Rossinnki: . . There were no ethnic groups in Nigeria prior to the colonial era.
There was nothing like a Yoruba man.
Or a Hausa man.
Or an Igbo man.
That way of identifying people simply did not exist.
Message to secessionists:
Biafra is NOT your father's history.
Even the name Biafra is Portuguese.
There was no sense of Igbo nationhood prior to the colonial era.
So the whole 'Biafra' concept - the very concept of there being an ''Igbo people'' is European-originated, oriented, and influenced.
Your ''Igbo identity'' is a Tokunbo notion, every bit as foreign as your average, dodgy 2nd-hand junk.
Prior to the colonial era, the fact that you spoke the same language as another person did not mean you were of the same ''ethnic group'', different from those who spoke a different language.
That simply was NOT how we viewed ourselves in AFRICA.
Kinship and group identity were about blood connection and lineage, which transcended languages spoken, and often involved various languages existing within the same kinship group caused inter alia, by migration and inter-marriage.
In pre-colonial times, you were not ''an Igbo person''. You were a person who spoke Igbo language. Finish.
What identified you was your clan and your village or town, and your lineage therein, not the language you spoke.
There were Igbo-speaking groups who knew their cousins that spoke Yoruba or Edo a 100 miles away, and were closer to them by lineage than to Igbo-speaking communities even in the next town.
That is how we were. It wasn't about the language you spoke.
Today, out of European-influenced modern triibalism, we find previously connected people and communities now separating themselves by language, and denying ancestral links with those who speak a different language.
ALL OF THAT IS COLONIAL-INFLUENCED.
If you don't know your history, let us, your elders tell you your history.
Every person who hates another because they are supposedly of a ''different ethnic group'' is acting out the playbook written by 18th century European colonizers who came here to divide and conquer, and is NOT following in the ways of our fathers.
duncun: If you study the incidents and challenges we are facing today, you would understand that this would never work as you cannot insist on what ppl must be .
This is the ultimate goal of the external forces fighting igbos from acquiring political power. They will easily tap on it as strategy.
If we don’t stop taunting and bullying each other, in igbo land, we may be breeding more jeo igbokwe's
My brother, if a black man comes to you and tells you that he is white.
Wat does it mean for you, to start referring to him as white?
duncun: While everyone should condemn what Aba has become today, I know you are not originally from Abia. But if you are igbo then I pity you and your likes that go around insulting and bullying other Igbo clans and groups. Most of you don't know the damage you're causing to Igbo cohesion.
Today, we have igbo groups denying their roots and you pathetic fellows are yet to see we are loosing our igwe which is supposed to be our ike. Keep taunting and bullying each other thinking you're preserving your state, it might be too late to discover that the ppl that wants to destroy igboland are using your foolies to their advantage.
See my Nnewi brother denying his ancestors.
I have said it that we should stop according these people any form of acceptability or credibility.
If they deny, we insist that they are Igbo and prove it to them, no need excluding them becos it makes us just as dumb as they are.
‘I Am Not Igbo’ Joe Igbokwe Denounce His Igbo Origin by LordGuru1: 4:42pm On Feb 18 Joe Igbokwe, the controversial spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state, has denounced his Igbo origin.
The APC spokesman who is known for criticizing the Igbos, mainly those in South-East, made the announcement even as the agitation for Biafra is ongoing in South-East and South-south.
According to HopeForNigeria, Igbokwe said: “I am not Igbo. I am a Nigerian and Lagos state commissioner nominee representing Ikorodu”.
Igbokwe had also on Monday, said during Channels Television program, that anyone who claims President Muhammadu Buhari is not doing well is a liar from hell.
“The PDP was there for 16 years and we didn’t see anything. In the midst of plenty, I cannot lay my hands on anything,” he said.
“Support your leader, don’t be a distraction. Anybody who tells you Buhari is not doing well is a liar from the pit of hell, given where we are coming from.”
