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CONGRATULATIONS to our own Jenn Nkiru on her Grammy win for Best Music Video with Beyonce and Wizkid for Brown Skin Girl.

Nkiru, a contemporary artist, identifies as a Nigerian filmmaker and is known for her style of telling stories that project the marginalised and the issues they struggle with. Her 2017 short film, Rebirth Is Necessary won best documentary at the 2018 London Independent Festival.

Nkiru rose from a humble beginning. At the young age of 15, Nkiru worked as an assistant to Diane Martel, an established director.

She is also recognised for writing excellent music video stories. In this regard, she has written for Pharell, Major Laser, Imagine Dragons, Red Bull and J Cole.

She presently owns Nkiru + Nkiru production company.

She was featured as the second unit director of Ricky Saiz’s video for Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Apeshit which was released in 2018. In 2019, she was selected to participate in the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

Nkiru was born in Peckham, South London. She attended the Howard University where she acquired an MFA in Filmmaking.

Nkiru directs music videos and short films. The first film she directed was En Vogue, which was shot by Bradford Young and Arthur Jafa was released in 2014. In 2017, her second movie, Rebirth is Necessary was released. This movie was featured on Nowness and won several awards including, the Canal + award at the Clermont Ferrand Film Festival and the Best Documentary at the London Independent Film Festival. Rebirth is Necessary was also nominated for the 2018 best short film award at Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival. She is known to have directed music videos for Kamasi Washington and Neneh Cherry. She was also the second unit director of Ricky Saiz’s video for Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Apeshit.

• 2018 - She won the 2018 Voice of a Woman award at Cannes.
• 2019 - She won the main Aesthetica Art Prize.
• 2021- she won 63rd Grammy for Best Music Video on her Work "Brown Skin Girl".

Sufferingboy:
Not true,benin nor dey even drag those owa communities,Obi of owa still control them traditionally and spiritually.Yes,if you don't understand igbanke you go confuse,their kings don't really like benin it is just to dey deceive the oba.Their diaspora get money and power pass those kings and the diaspora are fighting for them to be added to delta state.
Okowa wife is from igbanke clan,igbanke people went to cry to okowa about oppression so he used his influence to bring nndc project to igbanke.
The people dey with us and once kasala burst we go defend them.It is only igbanke son(late ogbemudia) and oshiomole(an etssko) that was fair to us,but an average ethnic benin their hatred dey high.
Okowa mother is from igbanke and okowa served there many years ago as a doctor.
Now obaseki is trying to change the thing,he made igbanke man vice chairman of orhiowmon LGA.But we deserve more.
Do you know that Obaseki family migrated from Iselukwu(Iselle-Ukwu) a benin war post settlement in modern aniocha,delta state?
Today if you go to chief agho Obaseki palace in benin,you will see obaseki offsprings.Go to Isi village(along benin-agbor road)That is where you will see many obaseki family people because they settle there first when they left iselle ukwu and before some of them started moving to other locations.
To to abudu and will see obaseki family who left Isi to go and farm in abudu and remain there till today.
Go to those many villages along benin auchi road.Some obaseki offspring settled in those communities and they don't hide their identities.

Okay. I think I have indulged your Ika derailment enough. You are not telling me anything new about Ika and Igbanke that I don't already know.
You can go open a thread on Ika and knock yourself out.
Allow us discuss important Igbo matter of Ndoki in peace.

Sufferingboy:
Talk wetin you know,the highest Oba of benin and Edo gov can do is to marginalise them.
Their kings only add enogie to their title because of political reason ask the igbanke people,they are agitating to come back to delta state.
Some communities under owa clan(my clan) were also carved into edo like owanikeke,owarizuidu,iru,igbogili etcs even iyelen
We also have entire ekpon clan in edo state(but esan people came to settle there we accepted them) that is why ekpon is mixed.
The problem with igbanke is that Oba wan try make forget rheir ika identity but his father,erediawa tried and failed.Don't beleive everything you see on media and everything a benin tells you.
Go to those areas and ask the ika people what they want(they want to be added to delta to join their brothers)
Oba don try am e nor work,this thing is complex.

Bini people believe those Owa communities in Edo are customary tenants in Bini land. In other words, the land is not theirs but they were accommodated because they were accepted as Bini people. Any moment they want to claim any identity other than Bini, they will be sent parking.

