Denn:


Don't lets mix matters up.

Lets start with you providing an answer to the question i asked. Once we are done with that, we will visit any other area you so desire.

So, How did Afa get to Ndigbo?

Lol!
Why should you decide where we start the digging?

Who did the Yorubas meet at Ife? Let's start at that.

Denn:


Don't lets mix matters up.

Lets start with you providing an answer to the question i asked. Once we are done with that, we will visit any other area you so desire.

So, How did Afa get to Ndigbo?

Afa is to Igbo, what Ifa is to Yoruba and whatever it is called throughout West Africa.


All independent of one another. There is no specific source of origin for the West African groups.

Ariani:


Lol!
Why should you decide where we start the digging?

Who did the Yorubas meet at Ife? Let's start at that.

You are evidently avoiding the truth.

I asked you a question. You answered by asking another question. How does that sound?

If you are so sure Afa didn't originate from Ifa, then answer where Afa originated from.

It is simple

Ariani:


Lol!
Why should you decide where we start the digging?

Who did the Yorubas meet at Ife? Let's start at that.

Don't let him take you down that root. He is asking how a system came to Igbos when this system has no specific origin and ties to any group but found across Africa.


How did Bronze casting get to Yorubas since Igbos have the oldest civilization and Bronze works in West Africa?

I'm glad, I am comfortable in my ethnic group as an igbo, I don't have to go around stealing and laying claims to others achievements.
That man is a deluded bigot.

Denn:


You are evidently avoiding the truth.

I asked you a question. You answered by asking another question. How does that sound?

If you are so sure Afa didn't originate from Ifa, then answer where Afa originated from.

It is simple

What you are doing here is rubbish.


You are super imposing yourself on others civilizations and putting words in their mouth and then turn around to ask them to counter it when your claims are mere delusions.

Boudiccao:



What you are doing here is rubbish.


You are super imposing yourself on others civilizations and putting words in their mouth and then turn around to ask them to counter it when your claims are mere delusions.

let the person i asked answer. You have been unable to answer too.

Ariani:


More fables.
The first 250 British people that came were not prepared. They came without official royal backing, and there was no war self. You just rounded them up and butchered them .
That doesn't count as part of the Bini expedition as it was not officially sanctioned by the British crown.

The official Bini expedition lasted for just over 1 day.
You were not worth shishi. How can you withstand the British when you have one fat lazy man who bleeps his brain out everyday with many wives , take decisions for you, since you are incapable of thinking for yourselves! And this ineffective archaic system of Government that the world had jettisoned is what you want to compare with the water tight highly sophisticated democracy of council of elders, age grade leaders council, council of Chief priests of deities, market women council aka Omus, council of title men( Nze and Ozo) and council of married daughters of the land, aka Umuada, that all sit in a round village square and debate on crucial issues and then appoint titular temporarily head of the council for the time being?
You lots are mad.


The affliated groups to Oba Bini were not free men. They were inferior men and stooges with no power to make decisions of their own.
That's why immediately the British captured the Oba who tried to negotiate his freedom with silver and gold, the spinless enogies and affliated groups to Oba had to bow too.
There was no resistance.

Your village Monarchical system is defective and the ease with which the British brought you under colonial rule in a day proved it.

In contrast, the Igbo representative complex democracy proved superior in stopping a colonial force , because there was no particular all powerful head to decapitate.
The power resided with the people and whenever an acting head was decapitated, another head was quickly appointed.

lol. Phillips wrote a letter to London asking permission to invade Benin because the Oba banned trades with the itsekiris who were supplying the brits. Philips did not wait for a reply and organised 250 men who hid their weapons and pretended to be tourists. The Ijaws sent a message to the Oba to the Oba, the Brits were told to go back, they refused fights broke out and 253 of them were killed. Britain humiliated and fearing other regions might follow suit sent a message the governor of South African protectorate. He was informed of Phillips letters which claimed that there were more than enough bronze in the city to pay for whatever logistics it would take to claim the City. Africans soldiers in the southern African protectorate were recruited and promised bronze and gold. Message was sent to the governor in Niger delta Protectorate and he enlisted West Africans they attacked from 3 sides, at least 3,000 Africans and a few Brits who remained near their ship until the fight was over. This is the only reason the city was ransacked, to pay the Africans who did the job.

What the fucck are trying to say that other Kings weren't free men? You are just there in your IPOB hallucinating about people you know nothing about. The first time an Ọba tried to overreach into the South he was killed there. Ozolua who ran circles round Yorubas in Ado-ekiti Annexed most parts of Idah was killed in Uromi. Lagos was created by by mostly Esan and etsako soldiers. That's why you have places like lekki, idumota, idumagbo etc having esan names. Uromi was the military head of the kingdom. You have no idea what you are talking about

Born2Breed:


We are not saying the same thing.

Reno is trying to be mischievous.

How? That is interpretation

His words were written and there is no ambiguity

People are attributing to him what he did not say

He is correct when he says Igbos are "sensitive". It is almost child like

An unfortunate tendency to be emotional and incapable of objectivity
All of a sudden we are hearing all manner of things that he never said/

Walkee:
lol. Phillips wrote a letter to London asking permission to invade Benin because the Oba banned trades with the itsekiris who were supplying the brits. Philips did not wait for a reply and organised 250 men who hid their weapons and pretended to be tourists. The Ijaws sent a message to the Oba to the Oba, the Brits were told to go back, they refused fights broke out and 253 of them were killed. Britain humiliated and fearing other regions might follow suit sent a message the governor of South African protectorate. He was informed of Phillips letters which claimed that there were more than enough bronze in the city to pay for whatever logistics it would take to claim the City. Africans soldiers in the southern African protectorate were recruited and promised bronze and gold. Message was sent to the governor in Niger delta Protectorate and he enlisted West Africans they attacked from 3 sides, at least 3,000 Africans and a few Brits who remained near their ship until the fight was over. This is the only reason the city was ransacked, to pay the Africans who did the job.

What the fucck are trying to say that other Kings weren't free men? You are just there in your IPOB hallucinating about people you know nothing about. The first time an Ọba tried to overreach into the South he was killed there. Ozolua who ran circles round Yorubas in Ado-ekiti Annexed most parts of Idah was killed in Uromi. Lagos was created by by mostly Esan and etsako soldiers. That's why you have places like lekki, idumota, idumagbo etc having esan names. Uromi was the military head of the kingdom. You have no idea what you are talking about

We are saying same thing.
Phillips or whatever wasn't acting on official orders.
There was not enough guns and not enough men in his ranks.
That's not how the British expedition works.
British expenditions come at you gun blazing with their maxims, no sneaking around.

You just butchered poorly armed British man acting alone without official backing, any fool can do that.
When the real British official Calvary arrived, you were blown away in a matter of hours.
You couldn't just deal, you lack the sophistication to fight such opposition because your village Monarchical system of Government is defective to.
This is the truth, but because the Igbo generally mind our business, so we don't go about telling you how stupid your Monarchical system was and is, foolish Reno and co now think they can come and belittle our superior system, hence the need to put you empty braggarts and your village Monarchy where you belong.
No offense!

If the affliated forces to Oba Bini were strong and not just empty heads whose chain of command rested solely on Oba, why did they all capitulate and surrender immediately the Oba was captured by the British?

That's the question you should be asking yourself.

Walkee:
if it's olisadebe then that doesn't have any meaning here in Edo. Osadebe as a full name is a perfectly intelligible and coherent Edoid word. I don't care what tribe he holds affinity to all my arguments was regarding the name.

Are you trying to say that Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe is also an Edo man?

Ariani:


Stop writing nonsense.
No man could ever penetrate Igboland that is not Igbo himself.

Bight of Biafra (Bonny) is totally different from Bight of Benin.

Funny that you talk about fairy tales, because honestly speaking, everything about Bini history are all Fairy tales. Infact in Igboland, our way of saying that a story is a fairy tale is by calling it Oba and Idu tales, "Akuko Idu n'Oba".
Bini was a mushroom kingdom that was lucky enough to stumble on weapons from the Portuguese that it used to terrorize it's Ika and Owo neighbors.
But once weapons proliferated, these groups fought back and kept Bini well contained.

No stupid army raided Igboland. Bini couldn't even get past Aboh Kingdom without being pegged back. Stop with your fables.

Igbos have far more advanced weaponry and sophisticated democratic system of governance than Binis could ever think of. Infact oka blacksmith went as far as Edo land to teach you lots metallurgy.

Bini were little scared minorities who built the Moat to protect themselves from the Ikas who were raiding you and causing you havoc. Ask yourself why the Moat was facing East and not West.

The Portuguese chose you because you were savages who were willing to go hunt for slaves for them among your fellow blacks, using Portuguese weapons as advantage.
You should be ashamed of your shameless ancestors,yet you are here taking glory in your shame.
Immediately the weapons went round, those Ikas and Owo Yorubas whooped your sorry stupid asses.

Arochukwu story has nothing to do with Bini.
Stop meddling into a history you Know nothing about.

Igboland and Yorubaland were densely populated, it's only common sense that the bulk of the slaves were going to come from there.
Bini was a very miniscule ethnic group. Centuries of using each other as human sacrifices and constant civil wars meant you were very sparsely populated and had not enough humans to be sold into slavery.

Grow up and stop the stupid pride built on fables.
Only Igbo ukwu bronze is greater than Bini entire history.
Learn to be humble especially when your history is that of shame!

Oh Ariana, Blessed be the loins that sired thee and the womb that bore thee.

ejibaba:


But the Anuani people also believe that they are from bini

Taaa, onye gwai nko?

The Aros were not idetified as Igbo during the slave trade and indeed few groups were.

The Aro were ruled by an Ibom/Akamkpa dynasty just like Fulani rule in Kano

That dynasty is there till today

Reno is right Ibos are very sensitive and emotional folk , like women

Ariani:


We are saying same thing.
Phillips or whatever wasn't acting on official orders.
There was not enough guns and not enough men in his ranks.
That's not how the British expedition works.
British expenditions come out you gun blazing with their maxims, no sneaking around.

You just butchered poorly armed British man acting alone without official backing, any fool can do that.
When the real British official Calvary arrived, you were blown away in a matter of hours.
You couldn't just deal, you lack the sophistication to fight such opposition because your village Monarchical system of Government is defective to.
This is the truth, but because the Igbo generally mind our business, so we don't go about telling you how stupid your Monarchical system was and is, foolish Reno and co now think they can come and belittle our superior system, hence the need to put you empty braggarts and your village Monarchy where you belong.
No offense!

If the affliated forces to Oba Bini are strong and not just empty heads whose chain of command rests solely on Oba, why did they all capitulate and surrender immediately the Oba was captured by the British?

That's the question you should be asking yourself.

who surrendered? Did Uromi stop having a king? Did any of the enigies lose his crown with the Oba?
The city of is relatively small, which kingdom hasn't fallen when attacked from all sides especially by people close to you who know your terrain.
The Igbo savages you are hyping who fought in jungles can't be compared with a well developed kingdom. They can be likened to the talibans in Afghanistan. Yes it is more difficult to beat savages hiding in bushes with no clear leaders just like the Vietcongs and the Afghans it doesn't make them more sophisticated. All develop empires and kingdoms in human history had Kings and should the king get captured the war is over.

If your savage life of old, with no clear leader and hiding in bushes to fight was so developed and advanced why didn't you use the same tactics during the Biafran war?
Why did your people surrender the moment Ojukwu ran away and Philip begged the feds to spare his life?

Walkee:
who surrendered? Did Uromi stop having a king? Did any of the enigies lose his crown with the Oba?
The city of is relatively small, which kingdom hasn't fallen when attacked from all sides especially by people close to you who know your terrain.
The Igbo savages you are hyping who fought in jungles can't be compared with a well developed kingdom. They can be likened to the talibans in Afghanistan. Yes it is more difficult to beat savages hiding in bushes with no clear leaders just like the Vietcongs and the Afghans it doesn't make them more sophisticated. All develop empires and kingdoms in human history had Kings and should the king get captured the war is over.

i agree.

The capitulation of the King ends the war.

Same way Kano and sokoto towns were taken over.

The death of Hitler ended German war, The surrender of the Japanese emperor ended hostilities in Japan WW2.

However, when there is no clear government structure....sips lipton

Many scholars agree that the Igbos were by definition "Stateless' before colonial rule. This assertion has been rejected by some Igbo scholars in some articles. However, the general opinion on the matter is that since the Igbos lacked a central form of government at this period, they cannot be referred to as a State.

Millimann:
Destroy wetin? That's like an interview.

Op, you be mumu.

He who calls another a fool shall be in danger of hell. Matthew 5 :22
Remember that you shall be judged by every idle word you speak. Matthew 12 :36
You'll do well to receive Jesus into your life. Tomorrow may be too late. John 3 :16

bomb24:


All the edo intellectuals put together can't light up a single candle.

85% of your population are stack illiterates, u have no reputable achievement to boast of in the history of Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

your women are being used on the shores of Libya and Europe as a pit latrine where white men defecate on them and set them up on chains.

Bragging about natural intelligence when no one from your rustic state has ever bagged an academic award.

Agbogidi o. Bomb please be gentle. I have had some bini girls show me love.

Ariani:


We are saying same thing.
Phillips or whatever wasn't acting on official orders.
There was not enough guns and not enough men in his ranks.
That's not how the British expedition works.
British expenditions come at you gun blazing with their maxims, no sneaking around.

You just butchered poorly armed British man acting alone without official backing, any fool can do that.
When the real British official Calvary arrived, you were blown away in a matter of hours.
You couldn't just deal, you lack the sophistication to fight such opposition because your village Monarchical system of Government is defective to.
This is the truth, but because the Igbo generally mind our business, so we don't go about telling you how stupid your Monarchical system was and is, foolish Reno and co now think they can come and belittle our superior system, hence the need to put you empty braggarts and your village Monarchy where you belong.
No offense!

If the affliated forces to Oba Bini are strong and not just empty heads whose chain of command rests solely on Oba, why did they all capitulate and surrender immediately the Oba was captured by the British?

That's the question you should be asking yourself.

Once you take out the head, the rest is gone.
People with no Kings are more difficult to conquer and that's exactly the problems Britian faced in Igboland even during Colonialism.

bomb24:


Oga Benin was defeated by a force of 200 men and not basically 3000 as you implied. history revision will not be tolerated on this forum.

Were they up to 200 fighting men?

Boudiccao:


Once you take out the head, the rest is gone.
People with no Kings are more difficult to conquer and that's exactly the problems Britian faced in Igboland even during Colonialism.

I agree with this.

A people with no central government is not easy to conquer. The same principle in use with Al-Qeda and the proliferation of cells.

Denn:


let the person i asked answer. You have been unable to answer too.

There are no answers to supremacist claims pulled out of your ass to berate others.
Discrediting Igbos with your fictitious remarks is all you have done on this thread. That's a dubious way of way of engaging others.

Walkee:
who surrendered? Did Uromi stop having a king? Did any of the enigies lose his crown with the Oba?
The city of is relatively small, which kingdom hasn't fallen when attacked from all sides especially by people close to you who know your terrain.
The Igbo savages you are hyping who fought in jungles can't be compared with a well developed kingdom. They can be likened to the talibans in Afghanistan. Yes it is more difficult to beat savages hiding in bushes with no clear leaders just like the Vietcongs and the Afghans it doesn't make them more sophisticated. All develop empires and kingdoms in human history had Kings and should the king get captured the war is over.

If your savage life of old, with no clear leader and hiding in bushes to fight was so developed and advanced why didn't you use the same tactics during the Biafran war?
Why did your people surrender the moment Ojukwu ran away and Philip begged the feds to spare his life?

Funny enough when the British captured Bini City.
They complained of your savagery uncivilized ways.
Many rotten flesh of human sacrifice altars all over the fettish village Bini City.
Very funny.
Arochukwu defended Aro chukwu town for full four days before losing the town.
But your backward Village empire of fables lasted for just a day and then capitulated! Go figure.
The Enogies are Oba stooges hence all surrendered to the British immediately they captured the Oba.

Was Bini an empire? Who did you rule over? Ikas?

There is a reason developed world jettisoned Monarchical system for democratic ones, they (Monarchical system) were defective systems and doesn't suit the massess.

We had clear leaders. They were just not a fat old Oba with many wives to Bleep around and feed fat on people sweat We were too sophisticated to allow such.
Our leaders were elected/appointed for specific tasks at specific times. Your Bini were the real savages who took weapons from Portuguese and went about terrorizing your fellow blacks to exchange for pieces of bronze.
Shameless minorities.

The war was already lost before Ojukwu fled because of the international sabotage that led to Biafran blockade and the starvation policy.
Ojukwu was not captured. Biafra was starved of food, which by the way was a war crime.

Either way, Ojukwu wasn't a king neither were we running a Monarchical system in Biafra, so I fail to see the relationship.
If you had killed Ojukwu, and Biafra still had access to food and weapons,I promise you that the war would continue full throttle with new leader appointed. Biafra lost Enugu city very early in the campaign, yet the war raged on for years. Oba wasn't even captured when Bini fell, he ran into the bush and had the opportunity to regroup and fight again at other places if Bini was indeed an empire. But because Bini was a mushroom kingdom living in fables, Oba knew his control didn't extend much outside Bini City, so once the City fell, the Oba came out from the Bush he was hiding like a coward and tried to negotiate his freedom with gold and silver from the British army.
Either way, you are comparing apples and oranges here.
Let's stick to your fat old slow Oba and your defective Monarchical system that couldn't defend Bini for more than 1 day under the power of Maxim guns, whereas Arochukwu town was defended for 4 full days and thereafter rallied behind and continued the battle outside the administrative headquarters of the Confederacy for another full 5 months.

Ariani:


They were rounded up in a matter of days.
They couldn't even manufacture local guns to withstand the British.
And once the Oba came out from the bush he was hiding and sent to exile, the war was over.
That's how fragile and useless their village Monarchical system of Government is.

It's a very primitive and weak system of Government that makes it easy to conquer a people.
Just strike at the head and everyone else fall in line.

Contrast this with what Happened in Enu-ani where the people fought for decades, because there was no all powerful king dictating for the people.

Or in Arochukwu where they organized and employed local blacksmiths all over Igboland who made guns for them with which they withstood the British in a full blown war for 5 months at a stretch before capitulation to the superiority of Maxim guns.

Some village fettish people think that worshipping one fat not-so-wise man and shouting "Oba gha tokpe" up and down like a people without brains to think for themselves, is what makes a people strong or civilized.

Ndi Mgbu.

Anyone who wants to know more about the ekumeku war should look for a book titled Ife Aka Onye. It was used to teach history those days.

doublewisdom:

Were they up to 200 fighting men?

Details of the Benin Expedition

On 9 February 1897, the invasion of the Kingdom of Benin began. The British invasion force of about 1,200 Royal Marines, sailors and Niger Coast Protectorate Forces was organised into three columns: the 'Sapoba', 'Gwato' and 'Main' columns. Flotillas of warships (including HMS Philomel and Phoebe) and gunboats approached Benin City from the east and west.[14] The 'Sapoba' and 'Main' columns reached Benin City after ten days of fighting. The 'Gwato' column (under Captain Gallwey) took the same route as that taken by the previous mission and came on the scene of the massacre, finding headless bodies of the victims.[15]

Source: Wikipedia

Boudiccao:


There are no answers to supremacist claims pulled out of your ass to berate others.
Discrediting Igbos with your fictitious remarks is all you have done on this thread. That's a dubious way of way of engaging others.

OK

Boudiccao:


Once you take out the head, the rest is gone.
People with no Kings are more difficult to conquer and that's exactly the problems Britian faced in Igboland even during Colonialism.

Yet the stupid Reno opened his mouth to tell us how not having useless fat lazy kings meant that Igboland was disorganized and open for any stupid group to plunder.
What a stupid sentence.

When the British with Maxim guns sweated for decades to get past Enuani and the Eastern Igbos, what chance did useless village Monarchical minority societies around Igbos stand?

Normally we should be humiliating these people for being stupid enough to allow a fat slow man rule over them, like they don't have brains to decide their own dates, but we don't, because naturally we mind our own business.

But apparently, these people are now drunk in their own foolishness that they think our silence on exposing and deriding their stupid monarchies was an invitation for them to start attacking our superior democratic society.

I swear, we have to start putting these people where they all belong. We have been on the defense for so long. It's about time we go in attack full speed.

Ndi Mgbu!

Ariani:


Funny enough when the British captured Bini City.
They complained of your savagery uncivilized ways.
Many rotten flesh of human sacrifice altars all over the fettish village Bini City.
Very funny.
Arochukwu defended Aro chukwu town for full four days before losing the town.
But your backward Village empire of fables lasted for just a day and then capitulated! Go figure.
The Enogies are Oba stooges hence all surrendered to the British immediately they captured the Oba.

Was Bini an empire? Who did you rule over? Ikas?

There is a reason developed world jettisoned Monarchical system for democratic ones, they (Monarchical system) were defective systems and doesn't suit the massess.

We had clear leaders. They were just not a fat old Oba with many wives to Bleep around and feed fat on people sweat We were too sophisticated to allow such.
Our leaders were elected/appointed for specific tasks at specific times. Your Bini were the real savages who took weapons from Portuguese and went about terrorizing your fellow blacks to exchange for pieces of bronze.
Shameless minorities.

The war was already lost before Ojukwu fled because of the international sabotage that led to Biafran blockade and the starvation policy.
Ojukwu was not captured. Biafra was starved of food, which by the way was a war crime.

Either way, Ojukwu wasn't a king neither were we running a Monarchical system in Biafra, so I fail to see the relationship.
If you had killed Ojukwu, and Biafra still had access to food and weapons,I promise you that the war would continue full throttle with new leader appointed.
Either way, you are comparing apples and oranges here.
Let's stick to your fat old slow Oba and your defective Monarchical system that couldn't defend Bini for more than 1 day under the power of Maxim guns, whereas Arochukwu town was defended for 4 full days and thereafter rallied behind and continued the battle outside the administrative headquarters of the Confederacy for another full 5 months.

did Africans join forces with the British invade your so called arochukwu? Hoping to loot gold and bronze? You don't know where the Benin empire ruled over lol? Ado-ekiti, Ondo, Lagos, Agbọ even Onicha, your only notable place in Nigeria was founded by the benins. The Benin wasn't an empire all through the time. Most of the territories were lost mainly because benins preferred to live in the city that was how most of the territories were overrun by the other populous tribes.
Talibans also elect their leaders.
By your logic Roman empire, China, Persia, Britain France, Germany, Ottoman, Austro-Hungary were all savages?
Oba Ovonramwen was neither fat nor slow.

Walkee:
lol ignorance. The 250 that came at first were butchered in a far away forest

Akuko Idu n'Oba

They suffered 5 full month to bring you under control n ruled your father for over 500 years afters that n you are here gloating.

This is despite the fact that every single sentence of your assertion is wrong n dead b4 arrival. You no get shame.

It is this same Nigeria they British had to mobilize soldiers from India, Ghana n Freetown to fight a particular town yet they are not making mouth like you lazy ass lunatics.

Ariani:


The British suffered for 5 full months to bring Arochukwu under control. And it didn't even end the there.
They had to fight other groups in Igboland too.
They didn't go Scot free. They lost resources and humans.
It's not bragging, we are stating the fact.
We are not a people with village Monarchical system who take pride in one fat lazy man with multitude of wives rulling over them, yet couldn't resist Colonials for more than 2 days.

It's pathetic! Since some of you will not dey your dey and leave Igbo alone. It's time we tore your fragile egos built on fables and fairy tales apart.

Ariani:


Yet the stupid Reno opened his mouth to tell us how not having useless fat lazy kings meant that Igboland was disorganized and open for any stupid group to plunder.
What a stupid sentence.

When the British with Maxim guns sweated for decades to get past Enuani and the Eastern Igbos, what chance did useless village Monarchical minority societies around Igbos stand?

Normally we should be humiliating these people for being stupid enough to allow a fat slow man rule over them, like they don't have brains to decide their own dates, but we don't, because naturally we mind our own business.

But apparently, these people are now drunk in their own foolishness that they think our silence on exposing and deriding their stupid monarchies was an invitation for them to start attacking our superior democratic society.

I swear, we have to start putting these people where they all belong. We have been on the defense for so long. It's about time we go in attack full speed.

Ndi Mgbu!

Me i will ask questions o.

Which decades did the British sweat to get past the Enuani and eastern Igbos?

Thanks

Walkee:
did Africans join forces with the British invade your so called arochukwu? Hoping to loot gold and bronze? You don't know where the Benin empire ruled over lol? Ado-ekiti, Ondo, Lagos, Agbọ even Onicha, your only notable place in Nigeria was founded by the benins. The Benin wasn't an empire all through the time. Most of the territories were lost mainly because benins preferred to live in the city that was how most of the territories were overrun by the other populous tribes.
Talibans also elect their leaders.
By your logic Roman empire, China, Persia, Britain France, Germany, Ottoman, Austro-Hungary were all savages?

Lol!
You are not so wise.
Who doesn't know that British expendition soldiers were mainly blacks recruited from neighbouring tribes? The British army that invaded Arochukwu had many recruited sell out Igbos from non Aro affliated groups in them. Some of them had vendetta against Aro though.

Benin ruled Onicha? You are not okay.
You suffer from inferiority complex and need to attach to Igbo blinding glories and splendour.
Onicha people were Igbos who went to Bini to civilize you savages, but had to leave when you wanted to kill them and returned back home and were welcomed back into the receptive warm hands of fellow Igbos.

Your brother recently posted an Interview by Igwe Achebe Nnaemeka, go look for an Igbo man to interpret the interview for you.

How dare you place your village kingdom side by side with those great empires who are associated with one world changing inventions or the other?
Are you a comedian?

Exponential101:
They suffered 5 full month to bring you under control n ruled your father for over 500 years afters that n you are here gloating.

This is despite the fact that every single sentence of your assertion is wrong n dead b4 arrival. You no get shame.

It is this same Nigeria they British had to mobilize soldiers from India, Ghana n Freetown to fight a particular town yet they are not making mouth like you lazy ass lunatics.

I have to brag. Because Reno whose village Bini Kingdom capitulated just under one day of British Maxim assault, had the temerity to belittle my ancestors who lasted for 5 full months under same assault.

We were a superior people to his own people, as far as resisting foreign invasion is concerned.

As a Bini affliated man, he and his Bini overlords have nothing on Ndiigbo. We were and remain superior.
We don't usually go about rubbing this fact in, but because these Minorities will not let us be. It's a about time we started rubbing it in!