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Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by fyomer: 8:57pm On Jan 06, 2015 |
I NOTICED THEY ARE HIGHLY ENVIED.IN RIVER STATE YOU HARDLY FIND ANY COMPOUND THAT HASNT ANY IBO WOMAN AS A GREAT OR GRAND MOTHER,I GUESS THEN MARRYING AN IBO WOMAN WAS LIKE MARRYING AN AMERICAN.I SUSPECT THIS CREATED A LOT OF ENVY AND DISUNITY AMONGST THEM,COUPLE WITH THE FACT THAT THE IBO MEN ARE DOMINATING AND THEIR WOMEN ARE BEGINIG TO FALL FOR THEM EASILY,YET THE IBO MEN ARE PLAYING THEIR GAMES,CAUSE THEY HARDLY MARRY THE WOMEN. THIS COULPE WITH FEW OTHER THINGS CAUSED THE RIVERS ESPECIALLY THE IKWERE'S TO DISLIKE THE IBOS A GREAT. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by Ihuomadinihu: 9:01pm On Jan 06, 2015 |
fyomer:There are Igbos in EQ.Guinea. There are three sources of Igbo presence in that country. A. Aro/Igbo traders. B. Biafran refugges. C. Plain migration. Google would be of much help to you. 4 Likes |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by fyomer: 9:20pm On Jan 06, 2015 |
herinolah: [size=15pt]CHARCOAL CALLING POT BLACK.IJEBU FOR THAT MATTER[/size] |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by Nobody: 9:36pm On Jan 06, 2015 |
fyomer: Igbos in E. Guinea are largely found in the island of Fernando Po where they make up 7% of the population. Some of the earliest Igbos there were Igbo Recaptives returning from Sierra Leone in the 19th century. They have now dissolved into the island's Krio population. The vast majority of the Igbos there, though (and the ones who have retained their Igbo identity) arrived there in the 20th century as migrant labourers. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by fairheven: 10:41pm On Jan 06, 2015 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by fairheven: 10:42pm On Jan 06, 2015 |
Zoharariel: Most of your questions and these in particular,is borne out of myopic reasoning and deep hatred for the Ibo nation,ever had of the suez canal?that is man-made sea-port,Switzerland is landlocked country,but in your widest imagination,can you compare Nigeria's economy with that of Switzerland?that simply tells you that the problem of not having a seaport in the south East has nothing to with landlocked or not,its simply a failure of leadership.secondly its political gimmick..as they don't want the south east to be totally independent of the lagos port. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by tonychristopher: 12:17am On Jan 07, 2015 |
Let's assume that Igbo is not littoral ..what has it got to do with develop Lagos and Nigeria with |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by Adeyinka12(m): 12:19am On Jan 07, 2015 |
Lilimax:see man ,my mathematics teacher even told us something like this,he said when he went to serve at igbo land at #ngeb .he said those people there are carnivouros ,any strangers come there are slaugted ,he even told us that they prefare humanbeing meat than that of animal ,if not for the help of the solder ,he would have forget of coming to this earth.# i don't like igbos 1 Like |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by Aldrickay: 2:05am On Jan 07, 2015 |
pazienza: But we ikwerres are not igbo, so hw wil ur igbo brodas take pride in port harcourt? Jst to let u knw sha, Port harcourt is not igboland but ikwerre land. tnx 4 reading. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by irokop(m): 2:33am On Jan 07, 2015 |
Aldrickay: ISi adigh gi mma in short Uche koro gi, when you get home try ask your father or mother to tell u the truth Infact beg them for it tell them not to lie to you. Pls if I may ask why didn't OP include ibibio efik anan, ijaw Benin ppl and other suburbs as part of Igbo land? You ppl needs reorientation, cos of Biafra war cos you guys was very scared of fighting for ur right that's u are deniying ur father, it's very unfortunate that u ppl say Malams no get sense but they are the ones remoting u guys what ever they tell u to do u make sure u do it cos u be mumu, they will soon tell u that ur great grand father is Fulani and u will accepts it, ewu. I'm from mbaise tomorrow I will tell my children that I'm not Igbo God forbid it. Your intelligent men and women knows thier root while some fools like u refused to see beyond ur Norse , go and ask peter odili my inlaw he will tell u better, beef are you better than Igbos Frm others states? Wisdom is always too far to a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiG fooooooooool. 5 Likes |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by zendy: 1:06pm On Jan 07, 2015 |
