A fake MalcomX jihadist presumes he too has an opinion on igbo identity.

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OP, You are actually super shallow and clownish.

1. You had stated zero point, but a pile of horse dung.

2. IPOB is the acronym for Indigenous People of Biafra (Not indigenous People of Nigeria). So you have zero point.

3. Biafra has been indeed subjected to a systematic cultural and existential genocide. Check the history.

4. Before the colonial Nigeria, Biafra was.

5. Biafra predates Nigeria which has always been an imperial colony in reality.

For your basic education:

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples, native peoples, or autochthonous peoples, are ethnic groups who are descended from and identify with the original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples

Indigenous people are people defined in international or national legislation as having a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory, and their cultural or historical distinctiveness from other populations that are often politically dominant.Jan 2, 2017

http://www.indigenouspeople.net/

Understanding the term “indigenous”


Considering the diversity of indigenous peoples, an official definition of “indigenous” has not been adopted by any UN-system body. Instead the system has developed a modern understanding of this term based on the following:

• Self- identification as indigenous peoples at the individual level and accepted by the community as their member.

• Historical continuity with pre-colonial and/or pre-settler societies

• Strong link to territories and surrounding natural resources

• Distinct social, economic or political systems

• Distinct language, culture and beliefs

• Form non-dominant groups of society

• Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as distinctive peoples and communities.


A question of identity:

• According to the UN the most fruitful approach is to identify, rather than define indigenous peoples. This is based on the fundamental criterion of self-identification as underlined in a number of human rights documents.

• The term “indigenous” has prevailed as a generic term for many years. In some countries, there may be preference for other terms including tribes, first peoples/nations, aboriginals, ethnic groups, adivasi, janajati. Occupational and geographical terms like hunter-gatherers, nomads, peasants, hill people, etc., also exist and for all practical purposes can be used interchangeably with “indigenous peoples”.

• In many cases, the notion of being termed “indigenous” has negative connotations and some people may choose not to reveal or define their origin. Others must respect such choices, while at the same time working against the discrimination of indigenous peoples.


Culture and Knowledge

Indigenous peoples are the holders of unique languages, knowledge systems and beliefs and possess invaluable knowledge of practices for the sustainable management of natural resources. They have a special relation to and use of their traditional land. Their ancestral land has a fundamental importance for their collective physical and cultural survival as peoples.

Indigenous peoples hold their own diverse concepts of development, based on their traditional values, visions, needs and priorities.

Political participation


Indigenous peoples often have much in common with other neglected segments of societies, i.e. lack of political representation and participation, economic marginalization and poverty, lack of access to social services and discrimination. Despite their cultural differences, the diverse indigenous peoples share common problems also related to the protection of their rights. They strive for recognition of their identities, their ways of life and their right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources.

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/5session_factsheet1.pdf

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MalcoImX:
Don't give a hoot 'bout Igbo identity, but to state unequivocally what you cannot dispute. 'I'POB mischievously used the term in question to gain support of international community, and so far, apart from the local noise, he's not been successful.

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Danzakidakura:
ndi ofenmanu abugi mmadu, habu ndi anya ufu mana Igbo kaha

hapu ndi anwa,oor ka chikwu nyere ayi aka kayi si na zoo a pua ka ndi arewa suo fa akwu

optional1:
all this write up for biafra
.

No be small kasala my brother

AND THE NIGERIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN NIGGER AREA FOLKS, OR RATHER, AN AREA OF NIGGAS THAT ENGLAND HAS BEEN TOYING WITH FOR OVER 100 YEARS AND COUNTING, NOT TO MENTION CHANGING THE DIAPERS FOR BABA BUHARI FOR 50+ DAYS (IF HE HAS NOT YET EXPIRED THAT IS)

Ojiofor:


Ezi okwu nwanne nwa mgbe nta ha ga gbara oto puo ahia.Shettima onye isi Arewa youths bu onye isi ndi ara ahu.

hahahaha, odi kamu aga ebido ruwa otapiapia maka na mu ma, na ufodi na nndi ofe mmanu ga acho itu udo ma biafra bia ka mu mee ka onwu ha diri ha eazy

The Indigenous People of Africa
1. The Pygmy: central Africa
2. The Masai: Kenya

MalcoImX:
Not aware!!!! Why would you be mischievous just because Kanu is?

