RedboneSmith:


I'm confused. What?

As in, what was your initial blank response supposed to be and what are your overall thoughts about this thread considering you’re often draw to discussions like this and have significant Igala heritage?

Seriously, what was that, Redbone? This thread feels like something that might just be half up your street. Not so much the Umuzocha bit as where the thread ends up.

engrpheleeks:
Avocado, Awara (that thing they make with soya bean). Like, what's that?

Lordy knows I can’t stand avocado.

I don’t mind bread (like agege) but unless it’s like fancy French bread I’m good.

“Won’t you take bread with your tea ubochi-ta(adini)?”

NO. Unless you people have a toaster, or I have the energy to make French toast myself. I don’t mind bread like that but I can more than do without it. I don’t know why people find that hard to understand. I prefer toast and that’s the end of it.

Ijaya123:




This same Amala and ewedu?

Which isn’t always arranged that palatably and you know it.

Boiled eggs.

O.P., you tripping? How you no-go like editan and periwinkle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gvKbS3qUk?si=PfMMUGO_xCoblGSV


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9IeD7X_KbY?si=18d-RZ9zpFz_y1-s

… ya. Let’s talk.

Erm. Cute but is it really caption-worthy news?

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Pelumi had doubters (and I’m not talking about sympathetic well-wishers concerned for her health and safety) when she had that accident. I hope those haters are eating their words at this point.

“She’ll never make it.”

Oh, but she has, sweetie.

EreluRoz:
Humans are mostly evil, we read stories everyday and even watch videos of some of these evil act and I begin to wonder if blood flows through them.

Best is to hand them over to the police.

Let’s hope that police officer isn’t Corrie’s Craig Tinker. The guy is appalling in all his ways.

Callosobruchus:
Where is Jennyclay?She thrives very well with such news.

… meaning? She what?

muyico:
imagine?
rap is now rampant in all d whole world! not day without rap case! lord please heal our earth!

There was a time when marital rape wasn’t legally recognised all-across the world. That was the peak of it. It’s bad now but not as bad.

The poor girl.

I’m all for naturism but why were they naked?

RIP.

RedboneSmith:

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What you saying, g?

Akintundexxy:
Easterners always trying to say they were everywhere. Flat headed adopted sons of Jews.

Ndu-Oka travelled far back in the day, as bonafide itenaries. Like it or not, that’s a fact. That’s the truth.

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AjaanaOka:
I will only speak about Umuzocha. If Nsukka people are here, they will speak for themselves.

Umuzocha is not a mixed community in the sense that you seem to be thinking. There is no indigene-vs-settler, Igbo-vs-Igala dichotomy going on among us. We all are indigenes.

A brief background of Umuzocha people to make what I'm saying a little clearer:

Umuzocha is a splinter-group of a larger community in Awka known as Amachalla-na-Ato. Amachalla-na-Ato is wholly indigenous and has no memory of migrating from anywhere outside the boundaries of Awka, ie., they are autochthonous. When a group of blacksmiths from Agbaja-Udi area came and settled in Agulu-Awka, some lineages from Amachalla-na-Ato befriended the settler-smiths, learnt the art of smithing from them and took the name of Umuzocha. Thus of all the lineages in Amachalla-na-Ato, only the Umuzocha lineages are blacksmiths; the other lineages (Amudo and Amachalla) remained farmers.

Later, much later, during the age of itineracy, Umuzocha blacksmiths began travelling to hinterland Igala communities and the neighbouring Nsukka areas where they made and sold metal wares. Some of these travelling Umuzocha men married Igala women from the communities they sojourned in and had children who ( of course) were maternally of Igala descent.

There was no significant settling of Igala men in Umuzocha, apart from these wives that some Umuzocha men married. Igala men did not come here as traders, dyers or warriors - the way they did to some Nsukka communities. Absorption of female foreigners as wives does not give rise to mixed communities, as the tendency is for women to be absorbed and for whatever children they birthed to be raised as full members of their fathers' kingroup. This is why I say Umuzocha is not mixed in the sense you are thinking, and there is no indigene-vs-settler or mixed dichotomy.

I guess the absence of male Igala settlers in Umuzocha also accounts for why there are virtually no imprints of Igala culture on Umuzocha. The only Igala name that I know used in Umuzocha is Attah. Contrast this with Nsukka where there is a plethora of Igala or generic northern names - Asadu, Idoko, Abugu, Abba, Onoja, etc.

There is a masquerade-cum-deity that is said to have been brought by Umuzocha blacksmiths from Igala land. It is called Agunabo. If indeed it came from the Igala, it was repackaged and rebranded, because the name, for one, is an Ìgbò name and not Igala.

Long story short: Umuzocha is not mixed, in the sense of being a mixed Igbo-Igala community, with a group identifying as being of indigenous (Ìgbò) descent and another group identifying as being of settler (Igala) descent . No. It is a homogenous Ìgbò community. It is only mixed in the sense that every community is mixed - through intermarriage.

