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Nnenna1:
Almost all of francophone presidents are married to White or biracial women.  Nothing wrong with that, just doesn't set the pace for African leadership much.

True, I have some Cameroon friends and I have heard that from them to, they worship the french alot, especially in Ivory Coast I heard.

The issue is not the fact if something wrong with it but the fact that you can't have your cake and eat it to, if they want people to take them seriously as african leaders then they should represent that in who they chose as wives but when they chose women that are part of the community of their former colonizers then nobody will take them seriously

p.s. where's Goodluck Johnathon and his wife?, and etc

The president of Cameroon's wife looks like a complete mess and her cat/dog weave doesn't make it better.

The president of Ivory Coast and Senegal certainly have something in common LOL

President of Senegal & his wife
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I know some forms of white worship exist in every african country but some are more extreme then others when it comes to it(especially the region in Africa), Some of my african friends from french speaking or francophone african countries have always told me that french/Portuguese african countries are more colorstruck then English african countries, and this just confirms it.

ogugua88:
Apart from celebrities taking responsibility of themselves, I do wish American judges will stop giving celebrities community service and 3.38 hours in jail and give them longer jail sentences, KEEP THEM IN JAIL, and when they're released, they go straight to rehab and stay there as well like they do to the normal Joes and Janes.

I agree, that's why I feel if they are not going to punish them properly don't do it at all because these celebrities won't learn from it all they learn is they can get away from bad behavior. look at Naomie Campbell, lindsay lohan and paris hilton all of them got special treatment punishment and didn't learn from it.

ogugua88:
Cosign -100%. Do remember that she was from the ghettos of New Jersey. I do believe that she was a bad girl forming good the same way Bobby Brown was a bad boy forming good in New Edition. At the end of the day, one is responsible for the decisions one makes.

I hope she gets a befitting memorial like Michael Jackson had. I hope people remember her for the talent she was and not the 10 or so negative years she had in the last years of her life. RIP.

You have some points but bobby you can tell had no values or good upbringing but whitney had some based on what i heard about her family background, any way it is sad it's all over the news now
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manmustwac:
She made a bad mistake when she married bobby brown. Bobby was at least 10 years her junior and he introduced her to drugs.

Cosign 100%

[b]"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.

Publicist Kristen Foster said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.

At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.

Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like "The Bodyguard" and "Waiting to Exhale."

She had the perfect voice and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who Were Intimate appeal but was never overtly intimate, who maintained perfect poise.

She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston.

But by the end of her career, Houston became a stunning cautionary tale of the toll of drug use. Her album sales plummeted and the hits stopped coming; her once serene image was shattered by a wild demeanor and bizarre public appearances. She confessed to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her once pristine voice became raspy and hoarse, unable to hit the high notes as she had during her prime.

"The biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy," Houston told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an infamous 2002 interview with then-husband Brown by her side.

It was a tragic fall for a superstar who was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 55 million records sold in the United States alone.

She seemed to be born into greatness. She was the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston, the cousin of 1960s pop diva Dionne Warwick and the goddaughter of Aretha Franklin.

Houston first started singing in the church as a child. In her teens, she sang backup for Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson and others, in addition to modeling. It was around that time when music mogul Clive Davis first heard Houston perform.

"The time that I first saw her singing in her mother's act in a club ,  it was such a stunning impact," Davis told "Good Morning America."

"To hear this young girl breathe such fire into this song. I mean, it really sent the proverbial tingles up my spine," he added.

Before long, the rest of the country would feel it, too. Houston made her album debut in 1985 with "Whitney Houston," which sold millions and spawned hit after hit. "Saving All My Love for You" brought her her first Grammy, for best female pop vocal. "How Will I Know," ''You Give Good Love" and "The Greatest Love of All" also became hit singles.

Another multiplatinum album, "Whitney," came out in 1987 and included hits like "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody."

The New York Times wrote that Houston "possesses one of her generation's most powerful gospel-trained voices, but she eschews many of the churchier mannerisms of her forerunners. She uses ornamental gospel phrasing only sparingly, and instead of projecting an earthy, tearful vulnerability, communicates cool self-assurance and strength, building pop ballads to majestic, sustained peaks of intensity."

