₦airaland Forum

SlayerForever:
Nothing of note to counter there bro.

you want to deny that the Aro people aren't akwa-ibomite?
you also want to deny the fact that ubini-ukpabi isn't originally a bom deity?
you also want to deny the fact that ABRIBA people migrated from bom and they also practice MATRILINEAL CULTURE?

lol, keep dodging and avoiding it like a plague.

Senomii:
It is, 1million times better than weed

sorry o brother...
me wey no dey smoke at all wan come dey follow smokers engage. so who cares if it's better than weed?

EastisBae:
You're the one lying to yourself.
The Opobo and Bonny share same ancestry with the rest of Ndoki Igbos. That's why since history they've always associated with one another. Go to Aba, you will see large Opobo community that have lived there since recorded history! They still celebrate their Nwaotam masquerade festival in Aba and all other Igbos will gather to watch! I used to participate in them when I was in Aba years back.

Using militancy/oil bunkering/pipeline security to lure jobless youths into joining IYC or the rest doesn't change anything.

We have ignored your charade all these while but since you guys have continued to indulge in it, I hope you will be able to withstand the heat. 40 million strong Igbos are coming for you

Meanwhile here is another screenshot below!

nna men
even nanka people of anambara state dey follow mumu like this.

ever since buhari called you people dot nation you have been trying to eat your way to the ocean.
SLAVES want to become masters.
Bonny, opobo isn't in any Igbo socio cultural organization, they are not even part and parcel of Ohaneze'indigbo so why are you people behaving like this?

Senomii:
Lol, bro next time consult google Vape pens are under the class of E- cigarettes It's what me and some of my friends smoke

no one asked you. smoking vape whatever isn't an achievement.

SlayerForever:
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lol, ok. when you see points you can't counter you cancel.
na so you dn cancel your brain go so o.

Omanambala:
Are you daft or what ? How many times on this thread have my brothers showed you how the European explorers described you. You were living in the dirty and disease infested creeks like bunch of sunhumans committing all sort of atrocities. You had no land to call your own until you started migrating to these Igbo towns like Okrika , Kalabari and Nembe.

What treaty are you talking about. Aro were already exposed , well travelled and a very intelligent people before the arrival of the white men.

You didn't know medicine , trade , metal work nor anything. Who said you could speak ??

this is a prove that you know nothing at all.

the first expedition was carried out in the early 1800s and only Igbo words were collected.
subsequent expeditions were carried out by smith, Merrick, Clarke, Sigismund Koelle on his book Polyglotta Africana'.
linguist such as Paul hair, Gerrit Dimmendaal, Williamson kay, Roger Blench etc later took notice of the ijoid Languages.
you are an illiterate, a dullard, a braindead buffalo.

I am a Nembe man and we are an ijoid speaking city state.
even the Alagoa you all condemn is a Nembe man.
my goodness God, grow a brain.
just as the Igbo nation has okija, umuahia, mbaise, akwa, Onitsha etc, that is how ijaw has clans or towns like Nembe, okrika, kalabari Bonny Gbaran, Obolo, Opobo, Akassa etc.

Yoruba has Ife, oyo, Lagos, ijebu etc..

that is what an ethnic nationality is. I thought you are intelligent, but you are not.
to shock you, there is no particular tribe as "ijaw" just as there is no particular tribe named Igbo or Yoruba.
everyone defending ijaw here is spread vast from the various clans. me am a Nembe man.
my God, do we still have dullards in this era were information is easily obtainable?
brother man, ijaw is the name of the nationality, check yourself you no well. there is no particular name of a location known as "ijaw" just as "Yoruba" and "IBO" it is only the name of the nationality.
what is a nation?
a nation are group of people that share same believes, habits, cultural norms, philosophy, Language, history.

all this things I took time to explain won't still enter your head because you are a natural dullard, a braindead one for that matter.

SlayerForever:
Abriba trace what?

yes you heard it right.
I have a close friend named David from ABRIBA.
I also attended his father's traditional retirement and we talk history too. they all say they migrated from bom. THEIR CULTURE IS EVEN ROOTED IN THE MATRILINEAL CULTURE. even many of the Aro people migrated from bom, the ubini-ukpabi which you ibos claim is even an akwa-ibom deity.
certified grabbers. I know alot about many of the Igbo clans!

Omanambala:
Lets be honest , for a second. I don't usually go into name calling. But I am from a great and noble land and culture. You , an Ijaw man should shut up and drink my piss. Your culture is littered with failure as documented by the foreigners. We did write these things.

You crawled out of the creeks and learned how to live like humans from the Igbo. You have absolutely nothing to be proud of, nothing. You , Ijaw is a definition of an inferior race.

Slow your roll because I be rugged Anambra boy!! Deal with that for a start. Because of internet , inferiors suddenly think they have opinion. In real life Ijaw men revere the Igbo....stop the puffing....smh

what foreigners?
you know nothing, we held treaties with the Brits and Portuguese, we also warred with them, we captured your ancestors as slaves and renamed them you slowpoke.. seriously you need to visit the history books. for instance mbanaso okwarazurumba was bought, enculturated and renamed Jubo jubogha, the SLAVES swore filthy to their lord and masters who turned clans into powerful city states, at the mention of the coastal dwellers, the hinterlanders bow. if it wasn't for modernization, you omanambala would have been renamed igoin-tara.
you know nothing, go and visit the history books and brush up.
a slave has no guts to talk this way to his master.
we are influential, powerful and wealthy from the 1400s till tomorrow. it is because it is not in the ijaw people to make noise and brag. we do our talking when necessary, our hands are clean, we aren't ritualistic but Noble men, now crawl back to your slave infested home and shut your gutter.
bl00dy despicable rotten descendant of slaves.

bomb24:
The inferior beings u must be refering to here' must be the ijaws whose ancestors were notorious for commiting suicide over trivial issues...