Did they say other Nigerian groups are not indigenous?

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MalcoImX:
The right to self-determination is a right recognized by natural law and nearly all international conventions and entities. But it is not right for certain groups to lay claim to what they're not in order to exercise this mandate. The 'Indigenous' People of Biafra ('I'POB) is the worst case in this misapplication.
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Some would say being indigenous means being native to a place. But this is being literal, and by this definition, all tribes in Nigeria, or anywhere else could lay claim to being indigenous people. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), as the choice of words show has clearly avoided this hole as against Nnamdi Kanu's 'I'ndigenous' People of Biafra ('I'POB).
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It is very insensitive to the suffering of the indigenous people of the world for the Biafrans (or any Igbo) to use their plights to secure their political ambitions. In fact, it is very wicked and fraudulent The Biafrans are not, and have not been classified under any international conventions or by the indigenous peoples of the world as "indigenous people."
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The Biafrans therefore, and by extension any Igbo, cannot lay claim to being "indigenous people." The indigenous people will be such like the Pygmies of central Africa; the Australian Aborigines; the Yanomami and other tribes of the Brazilian Amazon; the Chactows, the Cherokees, Tomahawks, the Mohicans, the Nebraskans, the Idahoans, the Sioux and all other native American Indians. They are mostly subjugated, threatened, and with subsistent, underdeveloped economies. They usually are protected and cared for by national and international organizations because of their vulnerabilities. In fact, this has to be, because they may face extinction if left to their own resources. It is selfishness and fraudulent for the Igbo, with well-developed economies (at least by Third World standards) to lay claims to this status. It is a mockery and insensitivity of the highest order for the Nigerian Igbo to even aspire to such. The only people in Nigeria that come close to such are the Ogonis, or any other to be discovered whose economy will be just about that of hunting and gathering.
//
Below is a list of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, as compiled by reputable researchers and institutions. The Igbos are not there, and it is clear fraud to appropriate the term.
//
Acholi: Uganda
Afar: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Agaw: Ethiopia
Akisho: Ethiopia
Anuak: Ethiopia
Beja: Eritrea
Berta: Ethiopia
Bilen: Eritrea
Borana: Ethiopia
Daasanach: Ethiopia
Alur: Uganda
Ambo: Zambia
Ankole: Uganda
Antalote: Comoros
Aushi: Zambia
Aweer: Kenya
Babongo: Gabon
Baganda: Uganda
Bahima/Ankole: Uganda, Rwanda
Bagisu: Uganda
Bagwere: Uganda
Bakiga: Uganda
Bakonjo: Uganda
Basoga: Uganda
Batoro: Uganda
Bemba: Zambia
Betsileo: Madagascar
Bisa: Zambia
Bunyoro: Uganda
Cafre: Comoros
Chagga: Tanzania
Chewa: Malawi
Chikunda: Zambia
Chokwe: Mozambique, Zambia
Chopi: Mozambique
Cishinga: Zambia
Gova: Zambia
Hadzabe: Tanzania
Haya: Tanzania
Hehe: Tanzania
Hutu: Burundi, Rwanda
Ila: Zambia
Inamwanga: Zambia
Iteso: Uganda
Iwa: Zambia
Jopadhola: Uganda
Kabende: Zambia
Kalenjin: Kenya
Kamba: Kenya
Kaonde: Zambia
