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IhateYouMan:
Igbos do not claim to be all light skinned, in fact the majority are dark skinned but there is a considerable population of light skinned Igbos.

That's not the point of argument here bro. Everyone knows Igbos have plenty light skinned people among them.

HedwigesMaduro:
My grandma took pics in those black and white days. And it was obvious she was fair in those pics. So, perish that excuse.

Lol, first time I'm hearing that one can't tell a lightskinned person apart from a dark skinned person in a black and white photo. Look, I'm a member of Nigeria Nostalgic group on Facebook, and I can't count the number of times Igbo members of that group got so shocked that their ancestors could look so dark skinned anytime old pictures of Igbo people got posted in that group, lol.

OfoIgbo:
And yet, all the Igbos you mentioned are lighter than Tinubu, Fashola, Sanwolu and Ambode

Lol, imagine using "lighter" to qualify Obi Cubana, Ikpeazu, Mr. Ibu. You mean a jet black skinned dude like Obi Cubana is lighter than Fashola? Lmao. The delusions.

OfoIgbo:
Shagari, Monguno, Ahmadu Bello and the rest are also dark-skinned, yet they are Fulanis. So you conveniently forgot about them. I have seen a huge number of Fulani cattle herders and they are generally darker than Igbos. Their darkness even approaches the Yoruba shade.
In fact, I can't even remember seeing any Fulani cattle herder that is lighter than me, and I am not really fair. I have perhaps the same complexion as Peter Obi.

You guys never believed Precious Chikwendu was naturally fair-skinned until she started having fair-skinned boys for FFK.

There is a reason whites of 1600s and 1700s coined the term Red-Eboe, clearly to denote the fairer skinned Igbos, when compared to the generally very dark-skinned Yorubas and other sub-saharan Africans

Oga, no need for the long, boring epistle. There's no ethnic group in Southern Nigeria (at least) that doesn't have light skinned people. Some just have more light skinned people than the other. Many Fulanis are so lightskinned they could be mistaken for North Africans. Infact, their features and light skin has led many anthropologists to posit that Fulanis could be mixed descendants of Amazigh (Berber) people of Northern Africa and some negroes. That Fulanis have more light skinned people than Igbos isn't even debatable, same way Igbos having more light skinned people than pretty much every group in Southern Nigeria isn't debatable. But that still doesn't detract from the fact that Igbos are a predominantly dark skinned people. Show me any picture of a large concentration of Igbo people and let's see these "predominantly light skinned" Igbos. Lastly, I'm a very proud dark skinned African man, there's nothing to be ashamed of. It's you that should stop being ashamed of your dark skinned Igbo ancestors.

Nooel1:
Look at this Alainironu ara Galatia, you can't deceive us. You're one of the useless tribalistics mods or connected to them either way. Why did you run to go and report ThEGodFaThEr103 when he countered you?
Wicked human being of an afonjaz.

Whatever paranoia and delusions make you sleep better at night, IPOB cretin.

LordVoldermort:
Be acting as if you don't get the point, I'm starting to think you actually prove my earlier point

Oga, I don't get the point. Let me ask you, just show one lightskinned Nigerian that isn't black. I want to check something.

Nooel1:
TheGodFather103, countered your stupid statement only for you to run to the Mod's to have him banned.
If you're not connected to those tribalistic Yoruba mods then youre one of them.
Useless human being.

Let me point out that I've never reported any one on here, despite your obvious mental illness. But still, you Eboes are a predominantly dark skinned people, I wonder why you clowns are so ashamed of your people this much.

LordVoldermort:
There are Light skinned Nigerians there are Albinos there are Half castes

So, light skinned Nigerians aren't black then? Thanks for this information bro.

LordVoldermort:
But if you followed the thread you'll see that it was not Igbos that began the dark skinned argument, instead of someone to comment on the culture he decided to comment on the skin tone

I think some black Nigerians have serious inferiority complex that manifest itself in form of resentment

What the hell is "some black Nigerians"? Are there white Nigerians?

OfoIgbo:
There are various shades of dark skin.
There is no harm in us being proud of our shades of dark skin.

Just don't ascribe any other group's shades of dark skin to Ndigbo.

Be proud of your charcoal black skin. We are proud of our own shades of black skin.

The vast majority of you are darkskinned, your codeine-influenced ramblings about "shades of dark skin" notwithstanding. Eboes are a predominantly dark skinned people like Achebe, Zik, Ojukwu, Ikpeazu, Mr. Ibu, Ekweremmadu, Ugwuanyi, Obi Cubana etc. Stop being ashamed of your people, IPOB cretin.

OfoIgbo:
Tinubu is darker than Cubana and yet when Tinubu is in the midst of his fellow Yorubas, his complexion blends with those he is with. But when Cubana is in a group picture with his fellow Igbos, he stands out as darker than the rest.

