₦airaland Forum

T9ksy:
Good luck with the bolded above but hey, a snowball will freezes in hell first before you attain your objective.

However, i applaud your optimism. Honestly i do.

It's pro bono work so I won't be mad if I fail

coolitempa:
True but history is a continuum.....and the colonisation of the ibos continue till today. A lot of them have left their villages and have adopted the culture of their masters. These are some of the reasons they remain embittered.

Why are they embittered when they've never been free born at the least for the longest stretch of their existence. It's a grouping of hamlets of escapee Benin, Igala, Arochukwu and Benue slaves. That's why from North to south as you transverse the region, you can clearly see that their's really no homogeneity. They don't have the same origins and the only semblance of governance comes from Benin influence (Obi of Onitsha) and Nri (Eri is from Igala)

Ochendo1:
Lets even pretend that the gibberish you fabricated is even true, yet you backward Igala ppl don't have a state of your own.
You ppl have been repeatedly trounced and defeated politically by the Ebira people in all indices with regards Kogi State.
You people are now playing second fiddle to a state you people once claimed you dominate , shame.
Don't bring the great Igbo people into your stupidity, you people sit in your little huts lazying about in your uncivilized scanty fetish villages while your wifes are bread winners.
Don't go typing rubbish because you are priviledged amongst your backward ppl to own a phone and access to the internet.
Get more education, lazy youth.

One of ours, Willy Obiano the Igala illustrious son, is doing our bidding

And please this is serious work. Achebe was quoted amongst other international scholars. You can't wish your history away

T9ksy:
Now you can see why i call them, clones. Even when you place horse shit under their nostrils, they will still be saying "it's a bed of roses, they smell".

I tell you, their mischievous lying elders did a "good number" on them conditioning them with utter fallacies in order to cover up their failures.

They are insufferable I swear. But I'll keep exposing till they finally receive sense

onyepapa:
I was reading hoping to find sense! But at the end it was a post from a kid

A kid like Chinua Achebe who's work was referenced abi?

This is not a post for babies. Join the training wheel thread somewhere else

coolitempa:
The Ibos should be very grateful for the British intervention because had they not come in,....it is possible that most of them would have by now been speaking Yoruba and Igalla. I mean the IMO are from Yoruba, northern ibos were slaves of Igallas and southern ibos were sold by the Ijaws...also onisha and agbor were under the Benin kingdom. No group of people can be more thankful to Nigeria coming together than the ibos.

Exactly. They owe their existence and continued survival to Nigeria. I don't know why they are not grateful

ucheicon:
Does it matter? The US was once a colony of the UK. They fought and got their independence in 1776. Now the US dominates the UK in everything and they UK does everything to please them. The Igbos are superior to them today

It matters especially when 99% of you folks don't know your history and it also matters since it's the Igalas of Anambra and Enugu still dominating Igbos even though they've embraced the same identity

technicallyrich:
i have read all you wrote and i have said they are trash.
We have igallas in east,just like we ijaws are in the west.
We ijaws can even defeat and conquer the yaribanza as they are streghntless and weak.
But you dont see us make noise about it.
Hope you know igallas are also in bayelsa.so we you say they conquered ijaws.which is not even possible as ijaws are the strongest,bravest,richest and most blessed black people on earth.
Igallas are our minority brothers,a small biafran tribe mostly found in ss,se and some middle belt part of biafra.
You can never cause problem for us.

There lies your problem. Willfully obtuse

You don't know the difference between a research paper based on documented history and an opinion

FG has chronic revenue problems and they should not go after making revenue?

technicallyrich:
Please op is ijaw and not ijo.
Only some parts of ijaw are called ijo.
Thats why some ijaws speak ijo.
Hope you get.
Finally as an ijaw man,i dont think your story is true.
Just another trash from a yoruba muslim.
Who even hear about igalla in ss/se.
U can prove these your trash right by goin to conquer then these feb

Comprehension is not your strong subject.

