₦airaland Forum

A military coup at this point in time may be bloody. It would however be naive to not think one may well be in the planning stages.

Congratulations a well deserved win.

A website, an address and a facebook presence with very little information. Well I suppose cloak and dagger may be necessary for now.

Intereating article gleaned from Naijapundit re Boko Haram having some support in the North.

I'm posting from my phone so cannot copy the article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15690981

I'm not familiar with this group, please share if you have more information on them or their predecessor body.

Dr Ozodi Thomas Osuji on EXPLORING IGBOS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

We have to explore why these people are doing what they are doing, for it is no longer a laughing matter. They generally run around fancying themselves superior to their Nigerian neighbors. They seize on flimsy evidence to justify their delusion of superiority. They would tell you that Hausas do not qualify to directly enter Nigerian universities (what it takes to qualify to enter Nigerian universities would not qualify you to enter good universities elsewhere, so qualification is always relative). They glibly tell you that Hausas enter universities on quota grounds. You ask them to provide you with evidence for their claims. Providing evidence for their delusional claims is not one of their strong points. Clearly, Hausas are as qualified as any other Nigerians to attend Nigeria’s universities.

      There is no shred of evidence that the Igbos are superior to any other Nigerian tribe (their average scores on standard IQ tests, such as Stanford-Binnet and WAIS/WISC, are the same as those of other Nigerians; they perform at the same levels in SAT, GRE and other college entrance examinations). Their feeling of superiority is imaginary, is based on their rejection of their real selves and identification with fantasy ideal selves.

     The ideal self is the self the neurotic wishes to be, a self that is superior and powerful, the opposite of the imperfect real self. Some individuals completely identify with the false, ideal self and come to believe that it is who they are. From its perspective they go about fancying themselves better than ordinary persons; they see people as inferior to them (that is, they project their rejected inferior selves to the rest of us).

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfrikHealth/message/997

This thread is still going on.

Ibo people, always talking a good fight but FLEEING when others come to them. The men hiding behind women's skirts and the generals FLEEING to Abidjan.

I asked them to name one single people they have 1) captured, 2) defeated or 3) repelled. Just silence.

Even Ibo academics have noted the grand delusions some Ibos suffer from.

The article by the Dr on Ibo schizophrenia and other mental illnesses is a must read for all Ibo Nairaland tribal warriors.

Odes - google Ibos and Slavery and see Ibo history unfold.

NOW THAT I HAVE ALL YOUR ATTENTIONS, YOU CAN ALL PHOCK OFF.

THIS THREAD WAS DISTRACTED BY FART PHOCKERS WHO DO NOT EVEN KNOW THEIR OWN HISTORY!

MY LAST WORDS TO YOU ARE: PHOCK OFF!

EXPLORING IGBOS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES


"  a two day (Saturday and Sunday) workshop(s) on mental health and Igbos. I found it necessary to do so because of two reasons: the disturbing level of delusional disorders in Igbos and Igbos tendency to not accept this fact and, instead, find it necessary to verbally abuse whoever points out the obvious in them"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfrikHealth/message/997

EXPLORING IGBOS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES


"  a two day (Saturday and Sunday) workshop(s) on mental health and Igbos. I found it necessary to do so because of two reasons: the disturbing level of delusional disorders in Igbos and Igbos tendency to not accept this fact and, instead, find it necessary to verbally abuse whoever points out the obvious in them"

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfrikHealth/message/997

seedord247:
may God Bless you.

I dislike Nairaland tribal wars but these Nairaland Chicken Riders need to be taught a lesson. Ibo history is filled with slavery, cannibalism and suicides.

"At this stage there was an emphasis on trade rather than empire building, in this case the trade consisting primarily of Igbo slaves."

Ibo men historically relied on their women to fight for them eg the Asaba riots.  Some have said this is typical of the Ibo culture and Ojukwu fleeing to Abidjan may be an example of this.

FACTS!

If Nigeria was to go to war our weakest point is Ibo land.

Almost every other ethnic group has defeated their neighbours outside of Nigeria's border except for the ibo people.

Can an Ibo man give me just one example of a people they have ever captured, defeated or even repelled?

It would help my research.

Ibos and Aro sold themselves into slavery and even in foreign lands they chose suicide instead of fighting the white man.

