₦airaland Forum

shota:
KALABARI is a kingdom and not even an ethnic group. It is a kingdom made up of Tombia, Kula, Ke, Ifoko, Minama, Angulama, Sangama, Abalama, Oporoama , Abissa , Soku, Ekulema, Ebema and the Kengema group and they are all Ijaw ....so your statement ( What is your reason for concerning yourself about the history of the Ijaws of the 10th Century, after all, i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu? So why do you concern yourself about 10th century Ijaw History, i yeri Ijoi na bo? ) does not make sense. It only shows how ignorant and naive you are about KALABARI .

If you were not daft you'd ve seen that I've been referring to history of the people prior to the 10th century when all the communities and clans I've been mentioning existed not as KALABARI towns but as independent Ijaw settlements with distinct history. . You are so daft that you can not even use simulation to get to a near fact of event. If you were not told by one tale teller you could not also be able to research to find out.. Did God create AWOME directly ?. Have I not explained to you what BANTU is ? Why then do you still say of the BANTU region ? Yorubas, Igbos, Efiks, Ijaws are all part of the BANTU race . Does the word Awome make sense to you ? Can't you even see that the word Awome is an adulterated form of AWO ame which means group of Awos. It's the same group of people that referred to themselves as koro ame and they are just parts of the Opukorye group....Now check your brain by answering these questions.. 1 WHY do KALABARI say they were neighbors of the MBOKO ?? 2. How could Owere ye daba paddle to Arochukwu land from the present day KALABARI land if Owuere ye Daba existed at this modern Kalabari region ? ..3. How could the KALABARIS paddle to SUKU ( Arochukwu ) If they were at this modern Kalabari region ? 4. Did you ever hear of KALABARI paddling across Bonny territory in the days of old ? ..5. If the Awo ame AKA Koro ame were not similar with the Ende ame and the rest how could they have come to live with them speaking the same dialect ? 6. Where are the burial places of all the so called kings you mentioned that were kings of KALABARI at Torusarama piri if they ever existed there ? Go to CALABAR today and start digging and you might find remains of ancient Kalabari KINGS you are talking about.. . Does the word or name Opu koroye sound like Igbo, Efik, Andoni or Ogoni to you ?.. Was it only Ende that Perebo kalabari gave birth to ? Opukoroye is a descendant of Perebo Kalabari . Now one other thing you do not know is this.. That the word KALABARI was not a name but a derog. The Ikwere people of AMAFO AND OTHERS that traded with the Ijaws simply referred to the people as KALABARI because the people were always begging for more by saying .. KALA KE I BARI ( KELE KE IBARI )..This became a derog used by the Ikweres to refer to the Ijaws as in KELE KE IBARI people.. The so called Perebo was just called by his nick name PERE which the Ikweres also understood as leader hence he was dubbed Pere bo of Kele ke ibari people.. ( Perebo KALABARI ).. His real name was not known just as the name of his father was also not known. His father was simply known as a MEIN MAN ( MEIN OWEI ) that came from Ogobiri. . So stop writing 19th century history of few families you know to make it seem Kalabari history. Go and study the history of the IFOKO, MINAMA, ANGULAMA, SANGAMA, KULA, KE, ABISSA, BILLE , OPOROAMA, ILELEMA , SOKU and EKULEAMA ..And study the history of the Koro ame ( Awo ame ) and their movement from the Far East to Torusarama piri in the 16th century. When the Dutch were ruling and in control.

Oooh! The horror! The horror! Here now, a Lazy Brain with pervasive ignorance. "Kalabari is not an Ethnic Nationality" you opine? Oh the horror of ignorance! The Fools Train has also left the station. Now more fools can join the act of hiding under the skirts of Tom Alabaraba.

However, let me set you straight on the most obvious fallacies of your post for which I can provide you with obvious counter-examples. First I say that Kalabari is a confluence of two languages, and you disagree on the grounds that the Ijaws and the Kuro-ame could not have lived together if they did not speak the same language to begin with. Well, here is a counter example: if people with different languages could not live together and originate a new language, then how was Swahili formed?

Here is another counter-example, if as you opined, the Kalabari language had been the native language of the peoples of IFOKO, MINAMA, ANGULAMA, SANGAMA, KULA, KE, ABISSA, BILLE , OPOROAMA, ILELEMA , SOKU and EKULEAMA, then when did the Ke people originate their native language that is known as the "Ke Language"? Yes, surprise! The Ke people have always had their language but also speak Kalabari. So may be you have to find out from the Ke people when they started speaking Kalabari, and what made them speak Kalabari in addition to their native language? Do you know, why you are ignorant about the fact that these communities have had their languages? That is because i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu, translated "both by your arms and your legs in Kalabari lands, your origin is Igbo". Most of these communities have their native languages which the Kalabari people do not understand, except after living in the communities for a while, and they either still speak their native languages (or have stopped speaking the languages since speaking Kalabari) .

Let me give you another lesson in Kalabari, although I am cognizant of the reality that you are simply an "Imitation Kalabari" and not true Kalabari, do please pay attention and learn, Awome and Awo-ame are not the same, but I forgive you as I said you are Imitation Kalabari. You see Awome has the diacritical mark under the 'o' and the Awo-ame does not have the mark, as a result the pronounciation goes something like this for Awome as "Aw or me", while for Awo-ame as "Aw oh a me". Do you do get you now? You see, speaking Kalabari properly is in the inflexion of the intonation, which the Buguma people till today have not mastered; but then as I have always said the Buguma people do not speak Kalabari anyway. They speak Buguma Kalabari that often has its own meaning consistent with their generally Igbo origins.

Now lets see, I have proven by counter-example that any two peoples who originally did not speak the same languages can live together and originate a whole new language; I have proven by counter-example that the Kalabari Clan communities always had their own native languages which they either still speak or do not speak any more, but had one prior to speaking Kalabari; I have also shown by the idiolect of the kalabari language that Awome is not the same as Awo-ame, after all, Awome is as pronounced in "Awome Kasso" in recognition of the people who brought the Kasso to Kalabari. So when I say to you that I am of the Kuro-ame and they were not called by Kuro-ame but rather by "Awome" until the reign of Opukuroye (who was indeed grandson of Awome) then you will know where the expression "Awome Kalabari" came from -which incidentally was the name by which the Kalabari peoples were referenced when King Awome ruled Kalabari. But I forgive you the ignorance, you are of Igbo stock in Kalabari, so you would not know these things, then, of course, you are a lazy brain.

