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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by bibe(m): 3:26pm On Oct 16, 2017
logica:
LOL..."an area in Guinea called Eboe".

In those times, many places (areas) were represented with a generalized name such as Guinea. Guinea isn't actually an African name so to speak.
Fun fact, do you know that Igbo language is listed as one of the recognised regional languages of present day Equitorial Guinea?

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by TheKingIsHere: 3:27pm On Oct 16, 2017
giftq:


Please stop hating on Mazi Olauda Ikwuano with your disorganized argumentation.

Igbo amaka grin grin
Okay..

Ngozi123 i hope you are seeing the example of the sick mentality am talking about?

Anyone that has a contrary view is hating...SMH
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by rufychuks: 3:28pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:


This narration in this picture is similar to what is on https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Interesting_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Olaudah_Equiano,_or_Gustavus_Vassa,_the_African/Chapter_1 which ngozi123 considers a non-reliable source
Calm down, my brother. It clearly isn't. He stated there that the Benin Kingdom was the greatest kingdom in the Guinea region and that they were supposed to be subject to the King but he never saw any influence of the king in his hometown. Chiefs were the custodians of law.
There is no way a great kingdom like the Benin empire would not have been heard of from other places. The people would have been in awe of such a king. However, it doesn't necessarily mean the king had any immediate impact in their lives.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 3:30pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:


Whenever you are told the truthm the person becomes igbophobic.
But you have NOT told any truth.
You just exhibited more Igbo-phobia and Nigerian dullardism.
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by TheKingIsHere: 3:32pm On Oct 16, 2017
giftq:

But you have NOT told any truth.
You just exhibited more Igbo-phobia and Nigerian dullardism.

Okay.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 3:33pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:
Okay..

Ngozi123 i hope you are seeing the example of the sick mentality am talking about?

Anyone that has a contrary view is hating...SMH
You have provided NO EVIDENCE to back up your contrary opinion.

Personal disbelief and Igbo-phobia are not evidence, you know . . .

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 3:33pm On Oct 16, 2017
Olaudah Equiano is from Delta Igbo not Anambra.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by TheKingIsHere: 3:36pm On Oct 16, 2017
rufychuks:

Calm down, my brother. It clearly isn't. He stated there that the Benin Kingdom was the greatest kingdom in the Guinea region and that they were supposed to be subject to the King but he never saw any influence of the king in his hometown. Chiefs were the custodians of law.
There is no way a great kingdom like the Benin empire would not have been heard of from other places. The people would have been in awe of such a king. However, it doesn't necessarily mean the king had any immediate impact in their lives.

Can you show me the part in the picture that is not similar in what was in the link provided?

As for the other parts, I dont know where you got the assertions from.
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 3:36pm On Oct 16, 2017
igbodefender:
Olaudah Equiano is from Delta Igbo not Anambra.
Delta-Igbo is Igbo that lives in the Delta region

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by TheKingIsHere: 3:42pm On Oct 16, 2017
giftq:

You have provided NO EVIDENCE to back up your contrary opinion.

Personal disbelief and Igbo-phobia are not evidence, you know . . .

oK, lets wait for ngozi123 own reliable source that gave a full detailed narration in chapters about olaudah life.

I hope the wait wont be forever.
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 3:45pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:


oK, lets wait for ngozi123 own reliable source that gave a full detailed narration in chapters about olaudah life.

I hope the wait wont be forever.
Stop hating.
Igbo amaka grin grin

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by timsTNA: 3:47pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:


So you are saying that Olaudah is an Igbo man from Estako which is a village in Edo state, a non-igbo state right?

Do you also agree that igbos were under the rule of the Benin Empire and migrated out of Benin? Yes or no

I need your answers to these questions.

