Probz:
Why do people take the time to comment on deep threads to say nonsense?

I got a call so I hurriedly commented 'ok' that is my way of book marking this topic so that I wouldnt miss it.

As an Igbo, I find this topic particularly interesting, it is good to know of Igbo groups in other countries, this is a good topic to research on.

The stories i heard about the Igbos in Fernando Po (Now Bioko) is that they were Igbos who ran to Equatorial Guinea during the civil war and stayed there. If this is the case then the Igbo shouldn't be that different from what is spoken in Nigeria.

bigfrancis21:


I'm really serious about this. I will fly to Equatorial Guinea in a few years for a personal tour myself to meet this wonderful set of people and raise awareness about their existence to our brothers in Nigeria. They must not be forgotten.

.

Afam4eva:
The stories i heard about the Igbos in Fernando Po (Now Bioko) is that they were Igbos who ran to Equatorial Guinea during the civil war and stayed there. If this is the case then the Igbo shouldn't be that different from what is spoken in Nigeria.

Actually they have been there long before the Civil War.

They started arriving there in the 1920s, if not earlier, to work as labourers on the Spanish Cocoa Plantations.

Ebimor96:
So them go claim that region?


Igbo kwe nu!!!!!!

Kwusi ida apari!

This interests me.
Thanks OP.

Thanks for tagging me bigfrancis. This is a really fascinating thread but do you know what the socio-political climate surrounding the Igbos in Equatorial Guinea is like?

I met one In abuja her name is pedro catalina (Spanish name) I was wondering how come when I overheard her speaking Igbo, then she explained to me that some of them have ties to the bonny people of rivers state,
I was suprised.

Ngozi123:
Thanks for tagging me bigfrancis. This is a really fascinating thread but do you know what the socio-political climate surrounding the Igbos in Equatorial Guinea is like?

No I do not know much about them at this point, but from all indications, they do not seem to be suffering from a hostile/anti-Igbo environment as obtains in Nigeria.

EzeEbira:
I met one In abuja her name is pedro catalina (Spanish name) I was wondering how come when I overheard her speaking Igbo, then she explained to me that some of them have ties to the bonny people of rivers state,
I was suprised.

Interesting. Equatorial Guineans do speak Spanish. Is she from Equatorial Guinea?

Good one.

Good to see that they are not suffering from identity crisis, though now surrounded by non Igbo neighbors and their original Igbo dialect now corrupted by importation and borrowing of non Igbo words, expressions and intonations from their fang and Bubi neighbors, this people still retained the Igbo identity.

Kudos to them.

Too bad we the Igbos in Nigeria can't be of much help to them in their independence struggle from equatorial guinea, seeing as we too are trapped in a retrogressive Nigeria entity and are struggling to free ourselves too.

An independent Igbo nation would have offered them better assistance.

Nevertheless, nothing stops us from reestablishing contact with them, as long as it doesn't draw the discomfort of their fang and Bubi neighbors who might start feeling that their allegiance is no longer to the island, but to the Igbo in Nigeria.
This could backfire and put the Igbos in Bioko in disadvantaged position, as their Bioko neighbors might start alienating them, as paranoia driven stories of plans of Igbos In Nigeria to invade the island and take control with the help of Bioko Igbos might be hatched by evil power brokers in Bioko.

So, I say we play this one cool with tact, and not be rash with decisions, to avoid puting those precious Igbos in Bioko at a disadvantaged position in their lovely island, or put them in position where they would have to start publicly denying their Igbo identity and allegiance, in order to ensure acceptance in the island by the Fangs and Bubi and enhance their survival by appealing to the paranoia of their non Igbo neighbors .


Once again, Bigfrancis1, this is a lovely thread. You made my day with it.

I I’m from Bioko Island originally but grow up in Spain. I know my people history good and is true that Igbo people live in Bioko but they’re not the first habitan of the island. Bioko first know as Etula Eria is the land of my ancestors the Bööbe tribe know this days as The Bubi people. During the slave trade This Portugal people used our land as a port to introduce a lot of slave from different places to take them to the new world.

