smh.

you're all related as west africans.
once you get out of the tribal mentality and start looking into facts you will see how.

No such thing as tribal mentality. There will never be a one Africa as many of you hypocritical pan Africanists love to push for. There are different languages, cultures, looks, style etc in Africa and no the two will never be one and the same. So your statement is very ignorant and it is like saying well if us humans stop our racism mentality then Caucasians and negroes will be related and will be one and the same. This is ridiculous. Yes humans live on the same planet but they are differences amongst them and there is nothing wrong with that

kenchopirlo:
GAs living here ghana.. are from ile ife.. nigeria.. they behave like naijas. their language.. how their traditional leaders dress in white cloth and white everything. they do it too.

There is no proof of this, dressing is not proof of this. Plus, why do Yoruba and Igbo love to claim everyone as theirs?

DuduNegro:
Ghana:The Tabon(Yoruba descendants)of Accra

Posted on April 28, 2010


Sometime in May 2005 whilst listening to a British Broadcasting Corporation programme on radio, I whiffed a great similarity between the report on the Tabons of Accra(descendants of ex-Brazilian slaves of Yoruba extraction).The report which won my heart in its totality was sent in by a certain Kweku Sakyi-Addo.

According to the report,the Tabons (70 families in all) arrived 170 years ago on a ship from Brazil after their emancipation and were given land for farming and settlement by the Ga chief of present-day downtown Accra. The settlers greeted all those they encountered by saying “Es ta bon” which is Portuguese for “It is well”. With time,the Brazilian returnees came to be known as Tabon people on account of their style of greeting. Numbering several hundreds of thousands today,they have become fully assimilated into the Ga culture of the Greater Accra area.

Perhaps it is no surprise that the Tabon also claim Yoruba ancestry, bearing in mind that about 30 million of Brazil’s 40 million African descendants claim Yoruba ancestry,the rest variously claiming Fon, Fante, Efik and Ovimbundu ancestry.

Indeed,it was most amazing to hear Tabon renditions of their folk songs which were done in clearly discernible Yoruba language! Small world.

http://beegeagle./2010/04/28/ghanathe-tabonyoruba-descendantsof-accra/

your source comes from an OPINIONATED article by a blogger, yet you mark this as some kind of proof of this bogus info Smh

amor4ce:
The Ewe migrated from Ketu/Old Oyo. A solid evidence is the same traditional worship and divination practiced by the Yoruba/Ewe. Some of you Igbo should stop trying to claim anyhow.

Proof of this? Having similar cultures is not enough evidence of anything. I can also point out some similarities between Tibetans and Yorubas but does that mean Yoruba people originate from Tibet.

thank you


@tudor

This is a list of what cheap really is amongst others

a cheap shot
a criticism of someone that is unfair
She dismissed his comments as a cheap shot, saying that he was only concerned to defend himself.



cheap   adjective ( DRESSED SEXILY )
adj
disapproving If you describe the way a person is dressed as cheap, you mean that it is very obvious that they are trying to sexually attract other people.


cheap   adjective ( LOW PRICE )
•
costing little money or less than is usual or expected




cheap adjective ( UNKIND )
adj
disapproving unpleasant and unkind
I wish you'd stop making cheap jokes about my friends.


How come your dictionary talked abt the money aspect alone?

You seem slow. You pointed out yourself that cheap when used in reference to dressing means someone who tries hard to look sexy. Well how does this woman try too hard to look sexy? She dresses modest at best so you fail. Cheap only refers to distasteful when it is in reference to something a person said e.g. a cheap insult. You would never call an Armani suit cheap now would you? Even though that same suit might look like crap on the person wearing it

I would loose my self esteem if i had that rubbish on

she needs to step up her game, dress appealing not like a masquerade

oprah still dresses well, compared to this rubbish, seriously do you wanna compare the eye brow drawings

shes a hot mess

You would lose all your self esteem because you had or have no real self esteem in the first place. Self esteem is not about the way you dress, it is from within. And you should be worried about losing your intellect rather than your self esteem because your ignorance is sure to make you lose that

tpiar:


ok, bring out your light skinned ladies then, for us to choose from.


