₦airaland Forum

Jenifa_:
where did u learn about mac powder. ehn
should your wife be worried?

Pafuri:
Send them all home, fathers, mothers, uncles aunties, and all other parasites. Let them insist on their rights in Africa and the Carribean. BTW, I am African. Just in case anyone gets it twisted.

DRlulu:
stop posting all this rubbish your bigger than this . stop sounding like a child , no be the same mbaise i just returned from today , my friend had his traditional wedding yesterday and he is just a normal working class fellow neiither was there any big deal with the requirements, i have been to an hausa wedding where the groom bought truck of cows for the brides wedding. only folks that are afraid of marriage and commitement that go about ranting like this, people have been marrying from there for centuries before your great grand fathers where born and will continue to do so.

odumchi:
Your comment on me reading was what got me going. For next time, saying something like that is like breaking into the house of trouble. But anyway, Wahalla no dey.

odumchi:
O'boy why are you so quick to look for trouble. Abi your television no get signal?
My theory on African slavery is not conclusive. Anyone can enter slavery in the olden days through any means. However, before the days of the white man, slavery was far less an enterprise as it became in that era. People could enter into slavery throuh any means, "war, crime, false accusations, or siimply by kidnapping". Remember in African slavery, Slaves were still human beings and were treated decently. They became part of one's family, could be granted freedom, could be declared heirs/heiresses or the sons/daughters to/of their master. In the days prior to the advent of the Europeans, slaves were valuable commodities.

It wasn't until the 1700s that you saw the massive slave lines and convoys with chains and etc. Now, let me be, I wasn't referring to you in any of my posts abeg.

odumchi:
Slavery, atleast in African terms was not corrupt. It was simple and justifiable. People did not sell their own people as yoou stated, usually they sold those who were thieves, war prisoners and etc. Slavery in olden times was a natural means of survival.

odumchi:
Slavery, atleast in African terms was not corrupt. It was simple and justifiable. People did not sell their own people as yoou stated, usually they sold those who were thieves, war prisoners and etc. Slavery in olden times was a natural means of survival.

odumchi:
Corruption is evident in every governemnt. Even in the United States, which many praise as heaen on earth, corruption is present. Wasn't Murdoff the man who embezzeled $700m in public funds? But I digress, as for Nigeria, mass corruption started in the 70s.

trueword:
when I talk about culture I am mainly talking about language. Language is a big part of your cultural identity. I did not say kids living abroad will not learn culture. The point I am trying to make is that when you see other immigrant groups who are in west, many of their children can speak and understand their native language. but for some reason many nigerian parents refuse to teach their children their native language and even boast that their children only hears english. They will even be impressed that their child knows how to speak spanish or some other langugage even though their child can't hear their own native language. If the child can speak and understand their native language they will at least always know where they come from.


This rising trend is a recipe for destroying ones own identity. These kids today who can't speak their own language will grow up and not be able to teach their kids their language. This trend will continue until the language goes extinct.

Latinos, Chinese and other groups have stuck with their language so well that many applications  have both english, and spanish and sometimes mandarin written. If those groups threw their language away you wouldn't be seeing this occur on an increasing trend.

When I think about why other immigrant groups are able to keep their language despite living in west, I ask why not nigerians. The only reason I can think of is that many nigerians have some level of inferiority complex. They believe their language is less than, so they easily let it go.