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CelebritiesRe: Photoshopped Wedding Picture Of Miracle And Cee-C by Pain(m): 2:54pm On Apr 23, 2018
What happened to EFE and his N25M? Does anyone know?
CelebritiesRe: Ubi Franklin, Laila Ijeoma, Ushbebe, Alexreports For The Entrepreneur Africa ( by Pain(m): 9:11am On Apr 22, 2018
This AlexReports Ugly Sha..Truth is Bitter lipsrsealed
FashionRe: "My Sunday Is Ruined" - The Dress A Lady Showed Her Tailor Vs What She Got by Pain(m): 4:44pm On Apr 21, 2018
SHE ALSO NEEDS A CARPENTER TO FIX HER ENGLISH sad
EducationRe: OAU Sex For Marks: Monica Osagie Speaks, "I Was Never Invited By The Committee" by Pain(m): 8:14pm On Apr 20, 2018
NIGERIAN VERSION OF MONICA LEWINSKY.. tongue
Nairaland GeneralRe: First Set Of Lagos Big Boys In 1913 (Throwback Photo) by Pain(m): 8:12pm On Apr 20, 2018
SOME OF YOU LAUGHING AT THEM, MIGHT ACTUALLY BE THEM. ONLY THE ENLIGHTENED WILL UNDERSTAND undecided
PoliticsRe: Atiku Reacts To Buhari's "Nigerian Youths Are Not Ready To Work" Comment by Pain(m): 1:30pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: Buhari: "Nigerian Youths Are Uneducated, Lazy & Not Ready To Work" (Video) by Pain(m): 1:29pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: Buhari: "Nigerian Youths Are Uneducated, Lazy & Not Ready To Work" (Video) by Pain(m): 1:29pm On Apr 19, 2018
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CrimeRe: Fulani Men Shot Dead In Zamfara State By Armed Attackers. Graphic Photos by Pain(m): 1:29pm On Apr 19, 2018
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CrimeRe: Fulani Men Shot Dead In Zamfara State By Armed Attackers. Graphic Photos by Pain(m): 1:28pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: "60 Percent Of Nigerian Youths Are More Educated Than You" - Man Tells Buhari by Pain(m): 1:08pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: Barr. Stephanie At Commonwealth Forum With Buhari, Barrow, Aisha by Pain(m): 1:08pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: Buhari: "Nigerian Youths Are Uneducated, Lazy & Not Ready To Work" (Video) by Pain(m): 1:07pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: Nigerian Youths: President Buhari's Speech Vs Jonathan's Speech by Pain(m): 1:07pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: Protest In Rivers State Over Black Soot Pollution (PHOTOS) by Pain(m): 1:06pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: #LazyNigerianYouths Trends On Twitter As Nigerians React To PMB's Comment by Pain(m): 1:05pm On Apr 19, 2018
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PoliticsRe: #LazyNigerianYouths Trends On Twitter As Nigerians React To PMB's Comment by Pain(m): 12:49pm On Apr 19, 2018
I SAY WE VOTE OUT THIS FAILURE . VOTE OUT THE CATTLE angry
CelebritiesRe: Adorable Photo Of Tobi Bakre’s Mother by Pain(m): 10:35am On Apr 19, 2018
STILL SEARCHING FOR THE CUTENESS, PERHAPS SOMEONE CAN SPARE ME HIS BINOCULARS? angry

CelebritiesRe: Simi Celebrates Her 30th Birthday With Stunning Photos by Pain(m): 10:33am On Apr 19, 2018
I WANT TO MARRY THIS GIRL angry
CelebritiesRe: Bam Bam And Teddy A Cover House Of Maliq Magazine by Pain(m): 2:51pm On Apr 17, 2018
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CultureRe: South African Lady Goes Topless To Celebrate Her Culture With Pride by Pain(m): 2:15pm On Apr 17, 2018
I HEARD ONE OF THE MAJOR TRIBES IN NIGERIA MIGRATED FROM SOUTH AFRICA, WHEN ONE OF THE ZULU KINGS BANISHED HIS FIRST WIFE FOR INFIDELITY. SHE LEFT WITH HER KIDS WHO WERE EQUALLY DISOWNED..
CrimeRe: Edo Police Raid Gay Students’ Club In Ekpoma, Arrest 5 by Pain(m): 2:12pm On Apr 17, 2018
I CAN SEE MOST ARE FROM THE EDO STATE AXIS. THEY SHOULD CONSIDER INCLUDING IT ON THEIR LIST OF EXPORT OF VICES TO ITALY
BusinessRe: 100 Naira Denomination In Circulation Are Worn Out. Who Else Has Noticed This? by Pain(m): 2:10pm On Apr 17, 2018
MOST ARE JUST RETURNING FROM THE NORTH EAST WHERE THEY WERE INVOLVED IN TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN BOKO HARAM & LEPERS
CelebritiesRe: Bam Bam And Teddy A Cover House Of Maliq Magazine by Pain(m): 2:07pm On Apr 17, 2018
THIS ROMANCE STINKS LIKE THE STENCH FROM A PUBLIC TOILET angry

