₦airaland Forum

ariesbull:
says who ....

So Yoruba don't borrow words it's others that will borrow from Yoruba

Yorubas borrowed words too and have never claimed what is not ours.
For example
Alubosa is not a yoruba word
Mosa is not a yoruba word
Aboche is not a yoruba word.

Every yoruba word has its entomology

CuteNbad:
egusi na your language abi.

Egusi is a Yoruba word...but it's not a Yoruba soup.

Hear yourself

They are retarded

ariesbull:
Igbo call it elele

That name is adopted

Nothing like Elele in igbo. Olele is the real word and igbos adopted it calling in elele.

Beans and melon does not grow in the south not to talk of igbo land

You need savanna to grow this, thanks to Oyo, Kwara, ekiti and Kogi

Honestly the way you people need to feel validated is shocking. Tell me about inferiority complex

Another igbo impersonator

kokoA:
Some nairalanders are very myopic in reasoning, we are talking about a national tragedy which is a potential doom awaiting Nigeria in future and people are trivialising this issue, making it an ethnic thing. The state of our public schools is really terrible all over the country and that's where about 90 percent of common men can afford to send their kids, if we can't educate our children properly do you guys think your kids can survive in future when you're all probably dead and buried? Then there will be no Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa or whatever.

Exactly.

This is a national issue

Please this is not peculiar to Igbos or enugu but the entire Nigeria.

We should not be tribalistic about this

Mandate1:
adopted from who?

From yorubas

guobe:
A colleague of mine have been kidnapped since last week Saturday as he is still in the kidnappers den till now.
A huge ransom was demanded and the person that went to give the kidnappers the ransom was also kidnapped and they are asking for more money.
Who will be bold to deliver another ransom when the earlier person that went to deliver the ransom was kidnapped.
God will surely punish these kidnappers in Nigeria as they will meet their waterloo very soon.

So sorry to hear

Raf4:
To copy isn't a problem, but not to acknowledge the original source or claiming ownership of what you borrowed or copied or stolen from somewhere is aberration.

Exactly
Jollof rice that people think it is yoruba is Senegal. (Yorubas introduced it to Nigeria)

Tuwo shinkafa is hausa ( yorubas love it)

I can keep going on and on

Raf4:
Are you aware that you don't grow/plant egusi in SE? How can you claim ownership/originatorship of foodstuff you imported from somewhere else?

I wonder oooo

DamnnNiggarr:
That's how you guys tried to claim "nwantinti" to be a Yoruba word.

Yorubas will never claim what is not theirs.

Some of our foods were introduced and we documented it

Jollof rice in Nigeria which was introduced to igbos and others is actually from Senegal

Sango is from Nupe

We don't twist history

DamnnNiggarr:
The dictionary didn't mention it as a Yoruba food. the actual Igbo word for melon is "egwusi", but the word "egusi"used for emphasis in the dictionary maybe loaned from Yor.

That's how you guys tried to claim "nwantinti"
to be Yoruba word

Nwantinti is a pure Igbo word

DamnnNiggarr:
Egwusi had it's original from Igbo or should I say it's more of a coincidence, because Yoruba and Igbo have many words in common.
Our forefathers and ancestors are egwusi soup even before the rise and fall of civilization.

Wrong sir, we do not have common words for the same item unlike the fulani, nupe, delta, edo, hausawa etc

Igbos were shielded by a thick forest which Limited interactions

Also igbos did not have a civilization apart from Nri.

Nri was a spiritual civilization not technological or even food processing.

Okpa, abacha etc are all unprocessed food.

Even palm oil was introduced to igbos starting from Ilaje to bini Urhobo to ijaw then igbos

DamnnNiggarr:
So, are you not seeing "var" variation: egwusi?
so why are you arguing?

I am not discussing about the "w" I am saying YOUR DICTIONARY mentioned it is yoruba

viodemus:
Abeg go and study more. Is not a secret.
Brazil has the largest population of blacks outside of Africa. Yes, yoruba culture has a head start, because it was the go to place for brazilian slaves. I also stayed in Brazil, I lived there, not visit. I saw when many of them were dumbfounded that their dna is not tracing back to yoruba like they thought. All their life, they have been told of yoruba and yoruba culture.

My hypothesis on how they came to claim yoruba culture, is that many of the ship captains, who were the big boys amongst slaves in those times, were very influential in spreading the yoruba culture there. And then during their wars, the colonials took some Africans especially the Brazilians back there to go fight. After the war, those ones help spread the yoruba ministry again.

The whites of Brazil couldn't tell the blacks they were lost people like the Americans. By the way, about 25% of American slaves, were taken from Brazil. Brazil was the staging ground for the Mexican, American, etc. slaves. It was from Brazil that they dispatched slaves all over the Americas in the 1600s, and 1700s.

