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forgiveness:
Olu Atuwatse I (Olu Dom Domingos Studied in Coimbra University. 1600 - 1611.

Dude the Yoruba tribe is a big and great one
Don't drag them low for ur selfish interest
Stop claiming that itsekiri king of warri
Go find another
Or better still
Dive deeper into research than feasting on falsehood

unshakablejihad:
OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BOOK.
Sources:
✓ THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA THE AFRICAN WRITTEN BY himself published in 1837.
It's important to note that the accounts of OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S childhood picture about the Igbo customs and manners dates back to his birth year (1745).
Here are some Igbo words in his book, if you have any please do contribute:
1. Essaka: Essaka is the anglicized form of the original Igbo word ISSEKE(a community located in Ihiala local government area, Anambra state). It seems Essaka(Isseke) was the birth place of Olaudah Equiano. Citing from page 9 of his autobiography:
"...This kingdom is divided into many provinces or districts : in one of the most remote and fertile of which, was born,
in the year 1745, situated in a charming fruitful vale, named Essaka. The distance of this province from the capital of Benin and the sea coast must be very considerable..."
2. Embrenche: This is an anglicized form of the original Igbo word M[G]BURICHI(an act of facial scarification in Igboland which depicts -honour or Noble-). From his book on page 9;
"...My father was one of those elders or chiefs I have spoken of, and was styled Embrenche ; a term, as I remember, importing the highest distinction, and signifying in our language a mark of grandeur. This mark is conferred on the person entitled to it, by cutting the skin across at the top of the forehead, and drawing it down to the eye-brows : and while it is in this situation applying a warm hand, and rubbing it until it shrinks up into a thick weal across the lower part of the forehead..."
3. Eadas: This should be "Ede" in the Igbo language which means Cocoyam. From his book on page 13 and 42
"...Our vegetables are mostly plantains, eadas, yams, beans, and Indian corn...I shall therefore only observe, that in all the places where I was, the soil was exceedingly rich ; the pumpkins, eadas, plaintains, yams..."
4. Oye - Eboe: It's crystal clear that the Igbo word "Onye-Igbo/Ibo" was corrupted to "Oye-Eboe". Igbos who are from a particular district call other Igbos of other districts "Onye Igbo" if they don't know your name or your home town. And it's likely that the frequent usage of the term ONYE IGBO by Igbos made the Europeans to tag all Igbo speaking people as Igbo(NB- During the pre colonial times of the Igbos, no Igbo identified himself/herself as an Igbo person; they commonly identify themselves with the name of their districts like Isuama, Ohafia, Agbaja, Onitsha, Abor, Nri etc). From page 16;
"...These are sometimes visited by stout mahogany-colored men from the south-west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance..."
–It is likely those mahogany stout men were Arochukwu men who dispersed in all IGBO areas for slaves–
5. Eboe- An anglicized form of "Igbo". From page 17;
"...The West India planters prefer the slaves of Benin or Eboe, to those of any other part of Guinea, for their hardiness, intelligence, integrity, and zeal..."
The Igbos during pre colonial era paid tributes to the Benin kingdom –which means they were subjects to the Oba of Benin–
"...our subjection to the king of Benin was little more than nominal ; for every transaction of the government, as far as my slender observation extended, was conducted by the chief or elders of the place..." - page 9
6. Olaudah- Olaudah is no form of anglicized Igbo word. Some Igbos still bear that archaic name as Olauda. OLA in the Igbo tongue means Wealth, riches etc and UDAH in the central Igbo/Isuama dialect means LOUD/CELEBRATED. I think if they (Ola+Udah meanings in Igbo) are juxtaposed with OLAUDAH'S narrative, they are related and close. From his book on page 23:
"...I was named Olaudah, which in our language signifies vicissitude, or fortunate ; also, one favored, and having a loud voice and well spoken..."
7. Ah Affoe Way Cah: It's a corruption of the Igbo words "Afor Nwoke"(pronounced Ah-for Wo Keh). Afor means a lot in Igbo - Year, Stomach, name of a market day -. Nwoke simply means man.
Page 24, "...They calculated our time, and foretold events, as their name imported, for we called them Ah-affoe way-cah, which signifies calculators or yearly men, our year being called Ah-affoe..."
8. Ah-affoe: "Afor"(meaning year in the Igbo tongue) is same with Ah-affoe. It was just corrupted! Reference same as 7.

