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Mystiquefia:
You're Right!! and we dont deny our benin Origin too

I think if dey want to find an ancient history of benin for documents it should be with the urhobo people, our ancient will understand the Urohobo language better than any current benin man

You guys maintain our ancient words like oghene, kokodia, mudia and the other we have lost over time in history

Eulalia:
Uhorbo men can be tall and lanky... As in they'll now be bent over due to much height.

Urhobo wado

I swear una dey chop height come life

sharone21:
Afemai & Aghenebo make good husbands.

Yea dey are but, urhobo looks more edo than them tho, dey look so culturally mixed by yoruba, igala, hausa and edo

Osagyefo98:
Is it not obvious

You know your people wilk cut your neck for it, even if it is truth he labeled your people terrorist and slaughter them in mass

Emu4u2c:
Lol
But if you meet the sophisticated ones from the elite families you go like Niger Delta women(You will find them mostly in Lagos and the United Kingdom.Even if you get to see them in Warri or area,Mopol and high fence nor go allow you come near them)
This ones get respect and dem dey more cultured than the agbako ones.

Lol, if i see fine urhobo lady i go marry i consider them edo than some other edo tribe in edo North .....

mhizv:


Yet to understand urhobo let alone speak.
Like a foreigner in my own place

Make una dey beg una parents makw dem dey teach u

Emu4u2c:
Na like 15%-20% of urhobo girls fine.
The rest fit carry strong face but the yansh go must big and soft and dem dey get yansh were dey keep man for one place.
As I enter University come dey date Ibo Girls (I don date two Imo Girl) Naim I know say urhobo girls nr fine at all

Lol, the urhobo girls for benin dey try speak English the ones wen i meet for auchi poly nor get joy at all, na pidgin dem dey knack dem go just tell you "bros i nor get time for this ur toosting i dey busy"
I say i shock, culture shock i come be like d bitch for d conversations

Emu4u2c:
You sure ?
Urhobo girls get fine body and nice ass.
Na fine face scarce for urhobo.
I be urhobo pikin come beat me for udu road.

Dem nor fine i dey see dem for benin self, thier yansh strong and small, dem black pass charcoal

And dem nor sabi speak English na only delta igbo ladies fine, even our benin ladies wen nor too fine na beauty pageant for were urhobo girl dey

PrinceMajestic:
Its good you posted this thread during time of our festive month. You didn't add that the "Ema" dance is only for Royalties only. When a king is to be coronated, when the king gives titles and when the king perform his yearly festive rituals to his predecessors (spirits of kings) so on these days kings dances EMA together with his princes and princesses and his Chiefs. No commoner dances EMA dance if a commoner dances it the spirits dances it with the commoner and that will make the commoner dance into land of the dead but royalties dance it together with the great spirits except for entertainment after necessary rituals to Spirits of Kings Mind u nobody can dance EMA dance with their cap on the head except the dance is outside the palace. I invite y'all for our festival this month.

Ema dance would be called pounded yam dace in benin.....

Truly truly he fit be that's why the men dey dance like dat even spirit dey chop pounded yam

GBOKASINCHA:
sexy and urhobo girl no suppose Dey the same sentence

Lol, my village people nor go fit kill me with laff


You're right that's why i find it funny

iice:
Laughin ma friggin lil butt off Oh lawdy lawdy Yicob, you have outdone yourself! Bwahahahahahaha
neelsel, i sooo agree with you!

Let me see d little butt, you're playing with our mind here abi

yicob:
Because i want to start speaking like a yankee.

You b scammer op, a nigga created a thread above yours on how Americans gave black babies to alligator if he see this your thread he go kneel down for your kneck

