Onlytruth:

Posted by: N.Delta
I always laugh whenever someone starts talking about "Ijaw warlike nature" or "Ijaw militancy and trouble making".

Igbo say that "Onye na ahubeghi agha na akpo ya "aya" "-a person who has never seen real war cannot even know the right pronunciation for "war".

With all due respect, only the Igbo and their Ibibio allies have tasted real war in the whole of Nigeria. Again quote me on that.
We lost about 25% of our population in the Biafran war, and we never stopped fighting except that some of our leaders decided to abandon the war. Nobody in Igboland bought into some "amnesty" even in the thick of FULL SCALE WAR, and with millions dead. For all I know, if Ojukwu had adopted guerilla tactics, the war could have lasted into 80s and 90s. All these was while Ijaw sold out Biafra because of fear.  
Anyway, folks can think whatever they like.

N.Delta:

Funny enough the Ikwerres in Rivers State will almost kill anyone that calls them Igbos, they do not want to be associated with the igbos in anyway even if they speak Igbo. I have tried to tell some of them that their igbos and not true Rivers indigenes but they were furious. The Aniomas will do anything to be known as Niger Deltans, they do not want to identify with the igbos although they speak ibo. I have one of them as class mates and she always make it very clear that she is not an Igbo girl.

KnowAll:

[size=16pt]Anioma and Ikwerres are special Igbos, they are distinct from the East Central Igbos, who are mono-culture, monotonous in their thinking and have a similar continuum of recent historical experience. The Ikwerres and Aniomas have co-habited and lived with non Igbo’s for centuries, which alone makes them unique necessitating reasons why they should preserve their own identity.

Just because they have Igbo names does not mean they should be amalgamated with the East Central Igbo’s. River Niger has made a natural boundary possible, nature has bestowed on them a separate identity. The isolation from the General pack of Eastern Igbo’s has infused into their culture other alien cultures which should be celebrated, why would one want to throw such rich heritage away for some fathom, fake merger just in the name of a GREATER Igbo Nation, this idea is similar to those 3rd Reich in Germany whose sole purpose was the Merger of all ethnic Germans in Czechs, Poles,
Austrian and Slovakia.

Merging the Ikwerrres and Aniomas to Eastern  Igbo’s is like calling for the merger of Austrians with the Germans or the German Swiss with Germany.

Although they are ALL German ethnically, they are unique in their outgoing, both in their tolerance level, and in their accommodation and reception of other non-German race. There tolerance level is higher than the average German from Germany,  so also is their social scalability, they would mix with other nationalities without carrying that proud German barge of being an almighty super race on their forehead.

Same argument can be proffered to the Ilorin’s who are clearly Yoruba’s, the SW does not have any covert plan or desire of annexing them, as they exist now, they have a rich history dating back to the days of Afonja of Ilorin and that history determines who they are, and how they came to be, if you merge them with the General Yoruba population they would lose their identity in a 100 to 200 year’s time
, that is why preservation of cultures slightly alien to the general population should be encourage,  even though they might speak the same language with the General community which in some cases might just be 5 miles down the road, preservation is very important and must be safeguarded at all cost. [/size]

Andre Uweh:

You are a no brainer at all. So if your deluded Ikwerre friends say they are not Igbo means Ikwerre is not Igbo. By your idiotic logic, if Sarakis say they are not Yorubas equates to Ilorins not Yoruba.
At a time when the president gen of Ohanaeze is an Anioma man yet you have the courage to chat about your misguided Anioma friend who does not know his identity. How about the president of the Igbo elite group-Aka Ikenga. Have you not known that he is an Anioma man?. Sometimes, some of you guys chat like people with two left legs.

ChinenyeN:

hmm. . maybe Egbesu and Ekwesu are related. .

Calculia:

^^My brother EzeUche, u should know by now that the ibibio are Igbos and Efik mix. They are technically Igbos of Efik decent. 

Calculia:

^^My brother EzeUche, u should know by now that the ibibio are Igbos and Efik mix. They are technically Igbos of Efik decent.

Calculia:

^^My brother EzeUche, u should know by now that the ibibio are Igbos and Efik mix. They are technically Igbos of Efik decent. 

Calculia:

^^Ok! Who are the ibibios den? Where did dey come from? Are dey Efik and how come they are many in Akwa Ibom  and the Efik in Croos River? The Igbo's  mainly traded by the coast with the fishing community and were not known for fishing and I am sure we inter-married with the Efik at some point. What happened to the offspring of that union or culture, becos it won't be Igbo today.  

jason123:

Small madness!!!

Ezeuche is talking to himself!!!

N.Delta:

Of course its idol worship, that is why most of the Ijaw villages are dropping it thereby loosing the original culture gradually.

ChinenyeN:

What I was saying was that maybe their war god, Egbesu, is related to our war god, Ekwesu.

EzeUche!:

Why are the Aro not considered such a unique clan even though Aro culture is a hybrid of Ekoi, Ibibio/Efik and Igbo culture?

Many Aro even have Ibibio surnames.

vicenzo:

Lol at anioma and ikwerre being "special igbos" what does that mean? The east central being mono cultural,i hate it when people whose knowledge about ndiigbo comes from what they read from junk journalists and who have not been to the east but like to comment on what they know nothing about.
Anioma and ikwerre are special because they have been interacting with non- igbo groups,then i guess the nsukka people,the izzi,aro are equally special igbos,this is ridiculous,it is not a must to comment,especially on issues you know nothing about.

Lol at anioma and ikwerre being "special igbos" what does that mean? The east central being mono cultural,i hate it when people whose knowledge about ndiigbo comes from what they read from junk journalists and who have not been to the east but like to comment on what they know nothing about.
Anioma and ikwerre are special because they have been interacting with non- igbo groups,then i guess the nsukka people,the izzi,aro are equally special igbos,this is ridiculous,it is not a must to comment,especially on issues you know nothing about.
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