As for Igbanke. You don't need to tell me anything about them. I'm so imbedded in Igbanke that there is no major thing that happens in Igbanke without my knowledge within 24hrs. I not only belong to their Facebook pages, I'm also a member of their WhatsApp platforms and I have made friends with few of them.
The commoners in Igbanke want reunification with Ika, but the political and traditional leaders prefer Bini attachment.
The commoners are poor, so in the end, the political class and traditional leaders will be the ones to decide their fate of the people.

Sufferingboy:
We ika people produce more oil than southeast go and check it.
Ikaland extend down to edo state,so don't think we are small.

Lol!
Where in Ikaland is crude oil found? Ika is very small and negligible.As for Igbanke in Edo, the people suffer from same Bini Stockholm syndrome as you in Delta. Many of them are heading towards assimilation as Bini. And more importantly, the Oba Bini consider them as part of his kingdom and has his stooges appointed as Enogies there.
Ika doesn't have the might to take Igbanke from Oba Bini, and worst still, Igbanke leaders will not invite you to come for such mission.

And by the way, Igbanke is very very small in land mass, even if added to Ika, Ika will still be smaller in landmass to Enu-ani by a long shot.

Rugaria:
"Our own Kanu"? Is kanu some kind igbo deity? What is wrong with you sef? You have been hiding under this "only igbo Biafra" to spread hatred between the Igbos and their neighbors. Nothing about your idea is really altruistic, just another laughable attempt to inject confusion.. You are starting to sound very mischievous! More like a skillful Afonja trying to devide and rule. You guys start by faking pro-igbo posts, then this.... Enugu ko, Abakiliki ni!? Asari is doing a good job! Kanu is doing a marvelous job!! Two of them are equal Biafrans!!! If you don't like it, stay put in Lagos

Nnaa isi nogini? Hatred between Igbos and their neighbours?
Nnaa, there was never any love there, except the one you imagined.

Sufferingboy:
Yes,saudi arabia is the head of islam,It has a bigger national wealth,land and economy than qatar.But qater have a smaller land,population,economy and national wealth,but a bigger per capita income and the qataris are living fine.

Poor comparison. Both Saudi and Qatar has Crude oil and gas. While Igboland has crude oil and gas(in excess quantity), Ika is a dry Bush land at the backyard of Bini which is why you are parasitically trying to get attached to Ukwuani.
You are no Qatar to our Saudi. You are more like a Yemen or Oman.

Vintagepipes:
Ahhhhh! Soooo, this is the Ika @sufferingboy no gree let us rest on top? Chai! It even further devalues their importance in the scheme of things... Mehn! Discussing their matter for more than a day is even more embarrassing. So, of what value will this provide the greater Igbo nation? You must agree with me that even the most extreme of Biafran multiethnic agitators will not include Edo state; if any of them see this map, they will all agree on not even bringing up their matter at any point. In fact, now, I am angry. Kai!
It seems that we Igbos even spend time having inconsequential discussions with these people.
Let us count our numbers and quit giving these guys the attention that they yearn for.

Will our IPOB brothers agree to leave these inconsequential mushroom tribes alone?

Sufferingboy:
I will soon leave Igboland and no matter the kind money wey I go get I nor fit put am for igboland.The things I like about nsukka is their okpa nsukka(best in igboland)and their cheap pig meat.But enugu ezike people are too diabolic as a guy though I do visit witch doctors for enugu ezike to do some petty work for me.
I always try to avoid nsukka people especially enugu ezike.I don't want anything that will make them know I visit witch doctors but If anyone find my trouble I go go throw something put for him life(Make e life scatter).

Lol!
Igboland don't need your investment. Try use the money on your bushy Boji Boji glorified village township, let's know whether it will at least come up to the level of Okigwe or Orlu.

Hot Okpa Nsukka with chilled Coke! Chai! I am missing 042 the Igbo capital city.

Sufferingboy:
Okay sir,I don't have much problem with Igbo's but you see IPOB they will insult other tribe without provocation,re-write your family lineage history,call you sabotuer if you don't agree with them and some will even photoshop pics of weapons and call it biafra weapon to brainwash the gullible ones among themselves.

