Afam4eva:
In Nkanu where i come from, i hear people use "wa" for "no" but i don't know if it's indegenous to Nkanu or a borrowed culture. What part of Enugu is your Mum from?

PAGAN 9JA:


well then broadcast it. do it in a cultural way. There is a way of doing things. THose women are not completely unclad. Infact when I see those pictures , i feel respect not attraction.

you must be really sick in the head to entertain such feelings towards these graceful tribal women.

ShyM-X:


Errm... I don't think the civil war did and don't forget the Western region was the first to be balkanized, with the creation of the Mid-West... and Lagos Island was also the capital of Nigeria and not part of the Western region... Suffice to say; the West had already been divided into three... Yoruba's are lucky because they already fought their own civil war in the 19th century and that enabled all the different subgroups to find a common ground as a larger group..

Anyway, "Nigeria" is the "glue" that's keeping everyone together for now - once "Nigeria" crumbles - so many Nigeria would be birthed in the new countries...

PAGAN 9JA:


well then broadcast it. do it in a cultural way. There is a way of doing things. THose women are not completely unclad. Infact when I see those pictures , i feel respect not attraction.

you must be really sick in the head to entertain such feelings towards these graceful tribal women.

ShyM-X:


You're cray, bro!!!

Why did you post a picture of "Nkechi, Chioma, and Ngozi" to buttress ya point??

You love ancient fresh ti.ts without acidic bras, don't you?

You know people can't be walking around looking like that in this day and age - they've upped the swag, and you need to let them be...

Anyway, stop arguing with that troll - she'll continue to sign on with other IDs to like her own fugly and half-witted posts...

Do ya thang, bro - paganism for Africa...

Hotep!!

stillwater:
The Western region was not balkanized on the eve of a pending war where heated sentiments were already haywire. Or was it? The Western people were not killed for just being an ethnic group. That's the difference. Shymmex do you think somebody called Effiong can fight along someone called Ojukwu in Nigeria today? I doubt it. That's the kind of dissent I'm talking about today. The Eastern region was on its part on developing a sense of camaraderie before it was squashed by the civil war. I don't even attribute Nigeria as the glue but the mechanisms of the British.

ShyM-X:


However, why was the Western region balkanised, and both the Eastern and Northern region were left untouched? The politics that both Zik and Ahmadu played against the Western region, came back to haunt them... and there was no reason to balkanise the West again, since it had been done earlier...

Anyway, you're trying to drag the argument into what caused the civil... However, you need to understand that every action has an equal(or more) opposite reaction... Well, Yoruba's didn't plot any coup, neither did they taunt nor hack down Northerners in their region - so you don't expect people to kill them for being Yoruba's - do you? Heck, their leaders were hacked down both groups that executed both the first coup and counter-coup...

There was never any camaraderie in the Eastern region - all the other ethnic groups have always had reservations about Igbos... Heck, that was the same reason why South Cameroon left Nigeria... Ojukwu also further destroyed any hope(s) of camaraderie by declaring a country without consulting the other minority ethnic groups... Perhaps, that was why most of them fought against Biafra...

ShyM-X:
I'll like to know - I'm all ears...

Oh well, that's between you and bittyend...

stillwater:
So why did an Effiong fight along side an Ojukwu? Was he held at gunpoint? Also, remember we've been living peaceably and trading with our neighbors compared to other ethnic groups outside the east that were fighting and swallowing other subgroups. So yes there was a sense of camaraderie. Emi lo so be

We are now going off topic. Let's restate it. The dissent among the South Eastern groups . That was why I told you there's a difference between the balkanization in the West because there was not a coup, pending civil war and there was an already established Western identity under a monarchical system hence dissent could not be created.

stillwater:

So why did an Effiong fight along side an Ojukwu? Was he held at gunpoint? Also, remember we've been living peaceably and trading with our neighbors compared to other ethnic groups outside the east that were fighting and swallowing other subgroups. So yes there was a sense of camaraderie. Emi lo so be

We are now going off topic. Let's restate it. The dissent among the South Eastern groups . That was why I told you there's a difference between the balkanization in the West because there was not a coup, pending civil war and there was an already established Western identity under a monarchical system hence dissent could not be created.

bigfrancis21:

No, I mean the wawa people of Enugu state. You haven't heard of the wawa people before? They were called 'wawa' because they are known to say 'wa' for 'no', rather than 'mba'.
Ask anybody you know from Enugu state.

ShyM-X:


However, why was the Western region balkanised, .

Afam4eva:
Wawa is a general term used to describe people from Enugu and not a particular clan. I'm from Enugu btw.

odumchi: I won't allow this thread to descend into another "Nigeria vs Biafra" political engagement. The purpose of this thread is to discuss omenali ndi Igbo (Igbo traditions/culture) and anyone who wishes to discuss anything other than that should seek entertainment elsewhere. Just making it clear.

ngozievergreen:
well, it stems from the fact we say wawa as 'no'. Esp in my villa

Afam4eva:
Which village in Enugu are you from?

Awka people also use Wawa.

ngozievergreen:
Nkanu west- Akpugo precisely