₦airaland Forum

Kalvan:
Oh shut up. While I find bleaching a minor's skin reprehensible, I'm tired of all these sanctimonious sermons on bleaching. Blacks don't bleach to look Caucasian; Caucasians don't tan to look black. These bleaching sermons come from low self esteem. We don't see Caucasians policing their race. Let people do what they want.

Black women bleach because black men worship light or white skin.

Funny because Nigerians and many other Americans with their masters and PhDs here are having a hard time finding jobs.

Black Americans more than likely will pick up a trade.

College/Universities = Major debt in student loans

Not everyone is going to be a doctor or lawyer. If your car broke down would you want a doctor to fix it? Would you want a lawyer to renovate your home?

Wulfruna:
Is this what you meant? LOL. I really thought you were going to tell me about actually Caribbeans in Caribbean countries who developed hip hop in Caribbean countries.

With the exception of DJ Kool, everybody on that list was born in America, and identifies (identified) with the African-American community. DJ Kool, too, did his work in New York, and not in Jamaica. You cannot credit his work to Jamaica. Jamaicans in Kingston, etc, had nothing to do with it. All of them on this list are not even of Caribbean descent as you claim.

Hip-Hop developed in the black neighbourhoods of New York. It wasn't developed in the Caribbean and then imported to America. It was an African-American invention; the fact that some of the proponents were African-Americans with Caribbean parentage is irrelevant. Most of these guys (the ones who are of Caribbean descent) see themselves and are seen as just African-American. Often you don't even know they have Caribbean origins until you Google. They don't speak Haitian Creole or Patois. They are just African-Americans, period. You can't pin hip hop on the Caribbeans living in the Caribbeans.

There are a lot of other pioneers of hip hop who did not have Caribbean orogins. If we were to draw a complete list of the pioneers of that music genre, most of the people on that list would be just regular African-Americans.

(PS: Tupac's dad Billy Garland was not Moroccan. Reading that made me go WTF)

Dj Kool Herc was born in Jamaica. Doug E. Fresh was born in Barbados. Eric B. & Rakim are both have Jamaican parents. Biggie Smalls parents are Jamaican. Lil Kim is half Jamaican and half Haitian. Tupac's biological father is Tuareg. They also don't identify themselves as Black Americans.

FYI: New York rappers are 1st or 2nd generation Caribbeans.

makahlj2:
"Thug life" is definitely an African-American invention.

"Thug Life" was created by Tupac Shakur who is Half Caribbean and half African

Wulfruna:
How did Afro-Caribbeans create hip hop and 'thug life'?

Twerking is, perhaps, more closely related to Caribbean dance forms than to American dance forms, so you may have a point there. But hip hop and 'thug life'?

Hip Hop was created by Caribbeans in the 70s. Dj Kool Herc is founder of hip hop, he is Jamaican. Caribbeans dominate hip hop, followed by Latinos. Tupac created the Thug Life, his mother is Caribbean and father is Moroccan. Biggie Smalls is Jamaican. Future and Young Thug are Haitian. Nicki Minaj is Trini.

Patriarchy

I mean Afro-Caribbeans were the ones who created hip hop culture, thug life and the twerking crap that's been going on for the past 30-40 years in America.

MetaPhysical:
I dont know what it is, I was only speculating by saying "could it be..."

Angola is tenable also but Im not sure Angolans were shipped to that part of America.

Yes, Angolans were shipped to the south.

Fulaman198:
I'm not too sure if Hausa is a part of it, Fulfulde definitely is as it's a far different language from Hausa.

bigfrancis21:
I take that back. Actually, I meant that the Gullah people are from the Gola tribe of Liberia. Below is a book by a white missionary describing the respective african slaves and their areas of origin.
He mentions specifically that the Gullah people are from the Gola people located above St. Paul's River. St. Paul's river is still found in Liberia till today and the Gola people live just above and around the river.
https://joshuaproject.net/assets/media/profiles/maps/m00037.png
Gola in Liberia
https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/11920/LI
Also notice his interesting description of the Igbos in the snapshot.

The term Gullah comes from Angola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HEZJLDjaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hy2nhZyi4


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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxs-dZVfekI

Phut:
@ Pashaun: Una is from the Igbo language (formerly known as Ibo or Eboe) and means, You.

Do you guys (I am assuming you are Gullah) eat Okro which is the Igbo name for Lady Fingers?

