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^^and you are?

i dont deal with cowards who hide behind various user ids because they know they function with little cognition.

so, scram.

^very fascinating stuff.

ithe book i'm currently reading is prince of the people [the second one on katsumoto's list].

it's very interesting [though sad], and gives some info on yoruba royal practices too.

eg the use of umbrellas by traditional royalty. Used to be restricted back in the day and even now i think some types of umbrella can only be used by royalty.

opele and turtles as well [i'd even forgotten about the turtles or tortoises which are kept as pets by very traditional older people. Not sure what they signify].

their food, however is a bit different in brazil because they cook beans with meat, and in nigeria i dont think we do that. Beans is cooked with either yam or plantain.

op, i'm sure even your keyboard wishes it were elsewhere.

you type bizarrely possibly when under the influence.

there's little phenotypical difference between bamilekes and igbos, for real.

seriously, why dont somalis and AAs get along?

the rancor is almost more than yoruba/igbo own.

^^you must be terribly afraid of 190, if you had to use a fake id to post on the thread.

this mysterious man was in brazil as a free black but his origins remain unknown. It seems he had an agreement with the british to stay away from africa, and he landed in brazil with the other slaves even though he wasnt one. He was an exiled chief.

he was also a black leader and medicine man who worked with a german assistant.


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that brazil has some strange stories.

unfortunately, dom oba II didnt survive the fall of the brazilian monarchy. He was on close terms with the brazilian king at the time, and when the monarchy was abolished and the king sent into exile, he [dom oba] died soon after, having been stripped of his position and priviledges.

very sad story.

you're welcome.

actually i just did another google search and found more information about his father. It seems he fought in one of the yoruba civil wars, was captured and sold into slavery in brazil.



http://books.google.com/books?id=owVmcTlC-oIC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=dom+oba&source=bl&ots=j8LniAQHZT&sig=oF5xt_u3DlWKyGTJouAU0UoVuTU&hl=en&ei=vln9TcD5Hqjn0QHwnOCuAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=dom%20oba&f=false



He bought his freedom with the assistance of the yoruba community there, married, and had children who were raised as free blacks.

his wife [according to the book i'm reading, which is different from this google excerpt] had both a bantu and yoruba name [from the husband], but there's no other info about her origins that i'm aware of.

lagos.

Igbo's don't go purposefully looking for a relationship with any particular tribe unlike yoruba men which is quite suspicious.

interesting pov.

which one is bad telephone habit.

is there good telephone habit?

and btw, its God that saves people's life, not the telephone.

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Alaafin Abiodun (reigned ca. 1770–1789)

Abiodun was an 18th-century alaafin, or ruler, of the Oyo people in what is now Nigeria. Coming to the throne shortly after the Oyo subjugation of neighboring Dahomey, Abiodun soon found himself embroiled in a civil war over the goals of the newly wealthy state.

Bashorun Gaha, the empire's prime minister and lord marshal, had used his power to pervert the constitutional terms of abdication in a bid to limit the powers of the Alaafin and gain more political power for himself. During Gaha's power play, he had succeeded in removing three kings before Abiodun curtailed his excesses and had him burned alive.

In terms of trade, while Abiodun favored economic expansion for its own sake, his opponents favored using the wealth from Dahomey's tribute to finance further military expansion. Abiodun soon proved victorious and pursued a policy of peaceful trade with the European merchants of the coast. This course significantly weakened the army, leaving his successor, Awole, facing a number of local revolts.

Abiodun's reign is generally remembered as a time of peace and prosperity for the Oyo, though Nigerian playwright Femi Òsófisan portrays him as a despot in his play The Chattering and the Song (1973).

His grandson Cândido da Fonseca Galvão, under the title of Dom Oba II, was an important South American abolitionist during Pedro II of Brazil's rule.

currently reading dom oba's biography and it's quite interesting.

but there's no info on how his father [allegedly abiodun's son] got to brazil, where he later became a free black.

were some of abiodun's descendants also enslaved and shipped to brazil? or did they go there as free blacks [not likely].


who was his mother?

what exactly is the wow factor here.

is the the nigerian man getting someone pregnant [is that news], or the celebrity status of the people involved.

@ thread title.

seguno2:
it is pointless comparing Lagos flooding with other Naija cities.
Why?
Tinubu and Fashola have held themselves out to be the best governors under their ACN banner for the past 12 years. Hence they must be held to their self-proclaimed "best" standard.
And they have borrowed billions of US$ on top of increased tax revenue from hard working Lagosians and the humonguous federal allocation received monthly. Where has all the money gone 
The flooding in the US are usually from hurricanes, tropical storm and other freak weather conditions not the standard heavy rains that cause flooding every year in Lagos.
Let's not compare apple with oranges even they are both fruits.

can you explain the difference between hurricanes, tropical storms, and the standard heavy rains in lagos?

so its a freak weather condition when it happens annually overseas, right?

why cant those guys drinking beer get a canoe or kayak i wonder.

harakiri:
@tpia. . . Madam, when will you grow up? A zim girl is here running down Nigerians (male and female) and your "contribution" is to assist her. How many Nigerians go to foreign forums to talk about the ills of their country? I doubt if you can go as low as that. It's not right. This girl probably got to the UK wearing filthy rags,starving,dried up like a skeleton,diseased,claiming refuge status and now, she has the cojones to look down on her betters. Phuck dat! It's wrong.

the lady clearly needs some assistance with sex, and as a nigerian man, isnt it your duty to help him or her out?

i dont get your point.

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@ zim angel

^You seem to be shopping for a nigerian sex  partner here.

Why not just get straight to the point instead of all this beating around the bush.

There are plenty of nigerian male nlers who can help with your itchy thing. In sexuality section especially some are available 24/7 just to help out h.orny females.
Stop pretending this is about anything besides your womanliness.

Btw are you female and/or in the flesh trade?

Just curious.

By classicalism i assume you mean classism or classist.

Nigerian criminals and touts need love too.

Dayokanu and the other one


i wish you had grey hair like fashola.

For goodness sake jonathan did not "turn igbo" until he found it expedient to do so because of politics.

One only has to assume igbo isnt necessarily an exclusive identity but one which is very fluid and can be generic- ie applied to various different entities over different periods of time.

The op is an extremely s.tupid fellow.

Nuff said.

Why are women always marketing themselves to nigerian men and vice versa.

Are you also in the breeding business @ above poster.

No sure what i'm not getting about this matter.

"we have the best butt, the lightest or brownest brown skin, the best this the bst that".

Are you cattle?

If the mother was working full time trying to run a restaurant, was the girl helping out or was she sitting at home waiting to be served.

^^oh, ok.

will check out the last part of your post.

yorubas actually resisted the dan fodio armies, and he didnt get further than kwara.

nigerian men do not have two pr!cks.

like i always say, the men in these various countries where nigerians are taking your women, should step up your game and provide whatever qualities these women think they're finding in nigerian men.