₦airaland Forum

chineloSA:
No wonder African Americans don't get along with Africans.

Honestly her response was unnecessary. It's nit their fault

Ada Igbo's comment has nothing to do with the tension between Africans, and black Americans and black Caribbeans. That bad blood is older than our grand fathers. My dad still tells the story of a Jamaican in London in the 1970s who thoroughly insulted him for no reason other than that he came from Africa.

My dad had only asked him for directions - that was all.

fr3do:
But it's not really any black American's fault, that their ancestors were shipped into slavery.

AdaIgbo just beefed the whole black Americans

Sorry. Yes, it wasn't the nicest thing to say, but if an African-American questions my blackness, I might throw a comment like Obianuju's his way.

But what are you people doing here dragging up a stupid post that was made and ignored 6 years ago??

Missyford31:
Im damn proud of my igbo man. Im white n i want the world to know his mine. His the most beautiful sexy sweet man

Oh you are most definitely not white.

Creating responsibility for his older sons.

LOL. I can't believe people gave Naipaul a hard time for saying Africa has no future. People whose houses are on fire, preoccupied with chasing mice.

Sinistami:
OK even though Ijaw is all over the news.

Being in the news is different from meeting them in person. If I don't meet them and interact with them, how do I know about the idiosyncracies in their speech? That is not something people usually pick up in the news. The only reason I knew about the 'changing j to z' thing, is because it was in a GS textbook I read in my first year; the rest I am just learning about from your post.

Sinistami:
If its same why is it that people always put Yoruba as the main culprits.

Because the Yorubas, being a major ethnic group, are much more visible than the groups you have mentioned here. It is inevitable that they will become everyone's point of reference. This might sound incredible but many Nigerians have never met an Izon person before.

I am looking at this somehow. I wanted to say Fake News, but I also say this news being carried by some reputable social media outlets, so it may be true. If it is, then the HR of that hospital is either being run by someone very stupid or someone who has an axe to grind with the hospital.

Every employer in America knows this is discrimination and illegal and can get one into trouble.

Trying to trace pounded yam down to a particular ethnic group would be a laughable venture. Pounding of yams probably pre-dates all the modern ethnic groups in West Africa.

Ethnic origin of egusi soup is perhaps possible to trace, but forget about pounded yam.

Sorry to bring this here but I don't know where else to take it. Absolutesuccess, what does the Yoruba name Ogbori mean, and do the Itsekiri people also have that name or a name similar to it?

Every time, I see this picture I am startled again by how recently this was happening. The 1950s. Black people were not a novelty in the West in the 1950s. Yet this was still going on at that time. Most shocking.

They have birthday photo shoots now? *smh*

baby124:
Ghanaians don’t cut their Okro like that. Igbo’s do.

Ghana has a traditional cornmeal eaten with okra stew, just like coucou. They call it Banku. Corn-based meals in the Caribbean generally have striking Ghanaian parallels. The Caribbeans have another corn-based dish called conkies which is just like the Ghanaian kenkey (the names even are similar.)

How the okra is chopped seems too small a detail to be the basis for attributing the meal to the Igbo. The chopping method could have arisen from syncretic meeting of Akan and Igbo in the Caribbean, but the origin of the dish itself seems to be firmly in Ghana.

Sinistami:
I dun know I haven't heard that name before.

Okay. It's probably a regional name then, not general Ijaw.

Is Alaputa a general Ijaw name or is it only Ibani people that bear it? And what does it mean?

baby124:
They are trying to replicate Akpu and Okro, which is a traditional Igbo food. They obviously did not have cassava so they substituted with corn. They even cut the okro like Igbo’s do when cooking Okro. The meal has obviously been modified over time. Some versions look like swallow and Okro soup.

Ghana may have a stronger claim to being the origin of Coucou than Southeastern Nigeria.

Moorish:
Of the four best-known dark-skinned characters in Shakespeare's plays (Caliban in The Tempest, the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice, Aaron in Titus Andronicus, and Othello), he referred to the latter two as blackamoors.

Even William Shakespeare knew black = moor

The white man has been trying for centuries to erase any likeness of black greatness and sovereignty from the minds of the people through the white washing of history and destruction of ancient artefacts

I pity blacks who follow the white man

They lack a knowledge of self

The very expression 'blackamoors' implies that not all Moors were black; otherwise 'blackamoor' would be tautological. Nobody says black Negroes for instance, because all Negroes are black; but people say black Africans because there are Africans of other colours.

'Blackamoor' suggests there are Moors of other colours.

Silentscreamer:
if what u said is what falz meant, then dats a very terrible way of passing a message.

It's called being tongue-in-cheek; and no, it is not a terrible way of passing a message. But if social media has taught me anything, it is that the use of figurative devices like irony, sarcasm, tongue-in-cheek comments generally fly over the heads of Nigerians.

baby124:
Yea right. Egusi is a Yoruba word first and foremost. We own the soup my dear. I have never seen Igbo egusi soup anywhere. When I was growing up, Igbo Egusi soup did not exist. They have their own native soups and so do we. I think Yoruba’s have the best soups. I have tried Igbo and even Akwa Ibom soups and they are not delicious to me. The soup is too watery or the vegetable too hard. Very overhyped. It must be based on palette or taste for anyone to call it the best soups.

When you say there was no 'Igbo egusi soup when you were growing up', are you saying Igbo people were not making and eating egwusi soup when you were growing up?

Wait. This country has this level of restriction on the freedom of expression?

I honestly did not know.

Something about her face tells me she had been under the knife and has had botox injections; and the surgeon wasn't that good at his job.

And oh if her face is fake, her ass is probably fake too.

Wizkid, Tecno?

OLADIPS? ? ? !

So a white guy, eh?

You had a great thing going here. But for some strange reason, you decided to destroy it, and the Omambala site isn't accessible anymore. I have been trying for days now.

Christistruth00:
Azikiwe’s father was the Station Master at Zungeru ,he worked for the railways,I have been wondering about this story. His father used his retirement money to send Zik to America in 1925 .

Which retirement money? Zik had little help from his family when he wanted to go to America. The guy worked his ass off to pay for his fare. He took a boat to Ghana (then the Gold Coast) and worked there to raise enough money for his passage to America.

Unfortunately almost everything here is a lie. Azikiwe Snr was never Lugard's personal secretary. That is something Zik would have mentioned in his autobiography. There was no indication in everything Zik wrote about his dad that he ever rose above middle rank in the Colonial Civil Service. He was just a clerk. He was not involved in treaty-signing with the chiefs/kings either. Most of the treaties were even signed before his time.

And yes. Nobody in that picture is Lugard. Lugard was very smallish, balding and had a bloody huge moustache that you could see from Mars. You picked this picture off the Internet and just assigned Obed Edom and Lugard to it. Fortunately for you, the picture is not annotated online or you would have been outed pretty quickly.

This your lying is not making Igbos look good; you are only disgracing them. You should change your name to Igbo disgracer.

I have to ask, why do Yorubas appear to be so obsessed with ranking their traditional rulers? No month passes on Nairaland without someone putting up one ranking or the other of the Yoruba Obas.

Probz:
16’s the age of consent in many countries. Not least the UK.

That did occur to me as I was typing. Still...

Assuming this is true (because the Internet is full of shit) which country is it, and shouldn't it be a crime for her to be sleeping with him?

Isn't Ume also a title in Nnewi and environs? Even in Onitsha, a grade of Ndichie titles is called Ndichie Ume.

Also, that bit about buying slaves from Lagos and Benin...