I could tell you what the true Kalabari people mean when they say "they are neighbors of Mboko" but I wont. In the olden days it was becoming to say it, but not these days as we have become modern and civilized. The last time someone very close to me yet much older used the expression with its full meaning, I was nineteen and I cringed and appealed to the person never to use it again. I was told that it was the truth but even then I still cringed and repeated my appeal. But if you must know, ask the Akwa Ibom elders why they hate the Kalabari people being neighbors to them, and if they are calm enough, they will tell you.

Do note that "Suku" is used mostly by the Amachrees and their slaves, Ombo, Edi Abali, etc; and when they use the expression SUKU they do not mean anything even remotely close to Arochukwu like the Igbos. Let me educate you yet again here: When the Amachrees and their slaves take someone to SUKU they simply take the person to a remote location, kill the person and feast on the body. Amakiri came to Kalabari as a result of arson he committed on his hometown of Kolo for a supposed slight to his family for not being given proportionate amount of human flesh to eat during the community's annual ceremony of human feasting. The Amachrees are cannibals and they used to annually feast on human beings. Get it into your head, SUKU is a euphemism of the Amachrees and their Igbo slaves for human feasting festivity. I hope that I have been able to educate you on this critical issue.

Finally about my use of the term Bantu. You see, you are stupid because if I use a term repeatedly in a manner that has a different meaning from your understanding of the word, the right thing to do -which is what an intelligent person would do- is to ask me what do you mean by your usage of the term Bantu? I continue to use it because I am implicitly telling you that your understanding is wrong. You see, there is still today a small place around Dukes town in Cross-Rivers State that is identified as Bantu in assertion of their difference and origin. In my book, I took the time to explain the significance of their doing so, even as the Duweinyi-Ala family has now taken to differentiating themselves from the rest of the Briggs by pointedly calling themselves as Akiala. These Bantu people are the remainder of the community from which Awome and his people came to join Kalabari at Obu-amafor (Elemu Kalabari), and their original language forms the base of the current Kalabari language, which was also originated at Obu-amafor before the migration of the whole community to Iwo Kalabari (Old Shipping). Please note that when a true Kalabari person says "Elemu Kalabari" they do not mean Old Shipping, they mean Obu-amafor, only the "Imitation Kalabari" or Buguma people think Elemu Kalabari means Old Shipping, but that because they mix up Elemu Ama with Elemu Kalabari. Elemu Ama, which is normally used relative to the present "Ama" in reference, would be Old Shipping or Iwo Kalabari, but not Elemu Kalabari

Next time I will educate you on how the Kalabari language that was developed at Elemu Kalabari became so pervasively used in the eastern Niger Delta. I had been asked this question before when I was on Ijawnation chatroom, and answered it.

shota:
Stupid Kalabari man digressing from the topic to an assassination attempt... All the rulers of KALABARI are referred to as AMAKIRI so it depends on which AMAKIRI you are talking about. And I am not about History of KALABARI of the 18th and 19th centuries.. I am on IJAW people that lived at the Eastern Ijaws before the 10th century who were never CALLED KALABARI AND they were the IFOKO, SANGAMA, KULA, BILLE, SOKU, ANGULAMA, KE, ABISSA, OPOROAMA , MINAMA, ILELEMA. They were never known as KALABARI and they exsited before the 10th century....

So now your concern is that of Ijaw History of the 10th Century. You see, you liar Amachrees gang have been getting away with your lies which you are frequently revising because the Kalabari descendants have been ignoring you as commoners about whom they wish not to be bothered. But I always knew, even as Alaye Fubara Manuel observed earlier in his books, that once the Kalabari decide to take you on on your pseudo-history telling, you will all become silent with these your lies.

Know this, ninny Tom Alabaraba, I am of Ngo; Ngo being a grandson of Owuerre-Daba; Owuerre-Daba being the grandson of Opukuroye; and Opukuroye being the grandson of Awome who was not related in anyway to Kalabari. So please note that Opukuroye was never a child of Kalabari but a grandson of Awome of Bantu origin.

Also know this I am of the Ende-ame, being of Benebo who was the son of Oruama, the only daughter of Awoye Owukori, the son of Prince Awo to whom the Europeans entrusted their goods being the royal even when Amakiri was poxy for him.

I know the history of the Ede-ame because I am of the blood-line of the Ende-ame, so I can concern myself about Ijaw history if and when I want; I know the history of the Kuro-ame because I am also of the bloodline of the Kuro-ame, and I can concern myself about the Kuro-ame history when and if I want.

What is your reason for concerning yourself about the history of the Ijaws of the 10th Century, after all, i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu? So why do you concern yourself about 10th century Ijaw History, i yeri Ijoi na bo?

shota:
Listen These people you mentioned only had their mothers as natives of Soku. I am also part Jackrich and it is just the same stupid blind claim where people say the Jackrich owns SANGAMA where as the truth is a Sangama mother gave birth to Jackrich... SOKU is a very ancient settlement.. The OMBO family perhaps due to their SOKU link simply claimed to be bona fide Soku natives which was misunderstood to be Owners of SOKU.. Why don't you go to the SOKU town and get their history ? Is SOKU extinct ?. They were known as SOKIN. Refer to their history in the History of Nembe. SOKIN existed even before ELEM SANGAMA and the Neighbors know SOKU very well. It was a distinct Ijaw town .

