hero's thread was the best post i've ever read on nairaland filled with facts nd very accurate...HISTORY ROCKS.....(wat school u at man??

dasparrow:

Hahahahahaha You are one funny dude! You can deceive the new comers on this forum but not we the old timers bro. Anyone who was on this forum back in 2006 knows that YOU 'DARAPTURE' is also 'HERO'. You also went by the moniker 'BENIN' on this forum or another Nigerian forum that I used to frequent. Can't quite remember now. And here your lying, scheming black american behind is busy reigning praises on YOURSELF since darapture and hero are one and the same YOU!

Hero was the man indeed! Get outta here!

Angry that you can't dispute his information. It was fantastically put together.

kcool2: hero's thread was the best post i've ever read on nairaland filled with facts nd very accurate...HISTORY ROCKS.....(wat school u at man??

It's a shame he got banned for posting information like that, but reading through his posts, I remember once seeing him mention that he attended Georgetown U.

eldee: Okay, list all the african american celebs in the US so we'll know that there were no other countries that participated in the slave trade.

LOL EXACTLY!

Now while a lot of Igbo WERE sent to the new world...i doubt all of those celebs posted are of Igbo decent.
(Not mostly anyway...)

Aloy~Emeka:
What about Flavor Flav? Is he igbo too?
www.nairaland.com/attachments/62397_YOU_LOOK_LIKE_HIM_jpg30f64aed3d7f5cd2c28b9b0e5611b75e

THE-AMAKA:
^^^^
hell naw.
that guy is from somewhere else, the congo or something. lolol

Hero: It was just over 12Million who were believed to have survived the journey to the Americas after having been sold off to the Europeans, though in total number nearly 3 times as many were actually sold off to them [/b]and out of that only 12Mill survived the journeys across the ocean. Now remember that that is 12Mill as a whole in which was brought to the AMERICAS and not just the US. [b]Brazil and the Caribbean received by far the largest number of slaves.

Brazil alone received half of them at nearly 6.3Million, and the Caribbean Islands took in around 3.5Million; these numbers are far, far, far more than what the US took in. The US took in only an estimated total of 550,000 Africans while the remainder of the Americas took in the rest. Now one must ask why was it that the US despite its large swaths of land and need to develop it did they not import just as many Africans as Brazil and the Caribbean.

Well, it was because the Americans were extremely selective about which slaves they wanted, while the Caribbean and South American owners were not so selective in that they ran a system in where for the most part, your average slave would survive no longer than 10 years after getting off the slave ships and into the plantations. With such high death rates, they couldn't afford to be picky. The Americans ran a restoration and or preservation system, if you will, this system was designed to work the slaves just enough to get the job needed done done, though not so hard as to rapidly kill them off like the situation was like in the Caribbean and South America. This in the long run saved them money by allowing the small number of slaves they acquired to grow themselves.

Early in the process the Americans observed the slave population in the well established Caribbean and South American plantations and through this observation they made determining decisions on what particular Ethnic groups would work best in their North American environment and American slave system; they first started out with a tiny group of Angolans from 2 different ethnic distinctions, they started out with Angolans first because it was a group of about 35 Angolan slaves in which were first brought the American's first successfully establish settlement of James Town in about 1609 upon a Dutch ship, and Angolans were heavily numbered amongst those slaves who were settled in the Spanish settlement of Augustina in Florida started some 75 years prior to the foundering of James town.

OBVIOUSLY i cut some of the reply out...i read it all and it is VERY interesting....

I can vouch for sure though that the bolded parts are TRUE!!

MsDarkSkin:

OBVIOUSLY i cut some of the reply out...i read it all and it is VERY interesting....

I can vouch for sure though that the bolded parts are TRUE!!

Of course it's true, all of it's the absolute truth. I'm... I mean, Hero, is obviously a very intelligent person.

@EzeUche
AM SOUTH AFRICAN OF GHANAIAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN DESCENT. Let me tell u I agree with the other blogger that you're TRIBALIST, that can be seen in all your posts. What funny for me is that you're a WOMAN

THE TRUETH MY SISTER IS AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE DIFFERENT TO OTHER NEW WORLD BLACKS ARE THEY DESCEND MAINLY FROM UPPER GUINEANS AND BANTU OF ANGOLA-CONGO. Yes Bight of Biafrans were imported to Virginia but they were mainly females and mated with other African groups like Akans,Mandes,Bantus to give birth to MODERN AFRO AMERICANS.