Could it be the "politics of oil" that has made the modern day Ikwere man deny being Igbo? It's a tough sell that they have Chibuike Amaechi, Nyesom Wike(Nwike) and even the president of 'Ogbakor Ikwere' Augunstine Onyeozu and yet,someone will say these are not Igbo names. 5 Likes |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by macof(m): 3:48pm On Jan 07, 2015 |
illicit: Sorry but I don't quite get the point of this post. I think you agree Idoma and Yoruba have very little in common? At least far less than the Idoma-Igbo |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by Nimen(m): 7:56pm On Jan 07, 2015 |
Adeyinka12: one... Your English sucks two... There's no place in igboland called ngeb three... Your mathematics teacher is as clueless as GEJ four... If you hate igbos... why? 4 Likes |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by Nobody: 8:08pm On Jan 07, 2015 |
Nimen: The ngeb thing confused me as well. There is nothing people won't say when trying to slander other people. I'm wondering if he meant Ugep...which isn't even an Igbo town to begin with. 2 Likes |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by geophyscist: 12:04am On Jan 08, 2015 |
Yerwa:equitorial guinea and cameroun |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by bigfrancis21: 3:01am On Jan 08, 2015 |
Nimen: Igboland to certain westerners is perceived as some mysterious island they've heard soo much about (many untrue), where only the daring and bold dare venture into, a distant land which can be likened to the biblical land of the shadow of death, and to top it all, a mysterious land of no return where nobody makes it out alive. It really takes some powerful land by itself to pull together such strong mysterious fairy-tale about it. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by bigfrancis21: 3:39am On Jan 08, 2015 |
illicit: You are simply dragging on an empty argument based on your superficial knowledge of middle tribe belts beyond what you read on nairaland. I am talking reality here, based on personal experience with people I have come across with. Igede and Idoma are in no way similar to Yoruba or nearing Yoruba at all. Igala is the only yoruba-like language of all of Igala, Idoma and Igede. Yoruba lacks letters of the alphabet Idoma shares exactly with Igbo, letters such as 'ch' (Ochi Idoma - leader of Idoma, same meaning as in Igbo. A letter terribly lacking in Yoruba but widely used in Idoma and Igbo), 'kw' (okpokwu), 'kp' (i.e. okpu - means cap in both Igbo and Idoma, a letter which the yoruba orthography lacks and spells rather as 'p'), 'gw' (Elaigwu) e.t.c. Popular Idoma names are Anyaole, Ada, Agaba, Ekindu, Onyechi (has exactly the same meaning in Igbo), Onyeje, Onyeche, Oganya, e.t.c. which can be easily mistaken as Igbo names due to extremely striking similarity. http://www.idomaland.org/idoma-names?page=1. Names of popular Idoma towns are Obi, Oju, Ohimini (Ohimiri in Igbo - river), Okpokwu, Agatu, Ogbadigbo e.t.c. which all have meanings in Idoma as well as in Igbo. In one way, it seems as if Idoma language took basically the same set alphabet and words as Igbo language but re-assigned them separate meanings instead. Tuface Ujah Idibia is a well-known Idoma person and notice his last name is similar to the Igbo surname, 'Dibia'. He has songs in his native Idoma language, one of which is 'Ocho.mp3', which on my hearing for the first time I thought was some distant dialect of Igbo due to very similar word pronunciations. If you think you can understand Idoma because you think 'it is Yoruboid' to you, download and listen to Ocho.mp3 from here and please tell me what is Yoruba about the language: http://9jabaze.com/music/view/8041628?get-file=2face%20Idibia%20-%20Ocho In addition, for a language sentence/word list of Idoma, visit this website and educate yourself: http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/IDU/idu_word-list_1962_02.html As for Igede language, if you can't watch the youtube video I sent you the link due to bandwidth limitations, listen to an Igede Mp3 audio here and tell me what you think is Yoruboid of the language: http://www.bible.is/IGEBSN/Matt/1 1 Like |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by tonychristopher: 9:55am On Jan 08, 2015 |
