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 Culture › Re: Why Ife Is Not Yoruba Land, It Belongs To The Igbos - Ooni by EzeNri(op): 11:54am On Mar 30, 2021 |
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| Politics › Why Ife Is Not Yoruba Land, It Belongs To The Igbos - Ooni And Prof Ade Obayemi by EzeNri(op): 11:53am On Mar 30, 2021 |
The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi recently opened a longstanding debate about the relationship between the Igbo and the Yoruba, and did affirm that the Igbo were ancient inhabitants of Ife. The Ooni’s asserts that the ancient Igbo connections to Ife is still evident in the traditions preserved in the oral narratives of Ife itself, and in the extant lineages of the Igbo still present in their habitations inside the Ooni’s palace. The Igbo quarters are still present in Ife. What the Ooni brings to this debate is legitimacy, because Yoruba tradition confers the authority of national memory on the office of the Ooni. The Ooni in a sense validates the accounts of the eminent Nigerian historian and anthropologist, the late Professor Ade Obayemi. Obayemi accounts for a first pavement of culture in what is now known as the cradle of Yoruba origin, but which was once originally settled by the Igbo led by Obatala. The Igbo were the original inhabitants of Ife and had installed, and practiced a culture based on their ancient Odinala religion of peace, of the divine rights of the individual and not of kings, of the protection and validation of the weak and infirm, of an artistic and creative value rather than of war and destruction. All these values are embodied in the myth of Obatala the sculptor and creative “demiurge” of current Yoruba mythology. And of course of he also models the value of the Republic over the monarchy. The Igbo had been marked by the multiplicity of their settlements in Ile-Ife which the Igbo know by its more ancient name as “Igbo-Omoku.” As a matter of fact, Obatala was a High Priest in the mold of the Igbo priesthood, like the Eze Nri, and aspects of this priestly function was absorbed by the Ooni who equally then also absorbed the monarchical order that replaced the Igbo republican order of the Obatala era. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/08/ooni-of-ife-and-the-igbo-yoruba-relationship/ 5 Likes 1 Share |
| Culture › Re: Oba Of Bini Paying Homage In Nri Kingdom In 1913 by EzeNri(m): 11:43am On Mar 30, 2021 |
In Nri today, Oba is the highest chieftaincy title and they are members of the NRI Council. |
| Culture › Why Ife Is Not Yoruba Land, It Belongs To The Igbos - Ooni by EzeNri(op): 11:41am On Mar 30, 2021 |
The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi recently opened a longstanding debate about the relationship between the Igbo and the Yoruba, and did affirm that the Igbo were ancient inhabitants of Ife. The Ooni’s asserts that the ancient Igbo connections to Ife is still evident in the traditions preserved in the oral narratives of Ife itself, and in the extant lineages of the Igbo still present in their habitations inside the Ooni’s palace. The Igbo quarters are still present in Ife. What the Ooni brings to this debate is legitimacy, because Yoruba tradition confers the authority of national memory on the office of the Ooni. The Ooni in a sense validates the accounts of the eminent Nigerian historian and anthropologist, the late Professor Ade Obayemi. Obayemi accounts for a first pavement of culture in what is now known as the cradle of Yoruba origin, but which was once originally settled by the Igbo led by Obatala. The Igbo were the original inhabitants of Ife and had installed, and practiced a culture based on their ancient Odinala religion of peace, of the divine rights of the individual and not of kings, of the protection and validation of the weak and infirm, of an artistic and creative value rather than of war and destruction. All these values are embodied in the myth of Obatala the sculptor and creative “demiurge” of current Yoruba mythology. And of course of he also models the value of the Republic over the monarchy. The Igbo had been marked by the multiplicity of their settlements in Ile-Ife which the Igbo know by its more ancient name as “Igbo-Omoku.” As a matter of fact, Obatala was a High Priest in the mold of the Igbo priesthood, like the Eze Nri, and aspects of this priestly function was absorbed by the Ooni who equally then also absorbed the monarchical order that replaced the Igbo republican order of the Obatala era. The current Ile-Ife is therefore a hybrid system between the displaced Igbo culture and the settler order that replaced it. The war over Ife between the Igbo and the new wave of migrants