chrisxxx:
Food
The Ikwerre people are predominantly farmers and hunters, this is because we have a very fertile soil and forests teeming with wildlife. Our main indigenous meal, which you must find at any major occasion (burials, weddings etc), is a combo of Miniwiri-okazi (with plenty of smoked fish, smoked meat and major periwinkle presence) and Odogoro (Fufu) or Otara-iji (Pounded yam). A typical Ikwerre person of Apara/Rumuapara extraction knows how to Dundu; this is the act of eating your well spiced and smoked fish or meat with your Odogoro or Otara-iji… and without any soup. Yum!

Dressing
The Ikwerre people traditionally use Jioji wrapper. Ikwerre women tie two pieces and a blouse with a head-tie of a different but corresponding jioji wrapper, while the men wear an Etibo top and tie one piece of jioji wrapper with a pair of jumper shorts under.

What do you love most about Ikwerre people?
What I love most about my people is our pride in our land and resources. I also love the language and our indigenous songs. The native lingo in Starboy ft Wizkid and Duncan Mighty- Fake Love gives an idea of this beautiful tongue.
Female dogs are a taboo in my community and many others in Ikwerre-land. This is one of the most unreasonable laws I know of and this continued adherence to a custom which has no significance is something I really dislike about Ikwerre-land.
Tell us about any local or indigenous festivals
One of my favorite festivals is the Egelege festival. It is a local wrestling competition that occurs annually, with neighboring communities competing for the prestige that comes with winning, hosting rights are alternated between communities and so in spite of its nature, it is a sport that builds friendship amongst communities and brings families together.
Please share a few Ikwerre proverbs with us
Nye lo biekun o nye ruhuru soga (It is he who carries the burning firewood that the smoke will follow)

Nshi kamma ke Igo nyorun (The eagle’s shit is best)

Nye doru evu evu gba (He who disturbs bees gets stung by bees)

What do you wish more people knew about Ikwerre people
We are quite welcoming and accepting of people of different tribes.
Our language has many words in common with the Ekpeye , Etche and Igbo people but we are neither any of them. We are a distinct ethnic group.

Edipet:
hmmmm. @bolded , are you serious.? Just learning this for the first time, I always believed that speaking similar language, having similar culture and tradition can be traced to the same root.

sageb:


So you mean
Tonto Dike
Mercy chinwo
Monalisa chinda,etc no dey beautiful for eyes abi?

chrisxxx:

Bros meka. Nzim Akami

ChinenyeN:


They are correct. Language and culture/traditions are all different things and even more so different from origin. People can have different origins and end up with similar language. People can have similar language and end up with different cultures or have different origin because human life is dynamic.

Take Igbo for instance. To linguists, it is clear that Igbo belongs in the same language branch as Yoruba, Edo, Akoko, etc. According to linguists, they suspect the Igbo branch started diverging 6000 - 8000 years ago. However, some anthropologists suspect that some of the communities that speak Igbo now have been settled in the area for longer than that. So what language were they speaking before?

That is a rhetorical question. The point being that evidence suggests that the communities may be older than the language. So now, even though we share a linguistic branch with Yoruba, Edo and Akoko, it may be possible that we do not share an origin.

Otunbakayce:
Just another ikwerre slowpoke! You are all ibo people.
If you think you are not, then stop bearing Ibo names.

Thisis2raw:
I live in ikeja, I moved from nyanya Abuja. My siblings live also here.
So get your fact right

WoroSeeWoro:
Well they are sub igbo tribe no matter what

larrybabanla:

Ok good for you, but how many ikwere people did you see in Lagos?

ihesiuloa:

Even if they are not igbo's they are certainly closely related to them.

