Pharoh: @Afam

You are getting the point and concerning what we want to be called, it is simply Ikas or Ukwuani ( Ndokwa ). We don't want to be called bini or igbo, we don't need to be called igbo before we regard each other as family and that is the point people are missing. We know where our political allegiance lies and who we feel at home most. Just get past the identity issue, pursue collective development and relations. Identity is built over a very long period of years if there is no application of force.

People are quick to point at other examples around the world like the Chinese, Spanish and French but if you take the time to investigate how they came about it, you will not be screaming everybody are Igbos. The white man met us a little over hundred years ago and they is where the Yoruba and igbo identity start developing from. If the white man did not came to colonize us, i seriously doubt if there will be anything like Yoruba or Igbo in 2013. So it is time for igbos to look beyond the igbo identity issue and see where they can joint and collective aspiration with people you consider as family.

Pharoh: @some-girl

You mind i ask you some questions?

Afam4eva:
I'm talking of the Igbo nonenclature and not the fact that people that speak Igbo languages and practice similar culture have existed probably as old as the world itself. My point is that before the British came, there was nothing like Igbo. As much the people called Igbo today existed, there was no common name that they were not by. Igbos identified with their various clans eg Ngwa, Nkanu, Nsukka, Owerri, Ikwerre, Ukwuani etc. The using of the term Igbo was an attempt to bring all these people under one umbrella for easy administration and convenience.

Hope.At.Hand:



My vexation with Afam4eva is his insistence in mentioning ikwerre and ibo in same sentence at slightest opportunity..Pls stop it, you and Abagworo are triyng too hard to conceive an unholy matrimony between ikwerres and ibos..Its lyk saying Spanish and Portuguese are the same, no matter how close they seem, they are two different people.

Likewise Ikwerre and ibo are two enturely diffrent groups, dnt insult us by calling us a clan of ibo tribe again.

Hope.At.Hand:



My vexation with Afam4eva is his insistence in mentioning ikwerre and ibo in same sentence at slightest opportunity..Pls stop it, you and Abagworo are triyng too hard to conceive an unholy matrimony between ikwerres and ibos..Its lyk saying Spanish and Portuguese are the same, no matter how close they seem, they are two different people.

Likewise Ikwerre and ibo are two enturely diffrent groups, dnt insult us by calling us a clan of ibo tribe again.

some-girl:


I would say he did Igbos a disservice by mentioning Ikwerres as Igbo.
You are right, we are different in looks, poise, behaviour and values.

Hope.At.Hand:


Haha, see this one...ibos?? Values?? what values can the ibos boast of?? Dnt let me get into that..just stay in ur landlocked enclave and stop fraternizing.Thank you.

some-girl:


hun, our values differ. I haven't said ours are better than yours. The guilty are afraid.
Having lived in Port Harcourt, I find it fairly easy to differentiate an Igbo person from an Ikwerre.
Yours is an Igboid group not an Igbo sub group.
Igbos who grew up in PH know better than to fraternize with you.

tonychristopher:


I do get your drift now,I think what you are saying is that ukwuani is IGBOID but doesn't want to be called igbo but its igbo family just like tiger wants to be known as tiger not to be called a feline that is in cat family...it still doesn't make sense to me.where does your relationship lies and where do you feel at home . is it IGBOID of edoid group. atleast I know core Niger delta groups...igbo is an ethnic nationality inside it we got tribes just like twelve tribes of Israel. do you know igbo population is more than 47…million worldwide,ATLEAST we are even bigger thank some countries if we decide to go on our own. what do you do to the abohs and IKAS that say they are igbo?

Pharoh:

Ukwuani and Ika are igboid and there is nothing anybody is going to do about that but the only thing they can tamper with is the ethnic nationality. You really have to understand the joshua project that you always want to refer to, that project is a classification of ethnic groups and taking them up to ethnic nationality. The reason why we are all called igbos is that you normally use the name of the largest ethnic group within the nationality to name the whole group.

Now assuming Ika was the largest in population, we will all be called Ikas today and same thing is applicable for the other ethnic groups within the nationality. They colonialist have already chosen that name but it is not compulsory as we can forge a new ethnic national identity for ourselves, heck we can all be refereed to as aniomas or biafrans if everyone is cool with that. There are ethnic nationalities that spreads across different countries and they go about with their ethnic group identity.