Tom Alabaraba, would you please stop this nonsense of telling lies. My last name Benebo, is extracted from Chief Benebo Kuruye-Alele, popularly known as Chief Wokoma, who was son of So-Alabo Akoko who was son of Ngo who was the second cousin of Seleye Fubara, which is why Jackreece and Wokoma families are next to each other in Buguma. Seleye Fubara had no child and adopted Jackreece as an Igboman. Seleye Fubara traded with the English at the time under the name of Jack. When the English asked him whom he had brought with him to trade that day he told then this was a man whom he had bought to help him by, and they then in reply said (I paraphrase): "Ohh so this is Jack's leash then" and from then on became known to the English as JackLeash. Interestingly this information is also in the records of the Buguma people and the documents they frequently used to contest the leadership of the Amakiri Enclave and Families and now known as the Amanyanabo of Buguma. Jackleash has since been written as Jackreece when I lived in Buguma and now you fools prefer to style yourselves Jackrich. You are a joker.

You fool, Ombo (or Harry as he is also known) was never from Soku. He was an Igboman murderer that Amakiri bought and brought to Kalabari to kill for him, and the first person he killed was Osimininye Alali. This information is in the Portuguese record and also in the English documents. Ombo was an Igboman and had nothing whatsoever to link to Soku, just as JackLeash has nothing to do with Sangama.

Oh just so you know, Osiniminiye Alali of the Akiala-ame was killed because he came straight-out called Amakiri a slave. Also Amakiri was challenged by Gbana the sister of Osiminimiye Alali to prove that he was in fact not a slave and show the justification he had for murdering her brother which he was never able to prove. He was also called a slave and publicly vituperated by the Chief od Duweinyi Ala families of the Akiala-ame to behave himself, for which he nearly killed off that family after the Chief died. Imagine three people from the same Akiala-ame family called out Amakiri as a slave. These records are available in the Portuguese and English archives and dated as having occurred at about 1772. that means Amakiri was not made a King in the 1600s as you assert, and in fact was never even a Kalabari Chief less he would never have been called out a slave according to the Kalabari culture. These events or incidences are all in the records and dated. So do you realize that you have now shown up yourself as a pathological liar in suggesting that Amakiri was made a King in the 1600s?

By the way, how are doing with your hiding from the US Government regarding your swindling them from the Medical Supplies services? Are you still hiding and writing all these? I suggest you be careful because the NSA just might use this to track you down and have you arrested or extradited from whichever country you are hiding in. That reminds me you are now even a fugitive criminal as a consequence, right?

shota:
Now it seems you are a daft... 1715 was the 18th century.. AMAKIRI was made king in the 1600s and that was the 17th century.. Prior to that time, there was no King in TORUSARAMA PIRI cos the people of the settlement were independent of each wards.. And Torusarama piri was just an ordinary settlement owned by KE people hence it was referred to as KE ANGA BE AMA. tHE VARIOUS leaders of KALABARI you are talking about must be the rulers of KALABARI when they the Koro ame WERE still in the CALABAR region cos that was their aboriginal land where they had MBOKO neighbors..It was OWUERE DABA that led them away from Calabar. Now it is not clear if Owuere Daba actually touched down on TORUSARAMA PIRI...At this time, Torusama piri, Ke, Ifoko, Tombia, Minama and the rest towns were not called KALABARI towns. It was when King AMAKIRI mounted the Throne that they decided to call the amalgamated region KALABARI... This is the part many people like you are finding difficulty to understand cos your mind is fixated on KALABARI excluding the ancient region of the OPU KORYE people.. Your blocked Brains can not even reason when your orasl TRADITION says KALABARI were neighbours of MBOKO.. Did you see any MBOKO as KALABARI neighbors today ? Where is AROCHUKWU near KALABARI today ? AROCHUKWU and MBOKO were near KALABARI when KALABARI was the region known as CALABAR today and that was where all the Kings you mentioned as KALABARI kings ruled and not in Torusarama piri..

You daft monkey, you think Iyalla was alone. Iyalla was the leader of a people and he led a faction of Tombia people that lived in ancient Tombia and not in Torusarama piri.. Go and read Tombia history or better still the history of the Iyalla family of Bakana.. Iyalla was a strong Tombia warrior..

Now it is clear why you failed out of the University you claimed to be attending. You are really mentally deficient. Chronological thinking seems not to be an aspect of your thinking: Let me make it explicit to you then: consider that the first Treaty signed between the English and Kalabari was signed at about 1835 -1838, when Karibo was the leader of the Amakiri Enclave in the "Opouama". Now then given that the Amakiris, as you fool, allege that Amakiri ruled followed by Karibo and then Abbi and a string of Amakiris, so if Amakiri became a King in the 1600s, and the 1700s are later where then did the Igonibo reign break into the Amakiri alleged/phantom dynasty? How was it that the reign of Igonibo broke into the alleged Amakiri dynasty other than that the rubbish written by that ninny Enefaa Johnbull (which you quote diligently as your own) was just that a bullS**t. Have you got it as yet that you are mentally deficient? So now who is daft monkey: the one who does not know that 1700s being later that 1600s means Amakiri did rule Kalabari or the one as me who does? Yet you have still not answered my challenge: Given that the first Treaty with the English was signed at about 1835 - 1838, and if in fact as the wanton liar Amachrees allege Amakiri ruled Kalabari in the 1600s, how then is it that Theophilus Princewill could not find a single Treaty with the Portuguese or the Dutch that was signed by Amakiri? How do you think Simon Owonaro determined from documentation that Kininyanabo Igonibo ruled between 1715 -1721? have you got it as yet, that you are mentally deficient?

You wrote thus:
Now it is not clear if Owuere Daba actually touched down on TORUSARAMA PIRI...At this time, Torusama piri, Ke, Ifoko, Tombia, Minama and the rest towns were not called KALABARI towns.
Yet the Portuguese met with King Owuerre-Daba at Old Shipping and they have the records for that. That was where he told them that they were Kalabari. Now that is another record for you ... GI Jones has it in his book about the Oil Niger Rivers etc...