Ritchiee:
Kayfra,pls pardon the Igbos until they start their usual stupidity again.I have known,after reading their history,that the intelligent ones amongst them are the Igalas who have metamorphosed into Igbo just like the Yorubas in IMO state who migrated from Ile Ife but are now Igbos.Vanguard carried some stories about them recently.

What we need now is to come together and sieve out the stones in our rice threatening to break our teeth.

I'll chill after this post. But let me give everybody ammunition to deal with them when they start misbehaving. In addition, a lot of them don't even know their recorded history and this gives them a hint of what is yet to come

Igala created Ikenga, Ojukwu's title, and the Eze's were crowned in present day Kogi State. They ruled over Igbos for close to 4 centuries. Damn yo

The Fulanis literally saved the Igbos from continued domination by the powerful Igalas. I am shocked

IGALA COLONISATION OF NORTHERN IGBO STATES* (1450–18th century). Michael Achile Umameh The Igala mega state attained the height of its fame during the mid-17th century. The rise of the Igala mega state disrupted and contributed to the shift of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade from the Bight of Benin to the Bight of Biafra and the decline of the Benin Empire between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Idah-Benin war (1515-1516) was a war of mutual independence. The Igala state reached its political and commercial supremacy afterwards, when it became a leading exporter of choral beads, horses, medicine, skills and of course, slaves to the coastal region. Its growing power, nevertheless, changed the dynamics of the earlier complex relationships with several northern Igbo communities. Joseph Hawkins in 1797 already captured the relentless raiding of the extreme northern Igboland by the Igalas. In his “A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa” he noted the growing conflicts between the 'Ebo Country' and 'Galla'. By the late 17th century, the Igalas conquered and held socio-economic, political and religious control of the indigenous northern Igbo mini-states. From Opi, Nsukka, Nsugbe, several Igbo communities on the Anambra river, the lower Niger, through Okpanam to Asaba the Igala held sway. Trading out post with Onitsha and the Ijo middlemen were fully established. The mythical Omeppa, Inenyi Ogugu set up garrison at Opi and several Igala warlords played their part in the build up of the Igala colonial take over of these northern Igbo states. But no other individual played a greater role in shaping Igala-Igbo colonisation during the 18th century than Onoja Oboni, the legendary Igala warrior and slave trader. Onoja Oboni’s personality and heritage has been shrouded in mythical imagery over time. Ranging from being the Son of Eri, the grandson of Aganapoje to being a descendant of one of the Idah royal families; the priestly sub-clan of Obajeadaka in Okete-ochai-attah. The key areas of consensus are; he was a master strategist, slave raider and trader, conqueror, coloniser and imperialist. Added to these were his diplomacy, expansionist traits and the acculturation of conquered territories. He built himself a walled city in Ogurugu and recent archaeological findings of the remnant of the ruins of his fort on the grounds of the University of Nsukka confirm this. The Igala soldiers built forts and fortifications that stretched from Ete down to Opi and then to Anambra. Oboni’s rise to power affected the history of the North-western Nsukka and the Igbo communities on the Anambra River and the Lower Niger during the Igala commercial and socio-cultural ascendancy and domination. This was the reinforcing of the golden age of Igala imperial expansion. In this way, Igala mega state took control and allegiance were paid. Until the decline of Igala power, the Ezes of Enugu Ezike, Akpugo, Nkpologu, Ibagwa Ani and Opi continued to receive their titles from Idah; investiture, installation and confirmation of their office was only by the royal blessing of Attah Igala in Idah. The Eze were only validated when the returned home with Igala choral beads ‘aka’, staff of office believed to be imbued with protective charms to ensure longevity and security of the Eze as well as prestige animal (horse) to bolster up their ego. There were also periodic royal visits to the Atta Igala to pay tributes and as well intended to strengthen diplomatic ties and inter-group relations, renew allegiance, and assured insurance from slave raids.

