₦airaland Forum

sjeezy8:
The fact of the matter is they are proud of their heritage and this isn't a nigerian thing its a yoruba thing. Thats like saying black americans should not be proud of being of african descent. Eko/Lagos/abeokuta was the home for repatriated yoruba slaves.

sjeezy8:
Whats all the argument for ?
How would they consider themselves "yoruba" when the word yoruba was used by the british? Back then yorubas didn't call themselves yorubas they refered to eachothers town or common sayings.

Oku is shorten from the Yoruba word Oku- o used in sierra leone to refer to creoles of yoruba descent. ajayi crowther born in oyo raised in sierre leone.
http://books.google.com/books?id=z6MU26QTvbIC&pg=PA401&lpg=PA401&dq=oku+in+sierra+leone&source=bl&ots=sRJ9sxgxxJ&sig=LTesINMz6lL2a1W6UySku1nXqPk&hl=en&ei=H_rhSsq8KJDtlAeYz-SKBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBkQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=oku%20in%20sierra%20leone&f=false

Just as :"Nago" is used in brazil.
"lucumi" is used in cuba

"Yoruba" word isn't from oduduwa orignal language
Im not understanding the argument here we all know of the yorubas in Lagos state and Ogun who bear english/portuguese surnames. We all know how yorubas are yorubas from sun up to sun down, and how clingy they are.

illusion2:
Akata is a derogatory term my friend. . . how does it sound. . .'My wife & inlaws are African Americans?

olafolarin:
@ Beaf,

He was loathed in east because he was the leader they so much wanted,desired and craved for but never had.Instead they had Zik who put personal interest above national development.iN THE fIRST republic,the hausa's were a miinority tribe and its completely counterproductive for Zik to take his party to the Hausas in order to be in Govt.Zik's people are still in the trenchies till today because of Ziks lack of foresight and big-throat.
Whatever wealth Zik amassed at the time,should still be enough to cater for the teeming Ibo populace.

mukina2:
Beaf and Simplychic

can you take it easy on the insults?

Please? you can make your point without insults.

I just read through the last pages again, please guys

mukina2:
This is not true abeg.

see eh Fulatown people do not call themselves Yoruba but Oku, you are making it seem like., they want to call themselves that and they fear the Government.

Krio is the language, Creole is the tribe and majority of Creolea are Christians.

Foulah Town people are called Oku and not krio.

Even the words you say kaboh and Ekushe are only used by really old people, the only words that are normally used are 'komojadeh', Eleykew' and few others.

They are sierra Leoneans full Sierra Leoneans.

KnowAll:
I am sure u don’t wake your wife up every morning with the derogatory words u have use against the creoles on this forum neither do u remind her that her stock is less than that of other humans, hers being that of West African slaves.

I cannot see the similarity between u and that gentleman that was stabbed, all mouth.

KnowAll:
They say when u throw stone in the market place u don’t know where or who that stone will fall on.

What u have embarked on is what they call self defecation of your own people, because your fore fathers were also involved in slave trading.

Slavery is our communal heritage as West – Africans, your comments are not only immature but lacks any iota of sensitivity.

I can only assume u live in Nigeria, if it were a case that u live in the West, UK, America or the Caribbean and u continuously open your foul mouth carelessly on such a touchy and sensitive subject your corpse will not be found in one piece, it will be mutilated beyond recognition.

I caution u,  your boyish and immature tirades should be limit to this forum, at least u have the grace of  internet anonymity to see u through your unbecoming behaviour, for the last person who I personally knew who open his gob like u is six feet under ironically that person happen to be a Nigerian, He was stabbed with a six feet blade right in the middle of his chest for his careless utterances to a Jamaican national.

So be warned.

salsera:
@beaf
so because they are descendants of slaves they should bury their head in shame or we should pity them

half of the world's population are descendants of slaves from different times in history!!!

stick to the topic and quit derailing the thread.

This topic was to educate not bring up pointless points

Kobojunkie:
Hi Kafancha, are you currently in rivers state? Can you take pictures so we can keep a before/after diary of changes? Please let me know if you are up to it cause I too would like to know how my government spends it's share of the excess money.

simplychic:
@Beaf
I think you need proper home training you don't just come out to a public forum like this and start insulting people,its totally uncalled for it show the kind of home you were brought up in. if the topic deosn't go well with you,i think you should simply move to another one that will favour you,i am not in support of insult. It is not a must that igbo compete with yoruba all the time, see if you are confident of your tribe you don't have to argue to impress anybody i think the cultural norms and value of your tribe should speak for the tribe.
These people were just discussing about how far slavery took their tribe and how much they spread around the world,nobody condemn the igbo or hausa tribe,afterall there are hausa people in the house why didn't they say silly things cos they understood the fact that these people meant no harm,i don't want to believe this is inferiority complex.

KnowAll:
You have nothing positive to contribute , I will be a fool to continue to indulge in your rather childish games

Nevertheless, thousands of African-Americans already live here at least part of the year, said Valerie Papaya Mann, president of the African American Association of Ghana.

To encourage still more to come, or at least visit, Ghana plans to offer a special lifetime visa for members of the diaspora and will relax citizenship requirements so that descendants of slaves can receive Ghanaian passports. The government is also starting an advertising campaign to persuade Ghanaians to treat African-Americans more like long-lost relatives than as rich tourists. That is harder than it sounds.

KnowAll:
I dont trade foul language with empty headed thread de-railers like u, those that find this peice captivating have made their comment. 

KnowAll:
There are 2 types of slaves in Freetown

1. The Nova Scotians these are people brought back from Nova Scotia and other places in the new world.

2. Those that the abolitionist hijacked their ship on the high seas and since they don’t know which coast in Africa they came from they were all       dumped at Freetown. The Yoruba Muslims fall into these category.

3. The Nova Scotians where the true Krios they formed the core creole community.

4. Don’t say people are ignorant without getting your facts right it makes u look stupid.

The Sierra Leone Creole (or Krios) are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone, they are descendants of West Indian slaves from the Caribbean, primarily ( from Jamaica) and freed African American slaves from the United States[1], which landed in Freetown between 1787 and 1855 (or possibly as late as 1860).[1] . Sierra Leone's capital Freetown was founded by the British as a settle for the Krios in 1787. They make up about 5.8% of the Sierra Leone's total population (about 377,003 people), and they live primarily in the capital Freetown and its surrounding Western Area.

The Iraq invasion of Iran occurred less than a year after the embassy employees were taken hostage. At least one observer (Stephen Kinzer) believes the dramatic change of US-Iranian relations from ally to enemy played a part in emboldening Saddam Hussein to invade, and US anger with Iran led the US to aid Iraq after the war turned against Iraq. The US supplied Iraq with, among other things, "helicopters and satellite intelligence that was used in selecting bombing targets".[109] In turn, this aid and the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 in the Persian Gulf by the USS Vincennes "deepened and widened anti-American feeling in Iran."[110]

vangogh:
How wrong?
Oil was discovered in Angola in 1955, war commenced in 1975 and lasted 25yrs.
"Oil was first discovered in Angola in 1955, but production did not really start to climb until the discovery of oil offshore Cabinda in the 1960s."
Source:http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Angola's_oil_industry

Please enlighten me what the US citizens hostage crisis had to do with Iran-Iraq war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

Mr Internet can confirm this info. Use the Internet, he is your friend.