the truth

CongoleseQueen: I'm Congolese, but I'm very attracted to Nigerian men. I've always wondered, let's just say I end up getting engaged to one -- would his family like/accept me?

Which tribe is more accepting of foreign women?

Please be honest in your responses -- don't just say things to make me feel better.

CongoleseQueen: Well that sucks because I happen to be attracted a bit more to Igbos than the other tribes. Thanks for the info!

it depends actually, some families are more conservative then others. Some prefer their own and some don't care.

I must also mention that the tribe that is more accepting of foreign women are igbo's. Igbo's are not as willing to marry another tribe in Nigeria but are very open to marry foreigners. Hausa's followed by Yoruba's more stricter in marrying foreigners but igbo's are more open, majority of mixed ethnic and mixed race Nigerians are half Igbo.

So don't listen to MrmanLover, you won't have a problem getting with a igbo man, I was born & raised in America and many of the nigerian men I have witnessed and seen that are married to african american women, white women and other foreign women are igbo men or other tribes from Eastern Nigeria.

Yoruba men tend to marry their own, and if not they will marry a nigerian of another tribe, like Edo, Igbo and etc; their are some but few in numbers that do marry foreign women but igbo men beat them in that arena, I know cause I am yoruba and have seen alot of this.

[b]The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, or ILGA, lists 77 countries with criminal laws against sexual activity by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex people (LGBTIs), but that’s an understatement.

A more realistic, 81-country list is below, including links to this blog’s coverage of individual countries.

The ILGA total as of early 2013 was 81 countries if you included Indonesia, where two large provinces outlaw homosexual acts, as well as political entities that aren’t fully accepted by the international community — Gaza/Palestine, the Turkish-controlled northern portion of Cyprus, and the Cook Islands, a self-governing country whose residents all have citizenship in New Zealand.

On Dec. 11, 2013, that total increased by one — to 82 countries with anti-homosexuality laws — when the Supreme Court of India reversed a lower court ruling that had suspended enforcement of the law. But in January 2014, North Cyprus repealed its law, thus returning the total to 81.
Click on the image for an interactive graphic from The Guardian, showing the status of LGBT rights, country by country, around the world.

Click on the image for an interactive graphic from The Guardian, showing the status of LGBT rights, country by country, around the world.

The total would actually be 82 countries if you were to include Russia, which does not have a law against homosexual acts but is in the midst of an anti-gay crackdown on the basis of its new law against “gay propaganda.”

Back in 2012, based on a separate, nearly complete count, St. Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation cited a total of 76 countries. That list was used in that year’s Spirit of 76 Worldwide program aimed at repealing those laws. It also inspired the name of this blog — “Erasing 76 Crimes.”

Here is the list of 81 countries and independent political entities with anti-homosexuality laws, with links to coverage in this blog:

Africa

1 Algeria
2 Angola
3 Botswana
4 Burundi
5 Cameroon
6 Comoros
7 Egypt
8 Eritrea
9 Ethiopia
10 Gambia
10 Ghana
12 Guinea
13 Kenya
14 Lesotho
15 Liberia
16 Libya
17 Malawi (enforcement of law suspended)
18 Mauritania
19 Mauritius
20 Morocco
21 Mozambique
22 Namibia
23 Nigeria
24 Sao Tome
25 Senegal
26 Seychelles
27 Sierra Leone
28 Somalia
29 South Sudan
30 Sudan
31 Swaziland
32 Tanzania
33 Togo
34 Tunisia
35 Uganda
36 Zambia
37 Zimbabwe

Benin had been included in some editions of the ILGA report, but homosexuality is not illegal there, though the age of consent is higher for same-sex relations than for heterosexual relations. It was removed from this list in May 2014.

Asia, including the Middle East

38 Afghanistan
39 Bangladesh
40 Bhutan
41 Brunei
42 India
43 Iran
44 Kuwait
45 Lebanon (law ruled invalid in one court)
46 Malaysia
47 Maldives
48 Myanmar
49 Oman
50 Pakistan
51 Palestine/Gaza Strip
52 Qatar
53 Saudi Arabia
54 Singapore
55 Sri Lanka
56 Syria
57 Turkmenistan
58 United Arab Emirates
59 Uzbekistan
60 Yemen

Two Asian/Middle Eastern countries were listed separately by ILGA in early 2013 under the heading “Legal status of homosexual acts unclear or uncertain”:

In Iraq, there is no law against homosexual acts, but homophobic violence is unchecked and self-appointed sharia judges reportedly have imposed sentences for homosexual behavior.
In India, enforcement of the law against homosexual activity had been suspended by court action, but the Supreme Court overturned that ruling on Dec. 11, 2013, so India is back on the main list of countries with anti-homosexuality laws.