Mary Slessor tried to stop JUJU, child killing and other abominations among the Ibo

In fact, she never did achieve that ambition to work away from the Cross River area in the adjoining Ibo territory, to fight the abomination as she saw it, of the shrine of the Long Juju at Arochuku, situated in a well-guarded gorge and destroyed by government soldiers in 1901 before her plans could be implemented. The Long Juju was a shrine of the Aro people, famous throughout the Ibo lands and beyond, where supplicants came to ask for the juju’s protection or for its assistance against their enemies and from which many did not return, to the awe of friends present who saw the colour of blood in the water and thought the supplicant had been devoured by the juju. In fact a colouring of animal blood or red camwood dye had been put into the water. The Aro enslavers sold their victims into slavery either locally or to Arab and other slavers from the North continuing to exercise their centuries-old trade after the cessation of the transatlantic traffic - the Tuareg, for example, who were herders who moved with their camels and their goats in search of pasture, had no word in their language for work, anything resembling labour being done by black slaves. On special occasions such as the death of a juju priest, the Aro held cannibal feasts when hundreds were slaughtered. The victims were regarded as sacred and those who ate their flesh partook of the great god Chuku’s power.

The Long Juju had shown the Ibo at his worst and yet demonstrated that he was commercially acute and had cleverly developed two lines of activity, trade and religion, and made them serve each other.

"Cannibalism was pervasive and preponderant during the Biafra war. It started even before the Republic was declared. Awusa people captured during routine “combing” before war started was sure delicacy. Initially I thought to myself that it could have been the exception to the rule. But with time the pattern became clear as common practice.We “Ndigbo” need to go back to the drawing board and look ourselves in the mirror and start necessary atonement and self-purification for our children and those coming after them. That is the real love for Ndigbo. This forum is quiet because all that was hidden is coming to light. How can we look other Nigerian ethnic nationalities in the eye and talk about value, morality, decency, and taste. "

- Posted by an Ibo man - Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

The Ibos are cannibals, but their cannibalism is not of a ferocious type, and rather seems to mean the occasional eating, or  celebration ,

Link - http://www.jstor.org/pss/1801065

All I am stating are facts.

Ibos and infanticide

If a mother died in childbirth among the Ibo people of Nigeria, the newborn was buried alive. It suffered a similar fate if the father died.

ALL I HAVE STATED ARE FACTS. NOT NAIRALAND LIES, EVERYTHING I HAVE POSTED CAN BE VERIFIED.

Crayola1:
That makes no sense, by most accounts most Haitians are of Igbo ancestry.

History records that majority of the slaves were from the Bight of Biafra and were Ibos, sold by their brothers and chiefs or defeated by SS/SE minority ethnic groups.

In Haiti, ibos were known to commit suicide.  The ones who did not commit suicide adopted the cultures and ways of the Yorubas who led them to resist slavery and chased away the French.  TO this day Yoruba religion is dominant in Haiti despite the majority of slaves being Ibos.

Facts don't lie.

"This is a chief from the Ibo people (also called Igbo in south eastern Nigeria),  who captures other Africans and sells them to European slave traders in exchange for luxury goods"

The world records that Ibos also sold themselves wholesale into slavery: http://www.revealinghistories.org.uk/tpl/uploads/file/WorksheetPrint.pdf

"Iboland was one of the areas of West Africa most seriously affected by the slave trade. Ibos were exported as slaves throughout the whole period of the trade, from the first recorded Ibo slave – one Caterina Ybou, sent to San Thome – until the slave trade came to an end in the middle years of the nineteenth century.”

If Ibos were warriors why were they over-represented in the slave trade?

Ibos need to read their history and learn corrections.  

I have researched thoroughly, but can not find an instance when an Ibo man can point to a people they have once conquered, defeated or even repelled.

Some slaves arriving in Haiti included Igbo people, here they were considered suicidal and therefore they were unwanted by plantation owners here. According to Adiele Afigbo there is still the Creole saying of "Ibos pend'cor'a yo" (the Ibo hang themselves).


Rather than fight and free themselves like the other slaves in Haiti did, the ibos chose to exit by suicide.

All I am doing is introducing Ibos to their history, they did not learn this at home. So we have to teach them outside!

Some slaves arriving in Haiti included Igbo people, here they were considered suicidal and therefore they were unwanted by plantation owners here. According to Adiele Afigbo there is still the Creole saying of Ibos pend'cor'a yo (the Ibo hang themselves).


Rather than fight and free themselves like the other slaves in Haiti did, the ibos chose to exit by suicide.

Even the Ibos taken as slaves were quickly assimilated, their cultures lost as they chose to follow the cultures and religions of the Yoruba. The Bight of Biafra was a well known source of slaves. These slaves when they reached foreign lands quickly fell in line and followed the religions and culture of the Yorubas - who they looked up to for leadership and direction.