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dnative: go back and do more research and come and back and tell us how barack means mubarak.

surely i dont need to spell it out to you?

barack has its origins in the semitic form baruch or mubarak.

you can say its an africanized version but you need to pull up more evidence if you say it has an african root.


in yoruba, its alubarika, but everyone knows it still has an arab root?

not sure why nlers [or is it people] are always asking if they can date outside their compatibility zone.

what's wrong with sticking to what you're used to when dating?

tintingz: Op go and ask bankole willington a.k.a banky w why him papa still dey bear wilington Or ask bukky wright

they both seem to be mixed though.

You may be right but there are no conclusive evidence that they are Yoruba/Nigerian either. They were returnee ex slaves via Sierra- Leone to NIgeria as missionaries. Most returnee ex slave immigrants tried a little too hard to ingratiate themselves with the "Locals" by making spurious claims about their identities/origins

most of them knew their origins [eg herbert macauley], but they could not settle there because the home environments were not conducive to their return. So they settled majorly in lagos.

as per the english names, some of them were mixed while others just preferred a break from the old ones, which were affiliated with various deities.

justaqad: the name Barack is african,Obama is Afrcan American.
Husein aint his first name

barack is a muslim name [mubarak] while obama should be african.

I actually like the ethnic version of arab names, maybe because i'm in diaspora, not sure.



And come to think of it, even hausas do have similar formats on occasion, like ahmadu for ahmad.

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bukatyne: The OP never said Arabic names are bad; He said they should be middle names and not first names.

Tribe is very important to the arab identity, i doubt arabs themselves would have a problem with it. Its usually immigrants or new converts who would switch to exclusively arabic names in that manner at the expense of tribe. Could be wrong but thats what i think.

Hausas typically have exclusively arab names but thats because they are mixed with arab and are considered araboid.


Sometimes we should avoid thinking we know better than our forefathers- could be true in some areas, but not all.

This is a very interesting topic.

To the best of my knowledge, yoruba muslim names typically are an ethnic version of the arab form.

Eg adding a vowel at the end of the name.

So you'd have muina/ muinatu for muinat, abdulahi for ab'dulah, rashidi for rasheed, etc etc.

However, it seems such names might have been considered "uncool" and possibly seen as used by "poor" or uneducated people, hence the shift towards the "less vernacular" type with a stricter arab spelling, commonly used by hausas.

Only two dark skinned people there.

Is nigeria now a 95% lightskin country i wonder.

algeria


https://www.doppelmayr.com/uploads/pics/15-MGD_Constantine_003_01.jpg

in japan circa 1912- 1920

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brazil

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california

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portland oregon


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texas


https://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/wyler-aerial-tramway/gallery/p-Wyler-Tram-_959.61_1.jpg

new york

https://www.aviewoncities.com/img/nyc/kveus5544s.jpg

singapore


https://www.concierge.com/images/destinations/destinationguide/asia/singapore/singapore_016p.jpg

france


https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2012/10/30/1351601905877/Grenoble-cable-car-008.jpg

germany


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london

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00310/108884786_car_310259b.jpg

these are some from china


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https://i1.cqnews.net/english/attachement/jpg/site82/20110829/002215b59e8a0fc5994901.jpg



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purpose, not title.

it would be strange of them not to remember, just as its strange for you not to know.

lekany2k: This boy is a bastard. So ungrateful.

definitely, have to agree.

some people dont realise its a sign of madness when they start displaying public hatred and ill feeling for their mother.

that's usually logicboy's line

not sure what the purpose of the thread is?

try having some of your babies in nigeria.

if you think having US citizenship means a child will have an easy life or some fringe benefits in the USA, think again.

tell lie o, tell truth o, doesnt matter at the end of the day.

why cant he be taken to a hospital?

^your own situation is more interesting than the op's stuff, dont even know what he's saying.

so, why does no one want to tell you your date of birth?

scribble: but the gina thompson babe from PH just dey Jand for less than 2 years, how come her whole phonetics don change to britiko

Naija no dey carry last sha

is she actually nigerian?

havent watched the video yet.

justaqad: if i bear Abubakar the first thing that comes to your mind is,(arab)while i am yoruba.

true.

the yoruba version is supposed to be bakare or something similar.

kcstyle40: it hurts me when i think about it all.... Imagin am the last born of 6 children and yet not even any of them my elder siblings can give me any date... They all have one answer for me " when i remember i will tell u" and dats all i keep hearing from them.

that's quite weird.