cc. dsalvo, sonofEl.


sponge brain, plainleader u cure your Ignorance with this.

Boss small small nau
If u destroy all of them,
There would be no one left for us to dish!

aribisala0:
There is no significant remnant of Eboe culture in the Americas

I gave u a popular Haitian saying "nou se igbo
Hw about u give me urs
A saying from ur brethens in diaspora.
Just to show u guys had cemented ur culture even overseas.
Just like our Haitian brothers.

aribisala0:
Irrelevant and inconsequential

Dont bask in ignorance okay?
Do more studies before playing with ur keyboard.

aribisala0:
Nsibidi has "controversial" history?

What controversy? Since when

Nsibidi is NOT an Eboe word let us start with that


Do not come here to tell ridiculous or childish lies


Every human group has had symbols as a precursor to some form of writing and or for communication.
That is not news and not to be conflated with an explicit alphabet which Nsibidi was not anyway

Nsibidi is Not an Eboe invention do not seek to reap where you did not sow.

You people lie shamelessly

I love a good objection attached with facts
Not the tears of an ignorant child.
Sorry I need a better opponent.



Love u brother.

aribisala0:
Your mind is clearly totally colonized otherwise you would not write this rubbish with pride

O our ancestors amounted to so much
In Brazil and the Americas they retained identity , language and religion which persist in the Americas to this day.
If you go to Bahia the evdence of Yoruba influence is pervasive
Today all cultural traces of Eboe in the Americas are almost completely disappeared because it was a primitive culture
There is no evidence that Olaudah was Igbo and considering that he lived in the 19th century many years after the slave trade started he is unlikely to be the first Eboe slave to learn how to read and write English if he was Eboe. However many historians and his own memoirs have indicated that he was born in Carolina

Ever read on Haiti
Ever heard the Haitian Creole saying "Nou se igbo"?
Ever read on their culture?

aribisala0:
Is the word nsibidi Eboe language?
Do not claim what does not belong to you.
You people lie with no shame
Why do you people think you are talking to ignorant folk like you

Nsibidi belongs to one of the groups that enslaved and sold Eboes as slaves for centuries
It is nothing to do with Eboes
They probably used it to record their stock of Eboe Slaves

Don't mislead ppl with ur ignorance and hatred boy
Nsibidi or Nsibiri has a rich and controversial history
Nevertheless there is no denial that the igbos had contributed a large chunk to its creation
Now ever heard of uli? ( of course u hadn't)
This were symbols drawn on the bodies of ancient igbos.
It is no surprise that most of the symbols drawn on their bodies were nothing less than the same nsibidi symbolism u scrutinize out of envy and ignorance

Dsalvo:
N1tw1t. Point is that even a brilliant child can have an unremarkable life if he does not get the opportunity to excel.

Equiano was uniquely opportuned. That does not take away from his personal brilliance but fact is that he had oportunities other slaves did not have.

When you have a situation with Yorubas always excelling, when equally placed alongside others and opportuned as they are, that is proof of a pre-eminent people.

I am sure every ethnic group in Africa has at least one standout achiever or a few.

That does not make them a dominantly pre-eminent people and that is what you unintelligently stubborn, petty, emptily egotistic and envious Igbos can't comprehend.

