Who gave secondhand cloths Okrika in Nigeria?

Na my papa colonial masters
I hear say na because if dem bring the goods com niaja..e dey land for dat port wen dey portharcout.and dem go carry am go market wen dey Okirika ( Dame Patience ) hometown...then anybody wen wan go buy d clothes go say "I dey go okirika market"..........like play like play na I'm d clothes com carry d market name!!!!!
•••NOR LAUGH ME OO•••

No how i go laugh u nau!

Because it's Nigeria...simple

the name "Okrika" seems to sound like "Okija". Lol! @thread, i dont know, aint gonna add a dime to your pockets!

I go ask my Igbo brothers 2morrow. Dey must have a story to it.

GEJ should be able to answer that question.Mtwwww

If I know I for don tell u b4 u ask me....

Why are second-hand clothes called okrika?

Why are second-cars called tokunbo?

Why are rich kids called ajebota?

And why is this shi.t on Front Page?


[size=14pt]Go get a life dude![/size]

My dad told me that when the white men brings the cloth to nig, they bring it through a small port in okirika in Rivers state. Okirika shld be in rivers or bayelsa now. He kept telling us the same history till he died cos his family traded on okirika in lome and cotonoue.

Abu Mikey: Na my papa colonial masters
I hear say na because if dem bring the goods com niaja..e dey land for dat port wen dey portharcout.and dem go carry am go market wen dey Okirika ( Dame Patience ) hometown...then anybody wen wan go buy d clothes go say "I dey go okirika market"..........like play like play na I'm d clothes com carry d market name!!!!!
•••NOR LAUGH ME OO•••

. He be like say you make sense small oooo.

why are second hand cars called tokunbo
why are buses called molue

GEJ Shud B Blamed 4 Dis

ABA BOYS

Ask the okrika people of rivers state.

The name dates back to the colonial times,

when the white visitors dashed people from okrika clan, their used clothes, in the guise of missionary welfare packages.



The smell, be like goat armpit.

mitey: Why are second-hand clothes called okrika?

Why are second-cars called tokunbo?

Why are rich kids called ajebota?

And why is this shi.t on Front Page?


[size=14pt]Go get a life dude![/size]

Na fight?

Most of those cloth na road side beggars and mad man cloths be that oh So oyibo people no value them any more, while some of them na dead people cloths too. That's why oyibo people dey call am okirika

Abu Mikey: Na my papa colonial masters
I hear say na because if dem bring the goods com niaja..e dey land for dat port wen dey portharcout.and dem go carry am go market wen dey Okirika ( Dame Patience ) hometown...then anybody wen wan go buy d clothes go say "I dey go okirika market"..........like play like play na I'm d clothes com carry d market name!!!!!
•••NOR LAUGH ME OO•••

you are correct, heard this same thing. Its my home town

If u ask me, na who I go ask ?

No be bend down select dem dey call dese tinz?

@OP I dont know why you will be fascinated with the history of okrika clothing unless you purchase them frequently

Okrika was d avenue for importing cloths in those days, that came about d name.

If u r not convinced, call it bend-down-select

mitey: Why are second-hand clothes called okrika?

Why are second-cars called tokunbo?

Why are rich kids called ajebota?

And why is this shi.t on Front Page?


[size=14pt]Go get a life dude![/size]

Nobody forced you to comment bro! The question is reasonable enough to get an answer

@ OP, let me go and ask my "Oga at de top". I believe he has all de answers.

it has been worn by others thereby becoming cheaper

Because the clothes used to be brought in from Okrika. Dats all.

It goes after the name Okrika in Rivers State. That's where second hand cloths came from many decades ago.
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Last Bullet: As for 'Tòkunbò', it mean 'From Oversea' i.e, products like cars imported from oversea.

Second-hand clothes business is an annual multi- billion dollars transaction across the globe. Though grades varies, such shops are also patronized by people in developed countries. Central European cream grades are the best, followed by the ones from North America.

As an Okrika man, make I tell una.

Okrika had the biggest port in South-East Nigeria before the port in Port-Harcourt was built in 1912 and Calabar around the same period.

Till today we still have big ships falling into Okrika occasionally.

Okrika people would ferry these goods (mainly clothes) to the big Ikwerre markets like mgbuoshini and other markets upstream, hence when second hand clothes are landing, Okrika is on it's way. Of course a lot more was traded than clothes. Okrika would buy Palm Oil from the Ikwerre and in turn Ikwerre and other Igbo traders would purchase fish and Western goods from the Okrika traders, but the clothes thing is what stuck because that was the good most in demand.

It was this trade that turned Okrika from a population of a few thousand to a population of half a million today as many Igbos became Okrika men because of the trade opportunities the area offered.

I bet #1000, no one will get the answer right.

The smell, be like goat armpit. Ahahahahahahhaahhahahaa cant stop laffing oooo....you don smell goat armit berfore..?...

nice question really. Actually a food for thught. Anyone with the answer should tell us seriously

I will ask gogu