Here a GIFT from SOUTH AFRICA, this book is writen by a reknown African American prof. Holloway.
READ NIGERIAN AND CLEAR THE STREOTYPES.

http://faculty.risd.edu/bcampbel/Templates/Templates/holloway.pdf

NDIIGBO RENAISSANCE MOVEMENT (CEHRAPA): Uniting all Igbo across the world!

The time has come for Ndiigbo all over the world to unite and to start utilizing our blood extensions, unique strength, talents, ingenuity, achievements and the huge population we have across the world for our liberation, development and prosperity, just like the Jews, Indians and Chinese do. Apart from the 5 South-East States of Enugu, Anambra, Abia, Ebonyi and Imo Ndiigbo occupy some part of Delta State, Rivers State, Cross Rivers State, Kogi State and Benue State within the current geography called Nigeria. Besides, we have large population of Ndiigbo as part of the original population of USA, Haiti, Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Ivory Coast, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Jamaica, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Hispaniola, Belize among others. Also in Equatorial Guinea, they have a region that speaks Igbo.

It is estimated that about 2.4 million Igbo people were transported (via European ships) across the Atlantic in the era of slave trade. Most of these ships were British. Some documented populations of people of African descent on Caribbean islands recorded 2,863 Igbo on Trinidad & Tobago in an 1813 census; 894 in Saint Lucia in an 1815 census; 440 on Saint Kitts and Nevis in an 1817 census; and 111 in Guayana in an 1819 census.

In the United States, Ndiigbo were found common in the state of Maryland and Virginia, where Igbo slaves were known for being rebellious, especially in some states such as Georgia. Thus, in the United States there is a region called Ibo Landing in Georgia which is thought to have been a place where a group of Ibo people committed suicide rather than be enslaved. According to Douglas B. Chambers it was recorded that in the 19th century the state of Virginia received around 37,000 slaves from Calabar of which 30,000 were Igbo. The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia estimates around 38% of captives taken to Virginia were from the Bight of Biafra. Igbo people constituted the majority of enslaved Africans in Maryland. Chambers has been quoted saying "My research suggests that perhaps 60 percent of black Americans have at least one Igbo ancestor....

Moreover, Igbo ancestors and rebellious slaves were the founder of the modern day democratic Haiti. Some slaves arriving in Haiti who were mostly Igbo people were considered suicidal. So intolerant were the Ibo people of taking orders, that Ibo victims of enslavement in Haiti and throughout the Americas had a higher suicide rate than other Africans. This high suicide rate is remembered in the Vodou expression Ibo touye tèt li. There is still the Creole saying of Ibos pend'cor'a yo (the Ibo hang themselves) and the aspects of Haitian culture that exhibit this can be seen in the Ibo loa, a Haitian loa (or deity) created by the Igbo in the Vodun religion. Among the many Ibo influences present in Haiti today, perhaps the most enduring is the Ibo passion for self-determination. This passion helped to fuel the Haitians fore-parents’ efforts to combat slavery. Haitians descendants have continued to honor the Ibo who fought to create a more democratic Haiti. Thus, no Africans in Haiti were willingly enslaved and people of all African nations rebelled against slavery.

Nonetheless, because of the Ibo passion for democracy, they became the group most associated with rebellion against slavery. As such, in Haiti, when they honor the memory of Ibo Ancestors they commonly perform dance movements symbolic of their breaking the chains of enslavement. In Haiti, this rebellious way of dancing is called the Ibo dance. Other Ibo influences in Haitian culture are numerous and include the term sou for community banking and the use of M as a short form for mwen (me). Today Ibo people are remembered throughout Haiti.

Indeed, the links between Barbados and the Bight of Biafra had begun in the mid-seventeenth century, with half of the African captives arriving on the island originating from there. There was a general rise in the amount of enslaved people arriving to the Americas, particularly British Colonies, from the Bight of Biafra in the 18th century; the heaviest of these forced migrations occurred between 1790 and 1807.The result of such slaving patterns made Jamaica, after Virginia, the second most common destination for slaves arriving from the Bight of Biafra; as the Igbo formed the majority from the bight, they became largely represented in Jamaica in the 18th and 19th century.

