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and that is your yoruba opinion.

the correct spelling is akpata, except it is not the same word we are talking about.

Adding k before p isnt yoruba and usually people who do that arent yoruba either.

i can dig that.

Lets not be whiter than whites plz.

what does that even mean? and if im not mistaken, werent u the one who claimed to be white in one of your posts?

Kilode?!:
Good job

But I guess you are copying them from a "diasporan" source with all the sc, sh, c and dd spellings? Mainstream Yoruba don't use those spellings.

It's ok though, the Latin alphabet is not ours anyway.

Well done.

Yemaja = Yemoja

Shakpana <---- that "K stress" is sacrilegious. We allow our Midwestern cousins ( old Bendelites) to use it, that's all. But don't let elders see it. It can cause heart attack.

Kpele


Like S L Akintola famously said: Ki a ni "K" nse ninu A[b]K[/b]pata?

~What the hell is the letter "K" doing in the name "Apata".

actually, the correct spelling is Akpata.

if the "yorubas" were not smart enough to develop a writing system, then they have no authority on how a word should be spelt.

kpele.

lol, @ the irony of that comment coming from an american, and a black-american to crown it all.

don’t you have something more important to do instead of posting on nairaland? uhm, like join the on-going protest in the US against greed? or you are here because you are not part of the 99% of americans who are poor but part of the greedy 1%?

Dede1:
You were short on your response for what I should term as being politically correct.

i just stated what i knew and showed a picture to prove/substantiate it.

I guess we shall maintain that the so-called dreadlocks were worn for spiritual reasons.

and isnt that what i said? or u just wanted to piggy-back on my comment so that i will carry you along?

ok, here is another picture i found of edo men in agbiyagha

By the way exotik, sorry about the long response. I just realized how long my post looks in comparison to what I was responding to.

lol, it is okay. and to be honest, the major reason i come back to check these forums is to read your posts especially when you are putting edo haters in their place --> the gutter! and there are a lot of them on here hating for no reason and trying to reduce our historical importance especially that of the binis. 
and u do give urself little credit, u are well-versed in history from that of bini to greek. so maybe when u are through with school, you will come back home and become a bini chief?? coz all that knowledge should not be used helping to build and develop the western world. we need our scholars back home.

What is so beautiful about dancing with human skulls on your head? This is why people have such a negative veiw of paganism.

i dont see how that is a negative thing. christians dance with the image of a man nailed to a cross, but lemme guess, that is positive?

PhysicsQED:
exotik,

MLK, cheated on his wife, but that was with other black women. I haven't seen evidence that suggests that he was involved with even one hooker, white or black, even if one or more of his close followers ("entourage" is alleged to have been.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp

He couldn't compete in extramarital affairs with JFK though.

http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_1246/john-f-kennedy/

^^^
Now that was somebody who was really "obsessed" with screwing everybody in sight. And he's on American currency.   A great man. He basically went to bed with half the 50s and 60s female stars of Hollywood.



As for W.E.B. DuBois vs. Garvey.

I would say DuBois was actually an Afrocentric writer and historian, but more in the "academic" way, than as a black nationalist. Read his book The Negro (parts of this book are what made me see him as an academic Afrocentrist) and The Souls of Black Folks, and you'll see why he definitely was not confused about "where he belonged." His comments against Garvey may seem pretty awful today, but he was definitely very pro-black.

hey Ovbioba, i remember watching a documentary some years ago, cant remember the name where he allegedly had an affair with some white women. and i have had dicussions with black-american or african-americans (to be politically correct) and they said he did like white women.

and the crux of his "integration" message was all about “interracial relationships” fighting dreaming to have cordial and extra-curricular relationship with ebos, and he had to throw that a lill black boy holding hands with a lil white girl in his dream speech. and when i look at the US today, the only thing that has really blossomed for black-americans  is interracial relationship/marriage. oh, plus they can now sit on a bus.

as for w.e.b dubious, i always thought he became an afrocentric @ the later stage of his life that was why i said he didn’t know where he belonged since he was a half-breed becoz lots of half-breeds really do not know where they belong, or which group to belong to and they find it hard to decide….so they claim all sorts of ancestry and end up saying they are “mixed”. so it was interesting to know that he wrote such a book way back in 1915? dont think i will have time to read it tho, coz i don’t care that much.

btw, i always wanted to ask u this question, why do u go by the name Physics? coz u seem to know much about History from ancient bini to greek. so maybe u should think of changing your name to HistoryQED…haha

anyways, laters.

I would not be surprised if Idu means red colour in Edo language

in edo,  red means ODODO
while the bright/or shining red means OBA.


and when the OBA is out shining in his full glory, he is dressed in what type of red?