Hurry up because other regions will also be contending.

self hating slave, crazy

Nayah:
I love mix...Nigerian mix with other African people and I find it really fine, many of them marry Cameroonians,Ghanaians, Ivorian etc...good thing for African integration

You only love it because you think other people are superior to you. Everyone should stick to their own so that they spread their genes and culture within their own

The East African Chiq has on Makeup....Her Goddamn Face is Painted.....

How is that Not Makeup?...

I see your Message Though, and I feel what you Mean

That is face paint dummy, not considered traditional modern day make up

Akshow:
different strokes for different folks. Mind you i was.nt talkin about the Morocco bride's beauty. I was talkin about the attire. As for the Kenyan bride, she is a true definition of true black beauty. Devoid of unnecessary eye shadows and make up, devoid of any silly wig, black to the marrow and flountin it in a purely African way. She's on a skull skin hair cut for cryin out loud. Let all the other brides clean their make ups and remov their wigs, then you will understand What i mean by true natural African beauty

Bam!

The Moro Wedding Guy, has some slick cream colored footwear

That East African Lady Looks Disgusting....

The Ghana Chiq is a Goddess From Heaven.....

I don't see anything ridiculous about that Moro Pic.

That's Tradi North Africana Flavor Right There.

Easy African chick is ugly, why? why is she ugly? in order words, black skin is ugly right? but white skin is the opposite right? You are such a slave. Your mentally enslaved behind does not even realize how ridiculous you seem. I think you are ugly

So you telling me....

The Moro Wedding Looks Ridiculous....But the Masai Bride Is Beautiful?....



That Woman is no where near Beautiful.

She Looks Like Luol Deng

She is beautiful you are just a self hating Nigerian. the only thing you looked at was her black skin just because white people have conditioned your slave ass into thing black skin is ugly. She is beautiful, you are the one who is not

SkinnyDude:

look at this ugly looking Ghanian. we don't need GHanians, they are dirty and very dark.

Your ugly behind is obviously full of self hate. You nigerians are very full of self hate, no wonder many of you are so ugly. You people worship white people so much ghat you even kill yourself trying to have white skin. How can you even associate black with ugly? Are all white skinned beautiful? Obviously this is pure conditioning from white people couple with ignorance and lack knowledge about self. nothing wrong with being black or even midnight black and black skin is not ugly just like white kin is not beautiful. Nigerians like you are just self hating

onila:
this is what happens when a very dark girl bleaches

I hate it when black women bleach with no class, how do u feel when yr body is patch, patch, arent u ashamed everyone notices u bleach

u can bleach or tone a little so it wont look obvious, bleach with some sense if u are bealching

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1644074_uiioo_jpeg068f0f1a93de7d5f4f48ef3ded1354fb

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1644075_1920196_748505648539463_8036751112064625452_n_jpegd981d5b624b87a681aeefdf8e360dc74

There is no difference between toning and bleaching because it is the same thing. And do you expect someone to bleach and then stop? That is ridiculous because the effects are not permanent and like drugs, once you start you don't stop. Bleaching or toning us the same and are both bad period

sexyLeamon:
Wigs, Weaves And Perms Symbolize Self Hate

no i do not think it's self hatred.if you want to perm your hair, then that's you.
i don't think afros are ugly, i just can't pull off the look and i would rather have something more manageable perming my hair gives me the ability to put my hair in many different styles. Do you also think, its self hatred that a lot of white women dye their hair, wear weaves, and get botox and tan? Instead of fizzy brown or black hair and pale skin?

Why compare the two, white and black I mean? They have their reasons for doing those and it is not the same for black women. Why do y'all have to copy white people? Only inferior complexity would make one copy another race of peopke

jgirl3:
I love my wigs. . . hardly use them
I love my perms . . . get them all the time
I love my weaves. . . have one on right now.

Health issue - No one has died from excess use of moisturizer on either skin or scalp.

Financial issue - Technically, Asians make cars too. . . should we stop buying cars then? Nigeria should make their own hair products if it makes them feel so good.

Sacrilegious - not all of us are christians and for those of us that are, it talks about not putting tattoos or permanent marks on our bodies as desecrating God's temple. Premarital sex does that too . . . why not preach that first?

Psychological - It increases one's self esteem and improves one's body image.

