₦airaland Forum

Stogwu123:
Stogwu123-----Delta-------AGBOR

No offence intended, the poster is actually asking for Ethnicity and not town of Origin. I know that Agbor is a town.

Olaudah Equiano and other Igbo people exported to the new world wrote that they were Iboe or Eboe as early as the 18th century. Some Igbo people who began to see themselves as separate from others is a recent phenomenon (post Nigeria crisis).
I think that of Yoruba may be recent because during the Yoruba civil wars of the 19th century, they never recognised one another as Yoruba.

Ndigbo did not vote for GEJ because his name is Azikiwe. Please do not play on our intelligence. It's like arguing that Hausa-Fulani voted for Ike Omar-Sanda Nwachukwu because of his middle name.
Ndigbo did not kick out zoning. Ohanaeze strongly believes in zoning and hence said that Nigeria is divided into six zones and that power should rotate between the six zones.

'The OP, this post belongs to the romance section. May be the mods can help you. What a shame that you do not know about the romance section of this forum.

Abagworo--Imo state and Igbo.
Egheleghe--Rivers state and Igbo.
Oweniwe--Delta State Igbo.
Omonuan--Delta state Igbo.
Ogbuefi1-Delta state and Igbo.

Ibime:
Im Okrika-Ijaw

Babasoty is Okrika
Ijaw girl is from Bonny-Ijaw
ow11 is Kalabari-Ijaw
Mobinga is Ikwerre

These are some of the Rivers guys on here.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought OW11 is Okrika as well.

Obiagu1:
, I thought it's a Kenyan name.

Odingalomeghi--shortened to Odinga which means ;;is there anywhere that he does not shine (ever happening or shining). It is common in Isinweke, Obowu and Nsu areas of Imo state.

Very interesting.
The emergence of a reformed Ohanaeze under the able leadership of Amb R. Uwechue played a key role in the informed descision of Ndigbo in the South south and South east.
GEJ has to be thankful to Oha na eze Ndi Igbo.

Can somebody help on Kobojunkie and Aloy-Emeka?.
It seems Alloy is Imo but am not too sure.

Uwanta--Mostly in Afikpo areas
Uwakwe.
Uwandu.

Babapupa--Well done.
Longest time, wetin happen.

Desola--Lagos and Yoruba.
RichyBlack--Abia and Igbo.
Asha80--Imo state and Igbo.
Jarus--Kwara and Yoruba.
1025--Imo state and Igbo.
Nuzo--Ebonyi state-and Igbo.

olyivy:
Olyivy = anambra/lagos > igbo

Well done.

In traditional Igbo societies, ladies are delighted (love) in men who are good wrestlers, good hunters, good farmers, war-winners and good medicine men.
This is an addition to what Ify wrote earlier.

This thread reminds me of my Village ward-Umuelem in Isinweke, Ele (antelope) meat is forbidden because the ward derived her name from Antelope.
If an antelope (ele) is killed in that ward intentionaly or not, the culprit will be in trouble.

Wily-Wily--Annang and Akwa Ibom.

Dede1--Imo state and Igbo.
Agaba--Imo state and Igbo.
DayoKanu--Oyo state and Yoruba.
Beaf--Delta state and Isoko.
Physics MHD--Bini and Edo state.
IgboBoy--Delta state and Imo.
Gogo--Rivers state and Igbo.
Ibime--Rivers state and Kalabari.
Sagamite--Ogun state and Yoruba.
Chyz--Delta state and Igbo.
ChinenyeN--Abia state and Igbo.

Afam4ever---is actually from Enugu and Igbo.

Ogbenyealu-not for the poor to marry.
Nwanyigaraanya--Worldwide woman.
Ulumma-Pretty second daughter.
More common names from Isinweke my home town are:
Kekeocha.
Korie.
Kenkwo.
Korieocha.
Keke.
Nwaochanaeke.
Nwocha.
Ajakaifa
Odinga.
Karaoha.
Dikauweh (Short form of my surname-Uweh).

ChinenyeN:
No. I will not entertain this your bullshit, Andre. If you seriously want to talk like this, then go find bk.babe or any of the other characters you so love to engage, but do not bring this bullshit around me. I will not entertain it. Nationalist Igbo. When will you learn that not everything is a fight?

