₦airaland Forum

Is that another dictator? Checks: No.

gare:
This is equal to parallel government, how can tinubu be receiving a President of another country, if Jonathan is not meeting with maybe his visit is personal then the Governor of Lagos State or the Guinea Ambasdor to Nigeria should do this, I hope this is not how APC wants to RUN this Country, then Ameachi can receive the President of Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon in Port harcourt

What do you expect from the same dictators who've been in power since the late 70s? Buhari is surrounded by shady people.

Hmm. This is some Afro-punk stuff I guess.

Ihuomadinihu:
I don't know much about Dogon-Egypt connection. But it's very easy to lose track of civilization,origin,lineage and writing. Otherwise,Igbos and all West Africans will be able to point at their exact source of origin,Nsibidi and other writing forms would have survived. Just take a look and see how Igbos dropped their cosmetics,fashion and hairstyles. If those ancient people come back today,they will feel totally lost in Igboland. That's the impression i want to correct.

There are still people that use nsibidi in making ekpe clothes today and the idea of writing hasn't disappeared but been supplanted, besides that, my point is that if the entirety of a culture were to be erased or replaced there would at least be some strong remnants of the previous culture, at least if in name. Dogon culture shares nothing in common with Egypt. The origin of the Igbo is probably older than Egypt, say the Dogon were far removed and actually came from there, how were they able to remember they were priests in Egypt but all their customs faded away.

superstar1:
Don't you know they do not lease out shops to other ethnicities in their land? They are also too rich, you cannot afford their shops.

It's not always about you.

Nigerians, we need to acknowledge that there's a genocide going on in Benue State, 100 people dying in one morning is not something regular or something that should be ignored. 10 people dying in some places calls for national morning, yet in Nigeria hundreds of people are regularly murdered in one go. What's going on?! This is far more important than fuel surely? All of the killings have been ignored for far too long, isn't this something that should be considered a national emergency or is it because it doesn't involve people from more urban areas?

fr3do:
You are a sick bastard
The military was much more brutal in the time of your messiah as a military dictator.

Why do people forget this?

Kei144:
Igbos are not uniform. The Jews among Igbos constitute a small percentage of Igbos. The DNA of actual Igbo Jews may not be in the database of DNA testing companies.

If your timescale is Nebuchadnezzar, then it's very unlikely there's an isolated group of Igbo people who have ancestry from Judah, that's over 2000 years mind you.

AkanIgbo:
Well African Americans don't speak any of the tribal languages, but that doesn't mean that they are not from Africa.

African Americans, Asian-Americans and even European Americans cultures bear no relationship to Africa, Asia or Europe; but that does not mean that they doesn't mean that they did not originate in those places.

Sometimes things are exactly what they appear to be.

Black Americans did not wilfully migrate to the United States and assimilate, and their language still has traces of African languages. And would you really say European and Asian American cultures bear no relationship to the continents, wouldn't the fact that they're named after these continents be indicative of that? Is St Patricks day a Native American holiday?

The Dogon language isn't even spoken by any other group, as in no other languages are known to be directly related to it meaning that it is a unique language that wasn't forced on them. Just looking at their culture it looks nothing like ancient Egypt, they don't even tie wrapper like other Africans do and ancient Egyptians did, and that's a minor point unlike their language, religion and cultural rites. Stuff like writing for example hardly dies off, if these are descendant of priests that fled Egypt at some point writing would not have died off, they wouldn't have dropped all their culture. The Dogon are more like everyone around them than ancient Egyptians.

AkanIgbo:
Probably because people migrated from the East of Africa to the West of Africa. Secondly, the Dogon God is Amma and the Egyptian God is Amen. The Dogon also use symbols and signs that are said to be similar to those in Egypt.

But there are probably another culture where there is a similar sounding word for God. Their cultures bears no correlation with ancient Egypt. I'm not even sure they have sun worship.

AkanIgbo:
Actually the Dogon didn't start from scratch either. They said that ET's visited the Earth and gave them their knowledge of the Solar system. That might sound crazy, but you can't rule that out; because the Dogon know about planets in solar system that can not be seen with the naked eye and the Dogon didn't have telescopes. However, it is pretty clear that the Dogon are priests from Egypt that were kicked out during the time of Pharaoh. The Dogon have acknowledge that much and anthropologist and Egyptologist point that out as well.