Americas

61 Antigua & Barbuda
62 Barbados
63 Belize
64 Dominica
65 Grenada
66 Guyana
67 Jamaica
68 St Kitts & Nevis
69 St Lucia
70 St Vincent & the Grenadines
71 Trinidad & Tobago

In the United States, anti-sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, but they are still on the books in 13 states: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Conservative state legislators refuse to repeal the laws and, in some cases, police still enforce them. Reportedly, in the past few years more than a dozen LGBT people were arrested for violating those laws, but the arrestees were freed because prosecutors won’t seek convictions based on defunct laws.

Oceania

72 Cook Islands
73 Indonesia (Aceh Province and South Sumatra)
74 Kirbati
75 Nauru
76 Palau
77 Papua New Guinea
78 Samoa
79 Solomon Islands
80 Tonga
81 Tuvalu

Europe

No country in Europe has a law against homosexuality. The last one, Northern Cyprus, repealed its law in January 2014.

Also in Europe and worth mentioning but not on that list of countries with laws against homosexuality are:

Russia, which enacted an anti-gay propaganda law in 2013 prohibiting any positive mention of homosexuality in the presence of minors, including online;
Kyrgyzstan, on June 17, 2014, it adopted an anti-gay propaganda law similar to that in Russia. Any type of information on same-sex relations is a crime punishable by fines and a jail sentence.
Ukraine, which has considered, but so far has not adopted a similar law against “gay propaganda.”
Moldova, which adopted and then repealed such a law in 2013.[/b]
http://76crimes.com/76-countries-where-homosexuality-is-illegal/

zboyd: By Michelle Faul
Associated Press
June 27, 2:16 PM EDT
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) -- By the time she ran away, she bore the scars of an abused woman anywhere - a swollen face, a starved body, and, barely a year after her wedding, a divorce. But for Maimuna Abdullahi, it all happened by the time she was 14.
Maimuna is one of thousands of divorced girls in Nigeria, who were forced into marriage and have since run away or been thrown out by their husbands. They are victims of a belief that girls should get wed rather than educated, which led Boko Haram terrorists to abduct more than 200 schoolgirls two months ago and threaten to marry them off.
"I'm too scared to go back home," Maimuna whispers, as she fiddles nervously with her hands. "I know they will force me to go back to my husband."
Her former husband, Mahammadu Saidu, 28, does not deny beating her, and blames her few years of school for her disobedience.
"She had too much ABCD," he says. "Too much ABCD."
Nigeria has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, despite a law that sets the age of consent at 18. The custom of child marriage is still ingrained enough that even a federal senator has married five child brides and divorced one.
Across the country, one in five girls marry before 15, according to the United Nations. In the poor Muslim north, where child marriage is often considered acceptable under shariah or Islamic law, that number goes up to one in two. Some child brides are as young as 9.
There are no official numbers for just how many of these girls get divorced, leaving them destitute, but they are all too visible. A few miles away, girls Maimuna's age and younger are selling their bodies to truck drivers.
"Nobody knows how many thousands of them there are," says Saadatu Aliyu, the founder of a private school for divorced girls that Maimuna now attends. "That's why we have so many prostitutes, and very young ones, in the north."
At 45, Maimuna's father, Haruna Abdullahi, has been married for 30 years and has fathered eight children. He says his culture allows girls to go to their husband's houses from the age of 12. His wife, Rabi Abdullahi, was a child bride, although she does not know exactly how old.
"It is our way of life," she says. "In my day, a bride would never dare to run away."
In this desperately poor region, a child marriage brings in a bride price and means one less mouth to feed. So in late 2012, Maimuna's father arranged to marry his eldest daughter to his best friend's eldest son. The son, Saidu, paid a dowry of $210 - more cash than Abdullahi has had in his life.
[b]She was 13, he twice her age. Saidu, a farmer, says he waited years for Maimuna to reach what he considers marriageable age.
"When she was a kid, I would bring her candy and call her `wifey,'" says Saidu, who cannot read or write. "We were always meant to be together."
Maimuna begged her father to let her stay in school, but her wishes were not up for discussion. The link between child marriage and education is clear: Only 2 percent of married girls in Nigeria go to school, compared to 69 percent of unmarried girls. Three out of four married girls cannot read at all.
Many of Maimuna's friends from school were already married, and not one was happy. She got no advice, on warning of what to expect from the marriage bed.
She settled into a new life where she worked in the fields, cleaned, carried water and firewood and cooked. Every day she was exhausted, and when she finally got to bed, her husband wanted to "bother" her, she says. He never kept his promise to let her go to school. When she objected to her treatment, he locked her into their hut, for days.
Nine months ago, she fled to her father and begged to return home. Instead, he whipped her until her back was raw, then forced her to go back to her husband.
Saidu, humiliated and furious, slapped her repeatedly in the face. She fled once again, first to a sympathetic aunt and then to a cousin in Kaduna.
When Maimuna showed up at the Tattalli Free School for divorced girls, she had been badly beaten and refused to speak, says teacher Victoria Dung. Doctors found she was badly malnourished. The whip marks on her back may last a lifetime.
Her husband waited three months to make sure there was no baby. Then he divorced her. Under shariah law, a man can get divorced by declaring the divorce aloud three times.
Maimuna considers herself among the lucky ones because she is back at school.
"I pray that what I have done will help the younger ones, that my parents learn from the experience of my running away from home," she says.
It is by no means certain.
Maimuna's father denies beating his daughter, and says he is happy she is getting educated. Yet he gets visibly angry when he describes the financial problem she has left him.
Saidu is demanding his money back, because he wants to look for another bride. But Abdullahi has already spent it on land. Asked if he will treat his five younger daughters differently, he looks down at the ground.[/b]
"I would allow my daughters to go to school if I had the money. I have seen what happens, otherwise," he says. "But my reason is poverty, always financial problems. What can I do but give them out in marriage?"
Saidu, in the meantime, says he will move ahead with his life.
"This time I will marry a girl of 12, so that she will do what I want to do," he says. "Because if you marry a girl who is older, then she will not listen to you."
His eyes slide to the porch, where Maimuna's 10-year-old sister, Hafsat, is cuddling a neighbor's baby. A sly smile curls his lips.

