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so beautiful

Lagos:

http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/NIXX0012.html

not sure if this answers your question.

I wish I were in Los Angeles- I'd love to be there.

is it by force to start a thread?

Horus:
https://www.gigwise.com/gallery/5707199_1-Jackson5_1__1___1.jpg

is that Jermaine or Randy with the hat?

MJ looks cool as usual.

good question.

Liedetect:
Outstrip, is your husband by any chance white? I noticed that black women with white partners tend to elevate t

Perhaps it is the chemical in such food - Kentucky fried chicken, fried chips, McDonalds – BIG MAC etc) that also causes them to look and behaviour unpleasantly, has such ill mannerism, and speaks the way they do.

according to you, they look and behave unpleasantly, have ill mannerism and speak funny?

Ndipe:
I dont know which part of Nigeria you hail from, but as an Akwa Ibomite, I can tell you with utmost confidence that such a child will not be ridiculed, but will be upheld as the dream child every parent would yearn for, especially if they are verbose in English language, and totally refrain from anything relatable to the indigenous culture.

that's interesting.

I'm from western Nigeria.

Liedetect

how many Indian west Indians do you know who traditionally speak Hindi?

There's no hard and fast rule for this stuff- it all depends on how close you are to your culture and if its advantageous for your kids to learn the language.

So no need to get upset over everything. No one is saying its bad if kids speak their language and know their culture.



People are looking at[b] present day[/b] America and Europe and ignoring other factors.

[quote author=Tudór link=topic=290567.msg4129207#msg4129207 date=1246629001]So you believe some people are out there who wanna wipe out populations,[/quote]does Hitler come to mind or am I alone in this world?

If you want Oprah to like you, then you should like yourselves first.

If you want Oprah to care for you, then care for yourselves first.

@ topic

hehehe. Found this somewhere.



    https://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7867/anigeria.jpg

this is the earliest or only known description of the "Biafars" in an ancient manuscript.



http://images.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/EFacs/Alvares01/reference/africafocus.alvares01.i0019.pdf





Note: the Biafars being referred to, werent located anywhere near Nigeria as we know it today, but somewhere between the Cameroon hinterland and the rest of central Africa.

Unless there was a large scale migration which nobody heard of, they arent the same as Biafrans.





author:

Alvares, Manuel, 1526-1583, et al. / Ethiopia Minor and a geographical account of the Province of Sierra Leone : (c. 1615)
(1990)


http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AfricaFocus/AfricaFocus-idx?id=AfricaFocus.Alvares01

and una go dey abuse Lugard!!!! Must emotion always cloud simple enquiries!


Biafra is derived from the name of an ancient kingdom in the Cameroon/central African area. It's listed on 16th and 17th century European maps as Biafar or Biafara.  Nothing is known about that kingdom however and nobody knows anything about the people or what happened to them.

How the name came to be applied to the bight of Biafra is anyone's guess.

Ojukwu made reference to this kingdom in one of his declarations- maybe the Aburi one.

[quote author=Ezeágu link=topic=291409.msg4126776#msg4126776 date=1246581070]Please, did you see me begging Oprah? A West African was praising her as some kind of world ambassador, I'm just telling a West African that she doesn't car too much for you so in turn you shouldn't big her up, where did I say she should use her money this way or that way?[/quote][quote author=Ezeágu link=topic=291409.msg4126697#msg4126697 date=1246579726]She did a DNA test and was claiming zulu, the Zulu king denied her and her DNA blatantly pointed her ancestry to Guinea Bissau, West Africa. She didn't even visit this country, yet she could build a million dollar school in south Africa. What has she done for her black Americans (who she should have been helping first before traveling thousands of miles to a country that she has no link with)?[/quote]is south Africa not in Africa again? Who told you she has no links there?

and if Nigerians can migrate to south Africa then why cant Oprah? I doubt south Africans consider west Africans more "family" than AAs. Most of them could care less- foreigner is foreigner.

besides, AA missionaries have been active in central Africa long before Nigeria was formed.


http://www.howard.edu/library/Reference/bob_edgar_site/maintext.html



[img]http://www.howard.edu/library/Reference/bob_edgar_site/art/img_herbertpayne_2.jpg[/img]

Herbert Payne, (an AA Baptist missionary, was stationed at Middledrift in the eastern Cape from 1917 to 1922.




[img]http://www.howard.edu/library/Reference/bob_edgar_site/art/img_yankeewood_2.jpg[/img]

Yankee Wood, a former ship steward, settled in South Africa after the American Civil War. He participated in the gold rush on the Witwatersrand in the 1880s and owned hotels in Johannesburg and Kokstad.

