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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Nobody: 8:04pm On Nov 10, 2015

Nobody is mixing up Fulanis and Shuwa Arabs okay. We all know Igbos have always had a solid amount of fairskinned people. Fulanis likely have more fairskinned people and I don't care if they are recent migrants. I'm talking about the Fulani population in Nigeria.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Ihuomadinihu: 8:24pm On Nov 10, 2015

Lolz. Not like being lightskin is an achievement but people are so fixated on igbo skin tones.

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Nobody: 8:40pm On Nov 10, 2015

Some of your people brag about your diversity in skintones. I don't see lightskin as a big achievement, neither do I obsess over a particular skintone. My father, sister and a slew of aunts and uncles are lightskinned with a few more family friends having a ruddy/reddish brown complexion and I'm ruddy as well, so I don't need to feel inferior about my skintone.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by theDEVILisHERE: 9:14pm On Nov 10, 2015

aim5:
Fulanis have more lightskinned people and I bet other smaller groups have more lightskinned people as well. That's what I was getting at in my comment.

Well that didn't relate to my post

Besides
Don't fulani people have some Arab blood in them ?

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Nobody: 2:32am On Nov 11, 2015

theDEVILisHERE:
Well that didn't relate to my post

Besides
Don't fulani people have some Arab blood in them ?

They do.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by itstpia8: 7:13am On Nov 11, 2015

Ihuomadinihu:
Lolz. Not like being lightskin is an achievement but people are so fixated on igbo skin tones.

are they?

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by macof(m): 11:07am On Nov 11, 2015

Ihuomadinihu:
Lolz. Not like being lightskin is an achievement but people are so fixated on igbo skin tones.

what is this peculiar igbo skin tones

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by iconize(m): 2:51pm On Nov 11, 2015

aim5:
Fulanis have more lightskinned people and I bet other smaller groups have more lightskinned people as well. That's what I was getting at in my comment.

This is a ridiculous lie. Fulanis don't have more light-skinned people than Igbos.

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by itstpia8: 2:59pm On Nov 11, 2015

aim5:
Nobody is mixing up Fulanis and Shuwa Arabs okay. We all know Igbos have always had a solid amount of fairskinned people. Fulanis likely have more fairskinned people and I don't care if they are recent migrants. I'm talking about the Fulani population in Nigeria.

Nigerian Fulani are not generally light skinned.

perhaps you mean Fulani who are not Nigerian.

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by iconize(m): 6:59pm On Nov 11, 2015

itstpia8:
Nigerian Fulani are not generally light skinned.
perhaps you mean Fulani who are not Nigerian.

Both Nigerian and non-Nigerian Fulanis are generally not light-skinned.
Some people take Shuwa Arabs to be Fulanis.

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by iconize(m): 6:59pm On Nov 11, 2015

itstpia8:
Nigerian Fulani are not generally light skinned.
perhaps you mean Fulani who are not Nigerian.

Both Nigerian and non-Nigerian Fulanis are generally not light-skinned.
Some people take Shuwa Arabs to be Fulanis.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by itstpia8: 7:07pm On Nov 11, 2015

iconize:
Both Nigerian and non-Nigerian Fulanis are generally not light-skinned.

Some people take Shuwa Arabs to be Fulanis.

from the pictures posted on one of the Fulani threads, it seems Cameroonian Fulanis tend to be light skinned although I don't know for sure.

I doubt anyone mistakes Shuwa Arabs for Fulani since they are not the same. Only an outsider would do that.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Nobody: 11:19pm On Nov 11, 2015

itstpia8:
Nigerian Fulani are not generally light skinned.

perhaps you mean Fulani who are not Nigerian.

Whatever.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Nobody: 11:20pm On Nov 11, 2015

iconize:
This is a ridiculous lie. Fulanis don't have more light-skinned people than Igbos.

Ha okay.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Stillfire: 10:01pm On Nov 13, 2015

Most likely environmental factors and our genes adapting to them.
For example the sand in the East typically has a reddish hue compared to the West and North.

This picture is more representative of our color spectrum. Most are not yellow skinned, but fall within the range of both extreme.

https://i.onthe.io/vllkytaHR0cDovL2Nkbi0wMS5uYWlqLmNvbS9vL0p5WUNORE9iSXV0eEFqUXhLVEpVbDJlMS5qcGc=.prx.r800x600.cc3ce45c.jpg

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by macof(m): 7:28pm On Nov 16, 2015

iconize:
Both Nigerian and non-Nigerian Fulanis are generally not light-skinned.