See the truth is that i cannot call an Ika man Ukwuani and it is in that same way that he also cannot call me Ika, this is the logic that is applicable to every ethnic group within the nationality. The name Igbo was chosen as our ethnic nationality because the largest ethnic group within it are the igbo people. In delta state there are three igboid groups and they are IKA, Ukwuani-Aboh and Igbos otherwise known as Enuani. So if the national identity is the problem then the logical thing to do is to fix that instead of imposing the name of one of the groups if the others are not accepting that. We can all be called anioma ethnic nationality made up of Igbos, Ikas, Ukwuani, Ikwerre and the others, so this solves our identity issue and those ikas or abohs who call themselves igbos are not exposed to this fact.

Next time ask them if they are referring to themselves as an ethnic group or ethnic nationality to see what they really mean. Each ethnic group can go their own separate ways if they so wish but it doesn't remove the fact that they belong to the same nationality. The only issue here is the name of the nationality as instead of Igbo it can be anything like anioma, biafra, Nri, Ikenge or whatever. When i tell you that i am not igbo, i am saying igbo is not my ethnic group and people don't even need to yap about the nationality as that can be changed easily to anything as we have switched to Anioma.

This is a list to all the ethnic group within Nigeria http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php

some-girl:


Sure dear, shoot......

Afam4eva:
Just to correct an impression though. The term "Igbo" is not used to refer to Ika or Ukwuani people because that's the name of the largest ethnic group as the name was an invention and just as you have Ikas and Ukwuanis, you have Ngwas, Nkanus, Abriba etc. I don't think it's fair to compare Ika or Ukwuani to Igbo as Igbo is just an association of Igboid groups. It was when the Europeans arrived that we were centralized with the Igbo term. Compare Ukwuani or Ika to Ngwa et al and not Igbo.

Pharoh:

Thanks and sorry for the late reply, i was down over the weekend but am cool now so let me ask those questions.

I keep seeing statements like they are lazy, what do they bring to the table and many derogatory statements from igbos to other igboid groups. So why question is, what do igbos have to loose if they allow this people to be whatever they want to be. What will igbos actually gain if they all call themselves igbos today. Do igbos feel any guilt or whatever if this people decide for themselves and face whatever fate that befalls them with their decision?. Is there any instance that these so called lazy groups come to beg igbo people for food, money or for help as i cannot fathom why all this vile statements if igbos are not their benefactors.

Now concerning the identity issue being discussed in this thread, i will like to have a discussion with you using examples around the world and backing those claims through the ethnography for language classification and the Joshua project for ethnic classification. If this is okay with you then i can post some links for you to go through it while i await your reply.

Good to know you're better now

The above are few of many misconceptions. If Delta Igbos have been described as lazy, I'm unaware of this.
Growing up I knew Bendel-Igbos as Igbos who happen to be located in Bendel state and Ndonis as Igbos in Rivers state.
What people don't seem to understand is that Igbos are very clannish. Even within what is known as "core" Igboland, we have reservations about people from other states, LGAs, villages even family compounds
But when push comes to shove, we are Igbo.

I read all the time that Igbos are land grabbers and expansionistic especially from Ikwerres, this is another major misconception.
The Mbaise man has never attempted to grab the land of his Owerre neighbour neither has the Nsuka man claimed Oka land as his.
Igbos acquired a huge chunk of Ikwerre land, fair and square and any lands they now occupy. Nobody's fault if one decides to sell his father's compound to a stranger who has the means to purchase it.
Like I mentioned in an earlier post, we all have some mix of something non-"core" Igbo hence the difference in dialects.
Your being Igbo or not, doesn't put or remove food from anyone's table. I'm just intrigued by viewpoints in this debate hence my participation.

I can't understand how someone would distance himself from Igbo and cite his source as Onu -Ika, (voice/ mouthpiece of Ika in Igbo language) and how a people called Umunede are Bini originally.
The difference between your dialect and other Igbo dialects is not more significant, in my opinion and I stand to be corrected, than the difference between Oratta and Ohafia or Abiriba and Nsuka.

On a side note, what I also don't understand is how and why people who claim to have migrated from elsewhere are protective of land that doesn't originally belong to them. Ikwerres claim to be Bini migrants just as you do, that would mean the lands you now occupy belong to a different group originally.

