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SeanT, why don't you just ignore her/him and eventually they'll stop posting all that rubbish to you? Just stop responding.

Siena:
@ Komekn: How many of those drivers, that choose to drive against traffic, are on the run from armed robbers?

Good question.

Lol In what way have I've been disrespectful to the Yoruba? I admire the Yoruba ethnic group very much, they are one of the most creative and vibrant groups in all of Africa. They're cultural strength and vibrancy is unmatched amongst the African Ethnic groups. It's legacy is spread widely throughout the Americas running for centuries gone. When asked to mention an African tribe or ethnic group in various poles helled here in the US and in South America and in Europe--- the Yoruba were familiar amongst the minds of more people than any other group but the Masai and the Zulu. I respect the Yoruba people greatly, for their history, and cultural strength and greatness.

Just because I find the looks of Northern and South Eastern Nigerian ladies more appealing than the Yoruba and other SW'ers on average, and set straight the fact of that we AA are of very little if any Yoruba ethnicity while letting all know that we are extensively of Igbo descent, doesn't mean that I hate the Yoruba.

I've never claimed to know more about Nigeria or Africa than anyone else, I simply speak on the extensive stuff that I am well informed on, and this seems to be a problem with many of you simply because I and other AA don't sugar coat and make kiss ass comments around here. Sorry, that's not in our nature as you may know by now for those who live here in the US. To be bold and in your face is simply in our nature, we don't enjoy beating around the bush when it comes to shit that passionate to us. We're not trying to be rude most of the time, we're just being ourselves; BLUNT and to the POINT!! Sorry, that's just how we are.

CH3COO, you need to be exterminated for the betterment of Nigerian society.Don't you have any shame; why are you speaking to that young girl like that? You are a filthy, putrid disgrace with your foul mental thoughts. It's typical psychotic like you who are causing the worlds problems. From the criminal crumbs to the middle class mennis, to the upper crust crooks. I can see in your very nature that you'd be just as bad if not worst than a Sani Abacha as a Nigerian leader. You have a perverted, crooked mind and thus bound to have a crooked soul. Your kind is what's wrong with Nigeria today. What fool dragged your mennising, sorry, stinking yansh out the Naija swamps to come here to be minis in this society? You're no better than Shantytown, ghetto and trailer park trash, you nasty Hump.

omoovie:
Thanks lulu but wait---aren't u d uncouth acata that came in here to be spouting nonsense about my precious naija? Monkey no fine but ihn mama like am. Please check thyself before thou wrecks thyself. If I came into an AA forum guns blazing spouting half-truths & stereotypes about all AAs being convicts, rapists, theives and drug addicts you wouldn't take it sitting down. Respect that this is a Nigerian forum and come at us straight. Do not under any circumstances disrespect and insult a whole nation based on the actions of the few or the many (Is it not our God that forgave a whole nation because he found 1 good person in that nation?). If that were the case the US and the UK are the bottom of the barrel in terms of all the shit they've done and still do and all countries in the world would be shot to hell. I suggest you apologize to the good Nigerian people of this forum.

Damn girl, you act as though I was lying.  I told no fibs, and you know it; you and others are just angry simply because an "AKATA" knows so much about your nation beyond the stereotypical rubbish talk of living in trees and amongst Lions and within huts and all that other garbage. I know the real downlow about everything in Africa, and so when I'm talking about the negatives,  you can't come back and say, "Oh typical American  or Akata talk" because I speak the truth. I peeped what's real a long time ago, Sista. Halla at me. The reason why you'all don't like me is the same that you don't like Exponent, Drusilla, BigSis, and the other AA regulars on here; it's because we talk about the real shit and not the stereotypical nonsense.

Some of you'all complain that AA don't take the time to actually get to know Africa and Africans, and then go on to complain again when AA who have actually taken the time to learn speak on the issues regarding Africa. How hypocritical is that? 

tpia:
care to state why you think you should get the job?