Some people take Shuwa Arabs to be Fulanis.

The only shuwa arab I've seen is dark skinned

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by somegirl1: 8:41pm On Nov 16, 2015

We were made that way just as some south african tribes are naturally light skinned without admixture. Even the dark ones among us usually have warmer hues with golden or red undertones.
The issue has been overflogged though.

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by somegirl1: 8:45pm On Nov 16, 2015

macof:
I still maintain a type of food tho, maybe some vitamins... I remember one Imo girl, her parent were totally dark skinned but she was light - like Monalisa Chinda light skinned
And it happens often like this with Igbos

plus the OP's narration of a full family of light skins

Mutation or a recessive gene. I've seen that a lot. Usually an ancestor would have been light skinned.
Happened in my family. I have two light skinned sisters. The rest of us are light brown. Apparently a great grandmother was very light skinned.

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by somegirl1: 8:57pm On Nov 16, 2015

macof:
Neither am I, but I think the food idea makes sense

Perhaps we unknowingly ingest arbutin.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by iconize(m): 9:03pm On Nov 16, 2015

macof:
The only shuwa arab I've seen is dark skinned

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by macof(m): 9:38pm On Nov 16, 2015

iconize:

YesYes ... theres only one person I have confirmed to be shuwa arab

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by wazzoz99: 3:46pm On Nov 17, 2015

I think yellow Eritreans must have migrated out of East Africa for greener pasteurs and settled in Igboland hundreds of years ago.

Many half Eritrean or Ethiopian half Nigerians tend to look like yellow igbos.
The first pic is a half yoruba half ethiopian woman

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by Nobody: 4:03pm On Nov 17, 2015*

wazzoz99:
I think yellow Eritreans must have migrated out of East Africa for greener pasteurs and settled in Igboland hundreds of years ago.

Many half Eritrean or Ethiopian half Nigerians tend to look like yellow igbos.
The first pic is a half yoruba half ethiopian woman

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by itstpia8: 4:39pm On Nov 17, 2015

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by suyu: 6:50pm On Nov 17, 2015

Many of them have white ancestry

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by suyu: 6:51pm On Nov 17, 2015

onitshaigbo:
Igbos are Jews, meaning that instead of originating from Africa, our ancestors came from the land of Israel. We've only had a few centuries to adapt to the climate in this part of Africa, and so our skin is not as dark as the indigenes.

Makes sense I guess

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by suyu: 6:56pm On Nov 17, 2015

ucheheart:
Our fore fathers were white men before they came to africa then sunlight tanned their skins.

The Jews, Europeans or both?

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by suyu: 6:56pm On Nov 17, 2015

Kagarko:
Possibly they are linked with white ancestors.

Enviromental (sunlight) and chemical (creams) factors could be another reason.

Maybe a combination

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by bigfrancis21(mod): 6:59pm On Nov 17, 2015

I really think that this issue of Igbo light-'skinnedness' is being over-flogged. Igbos are !00% West African and African, with no European admixture whatsoever. Genetic tests conducted on the Igbos have proved this time after time. It is ludicrous when people come up here claiming that they have 'white ancestry' or European ancestry. The black race is the mother of all races. Only two blacks can lay together and produce off springs of different skin complexion. No two whites can produce a black child or anything other than white. Black is a more dominant gene and white is recessive.

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Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by makahlj2: 9:42am On Nov 18, 2015

wazzoz99:
I think yellow Eritreans must have migrated out of East Africa for greener pasteurs and settled in Igboland hundreds of years ago.

Many half Eritrean or Ethiopian half Nigerians tend to look like yellow igbos.
The first pic is a half yoruba half ethiopian woman

Oh no... now the Somalian trolls will arrive.

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by itstpia8: 2:52pm On Nov 18, 2015

wazzoz99:
I think yellow Eritreans must have migrated out of East Africa for greener pasteurs and settled in Igboland hundreds of years ago.

Many half Eritrean or Ethiopian half Nigerians tend to look like yellow igbos.
The first pic is a half yoruba half ethiopian woman

Ojukwu (Igbo) also had a half Ethiopian daughter, not so?

Re: What Is The Origin Of The "Yellow Skin" In Most Igbos? by kagari: 3:39pm On Nov 18, 2015

itstpia8:
Nigerian Fulani are not generally light skinned.

perhaps you mean Fulani who are not Nigerian.

.
Fulanis are more chocolate creamy than been yellow. But i believe both can be categorized as been light skinned

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