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exposureworld:
Igbo language and culture are the fastest fading culture in Nigeria.

HungerBAD:
We can't use a question to answer a question right?
But, i read the Bini's are from Ife. This has been disputed by the Bini's themselves, but that is what most history books says.
So where are the ibo's from? please not the we are JEWS from Israel answer. They must come from somewhere in Africa.
Btw i am not Bini.

obailala:
The real clown isn't the boy who designed and constructed this tincan toy, the real clowns are those people who are gathered around watching in amazement and the biggest clown is the Op of this thread who in wild excitement, is amazed at the 'marvellous technological ingenuity' of the little mbaise boy and is very proud to showcase this thing as an Igbo achievement.

Probably this is what nnamdi would use to kill every single person in the zoo in the fullness of time

https://www.gifbin.com/bin/052009/1243271414_black_guy_laughing.gif

delishpot:
I am African. I am not Black. Maybe brown but deff not black.do we realy have black people? Maybe its time for so called black people to reject that term black.

oluwalfa:
Even if it is beke, oyibo, or onye ocha, the fact remains that we use these terms to differentiate them from ourselves. And we use these terms collectively for people that are racially and geographically so far from each other, from the japanese man to the european to the south american, they are all "onye ocha" to us just as we are Africans are all "black" to them.
So I see it as ignorance not prejudice.

oluwalfa:
I understand where you are coming from but you seem to be confusing a few things
It is true that there is no single unique "black race" as even in Nigeria, I have nothing in common with Musa. But this difference is not readily seen by an outsider. Likewise, a Danish is very different from a Spanish even though we call them whites.
Moreover, other people did call them white. In my language, we had always called them "ndi ocha" which means white or bright people. And we call ourselves "ndi ojii" which means dark or black people. We never called ourselves "ndi ojii" until we met other races. And white europeans did not invent Igbo language.
Now to answer your last question, I am a black man but I am not black.

nwadiuko1:
I be IGBO man

scholes0:
What is your defining factor?

kaura5000:
Fulani are not minority in Nigeria.. how can you call people that are almost 30 percent in kano, 40 percent in katsina,60 percent of gombe, 30 percent in jigawa, 10 percent kaduna, 40 percent in adamawa, 30 percent in both zamfara and kebbi, 30 percent of sokoto, 30 percent in taraba many more in nassarawa,niger,jos,yobe,borno etc... so how are they minority? Just 30 percent of kano is almost 4million add with 40 percent of katsina which is like 3 million add with gombe like 2 million, plus bauchi almost 3million, plus the 2 million in jigawa, plus the 2 million in adamawa etc.. just because you speak hausa don't make you hausa. it would surprise you guys to know the population of people speaking hausa who are not hausas is more than the population of the hausa.. like for example my mum is fulani but she speaks hausa you can find this scenario all over northern nigeria

oluwalfa:
exactly!

Whites had no need to identify themselves as "whites" until they met other races.

rottennaija:
Pornography is the issue... Something should be done about this seriously. It needs to be ban on some of it. But whatever the case, serious attention needs to be given to the root of the problem which is porn

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
You mean somebody is actually Black in colour?


May be few thousands but yet, why not brown?

oluwalfa:
Did white people call themselves white?

oluwalfa:
U sound like a victim of classification
Black identification is not against you even though the term black is filled with negativity
It is only a term to differentiate us from others, it is not our exact colour (though some people in Senegal will make you think twice)
As much as we didn't identify ourselves as black before meeting other races, others, like the Whites didn't identify themselves as such neither
We needed these identifications
What would you have called us? Dark Brown? Black was easier and if we are suffering any discrimination it is our fault (Fela) not because of whatever colour we are identified with

alpontif:
1000 Gbosaas for this statement!..totally true.

Seriously it baffles me How these ND people dont Know that the best way to win in this century is through Diplomacy, Knowing the game, playing the game. Violence or the threat of violence only goes to show that they are all clueless idiots who think Brawn is Mightier than brains. These Guys should just calm down, get educated, stop looking for handouts, enter strategic levels of oil and gas business, create peaceful( not extortive) business environments in the delta. That is the only way to prevent Coys moving away from that area.

jomoh:
It looks wired but in all sincerity it is not.

The company is being wise in terms of its security. Instead of the ijaw youth to negotiate on how to join hands with the government security forces to provide security for the companies, they are threatening.

So after threatening them you expect them to still go ahead and stay.

I don't know why these people are just not wise at all.

1toRtoiSe1:
Wailers can only wail.

Business people will always be business people. You can't tell them where and how to do their business. If they find lagos viable for their corporate affairs, who are you illiterate elders and youths to say otherwise?

Wail on.