Pharoh: Ngwa is a dialect of the igbo language as they belong to the igbo ethnic group and the joshua project confirms that ika, ukwuani-aboh, Ikwere etc are not dialects of igbo language but related as they are a separate language in the same way danish is not a dialect of Norwegian but closely related. Igbo is an ethnic group that is different from the ikwere, Ika, Ukwuani-aboh ethnic group as danish, Swedish, Norwegian are all ethnic groups belonging to the Scandinavian nationality.

Igbo language dialects
http://www.joshuaproject.net/languages.php?rol3=ibo

Ikwere Language dialects
http://www.joshuaproject.net/languages.php?rol3=ikw

tonychristopher:

clannish tendencies wont help here....igbos are not losing sleep who calls himself whatev er...the fact should be straight. ukwuani is an igbo word. umunede,igbodo,igbo akiri are all igbo word,so reason this. how can people come from benin and jettison their culture,their benin nuances,benin names and embrace igbo. does this make sense to you. i think you should tell the marines that bunkum.does it sound sensible. i wonder how people buy that shiiiit . its like saying oduduwa fell from heaven to form yoruba. such a cocck and bull story. NOW HOW COME YOU HAVE IGBO NUANCE IN UKWUANI AND IKA MORE. you have the right to be ukwuani,same as mbaise man but all under igboid umbrella. so why doubting facts not stories told by ignorant old men

some-girl:


Good to know you're better now

The above are few of many misconceptions. If Delta Igbos have been described as lazy, I'm unaware of this.
Growing up I knew Bendel-Igbos as Igbos who happen to be located in Bendel state and Ndonis as Igbos in Rivers state.
What people don't seem to understand is that Igbos are very clannish. Even within what is known as "core" Igboland, we have reservations about people from other states, LGAs, villages even family compounds
But when push comes to shove, we are Igbo.

I read all the time that Igbos are land grabbers and expansionistic especially from Ikwerres, this is another major misconception.
The Mbaise man has never attempted to grab the land of his Owerre neighbour neither has the Nsuka man claimed Oka land as his.
Igbos acquired a huge chunk of Ikwerre land, fair and square and any lands they now occupy. Nobody's fault if one decides to sell his father's compound to a stranger who has the means to purchase it.
Like I mentioned in an earlier post, we all have some mix of something non-"core" Igbo hence the difference in dialects.
Your being Igbo or not, doesn't put or remove food from anyone's table. I'm just intrigued by viewpoints in this debate hence my participation.

I can't understand how someone would distance himself from Igbo and cite his source as Onu -Ika, (voice/ mouthpiece of Ika in Igbo language) and how a people called Umunede are Bini originally.
The difference between your dialect and other Igbo dialects is not more significant, in my opinion and I stand to be corrected, than the difference between Oratta and Ohafia or Abiriba and Nsuka.

On a side note, what I also don't understand is how and why people who claim to have migrated from elsewhere are protective of land that doesn't originally belong to them. Ikwerres claim to be Bini migrants just as you do, that would mean the lands you now occupy belong to a different group originally.

some-girl:
^^"Umu" is Igbo, "rumu" is Igboid.

Pharoh:
I don't really understand but i think it is ikwerres that use rumu but we use umu for children in ukwuani. Igboid means all the languages within it are related languages, so sometimes a word can mean the same or be spelt exactly across this family group. Sometimes they could be spelt slightly different from one language to another or entirely different across the language family.

Igboid - Ekpeye, Igbo, Ika, Izii, Ezaa, Mgbo, Ikwerre, ogba and Ukwuani-Aboh languages.

All the above are languages on their own but closely related so words can mean the same, slight different or entirely different across the family. The others are not a dialect of the igbo language as it is just one of the languages in the family so people should just try to look away from the population of igbo within the family.

Afam4eva:
Just to correct an impression though. The term "Igbo" is not used to refer to Ika or Ukwuani people because that's the name of the largest ethnic group as the name was an invention and just as you have Ikas and Ukwuanis, you have Ngwas, Nkanus, Abriba etc. I don't think it's fair to compare Ika or Ukwuani to Igbo as Igbo is just an association of Igboid groups. It was when the Europeans arrived that we were centralized with the Igbo term. Compare Ukwuani or Ika to Ngwa et al and not Igbo.

pazienza:

There is no group in Igboland known as Igbo, so i don't really understand the rationale behind placing Igbo alongside Ezza,mgbo,ika, etc.