Ah. I see.

Anambra uses the most onugbu (bitterleaf) in Igboland, whereas what’s more characteristic of Imo and Abia states is okazi, and it reflects in the way egusi’s cooked. There are tonnes of Igbo leaves you can use to cook egusi but ugu, onugbu and okazi (all with or without a sprinkling of uziza leaves) are just three common ways to do it (some of the other vegetables, like azu-igwe/goat weed, are a fair bit more uncommon; not blaming indomie for that but, y’know, the less common leaves are less known to each younger generations, except the ones who study culinary traditions or remarkably have it passed down to them).

Egusi soup in general is very important to the Igbo but you’ve got styles, just like there’s Delta egusi pepper soup, Akwa Ibom egusi (tastes Igbotic but slightly different) egusi made with akwu (banga egusi) that cuts across both Deltans and (more rarely) Igbos (some people use akwu to cook egusi, instead of palm oil; egusi-ocha, a Delta-Igbo thing, hardly uses either if at all). Then there’s akpurapu egusi with achara (elephant-grass). Benue egusi. Igala egusi. Egusi Ijebu (yuck but, for better or worse, it is unique). Ondo/Ekiti egusi that’s always served with pounded yam. There’s probably several forms of it indigenous to so much of Nigeria, and that’s why it’s annoying when both Igbos and Yorubas alike try and claim egusi as belonging solely to them. Countries as far as Ghana and just other parts of West Africa have some form of egusi so it’s not much of a stretch that basically every Nigerian tribe has a type of egusi particular and good-as native to them, and that actually is the reality. The concept of egusi soup in general, for all the variations, is general, not tribal.

1000Capacity:
South West.. Ekiti..
Pounded Yam and ishapa stew

Yeah, I know that one. You can just call isapa zobo-egusi. That’s basically what it is, like onugbu/bitterleaf egwusi, ugu egwusi, okazi-egusi, whatever the predominant vegetable is in any one case, if any). Egusi cooked with zobo (hibiscus) leaves.

superintendents:
boss man even 1k make i take see for my account

Bro, this is where the boundary starts. I can’t keep doing that now. Maybe some other time but for now I just wanted to bless a few people in need and leave it at that. Don’t get too used to the offer. I can’t afford for it to be there most of the time. For personal boundary-preservation’s sake plus the fact that this oga just isn’t rich yet. I can’t just be giving you money for credit. That’s not gonna happen.

odun99:

You're a God sent sir.
You will never lack in your life.
Since you always help people, your generations will never beg for food IJN.
Thanks for all you do on here.

Thanks so much. Like I say, I’m really not flush myself and have my own financial wahala/issues but I also like to help people, even if I can only afford to do it here and there. Anyone who’s seen the current state of this Nigeria would understand why. There’s enough suffering going on as it is.

Yes, e-dey important to not let yourself be taken for a fool/advantage of (especially in a country like Nigeria) but suffering’s real. And people need to know that there are still some people in this world who would go the extra mile for you when they comfortably can. Not everyone has funny principles about money and is super-tight about what they have. I’m not a fool but I’m not heartless either. There’s a difference between letting yourself be used for 419 and helping people who you know are genuinely struggling. Suffering can never be a myth in Nigeria. Yeah, man can’t really make this too much of a consistent habit but here-and-there it’s still better to give than to receive (and receiving is well-bliss, let’s not lie). I guess I’m just that person.

Whether it’s from your dad’s side or your mum’s side, whether it’s that well-known comparatively or not. It don’t matter. Let’s just come in here and discuss about indigenous foods from our respective parts of Naija. Whether you-dey from the East, West, middle belt, north or far south.

Yes.

Pleasehearmycry:
Hello good morning boss mesmer please you might not know me sir but I happens to benefit from your #100 and #5k new year's gift in the business section in the past when you used to do your giveaway sir though I don't use it to bet sir. Please I'm very for this disturbance at midnight, please sir sorry for what you are about to see me type but desperation made me do this with an alt account because of my very deep problem sir.


Sir I'm currently in trouble. My mum is sick and I have no body around to help us financially. Please she is my world and only parent and the one I have since i lost my baba. Please sir I'm very sorry for disturbing you as you don't owe me anything from your hardword and sweat but please sir if in any way you can help me out please help me sir so I can call the local nurse in my area to give her drips and injections this morning before finding a way to take her to any hospital or clinic nearby please sir please. Though i'm on free basics I will show you my mum lying down on the bed weak sir while we were crying in desperation. Please sir anything will help us sir. I swear to god im not lying sir. Please help if possible sir, I know the economy situation is unfriendly and no one is smiling it's just I'm too young to go this journey of life alone sir. That's what made me disturb others before coming to you sir after I was snubbed.