For-Real there is a clear disparity between the great Igbos and primitive ijaw primates inhabiting the slummy creeks of bayelsa that have failed in all spheres of live and according to mancoconut; " the ijaws have made peace with poverty and failure even for their generations unborn.

The despicable history of the Ijaw black monkeys of the Niger-delta was well documented. your DNA's are enshrined with Advanced failure and a relegated IQ.Evidently proven on your history and poor-rikety Achievements..

Your ancestors were documented to be Extremely ugly, Pigs by nature, and savages without reputable culture worth emulating...Thanks to great Igbo men like king pepple, haliday, King jaja of opobo and the aros/Ngwas that gave you a rich culture and out of benevolence since the ijaw BETA males weren't men enough to handle ijaw women took them as concubines, shaped them and made their tongue and mouth a servicing tool for their alpha male dick. while the males were forced to be labourers or pushed over as slaves to the Europeans or perpetualy died by self-inflicted pains to end their Agonys.

My ancestors made different clothing textiles of which the most popular amongnst them was called "Akwete" which was used to cloth the naked bums of your ijo/ijaw ancestors that had no Idea or skill watsoever to weave cottons into fancy cloths. chai.!

Igbo ancestors made guns. yours couldn't.

Igbo ancestors were great blacksmiths and forgers but yours weren't as there were still in there creeks scratching their naked bums.

you have no rich culture or history. your bastardized race had to depend on the great Igbos to salvage their dying existence. your ancestors depended on our clothing textiles, blacksmiths, food stuffs even our dibias because they couldn't muster the act medicine what a knuckle-headed race.!

After reading the memoirs of captain crow and other european explorers documentation on bonny and opobo I had to come to a conclution you irrelevant cunts are not worth to be classified among humans. The ijaw ancestors were totally bereft of wisdom and ideas! These same genes were passed to their progenies pathetic.

worworboy
Alabo7879 aka mumu-ribo
saintbishop
Igo E.t.c

I think it high time u guys re-institate your slavitude to aro-chukwu perhaps the god of aros "Ubini ukpabi" might bestall upon u with good genes.

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bomb24:
The inferior beings u must be refering to here' must be the ijaws whose ancestors were notorious for commiting suicide over trivial issues...

For-Real there is a clear disparity between the great Igbos and primitive ijaw primates inhabiting the slummy creeks of bayelsa that have failed in all spheres of live and according to mancoconut; " the ijaws have made peace with poverty and failure even for their generations unborn.

The despicable history of the Ijaw black monkeys of the Niger-delta was well documented. your DNA's are enshrined with Advanced failure and a relegated IQ.Evidently proven on your history and poor-rikety Achievements..

Your ancestors were documented to be Extremely ugly, Pigs by nature, and savages without reputable culture worth emulating...Thanks to great Igbo men like king pepple, haliday, King jaja of opobo and the aros/Ngwas that gave you a rich culture and out of benevolence since the ijaw BETA males weren't men enough to handle ijaw women took them as concubines, shaped them and made their tongue and mouth a servicing tool for their alpha male dick. while the males were forced to be labourers or pushed over as slaves to the Europeans or perpetualy died by self-inflicted pains to end their Agonys.

My ancestors made different clothing textiles of which the most popular amongnst them was called "Akwete" which was used to cloth the naked bums of your ijo/ijaw ancestors that had no Idea or skill watsoever to weave cottons into fancy cloths. chai.!

Igbo ancestors made guns. yours couldn't.

Igbo ancestors were great blacksmiths and forgers but yours weren't as there were still in there creeks scratching their naked bums.

you have no rich culture or history. your bastardized race had to depend on the great Igbos to salvage their dying existence. your ancestors depended on our clothing textiles, blacksmiths, food stuffs even our dibias because they couldn't muster the act medicine what a knuckle-headed race.!

After reading the memoirs of captain crow and other european explorers documentation on bonny and opobo I had to come to a conclution you irrelevant cunts are not worth to be classified among humans. The ijaw ancestors were totally bereft of wisdom and ideas! These same genes were passed to their progenies pathetic.

worworboy
Alabo7879 aka mumu-ribo
saintbishop
Igo E.t.c

I think it high time u guys re-institate your slavitude to aro-chukwu perhaps the god of aros "Ubini ukpabi" might bestall upon u with good genes.

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bomb24:
The inferior beings u must be refering to here' must be the ijaws whose ancestors were notorious for commiting suicide over trivial issues...

For-Real there is a clear disparity between the great Igbos and primitive ijaw primates inhabiting the slummy creeks of bayelsa that have failed in all spheres of live and according to mancoconut; " the ijaws have made peace with poverty and failure even for their generations unborn.

The despicable history of the Ijaw black monkeys of the Niger-delta was well documented. your DNA's are enshrined with Advanced failure and a relegated IQ.Evidently proven on your history and poor-rikety Achievements..