If i may ask, who are those Igbos you were refering to in your post, cause i know that i am not an Igboman, atleast not to an Ezza man, i speak a language known as Idemili, with many dialects spread across two LGAs in Anambra state, to an Ezza man, i am an i Idemili man, but to a yoruba man, i and an Ezza man are both Igbos, so Igbo in this sense is but a generic name i share with an Ezza man, because Igbo is but a conglomerate of different ethnic groups with similar languages, now termed dialects.

No one speaks igbo language in Igboland, and there are no Igbomen in Igboland, what we have are Idemili men, Ngwa men, Asa men, Nsukka men, Nkanu men, Owerri men, Ohaji men, etc.

Igbo language is but a concept, nobody speaks it, we all speak, Ngwa,Ezza,Izzi,Ndoki, Idemili, Nsukka,Asa,Egbema,Egbema,Nkanu,Aro,etc. And even within these ethnicities, we equally have sub dialects, for example Ngwa has many variant dialects of it's own, spoken across 7 lga's in Abia state( compare this with Ika only spoken across two Lgas in delta, and few scattered communities in Edo state). The man in Isialangwa north( the northern most part of Ngwaland, does not speak exactly the same Ngwa with the man in Ugwunagbo( the southernmost part of Ngwaland).

I get pissed off when mischievious peeps like you try to paint south east as a homogenious entity called Igbo, with one mutually intelligible language.

Hope.At.Hand:



My vexation with Afam4eva is his insistence in mentioning ikwerre and ibo in same sentence at slightest opportunity..Pls stop it, you and Abagworo are triyng too hard to conceive an unholy matrimony between ikwerres and ibos..Its lyk saying Spanish and Portuguese are the same, no matter how close they seem, they are two different people.

Likewise Ikwerre and ibo are two enturely diffrent groups, dnt insult us by calling us a clan of ibo tribe again.

bigfrancis21: ^^
You just committed a gross fallacy. Don't be quick to ascribe the Ede meaning of Umunede to mean cocoyam in Igbo. The pronunciation of Ede in Umunede and Ede as in cocoyam are two different things. Ede(cocoyam) has falling tones and Ede in Umunede has mid and rising tones. The Ede in Umunede is the name of the founder, whoever it was, that founded Umunede community. Don't think that the name, Ede isn't peculiar to Edos only. Some communities in Nsukka bear Ede as community name or at times Edem.

igbo boy:
as your grouse with afam4eva is putting ikwerre and igbo in the same sentence, my grouse with you is saying ikwerre is not igbo.

Not that I disagree with you. But what is igbo? you make it sound that everybody from abia, ebonyi, anambra, enugu and imo are the of same culture and dialect then Ikwerre is different...

I am from delta state and ebonyi igbo is very funny to me.

It is better if you say that ikwerre is different from Ngwa, aro, oshimili, etc than say igbo because igbos have different history, dialect, practices, and culture depending on what part you come from. So dont think Ikwerre is the only igboid group with a special uniqueness.

Ngwas are unique, Aros are unique..Oshimilli is unique

chux4liv: [@ some-girl]

[@ some-girl] Just out of curiousity....

I'm sure Bini has their own word for "children" and way of saying "children of" or "children who". Are there any Bini towns named in that format? i.e "children of......", "children who......" as is done in Igbo areas?


Also, Ede is a bini name and its also an Igbo word meaning cocoyam. So the Ede referred to by our founder is not a cocoyam but a name Ede as the case in some bini name OsamenEDE , EDEgbe etc the Ede could have been abbreviated just like anyone called Chukwu is nicknamed “Chuks”. The wife of Ede is IYE and Iye in bini means is princess or queen.

[@ some-girl] Well, Eze Chima/ Chime has been cited by several sources as having been the Bini founding father of Onitsha and some parts of Delta-Igbo. If this is true, then there you have your record of an Igbo man who fled Bini as "ch" sound is not found in Bini language or west of Bini.

Thank you, I haven’t heard the story of the so called |Eze chime, If he did exist I will do my research on him but I’m sure he is not the one that created Ika (Umunede).

Of all the children of Ede (Ilege, Edware, Oba and Ile) no one bears the “Chi” they are all bini name and I can beat my chest those four name (Ilege, Edware, Oba and Ile) forms the four clans/villages of Umunede. My dad is Oba descendant and my mum is Ilege.

