Will you get banned?

tobtap:
only peeps with INFERIORITY COMPLEX will claim the 75% of the entire slaves in another place,yet no visible proof thru(CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND CUISINE ) to back up their claims.
my candid opinion

PPAngel:
In Jamaica today a slang for fair skinned people is "Ebo".

This dates back to the slave era where Igbos were more likely to be light skinned

Also in Jamaica, they refer to the people from the country side as 'country ibo' till today.

Silly Igbos, you said? Will you get banned?

OgagaMic:
hmmm Good to knw

if its an Urhobo thread some silly Igbos go jst cum they talk rubbish, like they did @ https://www.nairaland.com/2289624/meet-ofoni-people-bayelsa-only

worst tin they b calling us lazy SOBos, Igbo's learn to respect other people culture and tradition so urs will b respected, always think u re d best SMH

anyway, Nice 1 op, Nigerians making name in US since 90BC without Nigeria no USA

psalmizt:
The history of the black man is and has always been as told my the white man. We existed before the 1800s. Only if we collectively desire to understand our roots will we finally find true peace. A lot can be taken away from a man by masking his history. Like they say, you cannot know know where you are going when you don't know where you re coming from. In a country that seems to show little interest in our history as a people, we can only piece together whatever we can find. The Nigerian history didn't start in 1960

but it only bgan wen d whites came (literally) cos nobody cn gv full acct of wot hapend b4 dem.

Chiso. !!!!! Igbo want steal ibibo n efik history again we knew the real origin of that hand writen google with help, just the way the steal the ikot epene riot and name its aba riot

Bight of biafra does not just signify Igbo ancestry, but also Ejagham, Efik, Ijaw, Cameroonian, Gabonese etc
Also those ideograms actually belong to the Ekoi/Ejaghams and the Efiks. Although some eastern Igbo (Like Arochukwu) groups may have also used it, it actually wasn't their creation.

bigfrancis21:


Also in Jamaica, they refer to the people from the country side as 'country ibo' till today.

I think 'Country Ibo' is a type of yam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jamaican_Patois_words_of_African_origin

ezeagu:


Obeah is an Igbo word, Obia, it means sciences.

"Obeah (sometimes spelled Obi, Obea, or Obia),[1] is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic, sorcery, and religious practices developed among West African slaves, specifically of Igbo origin."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeah

Okra is an Igbo word, which means that Igbo speakers were probably most identified with it, besides that, the question was about linguistic evidence and okra is just one word along with Eboe Drum, Red bone, and so on.

"The origin of the word junkanoo is rather obscure. Douglas Chambers, professor of African studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, suggests a possible Igbo origin from the Igbo yam deity Njoku Ji referencing festivities in time for the new yam festival. Chambers also suggests a link with the Igbo okonko masking tradition of southern Igboland which feature horned maskers and other masked characters in similar style to jonkonnu masks. Many of the colonies Jonkonnu was prominent, Bahamas, Jamaica, Virginia, had a relatively high percentage of Igbo people among the enslaved African population. Similarities with the Yoruba Egungun festivals have also been made."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkanoo

thanks

scholes0:
Bight of biafra does not just signify Igbo ancestry, but also Ejagham, Efik, Ijaw, Cameroonian, Gabonese etc
Also those ideograms actually belong to the Ekoi/Ejaghams and the Efiks. Although some eastern Igbo (Like Arochukwu) groups may have also used it, it actually wasn't their creation.

Nsibidi comes from the Ejagham, everyone else borrowed it and made their own variations to it which is part of their culture. The Bight of Biafra had many different people, but the majority taken were Igbo.

We neva knew we had ideogram, dey r cool if only dey r real n y ddn't dey bother to teach us.(alil doubt)

tyrannysucks:
I'm sure no one would ban you! But they'd look for others with minor sins!

What is my offence that calls for my banning?

PPAngel:
Yorubas are quick to claim Haiti but what they don't know os that Igbos dominate Jamaican culture and history

Between Haiti and Jamaica which would you prefer to visit?

actually, haiti is more of igbo than yoruba.

Emmanuel247:
Good to know

**modified**

Igbos have been everywhere


Were everywhere

And are still Everywhere.......





IGBO KWENU

U mean WERE everywhere?

ezeagu:


Nsibidi comes from the Ejagham, everyone else borrowed it and made their own variations to it which is part of their culture. The Bight of Biafra had many different people, but the majority taken were Igbo.

but the table did not state their tribes, but just their port of export only.
Also, who else borrowed Nsibiri except for the Eastern Igbos? It is just like the Ibibio hat Igbos wear, which they have also today made their own, without acknowledging it's actual origins

I'm just smiling

pinkguy:
Chiso. !!!!! Igbo want steal ibibo n efik history again we knew the real origin of that hand writen google with help, just the way the steal the ikot epene riot and name its aba riot

If we start mentioning things ethnic groups have borrowed from even Arabs and take it as their core culture, you will not like it.

tzoracle:
Nawa o

All dis igbo posts are starting to annoy me
It shows inferiority complex,stop digging out all this facts like like u need anyones validation

And before u judge
I'm igbo
Full blooded

You might think you are but a true igbo is smelled from a distance...
Really, I don't think you are!
A man's words makes him who he is in the public!
Imela

scholes0:
Bight of biafra does not just signify Igbo ancestry, but also Ejagham, Efik, Ijaw, Cameroonian, Gabonese etc
Also those ideograms actually belong to the Ekoi/Ejaghams and the Efiks. Although some eastern Igbo (Like Arochukwu) groups may have also used it, it actually wasn't their creation.