Karamojong: Uganda
Kikuyu: Kenya
Kisii: Kenya
Kosa: Zambia
Kunda: Zambia
Kwandi: Zambia
Kwandu: Zambia
Kwangwa: Zambia
Lala: Zambia
Lamba: Zambia
Lango: Uganda
Lenje: Zambia
Leya: Zambia
Lima: Zambia
Liyuwa: Zambia
Lomwe: Malawi
Lozi: Zambia
Luano: Zambia
Lucazi: Zambia
Lugbara: Uganda
Luhya: Kenya
Lumbu: Zambia
Lunda: Zambia
Lundwe: Zambia
Lungu: Zambia
Luo: Kenya, Tanzania
Luvale: Zambia
Luunda: Zambia
Maasai: Kenya and Tanzania
Makoa: Comoros
Makoma: Zambia
Makonde: Mozambique
Makua: Mozambique
Mambwe: Zambia
Manyika: Mozambique
Mashasha: Zambia
Mashi: Zambia
Mbowe: Zambia
Mbukushu: Zambia
Mbumi: Zambia
Mbunda: Zambia
Mbwela: Zambia
Merina: Madagascar
Meru: Kenya
Mukulu: Zambia
Mulonga: Zambia
Munyoyaya: Kenya
Ndau: Mozambique
Ndembu: Zambia
Ng'umbo: Zambia
Ngonde: Malawi
Ngoni: Malawi
Nguni: Mozambique
Nkoya: Zambia
Nsenga: Zambia
Nyakyusa: Tanzania
Nyamwezi: Tanzania
Nyanja: Malawi, Zambia
Nyengo: Zambia
Nyiha: Zambia
Ogiek: Kenya
Oimatsaha: Comoros
Pare: Tanzania
Rundi: Uganda
Rwanda: Uganda
Sakalava: Comoros
Seba: Zambia
Sena: Malawi, Mozambique
Senga: Zambia
Sengwer: Kenya
Shangana: Mozambique
Shanjo: Zambia
Shila: Zambia
Shona: Mozambique
Simaa: Zambia
Soli: Zambia
Subiya: Zambia
Sukuma: Tanzania
Swaka: Zambia
Swahili: East Africa & bordering regions
Tabwa: Zambia
Tambo: Zambia
Toka: Zambia
Totela: Zambia
Tumbuka: Malawi, Zambia
Tonga: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia
Tutsi: Burundi, Rwanda
Twa (Pygmy): Congo & bordering regions
Unga: Zambia
Wandya: Zambia
Watha: Kenya
Yao: Malawi, Mozambique
Yiaku/Yaaku: Kenya
Yombe: Zambia
Zulu: South Africa & bordering regions
Dorze: Ethiopia
Gumuz: Ethiopia
Gurage: Ethiopia
Hamar: Ethiopia
Hedareb: Eritrea
Jeberti: Ethiopia
Kichepo: Ethiopia
Kunama: Eritrea
Me'en: Ethiopia
Mursi: Ethiopia
Nara: Eritrea
Nuer: Ethiopia
Nyangatom: Ethiopia
Oromo: Ethiopia
Qemant: Ethiopia
Rashaida: Eritrea
Rer Bare: Ethiopia
Saho: Eritrea
Shanqella: Ethiopia
Sidama: Ethiopia
Silt'e: Ethiopia & bordering regions
Suri: Ethiopia
Tigre: Eritrea
Tigray (Tigrinya): Ethiopia & ordering regions
Welayta: Ethiopia
Zay: Ethiopia
Berber (Amazigh): Maghreb & bordering regions
Dinka: South Sudan
Egyptians: (Egypt)
Haratin: Morocco, Mauritania
Nuba: Sudan
Nubians: Egypt, Sudan
Nuer: South Sudan
Shilluk: South Sudan
Bushmen: Kalahari & bordering regions
Khoikhoi: South Africa
Namaqua: South Africa
Baka: Congo & bordering regions
Balengue: Equatorial Guinea
Benga: Equatorial Guinea
Bubi people: Bioko Island, Eq. Guinea
Bujeba: Equatorial Guinea
Combe or Ndowe: Eq. Guinea
Duala people: Cameroon
Beti-Pahuin/Fang: Eq. Guinea
Ogoni people: Nigeria
Serer: Senegal & bordering regions
Tuareg: the Sahel
Toubou: southern Sahara
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This fraudulent initiative only goes further to prove the scam associated with anything Kanu. The word "indigenous" in 'I'POB is a deliberate misuse to hoodwink the gullible into recruiting and expansion of Kanu's criminal enterprise. Kanu's lack of remorse and inability to make amends will contiguously inflict upon him human and natural haunts, especially by the ancestors and ghosts of the Indigenous people. These people being physically and spiritually close to nature have the most potent ghosts, spirits, shamans, Voodoos. Only a being blocked from friendly admonishings will ride on the back of their sufferings.
//
PHOTOS
1. An indigenous woman: Ethiopia
2. Native American: USA
3. The Yanomami: Brazil
4. Kanawua: Indonesia

