₦airaland Forum

Better a land that eats its people than a land that can be easily overrun by anyone. Lagos walking stick. Again go an fix your dead village.

dayokanu:
Tell your ppl to go back and appease the gods who cursed their lands so that every aspiring succesful youth dont have to run away from Igbo land before he can make it

You should be worrying about your dry, crusty, derelict, dead over grown village before worrying about whats on the other side of Benin city. Stop using Lagos as a crutch.

Irrelevant rants for people with irrelevant things to say. I hope while we're checking our brothers on Forbes, we're also checking the average wealth of our people overall.

And whose cursed land was it that Nigerians were fighting to keep in the union? Drab, boring, flavorless regions.

People are quiet because they know once you go up north (even after all the killings) then that is your business.

ChinenyeN:
I guess ike can't be consolidated for some.

I don't even mind it, but since most are frowning at it then maybe there should be another term, at least in izugbe.

Why do other people mind Igbo society more than Igbo people do? Is it because their own lives and societies are so drab and hopeless and horrific in comparison to Igbo society, so they mind Igbo society's business because that's the only way to distract themselves from their useless lives?

Nigerians have no value for life, or better yet life has been devalued in Nigeria, so in turn they have no reaction to pictures of burnt and mutilated bodies. In any normal society there would be serious reactions to these images, one such image had even started a 'revolution' in Egypt, but in Nigeria it isn't shocking to see a dead body on the roadside.

udezue:
Just retaliate.

Doesn't help.

y2kaustin:
Toothless Bull dogs, Until they are completely slaughtered wiped out of the face of Nigeria like Livestock,they will still be planing underground instead to apply counter attack measures and insurgency.yeye,do anything for money people.

Better to do anything for money than to be a starving irrelevant pauper community.

Beaf:
How come #occupy is rather silent in your Benue state?

It is no longer dying with laughter.

diluminati:
Wow now i know how igbo people think, i've been receiving answers like this all week.

I didnt base my suggestion on fuel subsidy alone, your people are dying and you guys are turning a blind eye like nothing is happening. aba! now its true as i was always told ' never trust an ibo man'

Yeah, that's the best thing to believe. So, anyway, are you guys protesting against the removal of the fuel subsidy, or are you protesting Boko Haram?

emiye:
maybe they want to become president in 2015. Jonathan will handover to igbos in 2015 seems to be their political calculation.

They will be paid in their own coin soon

TA! get out, after Boko Haram finishes Nigeria? The only reason northerners are protesting is because a southerner is in charge.

nku5:
@dayokanu & kingoflag - while people in those two sections of the country can protest and demonstrate with minimum reprisals , I can assure you that if the south easterners try the same there will be a bloody crackdown like never seen. check enugu state that has recorded the first arrest of a labour leader since this strike began. You ppl don't know how repressed the se has been.

Not really.

Of course no alarm, only a few hundred people dying a year in the Demonic Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Anybody who knows even a bit of American history knows that Yoruba can't even be 10% of the admixture. Let a better test with the actual groups that made up a significant percent of the slaves that were taken there be introduced before we start making wild claims. That is Angolans, DRC's, Sierra Leoneans, Senegambians, and of course Bight of Biafrans.

Yes, they're scared. Next question.

Keeping with my view that completely new sounds/words do not need to be made for every new idea (especially when we're not sure if the word for the idea already exists), what about these for "gender" if not "ike"?

Ọnọdụ, as in your position or how you sit.
Òkè, as in the part or section (of the specie)
ákwà, because men and women wore different clothing materials and clothing styles.

Examples: Gini bụ ọnọdụ gị? Gini bụ òkè gị? Gini bụ ákwà gị?

Ọnọdụ: __[u]nwanyi[/u]__
Òkè: __[u]nwanyi[/u]__
àkwà: __[u]nwanyi[/u]__

What about òkè?

chas0x01:
oh sorry, i thought i included the link:

http://www.bookerrising.net/2010/05/characterizing-admixed-african-ancestry.html

"Admixture studies have shown that the typical African American has a genetic makeup that is 80% sub-Saharan African and 20% non-African (typically Western European and/or Native American) in origin. However, how does that 80% African genetic makeup break down? What are the African origins of African-American genetics (in totality, not just mitochondrial and Y-chromosome tests which test specific lines). Science is emerging on this front as well (hat tip: reader Dragon Horse).