Your ancestors were documented to be Extremely ugly, Pigs by nature, and savages without reputable culture worth emulating...Thanks to great Igbo men like king pepple, haliday, King jaja of opobo and the aros/Ngwas that gave you a rich culture and out of benevolence since the ijaw BETA males weren't men enough to handle ijaw women took them as concubines, shaped them and made their tongue and mouth a servicing tool for their alpha male dick. while the males were forced to be labourers or pushed over as slaves to the Europeans or perpetualy died by self-inflicted pains to end their Agonys.

My ancestors made different clothing textiles of which the most popular amongnst them was called "Akwete" which was used to cloth the naked bums of your ijo/ijaw ancestors that had no Idea or skill watsoever to weave cottons into fancy cloths. chai.!

Igbo ancestors made guns. yours couldn't.

Igbo ancestors were great blacksmiths and forgers but yours weren't as there were still in there creeks scratching their naked bums.

you have no rich culture or history. your bastardized race had to depend on the great Igbos to salvage their dying existence. your ancestors depended on our clothing textiles, blacksmiths, food stuffs even our dibias because they couldn't muster the act medicine what a knuckle-headed race.!

After reading the memoirs of captain crow and other european explorers documentation on bonny and opobo I had to come to a conclution you irrelevant cunts are not worth to be classified among humans. The ijaw ancestors were totally bereft of wisdom and ideas! These same genes were passed to their progenies pathetic.

worworboy
Alabo7879 aka mumu-ribo
saintbishop
Igo E.t.c

I think it high time u guys re-institate your slavitude to aro-chukwu perhaps the god of aros "Ubini ukpabi" might bestall upon u with good genes.

slave rant

Omanambala:
This is very irrelevant at this point. You think you are among ignorant market women trading senseless insults or what ?

The whole Okrika has strong Igbo blood running in their vasculature. In fact , every indigenous Okrika has Igbo genetic , very strong one. If you decide to call them slaves for your own consolation I don't care , really.

sense is far from you.
okrikans whom are ijaws bought and owned slaves just like every other ijaw clans because population is very vital. those slaves are then breeded or renamed and enculturated.

united states of America are made up of native Americans, Cheyennes, Cherokees, Blackfoot, creek Indians, Europeans from Italy, Britain, France, Germany, it's part of every nationality's history.
the ABRIBA of igbos trace their ancestry from akwa/cross but they still were made igbos through culture, intermarriage etc till their akwaibom heritage dissapeared.
stop being daft and Stoopid.
act like a grown man with sense.

Allen102:
Why will I want to see drug lords,419 freaks, Otokotos and human traffickers marry ijaw women?
Of course my people are wey better than yours in every aspect of life that's why you keep forcing your unholy brotherhood on us. Even going as far as saying that our ancestors were igbos, even though that very idea makes us want to puke.
Like I told you,I don't have inferior Igbo blood running in my veins,so it will be an abomination for me to be that Alabo whatever spit.

oboy calm down na, why you dey overzealous?

Putindbutt:
I don't give a hoot where she comes from. She can go hawk her pussy in Ghana. That's what ibo girls are known for.

You're right brother.
I stay in the east and I know how they operate.
Owerri girls come to umuahia for runs, umuahia goes to owerri, Enugu goes Lagos and umuahia, ABA girls travel anywhere even to yobe. Mbaise girls go to Benin and asaba, obosi girls goes to portharcourt.
Keep yourself clean and dapper, own a car or have a lovely apartment, they will visit and refuse to leave, wearing all of your shirts up and down and cooking dishes I didn't even send or ask them to cook.
The only way you discard them is pretend to receive a call that requires you to travel and even at that they'll still want to look for a way to stay.
Very entitled women whom are lazy, want to sit down at home and prevent you from watching a good football match because of zee world.
It is only the anambara ladies that carry themselves with dignity and barely prostitute.
The other ones are nothing to write home about them.
I know everything and every detail about them.

ThickSharon123:
How would this Alabo be using about three monikers to communicate with me, just becuase he wants to make a point and feel they are many ... He uses the Worworboy moniker (and I guess that's how he looks like) and Allen, and Alabo, and I guess there's more. ... Yeye people.

I am not those people you mentioned and I do not always have time for nairaland, but that aside to be truthful, not even your man or any other of your land grabbing brothers are half good-looking as me, I even had to take down my picture because my mailbox wouldn't rest, even returning home today I turned lots of heads but I don't mind.
Don't ever call me ugly, 9pluto or the other land grabbers can't hold a candle to me not even in their wildest dreams.
You all should even see it as a previledge that I respond to you all.

Igboid:
You have been tasked before to mention one Ijaw trader, and you couldn't mention one.

Ijaws were never Players in the slave trade.
It was all Igbo affair. The kings in Bonny, New Calabar(Kalabari) and Opobo were all Igbos.

Igbos were the final sellers in Bonny and Opobo, and the middle men(Aros) , they were also the main slaves sold, simply because they have more population to sell.
If Ijaws had population, Aro with their Edda, Abam and Ohafia warriors would have ransacked your small communities and enslaved you all.
But you simply were not worth the effort, you didn't have the numbers.
Even at that, some of you that could be captured, were also captured and sold.

