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9jacrip:
For books like that I'll suggest you try Unilag Bookstore if they have one.

Why not buy a kindle edition on Amazon? That way you can read on any of your devices except you like paperback for your library.

Ah, UNILAG. I'll look there. Thank you!

I don't enjoy reading book-length stuff on my device. Usually when I start reading an interesting book on a device, I just stop after a few chapters and begin to look for where I can get a hard copy. I think it's something about screens, I don't like looking at them for too long. Plus I like the feel of paper.

9jacrip:
They started using it during colonial times, in recent times.

Originally, they'd scrape their hair but leave a small part of the left side of their head like a ball where a black soap pounded in herbs and animal blood is then placed on the round tuft of hair with the red feather stuck in it.

They still do their hair that way but they cover their heads during cerenonies such as this.

I think that hat with gin to Ooni's palace chiefs & Ifa chiefs during Olubuse 1's period.

Super cool!

Hey, you know your way around Lagos, right? And you sound like an academic or someone with a history background, so you're probably the right person to ask this. Do know you any good bookstore in Lagos where one can get good Nigerian history books - Stephen Akitoye's "History of the Yoruba People", for example?

9jacrip:
Part of the Babalawo Olodu meridinlogun (16 Babalawos with Odus) at the Osaara festival.

This is interesting. Ile-Ife was the last place I expected to find this type of hats! If these pictures had randomly popped up somewhere else I would have thought they came from the Niger Delta!

In America they've done studies that showed that the religious, conservative southern states (a.k.a the 'Bible Belt') view p0rn more than the rest of the country. I'm thinking it has a teeny-tiny bit to do with religious conservatism. Urges suppressed find new ways to burst forth.

newbornmacho:
All this demon worship just to attract tourism Its uncalled for.

Put a stopper on your leaky face!

macof:
beautiful! I like to see African Americans show some more AFRICAN

Yea! Some years ago, there were talks that Will Smith was going to play Taharqa, the Nubian King who ruled Egypt and was mentioned in Israelite history. It appears they've shelved that idea, because I haven't heard a word about it recently.

Hardly surprising.

This Owu that Oyo was formerly subject to, is it the same Owu as the one that was destroyed in the 19th century, and whose remnant is now part and parcel of Abeokuta? I was reading a book recently and the writers say that it is a different Owu.

Also can someone furnish me with a list of the Olowus that reigned before Owu City was destroyed. It doesn't have to be a complete list.

It's a boat cruise. Couldn't he have won something... I dunno...casual?

Rossikki:
Yes it is. We know you feel inferior, but whites can see the nation changing before their eyes, and are very disturbed, as their unearned privileges are slowly stripped away, and a more level playing field emerges.

*tired sigh* Everything is about feeling inferior with you guys.

The lot of blacks have improved since the end of Jim Crow and will most likely continue to improve. But to say that they are 'outsmarting' whites or that they are beginning to 'dominate whites in all sectors' is empirically wrong.

igbodefender:
Lol. They are not ridiculous. Some people just tune out when they hear the word 'Igbo', but history is history.

Indeed, I agree. History is history. And fabrications are fabrications. And substance-less theories are substance-less theories.

Peritus:
The simple truth is that they feel the blacks are outsmarting them and may dominate them in all sectors. It's more of insecurity.

Black Americans outsmarting White Americans...and may dominate them in all sectors?

LOL. No, that's not it. That's not it at all.

igbodefender:
OP, you failed to note that the Aborigines of Ife were Igbos. Kindly make required input.

I can see you still hang on to your ridiculous assertions. I don't see you in the culture section these days. How far?

dave3030:
Make dem go kogi state or even anywhere in the south east. Them go know say no be beans

Well, they've gone to the southeast and tried it, and apparently all the weapons their leaders there have in their arsenal are prayers and fasting.

lawani:
You can google it, words like suegbe-fool, ika-wicked, lareja-knowledge, ibudo-dwelling place, On-person, ma-know and over half of modern Yoruba vocab was used in exactly thesame way in kemitic Egypt. So that our current language is descended from that language is not debateable. it is the fact. i for one believe our ancestors spoke Akoko dialects in the past. I once heard an Awo on radio saying our old word for house was Arigidi and that Ile is new. That we speak a language descended from kemitic Egypt does not mean we are descended wholly from kemitic Egypt but definitely a large number of them joined us and we adopted the language same way we are now adopting English.

Sir, how can suegbe be an Egyptian word? Ancient Egyptian was an Afro-Asiatic language. How many Afro-Asiatic languages do you know that have a 'gb' sound? Sometimes I wonder where you people get these things from.

Why not visit first and see if you like it before moving? I know lots of AAs who can't stand Nigeria. I also know a few who are really crazy about the place. A friend of mine has already been here three times in two years and says she'll love to move here.

If you decide to move, I'll suggest a relatively quiet small city...like Enugu. (I love Enugu!) I've heard great things about Calabar, though I haven't been there myself. Abuja the capital is also a good choice.

That face could come from anywhere from Senegal to Nigeria to Mozambique.

I know a lot of people swear they can tell 'tribe' (I prefer to say ethnicity) by looking at faces, but except for some ethnicities that live on the edge of the Sahara and who tend to have a tall, lanky, narrow-faced look and some Nilotic groups in South Sudan and Uganda who have very dark skin, I do not believe facial features are tribe-specific.