You also wrote:
You daft monkey, you think Iyalla was alone. Iyalla was the leader of a people and he led a faction of Tombia people that lived in ancient Tombia and not in Torusarama piri..
How can you suggest what I think as "Iyalla was alone" when you can not even understand what I write. I have previously told you that Iyalla became a Kalabari Chief at Old Shipping before relocating to Tombia, and that means that Iyalla had got together a minimum number of 100 Kalabari Union citizens before he became a Chief; that was the culture, but I have already written that before. So why would you suggest that I would "think" when in fact I have been telling you. Of course, by the time Chief Iyalla attacked the Okaki Nembe people and destroyed them, he had become a powerful war Canoe House in Tombia to where he relocated after having already become a Kalabari Chief of the Odum Families Group. So now I ask you: Who is the daft monkey: The one who does not even understand the implications of Kalabari culture as you, or the one such as I who understand the culture and its meaning?

shota:
LOL.. Uncle Benebo, Go and Teach Physics and make use of the quantum laws that you know better . That is your field.. You just can not collate and arrange pieces of history from different places to come up with an acceptable Book. Your history of KALABARI also effectively excluded the Aboriginal Engennis of the land KALABARI kingdom now occupies. Usokun Degema , Atala Degema, Obonnoma, Bukuma, Ogruama just to name a few. Now I ve given you more stuffs to go think about. .. You also do not know nothing about what happened to ancient OLOMA people and their relationship with ABISSA ( Ayabisa ) , The people of ancient OPOROAMA that splitted to become Oproama and Sama today, And the bubbling Coastal town of Ifoko met by the Portuguese . These were not KALABARI people but people who became KALABARI under AMAKIRI . Study also the people of Ibelema who became Krakrama today and find out how the Bulk of them settled in Torusarama piri to become parts of the Elem AMA town settlers . You are by now getting a picture of how the settlement of Torusarama piri was formed . It is cos of the claim of your ancestors as Lords over the real land owners and the original people that made people like IBOROMA of Ifoko , Iyalla of Tombia , Berepiki of Kula , Teme of Abissa and many others from the various original ancient settlements to align with IGBANIBO against your people. Go and study BAKANA town and know the constituents of that town to know the IGBANIBO ALLIANCE was formed. More than half of the fighters were never Elem ama dwelling people . So stop using the history of just one group to mean the history of KALABARI Kingdom. You are not wrong in the piece of history you are presenting but that is simply the history of a faction of Elem KALABARI dwellers which is not close to 5% of the History of KALABARI kingdom... KALABARI is made up of clans like, 1.Kula, 2.Ke.3 Ifoko. 5.Tombia. 6. Oporoama . 7. Minama. 8.Angulama. 9 Ibelema ( Ancient Krakrama ) . 10 Ekuleama ( Idama ) / Soku . 11. Ebema . 12 Aya bisa ( Abisse ). 13 . Oloma . 15. Sangama. 16. And even BILLE which refused to join the amalgamation.. 17. The KORO AME who came from the Far East to influence the settlers at Torusarama piri. and ofcourse the Ende ame whose history you do not know... To write KALABARI kingdom history, you must first outline the history of these various Ijaw groups so on the time line of the KALABARI history.. EXISTENCE of these groups as independent settlements would be at the 5th----10th Level. .. By the 8th century, Torusarama piri was settled by different Ijaw people including Bille people, Ke people, Ifoko people, Ibelema people, Angulama and Minama people, Kula people and people from far away other Ijaw land. TORUSARAMA PIRI became a larger settlement that had numerous Ijaw clans so these people lived along their various clans which we keep referring to as wards. .. At the same time period, OBU AMAFA was existing.. Obu amafa was a market where Ijaw people met the upland dwellers to exchange goods ( buy and sell ). Such market places are always like normal settlements and so Obu AMAFA was a settlemnet on the Ikwere land mass . This Market also attracted Ijaws from different parts.... MIND YOU,, AT THIS TIME...THERE WAS NO KALABARI Kingdom . The destruction of Obu AMAFA led to the Ijaw people of the place dispersing to different places... But Before the destruction of OBUAMAFA, PEREBO KALABARI who was born by a man from MEIN to Possibly a KE woman exsited in the market town. This man had children who grew up to own their various families. Children of this man were the people of KALABARI... Now you having a picture of how KALABARI came about. A faction of the children of this man led by OPU KOROYE had already left Obu AMAFA to the far east and proceeded to found settlements there. ( These people might be the Ijaws that became Defaka and later Obolo due to mixture with other non Ijaws ). Defaka was just one name they gave themselves which in today's tongue is DAFA-A ( in Kalabari ) and DAFAKA ( In Okrika ) simply meaning Our father or ancestor is still alive.. Their ancestor was Perebo Kalabari . They were met by the Portguese and documented as Calabar people.Although many of them led by Owuere Daba abandoned the place and moved back westward, some remained and mixed up with the neighboring people to become Obolo . While Nkoro is the purest form of the people existing today in that region. NKORO is the AROCHUKWU accent for the word KORO people. They are remnants of the Koro ame Ijaws. ......Now by the 10th century, OBUAMAFA was in crisis and eventually destroyed sending every Ijaw people away from the place... People went different ways. ALAGBARIGHA was one Kolokuma man that lived there who also left with some Ikwere friends notably NDOLI and others. They first settled at a place called Orupiri ( land of the gods ) which is just a little bit away from modern day Bakana to the South. But they left the place and went to join some Ijaw people at a town called NYAMPKO where Finima and Tombia people lived. The arrival of ALAGBARIGHA people to the place made the TOMBIANS abandon the place due to disagreement. The remaining people had to share the settlement with ALAGBARIGHA side by side with each group having a name for their part of the settlement hence giving birth to the names FINIMA and OKOLOMA... The Tombians went to settle near Torusarama piri just at the North of Ifoko town ...

Another group of Ijaws from the destroyed OBU AMAFA who called themselves ENDE AME were also said to be Children or people of Perebo Kalabari of Obuamafa. They never settled on a virgin land but decided to settle among the Ijaws of Torusarama piri and formed the Ende ame ward of that settlement . The people continued to live along their various wards independent of each other with every ward having it's own leadership. . At this level, Before the Koro ame came by the 16th century, they were already the richest slave traders haven dominated the calabar river route where they had contact with Arochukwu Igbos at the river source. It was also their time when KALABARI was neighbors of the MBOKO. At the same period when SUKU was a house whole name among them. They would also take their problem to SUKU just as the Igbos did where a guilty person would be said to have been taken by the gods where as in actual fact, at the back of the Long Juju was a waiting covered boat that would take the person away as a slave to be sold to the Igbos. They were the Koro ame who also called themselves Kalabari .