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar


I don't need to read all those things you put up there



All I know is that they originate from the Binis


You are just a kid son

thinkmoney:

Na una wey no sabi debate intellectually they always use this dey play phrase,
Ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo, like Ondo and ijebu are dialect of yoruba
They have the same market days like Igbos, the same Gods and share same geographical area.
Ikwerre somehow are like bitter brothers. They are like modern day Ukraine to Russia.
Again I emphasize that, culturally, geographically, ethnically, biologically and linguistically they aren’t different from Igbos

Ebeano49:
Ikwerre: A confused sub Igbo tribe. They are suffering from inferiority complex and identity crisis. They are trying soo hard to be accepted by Nigeria by denying their true identity. Half claim to be Igbo (like Amaechi), half claim to be Bini (like Wike). They speak Igbo, bear Igbo names, eat Igbo food, practice Igbo traditions but say THEY ARE NOT Igbo, just to keep the supporter of APC happy.
They can kill and betray their Igbo brothers to make Nigeria happy. Wike did it in Obigbo before Tambuwal show am pepper

Otunbakayce:
who gives a fvck about ibo people?
I olamide oluwakayode omo ......... From Ado Ora amukara sabe ewu jee doesn't give a fvck!

You all are Ibo's and worse still fake Ibos.
Omoibo fake!

WoroSeeWoro:


That is why i say they are a sub igbo tribe ....anybody that speak a.language that have elememt of igbo is a sub igbo tribe ..ikwere own is so obvious

Kalvan:


The Ikwerres are as Ibo, as a Frenchman is English. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk

RedboneSmith:


Culturally and linguistically, this your Frenchman-English analogy no follow, at allllll.

If you're looking for analogies, these are a few I can suggest:

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as an Afrikaner is Dutch.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as a Maltese is Arab.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as an Austrian is German.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as a Walloons-speaking Belgian is French.

RedboneSmith:


Culturally and linguistically, this your Frenchman-English analogy no follow, at allllll.

If you're looking for analogies, these are a few I can suggest:

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as an Afrikaner is Dutch.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as a Maltese is Arab.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as an Austrian is German.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as a Walloons-speaking Belgian is French.

Kalvan:


Are the French a sub-English tribe, or are the English a sub- French tribe, since either language has words that show up in the other?

Kalvan:
Ikwerres are not Ibos! I will say this until I am blue in the face. The narrative that Ikwerres disassociated from Igbos after the civil war is a farce. The men in my Ikwerre village were the ones that brought in the federal troops.

The Ikwerres are as Ibo, as a Frenchman is English. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk

Maazieze:


Anything related to Igbos seems to pain you, you've wasted you time posting for 5 years about igbos, doing your best to drive a wedge within our nation. your mouth must smell to high heaven with the sewage coming out

Kalvan:


Are the French a sub-English tribe, or are the English a sub- French tribe, since either language has words that show up in the other?

GetSenseNow:

I didn't want to comment on this thread but you made me.

I'm from Nkwerre and, on most of our major festivals we always have emissaries from Ikwerre and we usually attend theirs too

RedboneSmith:


Culturally and linguistically, this your Frenchman-English analogy no follow, at allllll.

If you're looking for analogies, these are a few I can suggest:

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as an Afrikaner is Dutch.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as a Maltese is Arab.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as an Austrian is German.

The Ikwerre are as 'Ibo' as a Walloons-speaking Belgian is French.

engrchykae:
how come umuola became "R"umuola
Umuokoro became "R"umuokoro?
You think by adding RS to your names,you ain't Igbo?
Foolish lost igbos

chrisxxx:

If u think Ikwerre is Igbo don't think they may have a variation in their dialect?
Can you see how overzealous you people are?

chrisxxx:

Let me submit this. Would you accept to be Ikwerre if Ikwerres had 5 states and Igbos just 4 LGAs?

RedboneSmith:


If there are two million chimpanzees in the world and only 200 apes, will the apes accept to all be called chimpanzees?

If I have 30 bars of gold and just three bars of metal, can I just call my bars of metal all gold?

This is what your question sounds like to me.