I don hear your cry, and sorry about your mama. I’m not gonna do it for anyone else now going forward until I have that kind of money to just part with for Nairalanders’ sake but since you asked before I closed the offer, okay. Ngwanu, sister/brother. Let’s be talking privately.

ShadowMarking:

Sir please I'm on my knees. I'm still at home while my mates are in school sir because of this with no hope and nowhere to help, I begged my former boss yesterday for help and he told me there's nothing he can do. Same as my cousin this morning sir. Please if you can help me in any way please help me sir I beg you in the name of christ. I can give you my school id sir. I'm real please I don't know who to go to or what to do any more. I know you have helped others this thread and you have given it out a iot on the thread but if you can still help another person please let it be me. 29296 58070 palmpay.
Save me from this trouble oh lord.

I can give you 10,000 Naira and that’s it. I do sympathise with y’all but I’m not in the best financial position myself so this really is gonna have to be the last time for now. I’m going back on me drawing a line under giving more people ogho this time but I’m only doing it once. I can’t keep doing it for a little while now.

Being nice for the sake of being nice with no catch is a rarity in places like Mbaise and Ngor-Okpala but it’s common with people like the Anambra and the Ondo. So you’re lucky. If I was from Mbaise I probably would’ve found a way of using you for blood-ritual by now. Some of those people are truly wicked.

Let’s talk this one out. How much of Umuzocha village (in Awka) is known to be indigenous to Awka vs. how many people there are a mixture of Igala and Igbo, and likewise for Nsukka (I might’ve done a thread on this before, but contextually it kinda fits in here as well, even if just for comparison’s sake). Where does the Igala influence actually come from?

AtaniWarrior:

My mother is from Agukwu. She is from Obeagu village. You?

Dad’s side: same Obeagu, umu-mbe clan (paternal grandma from Agulu). Mum’s side: Isiagu-Amikwo, Awka (nee Umuzocha, Awka for her own mum; maternal grandma’s mum from Eha-Ndiagu, Nsukka). For 2 generations of lineage anyway. Core Nri-Awka Anambra Igbo na munwa. Absolutely no-one on this planet can tell me that I’m a fake Igbo, if there even is such a thing (although some people are much more Igbotic than others, no doubt). I was at a hotel in Awka recently and some random guy even asked me if I’m from Amikwo village. Didn’t want to answer that question because I don’t get personal with total strangers in the flesh but he was kinda onto something. Somehow. Maybe have a slight ‘Amikwo look’ about me. I dunno.

Also, I hear what you saying about the whole Umuzocha distin. The thing with my mum’s mum is that she actually had to flee to Idah during the Biafran war so she probably would’ve learnt Igala anyway but the fact that she’s Umuzochan might have had something to do with it. She’s no more (died about 17 years ago) but she spoke Igala as well as Igbo right ’til the end. How much of Umuzocha village actually has Igala heritage?

I used to think that Akankpisi was just the other side of Nri but it turns out that Nri is actually just Agukwu-Nri (for all the offshoots, like Ogwashi-Ukwu and, indeed, Akankpisi, that exist) and Akankpisi is its own village. Is that the truth?

Peterzoom20:

Hello sir. Please im terribly sorry for the delay. Please don't be angry sir. The thing is I was banned while in commenting in another section which made me had to make another account.
Please this is it again cause It hasn't reflected yet sir.

It really hasn’t worked but I’ll keep trying.

PeterZoom:

Thanks a lot sir. Everything you gave shall be replenished. Kindly have a great week ahead sir. I'm so grateful.

But re-check your details and let me know,

PeterZoom:

Thanks a lot sir. Everything you gave shall be replenished. Kindly have a great week ahead sir. I'm so grateful.

Not to worry. I might not be rich but one thing I’m also not is stingy. If I fit-help someone, I will. Especially considering the state of our Nigeria. It’s far from easy to survive.

PeterZoom:

Thank you sir.

Done. Hopefully e fit be enough to sustain you now until Tuesday or so.

PeterZoom:

Hello good evening sir please I'm sorry for this and I don't mean to be rude and heartless please especially after you've helped several people today sir. Please don't take this the wrong way at all but I please plead if there's still anything you can please use to help me feed this night and the rem weekend to Monday sir please the only thing I've had to eat is the leftover rice and palm oil combo I had yesterday. Please if you still have enough to spare I'll be grateful but if what you have is exhausted and not enough for you please do not be angry and kindly forgive me for this disturbance. I'll just drink borehole water and go to sleep once again. I'm honestly very sorry for disturbing sir. It's just severe lack that pushed me to this sir.

You’re gonna have to be the last person I do this for this weekend but, like, yh. I’m happy to help. Send me your bank-deets, innit.

And don’t apologise. I can’t have you starving and without gen.-fuel if there’s something I fit do abar it.