ChinenyeN:

Krio             "ọkọrọ"
Igbo (Ngwa) "ọkwọrọ"

Name for "okro"/"okra" (a name originating from the Igbo words for it).

. . . just so you had an idea.

sbeezy8:

yea im a Lagos boy/yankee guy but its most of the uncles and aunts who were born in freetown later moved to Naija.

sbeezy8:

@mukina

Infact its weird I just noticed my cuzzos dont call themselves Nigerian but say they are from sierre leone if people ask dem where they are from.

dayokanu:

Mukina2 is from Ogbomoso  

mukina2:

ehn i have no problem with the names being similar but this guys are making it seem like igbos are the only ones with 'okoro' name.
ok, there are lots of Nigerians in Freetown, especially Foulah town/central area, hausas/yorubas mostly, we had plenty in our street, some never moved back and you wont even know they are Nigerians, you'll mistake them for s/leoneans. i am not surprised some never even say they are Nigerians.
ehn ehn

mukina2:

Politics in sierra Leone can be defined as 'a round peg in a square hole' , and it is tight race between temne and mende the two largest ethnic groups.
Other ethnic groups come close but nothing major

sbeezy8:

I wouldnt even call them Nigerian ewww dayum I wish my parents came from some other country where some yoruba speakers are like Benin togo ghana, SALONE(after the war) LOL  SOMETIN anytin but Nigeria

sbeezy8:

yea like  folks with the name Kamara Koroma Bah Sesay Conteh (theres alot where I live)- I think Jalloh is a fulani name  not sure some look fulani some dont well i dont know what fulani loks like since some are dark some are light

what are you ?

mukina2:

lol salone was nice too na before the war and its still nice    
Jalloh is Fula. They are mostly from Guinea Conakry. They are mostly light skinned too.

Lol leave those surnames alone oh

I am Temne on one side and oku/mende on the other side.
Most days i  just say i am temne, when the grandmas start saying things in oku to us in public ( the kinda thing that will want to make you want to disappear), i just say i am temne thank you (jokingly oh) lol and na serious cussing go follow after the lectures resume then i gave birth to your this and that you are this blah blah
and being oku your extended family never ends , everyone is your aunt/uncle/relative

mukina2:

Sweetie save the snide comments for yourself,do not have time for snide attacks or personal attacks, just keep everything within forum rules aight? go grab a glass of cold water, drink that and chill.

mukina2:

wetin u wan take my oku name do i dunno if i have one jor
I can understand some of it not all, the pronunciation sef varies.
Most of the words  mixed with daily krio sef has oku in it.

Like my grandma will say 'hurry oh Ojo want sokaleh '. when its about to rain or she'll say time for 'elaykew' . Sometimes we pretend we do not understand, and when the cane comes out we say we forgot what t meant

ezeagu:

What personal attack? Did you not say Okoro is not an Igbo name? Or maybe it must be Temne. First you said Krio people randomly chose Igbo names because of fairytales about heroes and villains, then you tried to imply the Krio people are called Oku and then your final one is to say that people are calling themselves after food. Don't come to me with this again.

sbeezy8:

I know Ojo = rain
I busted out laughing when I saw "Sokaleh" at first I was like wtf is dat   then I thought OHHHHH "so kale"  LMFAO

hahaha yea I totally get you   thats something a Lagos person who learned english IN Lagos would say. I think its the creole returnees that tought english to the rest of yoruba peeps . cause the way we in Lagos(yoruba) speak broken is different from the rest of Naija.

lolz

dayokanu:

Mukina2 is from Ogbomoso 

mukina2:

its obvious you didnt read all that i typed before now. sorry i cannot help you there

If you read and understood all i typed you'll notice that i said

-Okoro is not an igbo name (its not every 'igbo' sounding name you guys have to claim)
- That Oku /creole are more related to yorubas
- and the example for heroes/viallins was in response to the guy who assumed my uncle is igbo related because of the 'ojukwu' name
-That there is no igbo tribe in freetown

Just like you have pidgin  in Nigeria that everyone can speak,  we also have krio that everyone can speak.
Creole is the tribe and the language is krio, which is also the lingua franca of the republic of Sierra Leone.

Okoro/okro means okra in krio too
do you understand well now?

ezeagu:

Here's my own

- Saying Okoro is not an Igbo name without providing the source of the name is confusing, especially with the massive amount of influence of the Igbo descendants in Sierra Leone, (Ibo Unions, Isuama language etc)
- Not all Creole people identify as Oku just because you do.
- There are Igbo descendants in Freetown and other parts of the country, just like you have Hausa and Yoruba descendants. No one claimed there's an "Igbo tribe" in Freetown, you just implied that.
- I doubt somebody will name themselves after a vegetable, unless there are people also called Egusi, Ukasi, jigbor, and Akpu.

fstranger3:

The thread has been fun so far, well, except for your belligerent attitude. Cant we have some peace. Have you ever been to SL, she is from there, take it as is and move on.

Why must you bring your belligerent attitude to everywhere you go. NL is not about Igbos alone you know

Quit your childish attitude and go look for other people to claim, will ya?

So far this thread has been educational: we now know that there are no Igbo tribes in SL, contrary to what some Igbo revisionists might want to have us
believe.

If you cant enjoy this thread without fighting, please go do a somersault on the Third Mainland Bridge.

Anuofia you and your people! Too much claim claim.   .   .   haba

ezeagu:

The thing that is maddening you, let it continue to madden you in the name of the Igbo ancestors of the Krio people, Ise!!!

fstranger3:

What else is new?

Igbos own SA?

alj harem1:



fstranger is so funny

fstranger3:

I tire for this guy o, Alhaji

If you dont stop them now, they might want to claim Borno too

fstranger3:

I tire for this guy o, Alhaji

If you dont stop them now, they might want to claim Borno too

ezeagu:

May all the Ojukwu's, Okoro's, Kanu's, Okrafor's and all of the Igbo Creole families of Sierra Leone live long, your presence in Freetown and the rest of Sierra Leone shall be everlasting, no matter how much enemy's try to eliminate your names. May they continue in endless frustration.

I salute James Beale, significant contributor to the Ibo Freetown Union of the 1800's, prominent surgeon, and overall skilled and talented man:

ezeagu:

[size=18pt]I salute James "Africanus Horton" Beale, a prominent member of the Ibo Union of Sierra Leone in the 1800's, and an elite member of the Creole society.[/size]

[center][/center]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OuKo7gSi2soC&pg=PA185&dq=james+africanus+horton+igbo&hl=en&ei=--1ZTe63FITLhAf8jpjWDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=james%20africanus%20horton%20igbo&f=false

[size=18pt]"The first African to graduate as a Doctor of Medicine from Edinburgh University"

"Horton's parents, both Igbo"[/size]

Let them knack their head against the wall.

fstranger3:

^^^WHat year and whats his Ibo name

Stop claiming people ok?

PhysicsHD:

lol, Africanus Horton was a stooge for the British. He went with the British to pacify the Ashanti and then turned around and started yapping about African nationalism and independence. Clown.

PhysicsHD:

lol, Africanus Horton was a stooge for the British. He went with the British to pacify the Ashanti and then turned around and started yapping about African nationalism and independence. Clown.

ezeagu:

I thought he was a medical officer in the British Army? What role did he have in pacifying the Ashanti except treating soldiers?