So at Torusarama piri they were influencial and continued to call themselves partly as KALABARI people and KORO AME at the same time. Meanwhile, the Ende ame were also Kalabari PEOPLE so at that time, there ere two Kalabari family or ward groups in ELEM AMA ( Torusarama piri ). TORUSARAMA piri became a bee hive of activities and the English were looking for ways to control the entire NIGER DELTA region. So the idea to pick clan leaders or settlement leaders that would be used as indirect middle men to organize a trade system and a form orderly living arose.. OKOLOMA was also bubbling with Ijaw activities while the Okrika Ijaw s wanted to have contact with the Europeans without necessarily dealing with Okoloma chiefs. So they thought destroying Torusarama piri would pave way for this to happen and so they stroke one day when able Torusarama piri people were all away for the daily business. On arrival, Torusarama piri was attacked by the Okrikans. This attack was the first call that made Torusarama piri people to form an alliance to form a central government. Meanwhile, the worst hit part of the town was the KORO AME section. This made the KORO AME people to lack the man power to produce a person to rule the town. This is the link where MANY KALABARI historians are seeing to be the end of the dynasty of the KORO AME leadership of KALABARI when in actual fact, KALABARI kingdom was not even born yet cos the KORO AME people were all the time simply ruling themselves as KALABARI people.

Eventually TORUSARAMA PIRI people backed by Tombia, Ifoko, KE approved AMAKIRI to be their leader. This was the beginning of the era of the King AMAKIRIS. . Amakiri then extended his rule to all the ancient clans but could not do so to the clans just across the river because the OKOLOMA king there is already in control of the people.. That OKOLOMA ruler was king PERE KULE.. This was the time when the Ijaws of that territory found themselves now divided along new LEADERSHIP with the bulk under AMAKIRI and the rest under PERE KULE. The King AMAKIRI leadership then decided to call the entire clans, settlements and groups under his rule as KALABARI people with only the people of BILLE refusing to be part of....

Do you even realize you made a ninny of yourself with this gibberish you wrote? You would have granted yourself some modicum of consideration had you put the supposed information in a time-line. But I forgive you, indeed, as sequential thinking to the end of construction of logic escapes your ability.

Really, all you had to do was simply disprove my assertion, one by one: (1) Kininyanabo of Kalabari Igonibo ruled during 1715 - 1721, so there could not have been Amakiri. You could have simply asserted that there is no written record and I would have proven you wrong. But you couldn't because you know you are a wanton liar.
(2) Kula subordinated their monarchy to the Kalabari Kininyanabo during Igonibo's reign of 1715 -1721. You could have simply asserted that did not happen, and I would have proven you wrong too. But you also couldn't because you know that you are just a wanton liar.

Now I will even help you along some: You know, soon after the fraudulent claim of Theophilus Princewill, as Amanyanabo of Buguma, he visited Portugal and researched their archives looking for Treaties signed between Portugal and Kalabari City State, and not in any one of them did he find the signature of that criminal fugitive Amakiri or Amakoromo. Then that murderous Theophilus Princewill travelled to Holland also to search their archives for any shred of evidence that Amakiri was around when the Holland people (also called Dutch) signed Treaties with Kalabari City State (at Old Shipping) and traded with each other, and even there he found none. All documents he found were signed by either Owuerre-Daba or Akeamaoloye and his sons, and inbetween them Mangi-Suku. Sadly none by Amakiri. Let me now tell you the reason why this is so, and not many people understand it, during the period Amakiri was let to proxy for Prince Awo, the European trader refused to recognize Amakiri and continued to insist that Prince Awo sign all documents and was entrusted with all their goods in consignment. Their argument was simple, the royal family has a dignity and trustworthiness that was unequaled by any other, and that certainly Amaikiri was an unknown quantity and so not to be bothered with. Do you get it now. So let me give you another challenge: Produce one document ever signed by Amakiri with the Europeans on behalf of Kalabari.

You wrote this piece that I find very interesting:
It is cos of the claim of your ancestors as Lords over the real land owners and the original people that made people like IBOROMA of Ifoko , Iyalla of Tombia , Berepiki of Kula , Teme of Abissa and many others from the various original ancient settlements to align with IGBANIBO against your people.
How was it that an Igbanibo alliance was formed between my people (part Kalabari family) and the original land-owners against my people? Are you mental? You and your gang claimed previously that King Igbanibo rebelled against Abbi, now you assert that he ( Igbanibo who was my cousin) fought against my (also his) people. Now let me set you straight again. There was no alliance between Chief Iyalla and King Igbanibo, for the simple reason that as boys Iyalla, Alambo and Igbanibo were raised together in the same household as brothers by Kombo agolia. Of course, Iyalla was adopted into that family to prevent Karibo Amakiri from killing him, and therefore was raised in the family as the older brother of both Alambo and Igbanibo. Further Iyalla's Chietaincy was also of the Odum family: Iyalla having grown up into adulthood became a Kalabari Chief in the Odum family before relocating to Tombia, so a Chief Iyalla was never a Tombia man but a full blooded Kalabari citizen who was residing at Tombia. In any case, when his (Iyalla's) baby brother Igbanibo went to war, Chief Iyalla suspended everything he was doing and joined up with his brother. Now do you get it. The various other families wanted to be adopted as citizens of the Kalabari Union and therefore joined up with Igbanibo and become such -citizens of the Kalabari Union. A privilege that the Amakiris have sought to acquire till today and they have not gained and will never gain. Now let me give you another challenge: Prove me wrong that Kombo-agolia did not raise Iyalla as a teenager, and also that Iyalla did not become a Chief in the Odum family.

