₦airaland Forum

Lucy001: i think it would have been much more better, if it was languages like french, German etc...

or better yet an African language PS why German

Azonto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTUIlOudlHI

Shaw007: jesus did not come 2 condemn but 2 save. . .we are just as guilty of sin as everyone else,the main tin is just for one 2 repent and ask for grace,the End is very near,and i dont just believe its the right one,i know it is

plus,u av every right 2 your own opinion,one of the greatest gifts of God 2 man is free will,that is why u wud not see any christian forcing anybody,if u dont want 2 be a christian we wud not kill anybody because of that. . .like i said,its a free world

our Gods and or Goddess

Shaw007: the shifting of the poles is not man made,what some scientists are speculating about the planet nibru is not man-mad. . .december 21st is not man-made,gr8 earthquakes and volcanoes are not man-made,these are some of the ways scientits say the world wud end.infact what they are saying now is that we are hundreds of years due,so bottom line,religious or not,this world wud end. . .and yes most of if not all of Humanity will be wiped(that is according 2 science)

religions,theologies. . .will all end as part of this world,the only way 2 heaven is thru jesus,and only christianity supports that

conspiracy BS

obadiah777: the mark of the beast is democracy and homosexualism and capitalism and the american way of life. if you reject democracy you will not be able to buy and sell ( iran and cuba embargo ).

blah blah blah

safarigirl: The African man and his superstitious beleifs, if this had happened in Nigeria, it would have been a Mecca. Suddenly everyone is screaming 'end time', Christians forget they're only a small sect in a large world, there are more Hindus and Bhuddists than Christians, stop forcing your views on others.

somebody gets it

Shaw007: "some religions" are not right

just because they dont doesnt mean there isnt an end time. . .even science itself believes it

yea but not a religious one and it will be man made plus it will not be the end of the world humanity will live on for now. what do you mean some religions are not right

Guadeloupe(France)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1PSgAjqXEU

Shaw007: and so? Are they not part of the world?
'm not making any postulates that its the end time here but when it comes. . .no part of earth will be left untouched

blah blah some religions don't have "end of times"

the Chinese(east Asians) are not christian so don't poison there cultures with your Jesus BS

how do you close threads?

MsDarkSkin: I think you purposely make such threads and posts of or relating to east africa because you want to attract ali and his jobless rants. You might as well put his "ask a somali" thread to good use and stop giving him ammo. to ruin this beautiful section.

he's gonna ruin any thread any way he already started to mess up your African little beauty thing

somalia2: i like when the blacks do those african dances. So primitive.


our slaves in somalia use to do them. When they wanted rain.

primitive indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZzEqg14Fs0&feature=related

there Semitic

The indigenous inhabitants of Socotra are mainly of Southern Arabian descent, and are said to be especially closely related with the Qara and Mahra groups of Southern Arabia. There are also a number of residents of Somali and Indian origin. In addition, the island is inhabited by various Black African peoples, who are believed to be descendants of runaway slaves.

The Semitic language Soqotri, spoken originally only in Socotra, is related to such other Modern South Arabian languages on the Arabian mainland as Mehri, Harsusi, Bathari, Shehri, and Hobyot. Soqotri is also spoken by minority populations in the United Arab Emirates and other Persian Gulf states.

The majority of male residents on Socotra are reported to be in the J* subclade of Y-DNA haplogroup J. Several of the female lineages on the island, notably those in mtDNA haplogroup N, are found nowhere else on earth.

https://www.sciencephoto.com/image/320754/530wm/P9800051-Socotran_children-SPL.jpg
[img]http://www.socotra.info/assets/galleries/338/drums_20.JPG[/img]
https://www.sciencephoto.com/image/320753/530wm/P9800050-Socotran_children-SPL.jpg
https://www.stacey-international.co.uk/v1/images/bookinpage/rashid.jpg
https://photography.peterfranc.com/files/gimgs/7_socotra-1---portrait-of-a-boy.jpg
https://pcdn.500px.net/6875993/b46b56fa050e0ec31ccf7ebf7e1c4fd05e503178/4.jpg

[img]http://www.wayfaring.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/socotra_island2.jpg[/img]
https://www.geographic.org/photos/yemen/dracaena_cinnabari_dragon_tree_socotra_yemen_photo_wiki.jpg
https://www.carolinemitic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/socotra-adasi.jpg
https://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/45024316.jpg
https://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/jul/08/1/coast_at_qal_nsiyah_socotra_archipelago_yemen_IUCN_david_sheppard-6680.jpg i can see one reason why they would want it, it's beautiful

Socotra, also spelled Soqotra, is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The largest island, also called Socotra, is about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. It lies some 240 kilometres (150 mi) east of the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometres (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula. The island is very isolated and through the process of speciation, a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as the most alien-looking place on Earth. The island measures 132 kilometres (82 mi) in length and 49.7 kilometres (30.9 mi) in width.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Topographic_map_of_Socotra-en.svg[/img]
[img]http://www.globalresearch.ca/articlePictures/yemenmap.jpg[/img] it very close to Somalia the Somali gov wants the islands because it is so close

CV
https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6226/6337370517_0ab34ddf31_b.jpg the dark kid looks horner or N. Sudanese

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Young man, what are you doing with little girls' pictures? [/quote]it will be weird if i post boys

Senegal
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2130/2153946369_fe50defe61_b.jpg

Somalia
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2771/4386556801_1a58df79aa_b.jpg

that's the city where they kill each other a lot right?

age range?

