You guys need to stop hating, she's beautifully reppin' Imo state, and the rest of Naija. I will say that it was close between her and miss lagos, but she def. beats lagos beauty wise, as for questioning, I'm not so sure.

Now about it being set up/rigged, wow you guys are ridiculous, just admitt, Igbo girls as well as other SE Nigerian girls (Cross River/Delta/Akwa Ibom) are the best looking girls period. There are execptions, like Ms Bashorun repin yoruba last yr or the yr before, but usually these type of girls don't make it. It's soley SS/SE naija. That's why they rep. In state where they're usually not the majority (like northern, and some Yoruba states), and that's why they win the competion for Nigeria, go on to rep us in the world, and of which Agbani Darego lead us to win in 2001, Munachi may possibly do this yr.

Uuum, I would say that Jamaican women are more like Ghanaian women then they are like Nigerian women (physically as well- generally darker complexion, fuller lips, body shape/strength/muscle etc.) . And if you look it up you will see that a lot of slaves that went to Jamaica came from Ghana. A Jamaican girl friend of mine has Ashanti ancestry, oh and you could so tell by the size of her lips, lol!

But anyway, I don't really have too many words of advice, because even though I'm Nigerian, I don't usually date Nigerian men esp. Igbo men chai!! (their egos and chauvanistic attitudes I find highly unattractive). I'm currently dating a Ghanaian who values me and treats me as his Igbo queen. And although there are minor cultural differences and occasional hateration from Ghanaian girls, it's still all good, lol!

So don't be too worried about that, and i would say that you shouldn't go off generalizations, just cuz i had one too many bad experiences w/ Nigerian men, doesn't mean that the two of you won't turn out perfect. I mean after all, the two cultures aren't THAT far off, and we're all black ppl.

Good luck.

Wow you guys don't you know?, Well let me be the informer once again.

Not to burst anyone's bubble but I'm pretty confident when I say that the best looking Naija girls come from the south-south, southeast. Why? Once again we will refer to the Ms. World/Universe pagentry. Most girls repin' the country Naija and also the many districts and states in Naija, originally come from these SS/SE areas, they're usually igbo, ibibio, Efik, etc. Yoruba girls usually don't make. If you don't believe me here's a link, take a look at who is reppin' us for 2007:

http://bellanaija..com/2007/03/mbgn-2007.html

Munachi Nwankwo, once again, she's from the Southeast, she's igbo.

The reason why these girls that are supposedly from Northern states (Niger, ect) but have these Southeastern/ Igbo sounding names is because they actually are. They are the ones who actually win the competions (beating out their northern competitors) and go on to represent these districts, even though they are not from these states originally.

WTF!? Genevieve is definitely better, in all aspects!

mammaput wrote:

"That was just the answer to the first poster.
Read the first post again.
the poster says my parents are Nigerians From Imo state.
It annoys me  any time i hear things like that."

I'm so confused. I have a few questions for u tho'.

What is a landa pu? Is that somewhere in Germany?

And why does it bother u the way I rep where I'm from? What's wrong with stating that I have cultural heritage that spans back to Aruondizogu Nigeria, is because I know precisely where my lineage is from?   Yes, I'm American ( 1st born gen.) but I know where my people are from, so why am I not entitled to claim it?

Nonetheless, glad u could join and contribute ur input. LOL!  

Nawowoo! U all are contributing so much information, infact I don't even know where to begin to respond.

Okay let's see,

about the influence of West Africans Nigerians on the Americas: I've always learned it that, that the Igbo culture is a more  prevalent influence in parts of North America, ie Georgia, South Carolina, Virgina. And the Yoruba, are more predominant in parts of South American and the Caribbean ie (Brazil, etc.).  So I assume that the dominance of these cultures in these regions are respective to the different ethinc population of slaves. For example, there were more Yoruba slaves in Brazil, that's why their culture is prevalent.  There were more Igbo slaves in North America Georgia, and that's why there are more cultural influences and such.

chinani wrote:
It's all genetics folks. I think "we look like our people". But Igbo people prolly carry an equal number of "dark" & "light" genes. Maybe our "light" genes are stronger than White folk?

I have several set of cousins with blue/hazel eyes and white/light skin. They're not albino though. However, all their family members aren't light. Generally their dads look like this and their moms are just medium brown - darker after farming  - and varying shades of brown eyes. THis is what I mean about "light" genes winning out when the "dark" ones are dominant.