See their decendants here:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbice_Creole_Dutch

Clown...
Every Amayanabo's, Alabo's, Pere's were big slave traders.
A British literature was also written and disseminated and it was titled "KING KOKO OF FANTIPO" it was the Brits telling their own side of the story on why the Nembe British war took place(Koko being annoyed the Brits were halting slavery and the coastal kings were losing money) and not because of trade monopoly which HRM Amayanabo William Fredrick Koko mingi VII of blessed memory gave reason for his invasion.
Even my great great great grandfather traded in slavery, I come from a long line of warrior kings, and chiefs, if you doubt, I can take you on a tour to their various shrines and mausoleums which exhibits the cabins, swords, Dane guns, chains and number of Igbo slaves they owned; I kid you not.
They didn't need to dress up like local champions with rifle to go and kidnap, with the right pay to your ancestors who could betray their kinsman for a decent amount of money they'll trick them and my ancestors paid handsomely. Betrayal still swims in you all blood, even Ekealterego SlayerForever Igboid Bkayy 9pluto can sell you if you are not careful. I can pay one of them to betray you, you all stab your brothers in the back for money, and it is evident today as we can all see in the high rise of ritual killing.
You all care about money and you can use your mothers and fathers to spray money, that was why it was easy for my ancestors to pay your poor hungry ancestors to kidnap their brothers, father's, sisters, mothers and sell them off. That is why you all have lots of diaspora in Haiti, America, Jamaica, Trinidad, Brazil and the Caribbean island.
You all have nothing to prove you actually traded with the Europeans.
Infact you complain of Nigeria, but it was Nigeria who saved you all, because it there was no Nigeria, a chieftaincy mantle would fall on me evidently and I will GLADLY embrace slavery and keep sending Wawa people to go cultivate sugarcane and whipped by the whites.
I'll keep thicksharon123 though for a certain purpose best known to me.

Putindbutt:
Let them keep entertaining us.
Initially they were denying but now they have confessed that their ancestors were slaves.
But you finished that girl no be small

Forget the foreign b!Tth
She's from Ghana, I earlier tried to clarify her, but she didn't want to take corrections, she knows nothing about Nigeria not to even talk on the various Ethnicity.

9Pluto:
I don't know why people of inferior intellect are always quick to resort to insults/name calling.

It is amusing how you and your ilk has turn a thread rich in historical and contemporary records to such a teeth-gnashing and garbage-hurling thread. Education isn't for everyone neither is academic discourse the fort of illiterates.

Why not keep quiet and preserve the little honor you have rather than continuously making such an ignominious advert of your poor parental upbringing.

Inferior intellect?
Lol 9pluto I'm not bragging, you can't lace my shoes. None of your other clowns can lace my shoes, I was born brainy it's in my blood. That's why I see your stupid Lang grabbing posts and I laugh.
You claim Bonny, but you can't tell us what OKOLOMA or okoloama mean.
You claim Opobo, forgetting it's actually Opubo-ama, you claim Ndoki/azumini but the Ndoki's know themselves as aminadokiari.
Just a little bit over 4 months ago, I use to sometimes think about the pros and cons of the niger-delta and the Eastern region forming a nation until I came by chance and saw the lies you Dumbo's peddle here, omo e broke my heart I swear, I developed a subtle anger(I won't say hatred) immediately, but for the fact that my maternal side is an Igboid clan I pacify myself. Even sometimes I have these conversations with my grandpa whenever I drive to the east and he ALWAYS say you people are nuisance giving the Igbo people bad name. So clownstar, you know nothing. Even if we are to be in a law court, I'll roast you, ridicule you, reduce you, incinerate you and send you back to your meth bunker to high off.
Bring the heads of all your lieng covens put together, y'all are no match for me.
When you hear Alabo, you hide your face shaperly.

Eastlink:
I suppose the Brits saved you from being used as fresh meat by teeth filing cannibals amongs your kinsmen?

Lol, you need to brush up on HISTORY.
The Brits only became prominent in the late 1700s-1800s.
Before the Brits, I traded with the Portuguese and the Dutch, and if they still held away, the Brits wouldn't have began their activities at all. So YOU SHOULD THANK GOD for removing the Portuguese and Dutch. Una for dn finish be that, but as always, we'll keep the more beautiful Wawa women to produce children, while stubborn men like you, SlayerForever, Igboid Bkayy Ekealterego ofoigbo will be sent across the Atlantic to go and live a miserable life.

ThickSharon123:
Stop letting the success of the Igbos make you feel less. You're way more than that. I've read books, several of them and I've seen the Jo of Ijaw men sold as slaves too. Igbo is prominent becuase they have the population as they still have today. But your short sight woun't make you see that. How did the extinct Berbice Ijaw language come to Guyana? You need to look into this too, in fact perhaps the Igbos bought Ijaws as househelps or servants on their lands, but becuase they were very few, you don't see Igbos shouting it. And thsoe servants were assimilated into the Igbo race quickly. It's only Ijaws that pride themselves that they were the imaginary middlemen in the slave trade.

From the source of the slave trade, were Igbos, middlemen were Igbos and buyers were Whites.

The slaves in the Bonny and Opobo, and Okrirka areas settled there because they felt safer with their kinsmen than settling in Bayelsa.

Ask yourself this, didn't Kolkuma have rivers to the Atlantic or any town in Bayelsa, but why didn't Igbo traders trade with them that much as they did to Bonny, Opobo and Okrirka, if you can settle down and use inductive reasoning, you'll get the truth yourself. Not those fairytale you share to make yourself feel bigger than the Igbos, when in all actuality you no reach.

