notobs:
Thats in your imagination playing tricks with sacred facts, stop this usless revisionist. you can go to Wikipedia and edit and manipulate it to fit your revisionist history, The Efik Ibibio people are by far smarter than that, the linguistic dept and arts department at the university of Calabar and Uyo have done extensive scholarly work on Nsibidi and all our common and unique cultural practices and they are documented in Libraries allover the world, If you knew how to do research you would have found the facts for your self.

Manipulating Wikipedia is not a highly scholastic exercise anyone with a third grade education can do that. Keep wallowing in your intellectual fraud.
This your new found fad with Nsibidi, the sacred language of a sacred Ekpe cultural group will soon fade, Ekpe and Nsibidi will outlive you, your fad and your intellectual fraud just as it has done after all this centuries of unslaught from slavery, to colonialism, to christianity and modernism.

iamord:

And she has started with the sensible threads
A very good read here.. I hope those that have lost their roots and look down on africa are taking note.

Btw what does nsibidi have to do with anansi?? Hmm

notobs:


The origin of nsibidi is unkonwn to you because you are igbo and a non initiate of the Ekpe cultural group whose language is nsibidi, If you were an initiated member of Ekpe then you would know its origin and it root, it will keep eluding you as long as you do not initiate in the cultural society.

Radoillo:


Wiki-what? I don't get my information from Wikipedia or any non-scholarly online sources.

If your lecturers in Uyo and Calabar told you Nsibidi was an Efik/Ibibio innovation, they are the revisionists. If they told you the Eastern Igbo never had Ekpe, they have no business teaching in a university.

notobs:


Igbos do not practice ekpe fact, how can you speak a language of a cultural society you are not a part of?

notobs:

keep wallowing in intellectual fraud, if you wanted to learn about Ekpe and its language Nsibidi, you would have gone down to its roots the Afe Ekpe and consult the elders and they would have shared the ancient wisdom and language with you just like many great scholars have done but instead you and your cohorts are trying to rewrite history fraudulently by manipulating online platforms.
By theway Nsibidi is not taught at the university it is taught at Afe Ekpe, and you would have known that if you knew anything about the culture you are trying to fraudulently hijack.

waternogetemeny:



Ekpe, also known as Egbo (Ibibio: Leopard), is a secret society flourishing chiefly among the Efiks of the Cross River State, the Oron, of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Igbos in Abia State, as well as Southeastern Nigerians Igbo/Efik/Oron in the diaspora, such as in Cuba.

My prayer point for u is that u stop ur obsession with my tribe and see me as an equal, like i see u.

notobs:

The reason i dont see you as an equal is because you are fraudulent, How can you commit such intellectual dishonesty? How can you say Ekpe and Nsibidi is practiced in Igboland or that it originated from there? can you imagine such effrontery!
I would not do that and i can beat my chest now confidently and pronounce that no Efik/ibibio person will do that, Why always the igbos claiming whats not theirs.

pak:
Wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Am extremely impressed by this. You must be a very very intelligent person ! Thumbs UP.

Please I have a few questions for you MissMeiya

* What nationality are you ?

* Where were you born ?

* Where did you school and what course ?

* Wher do you work and what do you do presently.

Don't mind my 'plenty' questions just impressed by your knowledge, works and that has made me curious

waternogetemeny:


I don't want to talk to u.

oluwalfa:


I can see that you haven't been to Essex recently, but I digress.

On the topic, we are suffering today because we already abandoned that which made us what we are. A very beautiful autograpgh like Nsibidi is kept in secret societies and we twist our tongues to pronounce English words. Well, I blame our parents.

You are wrong in looking for what makes us Nigerians because Nigeria only exists as a geographical expression. Nothing else. We are currently glued together by crude oil and western weapons but it's coming to an end. The east can develop further with Nsibidi. If China adopted the western writing system, it will not be where it is today.

notobs:


Neither do i, because you are telling lies, you cant steal our cultural identity, its ours and its god given, as an igbo man look closely there are cultural identity that god gave to you, delight in those and leave Ekpe and Its sacred language Nsibidi, which God gave to us alone.

ICHINONYE:
This s a country I am from, a country we all are 4rm, A country I know is domed beyond ethnic n religious line, our past rulers ve seceded in dividing dis country into different ethnic n religious boundary, except 1 man wil wake up one day n construct d damages am sorry we are not heading anywhere as a country . Now take a look @dis Nsibidi, som1 just pop it out to defend her own ethnic group on a Naira sign war, we should be talking about one Nigeria n that oneness can't stand if we keep searching for a fault n who to blame in each ethnic group

GozieDiora:
I like the OP.












Owk, I'm off point again, sorry.


Here is my take on Nsibidi (hoping I spelt it well), it could serve as a source of unity amongst its users. This is because speakers of different languages who could not ordinarily understand one another would then be able to do so via the proposed writing system given that it cuts across languages though read out differently. Learning it might not be easy but will surely be interesting/fascinating and that, with a bit of passion, is all needed. Besides, some of have gone to the extent of learning Hanzi (Chinese characters) so what's the big deal with Nsibidi?

Maybe it's a white elephant dream, but I still dream it sees daylight some day.

Ok, now that I have made some point, I can go back to:

I like the OP!

notobs:

Neither do i, because you are telling lies, you cant steal our cultural identity, its ours and its god given, as an igbo man look closely there are cultural identity that god gave to you, delight in those and leave Ekpe and Its sacred language Nsibidi, which God gave to us alone.

MissMeiya:


There's something wrong with your brain.

notobs:


And yours too, What an intellectual fraud you are.

notobs:


Neither do i, because you are telling lies, you cant steal our cultural identity, its ours and its god given, as an igbo man look closely there are cultural identity that god gave to you, delight in those and leave Ekpe and Its sacred language Nsibidi, which God gave to us alone.

notobs:


And yours too, What an intellectual fraud you are. you are mad because i stood up for my culture? I cant let you steal that too.

waternogetemeny:


Ok! The point here is made clear in the article, so not much to discuss. I can't continue to argue based on ur personal opinion becos that will be a waste of my time.

Kindly provide a source to support ur dispute of the original article by the OP and all other published works of authority, until then u are entitled to hold ur own opinion as everybody holds their own a.s.shole.

notobs:


am not the one wallowing in revisionist history, you are and the burden is on you. I know my culture and practices and their roots you are the one thats befuddled by it. Nsibidi = Ekpe = Efik/Ibibio people cultural identity and is not = Igbo.

cold:

Huh! Like seriously

GozieDiora:
I reserve this space for attacking someone called Pak. He seems to be making advances on my crush, the OP

MissMeiya:


Yay! I like you too!

MissMeiya:


LOOOL You're adorable

Nsibidi spread throughout the region over time and mixed with other cultures and art forms such as the Igbo uri or uli graphic design, Ekpe, also known as Egbo (Ibibio: Leopard) and efik from the [b]Ejagham people of the Northern Cross River State,[/b]

The Oron, of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, Igbos in Abia State, as well as Southeastern Nigerians Igbo/Efik/Oron in the diaspora, such as in Cuba.

waternogetemeny:


Again u see where u go wrong? Nsibidi did originate amongst the Ejagham people of the northern Cross River region.

Prove how the Ejagham people now equal Efik/Ibibio?

waternogetemeny:


Again u see where u go wrong? Nsibidi did originate amongst the Ejagham people of the northern Cross River region.

Prove how the Ejagham people now equal Efik/Ibibio?