U knw little about the tribe u banter with.
Ever heard of igbo landing?
No?
I believe so, let me enlighten u a few
An estimated 75 igbo slaves were transported to America
They were take captive below the ship
The igbos slaves being what they, are studied their captors and understood the way their locks and chains worked(no suprises igbos were good in iron tech naturally)
Within a few moment they escaped and went wild on their captors causing one of the greatest mass revolt to slavery by Africans to their European captors (mind u the greatest was in Haiti, a land dominantly occupied by igbos back then, the slaves led an outright revolt chasing all their captors away from the town they were brought. )
The igbos had even caused d European captain of the ship to commit suicide
Seeing dat they were in no man's land and it won't be long before more Europeans came for back up, the igbo chief with the words"the water spirit brought us, this same spirit will take us home", the chief lead by example being the first to drown himself and almost immediately all the present slaves followed as they marched into the water, committing
a mass suicide. The first by slaves in history in contrast to becoming slaves to their fellow man.
How is this for a people huh?
Now I would like you apologise to all d igbos here for ur ignorant accusations and sit down, lay back, reflect and admire such a people.

aribisala0:
Are you folk not embarrassed to be claiming so desperately this slave fellow Olaudah?
What proof is there that he was Ibo anyway?
He was ONE of THOUSANDS of slaves, Are you telling us he was the first slave to learn to write in English? What was so special about him?

Ona no dey shame?
You have NO HISTORY

Don't let hate guide
Igbos had their own form of writing 'nsibidi'
Centuries before slavery even began

aribisala0:
Are you folk not embarrassed to be claiming so desperately this slave fellow Olaudah?
What proof is there that he was Ibo anyway?
He was ONE of THOUSANDS of slaves, Are you telling us he was the first slave to learn to write in English? What was so special about him?

Ona no dey shame?
You have NO HISTORY

Olaudah Equiano
Olauda Ekwano
Dude follow history!
He had his name English-sized (if that is a word) for adaptive reasons..mind u he was black.

Dsalvo:
Lol. Bro, your pedantism na wa. No one will tell you there are 200k lawyers in Nigeria and 80k are Yorubas.

Statistics, for good reasons, are not collated like that for public consumption unless they contribute to delivery of specific solutions.

Educated men use available representative statistics to make informed conclusions.

Lok at the link below of the only 8 Nigerian medical practitioners in the 19th century, 7 are Yoruba with one Igbo. Even accounting for anomalies, like areas of prevalant missionaries presence, it is still an amazing achivement for Yorubas back then.

The trend remains the same today from representative collated data I have cited earlier.

It is not Rocket science buddy. Consistence dominance that does not wane with time indicates enduring brilliance.

https://www.legit.ng/1422860-meet-nigerian-medical-doctors-nineteenth-century-1800s.html

Exactly my point
U had no reasonable stats to support
So nothing is verified
@link
Dude sincere question
No insults this time around
Where there Nigerian doctors in the early nineteenth century (1800s)?

LegendHer0:
Let’s talk about the achievement of various tribe in diaspora.

One backed by sources. Are you game?

Ok
Tho I knw get too much strength to type things
But I believe my guys go back me up

Dsalvo:
Lol. What should I do then? Go to the nearest magistrate court to take count of names and ethnicity of Lawyers there?

Dude, do you understand the measures of central tendencies in statistics called mean, mode and median?

It is what educated people use to get a decent picture of a sample group. The sample group being Nigeria in this case.

I have utilised relevant measures of central tendencies, in different disciplines and fields, to prove my point.

You just keep blubbering and saying nothing. Go and enjoy your Saturday bro. You clearly have nothing informative to pass on.

Too much grammar clouds everything once more
U don't need to prove to me dat u r educated bro
Let's face d facts
U said u have utilised all possible areas for ur proposed measurements
Yet giving me a stat based on the richest lawyers is best u could come up with to prove ur point
Seriously is dis a joke?
Come on brother I believe u can do better.
Give me a better stats like let's say the number of lawyers produced per tribes in nigeria.
If it favours ur motion,
Then who am I not to believe u.