The umunede (my opnion though) Umun is Igbo-word for children and Umunede is children of Ede. My puzzle (my opnion though) the name Umunede could have been attributed to them by the Ibo settlers, Just as Lagos was named by Portuguese slave trader. Nigeria got his name from British. So the Ibo settlers may want to refer to the Ede descendant as "Umun- Ede". There is a quarters we had for the Ibo settlers from west of Niger that was later name Obi, where the King later lived.

Conclusion: If you classify the Ika inhabitant as Igbo (which I’m not against since the British did the classification), that doesn’t mean their origin is Ibo. Eze chime origin is bini and we are not descendant of Eze chime but a prince-hood of bini.


INSET (Umunede Kingdom Epilogue): Available information also showed that it took some time before the kingship, as we know it today was fully established. When it was fully established, it took and Igbo title, Obi instead of Ovie or Onogie, which are the titles kings that descended directly from Benin. But, why Obi? Probably, the main reason was that in the course of centuries of living together and inter-ethnic marriages, each of the various groups living in that location started to lose its original ethnic identity, thus giving way to develop on Unumede language and culture- the language being very close to those of Ibos West of the Niger, while Unumede culture was predominantly that of Binis until the first assume that language of the dominant tribe in Umunede

Pharoh:

You keep on missing the point, see igbo is a generic term used to group related people together and this is true for edo and yoruba. Now the bone of contention to make it understandable to you is that there must be clearly defined ethnic groups made up of several clans with their own language and language dialects inside this generic term. Edo for example is made up of isoko, urhobo, bini, esan, afemai etc with each of them having their own language, dialects of it and made up of several clans each. Now because all these language are edoid then you will most certainly have similarities and variations but each of them are not dialects of one another but separate languages.

I don't want to speak too much because am just repeating myself with the people am engaging not getting simple basic points. When you come to the igbo group, it is made up of clearly defined ethnic groups like Ndokwa, Ika, Ikwerre, Ikwo, Mgbo, Izii, ezaa etc. These groups are distinct ethnic groups having their own language and dialects of it. They are made of several clans with their kingship system, the same way i cannot understand ikwerre and ebonyi languages is the same way an oyo person will not understand yorubas close to benin border.

Now coming to the people am referring to as igbos in abia, anambra, imo and enugu state that you always feel to defend. They do not have a clearly defined ethnic identity( it was all villages ) and that is the reason they were given igbo. It is this same word that was used as our generic term and also to group the languages as igboid. Now this was the reason there was difficulty in developing an igbo bible before they opted for the central igbo language. You as an osimili/aniocha clearly belongs to the enuani ethnic group and speak enuani language, this identity extends into anambra with variations in mutually intelligible dialects.

What the so called igbos should do is to clearly tell us their ethnic group, ethnic language and clans in their ethnic group like we have ika, ukwuani, enuani,ikwerre etc. The solution they have created for them is to name them as igbo ethnic group and at the same time belonging to the igbo generic term. Everyone must have triple identity . . . clan - Ethnic group - Generic Nationality, so they are igbos as an ethnic group and also igbo in the generic sense. I am ukwuani as my ethnic group and igbo in the generic sense, isoko is the ethnic group and edo in the generic sense.

Shouting that i am igbo is very offensive because it is same as shouting to an isoko or urhobo person that they are edo. Everyone should promote their ethnic identity and be free to mess with the generic identity as they wish, no one is shouting to a Portuguese that he is iberian because he wants to die and live his life as Portuguese. People should stop disturbing me with the generic igbo term as i always want to live my life as an ukwuani man, same for Ika and ikwerre i believe. Igbo can be your ethnic group for all i care but you have to respect my own ethnic identity and after that we can all converge under a generic term as a family if needed.

In the yoruba generic term, they accepted that term because no one was actually yoruba within the group. It was the oyos that their language was called yoruba and they are the most populated. Scandinavian, Edo and Iberia are all generic terms but the people go about their destiny and daily life with their separate identity. Now here comes the essence of the anioma identity that people do not understand or feel threatened to and will not let us have peace of mind.

Anioma is a generic term that embodies these set of distinct ethnic groups within it, Ika, Enuani, Ulukwumi, Ukwuani-Aboh,Igala, etc. They all have their own languages, dialects of it and grouped into several clans each. They all go about their ethnic identity freely, see each other as one big family through the Anioma identity. In this way the languages are preserved, we can understand each others language through interaction and easily speak pidgin English if needed.

