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.

It is a tiny bit unfair that this has to come down on just Fulaman's head alone. Yes, I do get the sense that he perhaps enjoys the trolling a little bit, to be honest. But there are two other moderators in this section. What is going on?

Resemblance is not in doubt? Really? Which of their facial features bear this resemblance abeg?

So I've learnt something today. Somali men don't eat pvssy, so Somali women run after 'Bantu' men to have their pvssies eaten. Remarkable.

I was looking for a shot of him in the oval office, maybe even shaking hands with Obama. Any tourist or schoolchild out on an excursion can take pictures in front of the White House.

TheTransformer:
You are like the first Somali on Nairaland that actually has common sense.

There are at least two others. But they don't post in this section very often. At least, not anymore.

Okay, before we start talking about how little politicians were taking home back then, can someone please adjust the sums to account for inflation, and tell us what that money is equivalent to today. Cause I know my mum bought a deep freezer in the 80s for like 100 naira.

"Did you lose your girl to one of them?"



Interestingly, at least one person who used to post on this forum asked this question once before.

A left-hander can't be king, but a mechanic and absentee can?
Tradition is funny sometimes.

Please, has anyone done the PLI without encountering any difficulty?

Tried this evening, and after the first page, the thing just wouldn't work. I had to end it without submitting, because I didn't see the point of submitting just 5 questions.

They sent me a re-invite though, but I'm scared of encountering the same problem again, so I haven't tried it yet.

lawani:


But he was Ijaw of Opobo, head of an Ijaw house to which he belonged. The Ijaw houses were organised thesame way. They initiated foreigners to become Ijaw. Other people do same. Many Osu in Igbo land today are not descended from Igbos. Many may be Yoruba and etc. Names like Okafor, Okonkwo, Okeke are indicative of people bought as slaves and are probably Yoruba in origin. So take the people you have and leave others. Jaja of Opobo can not say he is any other thing apart from Opobo which is Ijaw.

I'm tired. Lemme just laugh at the bolded and be on my way. I wonder where on earth you got that from.

Lawani, he didn't describe himself as Igbo. He didn't describe himself as Ijaw. It would be anachronistic if he had used either of those terms to describe himself in 19th century Eastern Niger Delta. You people need to learn how some ethnic terms like 'Igbo', 'Ijaw', etc were used in this country before the 20th century and stop repeating these mistakes.

olaitoro:
I pray it happened,
with the influx of Igbos in yoruba land and their further assimilation of the yoruba culture, it is only a matter of time an Igboman will be an oba of lagos or alake of egbaland.

The step will further encourage cultural integration among various ethnic group and a unifying factor for our country.

Are you sure you are Yoruba?

Anyway, I can envisage somebody who has Igbo (or non-Yoruba, it doesn't have to be Igbo) maternal roots becoming an Oba in Yorubaland, but someone whose father is not Yoruba? Forget it. Never gonna happen. Ours (by 'ours' I mean most of Nigeria) is a paternal-based society.

Cartoons like The Simpsons and Family Guy were never really made for children though.

TheEthioAtheist:
Can't believe that our long standing culture, history, racial features aren't majority of Africa. One thing about Bantus is they love spreading everywhere and having as many kids as they can. They have turned more into pests | When Horn Of Africa rises and it will start with Ethiopia than Djibouti after that Eritrea and Somalia. How horrible Bantus in Southern Africa that is pretty sad but that is life.

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Incoherent.

emperorgoke:
due to the fact that some people, the Caribbean to be precise pray in his name " in da name of Jah Rastafaria, da mos high, da higherman" rastafari is the real name of Haile Selassie. Apart from King of kings(Jesus) nobody uses name of any king to pray except in the name of rastafari. Rastafarianism is a religion just like other religions. Virtually all the Kings u mentioned av not heard bfr except pharaoh... Don't call them misguided because it is their religion, voodoo can also be traced to Haile Selassie. C'mon! He deserve a shirt in ur list jor

Er...Voodoo has no connection to Haile Selassie. Voodoo (vodun) came from the Fon people of Benin Republic.

I'm not necessarily saying Haile Selassie was not a remarkable ruler; I'm only saying there were Ethiopian Emperors who were more remarkable than him.

What are his achievements, really? The Italians took his country from him and he ran to the League of Nations to complain. (The same Italians that Menelik II defeated before his time). In his old age, small boys in the army overthrew him in a coup and placed him under house arrest and (probably) murdered him.

The fact that a cult in Jamaica who held Ethiopia in high regard accorded him the status of a god is, from the standpoint of a political historian, of very little consequence.

emperorgoke:
Emperor Haile Selassie should be there, king Nimrod(first recorded king in the world) also should be there

If I want to put an Ethiopian emperor there, I will go for Menelik II before Haile Selassie.

Menelik led his country to defeat the Europeans and preserved his country's independence at a time the rest of Africa was falling under European colonial rule. What is Haile Selassie's legacy, besides being mistaken for a god by misguided Rastafarians?

macof:
the list is funny really
Any list of great african kings without Ramses II, shaka, sango is incomplete

I would also add Agaja Trudo of Dahomey (before I mention Gezo), Ewuare of Benin, Shamba Bolongolo of Baluba and Moshesh of Lesotho.