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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by axum: 3:23am On May 11, 2015
Somali/Sudanese wedding (Female is Sudanese/ Male is Somali)

Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by axum: 3:24am On May 11, 2015
Somali wedding

Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by Ihuomadinihu: 6:53am On May 11, 2015
axum:



Somalis are not Negroid
Does not change anything,there are different types of blacks/Africans, Yet you will find non somalians with somalian phenotype all over Africa. They belong to the African family. Once they leave Africa,they are blacks,along with Nigerians,Malians,Kenyans etc.

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by axum: 1:11am On May 12, 2015
Ihuomadinihu:

Does not change anything,there are different types of blacks/Africans, Yet you will find non somalians with somalian phenotype all over Africa. They belong to the African family. Once they leave Africa,they are blacks,along with Nigerians,Malians,Kenyans etc.


Why do you assume Africa=Black?

Africa is a land mass with over 800 Million people, and Somalis speak the same language family as Arabs,Berbers, Ethiopians. Isn't that more scientific than just saying your part of black family because you live in Africa? lmao what an idiot.
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by Ihuomadinihu: 7:06am On May 12, 2015
axum:



Why do you assume Africa=Black?

Africa is a land mass with over 800 Million people, and Somalis speak the same language family as Arabs,Berbers, Ethiopians. Isn't that more scientific than just saying your part of black family because you live in Africa? lmao what an idiot.

What an Ignoramus! Am saying that all of them are Africans. Negriod is currently a Sterotypical phenotype,there are so many sub saharan that don't speak the Negriod language and don't look negriod. So your classifying somalia as non negriod does mean a damn thing. All non Northern Africans are perceived as Black irrespective of the degree of Barbadian,semitic or arabian admixture. It's only in Africa that you get these crazy classifications. All of those Africans migrating to Italy,be it Ghanian, Ethiopian,Libyan,Somalian.Nigerian,Congo are all Blacks. America will see people like Beyonce and Malcom X as mixed before considering Somalia.
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by axum: 1:04pm On May 12, 2015
Ihuomadinihu:

What an Ignoramus! Am saying that all of them are Africans. Negriod is currently a Sterotypical phenotype,there are so many sub saharan that don't speak the Negriod language and don't look negriod. So your classifying somalia as non negriod does mean a damn thing. All non Northern Africans are perceived as Black irrespective of the degree of Barbadian,semitic or arabian admixture. It's only in Africa that you get these crazy classifications. All of those Africans migrating to Italy,be it Ghanian, Ethiopian,Libyan,Somalian.Nigerian,Congo are all Blacks. America will see people like Beyonce and Malcom X as mixed before considering Somalia.


My friend if you think Somalis are black, than you should know Somalis do not see themselves as any way linked to negroids. Infact it was Somalis/Ethiopians who controlled slave trade of Negroids in east africa for hundreds of years.

North Africans are not seen as black. Your education is terrible, and is not reflective of the education given to most people in the rest of the world.
It is whites who actually claim Somalis/Ethiopians as having caucasoid features and skull shape. So even they know we are not the same as Negroids.


Your an absolute baboon, if u think the people who hate u the most Africa, are the same as u. Forget the fact that their is no race, as its a social construct.

You should stop claiming people who want nothing to do with ur people.
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by Ihuomadinihu: 7:31pm On May 12, 2015
axum:



My friend if you think Somalis are black, than you should know Somalis do not see themselves as any way linked to negroids. Infact it was Somalis/Ethiopians who controlled slave trade of Negroids in east africa for hundreds of years.

North Africans are not seen as black. Your education is terrible, and is not reflective of the education given to most people in the rest of the world.
It is whites who actually claim Somalis/Ethiopians as having caucasoid features and skull shape. So even they know we are not the same as Negroids.


Your an absolute baboon, if u think the people who hate u the most Africa, are the same as u. Forget the fact that their is no race, as its a social construct.