Why is it that whenever a group does something interesting in Africa there's this stretch to link them to Egypt somehow? Their language and culture is completely different to Egypt.

bigfrancis21:
The luo tribe of Kenya, the tribe Obama is from. They share so many similar words in spelling and meaning with Igbo, such as 'okonkwo', and traditional settings and customs. Many luos who read Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' remarked at the striking similarity between Igbo customs mentioned in Chinua's book and theirs.

Most African peoples can see thesmelves in Things Fall Apart, it's a very general book. The words may be similar, but we need to know the etymology to ascertain if they are related to the Igbo words, since many African languages share similar sounds. There's also the fact that the language the Luo people speak has a different structure to Igbo.

Kei144:
History suggests that the Luo travelled along the River Nile from Sudan. They made entry into Kenya around 500 years ago and established settlements in the lands surrounding Lake Victoria- Africa’s biggest fresh water lake.

http://www.kenya-information-guide.com/luo-tribe.html

Since the Luo tribe came from Sudan, that is the connection between them and Igbos. Some Igbos descended from Jews that ran down to Egypt after Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah. From Egypt, those Jews went down to Cush (Sudan). Those Jews obviously intermingled with Cushites. The Luo tribe was part of those Cushite people. But the Luos are not Jews, since they did not have circumcision in their culture.

Apparently, the Jews that were in Cush moved westward, rather than southward.

So where is this 'Jewish' ancestry in the Igbo DNA? And what's this timeframe?

LouisVanGaal:
That would be the END of Jonathan...should a coup take place...because Okupe said it that it would be better for the military to take over than buhari...by then ONLY the head of GEJ would be used to appease the North...

First of all, how will they capture Jonathan?

eesy:
Well I think this makes it obvious. I have been wondering why most igbos (no homo) are light skinned. I have been having this thought that the white men not only stole our oil but also our women.

Then his ancestry result would have been a lot more European. For instance, the Igbo population would have similar DNA results with other creole populations (mixed cultures/people) like Cape Verde and Cape Town Coloureds, which isn't the case. These population have at least 10% European on average, not a trace amount like 0.4 %. The Igbo people phenotypically do not look like mixed race people in general, they have distinct features, although there are a minority that have features that are similar to Afro-Europeans.

Simply put, there's no evidence whether in family history or genetic history, that the Igbo are mixed.

Need in other eastern states.

Fireflame144000:
Europe: 0.49%
SW.Asia: 0.78%
E Africa: 5.61%
S. Africa: 14.26%
Mbuti: 3.86%
West Africa: 69.00%
Biaka: 5.94%
San: 0.06%

Your result show's you are a black African, the 0. results are statistical noise, and as you said, you have a recent middle eastern ancestor.

Nigeria recycling the old and expecting the new.

Boko Haram.

einsteino:
There is no such thing as delta igbo. Get ur facts right

The people you call delta igbo do not share any ancestry with igbos, rather most have theirs from the binis.

What do you know? Only ever talk about only what you know.

Why is it always people who aren't from the east are consistently raising their voices for people in the east?

Vivly:
I'm not talking of geographical location. I'm talking of resources.

Oil? Then call them oil-producing states, not the Niger Delta. And that still doesn't show how Cross River is more like the other states than Abia.

Vivly:
Totally. Have you been to Abia? Compare both states and see which should stay within Niger delta radar.

Do you know what a river delta is? If so, how can Cross River be in the Niger River Delta and not Abia? Before you answer, please look at a map of Nigeria.

Simply Lagoon magic helping the Igbo/Easterners turn east.

Nonsense from efulefu as usual, no news here. By the way it's 'secession' not 'succession'.

White007:
GEJ has been clueless 5- 6years as you all have said.

Question- Why are you all complaining about the fuel + Electricity scarcity now. When we should be rejoicing of the coming of our magician.

Good question.

Vivly:
It sounds totally unbelievable that Abia is part of the Niger Delta

But it's believable for Cross River to be in the Niger Delta?