Goodboiyy:


Yea I think maybe its because we share boundary, Buh the ilaje language is 80-70% itskeri .

we influenced u guys, #kidding

Lol... history has it that it's the other way round
Besides I have my family name in Itsekiri

no2fuks:


eating with chopstick is unique eating with ur bare hands is barbaric.
im just being honest.

I'm afraid you're wrong. The concept of uniqueness may be subjective, just as artistic may follow the same.

About your bare hands, tell me, have tried any of our 'swallows' before?

If at all you have or have seen people do so, would you say they're barbaric because they eat with their bare hands?

Lizards are disgusting and irritating to behold in most part of Nigeria. Yet, it is a delicacy in most Asian countries. That I say it's 'barbaric' to eat may not necessarily be true since I was only able to judge from my viewpoint.

no2fuks:


there is no "our" speak for yourself. just because they study you does not mean they want to be like you. to civilized ppl this is like animal planet/ national geo.

You think so? Have you had the chance to speak with any of them?

Nicepoker:
how about ife. Don't u know the meaning in yoruba?

Ife is love in yellowbar, Obi is king in Igbo

Goodboiyy:


We gat no link with Igbo, Pls stop url influence stuff,

Thanks

Obi is an Igbo word jor!

rubbish, how can She be a witch and all her children up to great grand children are alive and doing well. it's a pity her educated kids allowed that to happen

Goodboiyy:

You re a Disgrace to Africa
Did be grateful if you stop commenting on Culture section, Thanks

f**k outta here with that motherland crap. you need people like me.

Sanchez01:

I'm afraid you're wrong. The concept of uniqueness may be subjective, just as artistic may follow the same.

About your bare hands, tell me, have tried any of our 'swallows' before?

If at all you have or have seen people do so, would you say they're barbaric because they eat with their bare hands?

Lizards are disgusting and irritating to behold in most part of Nigeria. Yet, it is a delicacy in most Asian countries. That I say it's 'barbaric' to eat may not necessarily be true since I was only able to judge from my viewpoint.

what does eating lizards have to do with eating with chopstick vs. bare hands. some people eat dog in nigeria and all kinds of animals (shrugs) focus on the topic at hand lets not go off point.

1miccza:

You think so? Have you had the chance to speak with any of them?

of cuz.

no2fuks:

of cuz.

If i hear

Happiness87:
rubbish, how can She be a witch and all her children up to great grand children are alive and doing well. it's a pity her educated kids allowed that to happen

i tire o! How do they even identify a witch? I suspect jealousy the reason why she was branded a witch, as for her educated children? Perhaps they are not that educated to have let that happened

By the way, you gat nice butt

1miccza:


If i hear

4real tho lol but you dont need the white mans approval to be aware and gain a higher level of consciousness

Goodboiyy:

U must b sick, he far do u know d itsekiri people. ?
If I may ask were re u from ?

I am an Urhobo and I know the Itsekiri people very well. They are very cunning.

no2fuks:


4real tho lol but you dont need the white mans approval to be aware and gain a higher level of consciousness

I would rather opt for maybe a bit of modification or sophistication of these traditions..

1miccza:


I would rather opt for maybe a bit of modification or sophistication of these traditions..

maybe more than a bit but I agree with you op.

How do they even identify this witch and witchcraft? What are the qualifications of a witch or witchcraft?
Who identifies this witch and witchcrafts?
It takes a witch or witchcraft to know a witchcraft, i think

Lastly, what if i say i am a witch/wizard, now what?
What are they gonna do? Africans wake up! From archaic slumber

I go like sleep for dat evil Fforest so dat I can make money ooo

fr3do:
The chief priest's title is Obi ife
That is Igbo influence right there!

lmao..look at them here again..wantin 2 claim evrifin..Yes na..u guys created n developed delta state too,nd d whole southsouth.
!

Mustlive:


The Itsekiris are from the same lineage with the Yorubas and that is the reason the language is very similar. Compare the Ilaje ethnic group and the Itsekiris language, extremely similar.

