₦airaland Forum

I find it odd how you chose not to break this up, nationally or ethnically as you usually do these picture threads.

Eri8: I am new to this board. I am an eritrean male but born and raised I the states. I just want to come out and let you guys know that not all East Africans feel this way. Most habeshas ( Eritreans and Ethiopians) recognize their black heritage although we also recognize we might have some mixture down the line. I don't get why Somalis deny themselves being black.

It's because they have been brainwashed and degraded by their Arab masters so long that they have grown to hate their blackness, and thus they desire to want to be seen as anything but "black" or Negro, the same is the case among many Afro-Hispanics, such as Dominicans, many Afro-Brazilians, Venezuelans and more. It's really sad. We black-americans have gone through a traumatic history much worst than they, and yet it has only strengthen our resolve to proudly acknowledge and basque in our blackness right here under centuries of very aggressive white oppressive rule. The Somali nation is shiat, because the mindset of the people within it is shiat and shallow. They pride themselves on the shallowness of their ethnic/nationalistic surface, while denying connection to their inner core of blackness/negro that binds them with a billion others, and their roots beyond tribal and national affiliation. You can not truly know who you are until you come to recon with all of who you are, and until then you will remain lost.

The roots of the word Redbone originate in Jamaica where they used the word ‘Red Ibo’ to describe certain fair-skinned people who lived in the harbour areas. Merchant seamen, sailors’ cargo ships and so on bring foreigners who slept with local women and had many mixed race children in these areas. The term ‘Red Ibo’ was used (it is no longer in common use) to describe fairer than average Jamaicans. The term came into use because originally among the slaves taken to Jamaica there were a good number of Igbo’s who were comapratively lighter among dark skinned Igbo. They exist to this day in Africa. Igbo are the lightest population of the Bantu populations, in fact, the term for Whites was Oyibo, which comes from Onye Igbo, Which means "Like an Igbo."

Many use the term "redbone" for African Americans with medium toned skin, adopting the term from the Caribbean. The term also come to identify two separate ethnic classes, one of mixed African, European and Native American ancestry and the other usage is to designate some groups of Native Americans. This still seems to cause controversy and confusion among people. The first ethnic group who were called "Redbones" were groups of multi-ethnic families with similar or the same English surnames who were labeled as Free Persons of Color, Mulatto or Indian by early American census takers. The term was used for these mixed race multi-ethnic groups of families in Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi and East Texas

One crucial part that the information left out was that, do to the fact of that the majority of the Africans brought to the US were Igbo, thus the African-American black population was/is majorly an Igbo population, the term Redbone rather fluidly transgressed into the society as in the early 1800's some Jamaican slaves began being taken to the US to help fuel the rapidly growing Cotton plantations of the Deep south, in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, and in in the process passed on some of their unique slangs.

Naijaphil: I have this HUGE assignment on my ethnic group to write and i am egba. I know almost nothin about it and i av five whole pages to write. God will bless you for answerin o. I av introduction down, what is special about the egba dialect, what sort of clothes, festivals, technology,traditional rulers, marriages? anything at all. Please help me, my dad is not in a good mood, he wont answer me.

Wow, how can you not know anything about your own people? That's crazy. Good luck.

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kandiikane: LMAO! Who the fick are you?!

Royal.

PAGAN 9JA:
shutp you st.upid baboon akata man!

I never said that we Africans dont go around like this. THis is part of many of our rich tribal cultural traditions, for climate, religious occasions, etc. and is good.
However our tribal brothers and sister never roam around half0clad/unclad for se.xually suggestive reasons,or to make those millions of online p.ornographic content, etc., like what you akatas do.

It is perfectly seen as normal in the villages and these people are simple folk and not dirty minded like you. I have been to Adamawa and i know the Marghyii, who also roam around with their bosom uncovered. it is perfctly normal there and not seen as sexually suggestive.

The negative se.xuality of the west and dirty thinking has not yet hit these areas, by the grace of the Gods.


Try something better next time you useless foolz! Tufia

Blah, blah, blah.

Mrs.Chima:
Hi Blyss.

Now that's better, and congratulations.

Caliente: Funny? Weird? Unbelievable? In this 21st century people still flaunt this kinda fashion. I feel like Im watching a still shot from "The Gods Must Be Crazy" Bad market for louis vuitton and co lol. All those designers stuff is garbage to this ones. The place is Adamawa in Nigeria. The place is called Koma Hills. Some do not even wear anything at all.
http://www.rhipplemedia.com/2012/05/unclothed-culture-out-of-adamawa.html

So this is an oddity to most Nigerians? Interesting, upon one of my visits to Naija I was lucky to catch a tour through the Mountains in Adamawa and Taraba and seen quite a few villages where the folks still walked around in such attire.