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RomanceRe: Man Forgives His Cheating Girlfriend, Proposes To Her After She Got Impregnated by Pain(m): 6:17pm On Apr 16, 2018
He Soup must be strong shocked
Word of Advice to Niggas : " Mind the Soup you lick" tongue
RomanceRe: "I Have Sex With Pastors As Well" - Peace, Lagos Based Lady Reveals On Twitter by Pain(m): 9:18pm On Apr 15, 2018
HER WEAPONS OF WARFARE ARE INDEED CARNAL
Christianity EtcRe: "No Tithe, No Heaven" - Pastor Adeboye by Pain(m): 11:46am On Apr 15, 2018
kolawoleibukun:
Adeboye is worse than the Catholic church that he and other Pentecostal churches criticize. This is the same thing that the catholics did back in the days by selling indulgence to people to go to heaven. they said that if you did not buy it, you would not enter heaven. The mumu dem sef way day buy the indulgence dem no ask weda person way day sell am don go the heaven.

Adeboye is a freemason. He is never of God. He uses this humility trick to fool people. Acting like a hungry person does not mean humility. People are so dumb. All these statements na reaction to daddy Freeze attack. the revenue shake small that is why he has to reinforce the tithe and heaven link. No verse in the bible mention tithe and heaven together.

funny enough you will see many fowls with two left yarsh quoting people and attacking them for condemning the evil way day happen for their church. pastors and imam dem day rape small small girls and if you talk na the same people way dem rape their sisters go begin talk dust.

Imam dem too are rogues in their own kind. Dangote is a muslim but him daughter day wed dem carry alcohol full everywhere. nobody fit talk cos money day involved. the best wine full the wedding but they are muslims.

Buhari and lie Mohammed are muslims. but they have been lying like mohammed for generations. all the old muslim in the middle east are power mongers. count all the islamic rulers none wants to let go of power.

the truth be say if muslims see thread like this, dem go rush enter to blaspheme Christians but they have evil agenda. to destabilize Christians and take over. na so dem day sneak like say dem no day sheet but they are full of dead men bones.

all these muslims here are fake muslims. muslims that cannot read the koran in Arabic language. some will tell you that they read it but cannot understand it. they just sing it like a strange song.

Look at all these boko haram killings, no single Imam, let us say the crippled one or the one with bad eye has come out to condemn the killing of innocent women and kids. they lock up like quarantined leprosy day happy. they all have agenda. even the person way day post all these kind topics against Christians follow.

Adeboye fooled gullible Nigerians that he stepped down from his position as GO but people still call him daddy. the new guy what will they call him? Adeboye is still making the laws. the new guy nobody hear him voice. to show you the politics in that occulted church. any church way you see celebrity pastor or daddy run. any church you see pastor face for calendar, billboard, signboard etc na fake. that church has deviated from God.

anywhere you see muslims, never trust him. they cowardly attack from the back.
One of the few intelligent ones on Nairaland undecided
PoliticsRe: Funtua Katsina Dry Port May Commence Operations In May by Pain(m): 4:30pm On Apr 13, 2018
To Provide Logistics for Boko Haram?
SportsRe: Is Anthony Joshua An Atheist? - Fans Question World Heavyweight Boxing Champion by Pain(m): 2:38pm On Apr 09, 2018
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CultureBlack East: Introduction To The ‘first People’ Of Southeast Asia by Pain(op): 10:19am On Apr 07, 2018
For much of my adult life, I have been collecting old photographs of the so-called “little blacks” of Asia

As a kid growing up on the far South Side of Chicago, whenever I would envision the physical features of Asian people—since those I saw most were in martial arts movies and Ultraman reruns on television—a fairly narrow set of characteristics always came to mind. Perhaps not all that surprisingly, brown skin and curly black hair were never among them.

But one fateful day my father told me about an eye-opening experience he’d had as a young man serving in the United States Marines.

While stationed in the Philippines between 1961 and 1963, “Pops” would learn of Asians whose physical features were significantly different from what most Americans have been conditioned to expect.

There in the Philippines, my father saw native Filipinos who, albeit small in stature, looked a lot like him, with dark brown skin, curly black hair, and — stranger still — African facial features.