In terms of indigenous technologies, the Igala soldiers built factories (forges) for manufacturing Dane-guns, ironworks, carving, introduced arrowheads with tip-poison from sting ray; cloth knitting, terracing of Nsukka hillsides and brought in a well developed political and social hierarchies. At this time Igala empire had become a cultural exchange hub for other merging states; the influence was felt as far north as the Nok civilisation and down east to Igbo-Ukwu civilisation. Till date many of the Igala-Nsukka borderland remain bilingual. On the religious level, the Igala installed their own priests- the Attama- as the custodian of the dangerous ‘alusi’ shrine, took control as mediators between the spirit and the Igbo communities, presided over divinations and fashioned ‘Ikenga’, ‘Okwute’ (ritual staffs) that combined both Igala and Igbo religious elements. The Attama thus became the major agents of Igala socio-cultural control. Several efforts to keep the Attama lineage Igala failed, eventually the priestly office have been greatly igbonized, even though the nominal Igala identification is still predominant. Many of the northern Igbo state settlements have lineages with Igala names, cultural practices with marked Igala modification and adaptations. The use of Igala circular basket in contrast to the Igbo rectangular types persists till this day. By the turn of the 19th century, the Igala empire was too large for any reliable and robust central control. Internal decay and implosion set in. The Fulani jihadists started contracting the Igala imperial power, conquered territories in the north switched tributes, forced or/and seceded from the Igala empire. The Bassa war added more pressure to the war-weary empire. The abolition of slave trade brought in untold economic recession. In 1914 the British burnt down Ibagwa and Obukpa as a punitive measure. By the 1920s, Igala empire was a spent force and a limping shadow, the British easily took over control of both Nsukka and the Igala territories.


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319687582_IGALA_COLONISATION_OF_NORTHERN_IGBO_STATES_1450-18th_century

macof:
. A pity there is such a human being as unintelligent and lacking in the very basic of comprehension skills as yourself

What is wrong with middle eastern migration into Yorùbáland is same as what is wrong with talking about East Asian migration into Yorùbáland
No evidence! No basis by which this claims can stand

I am not here to discuss 18th century flawed racial classification

Nowhere have I stated the Yoruba have a bantu origin, you keep saying I do but probably just your crazy mind conjuring illusions

Alaba - Yoruba
Alabama - America

Yorubas are the original native Americans

Actually, the number was used to get international sympathy and attention. It worked!

GuyWise101:
With what is going on in the world's politics...


The dream of the Igbo tribe (BIAFRA) may just be on the way

Top guy is Jim Mattis

Bottom guy is the disgraced congress man from Iowa Steve King

Gullible Biafrans

GerogeI:
Even people in faraway Kenya will tell you that’s a lie.
Igbos are proud and serve no one.
Our current restriction to be part of Nigeria is by British guns and cunning.

You literally just got a unified ethnic identity in the 20th century

Refer to all the historical accounts. It was all about clans

GerogeI:
How exactly did the payment occur clown.Even the British with their guns spent decades trying to enforce taxes, talk less of the last born that was cast to the north.

So Igalas and Ya-r-i-bas are now cousins, are they both deceitful people?

Slavery and indentured servitude

IDENNAA:
You definitely did not read this trash you posted.

You can read this instead

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319687582_IGALA_COLONISATION_OF_NORTHERN_IGBO_STATES_1450-18th_century/link/59b980e5aca27241618d6923/download

IDENNAA:
Onicha inherited some very minor nomenclature from Bini. And thats a given because Bini was both powerful and influencial in the midwest , but Igbo is way too strong.. Even Umuoji and Obosi take the Iyasele title like Bini, just like you borrowed the Oba title from Bini. Bini also practiced Ikenga and our 4 market days. Igala , Ikwerre , Ika , Ukwuani etc also speak Igbo and practice our culture. Imagine Ikwerre that were Bini migrants but today they have been swallowed by the consuming influence of Igbo culture. In the next 50 years Bini will be speaking Igbo. We dont need war to colonize anybody. They just willingly merge. Very powerful !