Dsalvo:
Joker. Is the statistic below "solid" enough for you? Una no get shame. Always moving goal posts when exposed as complete empty barrels and charlatans.

Yorubas would not even mind your noise if you don't go around hurling the most wicked and vitriolic insults against our name, universal good standing and reputation because of your inferiority complex, envy and covetous nature.



https://nigerianinfopedia.com.ng/richest-lawyers-in-nigeria/

See yah problem
You r still giving me richest.
Arrrgh!!
Duyude!!

No offence tho
Just hungry for facts

Dsalvo:
Bruv, you're an empty barrel, flip-flopper, impotent chest-beater and charlatan. Accept that and know peace.

When Yorubas are the largest representatives, consistently, in random lists of achievement one can pull online, then what is that telling you?

Do you look smart continuning to make excises even a toddler will scoff as just because you have been so brainshwashed as to be incapable of accepting others are better than you?

Abi Lagos-Ibadan media, as you lot love to claim, are behind these articles, statements of fact in reality, that would number many thousands?

The ten most successful lawyers in Nigeria listed, all Yorubas, do not exist?

Is it not easier for you Igbos to accept you are brainwashed and that your "superiority" claim is entirely phoney?

What you are unable to make of ala Igbo, that your people flee from in thousands daily, is definitive proof you guys live in a bubble of self-delusion.

Too much grammar dey spoil d message u dey try convey
I just need a solid stat to stand on
Simple!
No b fight

Oh my Lord.....

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Factshunter:
E fine.

But you sef try and read and comprehend something Nah.

And you guys should stop posting off-topic already.

No vex.
U sef no say everything nah cruise

Factshunter:
Oh no another baby in the block.
Toor

If u say so...
Ur thoughts bro...


So hw things Nah?

KoshCAD:
You are dense, he said top 10. Only one igbo is among which is the name you mentioned.

To 10 richest engineer in Nigeria

Geoge Okoroma
Akinsola Faluyi
Abubakar Sambo
Mayen Adetiba
Ahmad Ahmad
Deji Akinwande
Bolaji Aluko
Idiat Amusu
Ifedayo Akintunde
Aderemi Atayero.

Out of 10, 7 are yorubas, 2 are northerners while you people only have one representative, so how come you are more successful, abi you are suffering from dyslexia?

Can you bring your proof that richest Nigerian doctors abroad are igbos. Don't be stupid by just mere talk without proof. I know you won't bring proof, only to they claim what you are not.

Okoroma no. 1
LMAO �
By d way dude richest doesn't mean d best or more dominant
I could be d son of dangote and still b an engineer,making me rich.
Doesn't guarantee a thing.
Go back and do more research.
I love ur fact finding urge.
I really love facts.

Factshunter:
Abeg, what exactly? You bunch are not only delusional but lack simple comprehension and understanding of simple English.


Imao

Funny?
No.
U should b grateful I begged on ur behalf today
If not d kind worms dem go spill ehnn...
No b today.

unshakablejihad:
lolzz i'm coming for them today so just stay tuned.

Abeg e don do
Make we no promote hate
Let's not be dragged to their level(tribalists)

But if anybody do anyhow, make sure them collect(only when necessary)

shigishege:
good!! But Yoruba don't give Igbos run for thier money cos Yorubas are not in competition with anyone. Yorubas don't even need to give Igbos run for thier money it's Igbos that will give Yoruba run for thier money cow other tribe can only compete with Yorubas not other way round.

Accept its all healthy competition
No tribe is more superior than the other
Some excel in this and others in that
The areas left undecided springs up competition
That's what I call healthy competition
We must understand this.

[quote author=unshakablejihad post=107575560]Served hot......
Let's debunk false stats and show dem d truth..

shigishege:
who is
trying beingg funny with you

Easy bro
Yorubas give igbos a run for there money in almost every aspects
I respect that
Just respect that igbos get their own for body too
It's all healthy competition.

shigishege:
Why not TRACE. She was in FAKE not Originals.

