₦airaland Forum

lifeisgood12:
go to all states and explore the towns in those countries.

So far, Igbos are the fairest. When you come up with a West African ethnic group with lighter skin colouring than Ndigbo, it will be duly noted.

White people are fairer than Igbos. It has never bothered Igbos.
Yorubas are darker than Igbos. It has never bothered Igbos also

tamdun:
U think u r wise, why u dey post filtered pic
What about this pics, who's darker

Oo you think you are wise. What about these pics, who is darker?

lifeisgood12:
there are multiple tribes in ghana, togo, benin republic, even nigeria that i dont know of. So you cant generalize without sufficient analysis

Then give me the name of any ethnic group in Ghana, Togo or Benin Republic known for being quite fair

lifeisgood12:
yorubas are also reprensented in academic excellence wherever they go lol

Yorubas are not doing badly academically. The yearly JAMB and WAEC records constantly show Yoruba states in the top half of the list along with SS states also.

My own state, Anambra is always constantly in the first or second position. It has never gone down to the third position. At least not to my recollection

lifeisgood12:
Buhari is almost close to ngiges skin complexion. Like i also said earlier, environment plays a huge role. Look at senegalese/malians/chadians alot of them are very dark skinned due to living near the sahara and uv rays. Buahri sef isnt even a full breed fulani, his mother is hauss/kanuri. Fulanis were barely represented in the trans atlantic slave trade compared to igbos. tuaregs have been in the sahel for over 1000 years. North africans and middle eastern populations have always been lighter than other africans. I cant even generalize all tuaregs, the ones in west africa have niger congo admixture compared to their counterparts in libya . Darker skin is found in indigenous populations nearer to the equator. Lighter skin is found in indigenous populations further from the equator. North african is further from the equator compared to other sub-saharan africans hence lighter skin tone.

You and I well know that Igbos are the fairest in the band Igbos are in.

Igbos are generally fairer than Edo, Yoruba, Benin Republic, Togolese and Ghanaian ethnic groups

lifeisgood12:
https://howafrica.com/meet-aissatou-sabaly-the-senegalese-lady-with-an-incredible-hazel-eyes/
lol you cant generalize all fulanis cause you havent seen most of them

Yearly WAEC results reveal a lot. Northern states aren't exactly blazing an academic trail. In other nations where Fulanis are indigenous,. I'm unaware of their academic exploits in those climes also.

But Igbos as a group are highly represented in academic excellence list both here in Nigeria and abroad

lifeisgood12:
https://howafrica.com/meet-aissatou-sabaly-the-senegalese-lady-with-an-incredible-hazel-eyes/
lol you cant generalize all fulanis cause you havent seen most of them

So you had to travel all the way to Senegal to find a hazel eyed Fulani. I am sure by the time I travel to Togo, I will also find a hazel eyed Yoruba.
But in my own extended family, I have about 6 or 7 hazel eyed people,and they are completely Igbo, with no blood infusion from any fairer tribe for the past traceable 300 years

lifeisgood12:
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is a fulani yet has a light complexion. Same goes to buhari and aisha. Shagari was still a little bit fair. You also have to acknowledge environment plays a huge role. Most of these people u mentioned live along the sahel line which makes their skin darker. Look at the north african tuaregs and how their skin evolved to a darker complexion after living in the sahara for years.

Buhari is not fairer than Ngige and is not significantly fairer than Onyeama some of his Igbo ministers. And the funny thing is that we see these Igbo ministers as dark in Igboland.

Now Berbers also dwell in the Sahel region and are significantly fairer than Fulanis.
Fulanis were slaves also, yet the appellation RED was reserved for Igbos.
Igbos have always been fair without mixing with a lighter skinned tribe. Fulanis mixed with Arabs and Berbers to achieve their complexion, and yet, it cannot be said that they are lighter than igbos

Newton85:
Okay dude, there are no dark skinned Igbos. Infact, all Igbos are light skinned. I fully agree with you. If that makes you feel so special or makes you sleep better at night. Bye.

Thanks for agreeing with the people that described Igbos as Red-Eboes. You see, it doesn't hurt to admit the obvious.

Now the major point I wish to make is this. Both dark skin and light skin blacks are equal in the sight of God. No shade is superior or inferior to the other

So he can institutionalise homosexuality in Nigeria, with his son.

Newton85:
Igbos are a predominantly dark skinned people, no need boring me with some edited pictures. Enough of your sickening insecurity in proving Igbos are a predominantly dark skinned people so bad.

Are Igbos generally fairer than Yorubas, or are Yorubas generally fairer than Igbos? Don't tell me they are generally the same complexion, because they are not.

This will help in establishing whether you are proud of your complexion or not.

Also Igbos were described as Red-Eboes, before bleaching cream came into use, in African communities. Go figure

Newton85:
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.

Do you know that Obi Cubana is probably the darkest Igbo person that most Igbos will ever know, but I can marshal out a list of Yorubas that are as dark and even darker than him, from the public domain.

Check the pictures attached.

Take note of the last one that shows Obi Cubana with Igbos surrounding him, and see how his very dark complexion sticks out.
He will not stick out, if he took that picture in the midst of Yorubas.

Newton85:
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.

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

Newton85:
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.

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

Newton85:
Lol, bloody clown! I guess Bukky Wright, Sola Sobowale, Busola Dakolo, Sunkanmi Omobolanle 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.

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.