Her decision not to follow the more soulful inflections of singers like Franklin drew criticism by some who saw her as playing down her black roots to go pop and reach white audiences. The criticism would become a constant refrain through much of her career. She was even booed during the "Soul Train Awards" in 1989.

"Sometimes it gets down to that, you know?" she told Katie Couric in 1996. "You're not black enough for them. I don't know. You're not R&B enough. You're very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them."

Some saw her 1992 marriage to former New Edition member and soul crooner Bobby Brown as an attempt to refute those critics. It seemed to be an odd union; she was seen as pop's pure princess while he had a bad-boy image, and already had children of his own. (The couple had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina, in 1993.) Over the years, he would be arrested several times, on charges ranging from DUI to failure to pay child support.

But Houston said their true personalities were not as far apart as people may have believed.

"When you love, you love. I mean, do you stop loving somebody because you have different images? You know, Bobby and I basically come from the same place," she told Rolling Stone in 1993. "You see somebody, and you deal with their image, that's their image. It's part of them, it's not the whole picture. I am not always in a sequined gown. I am nobody's angel. I can get down and dirty. I can get raunchy."

It would take several years, however, for the public to see that side of Houston. Her moving 1991 rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, amid the first Gulf War, set a new standard and once again reaffirmed her as America's sweetheart.

In 1992, she became a star in the acting world with "The Bodyguard." Despite mixed reviews, the story of a singer (Houston) guarded by a former Secret Service agent (Kevin Costner) was an international success.

It also gave her perhaps her most memorable hit: a searing, stunning rendition of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," which sat atop the charts for weeks. It was Grammy's record of the year and best female pop vocal, and the "Bodyguard" soundtrack was named album of the year.

She returned to the big screen in 1995-96 with "Waiting to Exhale" and "The Preacher's Wife." Both spawned soundtrack albums, and another hit studio album, "My Love Is Your Love," in 1998, brought her a Grammy for best female R&B vocal for the cut "It's Not Right But It's Okay."

But during these career and personal highs, Houston was using drugs. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2010, she said by the time "The Preacher's Wife" was released, "(doing drugs) was an everyday thing. ,  I would do my work, but after I did my work, for a whole year or two, it was every day. ,  I wasn't happy by that point in time. I was losing myself."

In the interview, Houston blamed her rocky marriage to Brown, which included a charge of domestic abuse against Brown in 1993. They divorced in 2007.

Houston would go to rehab twice before she would declare herself drug-free to Winfrey in 2010. But in the interim, there were missed concert dates, a stop at an airport due to drugs, and public meltdowns.

She was so startlingly thin during a 2001 Michael Jackson tribute concert that rumors spread she had died the next day. Her crude behavior and jittery appearance on Brown's reality show, "Being Bobby Brown," was an example of her sad decline. Her Sawyer interview, where she declared "crack is whack," was often parodied. She dropped out of the spotlight for a few years.

Houston staged what seemed to be a successful comeback with the 2009 album "I Look To You." The album debuted on the top of the charts, and would eventually go platinum.

Things soon fell apart. A concert to promote the album on "Good Morning America" went awry as Houston's voice sounded ragged and off-key. She blamed an interview with Winfrey for straining her voice.

A world tour launched overseas, however, only confirmed suspicions that Houston had lost her treasured gift, as she failed to hit notes and left many fans unimpressed; some walked out. Canceled concert dates raised speculation that she may have been abusing drugs, but she denied those claims and said she was in great shape, blaming illness for cancellations."[/b]
http://music.yahoo.com/news/whitney-houston-superstar-records-films-dies-005927033.html

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BlackLibya:
In Ghana, Senegal, and amongst many Berbers its whoever the mother is. But anyway, I talked to a congolese in Austria and she said that the African men just stick it in whatever and leave.