Any questions?

The fact that it gives you a self esteem you never had shows how self hating you are. Do you see white people wearing afros and saying that that gives them self esteem?

So true

literatichick:



Well I condemn both white and black evil doers. That Nigerians gloat happily till date about 3 million igbos who died in Biafra is testament to the fact that Africans are just as evil as their white counterparts.

That Hutus can massacre tutsis to the tune of 1 million people in only a few months is another proof.

Thousands slaughtered in darfur, liberia, even more thousands in Northern Nigeria today, Bantus displacing pigmies and bushmen, Somali and Hausa/Fulani enslaving fellow blacks prior to European domination...the list goes on.

Some of the genocides mentioned were executed only with machetes so you have to wonder how deep the rabbit hole would go if Africans had access to nuclear and biological weapons.

Black people are just as evil as whites. May hurt to admit but it's true. Humans are evil in general. Even the natives of Northern and Southern America enslaved and sacrificed each other in a bid for intra-continental conquest prior to the Spanish taking over.

I'm not going to excuse anyone here. Oh no.

Even YOU made a point to gloat about how much advanced blacks were than Whites who were "primitive" at a point in history. What makes you different from the racists who act superior to Black people?

Whites just happened to be more efficient at consolidating their hold on the world so much so that they are on top now. As is the cycle of life another race will take over and dominate the rest in a brutal and hateful way.

Human beings are a terrible specie of animals. All we know how to do is gloat over arbitrary notions of what a made up term, "civilization" is. We use that to feel better and then oppress those who we perceive to be weaker. We act as parasites and suck out the Earth's resources.

The only good thing about being a human being is that you will eventually die. I can't wait for as asteroid to decimate the earth and purge it from the most worthless and deluded species that ever graced it.

Only white people are evil? What a joke!

Start from Nigeria and look at its people to see evil at our doorstep. Tribalism, ethnic clashes, crime, boko haram, Fulani killings of middle-belters, sexual abuse, prostitution and human trafficking, ritual murder, fraud, rape, disgusting deaths and mayhem.

Are we talking about Black Americans? Come to Africa and see how their desendants treated the natives of liberia. Look at how they kill and degrade each other here in the US.

Are we talking about the myriad of African leaders who care only about power and wealth and nothing about the poor masses?

Isn't it a shame that the poorest region in Africa (Northern Nigeria) is inhabited by the richest Black man?

The disgust I feel at these realities are so intense that I question the existence of God to begin with.

Do you know the meaning of gloat? I think you mean brag and many Nigerians do not gloat about the two million Biafrans killed. Obviously you are pro Biafra. Plus Nigeria does not constitute ALL of Africa so Africans as a whole can't be evil

igbo2011:


Most Africans think that blacks are INFERIOR they have become Afropeans. The only reason the Europeans conquered Africa was because they had GUNS from China. Shaka Zulu was whooping the Europeans! Ethiopia said F U ITALY!!! We have to embrace the past to say we are NOT inferior. IT is all about the MINDSET!!

The only reason they run should is because they spend all their money on guns and weapons for imperialism. America spends almost half a TRILLION!! on their military.

Exactly. Look at how many times the Zulu ppl conquered them but they had to get guns to aid them in their fight

AjanleKoko:


It's really laughable, how you 'Afrocentric' guys always end with that punchline.
But most of you guys live in Europe or the US. So, who's more 'indoctrinated', you or me? I have always lived in my country, and will continue to do so.
But it's okay. To each his own. It's kind of amusing how, for you guys, it always boils down to the other's 'ignorance', and how 'indoctrinated' other people are. Whatever.

For me, I am more concerned with how we down here can take control of our destinies, not with the past. Just talking about the past and complaining hasn't really changed anything, has it? We are still not in control of our destinies and resources as Africans, and could easily be exterminated as a weaker race in the future. Aren't you concerned about that at all?

How is that Afrocentrism? I hate to say it but you are one dumb, gullible person, you probably pray to a white God all day. White ppl are evil, fact! Africans hardly killed each other but did conquer each other and captured those conquered. Look at civilisations in Egypt and even Zimbabwe something white ppl had no clue about. Or even look at how organised Nigerians in Canada for example, are.