Abagworo: It is women that trick their last boyfriends into fathering their 1st issues. I experienced that and so did like 3 other friends. 3 out of 10 might be low considering the frequency in my environment. They beg you that they want to use that child in remembering you since you guys could not marry. Its called "goodbye sex" and happens just a week to her wedding.

LOL, that's fuocked up.

*Kails*:
all in the kool aid.

LOL. Well if she is, I just wanted to congratulate her.. but sadly she doesn't speak to me anymore for some odd reason.

Odunnu: Hmmm. Shocking! 3 out of 10? Are we this promiscuos?

LOL, you don't get out much, do you?

Mrs.Chima:
Girl dealing with morning sickness and my two sis in-laws here for vaycay.


How dey?

You're prego?

PAGAN 9JA:
i dont bliv this. this is made-up.provide correct proofs and links.


its normal for akatas but not for us. for akats its around 3 in 5.

Well, the study is a Nigerian Federally funded study. So why would your own gov., which is 100% the same racial, cultural and religious background as those being studied, want to negatively taint such information? It wouldn't make sense.

*Kails*:
smh.
the anti-black american rant bait has been set.

Well pass experience tells me you are correct, though I just had to put it out there as a good cultural section topic for Nigerian to discuss on this here Nigerian site. Though you know as well as I do that they'll take huge offence to an "Akata" posting it up, and will proceed to attempt to turn the subject into an BA vs. Naija issue instead just facing and focusing on the issue at hand.

“3 Out Of 10 Nigerian Men Are Not Biological Fathers Of Their Children” – DNA Experts

First of I’ll say this not just a Nigerian problem as I’ve heard a similar stat for Americans also. I think about 1/5 in the American case, but since this is a website focused on Nigerian stuff we’ll focus on ours.

A recent study by “DNA experts” in Nigeria have revealed a shocking statistic that about 3 in 10 men are not biological fathers of their children. A recent interview with Nation shown below:

We have seen that there is serious need for it because in many homes things are happening that are scary both to the lives of children and their parents. And for the general statistics that is now available, it is found that three out of every ten men are not the fathers of their babies. Similarly, three out of every ten children are not fathered by men they have seen as their biological fathers. What we have found out is that, anytime we take ten men, at least three of them eventually found that they are not the fathers of the children they call their own. And these men would have taken care of the children for all their lives.

Now, the global statistics is 100, 000 out of every 300, 000 men. But what we have found that is that the situation is higher in Nigeria than other places. For example in our laboratory here, 50 per cent of the cases comes out negative. And we also realised that majority of the first-borns are affected. You only need to be here to see big men cry like little kids and watch children weep in agony. It has been that bad. And I dare say it is becoming something every home must do and you may be quite surprised at the level of dastard revelation.

About thirty per cent of fathers are unknowingly bringing up children who are not biologically theirs. And it is suspected that this percentage may be on the increase due to sexual recklessness. According to recent trends in sexual health, especially in Nigeria, it was suggested that unprotected sex and multiple partners are comparatively common occurrences with a large proportion of conceptions still unplanned. So, more than half, that is, 50 per cent of all paternity tests carried out by our lab comes out negative and the most affected are first-borns, except in a few cases.

Shocking right?

Now there are different factors these things. For the longest time if there was no child the blame was immediately shifted to the woman. That could affect things is some ways. Pressure to have children when it’s not coming easy. There’s also the issue of just plain infidelity. Then there’s just plain ignorance on both parts. Blind trust.

In 2012, shine your eye.

On the flip-side we can look at the positive. 70% of men are actually biological fathers of their children. Yea? Positive?

Drop your thoughts.

Mrs.Chima:
Now you see what I Have been saying...my hope is the carrib!!

You're hope is the carrib? Then you don't have much hope at all, in other words?

Lurve: Dat is 1 of d most beautiful women in d world.mttteewww

In your dreams.

*Kails*:
@odumchi and all,
I see you're advising her not to give up on Africa and to study or focus on Africa's beauty.
But truth be told, I don't know if it's because I am not African, but I feel the biggest critics of the "pro African" vision ARE AFRICANS. lol. An African would be the quickest to call someone Afro. centric and unreasonable if they try to get other black people/Africans to understand about African cultures and seeing Africa in a "macro" perspective.

It's really sad.

Absolutely, Kails. I've noticed the same thing.

JallowBah: Well..since I live in Scandinavia, they say that "super-healthy is the new skinny".
No body fat, eating superhealthy, and being...chicken, you could say. Some figures have come a little bit back compared to ten years ago, but still, the ideal looks like this:

[img]http://static.vg.no/uploaded/image/2012/7/18/leiseg2.jpg[/img]

This girl is the most read blog in my country, and this is what most women in my country see as the ideal-body.

...I do NOT agree with them. As long as you are HEALTHY, I don`t care. The most beautiful thing a woman can carry, is confidence.

How in the hell is that considered healthy? Around my way, no matter what race you come from, you'd be considered unhealthy (anorexic) by most.