You should stop claiming people who want nothing to do with ur people.
And you a white man ass licker and monkey! In your bid to create racial distinction,you couldn't even read and comprehend well! Where did i write that North Africans are blacks? They are largely descendants of Arabs that invaded Egypt.
The white man sees you as Caucosoid and you feel happy and accept it without realizing that the white man sees it as an opportunity to claim African civilizations up north?
Negriod or no negriod,the perceive all Africans as blacks. Blacks is not about colour or phenotype,it is about the diversity of Africa. There is no caucasoid in Africa. Nilotes, Negriod,horner,Khoisan,Pygmies are all Africans and cluster to one another,genetically and linguistically. Desert Monkey!
Skull shape doesn't mean anything anylonger,it's currently a racist way of classifying people.
How dare you come into a Nigerian thread to spit nonesense about who is negriod or negriod? The term negriod is steroetypical and i know many somalis that will slap the hell out of you for claiming they are not like other Africa. What do you think makes you different? As for Slavery,that's insignificant. Blacks have sold whites, whites have sold blacks, Africans have sold Africans,Italians have enslaved italians,Eqyptians have enslaved Hebrews, Arabs have sold Africans, Christians have sold muslims. Slavery is an old practice....your point is irrelevant.

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by RoyalPearl(f): 10:30pm On May 12, 2015
I don't know why you guys are always arguing with axum about the same things. If he does not feel he is black then so be it. He is entitled to think he is an Alien if he wants too for all I care. Stop forcing racial classifications on people who don't see themselves as such.

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by Jummyjagz(f): 1:43am On May 13, 2015
Nigeria n ethiopia <3 <3
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by Ihuomadinihu: 8:07am On May 13, 2015
RoyalPearl:
I don't know why you guys are always arguing with axum about the same things. If he does not feel he is black then so be it. He is entitled to think he is an Alien if he wants too for all I care. Stop forcing racial classifications on people who don't see themselves as such.
Apart from black Americans,there is really no African that describes himself as black,negro or Nilotes. All of them are Western and racist classification of Africans with a ploy to divide and conquer the continent. East,West,Southern and portions of Northern Africa even Israel,Yemeni and the Mediterrian all have the E haplogroup genetics. Sub saharans like Hausa speak an Afro-Asiatic language yet i have not seen them make a distinction in Nigeria. Fulanis and Sahelian look different yet i have not seen them come here and say they are not core Africans. Why would a somalia come here and yarn nonesense. Does Nigeria look like Kenya? The other day,South indian scientists released a report that their language and features are closer to Africa esp West Africa. While others are identifying their African ancestry. Other Africans are moving away from what defines Africa. Descendants of Arabs!
It's unfortunate that people like him swallow European classifications instead of looking at what defines Africa...Linguistics,Genetics,Culture,Religion,Clothes,flora and fauna.

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by axum: 2:39pm On May 19, 2015
Ihuomadinihu:

Apart from black Americans,there is really no African that describes himself as black,negro or Nilotes. All of them are Western and racist classification of Africans with a ploy to divide and conquer the continent. East,West,Southern and portions of Northern Africa even Israel,Yemeni and the Mediterrian all have the E haplogroup genetics. Sub saharans like Hausa speak an Afro-Asiatic language yet i have not seen them make a distinction in Nigeria. Fulanis and Sahelian look different yet i have not seen them come here and say they are not core Africans. Why would a somalia come here and yarn nonesense. Does Nigeria look like Kenya? The other day,South indian scientists released a report that their language and features are closer to Africa esp West Africa. While others are identifying their African ancestry. Other Africans are moving away from what defines Africa. Descendants of Arabs!
It's unfortunate that people like him swallow European classifications instead of looking at what defines Africa...Linguistics,Genetics,Culture,Religion,Clothes,flora and fauna.