Sanusiaderoju12:
In 418 B.C Herodotus, the Greek philosopher who is known as
the father of history said “a man who does not know anything
about the events that took place before he or she was born will
remain forever a child.”
We must go a step further by saying that “any human being who
refuses to learn from his or her history is condemned to
repeating its mistakes and as such will share the same fate in
the consequences of such mistakes.”
Africa is a continent rich in history. As we enjoy telling stories
of our golden past, it is important that we also give a complete
and undiluted account of our journey through slavery and man’s
inhumanity to man.
Of all the atrocities committed against the enslaved Africans in
the Americas and Europe, the use of babies as alligator bait is
one which leaves anyone with a conscience, with a tear in the
eye. Imagining that the child in question was yours, would send
shivers down your spine.
These things are not easy to say, but we must say them, for
posterity sake. And for the sake of the present and future.
Alligator bait, also called gator bait , was the evil practice of
using infant African children as bait to lure alligators out from
water to land. This practice was popular in Louisiana and
Florida, and other parts of the South in America.
During that era, there was a high demand for alligator skin,
which was used in the production of leather shoes, jackets,
belts, and other leather materials. Alligator skin was very
profitable in the 1800s-1900s. But the hunters often had
accidents and lost their arms or lives as they rustled the
swampy waters in their attempt to attract the alligators to the
surface at night.
So, their other viable option was to steal slave babies and use
them as bait. They didn’t find any rodents, or chickens, or
rabbits, or little goats. Those were too valuable. It had to be a
baby that a woman carried for 9 months under intense pain,
brutality, and hard work.
This account has been denied by many in their attempt to cover
up this atrocity. But there are oral accounts, documentaries, and
publications to substantiate our right to closure, empathy and
healing.
In 1923 a publication on ‘Time Magazine ‘reported that “From
Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used
for alligator bait. The infants were left to play in shallow water while
expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian
approach his prey, he is shot by the riflemen. The Chipley Chamber
of Commerce said the story was “a silly lie, false and absurd.”
Maybe so, but it was widely reported in the American press, so it
was at least believable among white Americans of the time.”
To give further evidence of this vile practice, photos and
postcards found in the Jim Crow museum shed clear light on
this. A man in Florida had a picture framed and put on his wall
showing nine naked little African boys with the words “Alligator
Bait” written below.
To further buttress this account, on June 3, 1908, the
‘Washington Times’ reported that a zookeeper at the New York
Zoological Gardens baited “Alligators with pickaninnies” out of
their winter quarters. He sent two African slave children into an
enclosure that was housing alligators and crocodiles numbering
more than 25.
The reptiles had to be led out of their winter tanks into summer
tanks so they could be seen by people. They didn’t find
any other way to do this, other than placing these children in the
tank to lure the alligators and crocodiles out. How artistic!!!
The article read that: Two small colored children happened to drift
through the reptile house among the throng of visitors” and they
were “pressed into service. The alligators “wobbled out as quick as
they could after the ebony mites, who darted around the tank just as
the pursuing monsters fell with grunts of chagrin into the water.
The alligators were “coaxed” into their summer quarters by “plump
little Africans.
There were sources who claimed that the mothers were paid $2
(Two Dollars) for their babies to be used as bait. They also
claimed that the babies were not hurt. But those were just false
accounts, to hide the heinous crimes. Which sane mother would
allow her infant to be tied with a rope around the neck and kept
by the river or lake banks as bait? No mother would do that. And
at the time, African slaves could not read or write, so how did
they read the adverts and apply, as some sources have claimed?
Such lies could be found in the September 21, 1923, headline of
the ‘Oakland Tribune which read: “PICKANINNY BAIT LURES
VORACIOUS ‘GATOR TO DEATH. And Mother Gets Her Baby Back in
Perfect Condition; Also $2”.
It is indeed very callous for a person to risk a baby’s life in such
manner, and then go ahead to justify it with charming words. In
an article by T.W Villiers Chronicles the gator bait process was
described thus: “these little black morsels are more than glad to
be led to the ‘sacrifice’ and do their part in lurking the big Florida
gators to their fate without suffering so much as a scratch.”
But on the contrary, oral accounts of this practice report that
most times, the babies are eaten by the alligator, before the
hunters shoot at it. The hunters would sometimes aim to kill the
alligator only after the baby was in its jaws. Evidence of this is
found in the postcards, pictures, and trinkets they made at the
time to commemorate the practice.
There are other articles that claim that the African slave infants
were not only regularly used as alligator bait but violently
skinned alive in preparation for this . We believe the smell of the
blood and wounded flesh was meant to attract the alligators.
There was an account by the grandson of a man who used to
engage in this business of gator baiting, and this is what he had
to say: “The slaves who had babies, they would steal the babies
during the course of the day, sometimes when their mothers weren’t
watching… Some would be infants; some would be a year old; he
said some would be toddlers. He said they would grab these
children and take them down to the swamp and leave them in pens
like little chicken coops.
They would go down there at night, take these babies and… tie
them up, put a rope around their neck and around their torso, around
here, and tie it tight.
They’d be screaming… What they were doing would help them to
chum the water. He said when they would throw the babies in tied
to this rope, he said in a matter of minutes, he said, the alligators
were on them. He said the alligator would clamp his jaws on that
child. As a matter of fact, once he clamped on them, he was really
swallowed. He said you couldn’t see anything but the rope! Some
would be infants, some would be a year old, toddlers, some would
be infants.”
Some of these evil and unimaginable practices by slave owners
in America could also be found in the Jim Crow Museum of
Racist Memorabilia in Michigan, USA
“Shelved in the museum alongside the many stereotypical
representations of “pickaninnies” (a racial slur applied to
African-American youngsters) speaking fractured English, eating
watermelon, catching opossums, etc., are similar cartoonish
portrayals of black children (and sometimes black adults) as
worthless “alligator bait,” according to accounts.
The practice of using African slave children as “alligator bait”
could also be found in movies and popular music and the lullaby
“Mammy’s Little Alligator Bait,” composed by Henry Wise and
Sidney Perrin in the year 1899.
There is a deliberate attempt by those who carried out slavery
to hide these parts of slave history. Not much is done by them
to apologize and make reparations for these hideous crimes
against humanity. Trying to deny this actually adds more grief to
the descendants of the African slaves, being that their children
are still killed in America today.
The world asks Africans in Diaspora to forget these things. They
say “those who committed these crimes and their victims are long
dead, so let the history die with them.” But they soon forget that
the Jews still remember and talk about the Holocaust every
year. Japan still remembers and commemorates the nuclear
bombing a Hiroshima. So why should the African diaspora shut
up about the crimes against them?
Studies have shown that the legacy of the events of slavery, still
affects the African American’s mental health. This is because
trauma can be transferred from mother to child, and no one
knows how many generations that psychological trauma can
travel.
These accounts of painful history are meant to provide
knowledge and also help the African Diaspora community in the
tackling of these traumas.




