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•••

Imanuelle:
The smell, be like goat armpit.

Ibime: 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.

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?


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flawless911: GEJ Shud B Blamed 4 Dis

ebamma 3: why are second hand cars called tokunbo
why are buses called molue

lorretta u: it's actually true.that's the town where I did my NYSC.I asked around and got the same response you did.anyway okrika is like the second richest or thereabout L.G.A in nigeria cos of their excess oil.and they have a jetty where stuff like that used to be brought in from.before it became monopolised by oil dealers.

igbo boy:

how will igbo turn okrika? wetin okrika get to offer? Biko n'ekwu okwu ofuma.

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

babyosisi:
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Kamanda:

Let me call a Friend on this Okrika matter.

But Meanwhile,

Hi Loretta,is that really your pix?
After sowing my wild oats,I think I am now ready to settle down.

I think I will like to marry you because from what ayam seeing and from your posts,you have all the required requirements to satisfy not only my loins but my intelect.

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

Fussbot: About tokunbo:

In yorubaland,europe is called OKE OKUN

And "bo"means to come back from smwia or to bring smtin from smwia

So tokunbo literally means---TI OKEOkUN BO--brought from europe

So cause it doesn't make sense like dat and cus it's too long,dat leads me to ISUNKI in yoruba studies..abi wait o is it aranmo?noo it's isunki jhor

isunki means joining two words together to form a word by ommiting some words..lol..shey I get. d dfntion sha?e don tae o!kk..bak to our lecture jare..lol..example of isunki in yoruba:

Ako+eko=AKEKO(student)"o" in ako was ommited

Ran+aso+ran+aso=RANSORANSO(tailor)"a" in d 1st and 2nd "aso"was omitted..shey u understand?k

Naw 2 watin concern us

Ti+okeokun+bo=TOKUNBO(brought from europe or abroad)"I" and "oke" were completely omitted..

Shey I try sha?...na u con sabi o if u no understand..lwkm...rotfl..did I just write all dis??am I high on smtin?no mind me I no see anytin do ni jare

Ibime:

You are efulefu. How did Igbo turn Bonny, Kalabari and Okrika? Majority of these Kingdoms are made of people who once called themselves Igbo. All na trade carry them go, no be so?

barcanista: boy don't say what you don't know. There are indigenous Okrikans and there are those who were brought from igboland as slaves. I am a full-blooded Okrikan.