Our linguistics is Cushitic and more related to Arabs/North africans
Our culture is more in line with cultures in the horn and middle east
our clothes is more like those in the middle east and north africa
our religion is Islam


so we have nothing in common with you negroids, stop claiming us
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by Ihuomadinihu: 3:45pm On May 19, 2015
axum:




Our linguistics is Cushitic and more related to Arabs/North africans
Our culture is more in line with cultures in the horn and middle east
our clothes is more like those in the middle east and north africa
our religion is Islam


so we have nothing in common with you negroids, stop claiming us
That is why you are Arab descendents. Monkey! How is that something to be proud of. Those similarities exist because of geographical proximity. Arabs are 100 times richer,reasonable and developed than somali whatever.

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by LeSudAfricaine: 10:14pm On May 19, 2015
axum:



My friend if you think Somalis are black, than you should know Somalis do not see themselves as any way linked to negroids. Infact it was Somalis/Ethiopians who controlled slave trade of Negroids in east africa for hundreds of years.

North Africans are not seen as black. Your education is terrible, and is not reflective of the education given to most people in the rest of the world.
It is whites who actually claim Somalis/Ethiopians as having caucasoid features and skull shape. So even they know we are not the same as Negroids.


Your an absolute baboon, if u think the people who hate u the most Africa, are the same as u. Forget the fact that their is no race, as its a social construct.

You should stop claiming people who want nothing to do with ur people.
One question...why are you so hateful? We get it, guys aren't black, but why get so worked up about it?
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by LeSudAfricaine: 10:15pm On May 19, 2015
axum:



My friend if you think Somalis are black, than you should know Somalis do not see themselves as any way linked to negroids. Infact it was Somalis/Ethiopians who controlled slave trade of Negroids in east africa for hundreds of years.

North Africans are not seen as black. Your education is terrible, and is not reflective of the education given to most people in the rest of the world.
It is whites who actually claim Somalis/Ethiopians as having caucasoid features and skull shape. So even they know we are not the same as Negroids.


Your an absolute baboon, if u think the people who hate u the most Africa, are the same as u. Forget the fact that their is no race, as its a social construct.

You should stop claiming people who want nothing to do with ur people.
One question...why are you so hateful? We get it, guys aren't black, but why get so worked up about something so trivial?

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by LeSudAfricaine: 10:22pm On May 19, 2015
[quote author=axum post=33891506]



Our linguistics is Cushitic and more related to Arabs/North africans
Our culture is more in line with cultures in the horn and middle east
our clothes is more like those in the middle east and north africa
our religion is Islam


so we have nothing in common with you negroids, stop claiming us[/quote That may be so, but you are still African regardless, your African brothers claim you to be one ]of their own because you inhabit the same continent as them, what is seriously wrong with that? You man have superiority complex issues, and they are very much unfounded.
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by LeSudAfricaine: 10:24pm On May 19, 2015
RoyalPearl:
I don't know why you guys are always arguing with axum about the same things. If he does not feel he is black then so be it. He is entitled to think he is an Alien if he wants too for all I care. Stop forcing racial classifications on people who don't see themselves as such.
This axum guy is seriously an idiot
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by somegirl1: 11:27pm On May 19, 2015
LeSudAfricaine:
That may be so, but you are still African regardless, your African brothers claim you to be one ]of their own because you inhabit the same continent as them, what is seriously wrong with that? You man have superiority inferiority complex issues, and they are very much unfounded.

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by RomeLo3000: 11:43am On May 21, 2015
cutietokunbo:
YORUBAS ARE BORN TO RULE THE WORLD OF FASHION.

CHECK THESE OUT:

The First Two Caps Are Called Eleti Aja(Dog Ears)

While The Other Two Signified The Two Guys As Married Men

If they are still single and searching, the folded part of cap ll be folded forward instead of left hand side as shown in the picture of married men.

Ghana and Ivory coast sure pass
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by PunkyOh(f): 5:52am On May 25, 2015
Zahara78:
Representing the Xhosa Traditional Outfit ( RSA)

Love these! UnguMxhosa?
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by anonymous6(f): 5:29pm On May 25, 2015
RoyalPearl:
I don't know why you guys are always arguing with axum about the same things. If he does not feel he is black then so be it. He is entitled to think he is an Alien if he wants too for all I care. Stop forcing racial classifications on people who don't see themselves as such.