Yes, we eat Okra.

itstpia8:
perhaps they are Igbo.

Fulaman198:
I found it interesting that "nyam" means eat. In the Fulani language of "Fulfulde/Pulaar" nyamugol means to eat.

MetaPhysical:
Look in the archives of the Library of Congress or Smithsonian Institute. You will find dated taped conversations or songs or folktales and stuffs like that.

Gullah is a mixture of African languages such as Ewe, Fante, Efik, Ibebio, Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Twi, Kono, and Mandinka

Niyeal:
Is she from nigeria?

No, she's Black American

Gullah is an English-based, creolized language that naturally evolved from the unique circumstances of, and was spoken by, the slaves in South Carolina and Georgia. It is not written language. It is sometimes referred to as the patios of the Lowcountry. Along with many of the African and English words and expressions, it also contains some other foreign languages or whatever could be picked up, depending on the nationality of the slave owner. The word Gullah is believed to be a mispronunciation of the African word Gora or Gola, which were names of tribes living in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Via people, or Gala, or Gallinas are believed to be the African connection for the Gullah people in the Sea Islands.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuiKY2A-UVI

https://www.vyneworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sshank.jpg

When most people think of Wall Street titans, they think of rich, white men who garner very little interest from our young people. This may be true, but it isn’t completely accurate because swimming with the sharks is a Queen our young people should know about.

Last year, Suzanne Shank became one of, if not the first, black woman to head a publicly traded financial services institution. Shank was promoted to CEO of Siebert Financial Corporation (a broker/deal institutional investment bank founded by Muriel Seibert). A monumental feat indeed, but no where near defines the career and future of this extraordinary woman.

In addition to holding this post, Shank is also the CEO of Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. LLC. It seems like a lot of work, but Shank splits her time between the two businesses and is doing very well.

As you can imagine, Shank’s resume is power packed, impressive and mind blowing to say the least.

Shank was a Wharton MBA graduate in finance, class of 1987, civil engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, President, Municipal bond trader, CEO of Siebert Brandford Shank & Co, LLC, the largest minority-owned municipal finance firm in the United States.Since the start of her firm, they have acted as managing underwriter for municipal bond transactions exceeding a whopping $1.2 trillion dollars and ranks among the top 10 in seven key infrastructure categories for underwriting municipal bonds in the world.

This powerful, black woman is one to remember as her trailblazing ways will continue to inspire, develop, nurture and create more and more great minds in our community.

We have to understand as a community, not everyone is going to fight the same fights…or fight in a manner we think they should. I don’t know how this woman gives back to the community, but that is her business. Here we are highlighting her because we believe her drive, success and background might resonate and encourage some of our young people to get off their backsides and put in work!

Source: http://www.blackenterprise.com/event/women-of-power/suzanne-shanks-siebert-bradford-shank-co/

Police and emergency vehicles are swarming Henrietta and Calhouns streets off Marion Square in downtown Charleston, responding to a reported shooting.

They are responding to a shooting at 9 p.m. at 110 Calhoun Street, site of Mother Emanuel AME Church. Police have been seen exiting the church.

Police are still looking for the gunman. There are victims involved but don’t know how many. No deaths have yet been reported. A chaplain is on the scene.

Police are looking everywhere in groups on Henrietta, in trash cans and under cars.

A huge police and ambulance presense exists with officers wearing bullet-proof vests and carrying guns.

Officials have told people to go indoors or drive away from the area.

ETA: 8 deaths are being reported

http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...oting-downtown

Inspired by the social movements at the time, Jeannette Salters of Detroit got involved in the early 1970s with African-American and feminist causes, helping lead a black women's group.

That led her to discover her roots in west Africa, where she eventually settled in Ghana, changing her name to Mamelena Diop. Her journey to Africa was part of a movement of Detroiters who sought to reclaim their ancestral roots during a revival of black nationalist movements.

Diop loved it there, say friends and family. But this week,her body, along with that of her sister, Nzinga Janna, was found near their home in Ghana in what may been killings in a dispute over land. She was 75 and her sister was 60 at the time of death, according to reports in a Ghanian online news site and family members. Two men have been arrested, according to the Ghanian news report and family members.

"I feel terrible about what happened," said her son, Greg Salters of Detroit. "It's a tragedy. Words can't even explain how I feel about my mom being taken away from her home, murdered and put in a shallow grave 300 feet from her home."