Now, as for the discussion, I still say take your 'shame' talk and your convenience label elsewhere; go present it to people who actually care, and leave the rest of us to our independent ethnic communities (or 'clans' as you prefer to call them). My people say a koruora okho ngwhere ya akuruo isi; end of story. Enough with your bullshit.

And you cast a stone at me with this below
Don't play dumb. You know why. Stop being silly. . . but for the sake of the discussion, here is the straightforward answer below.
Mind you, this is not the first time you have insulted me in this forum.

ChinenyeN:
Don't play dumb. You know why. Stop being silly. . . but for the sake of the discussion, here is the straightforward answer below. .
. . . while the 'Igbo' have forever been independent ethnic communities (what nationalistic 'Igbo' so love to call 'clans').

Monkey, you are the one that is silly here. There was never at any time that the Hausa had an empire that covered up all of Hausaland. CASTRATED MONKEY, what Hausas had was independent city states.
Also, In Yorubaland, there was never an empire that covered the whole of Yorubaland. Even some Yoruba groups were under Benin empire. It is very idiotic for a clown like you to use empire or kingdom to answer my question. I hope this settles in your monkey skull. Idiott.

ChinenyeN:
I still don't understand why you feel the need to always associate Yoruba or Hausa or some other group that ISN'T 'Igbo'. The structure and situation of those other groups are not the same as the 'Igbo', but that's beside the point. What I was addressing when I said what I said is your whole 'shame to all of them' gara gara, knowing full-well that no one is obligated to see themselves as 'Igbo'. Anyway, I'm just saying. I can't stand your approach to this thing sometimes. 'Shame on them'. . . shame on who? What is 'Igbo' that anyone must identify with it as 'their' ethnic group? That's what I'm saying. So no 'shame' on anybody. Carry that somewhere else.

Until you or someone else explains to me why Ijebu or Ekiti are Yoruba, Katsina and Zaria are Hausa while Ika is not Igbo.
Once again shame to them. I will still write it again and again and you can't stop me from doing it.

ChinenyeN:
Andre, man, lay off. Language grouping is not equivalent to 'clan' or 'ethnic' affiliation.

Do you mean that language groupings of Ekiti, Ijebu etc are not Equivalent to Yoruba ethnic group?.

exotik:
lol…Andre, i wouldn’t shame on them so quickly because i think the yoruba and igbo identity is one that eroded a lot of other languages because nigeria is often said to have more than 300 languages yet we never hear about them. so maybe those little distinct dialects are the languages we never hear about but they are all called yorubas and igbos.

Even in this thread, you can see how an Ikaman (Agbontaen) has been very quick to labe Ika anethnic group separate from Igbo. Now another Ika and a proud Igbo has joined the thread to teach him some lessons. Just watch out for Ogbuefi's posts here.

exotik:
and i also noticed while we were in camp, a lot of “igbos” couldn’t understand each other even though they were supposedly speaking the same "language". and i noticed that with the yorubas who were there also. they couldn’t understand each other and when i asked why, they will say that particular igbo is a different dialect in igbo, that particular yoruba is a different dialect in yoruba. and i thought wow, if it is igbo and if it is yoruba, then how come you as an igbo or yoruba person cant understand it? that baffled me.

Just as there are many dialects in Yorubaland so also in Igboland. But the Yorubas of Ijebu, Ekiti or Owoh are not insane to disclaim Yoruba. While some individuals in Igboland have capitalised on this to see their groups as separate ethnic groups. Shame to all of them.

Ndubuisi.
Ndukaku
Ndudim.

ChinenyeN:
Man Andre, all these Onwu-related names. I'm guessing those names feature quite a bit in Isinweke (just drawing a parallel between your 'anwuchala' greeting and those 'onwu'-themed names).

Onwu features in names in all parts of Igboland. Onwudinjo in Igbo-Uzo Delta State. Onwukanjo in Abiriba, Abia state, Onwubiko in Mbaise, Onwuchuruba in Isinweke. Onwujoegwu in Igbo-Uzo, Mahaonwu in Ikwerre etc.

^^^
They are scattered all over the museums of Europe.

Bini culture in full flair.

Oba Akenzua.

Bini shrine.