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type home training in any search engine and see what comes up.

boku

a lot of something (from a misspelling of the French word beaucup, meaning many)


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boku

sabi 

A term used by young hooligans meaning what is up.



http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sabi

so should we assume these two words are commonly used by americans.

Tyra baks herself has said many times that she's surprised she made it that far in modelling because initially her type wasnt featured there.

Chipmunkey

please stop comparing alek wek to igbo actresses and models.

You're simply inviting people to start attacking them, which in turn will be interpreted as igbo bashing.

Its up to designers who they want to showcase their work- that's not really your business.

If there were no alek wek in the fashion business there'd be no oluchi there either.

Learn to live and let live, and be more tolerant of others. Your idea of beauty doesnt have to match everyone else's.

I have to disagree.

I havent watched the video yet, but home training is most definitely not an american term.

If you see an american using it, then that person must have been hanging around nigerians a lot.

Americans interacting with themselves do not use words like home training and neither would they assume another american would be familiar with the term.

Although his profile stated that he was single with no children, he told me that he had three children living in Lagos with his sister

did not appear to have money for drinks during the date, but instead, drank from a bottle he kept in his bag.

This morning he called to arrange a date for tonight, and I told him that I didn't think we were a good match.  He became very angry with me, and accused me of being "too fussy" and snobbish.

wow is all i can say.

1. what's he doing with a nigerian woman? I thought these types usually preferred non-nigerian females.

2. poster, well its up to you. You can either accept him with all his faults, and hope for the best, or pray for God's guidance.

so thanks to the internet we are all waiting for blow by blow accounts of people's poo.

isnt that fascinating.

As soon as those two become operational,Going to Lagos for me will surely be like going to Ghana.

nothing wrong with that.

decongestion of lagos benefits everybody.

Black americans say someone is acting ignorant, not that they lack home training.

Home training is a term used in nigeria, not america.

Pilgrim's progress.

@ physics

home training is a nigerian term.

Americans say manners, or lack manners. Some could say breeding, which actually is more british or continental.

Which american did you see using the phrase home training?

how can you accuse a man of carrying drugs and then allow the press to run the story nationwide when you have not found anything??

because the intention is simply to embarass him.


i didnt comment at all from the time the story first broke because i knew there was something fishy about the whole matter from the getgo.

^^the thread isnt about esu, but rather is a general one discussing yoruba mythology.

as such, making esu the sole focus will keep others out of the thread, and give a wrong impression.

bye bye.

the truth will only be known after he defecates today or whenever

yes o.

please let's all keep our eyes glued to baba suwe's rear end.

as of one hour ago, we were told the latest crup was just that- crup.

so lets continue waiting there by the toilet because this matter is extremely important and we are all idle.

^^and what I said was your quickness to use the expression [and also to assume the other party gets the meaning], shows you're not what you claim you are.

ok, poster

there are better pictures than the first two you posted.


you didnt make any case at all.

oh, i remember this exotik now.

very senseless fellow.

exotik:
so a man called ajayi crowther -- the returneee slave with an english surname is the yoruba puritan?

ajayi crowther returned to his exact hometown in nigeria.

kindly find your level somewhere because you're threatening to lower the quality of the thread.

start another topic or do a search for "ask any question about yoruba" or "everything you've always wanted to know about yoruba".

also try "how do i cure my hangover" while you're at it.

exotik:
and that is your yoruba opinion.

like i said, you place yourself with that spelling.

and if you're not yoruba then why are you getting a headache over yoruba.

se oo nilu ni?

exotik:
the correct spelling is akpata, except it is not the same word we are talking about.

that's not a yoruba spelling.

its like saying schell is the correct spelling for shell.

The correct spelling is apata.

Adding k before p isnt yoruba and usually people who do that arent yoruba either.

Same way there's no ch or z in the language.

Lets not be whiter than whites plz.

^Be that as it may, there's still no need to start the thread with an eshu image.

Those who want to worship or discuss eshu either as the devil or as something else, can do that on another thread, not a general one like this.

The point remains the op did not need to do the above.

Worshippers of eshu will sooner or later make up their minds if he's the devil or egbesu or not, but in the meantime those of us who are interested in the anthropological aspect of these myths, would like to do so without unnecessary narrowmindness standing in our way.

You're from where your father is from.

^That is not your problem.

The only problem i have is why did the op decide to start the thread by showing a picture of esu.

Lets stop being small minded, thanks.

Andre uweh

i'm not sure what your grouse is here.

Its simply a thread about yoruba mythology. I believe every culture in the world has its own myths and legends so what exactly is annoying you.

I've known about greek, roman and many other european legends since i was small, like every other person. So it is not a big deal to know the indigenous ones as well. The same oyibos who taught us there own did not say they object to us knowing ours. Lets not be whiter than the white man plz. And you can start a thread on igbo mythology if you so desire.


even the arab mythology wasnt left out. Sinbad, tales from the arabian nights, scheherazade, etc.