https://libertywritersafrica.com/how-black-babies-were-used-as-alligator-bait-by-hunters-in-america-bitter-history/amp/

What do you want us to do with this thread may us feel ashamed for selling our people or carry arms to fight the whitemen, so they will kneel on our kneck again abi


If dem use our children do alligator if thier children come we go kidnap them back use dem do pepper soup for akwaibom, ooh i forgot we use them to do peppersoup dem cum see us as barbarian say we dey chop whitemaen as bushmeat for inside bush

If you see whiteman o.p, kidnap dem make we carry throw for lagoon, because i nor know wetin u want make we use this thread do, if na revenge u dey find that one my hand nor dey because na we black sell black give whiteman....


Op talk true if you see America passport now u nor go go

Op you sure say you even read d article self because you nor even fit edit na copy and throwway you do for this thread

Osagyefo98:
Any evidence to this fact?

Your previous thread says Buhari has done better than gej in the east

Osagyefo98:
Lol, funny enough

By now you should have known I ignored most of them here because my thought is far more wide than theirs.

Imagine in a faceless forum, someone will say u not igbo, u not Efik and another will believe him...that shows how slow most of you guys thinking are and how childish and many chily litters nairaland..

Any edo analysis Eastward must never breath, it must be subdued and we are doing that effectively.

The only standard history remains Bini-Yoruba history which enjoys more facts and support visible to this day.

Dont you see you have failed, try harder and think smart because even the igbos are constantly rewriting history to connect nri with benin the best you can do is to tell the stories the way it happened heavens will be happy with you by so doing but if you continue you will loose yourself ans loose what you intend to achieve


You no less different from a witch or devil people pray against, for denying them thier prosperity, and thier life valuables

Osagyefo98:
Lol, funny enough

By now you should have known I ignored most of them here because my thought is far more wide than theirs.

Imagine in a faceless forum, someone will say u not igbo, u not Efik and another will believe him...that shows how slow most of you guys thinking are and how childish and many chily litters nairaland..

Any edo analysis Eastward must never breath, it must be subdued and we are doing that effectively.

The only standard history remains Bini-Yoruba history which enjoys more facts and support visible to this day.

Why do u support buhari as a man from d east

Osagyefo98:
Not interested in your WAZO.

But any analysis Eastward shouldn't breath.

