₦airaland Forum

nina161:
Nsibidi originated from the Ekoi/Ejagham people of Cross River state in Nigeria. It spread to parts of Igbo land from this area. Igbos should stop misintepreting history to assert themselves as a progressive tribe.
Sadly, the Ekois are a minority tribe in danger of extinction. Most of them don't even know their Bantu origin or speak their language. As a result, the Igbos are yet to be corrected on this issue.

Which was said on the first page:

Nsibidi's origin is generally attributed to the Ekoi people of southern Nigeria.

So please exit right and don't let the door hit you on your as.s

spyder880:
Who are these guys From left to right. .........

Are there parks in Enugu?

zaragal:
Thank u, I use myself as an example I don't lyk the igbo dudes but den if a guy I turned down in the past do dat for me ofcos I ll change my mind who wouldn't, dere is nothing abt her being human here... she isn't gold digging where is the Gold??....its not lyk he has a jet or sth. abeg make una bone dat thing, carry on wit the gal jare and start sth new and different, best of luck

Then you are a gold digger. Pick up your shovel and accept the title that comes with it

How can you dislike someone over somethings so frivolous and not even in their control, but change gears when they did you a favor. God bless who ever puts a ring on your scaly finger. You are a snake in the grass and a fair weather individual only sticking around when you profit or benefit. You are type of woman who will Mary an old ugly man for money and be frowning your face because you don't like the fact you have to sleep with 100 year old d!ck to keep the money flowing. You'll probably even devise a plan to murder the man for his money if care is not taken.

Drop dead you crusty old hag.

Oh an more neighborhoods

Nice job by the way

It would be cool of you did a thread for the natural beauty of Enugu

Can you post more nature scenes of Enugu?

bakynes:
Abeg make una free them na Igbo thread b dis so they think we are fools for leaving the ancient buildings abi if u go to some parts of Lagos in Epe, Ipaja you will find this ancient houses that is because the families have refused to sell d house or the lands just to maintain the heritage. Like if you go to that same ibadan you won't find good estates and buildings same as Abeokuta if their brains can tell them it's a deliberate act to leave it that way leave them let them keep ranting.

Lies, they cant sell because the money they would collect would not even be enough to afford a place better than the cr.aphole they are currently in.

If someone offered them more than 3 pennies on the dollar for these eyesores people would be selling left and right.

Maintain which heritage? by letting them fall apart? None of those houses have seen paint or a new roof since the first republic lol. No wonder all the businesses went under after Awo's Indigenization policy you people do the opposite of what is expected.

Running successful businesses means running a business poorly. Which is why GLO and Oando still trail MTN and BP in their hometurf.

Maintaining in the SW means to allow a building to fall apart as a sign or history.

I understand you people very well. It's always opposite day in the SW.

Adegbodolu1:
Burn our history and the mark of our great empires and civilisations past?

so you can equate us with those jungle hamlet swinging babarians from the east/

You no try at all....

Nothing about a slum is historic. You attempt to compare yourselves to Rome, Tokyo, and Cairo is an insult to real history.

What in that picture is the mark of empire?

jungle is even better what you have here a jungle is actually pleasant to look at

Ikengawo:
The french have cities older than yours and Paris is Paris. No city in Yoruba land is older than Rome. In fact Igbos have been in Nigeria longer than Yorubas but our cities don't look like swamps. Is it ancient history that gave those cities imported british tin roofs? Ignorance.

It's all hype. Hiroshima that had an atomic bomb dropped on it, Germany that was fire bombed and torn bit by bit, and etc.

Go look at them today, even their historic quarters that surpass anything in Nigeria in age and existence. They look nothing like this.

If those areas are so historical and important to them why don't the fix them up? Who leaves history to rot? It's because nobody has the money to fix them or gives two hoots about it! That's why!!!

Nothing is worse than a decaying eye sore of a building, which is why even in the US you will see these buildings pulled down. When they are not people take it upon themselves to set up historical committees to raise funds to rehabilitate the buildings. No such thing is happening in the SW these buildings will look the same way 50 dam.n years from now and they will be screaming sophistication and civilization.

How dare some people compare themselves to actual sane societies with these ugly glorified huts with tin roofs. if anything these buildings are health hazards that are releasing dangerous toxic metals into their inhabitants air.

Only Lagos tries small with some of the old areas, the rest. Burn those fu.ckers down for the sake of progress. Even if you attempted to save some of them the cost would not even justify such a project.

Insulting people with real history and reverence for history with these monstrosities.

If Igbo votes don't matter then why do you care who they vote for? Which one is it? Or in your heart of hearts you know the truth and want to forcefully cower people into submission because you know their votes matter? Who is deceiving whom?