Am just curious.

Because as you've all witnessed, I have verbal technique to put obstinant, unruly fools and knuckleheads in their place with class and grace. I leave them thankfully obedient and punished, though their are some grown ass lumps who need a bit more of a beating to smooth over. Some of these miscreants need to be put on time outs from the site for some period of time when they start acting a fool. That CHO whatever chick or dude is first on the list. She/he come in to threads cussing up a storm and cursing out people with foul language for no reason at all.

Bush mentality miscreants need to properly trained the hard way on how to be orderly and civil when communicating in a technical transaction such as the Net, and I have the lesson they need to be learning. I've monitored many sites in the past and have made some important differences in these sites upon doing so. Also there's a growing AA membership on this site and I think it's only right that there's at least one AA mod present for balance.

This place is getting wild, and needs expert monitoring. I think Seun should allow me to take care of that for him, who agrees? 

Yes, I'm AA through and true. My African roots in this nation go all the way back to 1611, in which is prior to the actuall existence of this land as a Nation. Actually, that's prior to the start of slavery here in North America, my Igbo ancestors who came here in 1611 to the Virginia Colony came as indentured servants and were later enslaved in about 1630. I've just always had a strong interest in African affairs and studied about the continents history even as a very young boy, starting shortly after my father took my brother and I to Nigeria and a couple other west African nations.

In college I met a lovely Igbo American girl who most often just thinks of herself as simply African-American, and later we married and started a family. Ah, her family and I get along very well and when we get together for family events we discuss Naija affairs in which I keep abreast of via online Nigerian news sites. I plan on investing their someday, so I make it a point to stay on the issues. My wife hates Nigeria and doesn't feel the urge to go back and visit, but our son wants to though, but I don't want to take him to a rundown, hapless Nigeria--- but rather one in which is actually functioning properly and making solid progress. My wife and I left with over all bad impressions of the nation in which still run deep till this day; I don't want our son and daughter go and come back with the same mentality. I want them to go and be impressed by it so that they'd want to go back some day.

So many of my wife's little cousins who came over to the US as children from Naija are traumatized with thoughts of how crappy the nation is and they do everything in their might to leave the remanents and thoughts of the nation and their connection to it in the past by becoming ever more Americanized. The rate at which they lose the accent and pidgin lingo is alarmingly fast. One of her little cousins who just came over like 1 year ago, at the age of 4, already speaks with a fluid American accent, and has that typical American attitude in the way she expresses herself.

I find that hilarious, because when she first came over, she could hardly speak a complete sentence without throwing in a bunch of pidgin words, and now you'd be hard pressed to hear her mention even one while she speaks; Ebonic terms have replaced them. 

omoovie:
David dylan abeg chop knuckles jore!

I'm not going to lie, I'm also a victim of pride and having some random AA with no bloody say in my country running his fat mouth gets my hackles rising but let's be honest:

Naija's problem is Nigerians.

We have the tools, resources - human, mineral and otherwise, brain power, and spiritual strength to move forward. We have just accepted being stagnant. It is evident in the way it takes the average Nigerian person eons to get up and do something. Example: My aunties and uncles whom I love very much take bloody forever to get off their rump and travel from Agbor to Asaba. It's like trying to pull a mule. If a 1.5hr journey takes you a whole day not because the car broke down or something but because you are like, "ehnn, we will go now. We will go now," till the sun sets leaving all your preparation till it's too late then getting you to actively do something about your nation that is in utter shambles will require the might of our Father in Heaven. We have become too complacent with bulls***! So much so it's now in our bloodstream and has become a way of life. Heaven helps those who help themselves. It's not in the Bible per se but whoever coined that phrase had to have been inspired by God. If we all ignore or turn a blind eye to evil, then it has the room and incentive to grow.