Not funny
Try again..
Respect bro....just respect

I don't think population in the U.S is something to drag for....
So nice stats.
What really matters is the achievements sprung up by this various tribes in diaspora.
Let's talk about that...shall we?

Commentor:
Hakeem Olajuwon, Adetokumbo, Oladipo.

David Oyelowo, Rotimi Akinosho.

Heavy hitters.

Don't mention names bro
If not na u go cry...

Uchasa:
LIST OF SOME IGBOS I KNOW IN HOLLYWOOD(THERE ARE STILL MORE)

*Cynthia Chinasaokwu Erivo
*Megalyn Ebubennem Echikunwoke
*Tracy Ifeachor
*Uzoamaka Aduba
*Yvonne Orji
*Ego Nwodim
*Carmen Ejogo
*Steven Cole
*Enuka Okuma
*Godfrey Danchimah
*Sonni Chidiebere
*Chiwetel Ejiofor
*Nonso Anozie
*Ashley Madekwe
*Joey Akubueze
*Greta Onieogou
*DeObia Oparei
*Ify Nwadiwe
*Chibuikem Uche
*Osi Okerafor
*Obi Abili
*Ngozi Paul
*Susan Nwokedi
*Chinonye Chukwu
*Chukuma Modu
*Chike Okonkwo
*Caroline Chikezie
*Chris Obi
*Sophie Okonedo
*Annette Ngozi ilonzeh
*Phina Oruche
*Kerry Washington-Asomugha

UPCOMING ONES
*Ken Nwosu
*Alexis Chikaeze
*Uzoamaka Ojukwu

If you actually believe that the Igbo tribe with one of the largest African presence in the United States will have only three Hollywood actors, then you need a medical checkup. This list is just the one I know; there are still maaany Igbos in Hollywood....Anything that is domiciled in the United States, expect to see Igbos en masse.

Ah I remember Tracy...

She was in The Originals ��

shigishege:
that means it's only three people you guys get, so why are you lying before

I did say I knew a few movies..
Stop d hating and just admire man
By d way....
Cynthia Erivo is on her way to EGOT
It just remains an Oscar..
And dere r also rumours dat Wesley snipes(blade) is igbo.
I respect u guys so....
Just respect.

wallrichy:
Na their ways, soon they will claim Buhari, Patanmi, Malami and Sunday Igboho. Remember they claimed Jonathan too, also claimed Okonjo Nwela but will disown the king of looting Orji Kalu......

And Ngozi is which tribe men ?

wallrichy:
Even though I am not Yoruba by birth, I simply love that tribe.....I love their personalities, their peaceful demeanor always, the intelligent, the accommodative disposition, the lovely language and the facts that they ain't limited to Nigeria, Africa alone but in North America, South America, Central America and not as a migrant but as an indigenes of that such countries. I also discovered that most Yorubas that were carried away as slaves in the 14 to 16th century kept their cultures so well and now it's making a prominent of their ancestry and already accepted and integrated into the mainstream of those countries indigenous people such Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Saint Lucia, Benin, Togo, Brazil, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, to name a few. Omg! The Yorubas are indigenous to all these countries. The only tribe that's not limited to their ancestral land of South West of Nigeria, West Africa but transcend to the other continents.....I hail o You Yorubas all over, I am one of you guys also but adopted Yorubas....Awa Lagba, Gidigidi.....Ese...Modupe..



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I disagree with u on Haiti, Jamaica and a few.
Igbos r more dominant dere
But yeah they r a great tribe

shigishege:
list the film's title they acted.

I don't know much....
But I remember chiwetei ejiofor in marvel Dr.Strange
And also megalyn ebubennem in dc's arrowverse
She acted as vixen
Modu was in game of thrones
And Cynthia got plans with ariana grande
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