₦airaland Forum

Swiftgrp:
The person you quoted is right to a large extent, but Nnamdi was fully dressed because of the early exposure of Onitsha people. Read Reverend George Basden's popular book on Ibos and his time living in
Onitsha while helping to transform the people. The book can also be downloaded for free online in PDF format.


Rev. George Basden also wrote about the eating of human beings [cannibalism] well after 1900 by Ibo tribes outside the Onitsha area in present Anambra and how his new Ibo Christian converts from those areas had confessed to him to haven been involved in eating captured human beings as food.

So, even right up to the late 1940s, Some male and female Ibos still dressed half-naked in their traditional settings with only a small parchment (looking a bit like g-string) to cover a bit of their
lower private parts. The Ibo women still went about without covering their breasts (upper bodies).

Only those who had the Western church influences wore cloths but many had no shoes on them based on the pictures I have seen of Northern and Southern Nigeria ethnicities.

I have an archival publication that had pictures of Ibo people near the Udi area in the late 1940s (1949) who were half-naked and had just the loin parchment that Achebe clearly wrote about in his book.

The Colonialists who frowned upon half-unclothedness by some locals eventually made laws for all these people to be dressed up eventually by covering up their upper and lower bodies.

Name or link to the book, sir? Where do I download books about precolonial Igbos or Africans? Thank you

Samantha124:
That's why I said it seems most Fulani guys are dramatic too like other Nigerian guys.

I won't survive being with one.

I'm not saying SA men are perfect, but I'm familiar with them.

No Moslems in SA? Nigerian men dramatic? If you've met any nairalander offline, you'd know this is false. A person's personality matters... Nigerian men? man...

Samantha124:
Even some South Africans can tell the tribe one is from by just looking at the person because apparently we're different too.

Yet you guys still classify SA ladies by their big behinds.

You keep saying "you guys" even when I already told you that Nairalanders or Twitter users do not speak for us. I don't remember ever saying such, when I think South Africa -- Nelson Mandela comes to my mind because of education. I remember reading a "comprehensive essay" from his story on my textbook back in elementary.

Samantha124:
What's wrong with making harmless jokes with one's religion?

That Deborah girl wasn't killed by Fulani herdsmen, but she was killed by a whole Fulani varsity male students.

Are you're going to tell me that Fulani guys are not dramatic? Seriously?

You see what I'm saying: those students are not a "whole Fulani varsity male students". They're Northerners -- hausas, fulanis and etcetera. How many conservative Moslems condemned the killing of Deborah?

That's Islam.

Samantha124:
I was talking about how there's also diversity among SA ladies despite how you guys classify them by their behinds.

This means that despite Nigerian women being diversed, there must still be something they have in common body wise, you guys just a haven't figured it out yet.

Even with East Africans, they're well diversed, but most of them have one thing in common, which is a big forehead.

I already told you the reality on ground plus I made a longass reply that was flagged down by the bot checker. Nigerian women don't have any body features that's common, not even my own sisters or family.

Matter of fact, people can tell which ethnicity you're from, in Nigeria, just by looking at you. This is because Nigeria is a country and a lot of these ethnicities do not share anything in common except the color of their skin. If you had asked what Igbo or Yoruba ladies have in common, even if there are sub-tribes under them, you might get an appropriate answer.

Samantha124:
But I never said anything about nairaland deceiving me about you guys having white and Chinese Nigerians... .

This is what your comment I replied to says:

Samantha124:
I haven't watched the documentary.

We have black, white, Indian, and coloured South Africans.

Samantha124:
I've heard that Fulanis don't joke with their Islam religion... That they can just kill a person for not being a Muslim and I'm not a Muslim.

I like joking around and I wouldn't want to end up getting killed for being blasphemous, I'm sorry.

Even Ghana is currently chasing away Fulanis from Burkina Faso.

Is it that hard to not joke with one's religion? Just try to know what your friend(s) find funny so you don't cross the rubicon. It's hard to make friends with an average Fulani, when I say "average" -- I mean the nomadic herdsmen because that's what comes to most of guys head when they think of the word "Fulani".

Samantha124:
I haven't watched the documentary.

We have black, white, Indian, and coloured South Africans.

The women in the video were dark skinned Africans. My grandmother could pass for "colored" or biracial too, same with my female cousin. My cousin (he's dark skinned) who lives with me doesn't believe he's got anything in common with an Arewan if only he knows he looks like a typical Fulani herdsman.

And yes, there are white, Indian, Chinese, and etc who were born in Nigeria and still live here. Don't let nairaland deceive you.

Thomasankara:
[/color]are you Fulani?[color=#770077]

Not really, bro. The bot checker keeps flagging down my comments. I was born in the North.

Samantha124:
Wouldn't I get killed for not being a Muslim

Just like that??

Samantha124:
But SA ladies are also well diversed.

I only knew SA ladies have "big bums" from Nairaland. These guys here do not represent all of us. In my first comment which was flagged down by the bot checker, I explained how a lot of women in that "dudula" documentary could pass for Yoruba or any Nigerian ethnicity especially that woman that hates foreigners because her son's a drug addict.

Samantha124:
Unfortunately, I've only heard bad news about Fulanis compared to other well known Nigerian tribes.

That's the Media. Same way you only hear about racism but rarely about people like Eminem and Dr. Dre. Those are nomadic Fulani herdsmen and please, I'm not justifying their atrocities.

Fulanis are mostly Moslems and very conservative hence their worldwide would likely differ from the majority of others.

Mr. @Seun, I'm not a robot. Why's this cloudfare check or whatever targeting me? Besides, I rarely make comments here.

Samantha124:
Their ethnicities or tribes don't matter... The most important thing is that they're Nigerians and their characters are very similar.

Just because you think they are, doesn't mean it is true. An average Fulani man doesn't behave like an average Igbo man or even any southern ethnicity except he mixes up with others by education or wealth.

Samantha124:
Noo, I won't... Most of you guys are way too arrogant and dramatic.

I'd suffocate.

I wonder how many "Nigerian men" you've met to reach to such conclusion? A country of over 300 ethnicities! Maybe the Nairalanders who are here for fun?

Is it Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Gwari/Gbagi, Ba'asa, Agatu, Ibibio, Ago/Ojiri, Kanuri or the rest of the over 300 ethnicities?... Or maybe Lebanese or European Nigerian?

Thomasankara:
[/color] Nigerian society is so big u will av mostly all the traits of Africans in it,except the Berbers of North Africa, what do u expect of a Nation with almost 250 million population, curvaceous ladies are only common to the southern part of Nigeria,Nigeria just has her peculiarity,unlike S. A where the ethnics are closely knitted into one[color=#770077]

A Fulani girls could pass for a Berber girl, my first lover (she was Igbo) could pass for biracial, Fulani, and etc. Even my own sisters have different features! I did write a longass reply to the OP but Nairaland ain't letting me post that.

Nairaland is not allowing me to make comments, that robot checking bs.

God, I regret being born here.