to Ife was over two different ways of life: the freedom associated with the Republic or the order and control associated the monarchy. Obatala’s group was defeated, and was driven into exile, and scattered into places including as far as Ketu, and places as far as what we call Dahomey and Togo today. The republic disappeared and the monarchy as embodied by Oduduwa replaced it. The rivalry between the Igbo and the Yoruba continue to mirror this. The wars the Igbo levied consistently against the new settlers is preserved and enacted even today in the Yoruba Egungun festivals, the Oreluere, the Obameri, the Moremi and the Edi festivals. The eminent modernist playwright, Femi Osofisan, gives a new sheen to it in his play, Morountodun, based on the Moremi myth. The Egungun festival is preserved as the Yoruba Festival of liberation from the marauding and masked Igbo “Egwugwu warriors. The Obatala festival celebrates the canonization of the era of peace as embodied by Obatala and the Igbo, at a time of national regret, years later, when the Yoruba began to rue the tyranny of Kings in their new order, and regret the loss of the period of peace and creativity of the old order represented by the Igbo. They turned and memorialized the leader of the Igbo, Obatala, into a god, and the period of Igbo culture as the highest moment of creative fluorescence in the Yoruba world. The Ifa preserves this for us. And to this day, the Yoruba inhabit two souls: there is the fiercely republican Yoruba, many of whom find close affinity with the Igbo, and there is the Yoruba monarchist, who fiercely defends the settled order of kings. But that is as far as the Ooni’s knowledge of the Igbo situation in Ife goes. There is an alternative narrative tradition that says the Igbo themselves in their wave of migration following Amadioha’s destruction of the ancient world met an even older settlement in Ife of people whom they absorbed and protected and introduced to a settled and peaceful way of existence. The Ooni suggests that the Igbo moved from Ile-Ife to their current settlements in Igbo land. That is not true. In fact archeological evidence proves that a place like Igbo-Ukwu is a much older settlement than Ife. So in fact, in current Igbo historiography, and assessment of their movements, Ife is a newer settlement of the Igbo, and may have been part of a wave of migration leading to a pavement of Igbo history following an ancient catastrophe. There are many hypothesis of these settlements, and there is no doubt that the Yoruba and the Igbo are close and related. The language and the cultural patterns suggest points of very recent contacts and break-offs. The Idu – the Benin – is the medial culture between the Igbo and the Yoruba. Indeed, the Benin suggest that Izoduwa was Oduduwa, and they know precisely when he left Ani-Idu (Benin City). So, who indeed are these people? There is the Nok hypothesis which suggests a coagulation that broke off at the Niger-Benue valley, with the Jukun, the Igbo, the Yoruba and the Igala, and possibly the Idu, moving apart into their current settlements. There is the Igbo-Nupe-Yoruba hypothesis of a movement from Egypt, through the crags of Air, that settled in their current locations. Indeed, two studies published by the English colonial anthropologist, M.D.W. Jeffreys, “The Winged Solar Disk, or the Ibo Itchi Scarification Marks” (1951), and “A Triad of gods in Africa,” (1972) explore and affirm these links, and the possible Egyptian origin of the Igbo, and their worship of the Sun god. The Igbo still call their first-born sons, “Opa- RA” (priest of the Sun-God, RA). MDW Jeffreys identifies in the symbols of the “Ichi” scarifications carved into the forehead and cheeks of the Igbo titled aristocracy, Ndi Nze, the “sun, moon and the wings and tail of the hawk” and the ram-headed symbol of the “Ikenga,” as associated with ancient Egypt, particularly the winged solar disk symbol of Pharaoh Usertsen III. The Igbos dispersed in great numbers from their ancient habitations by the Atlantic in search of new habitations. Obatala and his group settled in Ife. Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/08/ooni-of-ife-and-the-igbo-yoruba-relationship/ 2 Likes
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| Culture › Re: Why Onitsha Is Not An Igboland, It Belongs To Benins by EzeNri(m): 10:49am On Mar 30, 2021 |
SuperBold:We have Onicha in Ebonyi, Abia, Enugu and Imo |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 10:45am On Mar 30, 2021 |
theTranslator:Is God not wonderful? Aba is now Ibadan. Well done Yoruba moslems |
| Politics › Re: 2023 & Tinubu’s 12th Colloquium: Is Ganduje Passing A Message? (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 10:41am On Mar 30, 2021 |
