Alexkene: Father is Igbo, Mother is Yoruba,

My dads mother is Yoruba

My moms mother is Igbo

My wife is Yoruba.

wow it makes sense, your mother has yoruba paternal lineage but leaned towards her mom side and feel for a igbo man who has igbo paternal lineage but leaned towards his mother side and feel for your mom. It made sense your parents met and married. For you though your paternal line is still igbo but you ending up with a yoruba woman is not a shocker

If you were 100% igbo and had a yoruba wife, I would be surprised though

KingTom:
But learning all those languages was not easy oo

yea it will be hard, true, but it will be impossible to pass to your future kids, it ends with you.

KingTom: Mummy is from Igbo. Daddy is Yoruba. Mummy's mum is from Cross river. Daddy's mum is Hausa. I am Yoruba or

paternally you are yoruba but culturally you will lean to your mothers side

PAGAN9JA:



Yes I know and Its great. Just worried for the future now.

No harm in educating. Those who heed the advice, its good for them.

Naija will be fine

majority always marry their own, that includes other africans and races

Nomso007:
lol. I get that a lot.. beats me

yea really strange but I have heard there are igbo/hausa couples but they keep it quiet

Never bumped into a mixed like you

Nomso007:

Dad's Hausa, Mum Ibo.. true story

wow..how did that happen

PAGAN9JA:


You missed the point.

Mixed people will generally chose to opt for a general culture or a National/International Identity. usually english or pidgin in Nigeria.

Not all of them, especially the ones that have half hausa or yoruba in them

PAGAN9JA:


How will there be diversity in the future when every one becomes mixed?

Take Nigeria for example, imagine all our tribes destroyed. no more igbo vs Yoruba e-war.

no more different Nigerian Tribal cultures, from Igbos to Yorubas , to Hausa all the way upto Marghi.


Instead only 1 black people without any culture or identities. it is depressing.

chill Pagan, most Nigerians marry within their tribe and most mixed nigerian are 0.05% and get absorbed into larger tribes anyway

rickkid: And in addition, in the interest of building a national identity which is stronger than ethnic affiliation, intermixing is key. This is one of the reasons why the youth service scheme was created. Incidentally, I met my fiancee in camp during NYSC. Why is there less ethnic-based violence in Southern Africa compared to West and Central/East Africa? Because after centuries of mixing, they're all practically the same people now. An Ndebele from Zimbabwe can understand the language of a Xhosa in South Africa or a Kalanga from Malawi. They get on a whole lot better than us up here.

it isn't all positive though, some don't have a sense of identity like the west and central Africa

There is good and bad in both sides of the argument

some like to mix and some don't

PAGAN9JA:

Exactly. you speak some Efik.

Mixing causes the neglect of cultures. If not both sides, then atleast one side. whose language will you speak? whose culture will you follow? whose Gods will you worship? ,etc..

Then imagine, you as a mixed pesin goes on and marries another mixed person. or even a pure person of another ethnicity, lets say Fulani.

Then are you saying me your offspring has to balance 3 or 4 cultures, learn 3-4 languages,etc.? Ofcourse not!
In this age, your child is more likely to go for English as in the example above.

Going further, by the 3rd generation, (your offsprings children), the cultures will be extinct!


Culture is supposed to develop. Not mixed or get destroyed. We are not African-Americans. We are Mainland Africans and what makes us unique is our Various tribes, ethnic groups, languages, outlooks, personalities, etc. If we work together, we are a force to be reckoned with.

We cannot afford to lose our tribes.


The West lost their tribes and went on a rampage, destroying others cultures. Today the west has no proper culture, deteriorating morality, lack of family /tribal kinship and values, etc.


Hausas never mixed with Yorubas. We are both of separate and different stock. Your example of onions is useless. The reason for that loanword is because onions probably never existed in Yorubaland ,prior to introduction by Hausa farmers and Traders from the North. Hausas never breeded with Yorubas.

Actually they have, I know a girl whose mother is yoruba and father hausa and there are others

small numbers but they exist

ugly

chai

why many of the post here are not from yoruba women...........................

soul_glo:

No she would not. At least not high fashion. She could not even get an invite to the MET gala. Ann Wintour would die twice before she ever lets Kim Kardashian grace the cover of Vogue. She did Vogue Italy I think but definitely not here. Also Michelle Obama is a fashion icon in her own right. Kim Kardashian is popular in pop culture but influential especially when it comes to fashion? Come on

I agree...I heard about Ann Wintour never allowing Kim to be on the cover of vogue

I think the lesson here is kanye love for Kim has turned him into an i.diot

not surprising news for nigerians

very sad but very funny

I wonder who will buy them

nonsence smh

Cosmopolice: Some people like me didnt grow up being used to speaking our mothers tongue. Instead its english language we use all the time. Now its so difficult to learn. Now my question is at this time and age. Is it a must to speak our local dialet and why

it depends on the person

I never seen africans beg to be part of the black american media to get their point across any way........so is it by force

.......so most africans are in different to it

Media exist in Africa you know....particularly with naija

Even CNN is joining ........has anybody heard of inside Africa or Africa market place from CNN..............where african issues are being spotlighted worldwide

does it matter

everything he said is right......and when he said it his own people insulted him for it

I think they did the same to Obama

very nice

ChitChatChick88: If a Nigerian man/woman was to date an African American woman/man, which culture would be more likely to accept such a union, assuming it would lead to marriage?

Igbo and other eastern tribes...they marry african americans more higher then other tribes from Nigeria

Blyss:

The answer to your question is, on average.. you'd find the Igbo culture more accepting of such union than the Yoruba. This is to be expected though, due to the fact of that the Igbo an Black-Americans share many things in common, like genes for one; these shared attributes often times draw the two together when in proximity to each other. Many Igbo/Black-American unions exist in this nation.

you speak the truth !!!!

well said