Kastonkastroll:
A Yoruba man taught the ibos how to read and write, go and find out. So I don't know how a iboman can be more intelligent than a Yoruba man.... Even before the arrival of the whiteman to Africa, the Yoruba's were already reading and writing in our dialect. We produced our own local weapons like guns, arrows, machetes etc because of the constant wars we were fighting.

When it comes to intelligence comparison between Yoruba's and our fellow compatriots in Africa, the yorubas are far above you all. The ibos are not even close to yorubas when intelligence is mentioned, the ashantis of Ghana are even ahead of you ibo people.

Besides this research never said the ibos are the most intelligent black people around, if it did say so, please tell me were the researchers said ibos are the most intelligent people in Africa.

badaoyeyemi:
I disagree

Kastonkastroll:
A Yoruba man taught the ibos how to read and write, go and find out. So I don't know how a iboman can be more intelligent than a Yoruba man.... Even before the arrival of the whiteman to Africa, the Yoruba's were already reading and writing in our dialect. We produced our own local weapons like guns, arrows, machetes etc because of the constant wars we were fighting.

When it comes to intelligence comparison between Yoruba's and our fellow compatriots in Africa, the yorubas are far above you all. The ibos are not even close to yorubas when intelligence is mentioned, the ashantis of Ghana are even ahead of you ibo people.

Besides this research never said the ibos are the most intelligent black people around, if it did say so, please tell me were the researchers said ibos are the most intelligent people in Africa.

WhiteTechnology:

" Humility breeds wisdom while pride breeds mumurity."
While Igbos are humble enough to learn from others, Yorubas keep looking down on others out of believe that they saw civilization first. This has impeded their creativity and ingenuity to produce the best.

OnReflection:


This is not the right approach to take OkutaNla.
You can correct falsehood without denigrating the people of Haiti.

OnReflection:


Envy? How effeminate!

I don't know how old you are, but it is clear that you possess only limited discerning abilities.

My posts are actually intended for the more objective reader - the one who knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff

OnReflection:


Constantly shifting goal posts all over the place. Listen, there is a time a place for everything.

At this moment (M) in time (T), it is an embellished report that is under review.

OnReflection:


The original report on attainment in UK schools is fine @omonnakoda. It is the willful distortion of facts by @OP that is blatantly dishonest.
Look at the usual band of NL urchins jerk..ing off to claims of racial superiority. Not fully satisfied with standing the logic on its head, they've now taken to distorting history with claims that reside in the realms of phantasm.

OkutaNla:


But it's the truth!!! Haiti is the POOREST country in the world. It is also the most unstable, worst governed, and the worst FAILED state in the history of failed states. Am just schooling him that Haiti is the worst country anyone should brag about, yet he's implying a Haiti model for Biafra? That is typical of them ignorant Biafrans --they beat their chest over st.upid shyt

Kastonkastroll:
A Yoruba man taught the ibos how to read and write, go and find out. So I don't know how a iboman can be more intelligent than a Yoruba man.... Even before the arrival of the whiteman to Africa, the Yoruba's were already reading and writing in our dialect. We produced our own local weapons like guns, arrows, machetes etc because of the constant wars we were fighting.

When it comes to intelligence comparison between Yoruba's and our fellow compatriots in Africa, the yorubas are far above you all. The ibos are not even close to yorubas when intelligence is mentioned, the ashantis of Ghana are even ahead of you ibo people.

Besides this research never said the ibos are the most intelligent black people around, if it did say so, please tell me were the researchers said ibos are the most intelligent people in Africa.

Kastonkastroll:
A Yoruba man taught the ibos how to read and write, go and find out. So I don't know how a iboman can be more intelligent than a Yoruba man.... Even before the arrival of the whiteman to Africa, the Yoruba's were already reading and writing in our dialect. We produced our own local weapons like guns, arrows, machetes etc because of the constant wars we were fighting.

When it comes to intelligence comparison between Yoruba's and our fellow compatriots in Africa, the yorubas are far above you all. The ibos are not even close to yorubas when intelligence is mentioned, the ashantis of Ghana are even ahead of you ibo people.

Besides this research never said the ibos are the most intelligent black people around, if it did say so, please tell me were the researchers said ibos are the most intelligent people in Africa.

