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Jay Z looks like those hefty thugs in Ochanja market Onitsha
Looks like someone who could be called Okonkwo Nwokoye

stillwater:
R-kelly looks Igbo
Chamillionaire-- thick Yoruba man
[b]Fantasia--- thick Yoruba woman [/b]Keysha Cole--- Yoruba

No Fantasia is from Edo/ northern delta side
she looks exactly like Evi edna Ogholi the 80's reggae star.
look at the lips

The same NIgerian kids that use their bottoms to pay school fees and buy recharge cards from Unimaid to Oko Polytechnic
The same ones that end up in Italy doing ashewo?
The same ones doing 419 all over the place
The same ones holding up  ABC buses at Gun point
The same ones cutting up citizens using their private parts for rituals to fortify themselves and make money
The same kids that killed my own cousin at ESUT and his body is yet to return to us for burial
better behaved my hammer toes

Kids are a product of their upbringing

Even the late Nat king Cole
Nathaniel Eze-Okoli

Alonzo Mourning of NBA is an Igbo man
Alozie Nwaonuma

How about the manly looking girls like  Macy Gray and that Missy Elliott.
They look Togolese if you ask me.

Busy_body:
No look again, his jaws looks like that of a he-goat, Hausa men too have that same jaw. It's just that he does not have the same bean-pole stature typical of the Hausa man

Hausas have the jaw of a he-goat?
God forgive you
ROFL
Look at IBB and his round face like someone from Ekwulobia.

ezeagu:
What about Beyonce, is she too mixed to tell?

There are plenty Igbo girls with features just like her and they are 100% African

Steve Harvey and his big kpomo lips looks like a typical ___ man

Busy_body:
JenniferHudson looks like a Yoruba girl called Bose.

Andre3000 looks like an Hausa guy

Big Boi looks like a Yoruba guy.

R.Kelly looks Yoruba.

Usher looks Igbo with his round head.
Ray J looks Yoruba.

Nelly looks like a by-product of Ondo dad and Edo mum.

Brandy looks Igbo.

Usher looks like a Koala bear abeg

Monique looks like this woman that ran a beer parlour near my street at Aba

MrCrackles:
Poster,

Brash!

who dash monkey banana?

MIAMI – The presidential candidates are capping a history-making campaign with a dash from Florida through a half-dozen other crucial states as John McCain tries for an upset over Barack Obama.

With little sleep, McCain was darting through seven swing states Monday, arguing that victory was virtually at hand despite national polls showing otherwise.

"My friends, it's official: There's just one day left until we take America in a new direction," the Republican Party's choice to succeed President Bush told a raucous, heavily Hispanic rally in Miami just after midnight.

Obama, comfortably ahead in national polls, was getting a later start with a rally in Jacksonville at midday and a swing through longtime GOP bastions that might go to his Democratic Party this time.

"I feel pretty peaceful," Obama said on the "Russ Parr Morning Show."
"The question is going to be who wants it more," he added. "And I hope that our supporters want it bad, because I think the country needs it."

It has been the longest and most expensive presidential contest ever — featuring for the first time an African-American as a major party standardbearer.

Asked in an interview broadcast Monday morning what most displeased him about the nearly 2-year-long contest, Obama cited attacks launched by Republicans against his wife, Michelle.

"There's a Republican or right wing media outlet , that went after my wife for awhile in a way that I thought was just completely out of bounds," Obama said on CBS's "The Early Show."http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp

I don't know these people why should they be there  It pisses me off. I just want a private and quiet ceremony, my mom , my dad that's all      I guess I have to do a lot of fighting

If you lived in Nigeria,my dear there is no quiet traditional wedding ceremony.
Even your own parents won't agree to have their daughter married off nicodemously.
And if you live here in the USA,money is still sent home to buy them their list even if at a later date.
My grandmothers people were still mad that my husband did not complete their cartons of maltina.
not my mothers village O
the village where my mother's mother was born.
Can you imagine?
My mother had to buy the maltina and tell them the in law sent them then told us.

chika98:
I didn't mean that literally. This tradition came about for a good reason.

But sadly the thing is being unfair to many young men who just want to marry the women they love.
Some parents use this opportunity to fleece inlaws and that's wrong

biolabee:
thats sad, if it gets to the day that respect in a marriage is based on material concerns

I doubt that statement from chika
If a man looks down on a woman because he paid no bride price should she also be his posession because he paid?

chika98:
I have nothing against bride price sha because most times a man won't respect you if he didn't pay your bride price.

That's a new one
So me that my husband paid only one naira,I'm just a dash dash?
he sponsored the ceremony (which in my place is the 3rd visit)
He bought the contents of the list.
He sponsored a church wedding too
Bride price is just a fraction of what the man does and the amount is negotiable in many places

stillwater:
The respect I give to him would drop instantly if he mentions that ridiculous statement. I don't take such things lightly.
Lord over me? Nonsense. Sounds like bondage.

Don't know much about these things. It was even on NL I heard about umuada Some people should just be expecting nothing from me.