If you read my statement again I said most not all, so it comes down to the same thing; when it comes to Ghana well it is only the Ashanti tribe that follows that rule but the other tribes like the Ewe from what I heard is different. When it comes to Senegal and the berbers well I will take your word for it but they don't represent most of the african countries and in the end of the day they will follow one side any way despite the fact that this time it is the mothers culture instead.

I don't know what the Congolese story has to do with what I said but that news is nothing new especially the ones that are looking for citizenship, so that doesn't surprise me and many of them already have wives back in their countries any way. Lastly their are not many Nigerians in Austria, so I wonder which african men(country/nationality) she is talking about

HEALTH
1. not taking care of their health or taking it seriously ex. they don't do physicals annually to check their bodies health for heart disease risk, stroke risk, prostate risk, disease risk; they'll wait till the disease has showed their ugly head until they know they have to go to the doctor to fix the problem and by then it is to late because at times the damage to the body has been done, something they could have easily done or avoided with simple health check up's to the doctor in the first place

2.  sometimes they either don't know or are ignorant when it comes to taking care of their bodies physically when it comes to being fit and attractive ex. A few or some turn FAT(pot bellys) after drinking heinkeins and etc like water and eating bread like no mans business. Lets just thank God obesity & Fastfood is non existent in Nigeria and to Nigerians outside Nigeria however over weight people do exist in the Nigerian community.

3. Some don't know that deodorant is very important, or just smelling good is very important in general (I am not talking about the Nigerians that are very poor), I am talking about the ones that have access to it but don't use it or buy cheap ones, simply for body hygiene, some will smell like they just cooked stew or egusi soup or they just didn't wash at all, or something else all together

4. I have noticed some Nigerians in the western world don't mind working 24/7 at a job to buy a house and car and etc for themselves and at times to show off but they fight tooth to nail when it comes to the cost of taking care of their skin and using lotion/creme for their skin, Nigerian women at least some in the western world will pay to the heavens for some tacky weave in their hair but will fight about the price of a simple wash and set for their hair or don't have the patience to let their natural hair grow for two years; they want to cut their hair, and etc but want long hair the next month(knowing that Black womens hair doesn't grow quickly like non-black women hair) and don't have the patience to wait for a year or two for it to grow, so they use weave and their hair gets damaged again after using weave to have long hair. I'm not against Black women using weave, but accept the Bad and good of weave don't complain later when it doesn't come in your favor.

5. Some Nigerian women and bleaching; PLEASE just stop because your face would be light and your hands and feet will be dark as ever, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE, just increasing your risk of skin cancer

6. Some Nigerians, especially Nigerian men still think that women determine the sex of the baby or is 100% the one in charge when it comes to determining the sex of a baby; A Nigerian man who is married and keep's having girls but wants a boy and then blames his wife for the problem he thinks is a issue when it is medically known that it is men who determine the sex of the baby and then he and his family start calling the wife all sorts of names or pressuring her
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if the wife can't have a baby he and his family will label her as a witch and all this nonsense, and say she is that cause when sometimes it is the men that cause it because it is them at times that have fertility problems not the women(low s-perm count); I have heard examples of that.

7. Female G-enital mutilation(it's low in Nigeria but still wrong); this is not good for the body healthwise and there is risk for death and infection
happens all over AFRICA
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8. Fat houses in Calabar, I don't agree with being anorexic or being fat on purpose non of it is healthy or appealing. That hype that african men like or are attracted to fat women is a lie, at least for the majority
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9. Abortions; I am against it personally for health reasons not religious though However every Nigerian women has the right to do it but the more you do it and the way you do it can increase the risk of you not having kids in the future; don't go to a quack doctor for example, you may live through it but it could cause the risk of not having any children in the near future. Do it the right way and if you know you are the type that can't keep the legs closed then use a condom for your male partner.
p.s. I am not against abortion being legal though, I am pro-choice but I won't do it personally but I feel the way it is is practiced in Nigeria is a mess

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
1. Child witch nonsense; that stone age crap needs to go
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2. Sharia Law; leave that in the stone age or with the Muslim Arabs, Black africans have enough problems already
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VALUES
1. Nigerian scammers, They are not the majority but they do put a bad image on Nigerians and at times some Nigerians embrace it, that they are singing a song about ex. "I go chop you dollar", what a joke
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AjanleKoko:
I think I see your point, but intermarriage between tribes in Nigeria isn't harmful.
If we all stay within our various tribes, there is no real basis for the unity of this nation. Right now, some people are asking some other people to leave their boundaries. You can imagine if we all stayed within our tribal and religious divisions. Crisis would not be far off. Egba would fight Ijebu, Ishan would fight Bini, and so on. Tensions would keep escalating.