Gaduje is running for the president under APC and wants Tinubu as running mate. GadujeTinubu 2023 is dead on arrival. Two thieves cannot rule this country. 1 Like |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 7:30am On Mar 30, 2021 |
Funkeshuga:Social register of most vulnerable households shows your people is topping SE. |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 11:24pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Grgton:But drown in brown roofs |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 11:23pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Funkeshuga:But it has poverty problem. Lagos will be submerged in the next 50 years. Worry about. |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 11:21pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Blitz888:Which warri? |
| Politics › Re: Tinubu To FG: Recruit 50 Million Youths Into Army To Fight Insecurity by EzeNri(m): 6:53pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
50 million? And this one want to rule this country. God forbid. 3 Likes |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 5:02pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Jollylolly:Yoruba moslem sighted. Show us any Yoruba city that is not a state capital that is more developed than Aba. I put my N5k |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:49pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
GuyWise101:The photo the guy posted was a 2011 photo APGA used for campaign |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:48pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
mrkings84:FACT. I have been begging our sophisticated brothers to prove me otherwise and get N5k. Since last year, none. |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:46pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Funkeshuga:Says a Funke that lives in a brown roof in Ogbomosho |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:44pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Funkeshuga:Says a funke. |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:43pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
nolyyy:Ngwa road is undergoing rehabilation today. |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:42pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
adelaja70:And your uncle didnt give you pictures to post. In every one brown roofs in the East, there are 3500 in Ibadan alone. 1 Like |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:41pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Taye4j:A Yoruba man posting a 2011 picture of Aba. Ngwa Road is a construction site as of today. No part of SW is more developed than Aba. I put my N5k 1 Like |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:38pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
Blitz888:There is no non-capital city in SW except Lagos, NE, SS, NW and NC expect Abuja that is more developed than Aba. I put my N5k. 3 Likes |
| Travel › Re: Aba Is Changing Rapidly! (Photos) by EzeNri(m): 4:35pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
theTranslator:They are now posting pictures of Ibadan, capital of Yorubaland as Aba. |
| Politics › Re: Abeokuta: Amazing facts You Didn't Know by EzeNri(m): 12:47pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
orisa37:Akiolu is a Bini prince blackmailed by Yoruba media to claim yorubaness to save his throne |
| Politics › Re: Abeokuta: Amazing facts You Didn't Know by EzeNri(m): 12:46pm On Mar 29, 2021 |
orisa37:Why are you shouting? According to your Ooni, Igbos are the original settlers in Ife ruled by Obatala. The dude you guys celebrate and venerate as a god is actually Igbo, according to our history and Ife's history. There are abroginal Igbos in Ife today. Egbas have more ancestral link to Nri than Oduduwa. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: I Won't Go To Court — Mascot Kalu, Says Aba People Have Been Cheated by EzeNri(m): 6:28pm On Mar 28, 2021 |
Monogamy:Says Helinues |
| Politics › Re: Pls Clarify- Is Kwara State A Yoruba Or Hausa State? by EzeNri(m): 4:31pm On Mar 28, 2021 |
Saraki is a FULANI ILORIN is an Hausaland. Research about the 7 Hausa banza states on Google |
| Travel › Re: Another Airline Coming To Nigeria As Chisco Group Floats Airline by EzeNri(m): 4:25pm On Mar 28, 2021 |
Karlovych:Ewedu Airlines rather |
| Politics › Re: Abeokuta: Amazing facts You Didn't Know by EzeNri(m): 4:24pm On Mar 28, 2021 |
gomojam:No. You are not normal |
| Politics › Re: Abeokuta: Amazing facts You Didn't Know by EzeNri(m): 3:17pm On Mar 28, 2021 |
omonla555:It is actually Yorubas envying Ndi Igbo 3 Likes 2 Shares |
