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scholes0:
Atlantic languages have plenty of that.

The Fulfulde word for water is Ndiyam, Freedom is Ndimaaku, girl is Mbomri, Doing is Mbaadi etc. Not to even mention that these nasal consonants at the begining of these languages hav completely different purposes. That is what I mean by superficial 'alikeness'



Maybe for Ebonyi/Abia groups you would be right, but can you say the same for Anambra/Anambra/Delta groups?

By the way, check out the Krou peoples' cultures of South Western Cote D'ivoire, which in my opinion is much more similar to Igbo culture than Tikar or any Cameroonian group. This similarity thing is honestly all in the head for the most part.

The Fula also has the same similarity then, but taking everything into account, the feature in Igbo is another link in the chain of similarity with Bantu people, or more specifically, people in Southern Cameroons. The Anambra groups don't have as much direct link with the Southern Cameroons, but their culture, taking out any Benin or Igala influence is more like the people of Southern Cameroons, Cross River than anything else. Western Igbo is probably the youngest migration and they've been influenced by Benin.

Kru people seem to be more like Ijaw.

investnow2013:
Mmaku Valley Enugu State

That second picture is always mistaken as the Enugu escarpment.

scholes0:
Expanciate. How?
The use of masks? masquerades? Building? Initiation rites? Historical naked and Semi-naked dressing ..... ?


There is no specific Bantu culture. Kikuyu culture is drastically different from Zulu culture. which are in turn both different from Angolan culture. And they are all Bantu speaking people. If there are traces of Ekpe among grassland cameroonians, it is as a result of the geographical proximity between them and the Cross Riverian groups, than anything else.


It is not. You may want to talk about similarity in the s=way some words look between both languages i.e Emeka and Ngozi, but nothing to do with structure.

The languages are prefixed in a similar way in the sense that they use n- and m- as prefixes in words. The fact that Bantu cultures are different is the point. I never ruled out proximity being a reason, so they do have similarity. The Ekpe society is the main initiation rites in culture it is found. The masks of the groups and Igbo are similar, the dressing is similar although Igbo people used more of their own Akwete cloth. The features are similar especially among groups like Bamileke and Tikar, and they've historically had more interaction and knowledge of each other than they've had with groups on the west of the Niger.

Carnivals were a way the African diaspora remembered, maintained, and connected to their roots and kept whatever they allowed to or whatever they can remember. The original versions of carnival are alive throughout Nigeria in the form of masquerading institutions. So what's the point of importing carnivals? Isn't it like missing the dining table and eating the vomit?

scholes0:
But Grassland Cameroonians are Bantoid / SemiBantus. That is where the Tikar and Bamileke reside.
Mambilla culture of Taraba state and Tikar culture are very similar.
The Igbo sentence structuring is completely different from that of Bantu languages. Igbo is a Volta-Niger language, not a Benue-Congo language

That's why Bantu is just a language classification, because Igbo culture has more in common with Bamileke Tikar culture than some Volta-Niger languages but both have less to do with some Bantu cultures, but in general there's more commonality with Igbo and Bantu cultures. That tie is strengthened further by the Ekpe/Egbo masquerading mens society that dominated the Grassland and eastern Igbo areas.

Igbo prefixing is similar to Bantu languages.

scholes0:
Ezeagu, I don't want to descend into a picture frenzy, but I can sincerely find you a group of pictures of mostly people from any two parts of equatorial Africa who look alike. As far as I can tell, most cameroonians I have seen don't really look Nigerian or Igbo.

Well, it's not just features, it's culture and to a certain extent language (the prefixing of Bantu languages are similar to Igbo, e.g Ngondo, Ngozi, etc).

scholes0:
Are the Igbos a lot like the Tivs / Jukuns?
they are the most bantoid thing we have in Nigeria and should be genetically close to the tikars.

No, they are mostly like grasslands Cameroonians and loosely like those in Gabon. The grassland Cameroonians are not like the Tivi either, their ancient culture all looks similar though.

scholes0:
Ezeagu, go and check any genetic plot of African peoples. Igbos and Yorubas cluster very closely together, while Bantus in their diversity tend to form groups with a considerable gap from the two former.

Which one?

scholes0:
Bantu is synonymous with Indo-European
It is a language classification, but it can also be a race or meta-ethnicity composed of many ethnic groups , depending on how you want to look at it. Do you even know the Igbos are not really situated in the real East of Nigeria per-se? A place like Onitsha is smack dab in the centre of its south.
Yorubas as a people are diverse, and are related to many things. I don't know about Mande (Highly unlikely, but definitely Igala, Edo, and Ewe / Fon-gbe like u mentioned)

And Onitsha's 'cosmopolitan' origin shows that with Igbo, Benin, and Igala influence and ancestry. But the Igbo in the bulk are more like the Tikar than other westerly Nigerian groups.