Igbo's Be United {from Ikwere To Kwale} There Is Nothing Like Fake Igbo

Good point Chxta,I am extremely proud of my Igbo heritage and know several Ikwerre and delta Igbos who refer to themselves as Igbos and I'm proud of them too.

I was a child in PH when Umuola and umueme became rumuola and rumueme to make them sound 'rivers'.
Elechi Amadi(the author of the book concubine)  was one of the champions of this Ikwerre minority thing,he  is still alive I suppose,so lioness it hasn't been that far away,
It was all political,there are certain advantages to be granted minority status in Nigeria,I'm sure the politicians know what the bottom line is.

What makes an ethnic group is great similarity in language,looks,names,foods,cultural festivals like new yam festival  which is universal amongst all igbos including the Ikwerre people not what state you belonged to.
It is a pity the Ikwerres have long been dominated by the Ijaws who promised them heaven and earth politically gave them a new identity to foster their hatred for Igbos and told them they were better off in rivers than identifying with their ethnicity.With the treatment the Igbos received during the war,who can blame them for denying their heritage.

The truth however remains unchanged and it is so glaring.I would gladly not call an Ikwerre man Igbo if he so prefers,just because we refer to a snake as 'ihe ogologo'
(the long thing)does not make him any less harmful.

My Mother is Ikwerre and she and my father speak the same language and she doesen't deny her IGBO heritage.

To Chxta




        The arrogance you are talking about seems have prevalence in character, [please I don't mean this in any negative way] judging by few of your  threads i 've come across in the past, wining your argument is paramount and it supersids every other things, making you to trade every meaningful or positive fruit your argument would have brought about, creating a situation that eliminates all the positives even to level of bankruptcy making you to look antagonistic, and when you are in this sphere you might be seen as a sell out.
       

        You present yourself as somebody who never sees anything good in an IBO person and that would always sabotage your effort in getting your message across, and I can't see in anyway that is helping, If you are really an IBO SON, you also have a job to do, but do it the right way, you will even enjoy it, the only problem I have with you is that withen all this confusions I don't really know where you stand. You will agree with me that with awareness in letting people know more of there history things would really get better, please don't get crossed with me in advance, thank you.
       

        By the way your name Chxta in polish means ''clean'', though is written as chiysto, so why don't you try being clean, is a joke though.

To afam4eva




Your statement has just convinced me that am not wasting my time with this thread, may GOD bless your family, and bless you to for coming out to say it the way it is, and I would be expecting this to encourage people with this same setting or which other way it is to come out and air there views, cause it would go a long way to educate us all.

To lioness


          This afam4eva post I quoted below will be able to answer your question, so you wont judge everybody by the bad treatment you seem to have received from some few ignorants, and this is why I initiated the thread in the first place, cause we are all are to be blamed for this problems one way or the other , like you for example if you continue to shut your self away from your own people, how can you meet the good ones.

[PLEASE THIS EXAMPLE IS STRICTLY MEANT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF UNITY AMONG IBO'S AND NOT DIRECTED TO THE ONITSHA INDIGIENES, CAUSE AM ONE MYSELF]

          Do you know that in the past even an ONITSHA indigiene would tell you he is not an IBO person and call other IBO'S  ''NWA OYIGBO'', but today with the help of information, that wont happen cause people know there history, and they are proud to be IBO'S and are proud of there heritage.

          Let me give you a real life example of what that happened in the past, there was this ONITSHA girl that met another IBO guy from another town and they fell in love, when the girl brought the guy home to introduce the guy to t
her family cause they wanted to get married. Do you know what the the girl told here parents?; she said mum and dad please keep your Nwa Oyigbo thing to yourselves, if you are not Igbo's I am, and am getting married.






            Don't ever think in the least that this thread is only directed towards the IKWERRE and DELTA IBO'S alone, no, this thread is meant to educate every IBO person, this thread is a check point, this thread is meant to show every IBO person that they should reconsider there attitudes towards there fellow IBO'S, IBO'S can only be one and that is the only way we can grow, the talents are already there, unity is what we bitterly lack, if this unity is achieved believe me the sky would be the limits.




          Well I don't really know what you meant by these, but if we start to talk about these am sure a lot of people would have a lot to say, then issues like abandoned properties would come, these things are in the past, these things are bygone, lets talk about today and tomorrow, our future. Yesterday is gone make tomorrow your best friend, GOD bless us all.

Thanks for listening.

@babyosisi

Whatever OK 

Ibo are proud of there culture, tribe etc.
So also is Ikwere proud of there own nationality, so all  hail lioness

IMAO 

Amen, Giorgio

Igbo kwenu, kwezuenu Iseeeeeeee!

To Zulunation



Ka Chineke mezie okwu Nwannem, Ogemesia dinma.

lioness is just a greating "kwenu" am not Ibo but those small stuff we in Niger no them, Unity in Diversity

Lioness you see, so you planning to spent the rest of your life with an Ibo man and u are talking like this. You must be kidding

@lioness but if your guy sees these he would be very surprice, i guess u sometimes have hot dabate about this issue

Your children would enjoy it and the would know more about there country