Tinubu is most definitely darker than Cubana. And even if he is, there's nothing wrong in that. But please, show me a picture of a concentration of Igbo people, I just want to see such "predominantly light skinned people."

ThEGodFaThEr103:
Mugu, so in your mind Igbos are predominantly darkskinned?
In every 3 dark skinned Igbo you'll find 7 light skinned ones unlike my Yoruba people that it's very rare to find a light skinned person without using those cheap roadside "bleaching Oshe".

Lol, werey wants to make Eboes a predominantly lightskinned people so bad. Can you please just post a picture of an Igbo gathering here? I mean, a picture where Igbos are concentrated somewhere? I want to see such "predominantly lighskinned people" lol.

OfoIgbo:
Igbos are by far, academically more intelligent that Fulanis and Zulus.

Igbos are also not darker than the tribes you mentioned. And some Igbos have hazel eyes. Fulanis and Zulus don't normally have hazel eyes, unless they are faking it with contact lenses.

Shut up! Everyone knows Fulanis are fairer than Igbos, even to the point of looking like North Africans. Zulus and Xhosas are also generally fairer than Igbos. But I'll overlook your braindead, chestbeating delusion that "Igbos are by far, academically more intelligent that (sic) Fulanis and Zulus" though. You Igbos are predominantly a darkskinned people, stop being ashamed of your people. Achebe, Zik, Ojukwu were all darkskinned, and they're the most popular Igbo figures ever.

OfoIgbo:
You are only showing pictures taken in the 1960s. I need pictures taken in the late 1800s and early 1900 (not later than 1910s)
I can even guarantee that those fair ladies there are not completely Yoruba. They are either mixed with Europeans or Igbos.

Tomorrow, you start to tell us that FFK's sons have typical Yoruba complexion.

Lol, bloody clown! I guess Bukky Wright, Sola Sobowale, Busola Dakolo, Sunkanmi Omobolanle, Yetunde Barnabas, and the many lighstkinned Yorubas also mixed with Europeans or Igbos. Werey. Maybe Obi Cubana also mixed with Sudanese, that must be why he's so dark skinned.

rosinkkit:
Do you think being light-skinned makes you better?

You sound like you've a really twisted mentality around skin colour.

I think at this point, they think it makes them better. The last time, one slowpoke was mocking Ijaw people for having jet black skin, that the only light skinned Ijaws are the ones who have mixed with Igbos. But when I pointed out to him that Obi Cubana also has jet black skin, the clown then began beating about the bush. I wonder why a predominantly darkskinned people get ashamed of their darkskinned ancestors just because many of them are light skinned.

OfoIgbo:
All the people in those pics are lighter than Tinubu and Obasanjo. Some might even be as fair as Maduka, but the ancient black and white camera used in covering them is not showing it.
Anyway, the white people that saw these Igbos in real life commented that they were generally much lighter than the other Africans.
Real life observation is more reliable than pictures from archaic black and white cameras

Geez! Why exactly are you guys always ashamed of your dark skinned ancestors being dark skinned. It's very glaring that these people here are all dark skinned regardless of it being a black and white photograph. I've seen the same thing on Nigeria Nostalgia Project group on Facebook, where you guys always deny your dark skinned ancestors. Does being light skinned make you special? Even when you guys are predominantly a darkskinned people? Smh.

earthsync:
They all look dark skinned

They all look darkskinned because they are all darkskinned.

IhateYouMan:
Olodo, how can you tell their complexion from black and white photographs ??

Oga, they're all darkskinned, lol. You can still tell a lightskinned person apart from a darkskinned person even in a black and white photograph. I've always noticed Igbos being ashamed of their darkskinned ancestors. Why is that? Even when you guys are predominantly darkskinned?

OfoIgbo:
Oyibos noted the fact that Igbos were lighter than Yorubas and other Africans.

It is difficult to determine the complexion of someone from those ancient black and white cameras, but one obvious fact is that they are all much fairer than their hair

Igbos are definitely not lighter than Zulu and Xhosa people, let alone Fulanis though.

OfoIgbo:
Oyibos noted the fact that Igbos were lighter than Yorubas and other Africans.

It is difficult to determine the complexion of someone from those ancient black and white cameras, but one obvious fact is that they are all much fairer than their hair

Oga leave story. While it's not even an argument that Igbos have more lighstkinned people than Yorubas (infacf, lightskinned Yorubas often get called "omo jo Ibo" - "child that resembles Igbo", these Igbos in these pictures are all darkskinned. One would know a lighskinned person even in a black and white picture.

Zooposki:
No one yellow for here.

Don't mind him jare. Eboes all look like Phyno, Ozo, and Bianca Ojukwu. Any Eboe that looks like Obi Cubana, Mr. Ibu, Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi, Achebe and these ones in these pictures are just Kenyans masquerading as Eboe.

