₦airaland Forum

Dudu_Negro: can prof. chambers teach an igbo person the igbo culture and history?

bigfrancis21:
Actually it means 'I will' in Igbo. It is spoken more in southern igbo areas where the bulk of the slaves () came from. Co-incidentally it is also spoken and used the same way by african americans!

Ileke-IdI:
Yet you classify all Yoruba girls as such? I doubt you've even met more than 30 since you want to claim African American married to an Igbo lady on NL

One_Naira: SMH @ some region of some specific part of Nigeria is hating that they are not included among the slaves with highest rebellion status. SMH. Wow, even in slavery some people want to be noticed. LMFAO!!!!



Kind of explains alot. I've read the book as well and half of some of your belief concerning Igbo tend to imitate some of his words in the book.

Dudu_Negro: murder at mont pelier does not answer the questions we ask .

in fact it supports what i said that there is a new search around the globe to give meaning to an erstwhile meaningless greatness.

writers look for income, there are many writers probing around africa for unwritten stories to pen in hope of getting movie deals. they care nothing about the truthfullness.


look in that banner of mont pelier with spellong for igbo. white man would have spelled it as "ibo" and not igbo. so there is some influence on the. story. its authenticity has to corroborated with precedence here in africa.

the slaves knew who was who based on tribe. a wolof would not know ibo but an ibo would know about wolof. songhay, ashanti, oyo, bini, kanem.....none of these people knew about ibo. it was the coming of white man that we now know about ibo. there is oral and written documentation in yoruba history where bini, zazzau, sokoto, yauri, bida, .....all these places were narrated but no mention of ibo or any part of ibo land. ibo was not known. this is very important!

the importance of it has consequences in the slave social heierachy. only those from great tribes were nominated to lead mutinies and revolts and speak on behalf of the rest........

in the presense of a wolof, mandingo, ashanti, hausa, yoruba, bini, kanem slave, ibo slave has no authority to speak much more lead a revolt.

i am surprised that ibo has not claimed kunta kinte on attribute of his rebellion and bravery. it is also shocking that they have not claimed the mutiny on amistad as an ibo slave rebellion, quite shovking!

Crayola1: I'll just leave this here:

https://i43.tower.com/images/mm113348671/murder-montpelier-igbo-africans-in-virginia-douglas-b-chambers-paperback-cover-art.jpg

In 1732 Ambrose Madison, grandfather of the future president, languished for weeks in a sickbed then died. The death, soon after his arrival on the plantation, bore hallmarks of what planters assumed to be traditional African medicine. African slaves were suspected of poisoning their master.

For Montpelier, his estate, and for Virginia, this was a watershed moment. Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia examines the consequences of Madison's death and the ways in which this event shaped both white slaveholding society and the surrounding slave culture.

At Montpelier, now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public, Igbo slaves under the directions of white overseers had been felling trees, clearing land, and planting tobacco and other crops for five years before Madison arrived. This deadly initial encounter between American colonial master and African slave community irrevocably changed both whites and blacks.

This book explores the many broader meanings of this suspected murder and its aftermath. It weaves together a series of transformations that followed, such as the negotiation of master-slave relations, the transformation of Igbo culture in the New World, and the social memory of a particular slave community. For the first time, the book presents the larger history of the slave community at James Madison's Montpelier-over the five generations from the 1720s through the 1850s and beyond. Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia revises many assumptions about how Africans survived enslavement, the middle passage, and grueling labor as chattel in North America. The importance of Igbo among the colonial slave population makes this work a controversial reappraisal of how Africans made themselves "African Americans" in Virginia.

Douglas B. Chambers is a professor in the history department at the University of Southern Mississippi.

From the Publisher
-- The story of the poisoning of President James Madison's grandfather and the solidarity of a slave community's traditions
-- Involves a murder mystery with President James Madison's grandfather, witch doctors, and poisoning via traditional Igbo medicinal techniques

-- Reveals a fatal first encounter between colonial master and slave population in the New World

-- Connects written records and suppositions with established archaeology and ethnography of the Igbo

-- Demonstrates the strength of Igbo influence throughout Virginia

-- Traces the ways in which Igbo Africans became African Americans

And this is the author:
[img]http://www.usm.edu/sites/default/files/imagecache/sidebar_image/groups/department-history/faculty/douglas-b-chambers.jpg[/img]

White as bread

Akin-Egba:
The usual hooliganistic suspects (SW Naija) you mean?

IG: This is from a book "The Unknown Arabs: Clear And Definitive Proof Of The Dark Complexion Of The Original Arabs And The Arab Origin Of The So-Called African Americans" by Tariq Berry pages 122-123



If you are still wondering why the Yorubas are black and the Arabs light skinned, then you need to learn of the skin color of the original Arabs.
Start from http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/True_Negros/Assorted/Paintings.htm

DISCLAIMER: I am neither a historian nor a Yoruba but has a keen interest on true history that is often hidden away from us (the public)

Ileke-IdI:
Onila, you lack manners and proper home training.

Blyss, it's obvious that you're on another one of you anti-Yoruba brigade.

onila: they can be mean sometimes but far better than crap rude yoruba-nigerian bitc-hes

Obiagu1: What many fail to realise is that before the Americans realise the need to make the bold statement: All men are created equal, that practice was already in Igboland.

No one taught us democracy, we are one of the oldest democracies in the world and believe that all men are created equal.
So it will be till the end of time. We seek to subjugate no one but believe in open and fair competition.

bigfrancis21: Ama help you complete the missing part...