Amen, he is a waste of time to argue with, who cares what he thinks, that is his issue, Nigerian in general don't give a damn to be honest. Axum/ayanle and etc I think is lonely and just comes on nairaland to start drama. If some people from horn of Africa believe in this thinking or mentality, I wish they would stay in their forums with that stuff and not come on nairaland about this. I never see nigerians forcing africans from Horn of africa to claim a title or not.

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Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by tpiadotcom: 5:04am On May 26, 2015
Ihuomadinihu:

We are not discussing about English names.
Let me address this properly.
Africans/Ijaws have been tying wrapper before the white man.
Currently the design and type of wrapper in 17th century is different from what we are tying now.
A popular wrapper amongst the Ijaw is called the George wrapper.
It's design and style is indian,it is populary called the Madras over there.
But it is exclusively a Southern Nigerian wrapper although it's fabric and design comes from India.
I guess it is now Non African in your confused mind.
The crux of the matter is that the hats and wrapper are African but they are imported and designed by other people,yet it doesn't mean Africans had no wrapper or hats before its importation.
OMG!
Confused mind.

TheEqualizer:


Facepalm. When was the last time you took an IQ test? I doubt your IQ is up to 60 (maximum) based on all your incoherent submissions. No pun intended.

What has wrapper got to do with European styled hats? Do Indians also tie wrappers? So why are you dragging that into the discourse when I already gave an example with Ghana kente being of Chinese origin, but since the way they wear them (style they use it for) is different from the Chinese, it's African. And I even went further with an example of cotton which isn't European and European clothes.

Perhaps, you don't understand the word 'style', huh?


asians in general tie wrapper.
Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by laudate: 1:22am On Jul 19, 2015
TheEqualizer:


Most fabrics are borrowed, what makes it yours (own them) is how you use them to create styles that define you. Ghanaian Kente is Chinese fabric but they owned it based on the style they created with it which is Ghanaian. You can make the same argument for all European clothes because cotton isn't European.

The styles aren't African. Do you get my point now? Shirt is European, same for t-shirt, blazer, and suit.

Ehm.... I actually think most African tops worn by men look like tunics, not shirts. lipsrsealed

I would (loosely) classify the agbada as a 'robe', for ease of description. Well, I may be wrong, but I do not think T-shirts should be classified as African attire. I mean, they are.....well, just T-shirts. undecided

Re: 10 Beautiful African Traditional Wedding Attires by Hrdva: 9:54am On Mar 31, 2017
Aso oke, ofi, and adire are Yoruba traditional cloths. The traditional styles for Yoruba women is iro and buba, gele (headtie), ipele (shawl or the drape across the shoulder, sometimes tied around the waist or bottom). Yoruba men's traditional style is long shirt with agbada, sokoto (drawstring trouser), short agbada, fila (cap), and abeti aja fila. The only other people who have adopted aso oke as their traditional cloth in Nigeria are the Igala or few middle belt people who share some Yoruba ancestry. But even still we know the difference by the colors of the stripes on their aso oke. Buba and iro, ipele, aso oke, ofi, and adire are not Eastern or Northern traditional cloths or outfits. Of recent Eastern and Northern people are incorporating some Yoruba styles or cloth into their traditional outfits. You only need to watch their weddings on YouTube to see. And I'm not talking of multicultural weddings. I've seen on Youtube: using aso oke or ofi for their headtie or adding ipele or wearing agbada or fila or iro and buba is borrowing from Yoruba tradition. Whether you like to admit it or not. They are using Yoruba traditional things and claiming that it's for everybody, but that IS and has always been Yoruba traditional outfit - they don't have any other. Nearly every woman in Africa wears some type of headtie - we know. And nothing is wrong with wearing Yoruba clothes if you like them. But you cannot just be wearing other people's traditional wears and claim it as your own or deny the people's own unique clothing identity. I have yet to see Yorubas wearing George or incorporate Fulani blouse into their traditional outfits. Yorubas wear their own clothes.

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