Newton85:
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.

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.

Newton85:
Igbos are definitely not lighter than Zulu and Xhosa people, let alone Fulanis though.

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.

ariketalks:
You can easily tell skin tone from black and white pictures. But why are you focused on complexion?

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.

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

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

It doesn't make us better, which is why we don't understand the source of your jealousy for Igbo fair skin.

This is in spite of the fact that Yorubas are reputed to use most of the bleaching products in Nigeria

Monogamy:
Very funny set of people...

The first person that posted this shit claimed Riri made the post on tweeter, we have asked him to present the screenshot proofs, it's going to 3 days now.

Ipobs should stop this inferiority complex of a thing , it's making them look more dumb

The painment is real

9jakool:
It only proves the vast majority of Igbos are dark skinned even if a significant minority have a lighter complexion.

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

Zooposki:
No one yellow for here.

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

slimghost:
This Simon Ekpa is a dullard. No election so APC will write results and have Andy Ubah loot Anambra dry. Mad man Ekpa!

As I have said for quite a while now. Quite a number of years in fact. People like Nnamdi Kanu or Simon Ekpa should not be the overall leaders of the Biafran effort.

They are super inferior for that role. It is like making Okoko Ndem the leader of Biafra simply because his voice is the one heard on Radio Biafra, and totally ignoring people like Ojukwu, Efiong, Michael Okpara who were seasoned military experts and politicians.

The structure of IPOB was superb at inception when people like Col. Joe Achuzie, Dr Dozie Ikedife and Eze Ozobu led the council of elders. These elders were accomplished politicians and Ohanaeze Ndigbo leaders, with vast international and national networks that they could so easily call upon.
Unfortunately, idiots and touts joined Nnamdi Kanu in relegating this IPOB leadership because his voice was the one people heard on radio. Today, we are left with half-baked touts leaving outside Nigeria, coming up with one strange directive to another, messing up the BIafran struggle, and unnecessarily punishing hapless Biafrans struggling to make a living.

Tell me, how can a self-styled commander in chief always be the first person to be captured in a struggle? Was Ojukwu ever captured during the Biafran war, which was a more serious business? Was he captured all the while he was on exile?

Like I have written very many times, IPOB is in need of serious and urgent restructuring. Nnamdi Kanu is only qualified to man the Radio Biafra arm. Other more competent individuals should be in charge of security and the overall leadership and guidance of the Biafran effort.

Northernblood3:
I am currently in Aba and I must advice IPOB not trend the way of Nigeria (lying). It was enforced.You gave the DSS the breading ground to commit atrocities in your name.

This stupidity embedded in the mind of black people with power must not manifest among IPOB.

The moment Nnamdi Kanu loses support or IPOB loses integrity and trust among people, Nnamdi Kanu will be eliminated.


Don't threaten or enforce the sit at home, their is no joy in it, let the people do it out of love. The same love anyi wa bu Ndi Aba nyere Nnamdi Kanu na 2017,we can also do it now, don't just use force. You will only make people hate you

GBAM!!!!

While I am against IPOB or any organisation, sending touts to go destroying businesses of our long-suffering people in the SE who are trying their best to survive and to feed their families, this IPOB-Rebranded is obviously a Fulani creation, with Buhari as their patron.

Northernblood3:
The Current DOS ought to resign. He is definitely driving IPOB into destruction. He lacks wisdom to lead.

We are meant to build a community of tolerance, where people will be tolerated despite having different views, but this harsh measure is just what I don't understand again.

I am very sure that this is not What Mazi Nnamdi Kanu ever wanted, Today's stupidity has to do with wickedness of a black man when he has power and weapons. Too bad

Both Nnamdi Kanu and the current DOS lack the wisdom to lead. It was Nnamdi Kanu that installed all these incompetent Yesmen. Not because they are competent, but because they lick his arse.

First of all, this whole episode started with Kanu traveling and remaining in an unsafe country notorious for extraordinary renditions. And totally surprised when he was kidnapped, in a seasonnwhen the almajiri forces were wreaking havoc in SE Nigeria and a Fulani group offered reward for his arrest.
It is very clear there are no checks and balances in IPOB which is why Kanu is allowed to take decisions on his own to travel to an unsafe country, after all his minions can threaten Igbos into this unnecessary lockdown.

Unfortunately the Fulani controlled police and army cannot solve this problem because easterners don't have confidence in them, and IPOB knows that, which is why they are carrying on with the current stupidity.

If IPOB wants to call for a lockdown, they should be free to do so, but it is evil to send out thugs to go destroying the businesses of our people who are struggling to survive.
Again as I wrote sometime ago, IPOB has to be restructured with competent people manning specified positions, and someone other than Nnamdi Kanu should be the overall leader of th struggle. Ideally an elder that is accomplished in politics, foreign diplomacy or possibly academia

NotKnown:
Funny enough they never went after Kyari who was under their nose

And they didn't go after Ganduje, the bullion van agbada governor

Eastlink:
Supported but that name Biafra must be thrown into the dustbin. Either Republic of Igboland, Alaigbo or Ikenga Republic.

I am loving Ikenga Republic

muykem:
Tell your promoters to do an acceptable map by those area you mentioned. Note that you can not force any community to join even if they are known igbo community, it must be willingly.

Of course, it must be willingly.
And no Igbo group will be forced or blackmailed to remain in either Nigeria or any non-Igbo republic