Please leave IPOB alone. Your Igbophobia had long started before IPOB was founded.
They are not the reason why you are Igbophobic.

Your Ika is not part of Biafra, so chill and let IPOB be.

Sufferingboy:
So why you wan cry for us? Many of our ancestors came from there.Igbos should stop thinking they can force others.Our land small yet igbo people go still come dey sell fake drugs in our land.
The foolish ones among them,will build house in our land thinking they are now one of us,unknown to them if they raise their head too high,they will be beheaded.
Igbos never learn;#investinyourhomemost
But an ika man can never be foolish to invest his wealth in igboland God forbid it.

What exactly are you doing schooling in a University in Igboland built from the scratch by an Igbo man called Azikiwe, using Eastern region wealth?
Shouldn't you have kept you ass confined within your bush boji boji glorified village township?

Which Igbo man ever forced Ika people to do anything. The average Igbo man is everywhere doing business, many don't even know there is a people called Ika, except for those of us into such topic.

Before an Igbo man build a house in that your bushy boji boji, know that he already has a mansion in his own village in Igboland.

tonychristopher:
They are being called Benin wannabes

Very embarrassing set of people suffering from inferiority complex.

We are Bini people who suffered brain damage during our stone throw journey from Bini and lost our Bini language speaking ability, but miraculously found ourselves speaking Igbo language belonging to Igbos who we don't like and who live many kilometers away from us.

These people are not alright. I swear.

Sufferingboy:
Oga attache by force,go to orogodo river and others rivers in ikaland and see.You know little or nothing about oshimili so stop arguing on their behalf.This evening naso me and one IPOB fanactic argue about south-south especially ijaws.I give the hot hot,he was filled with hate and bitterness.

Which one is Orogodo river again? You meant stream? What kind of fishes are there in that your small stream? Finger fishes?
You are the one trying to attach you small dry Ika to Ukwuani. I provided a map showing that you have less in common with Ukwuani when compared to Enu-ani.

Please help me talk sense into my IPOB brothers as much as you can, I so much would appreciate it. They need to be weaned off their attachment to minorities, including Ika and Ikwerre.

Thank you.

tonychristopher:
Ika is bringing nothing to the table....we igvi don't take them serious...they just make noise

Nothing o! Dry and small land space compared to wet, fertile and extensive land space of Enuani and Ukwuani.

Bunch of empty noise makers who are doormats for the Binis.

tonychristopher:
Watch this video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd6CjBQ1rgE

I know that guy well and have watched all his U tube videos at least 2 times.

Sufferingboy:
Ask ndokwa people who they trust between enu-ani(oshimili and aniocha ) and ika.You be surprise.They women dey find our men while their men drink shekpe .
Yes,ndokwa people sabi music pass ika.But we sabi farming and fishing pass them.

I don't know what you are talking about bro. I see that in Ika land, you lots hate the truth and are very good at fabricating lies and handing the same lies to your children as the truth. And your children are incapable of decoupling a lie when they are told one.
This was how your ancestors passed down the lie that you migrated from Bini that is next Stone throw away and miraculously lost your Bini language for Igbo language far away.
This was also how your lying father made up lies of Biafran soldiers killing villagers in Owa and trying to kill Owa king and passed it down to you his son as raw truth, and despite having access to University education which should have exposed you to basic rules of logic and philosophy, you still couldn't still decipher that your father was a liar.


Now take a look at the map of Delta state. Look how big the boundary line between Aniocha and Ukwuani is. Ika is only about 1/6 of that. Yet you want to convince rational minds that Ukwuani has more extensive interactions with Ika over that small boundary than they do with Aniocha that they have a larger boundary with.

You are even talking about fishing, which fishing exactly takes place in Ika land? Ikaland is basically a dry land unlike Ndokwa and Enuani that have the whole stretch of River Niger running through it.
Common sense should tell me that Enu-ani and Ndokwa should be better fishermen than Ikas who have no big natural water body to practice fishing with.

Vintagepipes:
Well, true... It is important to make it general knowledge too..... Let every bonafide Igbo man get the memo, who is or is not Ibo and thereby remove those Igbo privileges we hand out to these people.

How then do you deal with those who fiercely identify amongst them? Igboid? Bkkay?