Funny enough thesame east you fight for has rejected you, dont you think what you presently need now, is how to retrace your steps, don't let what befell Oshiomhole befall you my dear

AfrikanWorrior1:
It's troubling to hear, "black lives matter!" Ofcourse black lives matter just like any other people. Even with the current circumstances that aptly justifies the cry "Black Lives Matter," it's still a thing that is very belittling of a people having to see a need to even say it.
What do you do when you know a war has been waged on you? Why do black/African people always respond to a war with a cry? We are the only people in the world with that response. You would think that having lost over 500 million human lives through conquest/colonialism and being wronged by countless of injustice, that black people would be the most intolerable & cognizant people on the planet. But unfortunately, it took a swerve: African people still have no idea that the world has waged war on them. A misdirection that has illuminated an object of cognive-weakness, reflected by the submissive tendencies of our people.
Black people grousing/crying out "racism" at every iteration is synonymous to being in a battle field with an enemy and pleading to that enemy to go easy on you. A preset of inferiority complex that has put us on the 'losing' side. How can you go through a war while being submissive to the enemy.

As Black/African people, history has thought us two things: That 'might' is good. And that only those who lived by it's dictates, the conquerers, ripped the ultimate benefit--and the meek, the conquered, crumpled from the force of 'might.'
"Black people ignore the violent reality of racial injustice." And perhaps when we realize that real change is not actuallized by cries but by deliberate action, and when we realize that our adversaries need to understand the repel effect of their actions by facing unconstrained consequences, then maybe we can unhamper from vanquishment of being easily punked.

If you're crying for africa which you're not, you're just simply crying for sub sahara africa who would cry for jewish holocaust who were killed not for skin, not for religion but kilked out of jealousy associated with no reasons, who is gonna cry for the millions of Chinese that was murdered by japanush troop......
African has not gotten half of what other race don chop,

Guy, your issue is lack of information mixed with dogmatism learn to read wide bro

TheGodlessGod:
Benin is the oldest ethnic group in nigeria

Benin’s migrated from the niger river to thier present location like almost 2,000yr ago

Magu....

Anuoluwa1234:
Am interested, let's wait for the elders

We don reach hold up be hold us for village but we don come now

Binikingdowm:
There is well in benin, its few, they are owned by private citizens most cant afford boreholes

I dont understand you, read what you wrote again

When did you visit benin last i think you left since in the 90s

Yujin:
Gregyboy, don't mention me and that impostor on the same sentence. It's an insult to my personality.
Now, as to population where you are alluding that Igbos have lesser population than Yorubas, I want to say that you're very wrong. Try and speak about what you know. If you've travelled to different parts of Nigeria, you won't have written what you wrote.

My bad,i didnt mean it that way bro

Podakejol:
As you can see, yorubas are more important than any tribe in Nigeria. We and the north have been oppressing the rest of you fools since 5000BC. We drill oil in south south region to develop Lagos and we left yor stupid unproductive south south undeveloped

I just want to tell you that we will keep oppressing you idiots especially in Edo till Jesus comes.

Igbos are 5% and Edo is inconsequential. Yoruba will be the next president whether you like it or not

Fools, is a know fact the strength of the cowards lies in their mouth, mumu you don't even know history lagos was developed before the discovery of oil, lagos was developed from the profit of yoruba slave sold through the Atlantic Tinubu ancestory is a living witness, the oil used in developing lagos was taken by the north to buy your slave loyalty to them, you guys are spineless to do such thing, the cowardice of yoruba is all encoded in thier culture only me can see it, the igbos are coming for your head yujin, Osagyfo98.......


South south undeveloped ha ha ha lol, TAO11 is smarter you are a clown.......

If igbos have the population as the yorubas they wont be ass lickers to thier equals see the ass licking of yoruba to hausa has almost caused tinibu to be disgraced we arent talking about the dwarf and his allegations

Yorubas and hausa is just a thin line that separates you both, slave ans master

Trinitykey:
Are you for real Gregyboy? you are living in total delusion no one is fighting battle of supremacy with you people Oba benin is our illustrious son ,,Benin kingdom remain part of Oduduwa territory, Oba beinin is highly revered in Yoruba land being Lineage of oranmiyan and oduduwa, if not second to Oni because the kingship was established before Oyo ,,,if you are trying to elienate Oba of benin from yorubas is to your own detriment not ours because the people and region you are gravitating towards have to regard for your Oba, ijaw or irhobos .ikas or ibos

Bro if documents approves oba as a Yoruba son i would have no choice to accept it like that, even tho am a bigot but as a bigot i tell the truth and accept it, i only tell the truth in a bigoted way but i still tell them as truth....