My sister wait until a suitor comes knocking.
Then you hear about them.
They are powerful.
They have their own list that must be honored
and the men (umunna) have their own requirements
In my own case,my dad did not take any dowry except a symbolic one naira note but the contents on the lists had to be bought by the suitor whether we liked it or not.
That one is almost non negotiable
and if the father pities the suitor,he'll have to buy them himself.

so how will the dead in law now take care of his wife and baby?

tradition must be upheld!
God blessed me with a daughter and now you folks want the rules changed.
no way!
I've already calculated the remainder of our mortgage and that is her bride price

I'm not your God sent but my dear,shouldn't you conserve the small money you have than waste it at the internet cafe looking abi begging for love.
Forget about girls,go get a job,get yourself situated and a girl will come.

just curious,what is a mini flat?

great relationship.Couldn't ask for a better mommy

I can't wait to get this thing over with and have "my man" in the oval office.
I should have taken tomorrow off

Well It better be my boo.
Obama!
Just 24 hours to go.

Karma ,I would apppreciate it if you don't mention my name again on this issue.
Make your point and leave it there.
I would plead with you on that
This is becoming pediatric.
I  am finally done with this thread.
Thanks for your anticipated compliance.

In Rivers State,the widow sits on the bare floor for some time after which the corpse is placed on a platform called(IVU-OJU)which the widow will now sit for two hours because she is suspected to have a hand in her husbands death so that she will die if she actually has a hand in his death and if not,she goes free.http://www.helium.com/items/75450-the-challenges-of-being-a-widow

In 2001, the Government of Enugu State passed The Prohibition of Infringement of a Widow's and Widower's Fundamental Rights Law, 2001-A Law to Make it Unlawful to Infringe the Fundamental Rights of Widows and Widows, and for Other Related Matters (WIN NEWS Spring 2002; Widows' Rights International n.d.). Subsection 1 f) of this law specifically forbids forcing a widow to drink the water used to wash her husband's corpse (WIN NEWS Spring 2002). To publicize the law, the Widows Development Organisation, assisted by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), has published an explanatory guide (Widows' Rights International n.d.). [b]According to a report by the project coordinator of Women's Rights Watch - Nigeria, "three states have passed laws against punitive widowhood rites, Enugu, Edo and Oyo state" ([/b]Rufarm 2003). However, the report states that despite these laws, the mourning rites continued to be practised in these states in 2003 (ibid
http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/rir/?action=record.viewrec&gotorec=433946

The following information was provided in correspondence received on 9 July 2001 from the Projects Director of Grassroots Women Foundation (GWF), who holds a master's degree in law and who conducted a study on widowhood practices in 11 Nigerian states as a national consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Projects Director referred to the study she conducted in which[b] two per cent of 150 widows interviewed in Edo state said they "were subjected to the practice" of drinking the water used to clean the corpse.[/b]

but some idiots are bent on making these stupid practices continue despite the outcry


BENIN CHIEF CONDEMNS ASSEMBLY OVER WIDOWS' BILL

A Benin Chief, Obaloza of Benin Kingdom, Chief Jackson Amure, on Wednesday,
condemned the passage of the bill on maltreatment of widows by the State House
of Assembly, saying it will lead to crisis, if eventually signed into law by
the executive.

This condemnation was contained in a statement, made available to the Punch, in
Benin on Wednesday.
The bill sponsored by the House Committee Chairman on Women Affairs, Mrs. Eshoe
Jacobs seeks among other things to ban the age-long practice of making a widow
drink the water used in washing the corpse of her dead husband or eat a
particular soup from a special plate with the left hand.
Amure, a member of the Benin Traditional Council (BIC) while condemning the
passage of the bill affected the Benin cultural values, adding the practice had
been with people from ancient times.
He berated the legislators for not consulting the people, adding that making a
widow to swear at the forehead of her deceased husband is allowed in order to
prove the innocence of the widow as not being the cause of the death of the
deceased"
While advocating a strict adherence to African cultural values, Amure stated
that "we should remember that we can never be more white than the Englishman.
If you tell a whiteman that it is possible to programme death into somebody's
life by cutting his hair or taking sand from his footprint, the whiteman would
tell you that it is not possible.
But we black know that this is very possible.
But we black know that this very possible. The type of diabolical and
spiritual wickedness practiced here is quite different from what obtains in the
whiteman's world", he said.
He stated that the idea of a widow swearing at the forehead of her deceased
husband was evolved to serve as a check on the diabolical wickedness of some
women.[/b]He added that the practice [b]guaranteed the protection of the man (the husband),
while alive "and it serves as a deterrent to the woman or any of the spouses
that is diabolically inclined. She knows what she will go through, should the
partner dies".
While urging the Governor of the State Chief Lucky Igbinedion to be circumspect
in signing the bill into law, the Benin Chief warned that "the bill, if signed
into law by the governor would cause more confusion than it is made to solve".
He said that any woman who hid under the new bill to defy the family of her
late husband would have herself and her children rejected and denied
recognition within the milieu of the Bini tradition.

http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/womenseconomicrights-conference/msg00063.html

In Edo North, the widowhood rites are similar but also the women become
inherited by the deceased's brother. It is very common in Edo North for a
woman to bear children for two brothers.