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Kindly remove Igbo in your list of tribes
Igbo is an Ethnic group not a tribe thanks and take correction

BigSarah:
She didn't know she was being recorded...

Smoking doesn't make sense, inhaling smoke just to exhale it?

Heard it relieves stress I don't understand how

that’s cannabis in it’s natural form,not cigarettes you should try cannabis it’s actually good for your body ;

headSmasher:
Why is he crying for food and company if he doesn't need help

ok kindly provide him food and company then

headSmasher:
I am trying to help the situation of our brother

Did he asked for your help?

This na December go hustle for money wey u go use flex even if u be Muslim go still hustle leave NK alone

NGArmyTerrorist:
He openly exposed his kinsmen! Igbos that hardly lives in a second-haND house. I regretted sharing a room with one Afonja during my NYSC days. Dude can't wash his boxers and take good shower except the girlfriend is around to force him do that. I later vacated the room for him. Those people are just like the slum you're seeing now.

Egbon u funny oo
I can’t imagine how una room go Dey smell

And u say make I pity any dead uniformed men?
Ogun punish una one by one

Authoreety:
Whereby

Aba

philiancoop:
I'm referring to Jews, not the Israeli state. Read again I said israel.

wait you are referring to Jew as a Nation? Lmao

philiancoop:
You are missing the point

Nation (Israel ) — same origin (sons of Abraham), same language (Hebrew), same culture (Judaism)

Tribes (Benjaminites, Reubenites, Ephraimaites, etc) From a sub unit in a nation.


Nigeria ≠ nation. Inside Nigeria are many nations.

Are you really alright?
Who told you All Israeli originate from Abraham?
Who told you Hebrew is the language everyone speaks(not all Israeli are Jew,Jew are one of the Ethnic group in Isreal)
Do you even know that Isreal is the most diverse Nation in Middle East?
Bro am done talking to you if you don’t get your facts before posting.


Lastly Incase you don’t know the Israelites aren’t the Israeli the former is predominantly Jewish Nation but Isreal today isn’t that again Isreal today is a very diverse country

khilardz:
The title itself explains the book
I wouldn't want to waste my time with it, there are better books to read. But in all, you are entitled to your opinion.

oga knowledge is gotten only if you read and learn.
Leave the title and read the book.
That’s how my Dad was fussy when he saw one book I was reading titled “the devils emissary”
The old religious man went mad lol but hell when you read the book it’s nothing more than Russia/Ukraine civil movement

SlyDev:
Red eboe was a fantasy written to massage ego of Ibos, majority of ibo lightskin are bleaching, Ibos know all the right cream to use

Ibo wear leaves, I have not seen any old igbo picture where they wear hide.

Igbos didn't wear clothes but leaves

Dead it

you mean Igbo made bleaching creams as early as 18/17 centuries wow
U must be high on sour gbegiri

khilardz:
So I stumbled on a book titled "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" I am not interested in opening that book because it is filled with delusional "feel good" contents, I know this. We Africans love to find solace in anything that evade reality hence many people will find solace believing "Africa is the cradle of civilization" "Europeans stole our heritage" "they forced us into slavery" some even believe that Jesus Christ was a black man from Ethiopia!

Africa is plagued with entitlement, greed, delusional mind blinkers and whatever negative you can think of.

Ozymandias, the self acclaimed king of kings spent his whole life building the best pyramids and and statues of himself that rotted away in the wave of time, he swam so flamboyantly in his delusion, thinking that those were what make a man great. The greatest Pharaoh of Egypt was outsmarted by Alexander the Great who brought scholars to study the people, culture and creeds of Egypt, this movement would later result in the establishment of the biggest library at the time, hence the start of formal education in Egypt.

Should we delve into the life of Mansa Musa who had so much gold in his possession that his gift of gold to the Egyptian lords was so great that the value of gold depreciated across the globe for more than ten years? He was a greedy man, the show off type. He managed to build one of the oldest universities in his country yet the number of literacy did not improved. I believed he had no idea what a learning institution was, he probably did it on the advise of his Islamic teachers because he was Muslim and his love for the religion prompted him to employ Islamic scholars to teach him about islam. being that as it may, his people spent their lives in penury, his cities where severely underdeveloped.

Some say, when the British came into the city of Benin, they where surprised by how organised and developed the city was, they had street lamps, yeah street lamps (wonderful achievement) they failed to mention the barbaric rituals that ended the lives of innocent people. The Oba was god and everyone lived for him, married tons of wives, he only had to spend the night with some once in his lifetime because they were so many and they dare not cheat (I feel for the women). The oba was the god with potent charms that couldn't withstand the rifles of the white man. A god was imprisoned and sent on exile by mortal strangers. They stole artifact and so many things. These are normal things that happen in wars. In medieval Europe and even in the bible, it was all about the survival of the fittest, weaker territories where conquered, kings where killed or sent on exile, cities where massacred and looted. It was all about who was stronger or smarter. Learn to accept that all is fair in war.

Many failed to realise that slave trade wasn't targeted at Africa, white men were being sold into slavery even long before they discovered Africa. Africa became a hub for slave trade when we started selling people in their thousands and for a meagre price, We had populations of obscure peasant tribes with no military defence, so it was easy for a stronger tribe to invade and sell them, who doesn't like a good business deal? The trader pounced on our generosity and made a fortune out of us. White men did not come to steal people away, we sold them! Some African leaders even rebelled against the abolition of slave trade as they were making a fortune from it.

You are a big hypocrite if you are the type that make a fuss about western ways. You can't completely dispose western influence. If not for western education you would not be exposed enough to detest them. The language they introduced to us is our easiest way of communication today, we couldn't even develop our own style figures and letters, we had to adopt the western Alphabets to write our native languages!