Igbos traded with Calabar becuase they had a personal relationship with the Igbos, but the Ijaws have none, so stop trying to attach yourself by all means.

Lol, this porn star said the slaves in Bonny and okrika and Opobo settled there because they feel more safer than in Bayelsa, bayelsa a political entity created 25 years ago.
F00l
Focus on porn.

Anyways, the berbice were infact an ijaw people too from kalabari. Ijaws only sold ijaws who were trouble makers or armed robbers or notorious gamblers, and they were very few.
I won't respond to you again because you are daft.
Focus on your only fan page.

Eastlink:
Which Nembe Ibo boy? The Alabo is owned by the Worworboy dude.

Thank the Brits for abolishing slave trade, by now you'd be in the Brazils cultivating sugar cane and later on swallowed by a boa constrictor.

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SlayerForever:
INTRODUCTION TO BONNY HISTORY

Chapter 2 - CULTURE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction.

2. Culture of historical Bonny Kingdom.

2.1 Perception of the Supreme Being amongst the Bonny people in history.

2.2 Other traditional practices of the Bonny people in history.

- Iguana worship.

- New Yam festival.

- Shaving as act of mourning.

- Symbolism of the elephant tusk.

- Iria ceremony.

- Hunting expeditions.


INTRODUCTION

In this chapter we look at the core cultural and traditional practices of the Bonny people as recorded in the 17th and 18th centuries. These practices were observed by various scholars of that era, and consequently recorded as first-hand information, the sources of which include, in some cases, discussions and interviews with the Pepple kings.

Before we proceed however, we customarily access the viewpoints of some academic giants in the subject of interest. Professor Jones M. Jaja, Professor of African and social history, institute of foundation studies, Rivers state university of science and technology, whilst speaking about Ibani culture in the academic release "Ibani dieties and methods of worship...", informs us as follows, "The Ibani trace linkages through the kitchen lineages called "Burusoyo" or "Burusu". Lineage is also traced through the ereji blade. The ereji refers to the matriarch who ritually admitted new slaves into the family...” (pg. 34406) ¹.

The above submission paints the picture of a matriarchal society, and therefore by consequence would mean that the Ibani people, Bonny and Opobo, are a matriarchal race. This generally is in agreement with the matrilineal perception of the ijaw people traditionally.
Professor Jones continuing on Ibani culture presents that, "Eremina-Ogbo (Ere-Ogbo) is a female dance group with a few men who beat the drums. Eremina-Ogbo is the dance group associated with the Iria-bo womanhood rites” (pg 34406) ¹.

Above mentioned is the Iria ceremony (Iriabo). The Iria ceremony is a feminine cultural practice that celebrates the coming of age of a young woman amongst the people of Bonny, Opobo, Okrika, Kalabari etc which in recent times has gained international coverage from several reputable media.


In getting a clearer understanding of the Ijaw feminine concept of divinity we are aided by the work of Professor Christopher Abraham Ajueyitsi titled "God: Male, female or asexual?", an inaugural lecture presented at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in 2004. According to Professor Christopher Ajueyitsi, "the classical example of this feminine concept of God in Africa is found among the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta of Nigeria, who speak of God STRICTLY in feminine terms. All their names and attributes for God are strictly feminine, and they apply to Her alone. They have four names for the Supreme Being, namely, Temearau (Tamara), moulder of the universe. Tamuno is the Kalabari variant of Temearau. The second name is Ayebaarau..."the foundress of the universe”, (thirdly) Woyingi or Oyin, “our mother” and Oginarau, "she who dwells in the heavens.." (pg 10) ²

Hence we can observe the strictly feminine nature of the supreme being as perceived by the Ijaw Ethnicity. Another worthy mention is the devotion to water spirits which is also a fundamental feature in the Ijaw traditional religion.


CULTURE OF HISTORICAL BONNY KINGDOM

Unlike origin which is usually a static point, culture bears the capacity to reshape, absorb and drop aspects of itself with the passing of time. It is observed that the current cultural practices of a people in the present may vary greatly from what was obtainable centuries ago. This mostly is due to an array of circumstances, many beyond the control of man. However, the practices of the long past paint a clearer picture of the heritage of a people, before several distortions over time, and helps to better understand, piece together and appreciate the present.

In view of the above stated fact, we once more look into the earliest documented history of Bonny as recorded centuries ago.


PERCEPTION OF THE SUPREME BEING AMONGST THE BONNY PEOPLE IN HISTORY

Perhaps of the greatest significance in evaluating Bonny's perception of a supreme diety was the recorded conversation between King Pepple and Trade Captain John Smith circa 1835. In this interesting exchange, Pepple shares his desire to kill God if he can, because according to him, if he succeeds in killing God then he Pepple, can live forever. Apparently, in Pepple’s estimation, God is the one who takes a man's life (Pg 90) ³.

An abridged representation of Pepple's conversation with John Smith is captured below :

Pepple : Suppose God was here I must kill him one minute!

John Smith : You can not kill God.

Pepple : I know I cannot kill him but suppose I could kill him, I would.

John Smith : And suppose you could, why would you kill him.
Pepple : Because he makes men to die.

From the above discourse it is very clear that the traditional religion of Pepple and consequentially, his subjects, was one that identified their Supreme Being as a male manifestation rather than a female, and Pepple wished to physically subdue Him if he ever got the chance, as any man would wish towards an adversary. The conversation however did not end there.