If there are no existing evidence that they have always strongly identified as Igbo, by being members of Igbo organizations of wherever they are. Then the default will be upheld.

Default= Ukwuani, Ikwerre and Ika are not Igbos until proven otherwise.

For example, Okowa does not identify with Ohaneze Ndiigbo, he never attends any Igbo day celebrations as an Igbo.
So tomorrow when he comes out to claim Igbo, the obvious reaction should be that of Default settings.

Rotimi Amaechi as Ikwerre governor of Rivers state was very Igbophobic. At a point he asked GEJ if "they"(Rivers) people are Biafrans in response to GEJ allowing Rivers state lose some oil wells to Bayelsa and Abia.
Rotimi as Rivers state governor financed Ogbakor Ikwerre (an Igbophobic body) for 8yrs and remains their patron till today.
Rotimi was there when Wike another Ikwerre man deified Gowon and demonized Ndiigbo in his public speech during Rivers state 50yrs anniversary in 2017.
Wike received a big round of applause by his Rivers people while Rotimi maintained a golden silence.

So you can see why it would be difficult for Rotimi to sell his fraudulent "I am Igbo" shameful message to people like me who have been keeping watchful eyes on people like him for decades.

Its not very hard to sieve out the chaffs in these non Igbo areas(Ika, Ukwuani, Ikwerre) from the main seeds.

Sufferingboy:
Oga suffery lie,your name na linus?
Urhobo and isoko are two distinct tribe though they are brothers.
Urhobo must be angry,their hatred for other tribe in delta state is like lala and snake you can't seperate it.Ibori their son worship them and suffer other tribe during his time.
Isoko enjoy okowa because tribalist urhobo hate isoko politically.Okowa try for isoko well well.Ask real isoko people them go tell wetin urhobo take their eyes see and the good of okowa towards them.

Urhobo hate Isoko politically? You are not serious.

What major project did Okowa do in Isoko land? Don't tell me about that small Oleh stadium.

Sufferingboy:
Ndokwa people produce over 100k bpd of oil,the last time I checked.But you see their politicians and elders are too corrupt,one of my friend who is one of them dey always tell me say ndokwa elders thief pass ika elders.One of their politician named "Osakwe" a former house of rep members stole so much from them and took the money to invest in abuja and in sapele road area of benin city.They man now live in benin city,why ndo people are suffering.
So,you see okowa alone can not do it all.
Umuleri and Aguleri still dey fight over land in anambra,land fight is normal,If you know the bond between ndokwa and isoko you will be surprise.We ika and ndokwa intermarry to extent if you visit a home where the couples are ika and ndokwa,you will not know if we don't tell you.

Ndokwa I think produces more of gas than oil. That they produce oil is not news.
Their elders are corrupt? They are not more corrupt than Ika elders.
I doubt the Osakwe guy has stolen more than Okowa has stolen from Delta North as a senator and from Delta state as a governor.

Aguleri vs Umuleri is intra tribal fight. Ndokwa vs Isoko is inter tribal fight. They are not the same.


You have tried too hard to attach yourself to Ndokwa, but Ndokwa historically have more bond with Enu-ani than they have with Ika.
They have places like Onicha-Ukwuani, even Asaba something (can't remember it now), etc in Ndokwa, and the people inter marry too.

However, my understanding is that Ndokwa people have this "our Oyel" mentality and consider Ika and Enuani as potential parasites to them should Anioma state be created. Many of them think Anioma state is going to be built on their oil while Enu-ani and Ika rule over them and are thus against the idea of Anioma state.

I don't know if their political elites hold the same view as the above. But their commoners hold the above view.

Sufferingboy:
May be agbor of 10years ago,but since okowa enter we know wetin happen for the whole ika land not just in agbor clan.

Nothing happen Nnaa. We all pass through Agbor steady. It is still a glorified bush village.

Nothing much is happening there. Okay, they added functional street light on that major road and painted the road demarcations. But that's all.
Okowa as a governor has been mostly a failure and Urhobo/Isoko people have been foaming with anger.

BKayy:
Excuse me. Which Agbor are you people talking about?
Is it the village with only one bus stop they call Agbor Junction along Asaba-Benin expressway or another one?