By the way, I hope you understand now why Chief Iyalla singularly took on the Okaki war against the treacherous family of Abbi pretending to attack Kalabari in a charade until Iyalla literally wiped them out. Iyalla just did not want to be bothered with his younger brother Alambo going to war, and smelling the treachery of Abbi, went out and wiped out the useless people of Okaki, Nembe. When Abbi finally claimed to be going to war, the remnant Okaki warriors took to their heels thinking that Iyalla was yet returning to completely annihilate them. Military Strategy analysis shows Abbi's claim to be utter falsehood. Now one more challenge: Prove me wrong by stating the source by which Chief Iyalla became lame for the rest of his life.

I am going to stop here now, you have got a lot to do. Stupid, snorty-nose ninny you are.

shota:
You lack the sense of understanding.. He said the people of Iduwini are also Igodo ame of ancient Benin and were Ijaws .

Really? The statement was clear and stated this: The Egodo-ame were not Edo people they were always Ijaw people, and the majority of them are currently in the Iduwini Clan. That last phrase of the sentence says this much: "Some of the Iduwini people are Egodo-ame, and not all the Iduwini people" however, the Egodo-ame in the Iduwini Clan are the majority of the Egodo-ame that exists anywhere. Obviously sequential thinking in construction of logical thought is not your strong suit. No wonder, you could not become rational in your presentation, and the concept of time-line eludes your ability.

Now tell me who "lacks sense of understanding"?

shota:
Did your people also not claim the ancient land of Degema ? I am sure you do not even know what SOKU is if not you 'd know that Abonnema people control Soku today and not even Buguma people of any Omo family. Why did they not come up to lay such claim when Abonnema chiefs protested against the ceding of Soku land to Bayelsa ?

So now we are clear that you concede that the Ombo (or Harry) Family assertion of their Ombo founding Soku is false. Okay then.

You also said my people also claimed the ancient land of Degema? Which my people? The Degema people are Engennis and not Kalabari people and they proudly assert that. If my people claim the ancient land of Degema, and that claim is false why then did you imply that the Enginnis are also Kalabari and must be considered as such? Look the lands of Abonnema and Bakana which are the locales where the Kalabari people proper are, are not Enginnis' land, and they (the Enginnis) are not contesting them. Are you certain that your head is screwed on right?

shota:
This is what KULA people wrote about themselves as part of the KALABARI kingdom...... READ IT and learn and stop making the history of your forefathers a general Kalabari kingdom history...

The origin of the people now known as Kula in the Eastern Niger Delta area dates back to many centuries ago with a long chequered history. The exact time of the movement from their remote ancestral homelands into the Eastern Niger Delta base to establish the Kula Kingdom is, however, not easy to come by for some prevalent reasons, being a pre-literate period. History has it that Kula is an amalgam of fourteen (14) ancient independent communities scattered around the present Kula territory. These include: Opu-Kula, Boro, Nangwo-ama, Kongo-ama, Kilama/Diaba/Offo, Isoma, Ingeje, Owuangaye, Ibiame, Tubo, Ariame, etc. Today, these and other satellite communities combine with the present Kula Town (Anyame-Kula) to make up the Kula Kingdom.

Oral traditions and recorded history portray the Kula people to be very old and well established for a long time in their present domain. Nembe traditions recall hostilities between Kula and Onyoma (one of the early seven settlements of Nembe) at a period in her early history before the reign of Kala-Ekule who regrouped together the remnants of the seven ancestor settlements (which were thitherto ravaged by either internal wars, plagues or external attacks) to form the nucleus of the present city-state or kingdom of Nembe.[2] The period of this ruler (King Kala-Ekule of Nembe) has been estimated to about 1400.[3] Judging from this tradition of the neighbouring Nembe Kingdom gives a relative age of Kula much earlier than 1400 CE. In a similar vein, early European records[4] reported European explorers meeting the Kula people in their present site in 1472 before moving to the New Calabar river due to some unfavourable environmental conditions (According to accounts by Dr P.Armoury-Talbot, a colonial administrator at Degema[5] ). More over, the report of the Justice G. G. Robinson's Commission of Inquiry into the Okrika-Kalabari dispute, in the then Degema Division, in 1950 maintained the fact that Kula (like Bille and Ke) was established before the arrival of the Kalabaris at the Old Shipping (Elem-Kalabari) despite being associated with the latter through administrative convenience, inter-marriage, neighbourliness etc.

I am sure that the mind of this shota fool has been fried from all the drugs he has been taking. Let's face were this not so, he would have taken the time to read my book (http://www.amazon.com/Kalabari-History-Evolution-Under-Monarchs/dp/0988996073) and then shown that the information he has quoted about the Kula people contradicted anything I have written in my book about Kula and how they became part of the Kalabari Ethnic Nationality. He and the Kula people may forget that the documents attesting to that history are available; and they are in the Oxford University Library archives, and I doubt anyone wants ultimately to be called out as a liar.

Kula became Kalabari people during the reign of Kininayanbo Igonibo, and the records are there, they subordinated their monarchy to the Kalabari Kininyanabo of the Igonibo reign.

So liar ignoramus shota fool, when you come out here and contradict what I have written in the book, we shall talk again on this subject. For now your quote is meaningless nonsense.

shota:
Just go and delete that piece of rubbish you called Kalabari history cos all the clans are coming up with their history now. The history of KE was published last year and the books are on sale. The History of KULA is in the making. History of ANGULAMA, MINAMA, IFOKO, SOKU, ABISSE are all to be made soon . These communities existed over 100s of years before the Kingdom of KALABARI was formed in the 17th century by AMAKIRI.

This is ridiculous of this mentally deprived, shota fool; he writes that Amakiri formed the "Kingdom of Kalabari" in the 17 century which would be in the 16th Hundreds, yet in 1715 -1720 Kininyanabo Igonibo, (the first son of late Mgbeye Akeamaoloye, Kininyanabo of Kalabari Union I) was ruling Kalabari as is well-documented?