AjanleKoko:


I don't think it is brainwashing. Caucasians actually believe they are superior. Technically they are, since they are more organized, and well, they did colonise us and use us like beasts of burden. They also made much better use of nature's resources, and did a very good number on early Africans. If you were keeping score since the beginning of time, yes, they are leading the game of life. It's not hype, they are truly in charge.

In fact I think the propaganda isn't targeted at us. Most likely it is targeted at their own people, in case people started getting soft and believing that blacks were humans rather than bush animals.

Oyinbos learned very quickly over time, and figured out their priorities very quickly.
Let's think about this, truthfully, if you were you, as you are today, with your mindset and all, would you come exploring in Africa in the 1600s? Prolly not.
Yeah, the early African Egyptians, Pharaohs and all, they were the ish. But obviously they didn't see the bigger picture. How come the white guys were able to erase their legacy almost totally, and even steal all their inventions?

The Romans, after years of being kicked in the azz by Hannibal, finally figured out how to end him, and all of his Carthaginian glory.
The Zulus also kicked the ass of the Brits one time. But what eventually happened?

A good way to think about Africans, even the the Great Early Africans, is to remember the Super Eagles of the 90s. They beat Spain in one World Cup, only to get bashed by Denmark in the second round. That to me represents the story of Africa more than anything else.

I'm not saying history is not good. Yeah it is. But for me, conspiracy theories are more than theories. Make no mistake, the rest of the world would exterminate black people - if they could. It ain't no conspiracy. It is real. We had better get up off the floor and

start getting our shyt together. Else, not only oyinbos, even Asians will come and enslave us again. What with the world's dwindling resources, and Africa's yet to be tapped wealth?

We really need to figure this thing out, and quickly too.

The reason why they SEEM superior is because people like you have been brainwashed. They are not superior, just evil. Look at how many Africans they killed Look at how many Natives they killed. Yet they call God white. Do you know that they were enslaved first? Do you know that Africans colonised Turkey ? You probably went to a good ol Christian school that taught you these things and do you even realise how ridiculous that is? Ask yourself, why are you not learning your own history and greatness as an African, why theirs? They are not superior, you are just gullible enough to be deceived by their education or teachings

The reason is that foreigners are just better and organized that us so it always give that illusion. When fool steal and exploit, it is done with ignorance and senselessness to gross unimaginable level to oppress but when an organized people do they will just take it and leave and laugh at the failure of others.

It is more like when your parents you thought could not harm you is doing the harm,which it is unbearable, than somebody far away does. It is least expected people to harm you is the most appalling in this case.

Better than you? Mental slavery is real indeed. Have you been to UK? Italy? Syria? Libya? Algeria? Taiwan? How are these places better than Nigeria? Mental slavery from ignorance is what is destroying not just Nigeria but Africa

drzed:


Well, I am neither surprised that the guy was vilified here on Nairaland nor am I surprised that he shelved his plans. Anyone who ventures to bring their problem to Nairaland must first acquire a thick skin. In fact, my advice to people who cant stand the heat is: if you REALLY need help but dont have the time/patience to differentiate insult from advice on Nairaland, then quietly send internal email to selected people who you either follow or trust on Nairaland. They wont mind giving you honest advice, privately.

I have visited the link you posted above about your friend. Someone named violet told your friend the following:


Those who attacked him probably did it out of childishness, envy, jealousy (probably a mixture of all three) or it was due to the good ol pure hatred for fellow Africans - which this thread is actually all about, i.e. Africans hating each other just for the heck of it.

Now just imagine what that chap of yours must have been thinking: "I asked for advice from Nigerians and I am being insulted and vilified....what will now happen when I actually apply for a job in Nigeria?" Trust me, if he is not careful, all that zeal and energy for 'come back home and contribute to my fatherland' will disappear in a whirlwind of tribalism, victimisation, bring-him-down, bad-belle and nepotism. That is after he has lobbied and bribed his way...to serve his OWN country. Many Nigerians dont respect or appreciate that line of thinking. Majority of us only respect money and dont care how you came about about it. And if you happen to speak with a foreign accent (through no fault of yours) you'd better be damned rich cos the bad-belles and haters will devour you like hyenas breaking their ramadan fast.