You son of a,...em...em...'An akata'!

onila: I am a girl "no homo" but God has blessed this women abundantly

dey are some of the smartest women in the world

A kenyan girl will tell where yr going wrong, she has no reason to envy you like how other women do

ladies, kenyan girls make the best female friends any girl can have

Many the heavens continue to bless Kenya

CAMEROONPRIDE: ^ you can run away you have been exposed like the shameless pig you are.
Is Blair Underwood igbo? Answer to me
BANTU BANTU wait yesterday m going to cry

bigfrancis21: Good job for trying to bring truth to limelight. Let us ignore the primary 6 child who is unexposed and has never left the thick forest confines of his bantu village before. I'd rather rub minds with someone who's exposed and well-experienced with the AA community to make observations and see the truth. That reminds me, are you aware that Mobb Deep, the black rapper, is another AA of Igbo descent too?

billante: South African retail chain, Shoprite has entered Anambra State in South East, Nigeria as it moves to open for business in many parts of the state, beginning with Onitsha, the state’s commercial capital.

 

Anambra is the fourth state Shoprite is opening shop in after Lagos, Kwara and Enugu.

Peter Obi, the Anambra State governor, laid the foundation in Onitsha recently for the construction of the shopping mall that is estimated to cost about $30 million.

The mall which will be sitting on 15,000 squares of land will be located beside the Onitsha Hotel and Convention Centre with enough space for the level of commercial activities the mall will expectedly attract.

Shoprite is expected to serve as the anchor tenant in the mall.

The project, according to a source close to the state government, is a joint venture between African Capital Alliance, a private equity firm, and the state government under the public private partnership (PPP) arrangement.

Governor Obi explained that the project was in line with his commitment to the transformation of Anambra State, which, according to him, included returning Onitsha to its past glory as the number one commercial city in Nigeria, hosting the biggest market in West Africa.

The Governor promised to provide facilities to boost activities in the area, including dualisation of Park Road, the entrance into the complex.

Obi said that the foundation for two of such malls would also be laid in Awka and Nnewi.


http://businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/branding/51160-shoprite-enters-anambra-as-obi-lays-foundation-for-30m-mall

Henry120: Nigerian infantry man in the frontline in mali

Sincere 9gerian: The Loko-Oweto Bridge is another major project of the FG. The contract was awarded to RCC Nigeria limited on 2nd November, 2011 with a completion period of 48 months. The work to be carried out by the contractor include the construction of a 1.970km long bridge across river Benue and 22.36km of approach roads to link Loko in Nassarawa State to Oweto in Benue state.

Based on latest report, work on the project has progressed beyond what we see in the picture below. The contractor have been able to "conduct and complete activity in deep soil investigation, complete site clearance works on the 3.8kilometers approach road to the bridge, finished boring and casting of 25 number of piles, casting of a pile cap, sand filling of 1.230kilometers of swamp and culverts”.

http://fmi.gov.ng/sure-p-verifies-rccs-n917m-job-claims-on-loko-oweto-bridge/

Kamanda: The recently completed Abuja to Yenagoa modern Railway Line with the Ultra Light Speed Electric Trains.
Jonathan is working.
UP Fresh Air.

Bullcrap. You got a link, pictures, anything to prove this?












*man pikin fit hammer dis year with dis 40laptop job O.Bros Beaf noticed me Oh*

*Kails*:
LOL...still pretending like AA is a homogenous group are we?
and besides, I am not EVEN talking about African Americans when I say she is a traitor ..I am talking about running for Jamaica. LOL. Poor you!! And as long as I can remember, black american simply means black in America. Her kids will be Jamaican Americans.

Anyway, nice to know a Jamo helped the US win the relay this year. So I guess it's not that bad. She still should have ran for her native country.

(again...Jamaican woman...should have...ran...for JAMO...has...nothing...to...do with...AAs...Get...it?)

[img]http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Sanya+Richards+Ross+Shelly+Ann+Fraser+Pryce+n2c0ksjXF_2l.jpg[/img]

Mrs.Chima:
Oh...your compliment was supposed to hit a nerve I am proud of my choice and made a damn good one.

You are right...lets not deny the obvious that you can't produce any mathematical facts of your bullshit and that it is very seldom African girls born to African parents date/marry Black American boys.

Yeah...lets not deny the obvious. BTW: I am not your sister...never was nor never would be.

Mrs.Chima:
LMAO@that bullshit above.

I see why Africans on this site go hard at you. It is hard to convince them Black American men aren't all dumb and uneducated when you keep proving their point.

Where is the source for the mathematical figures you threw out?

I will wait.

Oh...you are right...I am blessed that I TOOK MY TIME and waited for the right man REGARDLESS of his heritage. Trifling and dirty men COME IN ALL HERITAGES, SIZES, AND LOCATIONS. You wouldn't know about that.

Mrs.Chima:
Blyss...do you have comprehension issues Please take your time reading my response.

My comment still remains.

Mrs.Chima:
Didn't you supposedly married a Nigerian chick What is the difference between a Nigerian woman and a Nigerian man

I will wait.

Dibiachukwu: More like obama armed alqueada in north Africa, and now we are sending our troops to Mali to stop them from taking another African territory. And FYI there is no single evidence that osama was killed then, or has been killed. For all I know, this may be their own plans all along. The west has a very long history of working with arabs to our own detriment. Now that we have identified our foe. We are weary of both. And would defend ourselves against both.