Progressive monsters from hell is what you should be called.

You people want democracy but are clearly too stupid to understand what it is.

You deserve Nigeria the way it is. It's your aborte.d basta.rd and you will continue to reta.rd it further with your ignorance, tribalism, and hate.

If Igbo votes don't matter then why do you care who they vote for? Which one is it? Or in your heart of hearts you know the truth and want to forcefully cower people into submission because you know their votes matter? Who is deceiving whom?

Progressive monsters from hell is what you should be called.

You people want democracy but are clearly too stupid to understand what it is.

You deserve Nigeria the way it is. It's your aborte.d basta.rd and you will continue to retard it further with your ignorance, tribalism, and hate.

FolarinLondon:
Who says Igbos are my problems in my write ups Sir?

I Was only advising them in respect of what they tend/would or might lose to a war. But having lived with them over the years and being what they are, I know they hate simple truth most especially when the truth is coming from a Yoruba man, so I have already sharpen my mouth and sword so as to prevent all these e-muskins from drooling all over me

You better call Specsaver or any reliable Optician close to your Hut sorry your House so as to have a comprehensive eyes test

You wouldnt know what the truth was even if it bit you in the behind.

You truly are a depraved sick freak. Proud that your father raped another human being.

It's your sickness that produces the Nigeria of today. How can a country function with monsters in human skins like yourself.

Eziachi:
The Nigeria constitution is very clear on the issue of qualification. It states that you are qualified to be a President if you have achieved the level of school certificate or its equivalent.
My question to both camps and neutral is: What are the equivalent of a School Certificate?

I've been trying to ask you a few questions but your email is not active?

FolarinLondon:
Like your senseless progenitors who took your other senseless and naive progenitors to a war to be raped(trust me, some of these present Igbo grandfathers are spermed and fathered by Hausas/Fulanis and by extension, Yorubas and of course d Ijaws), maimed, dragged kicked and killed.

You are proud of being relatives of rapist.s?

And you think your problem is Igbo people?

Old School names from another thread:

Here are some names:

Ejiofor (general Igbo) - the one who holds the staff?
Ovi (Aro) - ?
Okoroji (general Igbo) - strong/powerful/prominent man
Oji/Orji (general Igbo) - a great tree (oke osisi)/short for "

Aniche/Anicho/Aliche/Alicho (Aro) - a different land or a place other than one's fatherland. *Oftentimes, males born outside of their father's ancestral homes were given this name*

Izoka - Izo(a traditional god) supercedes.
Alagbaoso - The earth does not run away
Mgbekye(orumba dialect) - one born on the ekye day. female
Ikpendu - Judgement of life
Alaebo - the earth should not impose
Onwusuru - death is an impediment
Alamanjo - the earth knows a crime

Nmilimma= Beautiful stream.
Elilinma=Beautiful thread.
Adaugo=Daughter of pride[eagles daughter]
Omasiridi-Husband's delight.
Ugodi-Husbsands pride.
Ogbedi-Husband's protector
Oyiridi-Husband's look alike
Uredi-Husband's gallery.

Anagboso=The land remain unmoved.
Chikwado=The gods supports.
Obadike=Entrance to greatness.
Nzelu=To be saved.
Udegbuna=May my greatness not bring me death.
Alobuike=Ideas are strenght.
Omennu=Great doer.


Nwude=child of fame\great child.
Muolokwu=thought of the spirit.
Ubanagu=hungry of riches.
Ezinne=good mother.
Okwuoyibo=foreign words.
Ojiugo=white kolanut...usually given to light skin female children.
Okwuigbo=Igbo words\thoughts.
Nwanoluo=may the child live.
Otumoye=done on orie\oye market day.
Akukwe=If wealth permits.
Ofunne=same lineage.
Chiesaa=the gods answered.


Ozulumba (Northern Igbo; male) - satisfies the entire people.
Duru (Owere area; male) - I don't know.
Iheanaetu (Owere area; male) - what people want.
Okoko (Ikwere; male) - male born on Eke market day.
Nnamdi/Nnamno (General Igbo; male) - I have a father.

What is the meaning of Arinze?

How about last names too, like Ossai?

Lea28: Hi,

Just wanted to comment that this thread is really interesting and informative. I am going to follow up with the docs some of you posted. As an AA, I can attest, at least in my family, that some Yorubas did end up in the state of Virginia, and that they were assigned to domestic work at the plantation manors. My father's ancestry is the Ovimbundu of Angola. His ancestors were confined as farm laborers in the state of North Carolina.