Besides he has also called the Ke people liars because the Ke people whom he had been promoting in conjunction with the Kula as the truth tellers said that their King received Amakiri the fugutive in about 1735, and asked Kininyanabo Daba to protect him from his numerous crimes. So now either the Ke people are outright liars or this shota fool has become truly pathological, and must be completely disregarded as not qualifying as even a human being. He no longer even realizes when he has started to contradict himself and started to get himself tangled up in his own lies.

shota:
Just go and delete that piece of rubbish you called Kalabari history cos all the clans are coming up with their history now. The history of KE was published last year and the books are on sale. The History of KULA is in the making. History of ANGULAMA, MINAMA, IFOKO, SOKU, ABISSE are all to be made soon . These communities existed over 100s of years before the Kingdom of KALABARI was formed in the 17th century by AMAKIRI.

This shota fool, indeed has become a disgrace to himself, as he has started to disgrace his community: Consider that he writes Soku had been in existence for 100s of years before Amakiri formed the ' kingdom of Kalabari", yet the Harry (Ombo) family has been claiming that their father Ombo founded Soku, although Amakiri was the man who bought Ombo as an Igboman slave whose towns folk were selling off because he was a murderer and Amakiri needed murderers to kill the Kalabari people and so brought Ombo to Kalabari City State. So then how was it that Ombo founded Soku 100s of years before Amakiri formed "the Kingdom of Kalabari"? Now it is becoming obvious why these wanton liars would never write their lies into a book with their names attached, less they become branded as pathological liars like that other fool, Enefaa Johnbull.

shota:
My brother Thank you for that correction.. That's what I had in mind to drop tho.. This my Gbanaye uncle I am sure does not even know what the SO mean in the name SOTONYE . I am sure he does not even know what Ogina so or Ogiso is in Kalabari .

The shota fool continues the parade of his ignoramus self: consider that he lies about Igodo-ame being Edo people resident of Torusarama piri which is the same as Iwo Kalabari (Old Shipping) and when he is called out as a liar that the people are actually in Iduwini Clan in the Ijaw lands, then he writes thus: "My brother Thank you for that correction.. That's what I had in mind to drop tho..". Now how in Gods name does Old Shipping become Iduwini Clan locale? Other than that the man, the Shota fool, is disgracefully pathological mentally and in recognizing truths. How was it that he had it in mind to show that Old Shipping is also Iduwini Clan locale? The mental state of this man has become questionable. Really he needs help.

shota:
There is Piri ( Pere ) in Ijaw which means Give and it is different from Pere which means wealth or King Pere as wealth or King is also spelt as Peri in Kalabari . The PEREBO in question simply means PERE of.. Your problem is senselessness . BANTU is not a language group but a Race and every Southern West African tribe is of the BANTU race. IGODO is an EDO word and the IGODO ame were Edo people that lived in Torusarama piri... The Father of Perebo Kalabari ( Not a name but a title ) is a MAN from MEIN kingdom whose name was not also known... MEIN is an Ijaw clan . Perebo Kalabari's father is from OGOBIRI settlement of MEIN clan which is more than 1000 years far from UGE era.

The lies of this man never ceases to flow. He has become so pathetic that he no longer even knows when his lies have started to become very obvious: Consider for instance his statement as made bold above. For that statement to be true, then Ogobiri will have been formed since 100 AD but that would be before the Arabs attacked the Blacks from North Africa southwards that started the migration of the Ijaws along the West African Coast lands. The fact is at about 100 AD the Sahara Desert was still teeming with life being in some state of forest. Shame he does not even realize that he is declaring himself as a pathetic and pathological liar.

shota:
This is a piece of history of about 1/30 th constituents of the Kalabari Kingdom. It is part of the history of the AWOME group . There are numerous other groups like .. IGODO AME, AKIALA AME, BUKOYE AME, , KE, KULA, MINAMA, SOKU, IFOKO, EKULAMA, ANGULAMA, OPOROAMA, TOMBIA, and about 10 more others with each having their own distinct history.

It is amazing what a fool some of these people are. You would think that with so much claimed knowledge the information would be put down in a book in chronological order as I have done in mine book, but no, that does not happen because the falsehood would show up.

First of all consider the ignorance of this "shota fool", He does not seem to understand that Kalabari has dual spelling in most cases because the Kalabari language is a confluence of two languages: the Ijaw and the Bantu; and that the Bantu language is now predominant. The spelling "Igodo-ame" is the Bantu spelling when the actual spelling is "Egodo-ame" which is the Ijaw spelling and the correct spelling because that family group was Ijaw and was of the younger brother of Kalabari by the same mother and father (Uge).

This ignorance about the origin of Kalabari language of this shota fool, I also tried to explain to him earlier that "Perebo" as having the meaning "Giver" is the Ijaw spelling because he was of Ijaw origin, and that his preferred spelling of "Piribo" is Bantu spelling but the fool is still parading hisi utter ignoramus self.

Tombia as constituted when it came to join Kalabari under Kininyanabo Mangi Suku had emptied out the original residents and had become mostly the faction of the Owuerre-Daba family of Kuro-ame who had moved over there in revolt against their own family King Owuerre-Daba. So the Tombia people were not new to Kalabari.

robosky02:
i read this line above in one of the discuss

" Now the dispersal of KALABARI PROPER FROM THE OLD SHIPPING WAS DUE TO INTERNAL CRISES. It started when Chief Igbanibo rebeled against the authority of KING AMAKIRI."


thus to just start that Igbanibo rebeled against Amakiri will sound like saying Igbanibo is sturborn.
rather the truth is that

IGBANIBO as his name suggest means the agitator, the one who fights for his right
He was hair apparent to the Kingship upon which Amakoro (or Amakiri) is seating on
and was a treat to amakiri thus the plot to eliminate him.
which made him to flee by night to IWOFE were he blocked the Kalabaris from ever passing to go and by food. and later
moved over to found Bakana

There seems to be made, quite often this mistake about the name of King Igbanibo. His name was never given to him in reaction to any rule of the Amachrees over Kalabari. It would be nice if the Bakana people would not fall into the story line of the liar Amachrees. With the arrival of Odum, and his separation of the Ende-ame into three groups under the three Princes: Odum, Otaji and Owukori, the Amachrees never had any bona fides Kalabari citizens with which to form a base, and for any person to become even a bona fides Kalabari Chief the person must have a base consisting of 100 Kalabari citizens. Hence the Amachrees were never able to become Kalabari Chiefs not to talk of being Kalabari Kings.

