₦airaland Forum

sbeezy8:
I know someone names Obasi- but his whole name is Obasilekun- you are telling me that his name originated from Ibibio?
its not by force to claim everything it is what it is. If an American guy gets a DNA test and it comes back to being yoruba. Im not going to tell him to start learning yoruba or wear agbada LOL. Or if theres American chick who has a yoruba name Im not going to automatically think yea"she must have descended from yoruba".

Ive met enough people with Kwame name- to know that not every person who bears the name is from Ghana. Kwame kilpatrick ( Detroit mayor with sex scandal), Kwame brown( Nba player) ,

excanny:
You this fugus. I hope to get the right pesticide to deal with you.

And who told you that you dont claim people? What about the Edos you always try to claim, even when they tell you they are not Yorubas.

Do you even know the meaning of the word likely?

excanny:
Your arguments are really flawed. Every shared word has an original source if you trace it well.

Ojo(definitely Yoruba origin)

Obasi(Ibibio origin)

Olorogun(likely of Yoruba origin from the way it's constructed. Many Yoruba words look like that. E.g olorioko, olowo,olomo, etc)

Jenifa_:
I've had an opportunity to compare the two systems and anybody will tell you that we Nigerians are very complacent.

The government is corrupt because they get away with it easily. we allow them to be corrupt.

Like Fela will say, we are shuffering and shmilling.

if you don't have any constructive comments to add, stay out of the thread.
I already put up a no trolling sign and i'm hoping moderators will take note.

blacksta:
more fluff

~Bluetooth:
It didn't degenerate into anything afterall the two recipients are ibo.How is ojukwu's life worthwhile than ifeanyi's ? So we should let ojukwu live and ifeanyi should die abi ? Seems you are not really smart afterall .

seanet02:
where is the source please silly he goat. Are we talking of English here? Do you want to engage me in Comprehension debate? We are talking of somebody spewing garbage here, you just bump in and start hurling insults on people that beat the hell out of ojukwu. You dey craze

excanny:
And also when it comes to dodgy contracts.

excanny:
For what? I did say he is Urhobo or Isoko. Do you have a comprehension problem?

excanny:
Additionally, the author Peter Ekeh is an Urhobo(maybe Isoko) man who was trying to be one-sided towards disclaiming an Igbo origin to the name. I'm sure if you ask him, he wouldn't even know that his own last name is still of Igbo origin.

Kobojunkie:
Why am I not suprised?

PhysicsHD:
Yeah, I agree with fstranger. You're definitely not a Nigerian. Are you actually from Latvia, like he said?
Prior to the colonization of Northern Nigeria, 50% of the population in the Sokoto Caliphate were slaves (I can't speak for the Middle Belt, though, haven't studied them as much). Above that were non-slaves, above them were the mallams/clerics etc., above that were emirs, then the Waziri, and then the Sultan.
What kind of sophisticated organizational structure do you see there that places them above the Yorubas? Please enlighten me.

PhysicsHD:
lol, Africanus Horton was a stooge for the British. He went with the British to pacify the Ashanti and then turned around and started yapping about African nationalism and independence. Clown.

ezeagu:
[size=18pt]I salute James "Africanus Horton" Beale, a prominent member of the Ibo Union of Sierra Leone in the 1800's, and an elite member of the Creole society.[/size]

[center]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Africanus_Horton.jpg/433px-Africanus_Horton.jpg[/center]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OuKo7gSi2soC&pg=PA185&dq=james+africanus+horton+igbo&hl=en&ei=--1ZTe63FITLhAf8jpjWDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=james%20africanus%20horton%20igbo&f=false

[size=18pt]"The first African to graduate as a Doctor of Medicine from Edinburgh University"

"Horton's parents, both Igbo"[/size]

Let them knack their head against the wall.

ezeagu:
May all the Ojukwu's, Okoro's, Kanu's, Okrafor's and all of the Igbo Creole families of Sierra Leone live long, your presence in Freetown and the rest of Sierra Leone shall be everlasting, no matter how much enemy's try to eliminate your names. May they continue in endless frustration.

I salute James Beale, significant contributor to the Ibo Freetown Union of the 1800's, prominent surgeon, and overall skilled and talented man:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Africanus_Horton.jpg/433px-Africanus_Horton.jpg

ezeagu:
Frustration.