Africa is the most blessed continent in terms of natural resources which we have failed to harness because While others were thinking of how to venture into the seas and know what is on the other side or studying how the hawk is able to glide in the air, our ancestors were killing innocent twins, building pyramids for their burial, burning witches and doing all the unthinkable things. But we are yet to step out of our delusion when we spend our time finding out how Europe underdevelop Africa.

Arrant nonsense
Read that book and cure yourself of ignorance
The difference between your thread and that particular book is like from here to New Zealand

Ofodirinwa:
Those hats make you realize how much of a joke a lot of people's 'traditional culture' is

I swear shey no be Captain Thomas and CO cap .
They borrowed a cap from Liverpool sailors and it became their traditional

We might not agree with the way Yoruba do things but that’s where it ends.
The hatred is just verbal,I have seen Hausas Yoruba fight here and there even though Hausa seems to relate well with Yoruba but I have never heard of Igbo/Yoruba clash aside verbally

philiancoop:
You're igbo by nation, you're of the Igbo nation. In a nation, there are tribes.

Ethnicity and Nation correlate but am still correct and you are correct still,my Ethnicity is Igbo. But Ethnicity is solely based on common ancestry which Nationality lacks, anybody can be a Nigerian but not anybody can be Igbo.
Let me break it down to you in a layman level.
E.G
Isreal is a Nation,we have Ethnic Jewish and in there we have 12 tribes in Isreal (including ones who haven't been included).

Tribes are people who are closely related by bloods common dialect(most be mutually intelligible), tradition etc.
Ethnicity are those who share same ancestry language (albeit different dialects/sometimes mutually untelligible).
Hope you understand it now.
BTW If you call Igbo a Nation you aren't wrong as well.

philiancoop:
Let me help you understand.

Nation is a people who come from the same ancestry. So they have blood relations, though distant. They then have the same culture, LANGUAGE, etc. Like yoruba nation, Igbo nation, Fulani nation, Benin Nation. Nigeria is not a nation. Nigeria does not speak the same language

Check who you are quoting Abi u dey confuse ni

kingawothefirst:
Me and you are not on the same level continue to sit at home, while we decide your political climate for you

I rather sit at home than shamelessly voting thieves in to power like u

kingawothefirst:
You, don’t vote. Come on nairaland to wail that will solve all your problems

and you that has been voting what problem have you solved ?
Won't u be buying fuel 400 when they remove subsidy or aren't you buy pure water 20#?
Oponu i shame for ur ancestors

kingawothefirst:
Nope. The job is not as difficult as you make it seem, it starts with your mindset and thinking what you can do to better your country.

The United States is a colonial construct, same with Canada, same with South Africa, Singapore etc. being a colonial construct is not the end of the world. When Nigeria was a powerhouse was it not a colonial construct back then?

You can live in any country you want, people will still ask you where are you from originally? You can never run away from your background. A true son of the soil will never be ashamed of where he comes from. If you truly do not care about this country anymore you won’t be on nairaland, that’s a fact.

you must be high on fermented brukutu

kingawothefirst:
I’m Nigerian, I carry a Nigerian passport. I will continue to do my part to make Nigeria a better country at home and abroad. I will influence governance not with noise and wailing but with my vote, from local government level, to the state assembly and national assembly.

I will not turn my back against my country or soil it’s reputation publicly, that would make me an enemy of my state and a traitor. I am neither of those things.

This is what I mean by complete and total rehabilitation, the Nigerian people who have been delusional need to understand that they are only making things worse, especially for themselves. Nigeria is all we got.

and u thought u made sense .
You that voted,you voted for Buhari for change Abi ?
Where's the change, Las Las u go vote for another theif too, unless the constitution is changed forget it ur vote is useless

Wait a minute are trying to say change begin with me
You better zonB

[quote author=Rexwalters1 post=108249119]Stop living in the early 20th century Mr Man, black is black, only the Mumu blacks in Africa play tribalism instead of nationhood. [/quotes] nawa ooo.
So you think pitching people together because they are blacks is a good ideal,over 70 years of your stupid Nationhood what has happened,how can you build Nationhood without drawing your boundaries?
Truly black man is stupid

babasolution:
By definition there is truly a different, but most Nigerians use tribe to denote nation going by the way Nigerians speak,most don't even know the actual definition of tribe or nation

Nigerians are failing for the same tactics the British used,I feel embarrassed when someone call Igbo tribe wtf.
Am Igbo by Ethnicity and Isu by tribe

Rexwalters1:
What is the difference?

As nouns the difference between nation and tribe is that nation is an historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture or nation can be damnation (Nigeria).

Whilst a tribe is a socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people (Nigeria), spot the difference?

wtf did you get this definition of tribe, Tribes got to do with people who share common ancestry and are related culturally and are of same Ethnicity.

Nation on the other hand you are correct.
If Nigeria defines a tribe then where is the Ethnicity then?
Because you get an Ethnic group before getting to know the various tribes,Just like Jews for example

babasolution:
Even the writer is not wise,tribe or nation is simply semantics,it doesn't mean much

what's simply semantic.
Ogbeni no dey use English confuse ursef there's a big difference between Tribe and a Nation

dasparrow:
Everyone knows that China has a sinister plan and that is why they kept lending money to desperate African nations. I guess Africans are not yet tired of being colonized by other races. First it was the Arabs, then the Europeans and now the Chinese. No wonder Mazi Nnamdi Kanu made the comment that something is fundamentally wrong with the Black man. Go figure.

Blacks are simply irredeemable