A study published in Genome Biology, which isolated the African-derived genome in African American participants to assess the African origin, states: "The largest African ancestral contribution comes from the Yoruba [West African tribe, especially clustered in what is now Nigeria], with an average of 47.1% ± 8.7% (range, 18% to 64%), followed by the Bantu [various tribes from Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa] at 14.8% ± 5.0% (range, 3% to 28%) and Mandenka [also known as the Mandingo tribe, in West Africa] at 13.8% ± 4.5% (range, 3% to 29%)"

they didn't test the other tribes significant in the slave trade like the igbo, hausa, ashanti, and fulani. 25% is still unknown so i'm sure it would be broken down between these.

"Selection of populations and individuals
Individuals included in analyses presented here come from two studies. A total of 102 indigenous African individuals and their genotype data were obtained from the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) and comprised five San, 22 Biaka Pygmy, 13 Mbuti Pygmy, 22 Mandenka, 21 Yoruba, 11 Kenyan Bantu, and eight Southwest African Bantu (one Pedi, one Southern Sotho, two Tswana, one Zulu, two Herero, and one Ovambo). In total, eight individuals were removed from analyses for the following reasons: three Kenyan Bantu had significant Middle Eastern ancestry, based on previous analysis [18]; and three additional Kenyan Bantu and two Mandenka were removed because they were first cousins to other included subjects. This left a total of 94 indigenous Africans for analysis."
http://genomebiology.com/2009/10/12/R141

No Igbo, or even other senegambian or Biafran groups were included.

DaRapture:
LOL @ this Jokester, talking pure gibberish. Show your proof of this tail, because I've got mountains of credible proof in which clearly shows that we AA are most significantly of Igbo, Senegambian and Some significant Angolan ethnic group's descent. Yoruba ranks VERY, VERY low in our genetic make up, and this can clearly be seen in our general features. LOADS of us look a lot like Igbo and other related SE Nigerian groups as well as well as various Angolan and Senegambian ethnics, while you'd be hard pressed to find an AA who looks much like your average Yoruba.

I'm pretty sure Angola and Senegambia outweighs Igbo in the US, only that the actual individual groups that made up these regions were smaller than Igbo. All the DNA I've seen rarely come out Igbo, I've even seen more Yoruba and Fulani than Igbo results (online).

Wait, is this the same Igbo with "taba nsi" for patience?

Please click the link below.

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In English we have words such as 'butt' which can either mean to hit something, the end of an object, or even the 'butt of the joke'. So it's okay for a word to mean several different things.

mbatuku2:
There are Igbo words for already, except you want to add more:

bridge= akwa, ikpeke, ngongo

tyres= afo

P.S Impeachment means being charged or accused of wrong conduct, not removal.

Ogwe for bridge as well.

Okay, so no one has even explained what they mean by influential.

Mixed with what? You are aware that there isn't a separate population that is light and another dark?

Andre Uweh:
Even within the Yoruba race, Ekiti people are not the most travelled.
Take it or leave it, the only country Yorubas travel more than Ndigbo is the U.K.

What's the point arguing a well know fact. Or maybe it's only inside Nigeria Igbo people are found everywhere in higher numbers than other minorities?

First of all, we haven't defined "influential"

Secondly, Nigerian/Sierra Leonean pidgin English/Jamaican Patois is most influenced by Igbo/Niger Delta languages.

mbatuku2:
In the English-speaking world that is. It's also known as lady's fingers outside the U.S and Africa.

I checked, and the plant is also known as Okra (Okura) in Japanese, Dutch, Tagalog, Swedish, Finnish, Catalan, and a few other languages.

PhysicsQED:
Ezeagu, which of the "Edoid" languages were you referring to when you said okpoho was Edo for woman? Okhuo is woman/female in Edo (Bini).

I must have gotten it wrong then.

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I thought Ogede = plantain, Unele/unere = banana?

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ifyalways:
Ezeogu stop twisting words biko.what is "agbor nwanyi" ?
Every nwanyi(woman) was once an agbor(ghobia) ie girl.

I thought agbogho is a maiden (virgin unmarried)? Hence the expression "Agbogho nwanyi".

Agbor is a town in Delta State and their "nwanyi" is "okpoho".

mbatuku2:
Quote from Ezeagu

What does 'Ubu' mean?

Net (fishing)

But they tried

Hamburger is Germanic
Rock is Latin
Ball is actually from old Norse and basket French
Satellite Latin
Punk is slang

mbatuku2:
In my worldview, this doesn't count bro.

The exact reason why I find Onicha Igbo language a bit annoying.(tho I love the sound of the dialect still) Too many borrowed words being touted as real words, even when there are existing Igbo equivalents.

I was saying it because of the poster above the other post, and we don't even know the origin of the word.

If we're going by what words they know, then Kongo is the most influential language in Africa after Swahili. And the whole word knows what okra is, which is Igbo.