I also appreciate your use of the East as an example, China is 80% Han Chinese (Mandarin speakers). If the East had the kind of complex cultural heterogeneity that we have in Africa, they would not make much progress either. You should read Belo's book 'Black Africa and the dilemma of multi-nationalism'. I believe tribes need to merge.

economically I agree but Culturally I don't, however it is inevitable for the small tribes of Africa, I remember reading article years ago that the small tribes in Nigeria in the future will eventually disappear and assimilate into the larger tribes but larger tribes I don't see merging with other larger tribes. I feel tribal culture is what makes africa culturally what it is if it wasn't for that we wouldn't have our customs, language and etc, something that black diasporians long for and have lost that now they have to accept the white mans culture and ways, especially for african americans(all they have now is racial culture, which is in directly isn't culture at all); that it is affecting them now in areas of that community.

AjanleKoko:
Then we will never progress.
If Irish-Americans can marry Italian-Americans, why should Yorubas not be able to marry Igbos?
Such beliefs are the reason for our current stagnation. We need to break free of those beliefs.

I was born and raised in America from Nigerian parents and Irish and italian americans don't marry each others in droves; however they do marry each other compared to other white ethnicities but in America race overides culture in America. It is easy at times for whites of different ethnicities to marry each other because most white americans are of mixed ethnicities now, at least the majority of them but these same people would hesitate to marry a Black american that is in the same country. America really has no culture just racial culture or recent immigrant culture. So white americans are not the best example

Also I would like to add that I am freinds with some white people, and they just don't marry any whites. One of my friends is half italian american/irish american and both sides of the family were not happy when her parents married. I have another friend that is german and she would never marry a white american, and certain white europeans except Russians, Italians, Germans for example. I have another white friend that is polish and would only marry polish men. So lets not hype it up with whites to they are not as inclined either it depends on the nation, they are just not as vocal like Blacks are about it.

I going to be honest most of the countries in Africa that are rich in culture and haven't been wiped out are the ones that still have their tribal culture in intact, that is why some parts of southern africa are worst off now. Ghana has rich tribal cultural but they are living in peace economically and with each other, so I see nothing wrong with it. Nigeria's problem is mostly has to do with greed and religion if those two problems are fixed Nigeria would be peaceful because Nigerians outside of nairaland don't fight over tribal issues, they are ok marrying from their own. I am not saying inter-tribal marriage doesn't exist in Nigeria because it does but it isn't the majority and marriages won't change anything because in Nigeria and most african countries who ever the father is(the father is around 99% of the time) that is the culture the kids turn into, i have cousins like that and know people like that. so it comes down to the samething, it won't disappear.

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA link=topic=845399.msg10149466#msg10149466 date=1328703682]sister anonymous6, what human sacrifiice you talk about. Hausa dont do it and Yoruba dont. only Igbo did it but it was only for war captives or criminals who would be executed anyways. it is the same thing. what difference does it make to execute a human on the gallows by capital punishment and to sacrice the same person on the altar of the Gods this human sacrifice nonsense is spread by missionaries.

also today the ancients thought that if animals were sacrificed then why not humans we believe in equality of all creatures on this planet because we need each other to survive. this was how we think. and it was criminals who met that fat anyways.

ofcourse we can eliminate it today if it exists. it is not a very important ritual.[/quote]well in the news and media I have heard this

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[quote author=3.499 link=topic=859346.msg10087430#msg10087430 date=1328003046]https://media.revnewmedia.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_pic/images/obama-drake.jpg
“Anytime I see him on TV, I don’t change the channel.I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama’s life soon because I could play him,” Drake told VH1. “That’s the goal.”

