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Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 2:25pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Josh090: Blyss: Josh090: |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 2:27pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Josh090: Blyss, dt article you quoted up there is complete NONSENSE!! EXACTLY! There are people who are truly interested in where they came from. It's wicked of some folks to try to bring tribalism and bias into their answers and mislead them. I remember one Igbo guy had me looking like a new fool posting that the brazilian town "Ibotirama" was named after the Igbo and it turned out that it's not even true. It was named by the native brazilians. SMGDH!!! #epicEMBARRASSMENT! Is what I felt after getting cyber-slayed left and right! this is the igbo-centric website that claims what bigfrancis says to be true. and that the town i mentioned is named after igbos. http://www.planetnana.co.il/igbos/pages/upslv.html In early period 1716-1744 3/4 of Africans imported into Charleston were Angolans. In 1804-1807 Angolans were again the majority. The Angolan slaves were very numerous as described in: Readings in pre colonial African ? Theophile Obenge, karnak house publication ? 1995 page 18, tells us of the endurance of the Angolan slaves who were able to with stand the tough working conditions that often killed the whites. A new study, suggests that approximately 85-90% of the so called African or black Americas, and millions of others scattered across the Caribbean's and western Hemisphere are of Igbo/Ibo ancestry. A good example of Ibo resistance movement was the famous Ibo and Angola resistance movement in Brazil that resulted in the establishment of independence Ibo republic of Palmers. A Republic that flourished for 45years before it was crushed by the white settlers. [size=18pt]This strong presence of Ibo's in Brazil accounts for the present day city known as Ibotirama, in Brazil[/size] - Time atlas of the world 10th comprehensive edition, page, and 115 k p 11. #EPIClies. according to them ALL OF AFRICAN DESCENDANTS IN THE WEST are Igbo! |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 2:46pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
^^^ its funny how some think really! I've never being to the U.S but I don't think the AA's there care to know the difference btw Igbo or yoruba or wld need to take sides btw two african ethnic groups, so, why fight over who "owns" them? Pure foolishness I'll say. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 2:48pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Josh090: ^^^ its funny how some think really! I agree. But the lengths people will go through to promote themselves as superior, numerous or most influential is astounding! |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 2:51pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Imagine all that crap Everyone is igbo..... Its just a few igbo ppl that believe such nonsense in real life tho. 2 Likes |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by MrsChima(f): 2:58pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Sis!!!!!! Love you even if you r not igbo. Muah! 1 Like |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 2:59pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Josh090: Imagine all that crap LOL! Mrs.Chima: awe~~ i wub you too!! |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by ezeagu(m): 4:09pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
*Kails*: I'm not agreeing with the info you quoted, but it's possible for 90% of Jamaicans to be of Igbo descent. 2 Likes |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 4:23pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
I doubt it. We are not 90 percent of anything. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by ezeagu(m): 5:15pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Descent! You're confusing descent with amount of ancestry. For example, over 90% of African Americans are of British descent. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by PAGAN9JA(m): 5:19pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
ezeagu: Jamaicans are more probably Yoruba descendant heavily mixed with native Carib and Taino populations. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by ezeagu(m): 5:20pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
PAGAN 9JA: Why? |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by PAGAN9JA(m): 5:22pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
ezeagu: sorry i meant Igbo. and some Mandé. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Blyss: 5:23pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
*Kails*: LOL, you aren't even 90% Jamaican. You're just half trying to pass, sis. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by ezeagu(m): 5:23pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
I think the Taino and Caribs were wiped out completely before the British even arrived to Jamaica. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by PAGAN9JA(m): 5:25pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
ezeagu: I think the Taino and Caribs were wiped out completely before the British even arrived to Jamaica. full-blooded Caribs still exist. they were not wiped out. Tainos became extinct due to extenisve intermarriage and disease. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by ezeagu(m): 5:28pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
In Jamaica, they are completely gone, the ones that exist moved to other islands and many are of African and European descent as well. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by PAGAN9JA(m): 5:43pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
ezeagu: In Jamaica, they are completely gone, the ones that exist moved to other islands and many are of African and European descent as well. yes the ones who mixed with west africans formed the black Caribs, GArifuna people, etc. . |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 8:56pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
people who know nothing about my ppl are trying to say what we are lmao. @pagan, tainos/caribs all died prior to europeans arriving in jamaica...are you kidding me? that's so not true. they mixed with the africans sir and gave birth to the first maroons who still have descendants on the island. they taught us how to grill and invented jerk chicken. they taught my ancestors how to navigate around the island and even helped us fight and defeat the spanish and english...if they were all gone none of that would be true. smh. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 9:01pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
some Igbos are scammers I remember a story in costa rica, they told to everyone down there that they are Igbo, finally they found out that they were from an Ethnicity in Cameroon, Igbos are perpetually creating history, they are inventing stuffs and even rituals and we all know BA like those stuffs and most of the time are naive.you guys ain't cool stop deceiving those guys ,stop feeding them with your Igbo agenda/propaganda. My2cents 2 Likes |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 9:04pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