Until we do something instead of waiting for a saviour to come we won't go anywhere. Take a cue from the Israelites, how many millenia did they wait before Jesus came? Even at that them still no code say, "Ol' boy na d guy b that oh!" Nobody is going to come and do it for us. We need to do it ourselves. It starts with making our leaders accountable for their actions and saying no to the easy solution of taking bribes from them when we catch them in the act. At a molecular level and at the highest echelon we need to start cleansing this spirit of lax complacency in d face of evil from within us.

Simple.

Absolutely. A+ for that post, Love.

The prime-minister of Japan got into a bit of hot water a couple of years ago for publicly making fun of ex-Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo's name and stating that Africans as a whole have some Odd, funny names.

onyinye2:
@hero

truly hilarious!!! that is most definately a classic. yes growing up in the south, i heard all these names one time or another.

The south? Humm, I didn't know you're from the Naija swamps.

onyinye2:
@ hero

did you enjoy yourself in Enugu state??

Enugu was ok. I Loved the mountainous greenery in which encompassed the whole area. It had some really gorgeous village and grass land filled valleys as well. Enugu City was, though like most Nigerian cities, greatly lacking for a city it's size. The underdevelopment of the nations Urban areas is disgraceful, though if proper investment is channeled into them they can become very nice area in that they already have very enchanting surroundings. Like Enugu in which sits splendidly in the mid of a deep valley with towing green mountains surrounding it, I could only imagine what it would look like if it was an actual developed city.   Enugu has great potential for development as well, with it's large coal and various other large amounts of natural resources in which are not being tapped to their full potential.

Enugu would be a major key factor in the infrastructural improvement of the nations transportation system for its large resources of nearly every natural element needed to develop modern interstate highways, railway lines and more. It can be the raw industrial hub of the nation, producing everything from Automobiles, train cars, steel, tar, electricity, refined fuels and even smaller things like paper, pencils, and lumber for a booming housing industry with the amount of natural resources it has in its immediot area. Nigeria has the type of resource density that others can only dream they had and yet they do little to nothing with it.

With it population size, centralized location and natural resource immensity, should be a Super power and or at least a budding one by now. As the respected giant of the African continent, if the nation had its shit together, they'd not only possess the immense amounts of resources in which they have in their land--- but also lucrative access to those of other lesser African nations who'd would be more willing to sell to a strong industrialized Nigeria than China or West. You all squandered an untouchable dream. Despicable.

Humm, Snazzydawn is a very pretty girl, the best looking on this site. I thought she was Igbo; at least I thought that's what I remember her once writing. Anyway, regardless, all the of South Eastern groups spawn very pretty females, the best in all of Nigeria, and Africa as a whole on average.

Drive down a major urban street in the wrong direction here in most US cities, and the Police will take your car from you and the DMV (Division of Motor Vehicles) will take your driving license from you, and force you to go to a driving school course and you'll still have to wait months before getting your license back. All that is on top of a good $2,000 fine at the least. For a city like lagos in which has outlandish driving habits, I think this is a good law.

Brandy J:
I'm with this guy from Nigeria. I've been knowing him for about 4 years but we are now in a relationship and have been for the past 1 1/2 year. I've never met his parents because they are always back and forth from Nigeria and New York and we stay in the south. I'm so nervous about meeting them.

His brother is getting married and now he's coming at me about our future and I would be totally cool with him because he lets me be me and I know that it would truly be about us being that he has his citizenship already. He is well educated, VERY handsome and chocolate.

Is it true that people is Nigeria view a Nigerian Man marrying a American Woman as something negative? or equal to a African American Man marrying a White Woman? I've heard rumors but would really love for someone to keep it real with me. I've asked him on several occasions but all he says is that some people are ignorant and think that things should remain the same but he's not like that. He is so good to me. I need some tips for when I meet his parents (which will be very soon). He wanted me to meet them last summer when they were in town but I was so scared that I made a excuse about having to work. HELP!

