tpiar:


who is he?

The face seems relatively well known but I cant place a name.

Tippu Tip. He was a slave trader.

martineverest:
After, all these Ibos will claim anioma is theirs.. Is that not Benin attire..... Take it out leave it, all monarch in delta are from oba palace

The community in question here is Ubulu-Uku. Go and read about Ubulu-Uku and see what they say about where they came from.

akagson:

Is it similar to vaginismus?

Yes, it is similar, but the two conditions are not exactly the same. Vaginismus can also occur on its own, and not necessarily in the middle of intercourse.

holamiday:
Please i need someone to explain the principle behind this thing. I do not believe in charms or magic. I believe in Science and of course faith.

I'm sure this magun of a thing has an indepth explanation embedded in simple human physiology. It's so mind-boggling.

You're right. Google "pënis captivus".

SmartMugu:
I hope with his small age, he'll have competent advisers. I can't imagine a 15 year old making mature judgements. Make him no handle the community like video game.

The kingmakers and chiefs will probably run the community until he is of age.

chukzyblingz:
Is Dein of Agbor older than him?

I was going to ask this question.

NaturallyRo:
I'm not sure if anyone is even going to see this but I need help translating the following:
Anam eje omumu ihe ugbua
Anyi ga akpa na anyasi
Inugo nne?
Ke emesia
Udo
This is exactly how it was sent to me... Please help!!!

I'm going to class now. We'll talk tonight. You hear, dear? Later. Peace.

TRAPQUEEN1:
Some of these comments are so disgusting. So what is wrong with black people having dark skin. Why is it seen as a sin? It makes no sense when a black person insults another black person about being dark. Something is really wrong somewhere!

The only thing wrong here is that nairaland's culture section has a troll problem. A lonely, mentally ill Somali needs Nigerians' attention to stay alive. When one moniker stops getting the attention he needs, he gets another one and tries again. That's what is wrong.

YoruBadGoon:


You're very ignorant. The most important element of hip-hop came from the Caribbean, ditto most of the original creators of hip-hop, apart from Afrika Bambaataa and the African elements he added to it, after his visit to Africa.

The art of "Toasting" which later became rapping and deejaying came from the Caribbean. Saying hip-hop has no Caribbean root is like saying "garage" and "grime" have no Caribbean root, when both came from reggae dubstep.

No hip-hop head will dispute this fact.

Neither you nor Pashaun even understands what I'm saying and that inability to understand baffles me.

pashaun:


Dj Kool Herc was born in Jamaica. Doug E. Fresh was born in Barbados. Eric B. & Rakim are both have Jamaican parents. Biggie Smalls parents are Jamaican. Lil Kim is half Jamaican and half Haitian. Tupac's biological father is Tuareg. They also don't identify themselves as Black Americans.

FYI: New York rappers are 1st or 2nd generation Caribbeans.

I think I already made my point. Naming Americanized People of Afro-Caribbean descent doesn't make rap a Caribbean thing. It is an American thing - a black American a.k.a African-American thing.

One last thing: Billy Garland (Tupac's dad) was no Tuareg. I see a lot of people saying that and I wonder if it is that they don't understand their sources or they just like to mislead people.

Billy was African-American. His parents were African-Americans. It is believed that (but not exactly confirmed) he has some Tuareg ancestry dating back to slavery days. Every African-American has African ancestors if you follow their ancestry far back enough into the slave-trade period. Forest Whittaker and TD Jakes have Nigerian ancestry. Chris Tucker has Cameroonian ancestry. Ben Carson has Cameroonian and Sierra Leonian ancestry. BTW, you know who else has Tuareg ancestry? Morgan Freeman.

All this African ancestry goes back hundreds of years, and is essentially meaningless. These people are all fully African-American, as is Billy Garland, Tupac's dad. No Tuareg bears the name 'Billy'.

pashaun:


Hip Hop was created by Caribbeans in the 70s. Dj Kool Herc is founder of hip hop, he is Jamaican. Caribbeans dominate hip hop, followed by Latinos. Tupac created the Thug Life, his mother is Caribbean and father is Moroccan. Biggie Smalls is Jamaican. Future and Young Thug are Haitian. Nicki Minaj is Trini.

Is this what you meant? LOL. I really thought you were going to tell me about actually Caribbeans in Caribbean countries who developed hip hop in Caribbean countries.

With the exception of DJ Kool, everybody on that list was born in America, and identifies (identified) with the African-American community. DJ Kool, too, did his work in New York, and not in Jamaica. You cannot credit his work to Jamaica. Jamaicans in Kingston, etc, had nothing to do with it. All of them on this list are not even of Caribbean descent as you claim.