Like I said before ngozi123 answered that question. If you cannot gettm yourself to reading and understanding her post then I also won't go out of my way to explain

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by bigfrancis21: 3:48pm On Oct 16, 2017
Pigsandidiots:
Calm down your vociferous behavior. The world knows him as igbo but his wikki says otherwise. Can you mention his igbo name? His wiki said he's from etsako in edo, you people are saying people distorted it. Does wikki also hate igbos to lie about his tribe and origin?

If you went to the university and you did final-year project then you should know that wikipedia is never a reliable source of research. Anybody can go to Wikipedia to edit articles and some of their information are never verified. Moreover, the Etsako you see on wiki was just edited into the article today by some anonymous person from nairaland whereas 99% other articles on his origin all say 'Ebo', 'Igbo' etc.

Now I put it to you. Provide us academic or linguistic evidence, asides unreliable wikipedia, that he was from Etsako.
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by TheKingIsHere: 3:49pm On Oct 16, 2017
timsTNA:


Like I said before ngozi123 answered that question. If you cannot gettm yourself to reading and understanding her post then I also won't go out of my way to explain

Lol, it is obvious you are not man enough to answer the question by yourself.

I rest my case.
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by timsTNA: 3:50pm On Oct 16, 2017
igbodefender:
Olaudah Equiano is from Delta Igbo not Anambra.


I'm sure Equano didn't write Delta Igbo cos the term delta igbo came into existence in the 19th century
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by timsTNA: 3:50pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:


Lol, it is obvious you are not man enough to answer the question by yourself.

I rest my case.

Bye bye

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by rufychuks: 3:51pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:


Can you show me the part in the picture that is not similar in what was in the link provided?

As for the other parts, I dont know where you got the assertions from.
What exactly do you want to know? Is it that Olaudah was not Igbo or that the Igbos were under the Benin Empire?
If you read the writings on the pictures I posted, you will clearly see that those are customs of the Igbo.
Please do not argue without concrete facts. The book is there for all to read. After reading it, then you can make your conclusions. Do not dwell on Wikipedia posts which can be made by anyone. Read what Olaudah himself wrote.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by bigfrancis21: 3:53pm On Oct 16, 2017
TheKingIsHere:


So you are saying that Olaudah is an Igbo man from Estako which is a village in Edo state, a non-igbo state right?

Do you also agree that igbos were under the rule of the Benin Empire and migrated out of Benin? Yes or no

I need your answers to these questions.

A small part of Igboland was subject to the Bini empire, especially the anioma region, not the entire Igboland. We all know that. Just as Lagos and some other areas of Yorubaland were under the Bini empire also, do we say that the Yorubas were under the rule of Benin empire and migrated out of Benin? After all the Obanikoro family of Lagos state is from Bini?
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by MetaPhysical: 3:54pm On Oct 16, 2017
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Chukwuemeka Ojukwu
Nzeogwu

Each of these were born in North, in Hausa speaking territory and they spoke fluent Hausa. If these people had been caught and sold into slavery while still young as Olaudah was, their memory of birth, environment and mode of expression would be nothing but Hausa and Hausaland. If asked about their birth and environment it would all be relative to Hausa culture, even though their true ethnicity and background is non-Hausa. Correct?

There are many Ibos today born in North and never stepped foot in Iboland and cant even speak Ibo. All they understand is Hausa. Same with Ibos born and raised in Yorubaland. Olaudah should be viewed in same fate, a man of non-Ibo origin, born and raised in Ibo culture.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Candyrain(m): 3:56pm On Oct 16, 2017
comos:


Is it possible for an Educated man at that era to write the word Igbo as Eboe

consult wikipedia for his authentic story and stop twisting history

You would have been taken more serious if you had asked her to consult his biography/book which is very much available for download online rather than screaming Wikipedia.

I have the book and nowhere was Etsako or Benin Nigeria, like you have been screaming over the thread mentioned rather what u have there is Essaka. If you are confused about who Essaka people are subsequent pages of his book shed more light on that.

So leave Wikipedia and try lay your hands on his book
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 3:57pm On Oct 16, 2017
MetaPhysical:
a man of non-Ibo origin, born and raised in Ibo culture.