I'm begining to believe this is so. I my greatgrandmother is fairly light, almost albino looking, and I grand father on my mother side has hazel/green eyes, but reddish chocolate brown skin. Now @ first I was starting to believe that the whole blue/hazel eyes, white/light skin thing was some result to admixture because they are predominant traits of whites, but now looking into how many albinos we have, I'm begining to think this is just our natural genetic variation. In fact the theory about the albinos being shunned/exiled and therefore procreating more just like them could be an explantion to this phenomenon.

Well that's it for now.  I'm learning so much from u all's insight, but for now I must go, to work that is.    Odabu!

Yeah, chinani your right. There are a lot of Albino Igbos. I have 3 aunts with this condition, but none of them had kids so I only imagine what they'd look like.

Albino strain in Igbo gene pool? That's scary interesting! 

@ Hero, Glad u could join. I've actually read some of your previous post on this topic (Igbos/African-Americans) and I really enjoy your insight. 

@ chinani, Nne, my grandparents are from the village Aruondizogu, Imo State, but my parents settled in Owerri for a while, before they arrived @ the States and had me and my other siblings.  ABIA! Ogini!? Ogini!? Eeeehh!  Igbo kwenu!, Kwezuonu!!! 

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USnaijagrl  Pronunciation Key (u-s-na-ee-ja-gûrl)

Definition:
         
    1. ME! (as in only me, lol!)   
           
    2. the best Aruondizogu-Imo State-SE-Niger Delta-Igbo-Nigerian-American-Michigan girl u've eva met.   

[American/Nigerian slang  usnaijagrl, usnaijachic, USnaijagirl]

Oh, and by the way, does anyone know how to delete a post that u've create? It has been brought to my attention that while creating this forum topic, I posted 2x. 

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USnaijagrl  Pronunciation Key (u-s-na-ee-ja-gûrl)

Definition:
         
    1. ME! (as in only me, lol!)     
           
    2. the best Aruondizogu-Imo State-SE-Niger Delta-Igbo-Nigerian-American-Michigan girl u've eva met.   

[American/Nigerian slang  usnaijagrl, usnaijachic, USnaijagirl]

@Hotstepper, u feel me!?

Thanx guurrl! U defintely know where I'm comin' from.

More feedback is appreciated.

Okay, food4tot, interesting insight.  Yeah, I have also read that it's definetly a lot more common the other way around (with it being that many Europeans having Igbo/African ancestory and descent due to the disperse of human civilization from Africa.)

Yes, and interestingly enough, I also read somewhere about that part where u mention Africa  being "the white man's grave" lol! so totally true. It was new territory, new lands to the white man and he could barely survive the climate, causing him disease and such. Africa definitely had an upper hand.  If only the Native Americans had such an advantage, but unfortunately the white man brought disease to them causing their race to basically go extinct.  

"I know all this from studying haplogroups of humans (just something I did out of interest, I'm not a biologist in anyway)."

Yeah I'm no scientist either, but this stuff is interesting wouldn't u say?

"There is a chance that you have european blood in you from the interaction with europeans but the fact is that their numbers were so few that they couldn't have made an impact on your ethnicity. How can 200 europeans change the DNA structure of 15 million people about 300 years ago?"

Definitely! An ethnicity that I'm very proud of, and don't for one think that I'm going to let, the doings of some mesely white men, hinder my Nigerian pride, we are very strong as a people in that despite the Europeans we have, for the most part, retained our culture.  I totally agree food4tot, but as trival as it may be I'm just trying to generate some insights as to why people think the Igbos are so light, and why this light-skinned/mixed blood stereotype even exists.

Anyway,  Thanx for the feedback. If u have anymore insight, please feel free to share.  
U all keep the feedback coming.

After reviewing posts in this forum and especially a lot of the comments and responses on the topic titled: Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba girls (Beauty):

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-3391.0.html
 
It opened my eyes to the different ethnic looks (features etc, depending on region of Nigeria) Nigerians have.  I must admit, this was something I didn’t take notice of until I came across this forum especially the topic mentioned above.  But after coming across this evidence, I've been doing more research on Nigeria’s different ethnic looks, Fulanis, Hausas, Igbos, Yorubas; and what makes us differ physically, from complexion to features, to body shape. 