SonOfEl:


your exuberance has not proven a thing. so quit the drama.

. [b]In a White House memo dated Tuesday, January 28, 1969 to President Nixon, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger describes the Igbos as “the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”(foreign relations document, volume E-5, documents on Africa 1969-1972).

Kissinger's description aptly portrays the Christian Igbos and their experience in Nigeria. Over the years, the Igbos have been the victims of numerous massacres, that they have lost count. Most of the violence directed against the Igbos have been state sponsored. One can say that the Igbos knew how to spell “state sponsored terrorism” before the rest of the world did. The state sponsored terrorism directed against the Igbos in 1966, led to the declaration of the Republic of Biafra by the Igbos and subsequent civil war. Over two million Igbos died in the civil war, primarily by starvation. One will not be wrong, if they call the Igbos the “Tutsis” of Nigeria. Today, an Islamic terrorist Conglomerate led by the dreaded Boko Haram are still slaughtering Igbos and other Christians in Northen Nigeria. Igbos have always seen themselves as a bulwark against the spread of Islam to Southern Nigeria, and as a result, a perennial target of Islamic zealots.

However, the Igbos are one of the largest and most distinctive of all African ethnic groups. Predominantly found in Southeastern Nigeria, they number about 40 million worldwide, with about 30 million in Nigeria. They constitute about 18% of Nigeria's population, with significant Igbo populations in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Ivory Coast. Igbos predominate in five states in Nigeria-Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Abia. In three other states- Rivers, Lagos and Delta, they constitute almost 25% of the population.

During the slave trade, Igbo slaves were known to be the most rebellious. Most of the slave rebellions in the United States, Haiti, Jamaica, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Guyana were led by Igbo slaves. In South Carolina, Igbo slaves were reported to have drowned themselves, rather than be kept as slaves. Today that place is called Ebo Island in commemoration of the slaves who died there. The Gullahs are Igbo. Igbos were one of the 13 African ethnic groups that provided the bulk of the slaves who were brought to the Americas. Majority of the slaves who ended up in Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Mississippi, South and North Carolina and Georgia were Igbo. An Igbo museum has been built in Virginia to honor the contribution of Igbo slaves to the state. One of the Igbo slaves who was sent to Liberia by the American Colonization Society-Edward Roye- became the fourth president of Liberia. Another Igbo slave, Olaiduah Equiano wrote the famous slave chronicles.

During the colonial period, the British disliked the Igbos, because of their supposedly uppitiness and argumentativeness. During military service in Burma and India, the pride of Igbo soldiers amongst other African soldiers was proverbial. In the company offices and orderly rooms, the first few words from the White officer speaking to an Igbo soldier was followed by “don't argue, you! Or “you want to be too clever”, and similar expressions. Their expressive and aggressive mentality which they enjoy in their culture at home, does not always allow them to accept false charges or accusations without responding. The late famous writer, Langston Hughes, observed “the Igbo looks proud because he is bred in a free atmosphere where everyone is equal. He hates to depend on anyone for his life's need. He does not mind if others look proud. He has much to be proud of in his land. Nature has provided for him. He is strong and able to work or fight. He is well formed. He is generally happy in his society where no ruler overrides his conscience. He likes to advance and he is quick to learn. He likes to give rather than take”.

Culturally, the Igbos are a very diverse group with different clans, families, subcultures, and subgroups. However, the customs are similar with local varieties. Although there are disagreements about the origins of the Igbos, there is a consensus that they originated from Nri in Anambra State of Nigeria. The language of the Igbos is Igbo or Ibo. It is one of the largest spoken languages in Africa, with Hausa and Yoruba. Igbo speaking people are divided into five geographically based subcultures-Northern Igbo, Western Igbo, Southern Igbo, Eastern Igbo and Northeastern Igbo. Not as urbanized as the Yoruba, they live in multitudinous villages, fragmented into small family groups. They do not have hereditary chiefs like the the Yoruba or Hausa/Fulani. Every Igbo more or less is his or her own master. The Igbos operate the “Umunna System”, which emphasizes the patrilineal heritage, rather than the matrilineal. Some of the important Igbo cities include, Onitsha, Enugu, Umuahia, Aba, Asaba, Abakaliki, Owerri, Nsukka.