CAMEROONPRIDE: Igbos are scammers I remember a story in costa rica, they told to everyone down there that they are Igbo, finally they found out that they were from an Ethnicity in Cameroon, Igbos are perpetually creating history, they are inventing stuffs and even rituals and we all know BA like those stuffs and most of the time naive.you guys ain't cool stop deceiving those guys ,stop feeding them with your Igbo agenda/propaganda. LOL exactly! bright of biafra is also part of cameroon so some of the ppl taken from that region were cameroonian. not just igbo. i really wish some folks would stop this dumb distortion of history crap. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 9:09pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
@BLYSS, You're not even Nigerian much less igbo so you can't tell me nada. Myself and flytefalls are the only TRUE Jamos on this site. I think if anyone should be informing anyone about JA it should be us. PERIOD. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 9:27pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
*Kails*:Cameroon didn't exist back then ,I just forgot the Ethnicity. Anyway this is not the first time I come across some Igbo supremacists. And they are not the only one we have a same ethnicity which does that kind of stuff. I feel like It's a sort of investment , many BA will be ready/won't mind to fund/support(internationally) the Igbos in another attempt to quit Nigeria if they feel Igbo or descendants of Igbo. |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 9:42pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
A.Chigozie:actually some were others were war prisoners |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by bigfrancis21: 10:59pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
*Kails*: Lmao! Is that hard for you to believe? Moreover, I didnt make that article up. I only posted the research a non-igbo scholar (ishaq) made! If that's too large to swallow, sister, i'd suggest you digest it bit by bit. Lmao 2 Likes |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by bigfrancis21: 11:27pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
*Kails*:@bolded...OMG! You agreed with me on at least some points! Ha! @red...that fact cannot be ignored because you'll notice that MOST of the countries today that received massive igbo slaves were/are former british colonies and are english-speaking. Reality! That doesnt mean they werent shipped to non-english speaking countries. In brazil, the ibo slaves came third in size after the congo group, first, and yoruba second. In cuba, they arrived in huge numbers but did not come under the general unifying name, ibo, but under the names of their respective villages in igboland. Ibo villages such as isu, okwelle, etche, omumma, isiukwuato, isigwe, etc. Bight of biafra may have covered cameroon or elsewhere but mind you that the slave traders were well-versed in the several west african tribes and had specific preferences of which tribe they preferred, based on the slave people's general characteristics. In addition, history has it that only two slave ports were recorded under the bight of biafra region - bonny and calabar ports, and no cameroonian port was ever recorded for the region in history. Not even one. These two ports are located strategically in Nigeria today. This cancels out the probability of having little infiltrations of cameroonian slaves, if there were any of them anyway. The picture evidence also supports this claim. Look at the tribes listed in brackets by the sides of their places of embarkment and you'll discover that the author took his time to list out the specific tribes that were taken from each port and 'igbo and ibibio' slaves only were recorded for the bight of biafra! The evidence speaks loudly for itself. @blue...i wont say i'm proud of the slave trade. Nobody is. I was only re-iterating what is recorded in the annals of history. 1 Like |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by bigfrancis21: 11:36pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
*Kails*:Blyss is a brother in a far away land. He strongly feels his Ibo connection. Blood is definitely thicker than water. Ehen, my brother, blyss, kedu? (How are you) Reply: odimma (i'm fine). For your creative work on this thread, you'll need to take up an Ibo name. Nnamdi, Obiora, Emeka...choose any and i'll tell you the meaning. All are beautiful names, I tell you. *winks* 1 Like |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by bigfrancis21: 11:40pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
CAMEROONPRIDE: some Igbos are scammers I remember a story in costa rica, they told to everyone down there that they are Igbo, finally they found out that they were from an Ethnicity in Cameroon, Igbos are perpetually creating history, they are inventing stuffs and even rituals and we all know BA like those stuffs and most of the time are naive.you guys ain't cool stop deceiving those guys ,stop feeding them with your Igbo agenda/propaganda.And who ever said igbo slaves were sent to costa rica? Did I ever mention that? Moreover, i'm yet to see where it was quoted that costa rica received igbo slaves. Also, how sure are we that this your claim is true? Maybe its just a false claim made up to back up your bias. 1 Like |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by bigfrancis21: 11:45pm On Jan 19, 2013 |
Josh090: Imagine all that crapLmao. Who do we have here? I thought you absconded? Why is the truth biting you so hard like this? Awww...it must really suck to digest the truth right? At least come up with evidence to support your own opinion. E kwucha m! |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by bigfrancis21: 12:05am On Jan 20, 2013 |
ezeagu: I think the Taino and Caribs were wiped out completely before the British even arrived to Jamaica.Jamaica, as you know it today, was a thriving plantation trade arena that was manned by the british. However, they, the british, could not survive the very harsh environmental conditions of the area and resorted to the use of slaves from africa. Many died after contracting malaria, due to mosquito bites, and other diseases. Over time they discovered that the ibo slaves were best suited for the environment given the latter's industry, ruggedness, strength, good body formation and, most importantly, good knowledge of the subject of agriculture, amongst others. This fact is confirmed in Olaudah Equiano's slave account, the ibo ex-slave. After he arrived the shores of US from his ibo village in africa, immediately he was shipped off to Jamaica. On getting there, he described meeting his 'fellow countrymen' who were numerous in numbers, laboring away dutifully and surviving under the harsh environmental conditions - the same conditions the whites couldn't bear. @kails If you refute the good igbo presence in Jamaica so much, why don't you take the DNA test and let us see if you won't have, at least, a lil percentage of ibo blood running in you in both your AA and JAMO lineages. 1 Like |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 12:11am On Jan 20, 2013 |
bigfrancis21:. Igbo you no dey tire. I actually don't like what I'm doing it makes me look like if I care about their origin. But I don't like when people twist history. Bight of biafra : here we go son learn your history [url][/url] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRHzbxn0Ko&feature=player_detailpage |
Re: African-Americans And Their Igbo Roots by Nobody: 12:14am On Jan 20, 2013 |
As you can see in this video several ports existed in actual Cameroon, . You guys and m actually talking about Nigerians in general should stop thinking Africa turns around you: others kingdom and empire other people in general with their misery,conquests,wars,etc . |
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