Any evidence of his non-Igbo origin ?

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by degamemaster(m): 4:03pm On Oct 16, 2017
Biafra/Igbo.... the light of the entire black race . I can see some many zombies here trying to rewrite history to suit their Zombiefied brains. Make una continue, it won't change the fact that NNAMDI KANU is the face of modern anti slavery crusade. GOD BLESS BIAFRA AND BIAFRANS!

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by dubxy(m): 4:09pm On Oct 16, 2017
Afonjas are fucking bastards
Why was a wikipedia page edited today ??
ohhhh ! to increase their propaganda and lies

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 4:11pm On Oct 16, 2017
dubxy:
Afonjas are fucking bustards
Why was a wikipedia page edited today ??
ohhhh ! to increase their propaganda and lies
hahahahahahahahahaha
If they want, they can edit it 300 times in one day

Igbo amaka grin grin

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by rufychuks: 4:11pm On Oct 16, 2017
MetaPhysical:
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Chukwuemeka Ojukwu
Nzeogwu

Each of these were born in North, in Hausa speaking territory and they spoke fluent Hausa. If these people had been caught and sold into slavery while still young as Olaudah was, their memory of birth, environment and mode of expression would be nothing but Hausa and Hausaland. If asked about their birth and environment it would all be relative to Hausa culture, even though their true ethnicity and background is non-Hausa. Correct?

There are many Ibos today born in North and never stepped foot in Iboland and cant even speak Ibo. All they understand is Hausa. Same with Ibos born and raised in Yorubaland. Olaudah should be viewed in same fate, a man of non-Ibo origin, born and raised in Ibo culture.

The way you guys just formulate stories from thin air is astonishing! Olaudah Equiano wrote his autobiography. He stated where he was born, he talked about his father and mother. He wrote about their customs and traditions. Please where did you get this assumption that he was born far from his homeland? Haba! Argument is not by force o!

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by timsTNA: 4:13pm On Oct 16, 2017
giftq:

You have provided NO EVIDENCE to back up your contrary opinion.

Personal disbelief and Igbo-phobia are not evidence, you know . . .

God bless you

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 4:15pm On Oct 16, 2017
giftq:

Delta-Igbo is Igbo that lives in the Delta region


Yes. Just reacting to the headline that says he is from today's Anambra State. He was from Ashaka in Anioma.

What matters to me is that he was Igbo. He was nwa afor Ala Igbo.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by GavelSlam: 4:15pm On Oct 16, 2017
TEYA:

WHO TOLD THIS GOAT THAT I AM A MUSLIM?

If you don't agree with him then you must be Muslim and House.
Ipob logic 101.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 4:18pm On Oct 16, 2017
timsTNA:



I'm sure Equano didn't write Delta Igbo cos the term delta igbo came into existence in the 19th century

On the contrary, in his great book The Travels Of Gustavus Vassa The African, he kept repeating "I am Iboe, I am Iboe", which is good enough for me.

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Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by MetaPhysical: 4:20pm On Oct 16, 2017
giftq:

Any evidence of his non-Igbo origin ?

You seem to be interested in what I have to say. This is good.
If you want to have this conversation I need you to respond to the whole content of my initial submission.
Thanks.
Re: Google Clebrates Olaudah Equiano's 272nd Birthday With Image by Nobody: 4:26pm On Oct 16, 2017
MetaPhysical:
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Chukwuemeka Ojukwu
Nzeogwu

Each of these were born in North, in Hausa speaking territory and they spoke fluent Hausa. If these people had been caught and sold into slavery while still young as Olaudah was, their memory of birth, environment and mode of expression would be nothing but Hausa and Hausaland. If asked about their birth and environment it would all be relative to Hausa culture, even though their true ethnicity and background is non-Hausa. Correct?

Those are full Igbo names.
Even if they spoke Russian, they remain Igbo by birth.

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