African Diaspora-Brazil

Our fellow Africans in Brazil

Naija pidgin and Jamaican patois

Nigerian

Abeg

Definition:

Means- Please

Example:

1. Abeg come wash my car

2. Abeg make una check dis one out- please come check this out

Jamaican:

Beg

Definition:

Means- Please

Example:

1. Beg yuh carry wan aerated wata fi mi deh .- Get me a pop please
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Quote of the day

"Our Future is dependent on the strength of our culture" -

Gerard Thomas

Currently reading

Chinua Achebe-When things fall apart

One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming ne'er-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his father's weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy:

Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.

And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even begins to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too often seen his own father. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes him. Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, however, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the chasm between old ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever.

Thought for the day

Deception.

Blaqueindigo is a beautiful, inspirational and intellectual African American women who defies all barriers and reaches across all ages.



Please check out one of her many videos, the following will be detailing the deception of society which imparts on us their ideals and beliefs.
As Black people we should think about this and evaluate the possibility of changing from this way of thinking.

African Bristish- Actor spotlight

Idris Elba

Idris Akuna Elba (born 6 September 1972) is a British television, theatre, and film actor who has starred in both British and American productions. Idris Elba grew up in Hackney, East London.One of his first acting roles was in a British soap opera, Family Affairs.He has worked in a variety of TV roles including Ultraviolet and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. He is best known as "Stringer Bell", the drug dealer who aspired to become a high powered businessman, in HBO's The Wire.Elba is also a DJ under the moniker DJ Big Driis / Big Driis the Londoner, and a hip-hop soul recording artist.

Inpsiprational Black Families-Past and Present

Present



In 1983, Washington married actress Pauletta Pearson (now Pauletta Washington), whom he met on the set of his first screen role, Wilma. The couple have four children: John David (July 28, 1984), who signed a football contract with the St. Louis Rams in May 2006 after playing college football at Morehouse: Katia (November 1987), who is attending Yale University, and twins Olivia and Malcolm (named in honour of Malcolm X)( April 10, 1991). In 1995, the couple renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating.