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Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Denn(m): 2:12pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Coldie: You are mixing it up. Bight of Biafra was changed to bight of bonny 2 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Seerade029: 2:13pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
DuwaRepublic: Which Ondo state? If you say part of Ondo state, I'll agree or few towns in Ondo state, I'll agree How come my town wasn't part of Benin kingdom |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by NwaIgboBoy(m): 2:16pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Ansari Dokubo, Always confused .. Today he will speak for Christians tomorrow he will speak for Islam Next tomorrow he will speak for Kanu then the upper week he will speak for buhari. 2 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by UncommonLogic: 2:23pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Yebos always trying to claim what does not belong to them. They are unity beggars because of the oil in SS. Nothing more. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by EMMY76: 2:29pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Rubbish so why did the same ijaw people do everything to betray and make sure biafra never came to existence? 1 Like |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by fredoooooo: 2:30pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Una don start again, , whenever una don go broke , una gi start to dey disturb the publuc and people gi fey take una serious |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by PattyMike(m): 2:32pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Yeah? But when you hear Biafra, the first thing that comes to mind is ibo country, every other state would be second class citizens. 1 Like |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by MYGRATEskillz(m): 2:35pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Throwback: I swear this was what came to mind on reading the headline. That's why learning history is very important 2 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by UnabashedIPOB: 2:38pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Dokubo, in a brief interview with Arise Television, monitored by POLITICS NIGERIA on Wednesday, revealed that the term 'biafra' was coined by an Ijaw man and was originally proposed by the Ijaws and not the Igbos. He also criticized the leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB for wanting to create an 'Igbo biafra' The name "BIAFRA" was suggested to Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu by Chief Frank Opigo, an Ijaw man when the people of the Eastern region were deciding on the way forward prior to the Biafran genocide. But prior to that, you have maps of the west coast of Africa from the 14th to 19th centuries showing Bights of Benin and Biafra. That being said, I find it extra ordinarily disconcerting that the same people that are quick to claim the origin of the name (BIAFRA) would deny that they are NOT BIAFRANS. How IDIOTIC could that be? To remind Asari Dokubo, there's never been a time that Igbos lay claim that they are the ONLY Biafrans. No, it's your folks that want to distance themselves from the name for whatever reasons best known to them. So, please if you want to tell the truth, then tell the whole truth....not half truths. Below is a link of the Map of Africa in 1805. https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/maps-continent/1805%20cary.jpg 1 Like |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by mvem(m): 2:44pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
WandaNara:the bight of Biafra is where the name is derived from... |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by 9jaBloke: 2:45pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
I've been waiting for someone to say this |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by SweetiliciousD: 2:46pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Niger Delta =Biafra. Period. |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Danchibez: 2:50pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
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Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Newton85: 2:54pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Throwback:"Dahomey borrowed the Benin name from the defunct Benin Empire." This is hardly accurate. Dahomey had to be changed since "Dahomey" was a Kingdom of the Fon people (just one of the ethnic groups in the country) and it wouldn't be proper to collectively call all the ethnic groups in the country Dahomeans. So, the solution was to choose a neutral name that would give other ethnic groups a sense of belonging, and they settled for "Republique du Benin" since it was located on the "Bight of Benin". So, no, it's erroneous to say "Dahomey borrowed the Benin name from the defunct Benin empire' without telling the whole story. 3 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Kingrefreshed: 2:55pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
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Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by GerogeI(m): 3:02pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Even Idiots want to claim to be intellectuals. For those who care to know, the name Biafra was in existence before the British set foot in West Africa. It is an adaptation of the name of the Portuguese home city of Mafra. Early explores, including the English often adored the rainforest plains southeast of the Niger and often saw their home country in them. Some English writers described the Igbo homeland as "lovely green open country." Just like the Portuguese named Lagos, they also referred to the Eastern homelands as Biafra, in reference to Mafra. More importantly, is that these betrayed the true intentions of these explorers to convert these places to their homes as they did in Australia, Canada, and almost did in South Africa. There was no kingdom of Biafra, neither was the name specifically political, indigenous nor traditional. It is foreign Nor was it limited to the coastal lands, as nobody names a Bight after the fringe lands but the main lands. So I as an Igboman would readily reconsider the name Biafra as it Carries heavy reference to colonial interference and land usurpation. However, generations before mine have rallied to this flag, and made it sacred, hence my generation has made a compromise that this name will eventually end as "Biafu" meaning "Come and See" - a promise to our lands and reference to our "Resilence, Igenuity and Awesomeness" to become the first black nation to rise from the ashes of colonization to become a first world nation. So yes, it's a Portuguese word just like Lagos, and Benin. But we have chosen to own it, and Igbonise it! 2 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by GerogeI(m): 3:10pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Newton85: You are simply saying same thing, they borrowed the word, why does not matter. By Asari Dokubo's standard it should have been Bight of Iteskiri, since they were at the coast, lol. Further more, The name Benin, formerly spelt Benen is also Portuguese, in case you are wondering. The real people actually refer to themselves as "Edo" 3 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Ayomide811(m): 3:15pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
nairalandankrah:is now Asari that is holding Biafrat down? 1 Like |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by faste: 3:17pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Rugaria:Abia and IMO dont have oil abi?The bigest producer akwa ibom people with 500000 b/d does not brag;Rivers and bayelsa with little oill would always be bragging "our oil"! |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by faste: 3:19pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Niwdog:exactly,even though it is a Portuguese word. |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Throwback: 3:22pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Newton85: And the Bight of Benin is named after which Benin? So whatever route you take, you will still arrive at the fact that Republic of Benin is a borrow of the name Benin from the defunct empire that is in present day Nigeria. 2 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by faste: 3:22pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
harmony75:Nothing can stop us now ,imagine akwa ibom state controlling 500,000 barrel of oil,imagine the transformation! |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Thinktwicemybro: 3:23pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
overall90: Accept your 5 states and let me hear word |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by tiger28: 3:24pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Thinktwicemybro:Does your ADMISSION mean that the igbos eyes are on ijaw Oil? That's why the attache by force has been on effect for some time. |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by faste: 3:24pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Thanksful:Failure and poverty! |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Nobody: 3:25pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
OK. We Don hear. |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by faste: 3:26pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Seun360:You will never fulfill destiny in life! |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Thinktwicemybro: 3:26pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
tiger28:The oil is the natural inheritance of the Niger Delta people. The igbos and fulani should hands off 2 Likes |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by faste: 3:28pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
LONGPREEK:Just as you will soon join your ancestors! |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by 40BGvm: 3:32pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
[quote author=stephanie11 Igbo Biafra This choke my choke [/quote] |
Re: "Igbos Don't Have Any Connection With Biafra, Ijaws Own It" - Asari Dokubo by Coldie(m): 3:33pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
Denn:yes same thing |
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