To say the least, the sight of such people living in the heart of Southeast Asia was completely unexpected.

It was also unsettling.

Equally as unsettling, my father soon learned that these puzzling pint-sized people were typically referred to locally by a Spanish term, one that translates literally into English as the “little blacks.”

Facts of Life
As the Earth’s largest and most populous land-mass, Asia is home to 60% of the planet’s human populations. Included in this sum are the continent’s lesser known groups called the Negritos—indigenous Asians who look a lot more like the relatives of Kevin Hart than Jackie Chan.

The term Negrito was first applied by Spanish sailors in the 16th century after encounters with such people during early forays into the region. And though wholly unscientific, the term is still used today to refer to distinct ethnic groups living in various parts of Southeast Asia and the Asian Pacific island of Papua New Guinea.

According to James J.Y. Liu, author of the book The Art of Chinese Poetry, the term kunlun is the equivalent of Negrito in the Chinese language, and there are several mentions of kunlun people in the early literature of China. The most well known of these can be found in the martial arts adventure romance entitled The Kunlun Slave.

In the language of their Malay-speaking neighbors, the Negritos are known as the orang asli, meaning, “first people” or “original people.” This term would come into use in the 1930s in response to efforts by the Malaysian government to officially recognize them as the region’s earliest inhabitants.

Prior to the adoption of a more respectful designation, such people were typically called by the pejorative term semang (“debt slave”), a word bonded to times when, like the people of Africa, Negritos too were abducted from their homelands and sold into slavery.


Family Tree
The defining physical features of the orang asli include dark brown to black skin, spiraled or curly black hair, and diminutive stature. The average height among men is 5-ft. 5-in., and the average height among women is 4-ft. 8-in.

And though seemingly orphaned from humanity’s family tree, TV’s Maury Povich will not be needed to pop for a DNA test to figure out “Who is the father?” According to geneticists, these peculiar peoples are actually the modern descendants of the first migrant populations to venture into Asia more than 50,000 years ago.

That there is a strong resemblance between the orang asli and African groups like the Pygmies of Uganda and Congo is clear to see. What is impossible to see, however, is that on DL (DNA level), these folks share closer genetic bonds to other Asians than they do to now distant cousins in the Motherland.

Stunted Growth
Archeological finds from across the continent suggest that these nomadic hunter-gatherers once lived across Asia, from India to the southernmost regions of Japan. The southern islands of the Pacific Ocean were also once part of their domain, as well as the southern continent of Australia, and the neighboring island of Tasmania.

But their stomping grounds today are but mere traces of what they once were.

Challenged by the continuous spread of larger, more organized and more technologically advanced human groups, their once wide open range is now limited to only isolated parts of Southern Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Andaman Islands (off the coast of Myanmar), and Papua New Guinea.

What’s more, populations that were documented as recently as the late 19th century to have numbered in the tens of thousands now number only in the thousands. But the numbers for some groups are even smaller.

Drastically smaller.

Today, the tribal population of the Onge people in the Andaman Islands numbers less than one hundred. And it is conceivable that in the proverbial blink of an eye this ancient tribe of humankind will simply cease to exist.

Collective Memory
For much of my adult life, I have been collecting old photographs of the so-called “little blacks” of Asia. It is a driving passion.

Yellowed volumes published in the late 1800s and early 1900s have been a good resource for many of these finds. Antique postcards made from the plates of globetrotting photographers have been another. Snapshots taken by American military personnel who, like my father, were stationed in this region has been yet another.

It has become important to me to collect these images because, as the old expression goes, a picture paints a thousand words. And too few actual words have been written about these intriguing humans and the living, breathing bridge they form between the peoples of Africa, Asia, and the rest of the planet.

For me, the photos also serve as a personal reminder of just how big an impression my father’s words on these people once made on me now so many years ago. And how — as the stories our parents tell often have the power to do—one small anecdote shared on a summer’s day could shape so much of my worldview.

https://medium.com/@StPaco/black-east-introduction-to-the-first-people-of-southeast-asia-a49e2d6f28bf

Foreign AffairsRe: Television Collapses On Top Of Egyptian Politicians (video) by Pain(m): 12:45pm On Apr 06, 2018
DeadRat:
The Egyptians You See Today, you Shall See Them No More lipsrsealed
I love this guy's wit grin
CultureRe: "I Am The Igwe And Obi Of Yorubaland" - Abdulrasheed Akanbi, The Oluwo Of Iwo by Pain(m): 1:35am On Apr 04, 2018
Poor attempt at damage control. Harm has been done to the noble chair. Cleansing still has to be done by getting rid of the **slowpoke

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