Ndipe:
I highly doubt a child's inability to speak their native dialect in Nigeria will be scorned. Rather, they will be embraced and held to high standards for not being 'local' but being an ajebutta.

I meant they'll still be ridiculed even if they speak their parents language.

Because their attitude and behavior will be different.


This happens until they learn how to blend in, and can still continue afterwards.


maybe some parts of Nigeria dont have this problem sha.

[quote author=Ezeágu link=topic=291409.msg4126697#msg4126697 date=1246579726]She did a DNA test and was claiming zulu, the Zulu king denied her and her DNA blatantly pointed her ancestry to Guinea Bissau, West Africa. She didn't even visit this country, yet she could build a million dollar school in south Africa. What has she done for her black Americans (who she should have been helping first before traveling thousands of miles to a country that she has no link with)?[/quote]once again, what's with the hullabaloo? Its her money and she can build a school in Madagascar if she so desires.

Since when did she become the savior of west Africa and how many of them even watch her program?

and since when did DNA become the determining factor for who you are? Is she looking for her baby daddy?

I dont see any reason why she cant claim Zulu if she wants to. Even oyibo can claim any African tribe they like if they feel so inclined.

Litmus:
Nigerians tend to regard Nigerian kids from abroad as foolish looking and behaving. They, back home, have all sorts of names for them, ranging from Junky, Deported to Ajebutter. 

how do you think the name calling makes such kids feel?

obadairo:
I hold the believe that every child that belong to a family irrespective of tribe will understand  his/her local language-mother tongue in as mush that people in the community speak it. For, parent i believe English language should be used at home to train up the child and in later life when the child grow s up to maturity automatically he/she will understand the native language. more so English language gives a child courage an hedge among contemporaries.

true talk especially @ bolded.

Most kids who speak English in the home, are still able to understand their mother tongue as long as they interact with people who speak it around them.

I've noticed kids in particular will understand the parent's language to some extent even if they cant speak it. There are so many Nigerians born and raised abroad who dont speak their parents' language but can understand when it's spoken.

And when you go to Nigeria, you learn the language by hook or by crook.

If the parents are worried about their children being ridiculed by other Naijas if they dont speak the language, the kids will still be ridiculed anyway, for being foreign and having foreign mannerisms. Its something they just have to learn to deal with.

[quote author=Ezeágu link=topic=291409.msg4126636#msg4126636 date=1246578650]Uh, she is a west African whether she likes it or not, so self hate doesn't include you in the list of 'greats'.[/quote]@ bolded

and you know this how?

is it by force to be a west African?

Was she born in west Africa or how did you arrive at your conclusion?

Instead of jumping on top of her[b] because she's rich and powerful[/b], why not go and claim other "west Africans" in the projects who also dont know they're "west African".

NURTW (Nigerian Union of Road transport workers)

that's the word I was looking for.

I knew they have another name.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=291597.msg4126475#msg4126475 date=1246575653]that's bamowolo's joke lol
the english isn't translated o just bad quality video with audio faster than normal lol

basically they called the local govt chairman in to answer some questions (in those papers) but they spent the whole time name calling and arguing about titles, sitting rights etc he was a former honorable house member and wanted them to call him by his title and give him a seat due to his "medical condition"[/quote]oh, I guess I missed the whole point of the session then.

I couldnt follow anything because of the fast/slow audio that didnt match the actual speech.

thanks for explaining.

Here I was assuming they were from the Motor park association.

micheal is a mispelling of the name Michael. It took me a while to learn this too.


Micha'el

El means God.

what's with all the comparisons?


Was their music the same genre?

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=291597.msg4126443#msg4126443 date=1246575155]lol. it didn't match probably after the upload to youtube. u will notice if u watch it again that the audio is a couple of seconds faster than the video.[/quote]were they speaking Yoruba or English?

'cos I felt they were speaking Yoruba which someone then translated via audio.

I thought someone said they're from the Motor Park Association?

Not sure they represent any constituency though I could be wrong.

they were speaking Yoruba and someone "translated" it for the video.

The mouth movements dont match the words.

in part one why didnt they let people hear exactly what the persons involved were saying because the whole thing sounds like a Nollywood video.

same goes for part two.

i cant make head or tail of what's going on.

Was the woman supposed to stay in the bus until the flood abated in some days' time, or should someone have sent a helicopter to pick her up?

Egin, e no dey flood for your side?


All the people shouting- una never see flood before, right? Na only for Lagos flooding dey. If they say make una return to una village na so so crying them go take block highway.

hiss.

Johnny Depp said he never watches his own movies. His kids do and give him feedback on his appearance.