Although Igbokwe admitted the nation is faced with myriads of challenges, he, however, said they cannot be fixed in a single day.
“If the president can solve all the problems of Nigeria in one day, they would have done it in the 60s. It’s a continuum,” he said.
“As the population is growing, the problem will continue to grow. As Nigeria is growing, the problem will continue to grow. So problems will never disappear from the face of the earth.”
knowledgeable: Under normal circumstances, Igbos & Yorubas are a perfect match, and should be because, there are a lot of similarities.
My problem with this reality is that the Yorubas are Igbo people's political enemy (don't forget, they voted in Buhari cos of their hatred for Igbos) and had actually partook in genocide against Igbos. They never showed any remorse politically to Igbo people political plight in Nigeria or even for Southerners political solidarity. A little bit political alignment from them(like voting once not twice for an Igbo presidency like Igbos have voted for them on more than one occasions) could have gone a long way. Nigeria overall development could have been on the positive, with no security challenges like we have it today.
Any social/political scientist will tell you political alignment and harmony lead to inter ethnic marriages and not the other way around. No other African/Arabs tribes marry their political enemies like the Igbos.
If Globacom was an Igbo man company, it will be boycotted in the SW like they boycott IVM cars.
They even created a culture to criticize anybody that buys IVM in SW. Did u see wat Tunde Ednut said, wen IVM was gifted to Mercy in Big Brother?
Igbo will buy Dangote Cement and Adenuga Globacom but the other two, especially the yoruba in particular will do everything in their power to destroy IVM like they did Ibeto becos he is Igbo.
I need my people to wake up from their foolishness. It hurts me.
Efewestern and the mighty mouse called fratermathy follow they run?
Only big mouth on nairaland na him dem sabi. Wen it comes to fighting and hating their neighbours that have done nothing to dem, they will carry first.
NaijirianKing: The only issue is the portrayal of our women by other groups in the media.
Marry who you want, but don't ruin the image of our mothers, daughters, aunts, cousins, sisters and wives, by portraying them in a certain light in songs, movies and other forms of media.
There is one imagine being circulated of a naked Chidinma by dem on this forum.
No day is allowed to pass without that picture being posted on nairaland.
Nn3muka: You're too skinny for my liking and by the way i am not a hooker, 3k for sex? nna continue hookup on your michat abi weechat that you find cheap, local dirty girls your class.
EVERY TIME INVESTNOW, INVEST NOW, BUT U DONT HOLD ENOUGH EVENTS TO ATTRACT POTENTIAL INVESTORS.
NOBODY INVEST IN A PLACE, WHERE THEIR IS NO LIFE.
EVENTS BRING INVESTMENT AND INVESTORS.
SOCIAL EVENTS IS EVEN MORE EFFFECTIVE.
INVESTORS WITH DOLLARS IS EVEN THE TARGET AND BETTER.
I AM SURE U HAVE SEEN MY POST ON THE OTHER THREAD WHERE I SAID T D JAKES SHOULD BE INVITED TO THE EAST BY ALL SE GOV AND CLERGY MEN, EZE ERI, OBI OF ONITSHA ETC IN AN OCCASSION.
ChinenyeN: Lol. For such a learned population, it is clear that Igbo people hate reading and comprehension. After I stated of my own volition that Ngwa is an Igbo group, you people will come and ignore my own words just to paint a narrative of your own liking. You all are dense.
Each day, I grow more and more convinced that fanatically proud Igbo people are the worst thing to happen to Igbo identity and Igbo destiny, second only to the civil war.
I love Igbo but not a fanatically proud, becos to be fanatically proud is to be blind to their flaws.
I want Igbo to succeed and in other to attain success, we must look within and critically criticise our short comings and faults.
I dont believe we should let any part of us go even if they make such request.
I believe the Igboid group are Igbo in as much as every other Igbo group.
I further believe we should evolve smart ideology to accommodate every other ethnic group with which we share boundary and live peacefully.