The tribe taken out of bight of biafra was mostly Igbo, followed by the Ibibios/Efiks of Mokos, and much less Ijaws.

Research shows that at least 60% of AAs have Igbo blood running in them. That is the lowest amount of african americans who have Igbo blood running in them is 60%. The population of african americans today is estimated at 45 million people, 60% of those translates to 27 million AAs having Igbo blood (partial or full) running in them.

For African Americans in particular, the ethnic groups that make up them are mostly Igbo, Akan, Mandingo, and Kongo.

DNA testing evidence has proven this fact correct. DNA cannot lie. There are very very few DNA testing results pointing to Ibibio/Efik, in line with slave records kept that have shown over and over that Igbo were a majority taken out of Biafra. At one time, out of 37,000 slaves taken out of bight of biafra, 30,000 were Igbos.

Igbos were favoured mostly by the british/English slave traders and were shipped out the most by the english than the portuguese to english-speaking colonies, as you can see from the records below:



This explains why Igbo presence in the americas is felt mostly in English speaing countries today - Jamaica, US, Barbados, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Carriacou etc.

NSIBIDI IS NOT IGBO LANGUAGE IT belong to EFIK,IBIBIO OGOJA PEOPLE

AlienStar:
but it only bgan wen d whites came (literally) cos nobody cn gv full acct of wot hapend b4 dem.

I don't think so. There's an account that dates back to 1400s of the Benin Kingdom's interaction with the Portuguese. I believe the white man knows some of this and is unwilling to share. Trust me it is better for us to piece this little puzzles together than carry on as if we had no past. I yearn for movies that depicts some of these history. Sick and tired of knowing about medieval Europe and nothing about my fatherland. If we don't cherish whatever history we have, no one will do it for us.

hamilton62:

You might think you are but a true igbo is smelled from a distance...
Really, I don't think you are!
A man's words makes him who he is in the public!
Imela

Nwanne m maka zi na abu m onye igbo ichoghi ka m kwuo ihe di m na uche

Because I'm igbo
I can't speak my thoughts

duni04:

Madam scammer, where is the evidence of the dominance? Or are Jamaicans so ashamed of their "Igbo(hemp) heritage" that we've never heard of any Igbo(hemp) association?

Google no dey collect money.

Igbo uprisings in Jamaica and the surronding caribean greatly influenced abolition of slavery.

The Igbos were more than ever to run away and suicide was also rampant among Igbo and Efik slaves who preferred death than slavery.

But typical in today's world the Yoruba slave was very much subservient to his or her white masters.

In haiti igbos also dominated the rebellion that ousted the French and made Haiti the first independent black nation in the northern hemisphere.

So before you beat your foul chest that they speak Yoruba in Haiti know that your people where not trusted among the slaves back then. The only reason Yoruba language was encouraged was to stiffle the rebellious Igbo language which was used by mutious slaves to plan their revolt

Slave so when ever you see rihanna know you are seeing Nkechi

scholes0:


but the table did not state their tribes, but just their port of export only.
Also, who else borrowed Nsibiri except for the Eastern Igbos? It is just like the Ibibio hat Igbos wear, which they have also today made their own, without acknowledging it's actual origins

Because a lot of the times the slaves ethnicity (although sometimes generalised) were noted. If you look up some books you will see the the main ethnic group from the Bight was Igbo.

Nsibidi is used by other Cross River groups like Ibibio, Efik, and as far as Idoma, etc. How can they not acknowledge its origins when the hats variations carry Ibibio names or the occasions when its used are Ibibio cultures like Ekpe? The hat spread out and was picked up by different Igbo groups as fashion, but the Aro people, Ohafia and other Cross River Igbo groups are not drawing or debating any cultures with Ibibio, Annang, Ekoi and other groups who they have connected with.

scholes0:
Bight of biafra does not just signify Igbo ancestry, but also Ejagham, Efik, Ijaw, Cameroonian, Gabonese etc
Also those ideograms actually belong to the Ekoi/Ejaghams and the Efiks. Although some eastern Igbo (Like Arochukwu) groups may have also used it, it actually wasn't their creation.

Please tell them. Nsibidi originated from the tribes of Cross River. It was adopted in Igboland, but it was not created by the Igbo. This is a silly misrepresentation that annoys one to no end.

duni04:

Madam scammer, where is the evidence of the dominance? Or are Jamaicans so ashamed of their "Igbo(hemp) heritage" that we've never heard of any Igbo(hemp) association?

Jamaican Poet/Dub artist Oku Nagbala Ozara Onuora.

tzoracle:


Nkita lacha gi anya
Anu mpama
Iti akwu
Ewu gambia

you be otele okuko
amu udele