John Smith may be credited as the first European to forward the notion of a Christian God to a Pepple King, and by consequence to the Bonny people. John Smith, during the tricky conversation captured above, goes ahead to carefully describe the tenets of Christianity to a Pepple he knew very well could be very obstinate and unyielding to a foreign tradition. He shares the Bible creation story which Pepple enjoys while expressing his opinion that the serpent should have been destroyed immediately. Afterwards, John presents the gospel of the messiah.

It is worthy of note that while John Smith shares the Christian belief of a God who is a Father and his son who is the messiah, no where does Pepple ever interject in the conversation that God is indeed a woman (Pg 94) ³, as would have been the case if that was the belief he held. Pepple and indeed most of the Bonnians were not known to keep mute when the very core of their tradition was being challenged. If the God Creator of the Bonny people was a woman, Pepple would definitely have challenged the Christian notion of a masculine God.

Also of a strong note is the fact that across hundreds of books written in that era, hardly any one of the scholars recorded a matriarchal trado-religion for the Bonny people. Such a detail would never have escaped the very meticulous scholars if such was the case. Instead they all record the Bonnians as believing in a more regular masculine Deity, and also a patriarchal system of inheritance as obtainable within any other Igbo community. The foreign matriarchal inheritance system adopted by some Bonnians of today is a source of contention and turbulence within the Bonny society.


OTHER TRADITIONAL PRACTICES OF THE BONNY PEOPLE IN HISTORY

Numerous practices were observed amongst the Bonny people, however for the sake of brevity and focus we consider the core traditional elements.

IGUANA WORSHIP : One of the most frequently mentioned practices of the Bonny people was the worship of the iguana. The iguana was the tutelary diety of the Bonny people until its destruction in the wake of Bonny’s acceptance of Christianity. However, before the adoption of the iguana as the national emblem, the Bonny people were noted to have revered the monkey, as recorded by John Smith (pg 61) ³ and Major Arthur Glynn (pg 280) ⁴. Reverence of the monkey is of consequence and points to the fact that though the Bonnians had adapted to life on the coast, their original ancestors were most likely forest dwellers. This is generally in agreement with the established fact that the Bonnians originally came from the forest regions of the Igbo hinterland.

NEW YAM FESTIVAL: Another practice of note observed amongst the Bonny people is the New Yam festival. According to Crow, "On occasion of planting the yam, which is a principal article of food, and also when it is dug up, a grand ceremony is performed, intended as an expression of thankfulness to Providence for its bountiful supply of the fruits of the earth" (pg 223) ⁵.

From the above we are able to appreciate the ancient life of the Bonny people, in their traditional way of celebrating the yam. This is one traditional practice that is at the very foundation of Igbo tradition. There is arguably nowhere else in the entire world that yam holds the extolled position it does amongst the Igbos, hence for the Bonny people to have celebrated both the beginning of the yam planting season and the festival of the new yam, it is indeed a no-brainer that Bonny was like any other Igbo community. Observe also that the writer informs us that not only is yam celebrated, but also it is a principal meal amongst the early Bonnians. In addition to yam, cassava was also identified as a staple food of the Bonny people (pg 252) ⁵. A common feature in the Igbo diet.

SHAVING AS AN ACT OF MOURNING : Another practice of note was the burial rites observed on occasion of death. One of the major rites as documented, was the shaving of the hair and wearing of specified clothes in mourning of a deceased relation (pg 72) ³. A traditional practice still very common amongst the Igbos to this day.

SYMBOLISM OF THE ELEPHANT TUSK : As far back as 300 years ago the reverence of the elephant tusk amongst the Bonny people had already been well established. During Barbot's stay at Bandy (French adaptation of Bonny) in 1699, he observed the symbolic use of elephant tusks. According to John Barbot, "Thus with much patience all our matters were adjusted indifferently....The king ordered the public cryer to proclaim the permission (of his people to/) of trade with us, with the noise of his trumpets, being elephant's teeth..." (pg 459) ⁶.

Over a hundred years later, John Smith will also observe and record the significant use of the elephant tusk amongst the Bonny people as means of making key announcements (pg 120) ³. Exactly as obtainable in the general Igbo society.
But perhaps the most illustrative of the high significance of the elephant tusk in Bonny culture is its use by its most prominent person, the King. Bonny kings from time immemorial have been known to carry the Ọdụ mkpa alọ (Odu as called in Bonny to this day) as a symbol of their authority. This practice is steeped in tradition, Igbo tradition to be precise, where a bearer of the Odu is regarded as having attained the pinnacle of societal achievements.
The Ọdụ, till this day is carried by the Kings of Bonny and Opobo as their symbol of authority over their domain.

IRIA CEREMONY : The Iria ceremony as observed amongst the Bonny people and the neighboring tribes of Okrika and Kalabari is a cultural practice that has attained wide recognition in recent times. The Iria is celebrated amongst the women folk at different stages of their lives from early youth through adulthood.