Nnaa Ikegwuru. Nah same Agbor o! The Boji boji bush village they call township Not even at the level of Okigwe or Orlu.

Sufferingboy:
Calm down you nor be oshimili man,I dey wait for oshimili man.By the way oshimili people know say table don turn since okowa enter there.Okowa may be quite but ika people know what oshimili and aniocha did in the past by hiding under ANIOMA.In delta north we ika controls it,infact after ibori,okowa is next powerful politician in delta politics .
Thing only thing oshimili take beat us is airport in asaba.
Agbor is enjoying infastructural boost by okowa,by the time he finish his tenure.He will try to contest as president if pdp zone to south,but if he loss,he will go back to senate representing Delta north.
Iweala is from ogwa-chukwu but go to agbor and see ogwa-chukwu people trying to be ika by force,but ika man will go to ogwa-chukwu and tell them his ika origin.

Well, Oshimili is Igbo, so anything concerning Oshimili concerns me as well.

What exactly did Ndi Oshimili do to Ika. List them let's verify because if we are to go by your lying father antecedent, I have already waived it off as one of those lies that come natural to Ika people.

Okowa for president? He will be disgraced by Ndiigbo. You see how we handled the Irabor appointment? Straight up we made it clear he isn't Igbo and not one of us. No time to check time!
PDP wouldn't be stupid enough to give party ticket to a man with just two small local government voting home base.


What Enu-ani take beat Ika is like from here to London.
Agbor is more like a glorified village with only one major road. Asaba is a standard modern capital city and Ndiigbo has added more flavor to it by moving our movie industry to the city. Onitsha business community also keeps pouring investments into Asaba increasing the real estate value of the city.

Why would an Ogwashi uku man who has beautiful Asaba to call home want to be Ika because of that glorified village called Agbor.
Agbor is not even as developed as Nnewi.

Sufferingboy:
Hey Oshimili man,you and your aniocha brothers know the dirty politics wey una dey use so called ANIOMA there play,but now things are turning with an ika man as governor.
In delta north,it is the ika who always stand against oppression of Ika and ndokwa people by oshimili and aniocha people.Now Ikas are now controlling delta north politics,oshimili people are not happy about it.
Ndokwa man sees the ika,urhobo and isoko as closest brother,because we always support them against aniocha and oshimili(asaba people)oppression.

The same Isoko people that are dragging Ndokwa lands in Ndokwa East are now friends of Ndokwa people? I see that lies are your air in Ika. You lots breath it every second.
How exactly has Enu-ani people ever oppressed Ndokwa people?
Ever since the Ika man game on power, what big project has he completed in Ndokwa land?

Sufferingboy:
Bros reel out,I will reel out more.ika people have ancestors from,Igbo,ndokwa,igala,idoma,esan etc.
As for benin and oba of benin,we dey wait for them.I was born in benin and lived there for more than 17years so I know the evil benin people did to our people who ogbemudia carved to edo out of greed.No development in those ika area carved in edo,except oshiomole who was neutral and did his best for us because he is an etsako man.

Reel what out?

Only Okonjo Iweala is bigger than all of Ika past, present and future human resources.

OP. Nsibidi was invented by the Ejagham, then the Igbo, Ibibio, Efik all copied them and modified it to suit themselves.

I'd like it if you modify your OP to reflect this.


Having said that. I wonder why anyone should be proud of Monarchy. Monarchy sounds stupid to me. Why should I be bowing down to my fellow man, have him take a sizeable portion of my farm produce as tribute and entitlement, while he sits his fat ass at home doing nothing. And he gets to take my beautiful daughters he fancies to be part of his ever growing parasitic Harlem who continue feeding on the sweat of the entire town.

That's madness. Monarchy has to be the most backward system of government ever made by man.
I have nothing against people who practiced it. But its ridiculous when they think that worshipping a lazy man with Harlem of wives who feed off the poor people,makes them better than those who would never allow such stupidity.

powerhouse3:
.....make you take bullet for him and his tribe?


Are you telling you people have not volition of thier own?

It seems you have English comprehension issues.

By the way. Which ethnic group were the biggest beneficiaries of GEJ tenure?
I think it's about time I kept you on track and honest.

powerhouse3:
igboid ,will talk about the mistake the made voting GEJ,....and I will ask you,... which tribe was the biggest beneficiary in GEJ government?