Read story here   http:///fdYVEibI[/quote]I don't see that happening and I don't think Drake is the best person to play Obama; Obama is educated and Drake just seems uneducated to me or not as educated as Obama to me, plus drake acts ghetto and Obama doesn't. The only thing in common with them is both are mixed race but despite that I doubt he can pull it off.

Lastly I don't see neither Will smith or Denzel Washington playing Obama, Denzel looks completely different from Obama that it is obvious, when it comes to will Smith well he is light skinned black like Obama but it will just seem cliche or the obvious alternative, especially since Will has already played Muhammed Ali already. I feel when they do a biography of him which I know they will it will be somebody upcoming and we least suspect.

[quote author=emöfine link=topic=845399.msg10113647#msg10113647 date=1328283452]The irony is - it was such fine pieces of work that challenged and revised the way Europeans and the like thought of Africans. Binis for example were casting before the Europeans so such skill didn't have it's origin in Europe neither could the Europeans thus say that the Binis etc acquired the knowledge from them.
These works as well as many in Africa pose as a testament to the sophistication of Africans and their civilization. 
"Withcraft"? *sigh*
Actually I usually hear such depreciative language from Christian Nigerians hmmmn[/quote]I agree, I don't get it, some Muslim Nigerians also have had that sentiment as well

DanKan0:
what you mean on the bolded

are religon/culture not related lol? Just take religon more serious maybe that why it seems like that lol,

you are right they take religion very seriously and yes religion and culture goes hand in hand but what I am saying is that is what I have noticed

zolzlolz:
They do it to instill a sense of inferiority in Africans so they would rely on Europeans for everything-control seeking. Firstly when a white kid looks in his history book he can see famous mathematicians, physicists, actors etc, and its positive for his self esteem thus it gives him confidence to pursue his dreams. Now when a black kid reads the history books, his ancestors are depicted as slaves or second class citizens in a position of servitude. The black child will not have the same confidence as the white child if he wants to be, say, an austronaut. Secondly, this inferiority complex adopted by Africans makes them willing to adopt European culture. These so-called educated Africans would rather take their skills to Europe, rather than use them to build roads, hospitals and universities for the young generation. They're brainwashed minds would rather seek acceptance on the streets of London or Paris so they can brag to their countrymen back home as if being around Europeans gives them some sort of positive validation.

cosign 100%, and that's why I feel this issue needs to be addressed. to me one big way to stop it is training out children about it to combat against it

[quote author=emöfine link=topic=845399.msg10087190#msg10087190 date=1328001260]Hmm it does make one wonder what their purpose was for re-writing history and of course wonder what else they could be possibly hiding.
The consequences of such action is grave as zolzlolz has highlighted but a few.

By stripping one of their history is to poison one's self worth. If one doesn't know where they come from how will they know where they're going? Who will they draw inspiration from and if it happens to be from those who made their history redundant are they not thus being misled?

It's also quite sad how some regard their own history. When I used to marvel at the great works of Benin/Ile Ife etc some Nigerians labelled such masterpieces as "Witchcraft".[/quote]I have heard some Nigerians say that, and I just don't get it because the Benin/Ife art are master pieces to me and advanced art, which even surpassed Europeans. To me witchcraft has nothing to do with those arts, two different things why Nigerians feel the need to connect them is utter rubbish to me

[quote author=PAGAN  9JA link=topic=845399.msg10014903#msg10014903 date=1327154314]first step is a process called decolonisation, like what is happening in Bolivia, SOuth America, were Quechua and Aymara Tribes are returning to traditional religion. A change in mentality first, will only drive a change in other issues.

heres the link of one of my previous threads where i explained this:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=716413.0;viewResults[/quote]True, You have points but not many would leave their Muslim and Christian religion for the old religion, especially the Muslims. One thing about the old religion that needs to go it human sacrifice. To be honest I am Christian but I respect the old religion unlike some other Nigerians of course. I also believe also that there needs be a consciousnesses in africans when it comes to their race and who they are.

