Where did Igbo originate from?

THERE is a debate over the origin of Igbo. Two Anambra communities – Nri in Anaocha local government area and Aguleri in Anambra East local government area claim the Igbo originated from their areas.
It was Eze Obidiegwu Onyesoh, the traditional ruler of Nri, who started the argument when he said his community is the origin of Igbo. Shortly after, Aguleri debunked it, saying Onyeso ought to know the truth because he had to visit Aguleri before his coronation in 1988 to receive blessing as Igbo custom demanded of him. According to Aguleri people, Aguleri is the first son of Eri who migrated from Egypt.
But Onyesoh would not accept that as he insisted that his community is the first home of the Igbo before they migrated to other areas and even beyond the shores of eastern Nigeria.
His words: The origin of Nri is Egypt about two centuries ago and the father of Nri was called Gad. Gad was the son of Jacob while Jacob was the son of Isaac and Isaac was the son of Abraham. The family tree of Nri was traced from the origin of Abraham who was the favourite child of God.
A man called Eri, the progenitor of Ndigbo, lived in Egypt and was the special adviser on religious matters to the 5th dynasty of Pharaohs of Egypt.
It was in those days in Egypt that Eri determined who was going to be the next Pharaoh. And by their law, there was a deity called Emem and anything to happen during the time, the man called Eri, in his capacity as the religion adviser to the Pharaoh of Egypt, was responsible.
Now Eri needed people to help him and he recruited devotees. These devotees were all appointed by him but he had to do something to really found their own loyalty. In their movement towards southern side, they arrived another confluence. This confluence was the tributary of River Niger and Benue known as Ezu na Omambala.
The last son of Eri, Agulu remained by the sea side because he was a fisherman. The first child Eri remained in his father’s house until he had a vision and was called to serve God in their own way. Nri was an incarnate to his grandfather, Eri.
So Nri was the reincarnate of Eri, and the functions which their grandfather performed came back to him. While his siblings all left to their respective farming positions, he remained in his father’s compound. The Ofo Ndigbo resides at Nri because the process is from one Eze-Nri to another. There is a handover known as Ofo and Alo and to become Eze-Nri without original Ofo and Alo, you are not Eze Nri. The Ofo and Alo have been existing for the past 1,009 years.
When I finish and gone as the Eze Nri, the Ofo and Alo will be handed to the next Eze-Nri.
Today, about 180 communities could trace their origin from Nri and the civilization of Nri spread around. He founded the Ozo title just like his father did; he spoke about anything that has to do with fairness and justice. Everywhere he founded was on behalf of his grandfather and they called themselves, Igbo .
He added: Aguleri, the last born of Eri, remained at the very close of the water front. Aguleri cannot claim that Nri came from Aguleri. Nri came from a place called Eriaka and, for now, Eriaka has gone defunct because the main man left Eriaka.
Eze Nri, Onyesoh said, doesn t go to Aguleri to be crowned or be purified, adding that Eze Nri, as part of the tradition, after crowning him and other things perfected, must go to where there is water divided into two. He continued: We don t have any other water divided into two as found in Lokoja, the confluence between River Niger and River Benue. The place is too far for us and the closest one to us is the tributary river of Niger and Benue known as Ezu and Omambala. They have two rivers there, now it is at that river where the covenant must be taken. That covenant is what we know as ‘Udu-Eze’.
Any person telling you that Eze-Nri must go to Aguleri for any other thing is lying. Apart from the distance, one could also go to converging place between Niger and Benue to performance the rite instead of going to Aguleri. So, all manner of propaganda you now hear are all tissues of lies.
Nri has no similar culture with Aguleri. Since the beginning of Aguleri, it has no traditional institution.
If Nri and Aguleri have much in common, Aguleri would be producing their own traditional ruler just as Nri does. For the past 110 years, it has been only Idigo dynasty that occupies the kingship .
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/igbo-originate/

Igbos originate from am"ERI"ca, or perhaps Alg"ERI"a.

2 centuries ago?
illiterate igwe or is it eze nri.

so what if we came from egypt, abraham or whatever, how has that developed Igboland?
these elders are starting to get on my nerves.

So u r now son of prophet muhehehehe

Ndi ibo kwenu

They came 2 centuries ago from Egypt and at the same time claiming that igbo nation originated from their village. nothing person no go hear from that part of Igbo land.

From Egypt two centuries ago?
They should all be muslims!

customised13: israel today, japan tomorrow, china next day and from no where egypt?

igbos are cursed...

it is Aguleri and nri clan you should address not ndigbo. .their ridiculous claim is selfish.

EdCure:
Easy, man. Let the ibos trace their root. Who knows, it could lead them to Sambisa forest.

bwhahahaha

true my broda. these people are so deluded.

Ojiofor: it is Aguleri and nri clan you should address not ndigbo. .their ridiculous claim is selfish.

sharrapp there

all i know is u igbo claim all sorts. bunch of mad people. ok are u from Israel or japan?