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Why you people taking Drugs for Biafra people?

Arda1000:
hahahaha, odi kamu aga ebido ruwa otapiapia maka na mu ma, na ufodi na nndi ofe mmanu ga acho itu udo ma biafra bia ka mu mee ka onwu ha diri ha eazy

Nwanne ga na ihu ma kpuputa otapiapia di ire nke oma ha ga e need ya very soon .

Ojiofor:


Nwanne ga na ihu ma kpuputa otapiapia di ire nke oma ha ga e need ya very soon .

nsogbu adihi,otapiapia nke mu ga eresi ha ga abu okasi ibe, ipobexpose na sarki bu ndi ga ebu uzo tastie ya

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Academia don suffer for Yoruba hand.

The Daft OP does not know the difference between Aborigines and Indigenous.

He described Aborigines and then applied the completely different term of Indigenous.

This is y IPOB will continue to punish Nigeria intellectually, becos their Abu Zaria degree and Oluwole degree cannot withstand our University of London and Harvard degrees.

Degree pass degree.

MalcoImX:
. . . a load of rubbish regurgitated out of ignorance clouded by hatred and bigotry!

Let's hear what the U.N.systems, a more reliable source, have to say about the topic:

"Considering the diversity of indigenous peoples, an official definition of “indigenous” has not been adopted by any UN-system body. Instead the system has developed a modern understanding of this term based on the following:

1. Self- identification as indigenous peoples at the individual level and accepted by the community as their member.
2. Historical continuity with pre-colonial and/or pre-settler societies
3. Strong link to territories and surrounding natural resources
4. Distinct social, economic or political systems
5. Distinct language, culture and beliefs
6. Form non-dominant groups of society
7. Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as distinctive peoples and
communities."

IPOB clearly have done their homework . . .

Arda1000:
nsogbu adihi,otapiapia nke mu ga eresi ha ga abu okasi ibe, ipobexpose na sarki bu ndi ga ebu uzo tastie ya

Ka Chineke nara mkpuru obi ha na ndokwa.

Ojiofor:

Ka Chineke nara mkpuru obi ha na ndokwa.

isee

MalcoImX:
You are as wrong as the 'I' in 'I'POB. It's with no wonder that such low level intelligence was what led to KANU being nabbed in a hotel room, with an unidentified woman.

The frustration at your failure to discredit kanu is really making some ewedu elements run mad. You've tried everything under the sun to prove that Kanu is a "scam" but e no work. More lamentation to your muslim skull right there.

The Indigenous People of Africa 1. The San (Bushmen): Kalahari 2. The Ogiek: Kenya

paschu:
A fake MalcomX jihadist presumes he too has an opinion on igbo identity.

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Don't give a hoot 'bout Igbo identity, but to state unequivocally what you cannot dispute. 'I'POB mischievously used the term in question to gain support of international community, and so far, apart from the local noise, he's not been successful.

igbo is not classified as indigenous people!
look at Niger indigenous people near us:-

CltrAltDel:
Bros....watch out as you will be labeled an Afojaaaaaaaaa.... we know these guys are Bantu Immigrants they just refuse to accept the truth

Go here to read the truth
https://www.nairaland.com/3858834/igbos-really-come-nigeria-old

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5679535_img1444_jpegb5238894a20dbe4563186e057e832d79

fashola, your the greatest liar that ever live Now to educate you more go to this link and read the meaning of "indigenous people"and look at the lists were igbo speaking biafrans and their cousin brothers are indicated..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indigenous_peoples