CV
https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6221/6337318229_e68f0d9d95_b.jpg
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4079/5433995616_d20fd470f4_b.jpg

Ethiopia
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryantighe/4954772679/]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4152/4954772679_e274615c05_b.jpg

Madagascar
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2579/5800378505_7fe84550ec_z.jpg
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2546/3743498399_5e14257bc6_b.jpg

Mozambique
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/48/171708914_aacaef3cdf.jpg

Kuduro is funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CkXhtw7UNk

MsDarkSkin: Lol...for real i want to see some real african dancing.

Ethiopia is African here is COLOMBIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk4fNSFefWE&feature=related

onila: ethiopian dancing and music sucks

at least it is not too westernized like other Africa nations

here is Ethiopia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnHuoxawEPM

a common dance in the north

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3nCJDdOq4I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4_nvFlbhA

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Abeg, stop giving it to shakira. She has nothing, but her hips, to shake lol[/quote]she is half Arab her name in a dead give away "Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9U_lWmAsYM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOxVjbGvUpI

[quote author=Area_boy]First of all, Language evolves. And if you think anyone can keep a particular language for a long time then u're making a mistake. To make a child learn his language seems pointless when he is born and raised in a different culture. Taking them home doesn't make much sense either because they are only linked to their heritage by birth and nothing else. An American born/raised African is in fact an American and not African

Take an African child born and raised in a western country and compare to one raised in Africa. It will be quite obvious they will be very different individuals culture-wise. One system isnt clearly better than the other by mere inspection. What works in a certain society should stay there

Preservation of culture is an illusion. Culture has always evolved and will continue to do so, our ability to adapt and make the most of it is what differentiate success from epic fail[/quote]i bet by 2050 Africans will mostly be speaking Indo-European languages as there first because Africans think there languages have "inferiority" European languages which is sad even south Africa is have that problem

UNDER the 1996 constitution, all 11 of South Africa's official languages “must enjoy parity of esteem and be treated equitably”. In practice English, the mother tongue of just 8% of the people, increasingly dominates all the others. Its hegemony may even threaten the long-term survival of the country's African languages, spoken as the mother tongue of 80% of South Africans, despite the government's repeated promises to promote and protect indigenous languages and culture.

Under apartheid, there were just two official languages, English and Afrikaans, a variant of Dutch with a dash of French, German, Khoisan (spoken by so-called Bushmen and Hottentots), Malay and Portuguese. Pre-colonial African languages were relegated to the black townships and tribal “homelands”. Even there, English was often chosen as the medium of education in preference to the inhabitants' mother tongues. Black South Africans increasingly rejected Afrikaans as the language of the main oppressor; English was a symbol of advancement and prestige.

Today, 16 years after the advent of black-majority rule, English reigns supreme. Not only is it the medium of business, finance, science and the internet, but also of government, education, broadcasting, the press, advertising, street signs, consumer products and the music industry. For such things Afrikaans is also occasionally used, especially in the Western Cape province, but almost never an African tongue. The country's Zulu-speaking president, Jacob Zuma, makes all his speeches in English. Parliamentary debates are in English. Even the instructions on bottles of prescription drugs come only in English or Afrikaans.

Yet most black South Africans are not proficient in English. This is because most of their teachers give lessons in a language that is not their own. To give non-English-speaking children a leg-up, the government agreed last year that all pupils should be taught in their mother tongue for at least the first three years of primary school. But outside the rural areas, where one indigenous language prevails, this is neither financially nor logistically feasible.

Some people suggest reducing the number of official languages to a more manageable three: English, Afrikaans and Zulu, the mother tongue of nearly a quarter of South Africans. But non-Zulus would object. Unless brought up on a farm, few whites speak an African language. For the school-leaving exam, proficiency in at least two languages is required. But most native English-speakers opt for Afrikaans, said to be easy to learn, rather than a useful but harder African tongue. At universities African-language departments are closing.

Some effort is being made to protect African languages from this apparently inexorable decline. The Sunday Times, South Africa's biggest-selling weekend paper, recently launched a Zulu edition. In September the Oxford University Press brought out the first isiZulu-English dictionary in more than 40 years.

Many of the black elite, who send their children to English-speaking private schools or former white state schools, may accept English emerging as the sole national language. Many talk English to their children at home. Fluency in the language of Shakespeare is regarded as a sign of modernity, sophistication and power.

Will South Africa's black languages suffer the fate of the six languages brought by the country's first Indian settlers 150 years ago? Maybe so, thinks Rajend Mesthrie at the University of Cape Town. For the first 100-odd years, he says, South Africa's Indians taught and spoke to their children in their native tongues. But English is now increasingly seen as “the best way forward”. Today most young Indians speak only English or are bilingual in English and Afrikaans, though they may continue to chat at home in a kind of pidgin English larded with Indian and Zulu.