₦airaland Forum

odumchi:
Chai, so you understand it? Amazing. So I'm guessing it's safe to say their language is a dialect of Igbo and they are a subgroup?

You're late.

Ogaga4Luv:
[size=13pt]^{~Sissy~ dear , English to Igbo translation is on google. . . lucky you} [/size]

No it's not, where?

http://translate.google.com/

odumchi:
I'm still waiting for them to make BBC Igbo since there already is BBC Hausa.

BBC Hausa is there because unlike Igbo people, most Hausa BBC listeners can't understand English (well), plus who even speaks proper Igbo again so why should they waste their time.

paragonpro:
You are just arguing for the sake of argument. When arguing from an enlightened point of view you state facts and figures, you do not use statements like " Nigerian kingdoms had kings who will have to have to have poets, artists, and writers". You should state the kingdoms, the names prominent poets, artists and writers,

It's not my job to be history teacher, if you honestly believe poets didn't exist until Brazilians arrived to Nigeria then I'd suggest you look into the history of what became Nigeria further.

paragonpro:
besides there could not be writers in precolonial Nigeria, because we did not have an alphabet, i think it should be obvious that you need alphabets to write letters. We had to adopt colonial alphabets. No doubt we had art before contact with Europeans or Arabs, but poetry, i do not know as there is no evidence.

An alphabet isn't the only form of writing, and a form of writing existed before foreigners showed up.

paragonpro:
All the pictures you posted shows no Architecture - Art yes but architecture no. Please show me evidence of Architecture before contact with the Europeans or Arabs

I don't know how to help you. Please, tell me what architecture is.

paragonpro:
To further deflate your Ego, i will educate you that apart form architecture and writing, pre-colonial Nigeria had no Number system, no mathematics, no astronomy, no formal monetary system, no science, meanwhile ancient China, Greece, Egypt, Rome, Babylon, Persia, etc had all these.

You wasted your money on whichever educational establishment you visited. If this was an attempt to trick me into educating you, then I'm sorry, you'll have to go and humanise your ancestors yourself. I guess you also believe all Africans wore leaves before a foreigner taught them how to make clothes? Whatever.

Calculia:
There are Igbo speaking parts that need to be brought into the fold urgently. Cross Rivers also have Igbo speaking parts and am sure the Efik could do with an additional state.

Does place are just not big enough to be given a state, unless you mean added to Enugu and Ebonyi and maybe Anambra?

Why (well at least the Igbo part)?

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=700237.msg8604691#msg8604691 date=1309234724]Wait a second. Why are you the one telling me what I meant and wrote?   Why not just read what people are saying rather than either misreading or putting your own agenda into it? That is why I wonder about your reading comprehension.

There were two statements. One about demographics that changed (which that Willinks report and a few other documents comment upon), enabling a minority to become a majority. The other is about the ownership of the land there (that much of the land there is non-Igbo.)

I am not sure what to make of this. Here is what I wrote:You interpreted all three sentences to be a statement about land, I guess? Despite me ending the post on a question on demographics, and opening it on demographics too?
Next time in the future just ask, "what do you mean by this." Or ask, "in other words, are you saying X?"[/quote]

It is probably majority Igbo now but certainly was not in the past. Large chunks of it are historically non-Igbo.

Come on, the two sentences at the end are clearly linked and are referring to the past, the first sentence says the majority of Rivers is non-Igbo in the past and then you explained why (which is the majority of the land wasn't Igbo in the past). Anyway, the majority of Rivers state is Igbo today, in population and in land.

Igboland is 40,000+ square kilometres.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=700237.msg8604636#msg8604636 date=1309233612]I thought you took issue with the second sentence, not the third one.

The third is correct, yes? Everyone agrees that "large chunks of Rivers State is non-Igbo", right? Similarly, the statement "Large chunks of it (Rivers) are historically non-Igbo" is also true, right?

So how is the third sentence wrong?[/quote]The issue is you meant historically, large enough chunks of Rivers was non-Igbo enough so that the majority of the territories weren't Igbo, which isn't true. If this is not what you meant why would you add this to the end of the 'majority' comment? Why would you say it at all? And in the context of Nigeria, we know that the land owners have the power no matter what. Large chunks of the present Rivers state land is non-Igbo, but the majority of the land (anything over 50%) is.

[quote author=~Sissy~ link=topic=261964.msg8604601#msg8604601 date=1309233031]' i am at my father's wife house"?[/quote]A nọm na ulọ nwinye nna'm.

A nọm n'ulọ nwinye nna'm. (preferred)

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=700237.msg8604543#msg8604543 date=1309231766]Again, I am starting to wonder. The sentence you quoted and had issue with, was it not obvious from context that it was referencing population? Especially since I said "demographics" in the same post?

If you knew it referenced demographics, then you would know yourself that it is correct. . . and thus not had issue with it.

I'm wondering about your ability to read.[/quote][quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=700237.msg8604406#msg8604406 date=1309229739]Rivers is Igbo? It is probably majority Igbo now but certainly was not in the past. Large chunks of it are historically non-Igbo.[/quote]"Large chunks" of humans right?

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=700237.msg8604487#msg8604487 date=1309230870]Your reading comprehension skills are lacking. I noticed it earlier in the previous thread when you didn't understand what I meant by sample size, and I'm noticing it now again.[/quote]. . . . .and can you also tell me what sample size has to do with a hospital which has physical records of every single patients health problems?

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=700237.msg8604501#msg8604501 date=1309231050]Hehe.

But I did tell you which towns became Igbo. It is embedded in that trivial puzzle I gave you. Solve it and then you get the answer.[/quote]So have you figured out that we are talking about boundary issues, and not population yet?

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=700237.msg8604487#msg8604487 date=1309230870]Your reading comprehension skills are lacking. I noticed it earlier in the previous thread when you didn't understand what I meant by sample size, and I'm noticing it now again.

At any rate, as a thought experiment for yourself, think about if it is possible for immigration to both (a) change the demographic balance of a state while (b) not pushing indigenes off of their homelands, which I guess is the red herring your post is meant to follow.[/quote]You didn't tell me the towns which became Igbo.