MalcoImX:
The right to self-determination is a right recognized by natural law and nearly all international conventions and entities. But it is not right for certain groups to lay claim to what they're not in order to exercise this mandate. The 'Indigenous' People of Biafra ('I'POB) is the worst case in this misapplication.
//
Some would say being indigenous means being native to a place. But this is being literal, and by this definition, all tribes in Nigeria, or anywhere else could lay claim to being indigenous people. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), as the choice of words show has clearly avoided this hole as against Nnamdi Kanu's 'I'ndigenous' People of Biafra ('I'POB).
//
It is very insensitive to the suffering of the indigenous people of the world for the Biafrans (or any Igbo) to use their plights to secure their political ambitions. In fact, it is very wicked and fraudulent The Biafrans are not, and have not been classified under any international conventions or by the indigenous peoples of the world as "indigenous people."
//
The Biafrans therefore, and by extension any Igbo, cannot lay claim to being "indigenous people." The indigenous people will be such like the Pygmies of central Africa; the Australian Aborigines; the Yanomami and other tribes of the Brazilian Amazon; the Chactows, the Cherokees, Tomahawks, the Mohicans, the Nebraskans, the Idahoans, the Sioux and all other native American Indians. They are mostly subjugated, threatened, and with subsistent, underdeveloped economies. They usually are protected and cared for by national and international organizations because of their vulnerabilities. In fact, this has to be, because they may face extinction if left to their own resources. It is selfishness and fraudulent for the Igbo, with well-developed economies (at least by Third World standards) to lay claims to this status. It is a mockery and insensitivity of the highest order for the Nigerian Igbo to even aspire to such. The only people in Nigeria that come close to such are the Ogonis, or any other to be discovered whose economy will be just about that of hunting and gathering.
//
Below is a list of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, as compiled by reputable researchers and institutions. The Igbos are not there, and it is clear fraud to appropriate the term.
//
Acholi: Uganda
Afar: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Agaw: Ethiopia
Akisho: Ethiopia
Anuak: Ethiopia
Beja: Eritrea
Berta: Ethiopia
Bilen: Eritrea
Borana: Ethiopia
Daasanach: Ethiopia
Alur: Uganda
Ambo: Zambia
Ankole: Uganda
Antalote: Comoros
Aushi: Zambia
Aweer: Kenya
Babongo: Gabon
Baganda: Uganda
Bahima/Ankole: Uganda, Rwanda
Bagisu: Uganda
Bagwere: Uganda
Bakiga: Uganda
Bakonjo: Uganda
Basoga: Uganda
Batoro: Uganda
Bemba: Zambia
Betsileo: Madagascar
Bisa: Zambia
Bunyoro: Uganda
Cafre: Comoros
Chagga: Tanzania
Chewa: Malawi
Chikunda: Zambia
Chokwe: Mozambique, Zambia
Chopi: Mozambique
Cishinga: Zambia
Gova: Zambia
Hadzabe: Tanzania
Haya: Tanzania
Hehe: Tanzania
Hutu: Burundi, Rwanda
Ila: Zambia
Inamwanga: Zambia
Iteso: Uganda
Iwa: Zambia
Jopadhola: Uganda
Kabende: Zambia
Kalenjin: Kenya
Kamba: Kenya
Kaonde: Zambia
Karamojong: Uganda
Kikuyu: Kenya
Kisii: Kenya
Kosa: Zambia
Kunda: Zambia
Kwandi: Zambia
Kwandu: Zambia
Kwangwa: Zambia