Are you an African-American? What ethnic group is you man from?

omoge:
this heroman is sooooooo hilarious.

those ijaw names got meanings okay @ Hero. but the ones you listed, can you tell us their meanings?
tabaqua

I certainly can tell you what they mean.

Shaquita-- Weave stay tight.
Tanisha--- girl gettin paid
Shaquana--- phat and stacked
DeShawna--- Ass like Whoa!!
Louetta--- Down ass chick
Jabarrie--- Pimpin ass Nigga
Kantanesha---  Ride or Die chick.
Cantrell--- Move with a shake
Niesha--- I do it right when the times right.
Keishan--- The block on lock
kanisha-- Pop and lock it queen
Pooky-- I Roll on D's
Leroy-- So fresh and so clean
Breezy--- Pimpin aint easy
Shanique--- rock steady all night long
Siera--- Light skin honey
Peedy--- I do my the damn thang
Aquanetta--- Shorty wit the light eyes, who stay fly
Alora-- Dark and lovely honey.

Dose anyone have picture from Abuja taken this year?

I hate those shows as well, though that market is too lucrative. Another network will simply take their place in showing those shows.

T@meD0:
Gbosa!  Man mi, wa dagba (na hin be say, u go grow old reach ripe age)!  Kill that omugo hero with your brilliant rebuttal (I like that!).  Abeg ma da omo ale to n fowo osi juwe ile baba e lohun o jare.  In as much as I do not like to use this word, hero, exponent or whatever he calls himself has got to be "akata."   More than likely hin parents (at least one) go be naija o wey hin don turn to "akata" finish.  Yes, Naija is corrupt hero but tell me what country's political leaders are not corrupt.  Starting from your Democrats to your Republicans, they are all corrupt.  Oh, and your so-called "Black Leaders" (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and co) are as corrupt as any single Naija politician.  In case your ignorant ass don't know, your so-called black leaders don't give rat's yansh about una black community for dia thay're just using una for their own political gain.  And you going to come here and talk about AA has stepped up their game (hisses).  For where?  Se na for una project or welfare wey una dey sidown with all dey long na hin una step up una game?  Wo, don't get me started up in here o!  I mean, Naija already has a bad rep, which I blame nobody but some of us but what I cannot stand is when people like hero, exponent (I no say you be the same pesin) keep singling out Naija.  Ah, ah, ki lo de gan!   

LMBAO!!  That was one of the most hilarious comments I've ever read on this sit. You are a funny guy, no lie. Keep up the comic relief. What made it even more hilarious is how you became so defensive toward my words and proceeded to attack me instead of directing your anger and  comments toward the issues I've presented. I love your use of pidgin talk, it made your comment even more entertaining to read. I am AA or "AKATA" by the way, as you've assumed, though next time don't hate the messenger-- hate that in which the message revealed my friend. 

Yes, I am proud to be a man. I wouldn't want to be a woman; they have too much personal shit to deal with with their bodies that'll drive me nuts. I have mad respect for them though.

grafikdon:
Hero, are you sure those are not fabricated names? All those Bonquesha and Smashita don't sound Ijaw. . .

certain of it.

thando:
im most probably the proudest south african zulu on earth. no matter what.

Damn, I've met lots of various types of South African ethnic groups, but oddly I've yet to knowingly encounter a Zulu. Odd. I've even met white and Asian South Africans, but a Zulu I've not. You all aren't going extinct, are you?  

oziomatv:
Ibinagbo Erekeshima (meaning war go soon start)

Shaquita
Tanisha
Shaquana
DeShawna
Louetta
Jabarrie
Kantanesha
Cantrell
Niesha
Keishan
kanisha
Pooky
Leroy
Breezy
Shanique
Siera
Peedy
Aquanetta
Alora

Rubbish thread. What a silly question.

pinkflava7:
We both are muslims

Though he is Hausa and or of some other ethnic distinction different form yours, correct?