Ptolomeus:
I totally agree with you dear friend.
History has shown the Europeans committed and hardworking to distort African history forever.
Early studies of the English religious on African traditions are full of errors, trying to explain to its own settings to a completely different culture. Indeed, they did not understand what was witchcraft or something of the devil or Satan ,  when neither Satan or the devil exist in the cultures of Africa ,
Also, witchcraft has its origins in Europe, not Africa!
They have done with the Indians in America, with Africans in Africa ,  everything that is not part of their culture must be destroyed or changed ,  lamentable intolerance, costing, costs and cost many lives.
Someone said that "ideas do not kill" ,  traditions and culture either!
I do not think there are better or worse cultures, but different cultures ,
I am gratified to read shows like yours.
Exactly!
The European approach seeks to make us ashamed of who we are. It's another kind of domination, but so is.
It is outrageous that those who live in fear of the devil, alleged witches have been burned, tortured, those who thought differently from them, claiming that Indians and blacks had no souls, whoever they want to dictate moral and cultural norms of others, and ridicule what their lack of information and culture does not allow them to understand.

The word is "consciousness."

A friendly greeting for everyone!

True I agree

muyo2001:
most of the hausas in the u.k are mostly concentrated in the southampton, bournmouth, portsmouth areas, and when they are in london. they live in the high brow areas. thats why we seldom see them around. also they are good in minding their business i have also meet some of them in manchester. you can easily pass dem for people from other parts of africa due to their dressing mode.

so basically they would be more closer to a hausa from Niger then a Igbo or yoruba from their own country of Nigeria; one thing I also notice about them is their religion is their culture, their religion overides their culture in a way. Up til this day I'm yet to know their culture completely just their muslim religion

[quote author=emöfine link=topic=855913.msg10086881#msg10086881 date=1327998428]@OP I once believed that perhaps religion was another factor. I thought they may have favoured countries such as KSA as an abroad location due to faith (pertaining to those that are Muslims) which may facilitate in settling in   - although this was just an assumption I used to hold.

However despite that Hausa can be taught here in the UK.

Sannu. Ina kwana?[/quote]You have some correct points, Interesting

[b]"Jennifer Lopez had plenty of non-controversial things to discuss with the Today Show's Matt Lauer on Monday morning--her role as a mom, American Idol judge, and beauty icon for women over 40, to name a few. However, Lauer did manage to get the multitalented entertainer to spill some details about a sensitive subject: Namely, how she's managing her split from husband Marc Anthony.

Lopez explained that she and Anthony keep in touch out of necessity, due to their children Max and Emme, as well as a shared project they're currently developing--a reality TV talent show called Q'Viva! The Chosen, which is set in Latin America.

"Marc and I were friends before we got married. We were friends for years. And we always loved each other, and we always worked together," she explained to Lauer. "So it wasn't like an unnatural thing to keep working together."

"Obviously, we have children together so it's not like he's not going to be in my life," she added.

When Lauer admiringly called this an "adult approach," Lopez admitted there are difficulties involved. "I'm not going to sit here and lie to you about it," she noted. "But at the end of the day there is real love there, and there is a family there."

Lauer did get Lopez a bit fired up, when he mentioned a Vanity Fair article in which the singer/actress discussed  loving herself enough to walk away from her marriage.  "Matt, I'm going to kill you right now," she quipped, but noted firmly, "Everything I wanted to say about the divorce I said in that article, and Marc and I agreed we weren't going to talk about it publicly again because it really is our personal life."

Towards the end of the interview, Lauer asked Lopez if she thought she'd ever get married again--without naming Lopez's current flame, dancer Casper Smart. "I don't know," Lopez admitted. "It's not time to think about that."

And how are the kids doing? "So good," Lopez said, adding that she's trying to instill the values she grew up with: "Just in a bigger house.""[/b]
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/jennifer-lopez-talks-divorce-family-life-matt-lauer-170137021.html

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony
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watch the interview in the link !

update:
ACTRESSES THAT WILL RULE AND SHAKE NOLLYWOOD BY 2012
http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/15050/6/actresses-that-will-rule-and-shake-nollywood-by-20.html