Many of this slave they return back to Africa in the period of the abolistion. Wen the Spanish take the island as well bring a lot of slave from Cuba, Enmancipados,Calabar , Sierra Leona, etc krios. So my family is Rio from Sierra Leona mixed with the truly people of Bioko The Bubi people. My mother is from Sierra Leone and my dad y Bubi. I know my Culture very well. The Spanish government it’s made a lot of crime with people that they take over and take them to Bioko and punnish them in the farms and treat them like slaves. The Fangs they’re from the continental island but now they all migrate to our land and force us to the exile. Please is important to understand that The Bubi tribe they’re kind people they loved they land. Thanks

Mpesa81:
I I’m from Bioko Island originally but grow up in Spain. I know my people history good and is true that Igbo people live in Bioko but they’re not the first habitan of the island. Bioko first know as Etula Eria is the land of my ancestors the Bööbe tribe know this days as The Bubi people. During the slave trade This Portugal people used our land as a port to introduce a lot of slave from different places to take them to the new world.

Many of this slave they return back to Africa in the period of the abolistion. Wen the Spanish take the island as well bring a lot of slave from Cuba, Enmancipados,Calabar , Sierra Leona, etc krios. So my family is Rio from Sierra Leona mixed with the truly people of Bioko The Bubi people. My mother is from Sierra Leone and my dad y Bubi. I know my Culture very well. The Spanish government it’s made a lot of crime with people that they take over and take them to Bioko and punnish them in the farms and treat them like slaves. The Fangs they’re from the continental island but now they all migrate to our land and force us to the exile. Please is important to understand that The Bubi tribe they’re kind people they loved they land. Thanks

Nobody said Igbos got there first, dude. As has been said by many people already, they started coming there in the 20th century.

Mpesa81:
I I’m from Bioko Island originally but grow up in Spain. I know my people history good and is true that Igbo people live in Bioko but they’re not the first habitan of the island. Bioko first know as Etula Eria is the land of my ancestors the Bööbe tribe know this days as The Bubi people. During the slave trade This Portugal people used our land as a port to introduce a lot of slave from different places to take them to the new world.

Many of this slave they return back to Africa in the period of the abolistion. Wen the Spanish take the island as well bring a lot of slave from Cuba, Enmancipados,Calabar , Sierra Leona, etc krios. So my family is Rio from Sierra Leona mixed with the truly people of Bioko The Bubi people. My mother is from Sierra Leone and my dad y Bubi. I know my Culture very well. The Spanish government it’s made a lot of crime with people that they take over and take them to Bioko and punnish them in the farms and treat them like slaves. The Fangs they’re from the continental island but now they all migrate to our land and force us to the exile. Please is important to understand that The Bubi tribe they’re kind people they loved they land. Thanks

Thank you for this first-hand piece of information. Yea, we never said Igbos were there first, they arrived after the Bubi (original inhabitants) and Fang tribes.

I have a few questions. How do other tribes (Bubi, Fang) view the Igbos in Bioko? What are the Igbos in Bioko known for? In what towns/cities etc. in Bioko can you find the Igbos?

Afam4eva:
The stories i heard about the Igbos in Fernando Po (Now Bioko) is that they were Igbos who ran to Equatorial Guinea during the civil war and stayed there. If this is the case then the Igbo shouldn't be that different from what is spoken in Nigeria.

No bro, they actually migrated to Bioko long before the civil war and are now considered natives/indigenous together with the Fang and Bubi tribes.

Mpesa81:
I I’m from Bioko Island originally but grow up in Spain. I know my people history good and is true that Igbo people live in Bioko but they’re not the first habitan of the island. Bioko first know as Etula Eria is the land of my ancestors the Bööbe tribe know this days as The Bubi people. During the slave trade This Portugal people used our land as a port to introduce a lot of slave from different places to take them to the new world.