Lala: Zambia
Lamba: Zambia
Lango: Uganda
Lenje: Zambia
Leya: Zambia
Lima: Zambia
Liyuwa: Zambia
Lomwe: Malawi
Lozi: Zambia
Luano: Zambia
Lucazi: Zambia
Lugbara: Uganda
Luhya: Kenya
Lumbu: Zambia
Lunda: Zambia
Lundwe: Zambia
Lungu: Zambia
Luo: Kenya, Tanzania
Luvale: Zambia
Luunda: Zambia
Maasai: Kenya and Tanzania
Makoa: Comoros
Makoma: Zambia
Makonde: Mozambique
Makua: Mozambique
Mambwe: Zambia
Manyika: Mozambique
Mashasha: Zambia
Mashi: Zambia
Mbowe: Zambia
Mbukushu: Zambia
Mbumi: Zambia
Mbunda: Zambia
Mbwela: Zambia
Merina: Madagascar
Meru: Kenya
Mukulu: Zambia
Mulonga: Zambia
Munyoyaya: Kenya
Ndau: Mozambique
Ndembu: Zambia
Ng'umbo: Zambia
Ngonde: Malawi
Ngoni: Malawi
Nguni: Mozambique
Nkoya: Zambia
Nsenga: Zambia
Nyakyusa: Tanzania
Nyamwezi: Tanzania
Nyanja: Malawi, Zambia
Nyengo: Zambia
Nyiha: Zambia
Ogiek: Kenya
Oimatsaha: Comoros
Pare: Tanzania
Rundi: Uganda
Rwanda: Uganda
Sakalava: Comoros
Seba: Zambia
Sena: Malawi, Mozambique
Senga: Zambia
Sengwer: Kenya
Shangana: Mozambique
Shanjo: Zambia
Shila: Zambia
Shona: Mozambique
Simaa: Zambia
Soli: Zambia
Subiya: Zambia
Sukuma: Tanzania
Swaka: Zambia
Swahili: East Africa & bordering regions
Tabwa: Zambia
Tambo: Zambia
Toka: Zambia
Totela: Zambia
Tumbuka: Malawi, Zambia
Tonga: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia
Tutsi: Burundi, Rwanda
Twa (Pygmy): Congo & bordering regions
Unga: Zambia
Wandya: Zambia
Watha: Kenya
Yao: Malawi, Mozambique
Yiaku/Yaaku: Kenya
Yombe: Zambia
Zulu: South Africa & bordering regions
Dorze: Ethiopia
Gumuz: Ethiopia
Gurage: Ethiopia
Hamar: Ethiopia
Hedareb: Eritrea
Jeberti: Ethiopia
Kichepo: Ethiopia
Kunama: Eritrea
Me'en: Ethiopia
Mursi: Ethiopia
Nara: Eritrea
Nuer: Ethiopia
Nyangatom: Ethiopia
Oromo: Ethiopia
Qemant: Ethiopia
Rashaida: Eritrea
Rer Bare: Ethiopia
Saho: Eritrea
Shanqella: Ethiopia
Sidama: Ethiopia
Silt'e: Ethiopia & bordering regions
Suri: Ethiopia
Tigre: Eritrea
Tigray (Tigrinya): Ethiopia & ordering regions
Welayta: Ethiopia
Zay: Ethiopia
Berber (Amazigh): Maghreb & bordering regions
Dinka: South Sudan
Egyptians: (Egypt)
Haratin: Morocco, Mauritania
Nuba: Sudan
Nubians: Egypt, Sudan
Nuer: South Sudan
Shilluk: South Sudan
Bushmen: Kalahari & bordering regions
Khoikhoi: South Africa
Namaqua: South Africa
Baka: Congo & bordering regions
Balengue: Equatorial Guinea
Benga: Equatorial Guinea
Bubi people: Bioko Island, Eq. Guinea
Bujeba: Equatorial Guinea
Combe or Ndowe: Eq. Guinea
Duala people: Cameroon
Beti-Pahuin/Fang: Eq. Guinea
Ogoni people: Nigeria
Serer: Senegal & bordering regions
Tuareg: the Sahel
Toubou: southern Sahara
//
This fraudulent initiative only goes further to prove the scam associated with anything Kanu. The word "indigenous" in 'I'POB is a deliberate misuse to hoodwink the gullible into recruiting and expansion of Kanu's criminal enterprise. Kanu's lack of remorse and inability to make amends will contiguously inflict upon him human and natural haunts, especially by the ancestors and ghosts of the Indigenous people. These people being physically and spiritually close to nature have the most potent ghosts, spirits, shamans, Voodoos. Only a being blocked from friendly admonishings will ride on the back of their sufferings.
//
PHOTOS
1. An indigenous woman: Ethiopia
2. Native American: USA
3. The Yanomami: Brazil
4. Kanawua: Indonesia