Although mt DNA is said to be a match to Nigerian Yoruba, many of my Grandmother's and my Great-grandmother's siblings resembled Igbos. Since there was probably a lot of mixing with other African ethic groups, who knows. The males on that side of the family are gone, so we may never know.

My parting comment is, the main reason why many AA don't know their ancestry, isn't because we wanted to forget, it was snatched away from defenseless children. Many slave children were orphaned when either they or their parents were sold separately. One advantage of breaking up families this way, was to permanently erase all traces of ethnic identity. Those who were resourceful learned to survive by redefining themselves apart from what the slave handlers tried to impose upon them. Although a slightly different dynamic, the same principle applies today.

Not all of us are lost, many of us are doing well for ourselves, through much perseverance and faith.

Good post

*Kails*:
anyway im through talking about my ppl on this[b] joke of a thread[/b],
so i will see you around

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*Kails*:
they were from the KONGO kingdom

which included territory found in present day ANGOLA AND DRC..smh

from KONGOKING.ORG
https://www.kongoking.org/images/kongokingdom-map.png

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The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo dya Ntotila[4] or Wene wa Kongo[5] or Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[6]

The dominant political force of the Congo region prior to and during the initial arrival of Europeans was the Kongo Empire. The Kongo was a highly developed state located primarily in the southwest portion of the modern Congo, and also occupying portions of northern Angola and Cabinda. At its greatest extent, the empire reached from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Kwango River in the east, and from the Point Noire in the north to the Loje River in the south.

No Congolese at all

kwame tut: @Jarvely,Radiollo,Bigfrances,Crayola1
NOW CAN YA'LL DO THE HONOURABLE THING AND HAND ME THIS THREAD. SINCE I RUN, NOW THIS IS "RANDLAND".

THE IBO "POROUS BASKETS ARE DEFEATED WITH FACTS".

THANX TO HONEST NIGERIANS LIKE SHYMEX,OMONAOKADA AND OTHERS WHO ARE MY "FOLLOWERS".

KWAME STANDS FOR THE TRUETH "NOT TRIBALIST PROPAGANDA".

IM NOT RELATED TO ANGOLA-CONGO AND MANDE/SENEGAMBIANS BUT WANTED TO "HIGHLIGHT THEIR PLIGHT". SAME CAN BE SAID ABOUT THE "PLIGHT OF THE MIGHTY AKANS AND YORUBAS".

Some followers they are, they allowed you to get that a.s.s beat throughout this thread and didn't jump in once to your aid. Who is surprised that your followers are a who's who list of Yoruba tribalists, color me shocked lmao.

Not only are you a loser you have loser follower. Sucks to be you.

Radoillo: Gwendolyn Hall has been quoted in this thread to show Igbos were unwanted and useless.

The same Hall wrote: "...during the Spanish period in Louisiana the mean price of Igbo men was highest among the five most frequent ethnicities."

"The Igbo became one of the five African ethnicities found most frequently in Louisiana documents after 1803. Between 1804 and 1820, Igbo began to appear in higher proportions among all Africans and became one of the five most frequent ethnicities encountered in the documents. They were more heavily MALE than during the eighteenth century."

"Igbos were among the ethnicities ACTIVELY smuggled into Louisiana long after the foreign slave trade was outlawed. They were smuggled into Cuba in LARGE numbers as well."

"Igbo women were among the two African ethnicities whose women had the highest proportion of surviving children....The other ethnicity with high reproductive results were the Wolof....Mandinga women demonstrated relatively low reproductive results...Congo women's reproductive rate was substantially lower, possibly because of a high abortion rate among them..."

Now the interesting part:

"African-Americans are likely to be descended directly from African women via the female line because they have many more white male than white female ancestors. In the United States, our African mothers were reasonably likely to be IGBO or Wolof: a thesis which can eventually be tested through DNA studies".

This is not from Douglas Chambers who y'all believe to be pro-Igbo. The quotes are from Dr Gwendolyn Hall. Kwame has been quoting her researches, but CONVENIENTLY ignored these sections.

Its Okay. Me, I'm just passing by.

Lol he likes the trueth only when it semisupports his biased thinking. I'm glad he has begun to label things, he must have thought no one would check or google doesnt exist

kwame tut: ^^^^^^^^Crayola1
AFTER READING MY POSTS NOW U CAN TELL YOUR "BASKET CASES" THE TRUETH.

Its truth not trueth. And no because your posts don't support much of what you are saying.

kwame tut: @Crayola1
AM HAPPY TO SEE THAT YOU'RE "EMPTY LIKA BASKET". WE HAVEN'T SEEN YOUR INFO OTHER THAN JUST LIKA "LAPDOG" U HAVE BEEN FOOLING AROUND.