Hip-Hop developed in the black neighbourhoods of New York. It wasn't developed in the Caribbean and then imported to America. It was an African-American invention; the fact that some of the proponents were African-Americans with Caribbean parentage is irrelevant. Most of these guys (the ones who are of Caribbean descent) see themselves and are seen as just African-American. Often you don't even know they have Caribbean origins until you Google. They don't speak Haitian Creole or Patois. They are just African-Americans, period. You can't pin hip hop on the Caribbeans living in the Caribbeans.

There are a lot of other pioneers of hip hop who did not have Caribbean orogins. If we were to draw a complete list of the pioneers of that music genre, most of the people on that list would be just regular African-Americans.

(PS: Tupac's dad Billy Garland was not Moroccan. Reading that made me go WTF)

Seriously now, you post is ridiculous. I stopped reading at no. 7. How can you count meeting the Europeans as an achievement? What is your problem?

thekingisback:
it's obvious you're very silly. See this one. Igbo indeed.

No, you are Igbo. You must be Igbo. You are here saying shi.t about the Yoruba. How can you then say you are not Igbo?


#Sarcasm

This is what happens when you have nothing worthwhile to boast about. When your country is a giant shithole and you need to shore up your self-esteem. You begin to talk about childish nonsense like skin colour and nose shape and lip size and hair texture, and who was or was not a slave two hundred years ago.

pashaun:
I mean Afro-Caribbeans were the ones who created hip hop culture, thug life and the twerking crap that's been going on for the past 30-40 years in America.

How did Afro-Caribbeans create hip hop and 'thug life'?

Twerking is, perhaps, more closely related to Caribbean dance forms than to American dance forms, so you may have a point there. But hip hop and 'thug life'?

Check out that ãss!

(geddit? )

The Alake is number four in hierarchy?

I'm gonna have to brush up my Yoruba history a bit. But this doesn't sound right.

Is the Alake among the kings that received a crown from Oduduwa?

Rivertemz:
Nigerian men

The first guy is African-American. Other than that, on point!

OP, The title of the thread reads different from what you intended. Edit. Writing 'to' is not that difficult.

tonychristopher:


Oh is it petrifying ..pardon my oversight MUNGO PARK DIED AT IBUSA WHICH IS ANGLIZED VERSION OF IGBUZOR.....now why don't you research IBUSA/IBUSA/igbuzor/igbobinuzor

Listen, my good man. Mungo Park did not die in Ibusa or Igbuzor. He never came anywhere near Ibusa or even Southern Nigeria for that matter.

Mungo Park died in Bussa which was a town in what is now Niger State in Northern Nigeria.

Try not to confuse yourself.

africanusvu:
I stil see anywoman that can go for beauty contest as a prostitute.just my view.

This got likes??

Nigerians have got zero chill. A man can't clown around on twitter again.

tonychristopher:


Can you pls shut up..igbo was not a creation of British. ...before the advent of British there was igbo ukwu,obi igbo and igbuzor where mungo partk died ...igbo had been in existence before the British came
People bear igbo names like igbokwe,igbodi, igbodo, etc

Did you say Mungo Park died in Igbouzor?

The things I see on Nairaland eh...!

FabioPeter:
"Educative" correct word is "Educational"

Educative is a correct English word.

Topshow4real:
Expantiate => you will never find this word in the dictionary

Because the word is actually 'expatiate'.

Gwazah:

@ op check my screen shot below, u tried but got it wrong with the word disvirging, my dictionary have it.

Did you notice that in your screen shot, the example of the use of the word (disvirgin) was taken from a book written by a Nigerian (Gideon Mekwunye)?

The word was apparently coined in Nigeria, but seems to be gaining some popularity even outside Nigeria, which is a good thing.

We shouldn't fight the use of these Nigerian coinages. We should encourage people to use them. Who said we can't evolve our own variant of English, when Australians and Americans and white English-speaking South Africans have their own peculiar English words?

playtheblues:
One lecture was acting like you till his wife travelled to UK with their 3 kids for their Masters and got married to a very rich white man who built 3-storey building for her in her father's house at Mbaise. She cited the man's excessive infidelity and escapades with his female students as the reason for her action.
The man never got to see those kids again till he entered his grave few years ago.

Masters students are not allowed to bring in dependents to the UK.

There are also some Tiv in Nasarawa. Don't know how large that population is, however. I hear it is 'significant'.

In the end, it does seem that the Tiv outnumber the Nupe,even if by a small margin.

From school days, we were taught the Tiv were the largest minority ethnicity in the Middle Belt. The Nupe probably come in second.

Nigerians have a weird idea of what constitutes 'facilities'. I was expecting to see pictures of the inside of laboratories, the inside of libraries, the inside of classrooms. Things like that. Instead I'm looking at pictures of roads and the exterior of buildings. These buildings could have no noteworthy facilities inside them for all we know.