₦airaland Forum

odumchi:
Its 2011 and some people are still worshipping certain governors just for cleaning their slums and doing their job. Nna Chai, sucks to be you .

I don't know why some people can't stick to deifying their governors or digging out their "semitic" past.

In accounts of them, the emphasis is on the foundation of dynasties and city-states. Thus, Oduduwa is presented as a dogged warrior who rebelled against Islam and traveled the great distance from Saudi Arabia to found the Yoruba nation

Yoruba gurus: indigenous production of knowledge in Africa. Toyin Falola.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=710844.msg8827056#msg8827056 date=1312132094]Get your money back from your teachers and school institution. Even non-Nigerians know this is false.
Knowledge is power, my friend. Dont be left behind.[/quote]But I saw it in a Yoruba movie and some Yoruba posters here were talking about the semitic origins of the Yoruba language.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=odudwa+saudi+arabia#hl=en&q=oduduwa+saudi+arabia&tbm=bks

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=710844.msg8826848#msg8826848 date=1312129566]Yoruba is taught almost everywhere, so why not. Looks like Ghana to me o.[/quote]I thought Saudi Arabia was Odudwa's homeland, not Ghana. Do they have his statue there?

Okoro2015:
He traced the crisis bedeviling the country to what he called the forced amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria in 1914 by the British colonialists.

Wasn't Northern and Southern Nigeria forced on the people anyway?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=724588.msg8826884#msg8826884 date=1312130002]We're still waiting for MASSOBs to do something. Dem don fear run comot?

Spineless things. Would this not have been the best time to do their own thing and fight for secession? Chineke me! Ojukwu will be disappointed at the spineless freaks he left behind   Once he's resurrected from his vegetable position, that is.[/quote]

Okoro2015:
The leader of the socio-cultural organization, though [size=14pt]once a militant group[/size], opined that the tension in the land would be doused and a lasting solution proffered to the plethora of problems confronting the country through such sovereign conference.

Tell OPC to become a militant group again now.

Oh no, you people are too funny.

exotik:
leave bini outta your silly arguments cos for all i know, nri was the same ikhime the bini man who you igbos corrupted to eze chime. and it was ikhime that civilized present day igbos not the archaic nri/eri the son of gad that never existed.

Didn't we just agree that Bini was the most powerful kingdom, there's no need for your kimi fairytale.

Yes, it's because Bini is the most powerful kingdom.

ifyalways:
Calabash=

ọbà?

ifyalways:
MuseuM=Ulo nchekwa nka-na-uzu
Zoo=

What about,

Museum = Uluchè
Zoo = Ánúdum

Abagworo:
Ohuhu and Ngwa are traditionally linked if you have read Ngwa history.The Ohuhu were just in Bende division while Ngwa was in Aba division.

It doesn't make sense to me because i think Ngwa is distinct enough to be on their own, and I believe an average Ohuhu person finds an Ngwa person hard to understand.

Abagworo:
A table of basic cultural groups

Why is Ohuhu and Ngwa linked, and Bende.

EzeUche:
It angers me that they are trying to force the Eze Nri on us.

It's gotta beat getting your village raided.

Kidding.

Look at it like this: without Nri and Eze Nri there would be no Igbo culture as it is today, or even 'Igbo'. Without any other Eze, lineage, or any sort of other government, there would be no difference in wider Igbo culture. Who is the most important person in Igbo culture and religion?

odumchi:
^^^
I am not from a tribe.
But as for what you said, almost every Pidgin speaker uses Igbo words in daily life. Words such as "una" and "na" in Pidgin have their origins in Igbo.

Na as in is? No. But words like sọsọ, e don te (ọ [b]tele[/u]), where im de (ebe ole ka ọ di, una, and of course expressions like 'chei', I think.

So it means nothing in Igbo.

Obiagu1:
Eze Nri and Eze Aro debate shouldn't even be a debate. Eze Aro had no single control over any other clan or town except Aro towns.
So how is he supreme to Eze Nri?

Because he kept waging wars here and there or because of slave trade

I think what some people are saying is that they will recognise Eze Aro before Eze Nri because they are from Aro.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=723848.msg8822283#msg8822283 date=1312050291]get over what ? Y'all love him yet abandoned him in lodon ? [/quote]. . . to suffer from recovering in hospital. The Igbo in London should have bombarded the ward he was in. Such a shame.

OfoIgbo:
Infact in the olden days, it was ndi Nri that officiated in the coronation of Bini obas. Even up till today, an Nri man never bows to Bini obas.

Do the Edo of today recognise this?

dayokanu:
The founder from Isreal?

No, from Saudi Arabia. Oh that's the wrong guy and wrong group from Medina, or was it heaven.

EzeUche, as an Aro man you should know the symbol of strength is the leopard.

Karma, meaning dying of old age like everyone on this planet is certain to, if not earlier, yeah, okay. The whole point is if he dies now, there will be no points won. There was no roasting, people should get over it.

One word, to avoid running on and on. Imagine translating Green tea in Igbo.

Nairaland people are funny. Who no go die for this earth? Hardly a battle won if he dies now.

Goldieluks:
if it has no place,why do you speak it and write with it?

I do not write "Queens English".

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=723803.msg8818882#msg8818882 date=1312005900]ezeagu enough of the yoruba hatred.

face other things.

and quit asking d.aft questions which add nothing to anybody.

i dont see you wondering who calls africans booty scratchers.

unless you want to say you're not african, and frankly, you need to come clear on that.[/quote]I think there's something wrong with you, so I'll just let you be.

ifyalways:
Fridge=Oju oyi.
A/c=Ntu oyi.

Lets go colours.
Red=Obara obara
Green=akwukwo ndu ndu
Black =Oji
White=Ocha
Blue ?
Yellow?

Why don't Igbo people but the 'Ocha' word in front of all those terms to make into one word adjective, e.g Ochaobara (I think red if Ufie in some dialects), Ochandu, etc.

Do all words have to be translated? Some words can be borrowed, but words that already existed or were known to exist should come back.

"Queens English" has no place in Nigeria.

A question more for people of non-Yoruba origin and mostly does abroad. Do you use the word 'Akata', and do you use this to describe non-African black people (African Americans).

Believe what you want.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=721602.msg8811782#msg8811782 date=1311907757]Ezeagu. . . this isn't even amusing anymore. Anyway, you don't have a case. If you eventually get one, feel free to share.[/quote]I know one thing: anytime someone wants to bring up Tinapa's failure again we can point them to the people who sabotaged it.