EdCure:
Easy, man. Let the ibos trace their root. Who knows, it could lead them to Sambisa forest.

Not impossible... We have just been told how Ehijirika was/is commanding the boko troops around sambisa. It may be that their origin is there - he wants to take his forefathers territory back.

jjcbuthot: They should be rounded up and dumped in the desert along egypt borders - we know they are not one of ours.

Can't you see their behavior is strange?

That is why we gave them the ultimatum to trace their (square) roots.

jjcbuthot:

Not impossible... We have just been told how Ehijirika was/is commanding the boko troops around sambisa. It may be that their origin is there - he wants to take his forefathers territory back.

the reason they praise him as their new hero, in place of ojuiku...

Seems to me like Igbo people are having identity crisis. First it was Israel, now it's Egypt.

I'm Igbo, and I just don't get this craze about wanting to identify with another nation. How about the other nation identifies with you??

Speaks too much of Inferiority complex.

I'm waiting for the day Ibos will claim Saudi Arabia.

customised13:

sharrapp there

all i know is u igbo claim all sorts. bunch of mad people. ok are u from Israel or japan?

you dey crex?that claim is coming from one particular area in igboland but remind me any day an igbo monarch from other parts of igboland make such a claim.

[b] The tribe of levi Four American Jews Visit The Igbos In Abuja


For much of last month and this month groups of Igbos resident in Abuja played host to four American Jews; Lior David Shragg, an ethnomusicologist, working and studying at the University of Arizona, Shai Afsai, who is the Abuja/Nigeria representative of the U.S based Jewish non governmental organization Kulanu Inc’. Lawyer and Rabbi Barry Dolinger who heads a Jewish synagogue in Rhode Island, U.S.A, and his linguist wife Naomi.


Lior came to study the music of the Igbo Jewish communities in Abuja. The rabbi who is the bespectacled one and his wife came to return a visit paid to his community last year by two Igbos: Obadiah Agbai of Item, Abia State, a retired geologist who worked with the FCDA, and Pinchas Azuka Ogbukaa, a businessman from Abala Uno, Delta State. Shai, the hefty guy came as the Kulanu representative. Kulanu partly sponsored the trip by the rabbi, and his wife.


In Abuja this group visited many groups of the Igbo people such as the Jewish communities formed by Igbos, His Excellency former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia state, and others too numerous to mention.



The group interacted intensively with the Igbos. They wanted to know more about the famed connections between the Igbo people and the Jews. While talking with this writer who is the Kulanu Inc liaison in Nigeria and who published ‘The Igbos And Israel: An Inter-cultural Study of the Largest Jewish Diaspora’,in the U.S.A, the rabbi expressed that it would be necessary for a linguist to begin to study the connections between the Igbo and Hebrew languages which they found to be fascinating.



They and the Igbos who have started the ‘Plant For The Growth of Israel Synagogue’ took the photographs when they visited the community in Kuje Abuja.
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Dainfamous: [b] The tribe of levi Four American Jews Visit The Igbos In Abuja


For much of last month and this month groups of Igbos resident in Abuja played host to four American Jews; Lior David Shragg, an ethnomusicologist, working and studying at the University of Arizona, Shai Afsai, who is the Abuja/Nigeria representative of the U.S based Jewish non governmental organization Kulanu Inc’. Lawyer and Rabbi Barry Dolinger who heads a Jewish synagogue in Rhode Island, U.S.A, and his linguist wife Naomi.


Lior came to study the music of the Igbo Jewish communities in Abuja. The rabbi who is the bespectacled one and his wife came to return a visit paid to his community last year by two Igbos: Obadiah Agbai of Item, Abia State, a retired geologist who worked with the FCDA, and Pinchas Azuka Ogbukaa, a businessman from Abala Uno, Delta State. Shai, the hefty guy came as the Kulanu representative. Kulanu partly sponsored the trip by the rabbi, and his wife.


In Abuja this group visited many groups of the Igbo people such as the Jewish communities formed by Igbos, His Excellency former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia state, and others too numerous to mention.



The group interacted intensively with the Igbos. They wanted to know more about the famed connections between the Igbo people and the Jews. While talking with this writer who is the Kulanu Inc liaison in Nigeria and who published ‘The Igbos And Israel: An Inter-cultural Study of the Largest Jewish Diaspora’,in the U.S.A, the rabbi expressed that it would be necessary for a linguist to begin to study the connections between the Igbo and Hebrew languages which they found to be fascinating.



They and the Igbos who have started the ‘Plant For The Growth of Israel Synagogue’ took the photographs when they visited the community in Kuje Abuja.
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SMDH.

If anything, the jews (or whatever they call themselves in Israel), should be finding their roots back to Africa, and not the other way round!

They should forget dat n think abt their future. tracing dat wil nt do them any good,did they wnt to started worshippin anoda juju again like Bermuda triangle? Igbo man with business,dats d popular juju nw