[b]Salters said his mother and aunt were killed by people who wanted land she had legally acquired from the government in Ghana.

"Some locals decided they wanted to take the land from them," he said. "My mom went to court over that" and won.

"I guess the locals decided they were going to take matters into their own hands," he said. "And they decided to abduct and murder them."

A report on MyJoyOnline.Com said the sisters "had gone missing and a search in their room Tuesday afternoon revealed blood on the floor and a bloodstained cudgel, believed to have been used to hit them."

Her dogs had been poisoned several weeks ago, said family members and the media report.

The report said the dispute also may have been over who has the authority to be a chief, with others trying to say that the sisters could not legally be chiefs. But family members in metro Detroit say that story doesn't add up since the sisters could not be chiefs in that area because they were women.[/b]

Friends and family of Diop mourned her loss, saying it was a tragedy for her to die in a land she loved so much. Diop had moved back and forth between Detroit and Ghana over the years and was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Ghana. She was last in Detroit two years ago for the funeral of a relative.

"She loved that place," said Diop's daughter Cheryl Salters. "She loved Africa. The people were nice."

A family member or friend of Janna could not be reached for comment.

Diop's close friend, Thea Simmons of Grosse Pointe Park, was in shock when she heard about the deaths.

"My mind went blank ... I shed some tears," she said. "It's beyond a travesty that she should lose her life in her adopted homeland. She loved Ghana. And she loved the Ghanian people."

Family are now trying to get her body back into the U.S. The U.S. Embassy has contacted them to notify them of the deaths of the sisters, said family members.

The family is trying to raise money through GoFundMe to ship the sisters' remains back to Detroit.

Diop was originally from Cleveland, but moved to Detroit as a young woman, said Simmons. She "became involved in radical politics ... social movements" in African-American and women's movements.

In 1973, she helped set up the Detroit chapter of the now-defunct National Black Feminist Organization. She was also a social worker and counselor, said family members.

Several years later,she traveled to west African countries, the land of her origins. She settled in Ghana, getting involved with helping people, said family members. She was also into eating organic and using natural herbs.

"My mother was very articulate, very into herbs and holistic medicine, eating natural," said Cheryl Salters.

A grandson, James Salters, said that Diop was involved with helping Ghanians with education, water systems and affordable housing.

He said: "I feel sad that someone would actually target an older woman when she's over there trying to do good for that country."

Rich Europeans are still buying land and in control of most countries

simplemach:
Wow, the one on green is the mother. I call this maintenance. I will make my wife 'forever young' just like this.

Will you keep yourself up as well?

These guys are over 40. (43, 53, 71 and 79)

Blakjewelry:
I have nothing ainst the poster, what I am against the writer of some the work the poster copied from, the just did not put things in the right prospective just to justify their assertion. Besides the yan dada are not homosexual, they are men with female tendencies and nature and they dress like women though some of them are gay

Bene, Bulu, Fang, Jaunde, Mokuk, Mwele, Ntum and Pangwe in present-day Gabon and Cameroon, homosexual intercourse was known as bian nkû”ma– a medicine for wealth which was transmitted through sexual activity between men.

Similarly in Uganda, amongst the Nilotico Lango, men who assumed ‘‘alternative gender status” were known as mukodo dako. They were treated as women and were permitted to marry other men.

King Mwanga II, the Baganda monarch, was widely reported to have engaged in sexual relations with his male subjects.

In pre-colonial Benin, homosexuality was seen as a phase that boys passed through and grew out of.

nikkyshyne:
Op, you will have to put up a source subsequently. These 2 beautiful ladies could be sisters. How are we sure you aren't the one making the mother daughter thing up

They are mother and daughter. It's called taking care of yourself

chaberry:
Biological mother or adopted mother, cos i refuse to believe that any of them mothers the other

Black don't crack... and the mother is to the right (in the photo the OP posted)

AFRICA — A new trend of Chinese workers marrying African locals may be on the horizon. This rise of interracial matrimony is said to be a plausible solution to the overpopulation of males in China due to its cultural mandate of one child per household and strong proclivity for boys.

The Grio Reports:
Despite the growing trend of Chinese workers marrying local African women, predictably, many in their home country have a lot to say about it. On the Chinese culture blog, China Smack, one writer suggests that the “large-scale” marrying of African women could be the key to Chinese men finding love, but of course, only if they marry “high end black girls” without “greasy skin.”

