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tRoOE:
Wrong he was Italian

I also heard both husbands were African-American dudes, like the previous posted stated.

Man, her daughter looks just like one of my neices.  

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2657_regina_jpg99e8d04d5939d77732dccadf9b8114f9

Is it true that Regina Askia has African-American kids? I heard her kids' father was an African-American guy.

https://www.ebonybay.com/photos/public/images_upload/me_2.jpg

There's waaaay too many Black-American haters on Nigerian forums. I wonder why that is? I mean other African's forums, and Caribbean forums,  Asian forums, European forums, White supremacist forums, Latino forums and,  like nearly every other type of forum has some prominent badmouthing and or simple chattering of some African-American and or the group at large--  here and there, splattered all over the place. 

Though its nothing compared to the level in which is often found on Nigerian forums.  And yet, all these groups keep claiming we have no culture, while at the same time taking the pleasures of chatting away about many of the very things in life in which were created via our communities dynamic CULTURAL entities. Go figure, the hypocrisy. If you ask me, no black group in the world is more self indulged in their culture than the Black-American, and they're overly arrogant about too. Some would fight you over an argument in regard to our heritage being the better than any other.

I find it all very entertaining to witness such attention being given to the way we act, speak, our music, our Hollywood stars, and musical stars, what we think about this you'all and, this that and the other. I knew we were popularly and well known amongst all groups around the world, but DAMN, this is just ridiculously fetish like level were getting at folks. 

I mean, we're not even Nigerian,  and yet you all get us involved in your ethnic style conflicting duals as if we were a big 3 Naija ethnic group. I love it!! It's very entertaining.

kinwoman:
Black Americans do not take their culture seriously because they don't have a culture so to speak. I have a Nigerian friend and it is since hearing of and observing the many cultures that Nigerians do have, that I became enlightened and awakened to the fact that most black Americans have no culture.
We have no naming ceremonies, no traditional weddings, no traditional clothing or garb, there's really not much. I think we've been too 'watered down' from years of being in this country first as slaves & then having everything we knew as our own regarding being an African, become taken away by the whites and slave owners. It truly is sad! It makes me feel empty to know that there is nothing, no cultural teaching of my own or my family's to pass on to my future child.

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Queen Latifah

THARMA, is Tharma a Fulbe name?

Jarus:
I think you fulani folk should be proud your  being lumped with Hausa made you appear in broad category of tribes in Nigeria. You may be more in number(?) than the Hausa, but if the compound name is to be done away with, and a simple name si to be used then Hausa, will be most likely adopted, in which case Fulani becomes like any other minority tribe of Ebira,igala, Tiv etc.

Excuse me, but since when have the Fulani numbers in Nigeria surpassed that of the Hausa?  Or better yet, since when have they're numbers been more than the Hausa anywhere within Africa? Te Hausa ethnic group as a whole within Africa is noticed to be amongst the 3 most populous ethnic groups in all of Africa, while the Fulbe are ranked way down in the teens or 20's somewhere. I'm more than certain that the Fulbe have never numbered more than the Hausa within Nigeria.

savanaha:
Your so full of it Hero/KB1 its funny. You knew you'd get an uproar out of me for calling her Mulatoo, yeah right!! No need to try and explain away why you think lighter women are prettier, its fine. Just like you think P-square is ugly cause he is dark skin and being that you're light skinned you are better matched with the pretty Mulatta girl some people go googoo gaagaa for dark dudes.

Actually, lighter complexioned black women tend to find darker brothas more attractive than the lighter ones. I don't know why you insist on thinking I'm Hero, though it's all good if that's what you care to fantasize over me as. Who am I to discredit a obviously good wet dream of such a lovely lady, as yourself. Though I'll tell you now, that I'm not as light as your fanticy love, your Hero; I'm more of a medium brown complexion, and like I've stated before, beauty in the black women is the best in the world, wether they have partial mixture or not. Damn, you're such a flirt. You bad girl you.

I think it's very good, funny and well put together. That actress in the video, I forgot her name, though she is very cute and energetic and looks and makes expressions just like my wife, and I and Jamie Foxx look a bit alike as well. So I found this video very enjoyable in that it kind of reminded me of how my wife and I often compete against each other in doing alot of little playful things such as shown in the video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxTboQst4c

That was Jamestown, not Charleston.

Actually, all of you are incorrect. The first place in the US to ever receive slaves was St. Augustine, Florida, in the late 1500's when the territory was still under Spanish rule. James Town actually started out by taking in African indentured servants along with British ones in the very early 1600's, and it wasn't until about the 1630's that they began taking in African Slaves.

Damn, I knew I'd get an uproar out of you three girls by referring to her as a Mulatto.  Anyway, I have absolutely no idea who that women is,  though she is very pretty,  and it has nothing to do with her complexion or whatever mixtures she may be of,  in that I simply see a beautiful black women in that picture. Beauty is beauty to me, I don't care what you are and or what shade of color you may be; if you look pretty to my eyes then that is what you are. Most of time around here, I'm just playing around with my wild comments,  and many other times I'm actually serious about what I say. It's up to you to make the distinction,  though I will tell you that if you are still of the opinion that I think all of any type of women is ugly, then you are kidding yourselves. I've met a few very nice looking Yoruba women.

tharma:
Anybody that call himself Hausa-fulani is Hausa, as far as we are concern. And for your information we - the people that speak the Fulfulde language- don't call ourselves Fulani. Thats is name used by the Hausa people to call us, just like they call Igbo people Inyamuri and they call Yoruba people Boda (though not sure if all the Hausa states used that). We are Fulbe as a tribe, and Pullo as an individual.

Well, thank you sista for the clarification on the titles. I wonder why a Hausa would want to call refer to themselves with the added Fulani or Fulbe title unless they were actually of some Fulbe mixture? I find that very odd.

Did you Tiv folks know that your people were the original holders and rulers of the northern lands of Nigeria in which are most commonly refered to as the lands of the Hausa today? It was about 1200 years ago that the Hausa came pouring into the the rich fertile lands from the Northern Sahel in what is today Chad, Niger and Darfur Sudan, with their Herds of cattle and goats in that their traditional herding lands had become over crowded and exhausted. Upon arriving in your lands, the migrants, were at first very friendly and the Tiv allowed them to settle in the lands and feed their animals, then after about 80 years in the lands the Hausa numbers had skyrocketed to become more than that of the Tiv in the land, and it was then that a infamous Hausa ruler out of Niger who was of Islamic faith invaded the lands with his massive army, in a Jihad aimed to convert the Hausa people living in the lands into Muslims. He succeeded and in time via via various military conflicts with the Tiv, he managed to take nearly the entire North eastern corner of what is today Nigeria away from the tiv.

But he wasn't happy with just that, soon after he pushed on and took most of the rest of the North, forcing the Tiv people to convert and or move out of the lands. Many converted and many simply moved out of the conquered lands further south along the Niger River banks and mountainous terrain of the Plateau. Over the years various other Hausa and Hausa-Fulani rulers invaded these remaining Tiv lands in an effort to convert them and turn their lands into the extending Hausa-Fulani lands, though the Tiv over time fought courageously to keep that from happening. Not only did they deafened against the Hausa from the North but in time they were also forced to defend against the rapidly expanding Edo Empire of Benin in which sought to acquire lands on the northern banks of the Niger.

They succeeded for about a span of 8 years before the Tiv accepted the assistence of the Hausa and together they managed to push the Edo back across the Niger River. In accepting the help of the Hausa, the Tiv community were opened up to greater levels of persuasion from the Hausa to convert to Islam and many more did in little time after the victory.