The rest of the incoherent rubbish you wrote there belong to the dustbin. And , yes , Igbo had an Nze na Ozo system of governance that governed the people.
I have also read Tribes of The Lower Niger, and you are yet to present your proofs...show me evidence to shut me up.

Bini borrowed Oba from us. We literally changed the Ogiso line and changed it to Oba (Oranmiyan the progenitor of the Benin ruling house). Indisputable fact.

Edos are our cousins anyway

GerogeI:
No need to defend from this one. It does not exist.

Omoluabis and deceitfulness are like 5&6

The whole write up is filled with inconsistencies with well established historical facts.

Tse-Tse fly did not allow horses or even cows to roam below the Benue valley. Only the short igbo cow that is immune was kept as large livestock

All Igbo kings except Onitsha and Arochukwu, were creations of the British. So who exactly paid tributes to Igalas to retain which throne?

I recognize the feeling of helplessness

The weak decentralized hamlets had no choice but to pay taxes to the mighty Igalas, a cousin of the Yorubas

Historical facts are stubborn

GerogeI:
As soon as I read that Igala's were exporting horses from Tse-Tse fly infested river valleys, on the fringe of a tropical rain forest, I stopped reading.

"Fallacies of a Son of the People of Deceit"
Y-a-r-iba

Is that your best defense?

You can see that I come prepared with facts

Don't ever mess with omoluabis

GerogeI:
Are you really a scholar,
You have now degenerated to quoting propaganda material from Igala General Assembly, with no history value. Just an opinionated scrap.

Attah is the father of Igala, and a son of Eri. That's why all there kings are reffer Ed to as Attah. And this translates to father, not even king.

That is the only proof you need that Igala's, decended from the Son of Eri.

Dude. Let me son (school) you


IGALA COLONISATION OF NORTHERN IGBO STATES* (1450–18th century).

IGALA COLONISATION OF NORTHERN IGBO STATES* (1450–18th century). Michael Achile Umameh The Igala mega state attained the height of its fame during the mid-17th century. The rise of the Igala mega state disrupted and contributed to the shift of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade from the Bight of Benin to the Bight of Biafra and the decline of the Benin Empire between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Idah-Benin war (1515-1516) was a war of mutual independence. The Igala state reached its political and commercial supremacy afterwards, when it became a leading exporter of choral beads, horses, medicine, skills and of course, slaves to the coastal region. Its growing power, nevertheless, changed the dynamics of the earlier complex relationships with several northern Igbo communities. Joseph Hawkins in 1797 already captured the relentless raiding of the extreme northern Igboland by the Igalas. In his “A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa” he noted the growing conflicts between the 'Ebo Country' and 'Galla'. By the late 17th century, the Igalas conquered and held socio-economic, political and religious control of the indigenous northern Igbo mini-states. From Opi, Nsukka, Nsugbe, several Igbo communities on the Anambra river, the lower Niger, through Okpanam to Asaba the Igala held sway. Trading out post with Onitsha and the Ijo middlemen were fully established. The mythical Omeppa, Inenyi Ogugu set up garrison at Opi and several Igala warlords played their part in the build up of the Igala colonial take over of these northern Igbo states. But no other individual played a greater role in shaping Igala-Igbo colonisation during the 18th century than Onoja Oboni, the legendary Igala warrior and slave trader. Onoja Oboni’s personality and heritage has been shrouded in mythical imagery over time. Ranging from being the Son of Eri, the grandson of Aganapoje to being a descendant of one of the Idah royal families; the priestly sub-clan of Obajeadaka in Okete-ochai-attah. The key areas of consensus are; he was a master strategist, slave raider and trader, conqueror, coloniser and imperialist. Added to these were his diplomacy, expansionist traits and the acculturation of conquered territories. He built himself a walled city in Ogurugu and recent archaeological findings of the remnant of the ruins of his fort on the grounds of the University of Nsukka confirm this. The Igala soldiers built forts and fortifications that stretched from Ete down to Opi and then to Anambra. Oboni’s rise to power affected the history of the North-western Nsukka and the Igbo communities on the Anambra River and the Lower Niger during the Igala commercial and socio-cultural ascendancy and domination. This was the reinforcing of the golden age of Igala imperial expansion. In this way, Igala mega state took control and allegiance were paid. Until the decline of Igala power, the Ezes of Enugu Ezike, Akpugo, Nkpologu, Ibagwa Ani and Opi continued to receive their titles from Idah; investiture, installation and confirmation of their office was only by the royal blessing of Attah Igala in Idah. The Eze were only validated when the returned home with Igala choral beads ‘aka’, staff of office believed to be imbued with protective charms to ensure longevity and security of the Eze as well as prestige animal (horse) to bolster up their ego. There were also periodic royal visits to the Atta Igala to pay tributes and as well intended to strengthen diplomatic ties and inter-group relations, renew allegiance, and assured insurance from slave raids.