The Brazilians just held on to what they know, and it was mostly because they could get to Lagos, Nigeria. The fact is, over 5 or more million of yorubas today, came from Brazil. It was even because of the Brazilian model that American govt decided to send some African Americans to current day Liberia; but that did not translate in the African American communities like the Brazilians. Am sure if it did, the current black Americans would have been saying they all came from liberia.

Smh

What nonsense are you writing

Raf4:
You can't even afford Yoruba food. Yoruba foods are the healthiest and most expensive.
Elubo is more expensive than semo, wheat, rice (both local and imported).

Even their Garri is of yoruba origin. The difference is their own is fried with Palm oil. There is no ground nut in the south so they reverted to Palm oil

DamnnNiggarr:
if you're in Igbo land or trying to pronounce Igbo word in an Igbo dominated area, you see those words that end with "gu" try to pronounce them as "gwu" in order not to appear like a novice.

Nothing wrong with the pronunciation but the food is of Yoruba origin. Melon and bean does not grow in the south not to talk of Igbo land.

No way you guys had access to it

On-farm yield potential of local seed watermelon landraces under heat-and drought-prone conditions in Mali

by
AD NANTOUMÉ, JL CHRISTIANSEN

Cucurbit species grown for their seed, including seed-type watermelons, are in several
West African countries popularly called egusi melons. The name originates from the Yoruba
language spoken in Nigeria, Benin and Togo

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8433793

this people are not yoruba or Nigerians but from other countries

DamnnNiggarr:
Mkpụrụ egwusi (melon seeds) is a typical Igbo soup thickener, you guys should stop this useless dragging on social media.

Akara (bean cake) is a typical Igbo street food.

Even your igbo dictionary wrote it is a yoruba food. So why are you arguing

DamnnNiggarr:
Mkpụrụ egwusi (melon seeds) is a typical Igbo soup thickener, you guys should stop this useless dragging on social media.

Akara (bean cake) is a typical Igbo street food.

Wrong it was introduced to Igbos by yorubas thanks to Lagos.

Tuwo Shinkafa is a yoruba street food but was introduced by Hausas

For those that do research and PHD students. I am such you know that the most accurate references are Journals citations


The Egusi type is a non-hard-coat form of L.
siceraria mainly cultivated for the use of its seeds. Egusi
(in Yoruba language) refers to a group of cucurbit species
that produce protein and oil rich seeds

by E. G. Achigan-Dako

http://www.springerlink.com/content/2014006j826u4185/fulltext.pdf

T[b]he fruit pulp of these cultivars is too bitter for human consumption. In West Africa they are called ‘egusi’, derived from the Yoruba language; in Wolof language (Senegal) they are called ‘beref’. In the Kalahari region, the seeds are considered a delicacy.

Correct citation of this article:
van der Vossen, H.A.M. & Denton, O.A. & El Tahir, I.M., 2004.[/b]

http://database.prota.org/PROTAhtml/Citrullus%20lanatus_En.htm

Egusi is a recent Igbo food

I am waiting for someone to challenge me with facts

Shikena:
You are a very talented upcoming comedian

Yes, so many misinterpreted history.

Raf4:
Soon you people will say aṣọ-ẹbi isn't Yoruba culture, because you people are also doing aso-ebi in alaigbo now. Ditto party jollof rice.

They have started with even Gele and Aso-ebi

Very bad jealous people

DamnnNiggarr:


Egwusi and akara are of the Igbo tribe.

Moi moi is a typical Yoruba food.

The south does not favour Melon and bean growth so where did you find the crops to make this food ?

What is the meaning of Egusi in Igbo or Akara

Why are igbo decent slaves not making in Jamaica but Yoruba desents make it whereever they go ?

ShoeGetSize:
Bean cake is a West African delicacy. Every where from Senegal to Nigeria people eat it.

No it is not !!! The cerole people introduced it to Senegal and Liberal just as it was introduced to Brazil and the the Caribbeans.

CEROLE people are yorubas and it is well documented

Same with Egusi

Plantain Mosa and pepper too

adedayoa2:
I add milk and egg to my grated water yam whenever I want to fry ojojo. You can try it too.

Ojojo is better with crayfish ooo

Mandate1:
moi moi and akara are not autochthonous to the Yorubas, it's a food belonging to all Southern Nigerians. When you eat Moimoi and akara prepared by an igbo person you won't say this again.

It is not southern Nigerian. You adopted it !!! Nothing wrong with that.

Mandate1:
moi moi and akara are not autochthonous to the Yorubas, it's a food belonging to all Southern Nigerians. When you eat Moimoi and akara prepared by an igbo person you won't say this again.

Lol crazy dey worry you