Something is wrong with the generic igbo identity and that is why some researchers have been screaming that a language spoken by over 30 million people is about to go extinct in 50 years and that should be food for thought. There is lack of organization and through the central igbo, everyone can just move about but this will kill the other related languages or the language itself. Anioma is the platform that we in delta north can easily preserve our essence and language. Do you know that tertiary institutions in delta do not teach our own langauge but standard igbo and this is very wrong. So for me as ukwuani my number one goal is to protect my ethnic identity and preserve my beloved ukwuani language.

Pharoh:

You keep on missing the point, see igbo is a generic term used to group related people together and this is true for edo and yoruba. Now the bone of contention to make it understandable to you is that there must be clearly defined ethnic groups made up of several clans with their own language and language dialects inside this generic term. Edo for example is made up of isoko, urhobo, bini, esan, afemai etc with each of them having their own language, dialects of it and made up of several clans each. Now because all these language are edoid then you will most certainly have similarities and variations but each of them are not dialects of one another but separate languages.

I don't want to speak too much because am just repeating myself with the people am engaging not getting simple basic points. When you come to the igbo group, it is made up of clearly defined ethnic groups like Ndokwa, Ika, Ikwerre, Ikwo, Mgbo, Izii, ezaa etc. These groups are distinct ethnic groups having their own language and dialects of it. They are made of several clans with their kingship system, the same way i cannot understand ikwerre and ebonyi languages is the same way an oyo person will not understand yorubas close to benin border.

Now coming to the people am referring to as igbos in abia, anambra, imo and enugu state that you always feel to defend. They do not have a clearly defined ethnic identity( it was all villages ) and that is the reason they were given igbo. It is this same word that was used as our generic term and also to group the languages as igboid. Now this was the reason there was difficulty in developing an igbo bible before they opted for the central igbo language. You as an osimili/aniocha clearly belongs to the enuani ethnic group and speak enuani language, this identity extends into anambra with variations in mutually intelligible dialects.

What the so called igbos should do is to clearly tell us their ethnic group, ethnic language and clans in their ethnic group like we have ika, ukwuani, enuani,ikwerre etc. The solution they have created for them is to name them as igbo ethnic group and at the same time belonging to the igbo generic term. Everyone must have triple identity . . . clan - Ethnic group - Generic Nationality, so they are igbos as an ethnic group and also igbo in the generic sense. I am ukwuani as my ethnic group and igbo in the generic sense, isoko is the ethnic group and edo in the generic sense.

Shouting that i am igbo is very offensive because it is same as shouting to an isoko or urhobo person that they are edo. Everyone should promote their ethnic identity and be free to mess with the generic identity as they wish, no one is shouting to a Portuguese that he is iberian because he wants to die and live his life as Portuguese. People should stop disturbing me with the generic igbo term as i always want to live my life as an ukwuani man, same for Ika and ikwerre i believe. Igbo can be your ethnic group for all i care but you have to respect my own ethnic identity and after that we can all converge under a generic term as a family if needed.

In the yoruba generic term, they accepted that term because no one was actually yoruba within the group. It was the oyos that their language was called yoruba and they are the most populated. Scandinavian, Edo and Iberia are all generic terms but the people go about their destiny and daily life with their separate identity. Now here comes the essence of the anioma identity that people do not understand or feel threatened to and will not let us have peace of mind.

Anioma is a generic term that embodies these set of distinct ethnic groups within it, Ika, Enuani, Ulukwumi, Ukwuani-Aboh,Igala, etc. They all have their own languages, dialects of it and grouped into several clans each. They all go about their ethnic identity freely, see each other as one big family through the Anioma identity. In this way the languages are preserved, we can understand each others language through interaction and easily speak pidgin English if needed.

Something is wrong with the generic igbo identity and that is why some researchers have been screaming that a language spoken by over 30 million people is about to go extinct in 50 years and that should be food for thought. There is lack of organization and through the central igbo, everyone can just move about but this will kill the other related languages or the language itself. Anioma is the platform that we in delta north can easily preserve our essence and language. Do you know that tertiary institutions in delta do not teach our own langauge but standard igbo and this is very wrong. So for me as ukwuani my number one goal is to protect my ethnic identity and preserve my beloved ukwuani language.