In terms of indigenous technologies, the Igala soldiers built factories (forges) for manufacturing Dane-guns, ironworks, carving, introduced arrowheads with tip-poison from sting ray; cloth knitting, terracing of Nsukka hillsides and brought in a well developed political and social hierarchies. At this time Igala empire had become a cultural exchange hub for other merging states; the influence was felt as far north as the Nok civilisation and down east to Igbo-Ukwu civilisation. Till date many of the Igala-Nsukka borderland remain bilingual. On the religious level, the Igala installed their own priests- the Attama- as the custodian of the dangerous ‘alusi’ shrine, took control as mediators between the spirit and the Igbo communities, presided over divinations and fashioned ‘Ikenga’, ‘Okwute’ (ritual staffs) that combined both Igala and Igbo religious elements. The Attama thus became the major agents of Igala socio-cultural control. Several efforts to keep the Attama lineage Igala failed, eventually the priestly office have been greatly igbonized, even though the nominal Igala identification is still predominant. Many of the northern Igbo state settlements have lineages with Igala names, cultural practices with marked Igala modification and adaptations. The use of Igala circular basket in contrast to the Igbo rectangular types persists till this day. By the turn of the 19th century, the Igala empire was too large for any reliable and robust central control. Internal decay and implosion set in. The Fulani jihadists started contracting the Igala imperial power, conquered territories in the north switched tributes, forced or/and seceded from the Igala empire. The Bassa war added more pressure to the war-weary empire. The abolition of slave trade brought in untold economic recession. In 1914 the British burnt down Ibagwa and Obukpa as a punitive measure. By the 1920s, Igala empire was a spent force and a limping shadow, the British easily took over control of both Nsukka and the Igala territories.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319687582_IGALA_COLONISATION_OF_NORTHERN_IGBO_STATES_1450-18th_century/link/59b980e5aca27241618d6923/download

GerogeI:
Bros,
I hope you studied English comprehension in school.


Subject : is trade relations between riverine populations of Igbo's and Igalas.

Not even the whole ethnic group, just the riverine subset.
Stop wasting cyber space

Both groups (Igbo and Igala) agreed that Igala was the dominant partner

GerogeI:
Lol, you sound like a baby.
Stop making conjectures, provide irrefutable proof of your claims.
If nothing else, at least you should be able to name one southeast Governor who is Igala.

That you said so does not make it true, especially seeing as you are Y-a-riba ( a son of the People of Deceit)
Your credentials for fallacy goes before you!

More proof that Eri is of Igala stock. See link

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337413647_ERI_MIGRATED_FROM_IGALA

GerogeI:
Lol, you sound like a baby.
Stop making conjectures, provide irrefutable proof of your claims. That you said so does not make it true, especially seeing as you are Y-a-riba ( a son of the People of Deceit).
Your credentials for fallacy goes before you!

