₦airaland Forum

ruggedized1:
Obi of Onitsha is the most powerful stool east of Niger and most educated king in Nigeria.

Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe.

TheSlyone2:
What's really the principle behind money ritual?

obiremy:
Money is good!

MoonCares:
what do you do for a living please

feelzee:
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cheruv:
Osim
You're still up with these emotional stuffs you're writing
Considering Anioma as a whole..there are three main influences viz Igbo, Igala, Edo. Comparing these three influences, we can see that
1] Edo: its influence is mainly in the cultural sphere, thats why you see that almost all the titles excluding Obi or Deìn are Bini in name.the personal names of the people are Igbo together with their customs like Iwa ji.the only identifiable Edo group are the Oza who form part of agbor township.
2] Igala: its influence is mainly in trade..most of them came as traders who traded along the Ohimiri river.this made them establish settlements along the banks of the Niger especially North of Onicha. That's why if you look closely,you'd notice that nobody South of Onicha or Asaba claims to have Igala origins.
3] Igbo: its influence was in practically in all spheres..they were the aborigines there,even then some of our fathers went to Idu to live and later came back in the 15th century. It was these returnees that imposed Idu political systems on the Igbo aborigines.titles like Iyase, Isama;concepts like ehi/ahi were brought back by these Igbo returnees from Idu.

Unfortunately due to the nature of these interactions, its no brainer that Igala influences disappeared by the turn of the 20th century while Edo influence is on its way out too. Apart from the Oza, who are Edo in all respects just like the Ishan,every other thing in Anioma is built on a solid Igbo base,that's why when the wind of time blows,every other attachment to Anioma fades away

MoonCares:
Asaba Residents, Let's meet here for a way forward...

beneviv:
Longman