[img]http://1.bp..com/_f9bsZoH3FfU/R85A5Ue3U1I/AAAAAAAAAEk/NwEibrCNqns/s1600/Oba%2Bof%2BBenin.jpg[/img]


OBA ghator kpere, Ise!!!

so tell me what he achieved for u apart from interracial relationship. the nigga was in-love with white women and that was the primary reason he was fighting for integration.

lol, and who said his wife wasn’t black? the nigga was lusting for some white pvssy that was why he was fighting for integration. and whether u agree with it or not, african countries of today after european colonization are black nations. and the independence of these nations were fought with the principles of garvey and malcolm x supported the independent movement that was sweeping across africa at that time while martin luther was thinking of how to secure white pvssy

and what did mr king actually achieve for you guys? interracial relationships? that niggas can now fvck white pvssy in the US without getting lynched? wot else? u guys are still treated as second-class citizens, living in third-world conditions in a first-world country. and the only few who become successful move to white neighborhoods and hate everything black. if u say people are to be treated equally, so is it until whites tell you you are equal to them before you will believe and be happy with yourself? martin didn’t accomplish shyte. in fact he is the reason why most of u guys seem lost because all u care about is white validation. until oyinbo man tell una say e good, una nor go believe. fvck martin luther king.

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actually martin luther king was a weakling and he loved white pvssy dat was why he was fighting hard to integrate with whites to avoid lynching when smashing his white pvssy.

marcus garvey on the other hand was all about black pride and building an independent black community that would not be heavily reliant on whites only to be ridiculed by a half-breed like w.e.b dubious who did not know where he belonged because he was "mixed".  but ironically, w.e.b dubious died in ghana after he was kicked out of the US by the same whites whose interest he was trying to protect and later came to his senses in his sick-bed that garvey was right.

and it was the principles of garvey that malcolm x followed, teaching black people to be proud of their identity, build their own independent communities/nations without looking for white acceptance whereas mr king was teaching blacks how to remain docile and continue beg for white acceptance.

and thats why whiteys in the US continue to celebrate martin luther king instead of malcolm x even though they were both black leaders from the same era who died under same circumstances, because they know if black americans continue to follow mr king's principles, they (whiteys) have nothing to worry about because you all (black-americans) will forever remain docile and continue to beg for white acceptance.

so in other words, mr king is the highly overrated one and nobody really gives a shyte about him outside the US. well, apart from south africans who adopted his weak teachings that he actually stole from ghandi,  non-violence my yansh, mtcheww.

but garvey and malcolm x are the true black heroes dat blacks across the world celebrate not your weakazz mr king.

@ow11

"We have NOT lost a battle even to the Brits."

lol, it is clear you are just talking for talking sake.

and oh, aren't the Ijaws who have never lost a battle still bytching and whining over what happened in odi?

@ ow11,

i fail to understand that ur british line coz to my knowledge, the whole of nigeria fell to the british so i guess that includes yo ass that was kicked by the brits. and war is not only about "fighting", so whether you have fought so-called helicopter gunships or not, that does not mean jack. all u are doing is gragra.

war is all about tactics, strategy and planning. and the edos "chose" to remain neutral during the civil war until there was a sudden "takeover" of their territory and we all know how that ended --- today we have people who are still whining of how the binis massacred them during the same war which they initiated and the edos chose to remain neutral.

and oh, i don't understand why you are throwing the name of GEJ here and there as ur strength but you have forgotten that GEJ did not assume that position with only the support of his "tribe". and ironically, the same tribes that supported him and brought him to power are the tribes you are fighting from east to west. look at what boko haram is doing to nigeria gradually invading and terrorising down south with ur man as the c-in-c, why can't u go and take care of that? anyway i guess when GEJ loses the next election, all this shyte will be put to rest, abi? nonsense.

lol, andre it was a joke, calm down.

^^

i really like dat picture u posted. esp the woman in the backgroup at far left of the picture dat i cropped out below. she dressed like an edo woman.
i dunno why she wasnt allowed to join the group pic though, i guess maybe because she is oza nogogo na igbo men nor gree,  hahahaha

nice way to say u cant tell wot exactly coz there is nothing like a nigerian look. i understand.

this is the late lucky dube. how exactly did he look nigerian?

i dont think dat is the ryt question/comment when u post such a picture instead u should be telling people how exactly he does not look nigerian so that u can open people's eyes and the will finally see it and say "oooohhh now i see it, he doesnt look nigerian"

You cannot speak  Usen and you are proud to be from Usen, If  indeed you are proud try and learn the language boy.You are young and can still learn it.

dat is not even a point, when i learn usen, i will still be edo. speaking usen does not change anything, i will still remain an ovbiedo kpataki. i don't see how u can't understand dat. and i never said i wasn't interested in learning usen so keep your advice for your children in benin who can't speak their dialects.

