atbu1983:


I am Esan. we share boundary with Anioma people of Delta state. You even have Ekpon who are both Esan and Anioma at d same time. They are bilingual. Most of the migrant from Benin Empire that form most of d today Anioma are esan. That is why Esan, ika, ukwuani and other Anioma people look alike.

Esan are descendant of Bini.

atbu1983:


I am Esan. we share boundary with Anioma people of Delta state. You even have Ekpon who are both Esan and Anioma at d same time. They are bilingual. Most of the migrant from Benin Empire that form most of d today Anioma are esan. That is why Esan, ika, ukwuani and other Anioma people look alike.

Esan are descendant of Bini.

Uniben4sure:
But why don't they look like Bini, but instead look like Igbo's. So many lies everywhere.

Uniben4sure:
But why don't they look like Bini, but instead look like Igbo's. So many lies everywhere.

lygn19:

what does an average Bini look like?

atbu1983:


Popular esan people are:

Tony Anenih former PDP board of trustee chairman

Anthony Enahoro d first man to move motion for nigeria independence

Admiral Augustine Ekhomu vice president under IBB

Cardinal Okojie. The second Nigeria catholic cardinal

There is alot of inter marriage btw esan and anioma people and also with Igbo. This may be d reason 4 d resemblance.

Even Tony Anenih has Igbo wife who became PDP women leader under GEJ

atbu1983:


Popular esan people are:

Tony Anenih former PDP board of trustee chairman

Anthony Enahoro d first man to move motion for nigeria independence

Admiral Augustine Ekhomu vice president under IBB

Cardinal Okojie. The second Nigeria catholic cardinal

There is alot of inter marriage btw esan and anioma people and also with Igbo. This may be d reason 4 d resemblance.

Even Tony Anenih has Igbo wife who became PDP women leader under GEJ

Uniben4sure:
I am more interested in the history of esan people because those people look so much like igbos, except that they don't speak the language.

When I see a Bini person, I easily identify the person. Likewise, ijaw, urhobo, itshekiri, Yoruba or Hausa. But once I see esans, I mistake them for Igbo's. It has happened to me severally.

So, I will like to read a clear history of esans.

aim5:


Yeah Esan are light like Igbos, and I'm like a reddish brown skintone, so many people have mistaken me for Igbo. Also, some Esan families have Portuguese heritage so that explains why some are light.

aim5:


Yeah Esan are light like Igbos, and I'm like a reddish brown skintone, so many people have mistaken me for Igbo. Also, some Esan families have Portuguese heritage so that explains why some are light.

lygn19:

guy go open another thread for this, nobody is holding u leave my thread for me.

aim5:


Shut up you dusty fool.. You mentioned me for no damn reason and now you're complaining. You shouldn't have mentioned me in the first place.

Uniben4sure:
Portuguese heritage?!??! .

Pls can you explain further?

lygn19:

see dz edo thief, u think say here na Beninland or Italyland stop following urself and growup... bloody tribalist, Igbo people dont hv ur time.

lygn19:
Let me buttress my number 3 points with some facts before and after the civil war, before the civil war there was some attempts by the Benin people to expel the Igbo territories of the Midwest comprising of the present day anioma in exchange for the eastern Ijaws because of there fear of igbo domination, "now check out this theory if this people were Benin people why such attempts"?.... Not only that it is on record what the Benin people did to the southsouth igbos of delta state when the federal troops entered Benin, they went around pointing out every Igbo person to be killed, there criteria for pointing was as far as ur name is chukwu or Chi or as far as u are not Ijaw, urhobo, itsekiri or Isoko or Benin then u were igbo, in this killing they left behind traiks of dead bodies and husbandless women, and even orphans in there paths it was a bloody period for the Southsouth igbos.

bokohalal:
Everyone here, the Op and other commentators, are very funny. One is even attempting a Divide and Rule and a group is gobbling it up. Since this is a comic show, let me oblige this thread and laugh: hehehehe!

aim5:


Well, I've heard that back when the Portuguese were in Nigeria in the 15th century, they traded and mingled with Benin Kingdom. And also since Esan was affiliated with the Benin Kingdom, the Portuguese also traded with them as well. And to cut a long story short, some Portuguese and Esan did the thing and as a result, mixed children came about. Now, not every lightskinned Esan has Portuguese or European heritage down their ancestral line, it's just that the links between Esan and the Portuguese is one of the things that brought about the fair skin in quite a few Esans today.

Uniben4sure:
OK oo.
It's really hard trying to distinguish most esans from Igbo's, and I need to be able to do that so as to avoid this "I am not Igbo" phrase when I meet an esan for the 1st time.

lygn19:

lol.... dont mind aim5 and that unibenstudent4sure, pure winches in disguise.

aim5:


Just ask them they're name first.. It won't hurt lol. Anyways if you want to know how I distinguish them, just PM me. So this puto doesn't get mad for derailing his thread.

Uniben4sure:
my pm isn't working. Say it here so that my other igbo brothers can benefit.

aim5:


Yeah Esan are light like Igbos, and I'm like a reddish brown skintone, so many people have mistaken me for Igbo. Also, some Esan families have Portuguese heritage so that explains why some are light.

Idiataqueen:
am esan too ple do mistaken me for igbo infact here in southwest all edos are igbos they dont know d diff between igbos and edos,am surprise and sad when igbos keep saying dat we edos are yoruba ,i dont blame them sha igbo dont forget and forgive easily i dont know dat edos have rejected them before well i dont care if they like they can call us hausa.

Idiataqueen:
am esan too ple do mistaken me for igbo infact here in southwest all edos are igbos they dont know d diff between igbos and edos,am surprise and sad when igbos keep saying dat we edos are yoruba ,i dont blame them sha igbo dont forget and forgive easily i dont know dat edos have rejected them before well i dont care if they like they can call us hausa.

Uniben4sure:
sweetie, I see every esan as igbo, because as far as I am concerned, that's what they are! I have met many esans in Benin and I don't see much difference in looks between esans and Igbo. Even the dark ones always have that Igbo appearance. On many occasions when I met esans, i had even started conversation with them in Igbo, only to be reminded they are not Igbo. Even at that , I still see them as igbos.

I feel more at home being with esans than Bini. That doesn't mean I hate binis anyway, even though many binis have their bias against igbos.

aim5:


Well, I've heard that back when the Portuguese were in Nigeria in the 15th century, they traded and mingled with Benin Kingdom. And also since Esan was affiliated with the Benin Kingdom, the Portuguese also traded with them as well. And to cut a long story short, some Portuguese and Esan did the thing and as a result, mixed children came about. Now, not every lightskinned Esan has Portuguese or European heritage down their ancestral line, it's just that the links between Esan and the Portuguese is one of the things that brought about the fair skin in quite a few Esans today.

Idiataqueen:
am esan too ple do mistaken me for igbo infact here in southwest all edos are igbos they dont know d diff between igbos and edos,am surprise and sad when igbos keep saying dat we edos are yoruba ,i dont blame them sha igbo dont forget and forgive easily i dont know dat edos have rejected them before well i dont care if they like they can call us hausa.

NOBLEDANDY:


OK you mean that the Portuguese only slept with esan mothers when trading with them but they paraventure didn't sleep with bini women when trading with them...
That's why esan is light skin sort of and look much like Igbos while bini are dark skin and look just like bini...

MA brother you too much...

aim5:


Well they probably did sleep with Benin women as well. I'm not insinuating that they only had relations with Esan women, that would be absurd for me to think that.