AGAIN I WON'T ENTERTAIN YOUR STU-PIDITY AS "IM NOT A CARTOON CHARACTER LIKE U/IGBOS". WHEN IT COMES TO "STU-PIDITY" U WIN.


I m happy to see ur reading my POSTS, MEANING AM WINNING EDUCATING THE IBO. TODAY U KNOW THAT THE ENGLISH DUBBED THE CONGOLESE SLAVES A "ANGOLANS" EVEN THOUGH THEY CAME FROM CONGO.

THANK ME U BLOODY "POE-POL".

Lol I do enjoy a good laugh

Do you have any facts stating that the British referred to Congolese as Angolans or is this another big fat lie you have nothing to substantiate with

kwame tut: STONO REBELLION LED BY 20 ANGOLAN SLAVES IN 1739 IN SC.

Where they killed their masters.

lmao you couldn't even get this right. They were mostly Congolese slaves not Angolan.
I'm even helping you with your facts.

collynzo2: Does this Kwame guy have a job? Jeez!

Can you have a job without as basic high school education? I don't think he really reads any of his sources. Notice how I challenged many of his assertions using the charts he provided, he has yet to provide any rebutal. In fact he stopped mentioning me in his rants.


He has his cheerleaders so maybe that's why he still posts.

Lol I never thought reading charts was a unique skill but Kwame Tut make it seem like astrophysics

I do feel a bit bad putting him on blast like that, but damn we are just doing addition and fractions even a kid in elementary school can add and understand what a percent is.

kwame tut: @fRANCES21
THIS CANT BE PADDLED OR 419ED

I sort of thought this in the beginning but now I'm pretty sure that you are a complete id!ot

For every year on that chart the Bight of Biafra contributed more slaves than Sengambia, West Central, South East, Upper Guinea, and the Windward Coast. The only region that surpasses it is the Bight of Benin, which again is not Sengambia nor Central Africa. Sengambia contributes a grand total of 479,900 while the Bight of Biafra contributes a grand total of 1,463,700, how in the hell is the former greater than the latter? Hell you'd have a leg to stand on if you said the Gold Cost or Bight of Benin, but Sengambia and the rest not even close

Mrs.Chima:
Lawd have mercy....niggas on crack are arguing about having the right to be ignorant.

Damn shame.

To be honest, the fact that we are even arguing about how many slaves came from where is silly. Slavery was a sad and dehumanizing experience, I'm honored the strides that people of African descent in the Americas made not only for themselves but for the future generations that would come after them. The life I have today is thanks to them, demanding their full inalienable rights in a place where they were seen a second class humans not fit for anything but being someone's property.

However, I think its in everyone's interest to challenge ignorance and half truths and whole lies wherever they may be. I don't think that AA are majority Igbo descendants, but I do believe the Igbo people contributed their portion just like all other groups did. That's it.

kwame tut: @Crayola1
NUMBERS ARE SHOWING IT ALL.

New Findings about the Virginia Slave Trade
by Lorena S. Walsh shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked

TABLE 2.
COASTAL ORIGINS OF AFRICANS IMPORTED INTO VIRGINA BY NAVAL DISTRICT
1698-1774
York district
Senegambia=1,382
Sierra Leone=0
Windward & Gold Coasts=2631
Bight of Benin=0
Bight of Biafra=10469
West-central Africa=4078
Madagascar/Mozambique=1009

Rappahannock
1698-1774

Senegambia=2226
Sierra Leone=0
Windward & Gold Coasts=435
Bight of Benin=180
Bight of Biafra=989
West-central Africa=337
Madagascar/Mozambique=466

South Potomac
1698-1774

Senegambia=569
Sierra Leone=0
Windward & Gold Coasts=0
Bight of Benin=0
Bight of Biafra=197
West-central Africa=0
Madagascar/Mozambique=0

Upper James
1698-1774

Senegambia=984
Sierra Leone=469
Windward & Gold Coasts=1719
Bight of Benin=0
Bight of Biafra=4642
West-central Africa=2663
Madagascar/Mozambique=0

Lower James
1698-1774

Senegambia=580
Sierra Leone=0
Windward & Gold Coasts=259
Bight of Benin=0
Bight of Biafra=177
West-central Africa=0
Madagascar/Mozambique=0

MY LINK IBU, FINE ENJOY %'S. CARTOON CHARACTER.
http://research.history.org/Historical_Research/Research_Themes/ThemeEnslave/SlaveTrade.cfm

Thank you for posting it again. Now answer the question on why the Total amount of slaves at all the Navel Districts in Virginia from the Bight of Biafra greater than Sengambia

Dude I just added with a calculator, go check me and see if I'm lying