What exactly did Ndiigbo benefit from GEJ government?
Political appointments?

OBJ gave us even better political appointments.

Under OBJ we had CBN Governor, Minister of Finance, minister of communication, we had Senate president, we had Aviation minister and so many others.

What is it exactly that GEJ did for Ndiigbo other than make us take bullets for him and his Ijaw people?

GEJ remains a tragic mistake in Igbo political history that WILL never be allowed to repeat itself again.

Vintagepipes:
I think Ika people are on average wiser than Ukwuani in playing the Igbo and "not igbo" tag.... I have studied acquaintances in these two places... Many Ukwuani people will come out less subtle but still, they will try to hide their language and origin. Especially am,amongst the young ones.. They will try as much as possible not to speak their language. If another Ukwuani person greets them in the Ukwuani language, they will respond back in English or try to avoid speaking at all... If you ask them where they ar from, they will say "Delta"... It seems like they are ashamed of their language and identity. In Lagos, they will want to fit in and reject their own origin or keep quiet about it...
You see Ika on the other hand, when they need an Igbo man from their SE, they will act as Igbo as possible to get that favour... They are also slightly ashamed of their origin. Agbor people will never agree they speak Ika. They will deny it as much as possible... There is even a greater division within the Ika because the definition of Ika is not even clear amongst the clans.. People from Abavo seem also to have a different definition of the Ika language from the Agbors who claim that they do not speak Ika but Agbor.. It is also a big confusion.. Ika people are more confused than Ukwuani but when an Ika man wants something from the Igbos, they will do what Amaechi is doing and even fight you for denying they are Igbo. When they are amongst the Igbos, they blend in and accept the assumption of being Igbo but when they are in their natural habitat, it is a different case.

However, most Igbos from the SE and 95% of the Nigerian population do not even know who is Ika or Kwale.....Those on the forefront of Igbo unity are also divided on what to do with the situation because of those who are proudly Igbos... While some, like Igboid or Bkayy here, would rather you guys be cut off completely because they feel you do not play any strategic/life-saving role either geographically or politically to the future of the Igbo nation.
N:B. In recent years there seem to be a revolution in Ukwani, more and more of them are accepting that Igbo tag with pride.

Spot on. The Ika , Ikwerre and Ukwuani are expendable to Igbo future economic and political progress.
There is simply nothing they will offer we don't already have in abundance.

But Ndoki is indispensable. They remain our trump card to sea access and even more important a loophole through which we can lay claim to the Islands of Opobo and Bonny and recover it from the Ijaws currently holding sway there.
Ndoki is indispensable to future Igbo country success.
Ikwerre, Ika, Ukwuani, while it would be great if they repent of their madness and tender unreserved apology to Ndiigbo for all the insults we have received because of them, and be re-added to Igbo land, are totally dispensable as they don't offer anything our current Igbo clans in SE don't already have.

Ndokwagirl:
Igboid in as much as you're making some sense here but that did not give you the right to insult ndokwa nation because of few outdated elements on Facebook. Is the ones on Facebook the whole population of ndokwa?

Ukwuani by ala eze Facebook page is an open forum that everyone can belong and type nonsense. If you can say the truth here you will agree with me that 80% of people on that Facebook page defend their igboness while only 20% reject the teg. The issue of identity crisis in ndokwa nation is on low now even the Benin history has no base in ndokwa nation now.
I am proud Igbo girl from ndokwa and we have many of Anioma youth both from ika down to ndokwa that are proud Igbo.

In our Anioma youth forum the only Anioma youth forum that represent Anioma youth worldwide almost 90% of us know our Igbo identity. Only few outdated Anioma people who hasn't travel down to east will say otherwise. Ndokwa nation are Igbo we have many Igbo's from east here in ndokwa and we have never had any misunderstanding with them because we see them as part of us.

Please with duo respect stop putting ikwerri and ndokwa on the same page because we are not.All our Igbo identity are still with us we didn't change any even ika people too but ikwerre added (R) to their names.

Hmm! I belong to Ndokwa sons and daughters page, Ukwuani bu anieze, and other smaller groups so I know Ndokwa stand much better than most people.