The first known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is OLAODAH Equanoh, a famous Igbo author, abolitionist and ex-slave who, in his narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom, documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in the present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18th century. According to Equanoh, the Igbo were dispersed to Barbados in large numbers as he himself, was dropped off there after being kidnapped from his hometown near the Bight of Biafra. After arriving in Barbados he was promptly shipped to Virginia. At his time, 44 percent of the 90,000 Africans disembarking on the island (between 1751 and 1775) were from the bight, and these Africans were therefore mainly of Igbo origin. OLAODAH Equanoh later married an English woman and had 3 children before he died in 1795.

More so, according to a documentation we came across, Bishop T.D Jakes, Dr Sidney Davis, Gabrielle Union & Nia Long & Brandy Norwood, Ice Cube & Kobe Bryant, Vivica A. Fox & Timberland, Johnny Gill, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Allen Iverson, Shanice Wilson(singer),Avant, Missy Elliott, Keisha Night-Pulliam (Rudy from Cosby show)cheesy, Tempest Bledso (Vanessa from Cosby show) cheesy, Jill Scott, Anita Baker, Shirley Murdock, Kelly Price among others are the prominent African-Americans of Igbo descent in USA. It's believed that about 60% of AA among the African-Americans in USA could be of some significant Igbo descent. They were taken to USA in much larger numbers than any other single African ethnic group. The Goula AA of coastal Georgia is all of Igbo descent.

In an old 18th century Virginian population nutritive it was stated that as many of 80% of the blacks in the Chesapeake and Delaware Valley regions of the US could be of "Ebo stock" Ebo is a common corruption of the spelling of Igbo. This narrative was published not long after former president John Adams' grandfather was poisoned to death by a group of his female Igbo slaves at his plantation in Virginia. There's a book about the incident called "Murder at Mt. Pelier".

It is worthy of note that Edward Wilmot BLYDEN – an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. Again, the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – is of Ibo descent, thus an Igboman has ruled Liberia and now Gabon(His Excellency, Ali Bongo). These are just to mention but a few of the information on the extensions of Igbo blood across the world which has to be harnessed for Igbo liberation and greatness!
-Seemoreat: http://360naija.com/2015/06/04/biafras-forgotten children/#sthash.T5a4HBsr.GK9JBHlV.dpuf

NB:All men and women of Igbo descent across the world who are interested in the 'Ndiigbo Unite Project' should contact us: accessreallife@yahoo.com;ezeaguafrica@yahoo.com;Skype: benedict727

Hero:
[B]GABRIELLE UNION & NIA LONG & BRANDY NORWOOD[/B]


[B]ICE CUBE & KOBE BRYANT[/B]


[B]VIVICA A. FOX & Timberland[/B]

[B]More to come[/B]

...WTF....IBO PEOPLE ARE NOW CLAMIN ICE CUBE CUZ HE HAD JERRY CURL.......dyammm...sonner or later, They will say OBAMA is IBO...., this OKORO people mennnn!! (no oofeinse)

eldee:
Okay, list all the african american celebs in the US so we'll know that there were no other countries that participated in the slave trade.

well said. why Nigerians love to thing they can have anything in their way just by saying it. hahahahaha!

mamagee3:
Ray is from Nigeria!

hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

this guy of Blair Underwood was in Cameroon getting his new name in Grass field region celebration .
where are the so called 60% of AA among the well known celebs? it should reflect among them as well. where are they? last time I check Cameroon and Sierra Leone were in business hahahahaha!! Nigerians have yet to finish high jacking Jamaican PORN, when its not Ivorian music.

africhika:
how do we know all these celebs are of igbo descent??
most AA have european blood too.


blair underwood got his DNA tested and it was traced to igbo.

go and tell him that to see what his reply will be. humbayiaaahhh!! what!!!!!

Blair Underwood is done with his home ancestry in Cameroon. he got a new name and his giving land. keep on posting and brand him as Igbo. the masturbation is free of charges.

AloyEmeka6:
What about Flavor Flav? Is he igbo too?
www.nairaland.com/attachments/62397_YOU_LOOK_LIKE_HIM_jpg30f64aed3d7f5cd2c28b9b0e5611b75e

thank you buddy, that was great. I laughed my ass out.