Whilst the ceremony has continued to gain recognition, little is researched on as regards its origin. This had lead to a situation where it is erroneously linked to the Ijaw Ethnicity of Nigeria.
The Iria ceremony has as its original traditional name : Ị rụ Mgbede (coming of age/maturity). A keen eye can quickly observe how time and circumstances have worn and distorted the original Igbo words of Ị rụ (to attain/to reach) to Iria, while the Mgbede (maturity) has been casually discarded. Hence the current name of “Iria” could be argued to be meaningless, or at best a poor reproduction of the original. The Iru Mgbede ceremony is an age long female coming of age ceremony found amongst several Igbo communities. The ceremony was usually practiced as soon as the girl child attained puberty. At this time the girl(s) go into seclusion as the traditional rites begin in earnest. According to Igbo culture the men were never allowed into the seclusion area.

For the stipulated time of seclusion, usually about 3 months, the girls are closely tended and taught in clear details how to manage their homes by mostly aged mothers. Also the girls are fattened and their shapes worked upon such that they are irresistible to the male folk on completion of Iru Mgbede.
On completion of their time in Ị rụ Mgbede the girls were made to go through the ceremony of "Ipu Ama" i.e stepping out/public display, in some cases at the village square or at the market, with her body beautifully adorned in uli (camwood).
At the completion of this the girls were now completely qualified to be espoused.

lru Mgbede also served to ensure that girls did not engage in premarital engagements as it was a taboo for a girl to be impregnated before her Iru Mgbede ceremony.
In the Ngwa and Ukwa-Ngwa areas of Igbo land where Bonny people descend from, the ceremony bears the exact name as captured above : Ị rụ Mgbede, as against other variations of the name to be found in other parts of Igbo land like Ida Mgbede, Ịnọ Mkpuke, Ikwaezi in Mgbidi, Ibauke in Umuahia. The neighboring communities to Bonny where Iria is celebrated today which include Okrika, Kalabari (New Calabar), are all recorded to originally have Igbo ancestry, Okrika being from Afam Ndoki (pg 24) ⁴ and New Calabar descended from Arochukwu and a section of the Efik from the Duke Ephraim family of Calabar (pg 265) ⁷ and (pg 25) ⁴ with elements of both Igbo and Efik culture still observable in New Calabar. Until the modern era it was still the practice in new Calabar to take a deceased chief to Arochukwu to be buried.

The claims in some quarters that the Iru Mgbede now Iria and also the Nwaotam forest masquerade of the Igbo race are mediums of connecting to the water spirits, are bogus and should be consequently disregarded. The culturally inclined can observe there is no connection to water divinities whatsoever in both ceremonies, and there are no basis for such whatsoever.

HUNTING EXPEDITION : Great hunting expeditions were recorded amongst the ancient Bonny people by writers and other observers of the time. Until the modern era, every year the great chiefs and men of Bonny held a hunting festival. As reported by Richard Francis Burton, “Once a year every great house with its chief repairs to the bush and makes a surround of men and boys to trap gazelles and antelopes...the evening of the battue is spent in devouring its proceeds and in hard striving with strong drinks” (pg 293) ⁷. John Smith also reports on this annual hunting festival, “...After a successful battue when more deer have been captured than suffice to satisfy their appetites, they (deer) are laid about in their rooms with their four legs tied together...” (pg 153) ³.

Great hunting expeditions into the outlying forests were a commonplace event in the Igbo society and both the young and older men looked upon this hunting expeditions as an opportunity to show their hunting prowess to the admiration of the community. Great hunters were given high recognition amongst the Igbo people.
In recent times though hunting expeditions have declined with the rise in modernisation.
Most of the aforementioned points which have been discussed above are major cultural elements of the Bonny people, some of which are still observed even to this day. These cultural elements as investigated, stand side by side with practices obtainable across the rest of the Igbo nation.


REFERENCES

1. Jones M. Jaja (2015). Ibani Dieties and Methods of Worship : A survey of extinct traditions in the Niger Delta.

2. Dime, C. A. (2004). God: Male, female or asexual? Inaugural Lecture. Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

3. John Smith (1851). Trade and travels In The Gulf of Guinea, Western Africa. Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers Hall Court, And Thomas Gill, Easingworld.

4. Major Arthur Glynn Leonard (1906). The Lower Niger And It’s Tribes. London : Macmillan and Co. Limited.

5. Hugh Crow (1830). Memoirs of the late Captain Crow of Liverpool. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; And G. And J. Robinson , Liverpool.

6. John Barbot (1746). A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea. London : Assignment from Messrs Churchill.

7. Richard Francis Burton (1863). Wanderings in West Africa Volume II. London : Tinsley Brothers.

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ThickSharon123:
That's your opinion, but we've seen Igbo Okrirkans who say they are indigenous to the lands and the historical documents goes in line with their statements. [b]I'm not refuting the fact they were slaves of a measurable number, [/b]but they were still Igbo indigenes of Okrirka who were among the progenitors of the state.

Little by little they will all agree they were slaves.
Igbos dreaded the large water bodies, the enculturated igbos were slaves who were brought against their wills.
Thank God for slave abolition, we would have still be exporting Wawa people across the Atlantic.

SlayerForever:
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Egbesu is the father of Ogidiga? You must think you're talking to a fool like yourself.

If Thats the only thing you could pinch to further the argument then so long.

SlayerForever:
Our findings so far as research and investigation continues.


The Nembe people are descended from mostly Arochukwu. This is not wishful thinking it is very likely the truth. Let us look at some facts hitherto unknown to people.

1) Virtually everything of great traditional importance done in Nembe is done only after inquisition from Arochukwu!