It is very glaring that this is another despicable fake news made up by some people to chestbeat. No link and no source. No mention of where and when she granted such interview too. All one can see is just some nonsensical "in a recent interview" hogwash being disseminated by some ragtag blogs in Nigeria. And some clowns want us to gullibly gulp it hook, line, and sinker in order not to risk being accused of some nonsensical "Igbo hatred." Bunch of fake news peddling and loving fools!

EmmyCC:
You have a phone with internet access right? Use Google and get cleared, this news have been reported by most reputable media outlets (The verified Nations Newspaper handle was quoted above). Bro no go choke oh she talk am be say she talk am.

Oga, who did she grant the interview? All we can read here is just "in a recent interview." No mention of when and where she granted the interview or who she granted such interview. The very hallmark of FAKE NEWS.

CSTRR:
You are a clown.
A brainless hating clown.

Rihanna being igbo will add nothing to anybody's account.

But there is a chance of that being true.
If fons and ewes were also taken there, how does that invalidate the fact that Rihanna could be Igbo, you incoherent sub-humanoid?
Do you know the scale of slave trade that went on in the Calabar coast?

She could be fons or ewe but she can't be of Igbo heritage?
Is that how your hateful, clownish mind work?

If T.D Jakes could trace his Igbo ancestry to Nigeria, so what is so special about Rihanna's DNA?

You are very lucky you are not on Twitter.
That your mouth wey sharp, I for help you tame am.

Hateful bonobo.

Dear chestbeating IPOB cretin, can you just show me where and when Rihanna granted such interview? Who did she grant such an interview? Stupid people putting words into the mouth of popular figures in order to come chestbeat. The delusional slowpoke is even threatening to tame my mouth on Twitter, as if his irrelevant ancestors from Arochukwu or Onitsha created Twitter. Why not tame my mouth here on Nairaland? Monumental werey!

Princedapace:
Oga, it is so because I don't understand why a simple news like this brought up mumu talks from some people. Some even insulted igbos over this news. This makes no sense at all.

People have the right to ask questions. So many fake news abound on the net. Putting words into the mouth of popular figures is very common around here. From my own end, can you please show me where and when Rihanna made this interview? Who interviewed her? Any reputable source?

EmmyCC:
You can't read?
Where was tweet mentioned or you think it's only through Twitter that communication can be made? She said that in an interview you can go up and read. Well there are Igbos in Barbados (Slave trade doings) use Google bro.

Okay, which interview? Where and when did she grant such interview? Who interviewed her?

Fr33born:
Olodo didn't you read where the post says "in an interview"?

Bitterness Pro Max.

Oya, show us the interview. Where did she grant the interview? Who interviewed her?

Uchasa:
Until he says so. Not all Brazilians are of Yoruba or Kongo descent. Moreover, Neymar is mixed breed, he has European ancestors.

So, all Barbadians are of Igbo descent? Moreover, Rihanna is also a mixed breed. She has European (Irish) ancestors.

CSTRR:
So your pain is that they did not include your ethnic group in Barbados.?

It's now a quota system thing now.?

You can as well export your own people there in 2021.

By the next 100 years, I am sure one of their descendants will be a dancehall star.

Shut up, Rihanna is not Eboe, shameless attache-by-force people. Point us to where Rihanna made such interview or claim. Ibibios, Efiks, Ewes, Fons etc were also taken to Barbados in droves.

Thermodynamics:
Why are most people here so pained, someone here showed an evidence that majority of the people in Barbados today are Igbos, I went to Wikipedia to confirm it myself and it's true, we are all humans with different gifts, the gifts comes no matter our tribe or race, any tribe can produce a genius, maybe Lil wayne is a Yoruba man, who knows.

Rihanna's mother probably knew her history that was why she told Rihanna that she is Igbo.
Any tribe can produce a talented person, we just use tribe and religion to divide ourselves, we are all the same, you know how I know ? We all look alike and think alike, If an Igbo man tells you that his name is Ademola, you would think that he is a Yoruba man, we are all humans and that's all. That's the truth.
Here is the proof, scroll down and click on dispersal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_people_in_the_Atlantic_slave_trade

According to Wikipedia, the people from Barbados are mostly of Igbo decendant, deniaing it won't change their history, the truth will always remain the truth, wether you like it or not.

The majority of slaves taken to Barbados were from the Bight of Biafra (Igbo, Efik, and Ibibio).

Investigative:
Igbo hatred will lead you no where than premature death

When exactly will you guys stop your boring, lame, tired victim-pimping nonsense of terming every damned thing "Igbo hatred"?

Investigative:
My dear
I owe you no explanation go and make your research I have showed you
Babardos history and a post from verifiable source
Am done with u

So, it was only Eboes who were taken to Barbados abi? Like other African ethnic groups weren't taken there?