by Staff writer
The picture you see above is that of Nigerian immigrant parents, Ben and Angela Ihegboro with their daughter, Nmachi.
When Angela gave birth to Nmachi at a London hospital, she is a blond, blue-eyed white baby.
As media reports had it, Angela had gone “speechless” on seeing her newborn daughter.
Angela and her husband, Ben, are both black, so what on earth happened?
“The first thing I said was, ‘What the flip?’ ” said the father, Ben Ihegboro. “We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages — not saying anything.”
Of course, there were speculations that he is not the baby’s father. But Ben would not have it.
“Of course she is mine,” the 44-year-old customer service adviser said. “My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.”
“She’s a miracle baby,” 35-year-old Angela told reporters.
Genetics experts don’t believe in miracles, but they didn’t have any simple answers to the mystery of baby Nmachi.
They could only offer three theories:
1. Nmachi is the result of a gene mutation unique to her. If that is the case, Nmachi would pass the gene to her children — and they, too, would likely be white.
2. She’s the product of long-dormant white genes, passed on to her by her parents, that might have been carried by their predecessors for generations without surfacing until now.
3. While doctors have said Nmachi is not an outright albino, or lacking in all pigment, they added that the child may have some kind of mutated version of the genetic condition — and that her skin could darken over time.
Nmachi’s case is not the only example of such scenarios.
In 2011, Francis Tshibangu and his wife Arlette from Congo welcomed a white baby boy named Daniel.
I want this type of miracle baby
Funny theories.!!!!!!
Basic research would have told the journalist that this is a rare but perfectly normal occurrence! Sheesh!!!
They should’ve allowed a geneticist to do some tests on that baby. I just don’t believe it. I’ve NEVER seen or heard in history of this happening when parents say there is no racial mixture. This baby probably has a mutated Albino gene or there is another father. Albino children are prevalent in Africans. Look at the ones being killed in South Africa over some belief that they are the devil! Genetics don’t lie they must be proven.
Nonsense. Why are whites called Caucasian?? They originated from the middle east but settled along the caucus mountains in Russia. There, their skins turned white, their hair grew long to cover their necks for warmth and their noses thinned to lessen the effect of cold air in the nasal canal. So here comes a black man to England, a cold place and gives birth to a child suited to the environment and people don’t understand