2) The Nembe revere the python! Traditionally the python is most revered of all the cultural symbols. And this was on instructions from Arochukwu after the other symbols of worship failed them. Remember that in one British voyagers account of Bonny he narrated how the Brass people celebrated the "long juju" of Arochukwu.

3) The Nembe people use a traditional 4 days of the week.

4) Just like the Kalabari many Brass/Nembe refuse to accept they are Ijaws, both young and old. This has brought consternation between they and the Ijaw(Izon) expansionist.

5) Due to their Igbo heritage (likely Arochukwu) the leopard hat (okpu agu) is a permanent feature in Nembe!

6) Egbesu worship which is the heart and core of Izon culture has been observed to be absent amongst the Nembe. The Nembe have distinct beliefs.

7) Many are fluent Igbo speakers.

Lol
Ignorance is bliss.
Many Nembe people worship egbesu, and as recent as 20-30 years ago there was a cult which involves men in it shaking hands with their left hand, that cult is the egbesu cult.
Egbesu is the patron deity and father to the Nembe national god ogidiga which is the name of the python you mentioned.
The leopard you mentioned in Nembe is the symbol of egbesu.

Try and research before you bring your daftness here.
The 4 market days known as "Kaka market days" is also practiced in all coastal towns not only Nembe. Infact many African people used the 4 market days.
Brother man try and research before you come here to misbehave.

SlayerForever:
The area of research we are focusing on now is why the Izon and Nembe don't understand each other. We observed there are similarities but we also know despite these similarities they are distinct people. It would seem the Nembe are descended from Igbo and Izon mix of cultures mainly, with the Igbo being the bulk of the mix, as well as other cultures contributing too. Hence the distinction and drift from Izon, and resulting closeness to Igbo. But it is all hypothesis until proven with more information.

This book was written by Rev Daniel Ogiriki ockiya(1874-1954), he was the son to Amayanabo Josiah Constantine ockiya (mingi XI)
Please I want you to come to Nembe and identify with us "your Igbo brothers" also bring a casket along.

fergie001:
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Lucky it didn't enter a real wallet directly, if not nothing on Earth would be able to track those assets.

Babsojimjim:
Dear all, permit me to use this medium to seek for mature and experienced advise...

When a wife out of her own wish without any current justifiable reason seperates from her husband for almost two months and has now decided to return back with the kid out of her own wish without any pressure, should the man accept her back?

Also should there be conditions attached before the man can accept her back? Mature and experienced input is highly appreciated.

Thanks all.

Did she go to her parents house?
Did her parents or kinsmen sought to repair the issue?

If the above question has a yes, then she might have calm down from her gra gra, but

If she didn't go to her parents house.
If her parents didn't sought for ways to mediate, then she likely was having another man control her mumu button. One thing many women in marriage fail to know is that they're nothing without a husband and children. Perhaps the side cock has dumped her and she has realised her short comings and ran back, but kick her out. But if the former is the case, accept her back.

Fashionista01:
And that is what makes them to hustle for too many boyfriend's in order to meet up with their needs.
They make their body their selling point. To what end?
Selling their body when they are still single will automatically lead them to adultery when they are married.

that is why I think brideprice should be scrapped out because
(1) men are taking care of the female child or a family
(2) many of these women do not deserve to receive a price on their head after there is no value in an already broken seal.
back in the olden days after a woman has been married off. her husband people will the next day or the following week bring a keg of palmwine(this is where the respect and dignity is in proper) that palmwine (if filled to the brim) signifies that their daughter was brought into their home brand new, half keg signifies that the daughter is a second hand commodity. this is where the mother of the child will walk around the community in shame or with bloated shoulders. This is also where the wife herself will be treated like a Queen or just a woman.
I prefer the real african tradition where women close their legs and stay in their father's house and we the men driven by love and sexual hunger do everything possible to marry and live like a man. nowadays we men aren't rushing to settle down not only because of bad economy, but because we're recieving the full package.

Fashionista01:
Girls should learn to be independent.

Attaching yourself to a man who does not care about you, is not good.

Living with a man who is not your husband is not good.

Learn to be independent.

many women are lazy, without that guy, she'll probably end up doing runs.
the lucky ones are the ones you see sitting at home all day watching zee world, eating and getting fat and shapeless while the husband works all day.

the younger ones dance on tittok and do snap chat video while their boyfriends go out to hustle.
many women are lazy, they are scared to be on their own and if that's the case, they embrace prostitution and cry for people "not to judge them because you didn't walk in their shoes"
what useless lazy shoe.

Fashionista01:
A man that cannot control himself is a problem to his household.

Hope he is enjoying the problem he brought upon himself and his household.

For those quoting me the truth is always bitter.
Take it or leave it.

that kind of woman most definitely is a cheat herself.

Good woman whom they cheated on won't react with that instinct, they'll always sit and cry, wondering where they got it all wrong, what they did and didn't do.

80? added some massive pounds over the years. Gators aren't usually this big. this might even be a croc.

AFvckingAlpha:
Yo my nigga, don’t let no one pressure, your the captain, do what you think is right.

People don’t really get the joy in Sunday set, damn! Just some few hours to burn some calories and express yourself, bitch ass niggas ain’t gonna understand

My girl too she always sad but I don’t give a damn, the one thing that gives me joy, playing soccer and you wanna take it away from me cos of church, damn I ain’t even religious.

I said what I said

mumu.
not your advice, but the way you type.