The benin-ife controversy has no root in the past it was just a controversy taken too far and overemphasized on, if i was saying this for bigoted reason i probably will be arguing in the benin favour of the controversy and not totally deniel it existence at all

During the 1822 benin told the Europeans that the birth of thier dynasty was by a whiteman who impregnated the ogiso daughters years later 1914 oba eweka brought his version, and subsequent versions came after that, but in all none of them hold any evidence

If you want more details wait soon i will create a thread for it


I know yorubas want to do attache to our history by using the controversy but if you all going to do it atleast it should be on pure sincere grounds and not because you guys need to..........


I will be writing in detail about this soin

Trinitykey:
Benin Oyo war you are nutcase ... Oyo is renown empire that subjugated kingdoms into its Empire , Bariba borgu kingdom, ,Nupe kingdom Dahomey .even part of ashanti land conquered Ashanti kingdom in battle of atakpeme in Togo upper volta maintain strong diplomacy with sSonghai empire when must of northern region were under the Songhai empire . Hausa were used as slaves in Oyo empire fulanis merceneries and hausa slaves were recruited into Oyo cavalry ....Benin kingdom only fight with but naked igbos and ikas in the forest

Yujin would come for your head now, tribal bigot you pushed igbos to d front and hid yours

Trinitykey:
Benin Oyo war you are nutcase ... Oyo is renown empire that subjugated kingdoms into its Empire , Bariba borgu kingdom, ,Nupe kingdom Dahomey .even part of ashanti land conquered Ashanti kingdom in battle of atakpeme in Togo upper volta maintain strong diplomacy with sSonghai empire when must of northern region were under the Songhai empire . Hausa were used as slaves in Oyo empire fulanis merceneries and hausa slaves were recruited into Oyo cavalry ....Benin kingdom only fight with but naked igbos and ikas in the forest

Did you say oyo calvary, in the hausa account they brought calvary to oyo people so it wasnt oyo calvary the hausa were not brought as slaves but as machineries who gave to help afonja break free from oyo, and the various yoruba account afonja didnt subdue through but through mutual understanding

Podakejol:
Lol e pain am die. Benin will always be our slaves which even your inconsequential oba of Benin can testify to.

Cowards wey awolowo 1 oppress die

I see pains behind the keyboard, and oozing cowardice awolowo oppressed us and we fought out, the north have been oppressing the yorubas and since inception they cant fight out,

Look coward you all better dont sell us to your brothers up north 2023, ondo, ekiti, osun make una dey hear and the others if not lagos is not occupied by yorubas alone maybe dey would have still sold us to the yoruba masters......
Instead of fighting the igbos as enemies and underestimate the south south we can all come together to win 2023......for once you guys shouldn't be yorubas

Podakejol:
Arindin. Your mumu oba of Benin is under yoruba kings. Benin is part of yoruba land and it will be like that forever

Edo is a very useless state and nothing good can ever come out of your useless unproductive state

As you can see yorubas are one of the two major and important tribes in Nigeria unlike your minority Edo that has been conquered by we the yorubas

Prove cowards, prove cowards are known to be loud and boldess so use your mouth to type to prove me benin-ife never existed

If not you will be a total coward both verbally and mindfully

Ciwards die before thier very day.... Lol cowards and Atlantic slaves

We don't have wells in the past we had reservoirs thats what we call our wells, reservoirs are like wells built like them not too deep but connected underground by pipe from borehole due to the lack septic tanks in early times.....
I just remember as a boy i broke both my arms while climbing the step inside the reservoir to fetch water i slipped and fell and i broke my left arm i was in a hurry i sliped and fell inside the reservior and the other time was when i was going to drop the water fetched from the reservior i sliped and fell on my right arm the former was left on two different occasion... Lol at my early age i knew what was pain when great granma broke the arm to set it and massage the arms with boiled plantain leaves.........


You can still find the remains in some benin village again benin is a rain forest zone water is closed to the soil and borehole construction are cheaper because of less stress to dig unlike in northern areas, and even after the digging deep in those northern areas the water comes out salty and distasteful