Many of this slave they return back to Africa in the period of the abolistion. Wen the Spanish take the island as well bring a lot of slave from Cuba, Enmancipados,Calabar , Sierra Leona, etc krios. So my family is Rio from Sierra Leona mixed with the truly people of Bioko The Bubi people. My mother is from Sierra Leone and my dad y Bubi. I know my Culture very well. The Spanish government it’s made a lot of crime with people that they take over and take them to Bioko and punnish them in the farms and treat them like slaves. The Fangs they’re from the continental island but now they all migrate to our land and force us to the exile. Please is important to understand that The Bubi tribe they’re kind people they loved they land. Thanks

You registered to make this comment or what.

Awon endangered species.

Mpesa81:
I I’m from Bioko Island originally but grow up in Spain. I know my people history good and is true that Igbo people live in Bioko but they’re not the first habitan of the island. Bioko first know as Etula Eria is the land of my ancestors the Bööbe tribe know this days as The Bubi people. During the slave trade This Portugal people used our land as a port to introduce a lot of slave from different places to take them to the new world.

Many of this slave they return back to Africa in the period of the abolistion. Wen the Spanish take the island as well bring a lot of slave from Cuba, Enmancipados,Calabar , Sierra Leona, etc krios. So my family is Rio from Sierra Leona mixed with the truly people of Bioko The Bubi people. My mother is from Sierra Leone and my dad y Bubi. I know my Culture very well. The Spanish government it’s made a lot of crime with people that they take over and take them to Bioko and punnish them in the farms and treat them like slaves. The Fangs they’re from the continental island but now they all migrate to our land and force us to the exile. Please is important to understand that The Bubi tribe they’re kind people they loved they land. Thanks

New account

Let's check the shape of their heads to ascertain

Igbos know about this people. There's no village or community that doesn't have someone who has been there. There are dances and masquerades in my community that have their origins from Equatorial Guinea.

Igbo women in Israel

say no more! the shape of there head in first pic says everything

Now I know better, my elderly uncles used to talk about Panya and Fernando Po as far distance Igbo people. Because they were colonized by the Spanish it made the Nigeria Igbo to lose site of their kinsmen.
Thanks OP for clarifying something that many young Igbos found hard to understand

bigfrancis21:
As regards the language, Igbo is a recognized official language in Equatorial Guinea and it has been confirmed that the people still speak the Igbo language which has some form of deviation from the modern Igbo spoken in Nigeria. Some people who have seen them say they say, 'bia ikaa' for 'come here'. Anybody who has been in contact with these people as regards the language?

Finally I think that Igbos of Nigeria do need to reach out to our people in Bioko to re-strengthen our ties and the language.





http://gobiafra.com/t-bioko-independent-movement-by-igbos


cc Probz Ajaanaoka, Redbonesmith, Pazienza, Ishilove, Ngozi123, Cheruv, Ezeagu, Odumchi

Aro okigbo mma mma nu! The expanse and influence of Arochukwu cannot be overemphasized.

Igbo amaka

How can a mere 33,500 out of 1.2million be regarded a tribe?
Igbos were refugees turned settlers in Equatorial Guinea, as such they are never indigenous to it.

kiss the truth!

Praktikals:
Awon endangered species.

Stop this and be sensible for once nobody invited u to this thread.

therez something so relaxing about reading this...

Big ups op and nice research work, would love to read about links of this nature to other Nigerian tribes too.

oglalasioux:
Igbos know about this people. There's no village or community that doesn't have someone who has been there. There are dances and masquerades in my community that have their origins from Equatorial Guinea.

It was called Fernando Po by elderly Igbos and not Equatorial Guinea

They only went their to help in developing Equitorial Guinea.
Abeg na joke o

1miccza:

Stop this and be sensible for once nobody invited u to this thread.

MTN: Best connection,everywhere you go Igbos: Minorities everywhere you go