StOla:
1930's really?

What proof that these she-men are Igbos or that this is the 1930s with such primitive unclothedness of the 11th century?

TheNewIbadan:


Osu, why do you sound so frustrated. Just show proof with your rebuttal. Create a thread if you like and I'll engage you.

bakynes:
I am not trying to be ethnocentric here as a yoruba man but i have never seen a primitive photo of Yorubas without full clothings. Even Fulanis do wear clothes before the colonial era. There are thousands of pictures showing igbos in half nudity in a primitive way. Go to African Magic you can still watch some igbo films where they potray their livestyle before pre-colonial era and you will see the primitive half-nudity.

Igbos nothing to be ashamed of we simply better civilized than you in those days before the white me came.

Remeber yorubas and Binis were trading with the portugese at the coast of lagos before the british landed on our shores.

AlphaCentauri:
try telling that to all the mouth breathing, knuckle-dragging prehistoric ipob yoofs we have on nairaland always boasting about being lightskin lol

Ariani:


There was never anytime in Yoruba history, Yoruba were more civilized than Ndiigbo.

So, I fail to see the point of this your verbose but empty post.

badnature:
Aba women riot was in 1922 and the did not dress this way, all the pictures of igbo people during the indirect rule their were never any pictures like the one am seeing in this thread.it is a well documented fact that it is only the igbo people that was regarded by slaves master as"great" while the Yoruba''s where regarded as"barbarian" from the account of slaves and colonial masters their was never a time that the Yoruba are more civilized than the igbo except off cause the account been written by the Yoruba's themselves.any picture can be taken anywhere and claim to be igbo people.if we can reject the imposition of the warrant chiefs in the 20's and the 30's that show that we are educated and organized by then as such I refuse to accept those pictures are of igbo people besides we don't have such tribal mark

kettykin:


Which Igbo town is oyo more advanced than. Sometimes coming online to display gross ignorance can end up backfiring, is it not the same oyo that is filled with dead brown roof buildings and ritual forests whose airport is nothing but a big residence of birds and rodents.

ray78:


Lol theres no point arguing,apart from marginal igbos of Onitsha,Asaba,Oguta,and Arochukwu,the rest of hinterland igbos had a very very low standard of living,were majorly peasant farmers,landlocked and didn't have access to the coast and hence the spoils of western goods,as well as being acephalous and not belonging to sophisticated empires.
However,with colonialism ánd the gradual penetration of the hinterland,interior igbos through western education began to experience improved living standards and started migrating to the urban city centers.In fact because of how aggressively interior igbos pursued western education,majority of top administrative,business,occupations,govt and civil service roles started to be dominated by igbos,and the narrative of the igbo race started to change towards the progressive.

joenor:
No they are beastiful.

AlphaCentauri:
a small section of every tribe is great. most naija women lets face it dont look that good lol. they obese, with dog or horse brazillian hair on their head and big stomock and all look crazy. so that small portion that looks good applies all across the tribes.

by the way this applies to the men too so this is not a gender bashing thing . they all look crazy. lets just say naija is a place with not too many good looking people