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Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 9:36am On Aug 20, 2015 |
The name of the book is: Central Africa: Adventures and Missionary Labors in Several Countries in the Interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856, Thomas Jefferson Bowen, Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1857. The statement (in the book page in photo) is quoted below The "Eboe nigger," was from a fine open country, above the delta of the Niger, and not from the delta itself, as we have commonly supposed.* At home he was a noble, high-minded and half civilized man, who beautified his fine country with well cultivated farms and shady villages. In America he was trusty, intelligent and industrious, but remarkable for an absolutely indomitable spirit, to which even the master must yield, when the Eboe was aroused, unless he should choose to shoot down the best slave on his plantation. No wonder: for the Eboes in common with the Sudanese, have undergone a strong Caucasian innervation, which is evidenced by the fact that some of them are nearly white. Source https://books.google.com/books?id=SCgbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false 11 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 9:36am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Well! Well!! Well!!! |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 9:41am On Aug 20, 2015 |
In America he was trusty, intelligent and industrious, but remarkable for an absolutely indomitable spirit, to which even the master must yield, when the Eboe was aroused, unless he should choose to shoot down the best slave on his plantation. Well! Well!! Well!!! Can anyone interprete what the bolded portion means: It means even if the Ibo man is angry, he must not be punished for it because he is the best you can get, unless you want to destroy your own house. This is a message for Nigeria 68 Likes 11 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 9:41am On Aug 20, 2015 |
See what they said about the rest of the Niggers The rest of the "Guinea niggers," brought to our country, were principally the hateful Popoes, the shrewd but thievish Fantees, and others like them." The fantees (Fanti) are from Ghana, but they have ethnic relationship with one of the major ethnic groups of Nigeria. Which one? The one that starts with Y. Central Africa: Adventures and Missionary Labors in Several Countries in the Interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856, Thomas Jefferson Bowen, Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1857, Page 93-95 26 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by oladele97: 9:42am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Page 94 |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 9:50am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Something on the Yorubas on page 103 Summary: The people (speaking about Yoruba) near the coast are more barbarous than those of the interior 17 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by wisdomguy4u(m): 10:01am On Aug 20, 2015 |
This explains a lot. No wonder in Nigeria, the Igbos are hated and tagged as trouble makers, yet they will not let them go, because they can't live without them. 60 Likes 9 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by BraniacX(m): 10:07am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Let's kill the tribalism abeg, this is the opinion of a racist slaver cum missionary and as such should be ignored and treated with revulsion 11 Likes |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 10:12am On Aug 20, 2015 |
BraniacX: He actually did have some good words for the Yoruba on page 93/94. But he made some distinction between coastal Yorubas (more barbarous) and the interior ones (less barbarous) on page 103 There is also a full chapter dedicated to Abeokuta, especially on the missionary work they were doing there. 6 Likes |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by BraniacX(m): 10:15am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Ramnon2: But in general he saw our ancestors as sub human and beneath him which is never acceptable 18 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 10:15am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Overall, the writer was a big racist and did not have generally good impression of the black race, despite his picking and choosing whom to praise and whom to denigrate. 15 Likes |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 10:15am On Aug 20, 2015 |
BraniacX: Yes, see my closing statement above. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Nobody: 10:46am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Negroes laughing sheepishly as Caucasians profile their ancestors and progenitors 20 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Nobody: 10:51am On Aug 20, 2015 |
That satanic, racist devil should be roasting in the hottest parts of hell now, so his views mean nothing. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by DaBullIT(m): 10:53am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Writer is racist Note Racist , not Biased 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by cheruv: 11:03am On Aug 20, 2015 |
BraniacX:When someone has nothing to gain from an issue, he's usually objective about it.to the whites then,all American niggers were slaves..even though they came from somewhere. The piece was objective in my opinion..and it was stuffs like this that enabled the Europeans to successfully colonize Africa. 11 Likes |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 11:07am On Aug 20, 2015 |
DaBullIT: Correct |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 12:17pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
Lol. The author is Bowen, after whose name some university in SW Nigeria is named 13 Likes |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by SonOfEl(m): 12:17pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
the racist's soul is either in heaven or hell. that's by the way. like Jews, there is an account of our slavery, and even in that, our most conspicous traits and attributes are seen and acknowledged. IGBOS, even in slavery, have an indomitable spirit. 23 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 12:20pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
SonOfEl: Yes, Igbos do not accept domination from others= indomitable 28 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by mikolo80: 12:30pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
BraniacX:dude you're singing to the choir here,na racist slaves you de try reason with here |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by chigoizie7(m): 12:35pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
Very inconsequential. Who thinks about what a simple racist thinks about the black race in general? Just like a western author called "john lurk" described Africans as," beasts who have no houses, he also referred to them as beasts without heads and has their eyes and mouths in their !breasts", hmmm, what a fascinating description of Africans by a western racist. There is no single difference between the two, "john lurk" and d so called author. 3 Likes |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Armaggedon: 12:38pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
Ramnon2:despite that we can make something from one he said. Most whites during the era were racists including luggard. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by SOUNDKING: 12:38pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
mikolo80:the book told the wise that "there is nothing one about the zoo". 3 Likes |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by pazienza(m): 12:50pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
The book wrote about almost all the ethnic groups in West Africa, why exactly did the OP decide to pick Ndiigbo out, as a suitable topic for the thread? 1 Like |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by ibedun: 12:58pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
I pick out the following though obviously tainted with racism but nevertheless obvious today Yoruba, Nupe, Hausa = almost fully civilised in towns and kingdoms with authority or governance structure Eboes = Half civilised villagers. No city just shady villages with no apparent authority. The writer could have predicted the first coup, the civil war and the massively vanquished half civilised Biafran villagers. I'm out. 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by ibedun: 1:01pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
Armaggedon: Who told you they are different in this new era? Our thieving elites justify their views though. 1 Like |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by SonOfEl(m): 1:03pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
The "half civilized" phrase about the IGBOS meant that unlike the yorubas, Nupes, etc, the Igbo did not have many centralized forms of government. IGBOS were decentralized, often leaning to villages, clans, loose kingdoms or such like. this remark by the author was chiefly because kingdoms and empires were highly centralized in the western world. although today, it is no more so. 18 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by SonOfEl(m): 1:08pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
ibedun: by your definition and line of thought, it means the developed world today is half civilized. keep your biase, jealousy and envy will not allow you read the entire page in its right context. 25 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Ramnon2: 1:11pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
ibedun: Civilization here meant organized towns. But despite that see how he described Igbos (indomitable) versus Yoruba (barbarous) Today, Igbos have organized cities but Yorubas still remain barbarous, and their cities are in ruins with rusty roofs 30 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by Nobody: 1:23pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
ibedun: Why were you begging on your knees to be colonized, you couldn't even put an anti colonial fight 25 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Hahaha! See What A Colonial Oyibo Writer Said About ''Eboes'' (Igbo) by SonOfEl(m): 1:28pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
Ramnon2: on the contrary sir, the perspective then meant having a centralised form of government. IGBOS had organised settlements like awka (oka), umuleri, aba, onicha, arochukwu, igweocha, etc. in fact , the longest kingdom in Nigeria was the aro confederacy which ended in 1902. if the author meant your submission, then it means the author too was ignorant and uninformed. 2 Likes |
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