How ever the kingdom is offspring of Benin Kingdom.

they (itsekiri) migrated from ijebu kingdom

Goodboiyy:


No, We re itsekiri they re Yoruba, but we still see them as brothers. our language sound similar with Yoruba making us 1 of the key branch of yoroboid language, e.g my name is Ayo, my cousins bears Shola , so we re almost the same, but different culture, our culture is from Bini.

yes Benin culture might have had an influence on your people but your ancestors are from ijebu kingdom either ways ijebu, yoruba, Benin all are one

fr3do:


Obi is an Igbo word jor!

"Obi" in Yoruba could mean parent or " he ask". ife is ifa in yoruba so contextually obi ife could mean "someone that asks the ifa" or simply put ifa's messenger

otiigba1:
How do they even identify this witch and witchcraft? What are the qualifications of a witch or witchcraft?
Who identifies this witch and witchcrafts?
It takes a witch or witchcraft to know a witchcraft, i think

Lastly, what if i say i am a witch/wizard, now what?
What are they gonna do? Africans wake up! From archaic slumber

kindly take a second look at the article. All your answered are provided therein.

todayguest:
kindly take a second look at the article. All your answered are provided therein.

i have, still makes no sense all read is people still practising an ancient archaic tradition/believes perhaps they should also kill twin children as that is also an ancient and an archaic believe/tradition that twin children were evil

Anyway, what do i know? People has the the right to practise/believe what they want, i don't believe there is a thing called witch,witcraft or wizard

Goodboiyy:


God bless u, its a mixture of 70% of all. Yoruba dialect, Ilaje, Ijebu etc

but we re diff, We re itsekiri. they re Yoruba,
#Still happy they respect our decision

Om'Iwerre dede.

donphilopus:
This also happens in Somorika, in Akoko Edo, Edo State Nigeria!

It also happens in Ibillo in Akoko Edo. I think Igarra too

I remember Ndele in Emuoha LGA Rivers state where i serve (NYSC). Making love to woman on the floor is forbidden and punishable by gods of Ndele land. Even when on the bed both leg or any of the participants should not mistakenly touch the floor, if you go to the room of any Ndele man or woman, their mattresses are high as mount Kilimanjaro, we found out that the norms does not affect non-indigene but will affect the person you make love with either man or woman.

Anyone who violate the norms will die and the corps thrown into evil forest. To me its like they want to scare me, but it doesn't stop me but the girls will beg me to be careful to avoid leg touch the floor.

I no fit leave those fine girls go free, even up till today i still keep their contact, i called them when i want to. In my village we don't have evil forest, so to me it does not exist

1miccza:


Take it or leave it bro it still remains our culture and that is what makes us unique

unique you say? Yes we are so unique, we always have the highest hit from epidemics, we seem to be the victim of racism, the ones with poor economy. If we can't love ourselves, the world won't.

fr3do:


Ife is love in yellowbar, Obi is king in Igbo

then u have a king that loves his people.

TonySpike:
This should be in the culture section. It seems 'Ife' in Itsekiri is definitely cognate to "Ifa" in Yoruba. "Bibi Ife" would mean "Bibi ifa", that is to "ask ifa". Is Ifa knowledge practised among the Itsekiris ?

Cc. Macof 9jacrip

Is ifs knowledge peculiar to yoruba's alone?

fr3do:

Obi is an Igbo word jor!

Okay Mr, av heard, Igbo influence Itsekiri, Bye

omotoyossi:
lmao..look at them here again..wantin 2 claim evrifin..Yes na..u guys created n developed delta state too,nd d whole southsouth.
!

I just ignored the fool, Am itsekiri and I can proudly say we gat no link with Igbo, So jst leave d guy, make e dey fool himself

Goodboiyy:


No, We re itsekiri they re Yoruba, but we still see them as brothers. our language sound similar with Yoruba making us 1 of the key branch of yoroboid language, e.g my name is Ayo, my cousins bears Shola , so we re almost the same, but different culture, our culture is from Bini.

And bini coulture is imbibe in yoruba,so they are mutually related