Read below

That's the academic version and the keyword is dominant partner

GerogeI:
Your level of comprehension is appalling. You could not decifer that the discuss was about trade.
Why will Igbo's want to expand trade with people who did not have much of what we want? They were minor trade partners and were only relevant to our boarder towns according to your source.

Igalas were restricted to trade along the river routes, so historical they went down the rivers as far as Azumini. They never ventured to hinterlands, as the were in no position to conquer anyone.

Being willfully obtuse is your choice and I didn't force it on you

The same way Fulanis dominated Hausa land even though they yielded to Hausa language is the same script Igalas ran on your collective asses. Incursion into your lands, even though your land ownership is not on solid footing as per recent escapee from Benin

Even till date Nri royalty is Igala and the governors of Anambra and Enugu are of Igala stock. They still rule you but speak your dysfunctional language which is hardly mutually intelligible

Another documentation alluding the same thing

Igala may not be related to everyone in southeast Nigeria, especially those of Aro and/or Jewish origin but Igala is related to Nri people considering some related cultures between us. Although, some South-easterners believe that Eri/Eli was the father of all Igbo people, while some disagree with that. But Eri, as a person, how was he related to Igala if actually he was?

According to some Igbo historians, Atta, one of the sons of Eri was the founder of Igala people. But Igala was not founded by one person as it is popular that Igala settled in Wukari-Taraba state after coming from Egypt through Borno … and later migrated from Wukari to Idah. In addition, Attah is a tittle in Igala land not a person as they said, and it means father. So, Attah Igala means Father of Igala. Thus, this version does not have any truth.

Another version said that Eri migrated from Igala area to Aguleri and later married an Igala wife who begot a son called Onoja Oboli, and that the Onoja later founded Igala. This is so cyclic and very contradictory. If Eri migrated from Igala which was already in existence before even marrying his wife or getting a son, how come the same Igala will be founded by Onoja? This also does not hold water.

The third version said that Eri came from heaven with his wife and settled near Omabala river. He later got a child called Idah who founded Igala. Again, this is very strange to many popular world historians as Idah was just a location and not the name of person. Idah was from Ona Imuda,meaning the road has ended because the road or path they were following during their (Igala people) migration ended at the bank of river Niger and they Igala people had to settle down there.

Till date, no man or ruler or Attah Igala among the royal clan had/has Idah as his name. This makes this version also false. There is another version which is still different. These inconsistence versions by Igbo historians could not provide provable facts. However, all of them point to one direction, and that is; Eri or Igbo was the father of Igala people.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337413647_ERI_MIGRATED_FROM_IGALA

IDENNAA:
Prove it with empirical facts not not made up stories without proofs. Show me how Onicha royalty relates to Bini....Prove it ! And start from Ezechima , the progenitor of the Ezechima group. Oga , Igbo is too strong for you , the British could not understand us and hated our style of settlement and governance....we were Republicans way before Americans created democracy...lmao

Aside from the fact that it was well documented by colonialists and your griots. Even the lineage stated in the embedded book has Edo names as Kings. All you have to do is read the page

Republicans my ass. Your higher caste had Eri and imported Obi. Then the Arochukwu superior Igbos too had their own system. Just so happens most of the Igbos are dispersed people with no homogeneous history. Kiss that Republicanism to a lack of structure

IDENNAA:
No peace for the wicked...Igbo must drive some people crazy. Come and practice Bini culture in Onicha and change the nomenclature including Ogwugwu Udo , the most revered shrine in Onicha.

Come and celebrate Igue festival in Onicha.
Come and speak Bini in Onicha
Change all the names of Onicha ancestor that migrated from the so called Bini including Ezechima, Chimaevi, Chimedie , Oreze etc..

Start with changing these ancient Igbo names to Bini names......rubbish

Your rants doesn't change the fact that Onitsha royalty has Bini ancestry.