What has intrigued me most is the Igbo people of South Eastern Nigeria. Being a Nigerian-American I've actually been to Nigeria twice in my lifetime. I’ve noticed that a vast majority of Igbos are light-skinned. I also noticed that Igbos are the most likely (out of all the other ethnic groups in Nigeria- Hausa, Yoruba etc.) to resemble African-Americans. I know that Fulanis are also know for being uniformly light as well, but I am more concerned with the Igbos, being one myself.

Most of their complexions that I've seen while in Imo state, the heart of Igboland where my parents are from, range from reddish chocolate to very high yellow. So when compared to our Yoruba and Hausa counterparts  (who are generally more uniformly darker in complexion) it makes me wonder why we as a people are so light. My great grandmother is very light skinned, lighter than Alicia Keys in complexion, and here in America people don't know I'm Nigerian just by glance. I've had people actually say 'I didn't know u were African until you pronounced your last name, u don't look African'.

I've read that the Igbos and other minority ethnic groups of SS/SE Nigeria (ie. Calabar, Rivers) where some of the first Nigerians to come into contact with white explorers/colonizers. In the forum topic I listed above and others as well, I notice a lot of jokes and comments being made about the light skinned trait of the Igbos suggesting that it is due to admixture, mixed blood maybe from the Portuguese and British. I found an article that spoke of Igbo women during the Early Modern Atlantic Time Period as being beautiful and highly desired by the white slavers/explorers/colonizers:

"Ironically, however, Igbo women had a surprisingly ‘good’ reputation. They were generally thought to be hard workers, industrious and diligent. And most significantly, Igbo women were the only Atlantic Africans whom white men generally saw as beautiful. In 1788 a major Bristol merchant trading to the West Indies wrote that, unlike females from the Gold Coast, “Eboe Women (from Bonny & New Calabar) are very fine and may be had.” As Captain Hugh Crow, who traded extensively at Bonny from 1791 to 1808 wrote of enslaved Igbo at the coast, “many of their women are of remarkably symmetrical shape, and if white, would in Europe be deemed beautiful.” A generation later (ca.1830), the Lander brothers, having come down the Niger from the north via Nupe, noted (and presumably in contrast to other Africans) that in riverain Igboland “the women are generally pretty.” A late-antebellum American (USA) evocation of this trope of the ‘very fine’ Igbo woman, a fictional “beautiful Eboe mulattress,” exists even in the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Within this white male gaze, this burden of beauty, enslaved Igbo women and their immediate descendants resisted slavery in distinctive ways. As with Igbo in general one could enslave the bodies of Biafran women, but not their minds. And in the Black Atlantic, it seems that enslaved Igbo women used their own bodies at times as sites of resistance. This paper will explore a central ‘burden’ of Igbo female beauty; strategic reproduction."

Here's the hyperlink to the preceding excerpt:

http://users.rowan.edu/~korieh/Abstracts.html

So, I mean what do you all think? Could admixture be a possibility, as with the African-Americans? Could this be why Igbos and African-Americans highly resemble one another? The reason I ask is because I’m tired of the numerous jokes, stereotypes, and derogatory statements made about the light skinned tendency of the Igbos, and would like to shed some light on the truths of this topic. Why are Igbos generally fair/light in complexion? Personally I think God created Nigerians to naturally vary in complexion, and hope that the light skinned tendency of Igbos is not due to admixture.

Please feel free to share your insights and knowledge on this issue. I hope I do not come off as ignorant, but I am very curious, confused, and in need of enlightenment.   
Honest feedback is appreciated.

Thanx! I appreciate the welcome.

Hello Everyone!

Nigeria, KWENU!

Igbo, KWENU!, KWEZUONU!!

I've been a silent member for a while now, and during this time I have been reading a lot of the post on this forum.  Many of the topics and posts on this forum has opened my eyes to Nigeria's great diversity, and its various ethnic groups. I've learned so much through this experience, things I wouldn't generally learn or hear from my parents; through comments, opinions, and even stereotypes generated on this forum, that it so urged me to become an active member.  It has thus inspired me to further my research on Nigeria's ethnic diversity, which I plan to delve into in my next post. 

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2 entries found for USnaijagrl

USnaijagrl  Pronunciation Key (u-s-na-ee-ja-gûrl)

Definition:
         
      1. ME! (as in only me, lol!) 
           
      2. the best Aruondizogu-Imo State-SE-Niger Delta-Igbo-Nigerian-American-Michigan gurl u've eva met

[American/Nigerian slang  usnaijagrl, usnaijachic, USnaijagirl]