Someone with your face could be Igbo. She could be Yoruba. She could even be Zulu.

Muafrika2:
People believe whst they see on TV. The West is portrayed as heaven on earth, and Africa as hell.

I hear African illegal immigrants are now crossing the Atlantic in a bid to catch the life of milk and honey. Imagine that, the massive Atlantic ocean!

The Atlantic? Lol, How? You probably mean the Mediterranean Sea.

blah93:
I'm not African.
Oh and did you see the explicit video I posted. Just curious lol.

Oh. That's what I suspected. No, I didn't see the video. Is that what the hidden comment above is about?

Juvenile. Dumb.

African (Perverts') Logic: "Our sense of morality is offended by your thigh-revealing dress and we believe that the only way to right this wrong would be to take the dress off altogether and expose what the dress failed to reveal."

Somguy:
Come to think of it, it's African Americans who are obsessed with Horners more so than West Africans, even though I've seen it a lot there too.

LOL. I was almost going to point this out.

Blah, which country in Africa are you from?

Somguy:
Also, I'll admit I let my anger get the best of me and overreacted, but I was not trying to put Naija people down. I've always respected the Nigerian people and was even a fan of the Naija national team. Okocha, Amukachi etc were my heroes lol.

I do stand by what I said regarding some West Africans inflating the egos of Horners though. I'm Somali yet even I am beginning to get fed up by how arrogant all this unnecessary attention has made some of them. If you do a Google search right now you will find a bunch of threads on a number of different forums that are dedicated to horner women. That foolishness has made some people from the Horn become haughty and arrogant.

On this I agree. There are quite a good number of West Africans who obsess over women from the Horn, and women of mixed-race background. It is as shameful as it is annoying. There was one here a few years ago who literally begged the Somali troll to hook him up. I gave him a piece of my mind though.

You look at music videos and all these black artistes (Nigerian artistes, as well) want to do is fill up everywhere with women that have a particular look - light skin, straight nose, soft hair. It's like a mental illness. My mum is part-German and I get her looks, and as much as I want to protect my Nigerian brothers, the level of attention I get from them just for looking the way I do sometimes just sickens me.

Yes, it is a problem. I can't fault you on that.

Somguy, I think you are basically a good person. But you may be whining a bit here, to be honest.

You are miffed about Somali women being called desperate, and Somali men bring called ugly and effeminate.

But here is the truth, and I believe I have already said this on another thread: Nigerians were not attacking Somalis (Nigerians on this forum hardly even took notice of the Somali people) before the troll came here and just started insulting Nigerians for absolutely NO reason.

Here is a list of a FEW of the things we've been called:

1. Slaves
2. Ugly monkeys and apes
3. Primitive, culture-less and without history
4. Our women are wh.ores
5. Our women look like men.
6. We are unintelligent.
7. We eat every vile thing on the face of the earth.

The list is endless. Every kind of insult you can think of has been hurled at us. We were on our own, on our forum, minding our business, and your countryman just came here and started hurling insults all around, posting selected pictures of ugly people (yes, those pictures you posted, the Somali troll has already used them and more, and all the points you made on this post have already been made by him in a gazillion posts - so congratulations for sounding just like him).

What Nigerians have been doing here is merely clapping back - something I'm VERY sure you, too, will do if a Nigerian shows up on Somalinet to insult your people. Why you want to whine about that and create a thread with an endless cascade of pictures of good-looking Horn people (again, the Somali troll has already shown us like 60% of those pictures), I don't understand. Are you telling Nigerians to keep quiet in the face of unprovoked insults? Please answer this question.

This is not about gender equality. I can assure you that women are not dying to acquire male urinary organs.

If you've ever been on a bus travelling a long distance and had to stop for a woman in trousers to ease herself, you'll understand.

But I think this particular 'invention' has many flaws and will probably not work very well.

I don't think she meant your origin. She meant the origin of the guy in the picture you posted.

Although for the life of me I don't understand how anyone could look at that and think 'Mauritania'.

anyimgbo:
yes we Yoruba will rather die by Fulani sword than giving iPads our land to build.its high time we Yoruba put to end of this ipads massive buildings in west.yes we may be facing some trials from Fulani herdsmen but we will still settle.fulani will only graze and go but iPads will come and buy all our lands and make us tenants

Ifeanyi, stop trolling. Or at least get a new handle with a non-Igbo name if you're going to try and pass yourself off as a Yoruba boy.

nubian999:
You know what walaaal you need to allow them because in your attempt to bring peace you'll forget that Nigerians on this website and this section in particular are openly offending Somalis when they know full well that these guys are trolls. Instead of ignoring them like they do Nigerian trolls they are using these trolls as an excuse to spew hate from their hearts. This is not a Nigerian website. It is Seuns website. It is on the world wide web so there are people of all colours and ethnicity on nl and in time the figures will grow. See both sides. See what they say about Somalis!! I'm no longer commenting on this section because hateful people hang here and you'll get your hands dirty. Go enjoy other sections! Naijàs are nuts they believe in witches, wizzards, mermaids i swear you'll laugh your head off! Nl is a scene from Harry potter or whatever Holly/Nollywood they view at home.

Somalis in Africa don't believe in spirits and magical powers and all that? Pots and kettles.