The Ukwuani are the most Igbophobic of the Ndokwa region and they want to dictate to others, by claiming that there is nothing like Ndokwa ethnic group, that the name of the ethnic group is Ukwuani.
The Ndokwa, particularly Ndokwa-East will not accept the Ukwuani tag. They maintain that they are Ndi-osumili, and not Ukwuani. They insist that Ndokwa is the right name of the ethnic group since it is an amalgam of Ndi-Osumili and Ukwuani. Ndo= Ndi-Osumili, Kwa=Ukwuani.

Ndokwa East people are also the least Igbophobic in the region and you are more likely to find some one identifying as Igbo in Ndokwa East than anywhere else.

I also observed that even though Ndokwa East are not Igbophobic, they still consider the Igbophobic Ukwuani as kins and would choose them over Igbo if push comes to shove.


I have witnessed many debates on those pages about Igbo identity and on each case, the Igbophobic ones tend to outnumber the Igbophilic ones by at least 10:1


If the Ndokwa are willing to let go of the Igbo phobic Ukwuani, maybe Ndiigbo might reconsider our current stance on the whole region.
We all watched on live TV when Sunday Olise,from Ebedei in Ukwuani stood up and disgraced himself thinking he was disgracing Ndiigbo. Our fathers might have endured such embarrassments from Igboid groups outside SE, but this our generation will not. We will simply cut you off, confine you to the graveyard of the past and move on.

Fejoku:
The identity crisis plaguing Ndokwas is quite painful to see and a good number of people from that axis don't bother to study history for clarity, rather they prefer to follow the Igbo phobic tales of their neighbours to denigrate their fellow Igbo people. We from the SE have been bearing the brunt mostly for all these years from all quarters yet we didn't budge. It's more painful when you claim fraternity from a supposed brother but without any consideration, that brother will openly throw you under the bus just so he can be seen in another light by our haters. The situation has seen a lot of people from the SE at present calling for abandoning such brotherliness and working with those who confidently identify with us. They earlier NdeUkwuani wake up and draw the curtain on this identity crisis, the better for them. We might understand if such was the story in days of ignorance but as for today where information is readily at everyone's finger tip, such nonesense won't be tolerated anymore. There's one popular moderator here from Ndokwa who doesn't waste time to cast aspersions on Ndigbo. Having tolerated such nonesense for long, some of has drawn the curtain on such personalities and will gladly cast her in the gutters if the situation presents itself because there's no doubt that she would do such if she finds herself in that position. The earlier such foolishness are dealt with the better for us all.

You are talking about Ishilove abi Ishihate. No need hiding her identity, she can't bite.

She is not alone. There are thousands of people like her from Ukwuani area.

afube:
now I know you are just another greedy and thieving politician just lusting after the filthy lucre of elective office in alaigbo, with all the atrocities Fulanis are committing in Benue,zamfara southern kaduna etc even with the 50+ people killed in Nimbo Enugu you insist on yarning drivel here. Look, guy, idi nzuzu..........go get a life,what utter rubbish.

The Fulanis have not done half to us, what the minorities have.
Think of abandoned property, think of Wike genocide in Obiigbo.
If the minorities have 1/4 of the Powers Fulanis have, they will nuke Igboland into oblivion.

Fulani herdsmen is a general problem for everyone. Even domesticated Fulanis who have farmlands are also forced to endure the crop destructive character of their herdsmen brothers.

But Minorities issue is our specific issue, which we must be very serious and ruthless in our approach towards it.

Now stop your ranting and put up your thinking cap.

afube:
na odogwu you dey call yoruba boy, make him catch you there! serously Odogwu's father is igboid and his mum is from delta state.

He is not Igboid. He is from Ahoada West. Ahoada west is shared between Ekpeye (Igboid) and Engenni(Edoid).
Burna boy is from Engenni which makes him Edoid.

But Engenni had joined the political franchise called Ijaw, so even though Engenni speak an Edoid language that no Izon person will understand, they identify as Ijaw today for political expediency and crude oil politics.

thebosstrevor1:
When you can't make sense of something, it literally means it is unorganized.

Nope. It means its beyond your understanding.

That calculus doesn't make sense to me doesn't mean it's disorganized.