When I was in Benin , I was quick to learn the Edo language.

why won't u be quick to learn edo when u spent your entire childhood in benin and still live there? am sure u were even trained by an old bini woman and she was the one who paid your school fees and put u thru school cos im sure your family was one of those wretched anioma tenants who squat at homes of a proper bini family and live with dem at the boys-quarter

Olu-Awure of Usen which holds more water  than Chief Tayo Akpata

huh? i can't remember saying anything that they had conflicting issues. and u have not posted anything the elaware said so wots the conflicting issue? 

i just mentioned an usen man u would know who would not take likely to wot u said. i could have said my dad, but u won't know him. i could have said my cousins but u would know dem, dat was why i mentioned a figure u would know. get it?

okay, here is another figure u would know. lucky igbinedion is the iyase of usen. altho originally from okada on his dads side, he is from usen on his mums side so he is a bini/usen man who holds an important position in usen, go tell him he is confused about his identity.

I have been to Ogwashi severally and I went there not because I am looking for bats. Of course there should be bats in rural and semi-rural areas but what is remarkable is that a town as large as Benin City should keep and nurture  of bats in so many trees .

hahahahah  see how u have now twisted that your bat issue cos it is clear u have never been there? Hahahaha dat was funny! but shut up u cos  since when did having so many trees in a city become a bad thing? there are trees in benin not bushes unlike anioma dat is a bushland.

and it would interest u to know dat long ago before he passed, olu akpata a proper bini man from usen, he advocated for the planting of trees in benin city and people should desist from cutting down old ones. he used to come on tv shows nta benin in those days and advocated for it.

benin is a well planned city with trees and today is dat not what oyibo are telling us? to plant trees in cities cos the world is going green? whereas we have been doing these things long ago but to u igbos na new thing cos na oyibo recently advice una.

Unlike the Olukwumi people which have been assimilated as Anioma people , your Usen people donot think they are Benins.

yeah ryt olukumi was assimilated by anioma and usen was not assimilated by edo, it sound like something dat would come out of your filthy wrinkled mouth. and a lot of things u say are wild claims and dat is why i find u amusing.

anyway so are u also telling me igbos who cannot speak their dialects are not "proud" igbos? a lot of aniomas in benin cannot speak their dialects and have never been to their villages. they wander back and forth from benin to lagos and never go home until they die and these are the people who u claim are proud igbos.

ive already said i cannot speak usen, if u have been reading my posts u would have known dat but obviously u are a dullard so i can't blame u for your lack of comprehension. however, bini is also spoken in usen and actually a lot of usen people are bini stock dat is why lots of usen people will identify as bini even before they do usen. my dad who has an usen first name dat people think is a yoruba name is a bini man. it is amongst binis dat he identifies as usen and edo. but outside dat gathering, he is a bini man to other nigerians and he can speak usen and bini.

the current ima of benin okhaemwen tayo akpata is an usen man and actually from the same family as the elaware of usen and he is a proper bini man. so why don't u go tell him dat he is a confused individual coz dat is an insult to his usen heritage. his house is at along capiona in G.R.A, benin city. for once in your life don't be a coward and put your money abi na post i go call am where your mouth is.

and dat your igiogbe issue i have already addressed but since u don't know what an igiogbe mean to edos den dat is your problem

How did you come to know  ( and from your references love so much ) about Ikhimen( Chime in Anioma Igbo) ?

actually dat was not the first time i was hearing it. it was just surprising dat u a "proud igbo" would support the claim. dats all.

but it is getting clearer u are really from owerri cos obviously u have never been to ogwashi cos u would have known dat there is a particular market i can't remember its name now dat has a big tree located right in the middle of the market and dat tree is home to a lot of bats. and ogwashi people still answer bini related names and these are people u say kept to the non-existent nri traditions. u are a clown.

Lucky Dube was killed cause he "looks Nigerian" hahahahhaa That alone is enough to tell you nothing like "Nigerian look"

hahahahah, dat was funny.

u cannot post a random picture and expect me to start guessing. who does that? apart from nerds on the internet who have studied random pictures on the internet but not the real people? i only identify people based on names, accents, tribals marks and maybe traditional or religious attires they are wearing.

lol, why are u asking me? ask tpia, s/he is the one good at matching faces with nationalities.

kandiikane:
If you can class him as hausa that means that means its his looks. If you meet him in the streets for the first time and you notice he looks hausa won't you think he is Nigerian?

noticed i said if he wore a babanriga and amongst hausas? he can pass of as one

but if he is shirtless and playing football amongst ijaws somewhere in bayelsa? he can pass of as ijaw.

and he can pass of as any nigerian tribe in the streets of lagos. his looks is not perculiar to a specific tribe.

lol, ezeagu save that comment for iguefi