rufychuks:

The way you guys just formulate stories from thin air is astonishing! Olaudah Equiano wrote his autobiography. He stated where he was born, he talked about his father and mother. He wrote about their customs and traditions. Please where did you get this assumption that he was born far from his homeland? Haba! Argument is not by force o!

bigfrancis21:


If you went to the university and you did final-year project then you should know that wikipedia is never a reliable source of research. Anybody can go to Wikipedia to edit articles and some of their information are never verified. Moreover, the Etsako you see on wiki was just edited into the article today by some anonymous person from nairaland whereas 99% other articles on his origin all say 'Ebo', 'Igbo' etc.

Now I put it to you. Provide us academic or linguistic evidence, asides unreliable wikipedia, that he was from Etsako.

giftq:

Those are full Igbo names.
Even if they spoke Russian, they remain Igbo by birth.

MetaPhysical:


Olaudah, Vassa has never been Ibo name.

rufychuks:

What exactly do you want to know? Is it that Olaudah was not Igbo or that the Igbos were under the Benin Empire?
If you read the writings on the pictures I posted, you will clearly see that those are customs of the Igbo.
Please do not argue without concrete facts. The book is there for all to read. After reading it, then you can make your conclusions. Do not dwell on Wikipedia posts which can be made by anyone. Read what Olaudah himself wrote.

comos:


Please tell me where Essaka is located in Igbo Land

bigfrancis21:


A small part of Igboland was subject to the Bini empire, especially the anioma region, not the entire Igboland. We all know that. Just as Lagos and some other areas of Yorubaland were under the Bini empire also, do we say that the Yorubas were under the rule of Benin empire and migrated out of Benin? After all the Obanikoro family of Lagos state is from Bini?

Lilimax:

The so called Essaka is the present day Isseke in Ihiala L.G. Area of Anambra state

igbodefender:


On the contrary, in his great book The Travels Of Gustavus Vassa The African, he kept repeating "I am Iboe, I am Iboe", which is good enough for me.

TheKingIsHere:
I tire for these people oo.

The guy is from Edo state, he had knowledge of igbo and spoke it to igbo slaves..All of a sudden he is now Igbo.

Just like the guy that is running for governor in anambra state, his name is Oseloka Obaze. He speaks igbo but he isnt igbo.

TheKingIsHere:


I stated that the Wikipedia article is similar with the picture you posted.

You replied that it wasn't. Now I ask you to point out the part that isn't similar, you are diverting the question.

How can you say Wikipedia isn't reliable but the one you claim to be reliable is similar to the Wikipedia article.

MetaPhysical:
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Chukwuemeka Ojukwu
Nzeogwu

Each of these were born in North, in Hausa speaking territory and they spoke fluent Hausa. If these people had been caught and sold into slavery while still young as Olaudah was, their memory of birth, environment and mode of expression would be nothing but Hausa and Hausaland. If asked about their birth and environment it would all be relative to Hausa culture, even though their true ethnicity and background is non-Hausa. Correct?

There are many Ibos today born in North and never stepped foot in Iboland and cant even speak Ibo. All they understand is Hausa. Same with Ibos born and raised in Yorubaland. Olaudah should be viewed in same fate, a man of non-Ibo origin, born and raised in Ibo culture.

emezuo17:
But history has it that he was from ikwuano umuahia. The name olaido was a corruption of the original 'olaedo' the igbo will know better, while equani, was actually ikwuano

TheKingIsHere:


I stated that the Wikipedia article is similar with the picture you posted.

You replied that it wasn't. Now I ask you to point out the part that isn't similar, you are diverting the question.

How can you say Wikipedia isn't reliable but the one you claim to be reliable is similar to the Wikipedia article.

rufychuks:

What is the similarity? That Olaudah mentioned the Benin empire? You claim that Olaudah was Edo but the man himself wrote in his autobiography that he was Eboe (former spelling of Ibo and currently Igbo).
The Chiefs and elders of his village were the kings he knew. Saying that they were under the Benin Empire doesn't mean they were Bini or that the Oba had any direct authority over them. It was just that the power of the Oba was widespread and all within Southern Nigeria then would have know of his majesty. It doesn't necessarily mean the whole Southern Nigeria were Binis.

GreenCap:


Olaude Ekwualo is from Imo State, Orlu District precisely

Iboe slave routes at that time:

from OnuImo to Uburu next Aro then Calabar

or Obuaku to Opobo

Bonny and so on

his great grand nephews alive today look exactly like him

Fineman87:


You are terrible. So a benin man will abandon his own language and write igbo in his biography. A benin man will also ignore his own culture and describe igbo culture in his biography. You are funny, i swear.

Fineman87:


You are terrible. So a benin man will abandon his own language and write igbo in his biography. A benin man will also ignore his own culture and describe igbo culture in his biography. You are funny, i swear.

ofai:
Anyone who read his book knew his narrative of being eboe (Igbo) in essaka somewhere in the Benin empire. He was Midwest Igbo.

giftq:
Igbo amaka

cc
Leez






https://www.google.com.ng/amp/thenationonlineng.net/sad-memories-of-slavery/amp/

rufychuks:

And Wikipedia really isn't reliable. Just download the book online and read. It will make you realize you have been mistaken all along.

Leez:

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mynd44
mukina
cao
move ds ministry to fp na

TheKingIsHere:


If you had the patience to read and digest the article, you will understand what's going on.

Now, can you provide where I said he was a Benin man?

Also, the link provided, olaulah started the he is from estako in Edo state. Is estako an Igbo village?

Can you answer these questions.

Fineman87:


Are you normal? Why didn't he write his own etsako language and culture if he is etsako.

What is wrong with you? Aren't you ashamed of yourself.

TheKingIsHere:


Thanks. Atleast your response is more matured than the rest who can't stand a contrary opinion.
As for the small part of igbos that were under the Benin Empire, were the people of Onitcha not also under the Benin Empire?

The reason I ask is the stereotype response I have received in the past making it look like it was only aniomas that were under the Benin Kingdom which is not so.

TheKingIsHere:
It is already on front page but another thread.

Fineman87:


Envious yolobats trying hard to cover their shame. Read his own book and you will clearly confirm his igboness.

TheKingIsHere:


Give me the source to download the full narration (not summary) .

Thank you

Fineman87:
A full grown man wrote a book and said he is eboe. He narrated his own culture which clearly is igbo and mentioned some igbo words. Yet some idiots come here to argue rubbish.

And what if he is etsako, where is yoloba equivalent of equiano olaudah. Tell us about a greater yoloba man not fighting for the etsakos. The etsako people should come here and claim him. Then i will start.
Shameless yoliba people.

Fineman87:
A full grown man wrote a book and said he is eboe. He narrated his own culture which clearly is igbo and mentioned some igbo words. Yet some idiots come here to argue rubbish.

And what if he is etsako, where is yoloba equivalent of equiano olaudah. Tell us about a greater yoloba man not fighting for the etsakos. The etsako people should come here and claim him. Then i will start.
Shameless yoliba people.