In commerce, the Igbos are a mobile, vividly industrious people who have spread all over Nigeria and Africa as traders and small merchants. In countries like Gabon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Gambia, Igbo traders predominate in retail trade. Most Igbos are clannish, despite their individualism and hold closely together in non Igbo communities. They are often very unpopular in the communities they live in, because they push very hard to make money and often dominate the retail business in alien communities. In his book, the Brutality of Nations, Dan Jacobs describes the Igbos “as ambitious, dynamic and progressive people whose education and abilities did not endear them to those among whom they lived. Even during British rule, there were massacres of Igbos in Northern Nigeria-in Jos in 1945 and in Kano in 1953. The Igbos have acquired the sobriquet, Jews of Africa”[/b].

asEdeyHOT:


How is it fine?

How were they able to determine which student comes from Yoruba, Ibo background? Did the students or their parents fill out a questionnaire? Were they interviewed? Or did they make conclusions based on their names?

Can the OP give us a link to the actual journal this research was published in??

nwanlecha:
Chai see 'painment.' LOL! Whenever the Igbo race is concerned, only the yoruba people will go to any extent to try and belittle the achievements of Ndi Igbo, who keep proving to the 'whites' that the black race can be a force to be reckoned with. Based on @OnReflection's comments, any foreigner who is new to this thread will automatically assume that he is a jealous, old, white racist, who probably can't live with the fact that a particular black race is as good if not better than the 'whites' when it comes to intelligence. The person will never believe that @OnReflection is a fellow black man. SMH.
Truth be told, jealousy and envy remain the bane of the Yoruba nation.

OkutaNla:


Mechionu there, anuofia. As much as i want u yee.bos to have Biafra coz i can't stand your empty chest-beating, even i know that y'all can do way better than Haiti. The point is that the boy got carried away in his attempt to beat his chest, not realizing that he was actually doing more harm than good to his argument. Since he was trying to sound like a smart aleck, i had to point that out to humble him a bit. Even you should scold him for that epochal goof. Igbos should never brag about any association with Haiti in its current state, of all countries. Mba. Even Una travelers avoid the place coz there's nothing there.

OnReflection:


^^^LoL
Igbo exceptionalism on steroids.

warrior01:


Are you scared to affirm to the world who you are? Wake up bro, you're Igbo and mediocrity shouldn't be a part of you

WhiteTechnology:


This post above is


The reason why Yorubas are not progressing.

emeritus856:



Dumb yeebhoe, so smuggling cocaine everywhere is progress for you. You are progressing yet running away from your cursed land every day. You have no shame, just like your father. SMh

SonOfEl:


keep insulting Haiti, it shows how 'intelligent' and 'civilized' you are. as for you not been able to stand our success, sit down or better still lie down then!

OkutaNla:


But it's the truth!!! Haiti is the POOREST country in the world. It is also the most unstable, worst governed, and the worst FAILED state in the history of failed states. Am just schooling him that Haiti is the worst country anyone should brag about, yet he's implying a Haiti model for Biafra? That is typical of them ignorant Biafrans --they beat their chest over st.upid shyt

SonOfEl:


e no work, try again....*yimu*

OkutaNla:


Don't misquote me like a e-goat. I said I can't stand Biafran EMPTY chest-beating, didn't mention anything about igbo successes. I stand by everything I said concerning Haiti coz it's self-inflicted. And if Biafra wants to end up like Haiti then knock yourselves out.

emeritus856:


Who is this never do well? You better face your gala hawking and stop looking for trouble.

SonOfEl:


**laughs** notice me, I have noticed you...now park well.

WhiteTechnology:


This post above is


The reason why Yorubas are not progressing.

OnReflection:


What is important is to elevate the debate and not to indulge in the ethnocentrism that formed the staple diet of some commentators, from birth.
Are you aware that Dutty Boukman, who inspired one of the greatest revolutions ever documented, was of Yoruba origin?
Don't go shooting yourself in the foot just to satisfy the caprices of reprobates. That's all I am saying.

emeritus856:


You quote me first and still talking of "notice me". Are you naturally daft or foolish? You must a m.oronic fool from birth. Dunc.e