Anyway, maybe as you suggested, hating is in our DNA. There are truly two kinds of black people - Players and Player haters. And I have long decoded our people as generally happy to see you doing well.... but not better than them. So sometimes, it is actually clever to feign suffering or poverty just to avoid evil eyes.

You are the type of ignorance killing Nigeria. How can you state all those things and even include that "hating is in our DNA" (another ignorant assumption) and not assert the fact that it is WRONG?

IcharmU:
Everyone wants to be happy that's our purpose of living ....I like the whites cos of their lovingfilled way of living....

By loving, do you mean killing Africans, torturing Africans, killing Natives? Do you also mean infiltrating and filling communities with drugs or/ and weapons?

EreluY:
[b]@drzed. TBH., I haven't been on NL since Nov 2011, or thereabout. This is because, constructive discourses, IMHO, weren't largely holding on the majority of the fora here on NL. But I find your responses very thoughtful, insightful and engaging. In fact, I cannot - broadly speaking - fault anything you've said. For example, I am one of those Nigerians who felt and still feel that Nigeria did absolutely nothing to make me who I am today. Nonetheless, on completing my studies here in the UK, I was ready to return home to contribute my own LITTLE quota to Nigeria's future or for posterity. But, I quickly realised how I could end up wasting away in Nigeria and I decided not to return home, at least for now. In spite of securing my dream job here in the UK, the 'racist card' including the 'Plastic British' politics, amongst other things, led me to raise a similar question on this site. I personally know many who have similar experience, share similar view and had taken the same decision. I 'met' a guy here on NL. He lectures here in the UK and wanted to return to Nigeria to teach, believing he has something to offer the future generations. He came to this site to seek opinions ( https://www.nairaland.com/449990/relocating-back-nigeria-lecture-university ). Not only was his thread derailed, he was vilified here on this site and he ended up shelving the idea. Before you think I am digressing, if it were to be a Caucasian British, American or Canadian, even a Romanian or Lithuanian, who posted a similar thread, fellow Nigerians are more than likely to welcome him with open hands and encourage him to relocate to Nigeria to lend a helping hand.[/b]




Absolutely right, dasparrow. You're spot on!




Don't forget that there were countless of intra-tribal and inter-tribal warfare across sub-Sahara Africa, which fuelled trans-Atlantic slave trade. Trading-off one another in this day and age, IMHO, translates into selling one another off into modern day slavery. It's, therefore, probably in our DNA.

t
Dude white people created "tribes" before then it was just a bunch if Africans from different areas who naturally fought with each other. Even Europe, groups fought among themselves.

Piro4rl:
AND THESE OYIBO WILL IN TURN TREAT US LIKE A RAG IN THEIR COUNTRY. GOD HELP US

No help your own self first

BigTom:
d same tin bothering my mind. Am begining to dislike all blacks all africans , especially all nigerians females. Both young and old. Dey all lack manners and very disgusting. Dis is jus my one week visit to uk. is so bad. D whites ladies are more nicers dan i expected. No wonder a black nation cant move forward. F***king niggas and bitches. I aint marryin a black p***y again

I know for a fact that your illiterate *as ain't Nigerian FOH you are probably sine cracker or maybe Somali, try again

In the days of the bible Egypt was black African. In fact 99% of the pharoahs were blacks, and blacks built the pyramids and grand temples and monuments of Egypt. Thousands of years ago, blacks were the most advanced, educated, and respected race on earth. At some point they allowed a few of the whites (Greeks) into Egypt and taught them the sciences, mathematics, medicine, architecture etc, which was what led to the rise of Greek civilization, and from it, the western civilization of today.

Truth is Africans have no reason to feel less than anyone else. Without the early African pioneers, there would be no civilization to speak of today.