Radoillo: Those days they call them panya.. thhen when I was young my grand Dada will say that somebody sent to panya |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by coolzeal(m): 10:01am On Jan 08, 2015 |
Gotta save this... Nwa Afor 1 Like |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by Nobody: 10:08am On Jan 08, 2015 |
tonychristopher: Oh, is that what Panya means? Been hearing "Panya, Panya" but wasnt sure what it meant. Some say it is somewhere in Cross River. Some say it is Spain. They speak Spanish in E. Guinea sha. That may explain why some people in the interior of Igboland confused Panya/E. Guinea with Spain. Perhaps "Panya" is a corruption of "Espana" i.e, the Spanish language which many Equaguineans speak. 2 Likes |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by tonychristopher: 11:12am On Jan 08, 2015 |
Radoillo: So you can see how we got there 1 Like |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by CAMNEWTON4PRES: 3:43am On Jan 09, 2015 |
geophyscist:where is Igbo spoken in Cameroon or equatorial guinea? |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by bigfrancis21: 3:58am On Jan 09, 2015 |
CAMNEWTON4PRES: Panya in Equatorial guinea. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by CAMNEWTON4PRES: 5:34am On Jan 09, 2015 |
bigfrancis21:this is a tricky answer, you mean there are Igbos living in panya who happened to speak their language like any foreigner abroad or that Panya is an Igbo community? anyway i thought i have already debunked that false claim..there are only 03 languages recognized in EG: Fang-spanish-French .. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by tonychristopher: 6:01am On Jan 09, 2015 |
CAMNEWTON4PRES: Igbo is officially recognised in equatorial Guinea.. that I know for sure ..I do not know of panya etc |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by geophyscist: 1:45pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
CAMNEWTON4PRES:op that is what google is meant for,go and make research.igbo is a government recognise language in equitorial guinea. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by bigfrancis21: 2:36pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
CAMNEWTON4PRES: Please read this: http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?page=country&category=&publisher=MRGI&type=&coi=GNQ&rid=&docid=4954ce2a2&skip=0 I guess you failed to do your research well after all. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by CAMNEWTON4PRES: 3:41pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
bigfrancis21: Do you know how to read ? How does main language become recognized aka official language? Can someone say Chinese or Russian is a recognized language in the USA? Furthermore I find funny that it is the only link you could come with an unofficial report? Like seriously the fact you can not even give me the number of Igbo in EG or their percentage yet you want to say Igbo is recognized in a 90% fang country ? Lmfao The only way to know if a language is recognized is through the constitution of the country , provide the constitution and shame me or forever remains quiet ...lol @ Igbo being recognized in EG as in ? Are state documents, announcements, etc written or gave in Igbo ? Na was oooo |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by CAMNEWTON4PRES: 3:46pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
geophyscist: Enough with the lie ....I'm a camerooni and my ethnic is spread across the whole region in fact my ethnic group constitutes the majority in Equatorial guinea ....over 80% what's even the percentage of igbos in EG? What did they do or achieve to have their language recognized by the govt ? There are more Igbo up to millions in both Nigeria and Cameroon and it is where their number is insignificant that the Igbo language is recognized. Provide the EG constitution or shut up cause you are spewin hearseay. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The Igbo People by CAMNEWTON4PRES: 3:49pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
tonychristopher:igbo is not officially recognized nowhere , go and recognize in your enclaves first ...the only official and recognized languages are Spanish french and fang .period a simple look at the EG constitution can put an end to this speculation ... |
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