This is not a surprise, these girls were never suppose to be married off in the first place. They were never given a chance to live out their lives and just be girls, their still growing as young females, their not allowed to progress(go to school and make something of their lives) or anything but are married off to older men and their lives are ruined. The girls are not at fault it is the parents and money that is pushing them to do it, particularly fathers that doing it just for money, these girls are being born to be punished in the end of the day.

Its a northern Nigerian issue and many of them chose to be born in the dark ages

because the male child carries the family surname and females don't

CongoleseQueen: Are we going to keep pretending it doesn't exist within our regions or accept it exists and find a way to deal with it?

I am tired of seeing homosexuals being treated like animals and being jailed. I am Christian. I believe in God. If we are going to go with the homosexuality is a sin approach, how did Jesus treat sinners? Additionally, aren't we all sinner? What makes our sins better than theirs?

According to the Bible, divorce, unless due to extramarital affairs, is a sin?

Do you know that once you are divorced, you can't remarry because it is a sin?

African men are marrying multiple women -- when the Bible says a man is to have one wife, who is stoning them? Who is throwing them in prison? Who is killing them?

You don't have to agree with homosexuals and how they choose to live their lives, but why treat them like outcasts? That is so cruel!

Instead of trying to play God by deciding their fate, why not pray for them?

#ProgressiveAfrica

I don't think africans pretend it doesn't exist, The fact is majority of Africans personally whether it's cause of religion or social issues and etc don't agree with the practice which you have mentioned. For me I don't agree with it but I don't hate them however I am neutral when it comes to how each african government handles it, and I feel that's how most africans feel when addressing the issue. So as a result, at this point of time, most africans accepts it exist but many either don't agree with it and stay passive with it or many don't agree with it and are completely against it, which is how many governments are responding to it. Although that's the case their are some africans against this, and they either try to speak against it and get hurt or some which is the trend I have seen in the media leave the country entirely, which I don't blame them. So in a way you answered your own question.

The way I see it, some societies accept homosexuality and are against polygamy(western world) and some societies accept polygamy and are against homosexuality(Africa, Middle East). However it is becoming and has become a grey area cause with in some of those societies your seeing in some segments of those societies go against it.

zeemoore: At 14, she was subjected to abuse, robbed of her childhood and aspirations, denied her right to health, security and education
Though I do not support murder, I don't blame the girl either
She was only saving her own life
It's a clear case of self defense

Amen, I agree

charlsecy: Can't the journalist help nail the kidnapper?

He could but the question would he want to?, I don't think the journalist would want to risk his life doing it but he doesn't mind risking his life to report the story through BBC