Here are the words of Lady Flora Shaw, the historian wife of Lord Lugard, first British governor general of Nigeria:

Flora Shaw's (alias Lady Flora Lugard) book is an extraordinary look at the history of Africa, which she gathered from countless sources, and one would imagine a great deal of it came from the British Library and from the archives of the Times of London, for whom she had for many years been the Foreign Political Correspondent. She had always been known to be an intensive researcher into her subject matter, and one wonders at the months and probably years she put into this undertaking, which became the reference work for so many future books on Africa. This book was first published 100 years ago showing the detail and descriptive power, and the greatness that Africa once was. Lady Lugard argues that:

"When the history of Negroland comes to be written in detail, it may be found that the kingdoms lying towards the eastern end of Sudan (classical home of Ancient Ethiopians) were the home of races who inspired, rather than of races who received, the tradition of civilization associated for us with the name of ancient Egypt. For they cover on either side of the Upper Nile between the latitudes of ten degrees and seventeen degrees, territories in which are found monuments more ancient than the oldest Egyptian monuments. If this should prove to be the case and civilized world be forced to recognize in a black people the fount of its original enlightenment, it may happen that we shall have to revise entirely our view of the black races, and regard those who now exist as the decadent representatives of an almost forgotten era, rather than as the embryonic possibility of an era yet to come."

"The fame of the ancient Ethiopians (ancient Kushites) was widespread in ancient history. Herodotus described them as the tallest, most beautiful and long-lived of the human races, and before Herodotus, Homer, in even more flattering language, described them as the most just of men, the favorites of the gods. The annals of all the great early nations of Asia Minor full of them. The Mosaic records allude to them frequently; but while they are described as the most powerful, the most just, and the most beautiful of the human race, they are constantly spoken of as Black, and there seems to be no other conclusion to be drawn than at that re
mote period of history, the leading race of the Western World was a Black race."

Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, Black Classic Press (1996)

Why do you nerd a white person's validation?

drzed:


To blame our attitude on slave trade is to bury our heads in the sands. Check your history: During the era of slave trade, the white men did not wage war of attrition around our towns just to capture us as slaves. They stayed at the coast in their ships and it was our own people that did the raiding and the capturing of the the slaves inland. All for what? In exchange for salt, guns and freaking mirrors!

But I agree that colonialism contributed (but is not an excuse) for our hatred for each other. This is because essentially, the white man drew imaginary lines around Africa and named some portions Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, etc. And NONE of the people so encircled by these artificial boundaries agreed (at least not willingly) to be part of their so-called Nations. That is why virtually ALL contemporary wars in Africa can be traced to ethnic issues: (Nigeria, Liberia, Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan) and even recently the civil strife over leadership in Kenya proves that most African nations are formed by 'incompatible' tribes.

This is why we in Nigeria need to stop deceiving ourselves. We are very different and the earlier we acknowledge our differences and respect the need to re-negotiate our terms of existence, the better for us. I always say, the only kind relationship whose membership is non-negotiable, is a cult. Seriously, what the eff does 'Nigeria' actually mean culturally to you and to me? The word 'Niger' is not native to any tribe in Nigeria. Must it remain so because Lord Luggard's mistress gave us that name? Wazobia is to me a more culturally relevant name for this country. But as Nigerians, many of us are allergic to change of the progressive type....and that is why we seem to be perpetually swimming in the same 5hit for over 50 years. Every aspect of nationhood matters - including a country's name, which is required for shared values, common identity and sense of belonging.

What does it actually mean to be a Nigerian? Think about it!

Check your history books? Do you mean, their history books? Obviously, you are one of those mentally enslaved Africans if you believe that. They presented Africans with gifts and asked for those captured Africans in return and even when those Africans protested, they silenced them with guns. Who are you going to let write your history, your own ppl or white ppl?

tiredface:
WHEN THEYRE YOUR gods WHEN YOURE AROUND THEM, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? JUST LOOK AROUND THE COUNTRY AND SEE FOR YOURSELF HOW THEYRE TREATED AS KINGS OF THE MANORS. EVEN NIGERIAN WOMEN(SOME) WILL ALLOW THEM TO FUMBLE THEIR PRIVATE PARTS WITH OYIBOS TOES, THEIR ALMIGHTY OYIBOS. EVEN THE ONES THAT CAN BARELY MAKE A LEAVING IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES ARE SOME NIGERIANS god. ANY FOREIGNER WITH A LIGHT SKIN IN THIS COUNTRY IS SOME FOOOLS god. EXPECT THE WORST

Bam! Exactly! Africans foolishly worship white people