Lifestone:

All this English on top of a clear evidence from your ancestors? Why are guys so ashamed of your pasts.

We are just trying to debunk lies

Emmadoc:
Why do the Igbos think every tribe in Nigeria hates them? Honestly it baffles me a lot.

They think no other tribe is up to them, it makes me wonder if there won't be any form of dictatorship on other minor tribes that decides to join them in their quest for Biafra, when it is actualised.

Seems like you are new

Read up on Nigerian history

MalcoImX:
The [s]Nairaland post below tries to argue that Igboland is not landlocked because like Austria, which accesses the sea through the Danube River, it can access the sea through the Niger.[/s]

First of all, this is the historical map of Igbo land and this is what we are taking since we are able to make claims on our ancestral land

Second of all, there is no rule against expansion. Our ancestors did it to progress and so can we

I pity the Babel republic of niger delta because they would be so easy to divide hence making them easy targets

Cry all you want, but know not one single teardrop will pass this nairaland forum

Anyways sha, you can call us onye dot for now due to the nonsense geopolitical, but when it is time for igbos to leave you will see

McLizbae:
"Yoruba" must sha enter you people talk! Yoruba, the oxygen in the air they all breathe

Am I the one that made the list?

Nọnso Uche Nnajide wrote...

IGBO SLAVES AMONG THE ITSEKIRI?

So yesterday, an Itsekiri fellow on Facebook made the interesting claim that his people had many (emphasis on 'many') Igbo slaves. He went further to say that some of the descendants of these Igbo slaves still live in Delta State, and speak a hybrid language which he refused to mention. In the interest of intellectual discourse he probably should have mentioned it, and given interested parties the opportunity to verify or debunk the claims.

As far as the ethnic backgrounds of slaves in Itsekiri land is concerned, this is what the historian P. C. Lloyd wrote in his paper, "The Itsekiri in the Nineteenth Century: An Outline Social History":

Lloyd wrote: "A further change in Itsekiri social structure during the century was the development of domestic slavery. At the turn of the century the king held a large number of slaves, but the number owned by the chiefs is not known. The kingdom must have exported at least a thousand slaves annually. But with the decline of the slave trade, the supply did not cease, and slaves were integrated into the Itsekiri economy. Thus of Jakpa's 5000 people, Burton estimated that 600 - 700 were slaves of Diare. Olomu's slaves were variously numbered at 1000, 3000 and 4000.

"The slaves were never Itsekiri, rarely Ijoh. Most were Urhobo, often being men and women expelled from their communities for serious offences and sold in the riverside markets. Some were given to the Itsekiri as pledges for debts. The Itsekiri usually equate the price of a slave with a puncheon of oil. They assert that they never went to a war to capture slaves, though a favourite method of settling a debt or a quarrel was to seize a man's slaves. Other slaves came through the trade routes from Benin and Yoruba country where they had been captured in inter-tribal wars. Nana's most senior slaves were Ologun, a Yoruba, and Sagay, a Benin."

*Sagay is very clearly a corruption of the Bini name Osagie.

So there you have it. Itsekiri's slaves came primarily from the Urhobo; secondarily from the Yoruba and the Bini; and sometimes (though rarely) from the Ijọ. These are the people in the same geographical area as the Itsekiri and the people with whom they were involved in regular interactions. But our Itsekiri friend went over the heads of his neighbours to look for slaves among the Igbos located farther away.

I was going to just laugh at the story and go on with my business, but I realized there are Igbo people who may not be informed enough to see that this man lied through his teeth, hence my decision to talk about it here.

For foolish ones among us following #RenoOmokri

Here is an accurate list of most enslaved African races with Mbundu coming first, Yoruba coming second

Cheers!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8PCd1ZV7cA

Exactly, this thing no concern for igbo

We need to stop defending those confused ones

This Reno guy shouldn’t have added Igbo, he should have referred to the people as anioma

Are those ones Igbo?

Us Igbo people have no business with this.

Buckeyemedia1:
No sarcasm, Michael Adenuga is richer than the top 5 from Anambra State combined.

If that is so, he can also buy the entire Yoruba tribe

The region with least digital divide

The first people to walk on earth shouldn’t be the last to step on the moon

God bless Rhodesia, a Biafran ally

Zimbabwe today

Rhodesia is a perfect example of people with the ability to lead should lead.

This is what Africans are capable of doing but they are destroyed by bad leadership but blindly support it because of their sentiment.

This is paradise and it looks way better than most European countries.

Now that the Zimbabweans have abolished whiteys rule, look at where they are now

Africans are not capable of leading themselves yet as most African countries have a genocide story to tell.

Shun quota system

Lwkmd. Nice beat tho

yanabasee1:
This is a substandard home for police officers....


Google and see other country's quarters for police officers and compare it to this nonsense...

It’s not a crime for you to go and build police quarters for the state

owobokiri:
Every single Kenyan embassy, anywhere in the world should be turned into a battle ground!
And if Uhuru Kenyatta is seen, make sure to give him the "Ekweremadu treatment"...
It's time to escalate... No to fulani enslavement..

Then there is no difference between you guys and other terrorist groups

If biafrans don’t agitate the peaceful way, their backlash will be violent.

vasel15:


I am doing it to save our youths, someone have to say the truth

How is the show of money affecting the youth?

You poverty stricken individuals are the ones affecting the youth by saying that obi and his group got money through illegitimate means which would influence them

vasel15:


I am no more hustling I am comfortable and I am not rich

If you are comfortable then why are you complaining about other people’s lifestyle

vasel15:


All tribes in Nigeria worship money but igbos just take it to another level

We don’t worship money, we just reject poverty.

Just because you saw some rich men doing their doings at Oba, you are now getting jealous.

The money show should be an incentive to you to work harder. Don’t bring people who are ahead down to your level

vasel15:


Please close mouth yorubas worship money as well but igbos own is on another level

That’s falsehood

If you give a Yoruba man 20k, you no go see that money the next morning because he would have spent it on useless goods, despite being poor.

Unlike the Igbo who would save it, invest it or use it for a valuable business venture because they are smart and know the importance of money.

Just something I’ve observed

jrjfjfj:
you are a bastard ,may yoruba matter kill you

I’m just saying what I observed when I used to live in Lagos. They always brag that they don’t care about money and that it’s Igbo who do that, but the money they don’t care about they don’t even have.

It’s a common thing over there

Majority of the people who say that they don’t care about money are Yoruba and majority of the people who say that are broke and have no future from what I’ve observed

Lol nonsense