Native Americans are the lost tribe of GAD

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/08/african-homosexuality-colonial-import-myth?CMP=share_btn_fb

While much has been written about this dangerous turn of events, little has been written about its origins. Two trailblazing studies in the field – Boy Wives and Female Husbands edited by Stephen O Murray and Will Roscoe, and Heterosexual Africa? by Marc Epprecht – demolish the revisionist arguments about Africa's sexual history. From the 16th century onwards, homosexuality has been recorded in Africa by European missionaries, adventurers and officials who used it to reinforce ideas of African societies in need of Christian cleansing.

The Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the continent. They noted the range of gender relations in African societies and referred to the "unnatural damnation" of male-to-male sex in Congo. Andrew Battell, an English traveller in the 1590s, wrote this of the Imbangala of Angola: "They are beastly in their living, for they have men in women's apparel, whom they keep among their wives."

Transvestism occurred in many different places, including Madagascar and Ethiopia. Among the Pangwe people of present-day Cameroon and Gabon, homosexual intercourse was practised between males of all ages. It was believed to be a way to transmit wealth. The Nzima of Ghana had a tradition of adult men marrying each other, usually with an age difference of about 10 years. Similar to the pederasty of ancient Greece, Sudan's Zande tribe had a tradition of warriors marrying boys and paying a bride price, as they would for girl brides, to their parents. When the boy grew up, he too became a warrior and took a boy-wife.

In this same tribe lesbianism was practised in polygamous households. In the 18th century the Khoikhoi of South Africa used the word koetsire to describe men considered sexually receptive to other men, and soregus was the word they used for a friendship which involved same-sex masturbation.

Homosexuality is also recorded among the Siwa of Egypt. It was considered a boy's rite of passage in Benin, and woman-woman marriages involving a bride price existed in more than 30 African societies from Nigeria to Kenya to South Africa.

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How far back can homosexuality be traced in Africa? You cannot argue with rock paintings. Thousands of years ago, the San people of Zimbabwe depicted anal sex between men. The truth is that, like everywhere else, African people have expressed a wide range of sexualities. Far from bringing homosexuality with them, Christian and Islamic forces fought to eradicate it. By challenging the continent's indigenous social and religious systems, they helped demonise and persecute homosexuality in Africa, paving the way for the taboos that prevail today.

The main character in my latest novel, Mr Loverman, is a 74-year-old black gay man, Barrington Walker. Married with two daughters, he has been in the closet for 50 years. Soon after the book was published, a young gay man emailed me from Nigeria expressing his fear that his life would turn out like Barrington's. I didn't know what to suggest except that, if he wanted to live openly and legally as homosexual, he had to leave his homeland. What else could I say?

Millions of gay people living in Africa face a similar choice. If they stay, they can either repress their natural sexuality or risk losing their liberty and their lives. The legacy of colonialism is alive and well. As another character in Mr Loverman says: "It's homophobia, not homosexuality, that was imported to Africa."

What kind of crap is this? Look for a man that's going to be a leader and has morals

OneNaira6:
The article to me sounds more like a self hater than a sell out. It gives off a discriminatory racism than criticism.

Me personally, I love black woman. A black woman will stay with you through thin and thick. If you have no money, a black woman would hold you down while trying to uplift you to be better. A white woman would not do that. Once you broke, she's gone like the wind. While for black women, it's the opposite unless they are thots.

Black women got attitude problem and so do latinos and even white. The only race of women with no nagging tendencies are Asian women. God bless the Asian women. For me, the problem is black women do not know where to stop with the attitude. They'll put you down, belittle you till you cry. I've anyways said if you survive a black woman argument with you without knocking the bitch out, you'll survive any race. I swear black women want to wear the jeans in the relationship as well. When I was younger I used to see it as a bad thing but as I've grown and dated several races, I now understand why black women constantly argue. They do it as a protection for themselves but also, at least in my case, build you up mentally strong.

I'll choose a black woman over a white woman anyday. No offense but white women are ugly to me. It's black then asians then Latino then Indians followed by Arabs and finally white.

Asian women don't nag? I hate to bust your bubble, but generally speaking Asian women are NOT docile, submissive and obedient. In fact, if you mess with them they'll F you up. I've heard plenty of stories about them cutting off joysticks.

Boland:
Miz Pashaun, are you a feminist?

Are you a misogynist?