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Lastmessenger2:
yes they are. Am wondering how they are able to differentiate themselves

oyatz:
What exactly is the difference between Ijaw and Igbo?


There many people we now regard as Igbos whose forefathers came from Ijaw villages and there are Ijaws today whose ancestors came from igbo villages.



Both the Ijaw and Igbo identities as we know them today were recently fabricated social groups created by the British Colonial Masters for the purpose of identifications largely based on perceived similarities in languages, culture and coextensive territories.

christistruth01:
Your Grandfather

DubaiLandLord2:
Enlightened Igbo indeed.

Nothing Una dey talk here wey go change the fact say Bonny and Opobo is owned by the Ibanis and Ibanis are not Ibo.

christistruth01:
Bonny is Ijaw

There is nothing to Prove

Eastlink:
I support this angle or hypotesis. Ndoki dialect of Igbo was the aboriginal language but was almost displaced just like the Ibibiod language in those axis before the coming of the slave trade that saw a mass influx of Isuama dominated slaves into the Island. This move single-handedly revived the language and push the Kalabari dialect now dubiously called Ibani into submission. What Ijaw pirates couldn't achieve in Bonny/Opobo, they succeded in Brass, Nembe, Kalabari and in some sections of Okrika.

Today the Ijaw labdgrabbers led by Alagoa the fraud, are trying to push Kalabari dialect called Ibani into Bonny mainstream. "The speak Ibani initiative, the stop speaking Igbo", "the revive your Ibani mother tongue", "the stop saying biko but Ibama", etc has been part of this agenda since Adaka Boro couldn't wipe off the people during the civil war genocide.

The game is now exposed. Ndigbo over to you.

JANK23H:
Oga...

What does ...."coming as they first did into the Ijo country provided with no females of their own race..." mean?

Thank you.

JANK23H:
Read carefully and understand what one of you posted.

Shiver99:
Massive population displacements in the Niger delta is not hard to conceive.

Because of poor living conditions, It is often hard to comprehend how tiny settlements could be on the coast.

Some notable towns in the Niger delta now that Europeans mentioned centuries ago, consisted of only some families or a couple hundred people.

In these conditions, it is very possible for a couple of boats carrying some number of people to completely alter or displace original populations.

JANK23H:
Abeg screenshot full length o,so I can read and access properly.

Baikie infact confirmed Ijos as the Aborigines as I said earlier.It's confusing especially to you Igbos because you do not read between the lines.You see Igbo and Bonny in a sentence and boom � there is a nexus to you.

You must understand these Europeans have little understanding of the African peculiarities.An African can live at a place for years and still not be regarded as an indigene but a settler.Those Igbo slaves describes as "Bonny people" by Europeans would have been called settlers by an African writer.

I hope you understand now?

JANK23H:
All your accounts are disjointed and confused and still connect to the Ijos as Aborigines.

No doubt,there were Igbo slaves in Bonny,and till date their children claim Bonny.

The crux of the matter is who settled there first before the influx of Igbo slaves.

Please give me something before 1508.I am tired of the disjointed things you are showing me.

JANK23H:
No where in that writeup did Pepple tell him Bonny are Igbos.The writer simply gave his own verdict.A thorough read should tell you he was mixing everything up.

First,they are Igbos,still they speak a language similar to the language spoken at new Calabar.A disjointed addition of Oru(Ijo).Then a mention of Okulo(Ijo name for the Curlew bird) and it's nexus to the name and history of Okuloma.

That's the rubbish you people have been holding onto?

Totally disjointed.One sentence an Ijo connection,another a supposed Igbo ancestry.

Next please...

Igboid:
You have no point. If that's a problem, then bring more current Colonial document that mentioned Bonny and wrote on their Origin.
In steps Crow, Baike and Glynn.
And for all we know, all three are United in the claim that Bonny ancestors originated from Igboland. Which is why you are avoiding them and relying in an ambiguous account that never mentioned Bonny!

Igboid:
An account that mentioned Bonny and was in Bonny is useless.
But the one that wasn't in Bonny and never mentioned Bonny is useful.
Does it get more desperate than this?

Who thrashed Crow? Let me guess, Ijaw Fraudsters led by Alagoa?
Did the person thrash Baike and Glynn too?
Because you know that both point blank said that Bonny ancestors originated from Igboland.

justtoodark:
seriously....??

justtoodark:
you igbos are not the saviours of the black race....!!
no black begged una to be saved in the entire africa....!!

9Pluto:
Like I always say, in due course and at the appropriate time, the MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN HUGH CROW OF LIVERPOOL will be the nemesis of ijaw land grabbers and revisionists.

I am sure you don't know how many battles took place between Jaja and the other Kingdoms. In due course, you will learn all those history and not the fables you have been served.

christistruth01:
Thank you for Codedly admitting that you lost

JANK23H:
You are sounding like a desperate kid.

Admit you've been beaten to a corner.

When are you going to the international criminal court,abi where una wan go sef?

paramboos:
Indabooski bahoose!! Ka I'ma egwu miri I'ma egwu oku?

JANK23H:
These people are bent on getting to the sea Alabo, nothing will make them reason along your line of argument.

I've told myself not to bother on this issue, otherwise I would have brought out excepts from their much loved Captain Crow that contradicts their argument.In the end,there is no point.They'll continue to argue blindly.

Then again,I'm impressed with your write-up.Again you've set the record straight.Written works from Valentim Fernandez, Jean Barbot and Captain Pereira would affirm your argument.

To the one talking about international court,please make haste.No be to talk for mouth.

Fejoku:
I think you're missing the term Bonny people call Ijos.

justtoodark:
whites are not hidin anything from you today....soo,whats you igbos excuse today....??