What the hell are you to decide who is indigenous in Biafra or not? There are many dumbass ethnicities Nigeria can never claim indigenous to Biafra. Ndigbo and people of the defunct eastern region of Nigeria are very indigenous to Biafra.

Op MalcoImx, every ppl in the world had migrated either to 1 place or more than 1, so no one is indigenous.

It's best to say:-
- those ppl are early migrant to this place
- those ppl are late/recent migrant to this place

I read this 'interesting' article carefully hoping to see your definition of the word indigenous buty couldn't. Do you care to explain why Biafra doesn't qualify to be described as such?

kutchs:
I read this 'interesting' article carefully hoping to see your definition of the word indigenous buty couldn't. Do you care to explain why Biafra doesn't qualify to be described as such?

one Indigenously there is nothing like biafra!
second Igbo is not classified as indigenous people.
You can't just stand up and say you are an indigenous people, you will be classified due to your archaic and primitive characters in you till today, they never let go their customs, cultures and traditions! and no one can take them out of it!
they didn't use to today civilization, they even don't believe in country!

kutchs:
I read this 'interesting' article carefully hoping to see your definition of the word indigenous buty couldn't. Do you care to explain why Biafra doesn't qualify to be described as such?

Pls read carefully where it is stated that:

The indigenous peoples "are mostly subjugated, threatened, and with subsistent, underdeveloped economies. They usually are protected and cared for by national and international organizations because of their vulnerabilities. In fact, this has to be, because they may face extinction if left to their own resources."
/ /
Can you with all honesty include the Igbo in this group?

The Indigenous Peoples of Africa
1. The Ogoni: Nigeria
2. The Tuareg: Sahara

biafra is Portuguese invention of 1800 AD!
igbo who change frequently, today christian, tomorrow Jewish, white characters, migrating everywhere!
how can anything igbo be indigenous?

ezeagu:


Rubbish, either engage intellectually, or your reply is pointless, you have lost. Try again.

You are indeed Maddddddddd!!!

hammerF:
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Academia don suffer for Yoruba hand.

The Daft OP does not know the difference between Aborigines and Indigenous.

He described Aborigines and then applied the completely different term of Indigenous.

This is y IPOB will continue to punish Nigeria intellectually, becos their Abu Zaria degree and Oluwole degree cannot withstand our University of London and Harvard degrees.

Degree pass degree.

Or rather, you don't know that Aborigines are indigenous people.

The use of the plight of the indigenous peoples of the world by Kanu to promote his shady schemes should be condemned. That insensitivity to the suffering if such group and the use of their identity in furtherance of his diabolical operations is terrorism.

OP has a point. Igbos cannot claim to be Jews and yet claim to be indigenous to the region they currently occupy. Personally I doubt the Igbos or even the Yorubas and Edos, were in their current abodes before the 12th century. They are migrants from the Middle East and Egypt, most of them. Original Africans in the West African sub-region are to be found among the Hausa, South Sudanese, Nubians etc.

The right to self-determination is a right recognized by natural law and nearly all international conventions and entities. But it is not right for certain groups to lay claim to what they're not in order to exercise this mandate. The 'Indigenous' People of Biafra ('I'POB) is the worst case in this misapplication.

Some would say being indigenous means being native to a place. But this is being literal, and by this definition, all tribes in Nigeria, or anywhere else could lay claim to being indigenous people. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), as the choice of words show has clearly avoided this hole as against Nnamdi Kanu's 'I'ndigenous' People of Biafra ('I'POB).

Op but Igbos have always been native to a place before Nigeria was born.
So how does your claim holds water?