Waspy: Stop deceiving yourself OP .... Ya'll don't have to make it look as if Igbos gat things to prove always or needs to be seen as winners/contenders in some kind of imaginary rat race. Stop the unneccesary aggrandizement . Its kinda annoying and basically for losers.

For the records tho....Bini and Yorubas had an earlier and longer contact with the whites.. It would make more sense if we agree that they came up with a name for the whites. In fact, the whites wouldnt have called themselves a misnomer of Onyi Igbo, why would they call themselves that or learn to call Igbo pple that??. This is not to add the fact that they felt the slavery blow more too.

Waspy: Stop deceiving yourself OP .... Ya'll don't have to make it look as if Igbos gat things to prove always or needs to be seen as winners/contenders in some kind of imaginary rat race. Stop the unneccesary aggrandizement . Its kinda annoying and basically for losers.

For the records tho....Bini and Yorubas had an earlier and longer contact with the whites.. It would make more sense if we agree that they came up with a name for the whites. In fact, the whites wouldnt have called themselves a misnomer of Onyi Igbo, why would they call themselves that or learn to call Igbo pple that??. This is not to add the fact that they felt the slavery blow more too.

dabossman:

I don't think this is a case of tribalism, but more a case of trying to correct what might be misinformation on the part of the OP. Now we have two perspectives. Maybe at the end of the day, we will have one.

Waspy: Stop deceiving yourself OP .... Ya'll don't have to make it look as if Igbos gat things to prove always or needs to be seen as winners/contenders in some kind of imaginary rat race. Stop the unneccesary aggrandizement . Its kinda annoying and basically for losers.

For the records tho....Bini and Yorubas had an earlier and longer contact with the whites.. It would make more sense if we agree that they came up with a name for the whites. In fact, the whites wouldnt have called themselves a misnomer of Onyi Igbo, why would they call themselves that or learn to call Igbo pple that??. This is not to add the fact that they felt the slavery blow more too.

henryobinna: please what did you drink last.

henryobinna: please what did you drink last.

charlzchudi: Oyinbo-yoruba
Oyibo-igbo
Both have convincing theories. Why do we turn everything tribalistic

charlzchudi: Oyinbo-yoruba
Oyibo-igbo
Both have convincing theories. Why do we turn everything tribalistic

ajoguegbe: What's the origin of Oga is it Igbo or Yoruba?

Waspy: Stop deceiving yourself OP .... Ya'll don't have to make it look as if Igbos gat things to prove always or needs to be seen as winners/contenders in some kind of imaginary rat race. Stop the unneccesary aggrandizement . Its kinda annoying and basically for losers.

For the records tho....Bini and Yorubas had an earlier and longer contact with the whites.. It would make more sense if we agree that they came up with a name for the whites. In fact, the whites wouldnt have called themselves a misnomer of Onyi Igbo, why would they call themselves that or learn to call Igbo pple that??. This is not to add the fact that they felt the slavery blow more too.

nerodenero: The OP is a joke.Lifting a writeup that isn't his and not acknowledging the source is criminal in nature.In my NYSC days in Anambra State,my Local Government Inspector's name was Oyibo Okolo.This claim could be true about oyibo being an Igbo name for whites.

richyfunky:

Njikoka LGA, nice

EMMABC1:
but they have different meanings, Oyibo being more apt. In igboland there two popula towns called Oyibo. One is Oyigbo in Rivers, another is Oyibo in Anambra.

homerac7:

It does not in anyway discredit the postulation of OP.

Alubosa is part of Nigera north-south acculturation . ALUBOSA is onion in Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba along with hundreds of other minority languages. Same as box for APOTI in Yoruba, AKPATI in Igbo and AKWATI in Hausa. Rice is SHINKFA in Hausa while it is OSHIKPA/OSHIPAKA in Igbo. Numerous words as such aren't peculiar to a language.

omowolewa: Nice one

But I think 'Behkkeh' is the Ibo word for Oyinbo.

Or can we say 'Alubosa' (Onion) has a Ibo origin due to the fact that there is a word 'Alu' in Ibo language?


If 'Onye-Ibo' is person from Ibo land,

'Onye-Behkkeh' should be the Ibo translation of person from western nation
(No offence intended pls).

omokab: Mr.op why are you fooling youself on unnecessary argument?oyinbo have no traces of ibo dielet from any angle.the white men arrive yoruba land before they even no where called ibo land.the yoruba of then have their reason of calling White men oyinbo as at that time.if you want to know the fact from the origin you wl do your reseach by trying to find out what an average yoruba man and woman of early time called the white men likewwise ibo people of that time.yoruba of then called white, oyinbo alawo funfun.That's what our forefather called the white men.pls, go and do your research very well and stop credting what does not belong to your tribe again.Thanks

blesszzy: Dem go still fight for this topic today. for me oyinbo sounds like a yoruba language.

smallJagaban: OYINBO IS A YORUBA LANGUAGE

Pvin:
it is also coined from Igbo. A short form of Ogaranya(a big man who calls the shut)

zendy:

I'm not sure about the origins of the word 'Oyibo' but in Olaudah Equianos book (Olauda was an Igbo slave who was sold off in the West Indies in the 18th century but later regained his freedom and wrote about his experience) he stated that Igbos called foreigners who came to trade in the market place 'Oyibo'.

MrT2011:


YOU ARE A CURSE!!! TO YOUR GENERATION!!!

YOU WILL DIE IN THE OCEAN OF MISERY!!!

DEATHS WILL BE YOUR COMPASSION FOREVER.

QUOTE ME AM WAITING.

omokab: Mr.op why are you fooling youself on unnecessary argument?oyinbo have no traces of ibo dielet from any angle.the white men arrive yoruba land before they even no where called ibo land.the yoruba of then have their reason of calling White men oyinbo as at that time.if you want to know the fact from the origin you wl do your reseach by trying to find out what an average yoruba man and woman of early time called the white men likewwise ibo people of that time.yoruba of then called white, oyinbo alawo funfun.That's what our forefather called the white men.pls, go and do your research very well and stop credting what does not belong to your tribe again.Thanks

AnanseK:
And the origin of the onion name which is "al-basa " in Hausa. "Al-basal" in Arabic.

omokab: Mr.op why are you fooling youself on unnecessary argument?oyinbo have no traces of ibo dielet from any angle.the white men arrive yoruba land before they even no where called ibo land.the yoruba of then have their reason of calling White men oyinbo as at that time.if you want to know the fact from the origin you wl do your reseach by trying to find out what an average yoruba man and woman of early time called the white men likewwise ibo people of that time.yoruba of then called white, oyinbo alawo funfun.That's what our forefather called the white men.pls, go and do your research very well and stop credting what does not belong to your tribe again.Thanks