Why Do Yorubas Classify Every Other Nigerians As Igbo

and how do you say Yoruba in Igbo?

no. i mean "yoruba person"


ex. "she is a yoruba" rather than "she is a yoruba person"
how do you say the "person" in igbo language.

i don't know where you lived Wes, but since I was young i've been taught to differentiate among different groups, first by names, and then later by language or dressing as i learned more.

even yoruba people call them 'bede' or Bendel people. and yoruba people definitely do not call people from the 'far east'  (- Efik, Ibibio, Anang ) igbo, the mistake is more often likely to call the person 'calabar'.

these are no excuses though, our school system should do more to educate people about other parts of the country, that is the single remaining usefulness of the NYSC thing when its not 'arranged'

I for one try to know people's specific tribe/locale, I like entiching my knowledge of the variants of cultures abounding in Nigeria.

I don't support name calling in general, but the yoruba's love this too much, there is a name for everything, even amongst themselves e.g ara oke (people from oyo/osun states) ojuyobo (tinubu) amongst many others. I don't see this as vindictive, its just a cultural trait that may not be well received by others. mutual consideration is what is required in this case.

Ofei mmanu. . . !


Yup. You are right. It means 'uptown' people or those from the upper land. It was used to refer to distance, in the past. But they also use the name for Northern Yoruba folks from Kwara & Kogi as well, not just Osun. Hehehehe. . . 

i have a question!!
is badagry a part of lagos? they speak a different language.


i'll remember to curse out whoever calls me this, thanks!! j/k

OMG i remember this!!!
 this was such a long time ago

I just used to assume that badagry was part of togo because of their different language. but it was just a guess. i wasn't sure.
thanks

so, what does it mean? 

i'll take it that it doesn't translate to "yoruba person." it means something else.

lmao. i don't cook oily soup (yeah, well, maybe sometimes)

but if "the people that cook oily soup" is acceptable, how is "child/descendant of igbo" not acceptable?

ofe mmanu is not acceptable I was kidding and neither is omo anything.
We should learn to call people by their names.
It is rude to call anyone child of anything when they have a name.

LIES all LIES!! we are healthy and strong gidigba, nothing do us.

there is nothing like transfat in naija, na oyibo man problem be that 

oh yeah definitely. that's rude if you know the person's name and even if you don't, one can ask.

i will only use "omo" when i'm describing someone or a group.

I love how Donz acts like he speaks for all Igbos, so because he and the "people he knows" don't call Edos Yorubas, that means all Igbos don't make that same mistake.

abeg, sharrap jare.

It's just irritating how you keep comparing your own individual experience with everything

So because the people that surrounded you years ago supposedly never confused Edos for being Yorubas that means every Igbo person has never been guilty of such? dude just sharrap over there, jere.

Nah

What are you talking about?. . .I've been to the states a million times, Detroit is 2 hrs. away from me!

Anyway, maybe you've heard at some odd place but most people do not call Edos, Yorubas.

See it's comical when people misrepresent ideas. If a person from Akoko-Edo who bears a Yoruba name is mistaken for Yoruba, that's a whole different thing. I've mistaken an Edo person from Auchi as Hausa in the past.

This isn't the same thing as the claim that Igbos OFTEN mistake Edo people as Yoruba, I already told you, if they bear a name that isn't Calabar (sorry Efik), or Yoruba and they're not from the North, we just call them Bendel/Edo/Delta,