Now onto the name of King Igbanibo, his mother was named Igbani by her father Prince Fenibo, commonly called Ofeni. He gave her the name and died even before the Amakiri nonsense started -so the name did not have its origins with respect to the Amakiris being in Kalabari. She then gave birth to a son who was then given the name Igbani bo meaning son of Igbani, a sort of trace of his royal blood to Ofeni who coined the name Igbani for his daughter.

The reasons for which King Igbanibo mounted a Blockade against the Kalabari City State and the Amakiri Enclave was because at the time of his escape from the assassination, the Edi Abali leader stole his wealth and the rest taken by the thieving Amakiris and Princewills, and he wanted his wealth returned to him. Please read the Iwo Fe War Peace Agreement.

Do try to get it right. To learn more about the reasons for the attempt to kill Igbanibo please read my book, they are well detailed there. (http://www.amazon.com/Kalabari-History-Evolution-Under-Monarchs/dp/0988996073).

For one thing Igbanibo never allowed Abbi to ever present himself as a Kalabari citizen, and as such always blocked him from undertaking any Kalabari ceremeonies. Thus stopping Abbi from ever claiming any airs about being a Kalabari King. besides Abbi knew that Igbanibo knew that he Abbi was a fraud in claiming that he fought that infamous war at Okaki when in fact the war was fought by Chief Iyalla, and Abbi knew that Igbanibo knew his (Abbi's) fraudulent parade of himself as a warrior. There are even more reasons please refer to my book.

shota: BENEBO=== Some one BORN on Friday.. BeNE means the day before the market day of Saturday.

Shota, stop writing nonsense, and stop writing false knowledge. Just stop showing up your ignorance about Kalabari.

I suppose the word "Alter ego" and its varied usages are lost to this clear-thinking man! Or instead of "clear-thinking man" should I have said "fool"? Little wonder waiting to read the book seems out of consideration.

Ok, Ok, I recognize that a "fool is not teachable". Then, of course, this "shota", an alterego of Tom Taraalaapuye Alabaraba, is a fool.

Why am I not surprised, even as the "Student Companion" teaches: "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, don't waste your time with him"?

Modicum of education in Nigeria, generally exposes students to the idioms in the "Student Companion" but not this one, who writes without an iota of understanding of rejoinders.

Regards,
Opubo

If this is not Tom Alabaraba writing under a new name -- may be because the owners of the forum got tired of his rot and deactivated his account.

Well, would it not have been better to write a book, of your own since you know so much? Let me assure what I would do to your book if you ever wrote one under your real name -- assuming that you are not afraid of your shadows--- I will even read the book, and critique it page by page, line by line, until I have reached the end of the book. I will then make yet another book out of my so detailed critique of your book, and sell that too and make even more money.

Really, it is not your ability to write revisionist history that is your short fall in these matters; you are just not well-educated to understand the matters of evolutionary dynamics. Try reading the book "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking; and then you will appreciate that you are just running circles about yourself. Here is the hint: the Kuro-ame are not speaking Kalabari Language, because the Kalabari Language is their language and the modern day Kalabari peoples are speaking the Kuro-ame language. Now this the riddle for you with respect to time and the Kalabari language: What comes first, the chicken or the egg?

The more you contemplate the question, the more you will, closer and closer, come to realize that you have locked yourself up in a Catch-22, operating at the limited scope of education and erudition that is your lot.

Oh! One more thing: you are befuddled by your lack of understanding of the word "Reflexivity", the moment you get a full-conceptual understanding of the word, you will appreciate the issue of "New Calabar, Old Calabar, and Calabar" that has got you all fogged up all these years.

Regards,
Opubo

The Claims of the Reigns of Kalabari Kings

Kalabari Kings: Ancient & Modern
http://kengema.tripod.com/id25.html

The demarcation of Ancient and Modern Kings in this website is rather curious as the information is wholly inaccurate.

First the list of ancient Kings does not even include Ende by whose name the Kalabari families have most often been referred: The Ende-ame, yet the material is said to be developed by the Erudite: Mr. Daboikiabo Jack. Also there has never been a King Owoume in Kalabari the name Owoume is not part of the Kalabari History. rather there was King Awome, a Bantu Chieftain of a splinter group from the Bantu group around Duke Town near Calabar.

Also interesting is the date of the fallacious reign of Amachree (viz-a-viz Amakiri) ◙ 1669 --1757; the problem with this is that Amakiri confesses in his drum-name that he came out from the Kalagbaa household: http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/3277/1/Critical-Review-of-Some-Assertions-by-Dr-Tamunoemi-David-West-II/Page1.html but the date of 1669 used for the start of the fallacious reign predates even the birth of King Kalagbaa who was born at about 1700 and became King at about 1751/1755. Just as specious is the assertion that Amachree died in 1757 when King Kalagbaa himself died in 1770 yet Amachree through his drum-name confessed to coming out of the household of Kalagbaa. Yet the information provided as Kalabari History by the erudite but fictitious Daboikiabo Jack has a reign assigned to Amachree without checking for alignment with well-known public events. Further consider that the dates have been disproved since 02/09/2009 (http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/3277/1/Critical-Review-of-Some-Assertions-by-Dr-Tamunoemi-David-West-II/Page1.html) and yet the wrong odorous information remains online, and it has not occurred to the erudite Daboikiabo Jack to amend his falsehood that is online and tarnishes his reputation.

The lies told by this Pastor Dawari Braide of Buguma --the owner of the website, are just mind boggling!

What I have found most interesting is why other people feel that I should reflect their views about Kalabari History. Every author has a perspective from which the author writes a book, yet these people expect that I should write a book from their perspective. It is like I am stopping them from writing their own.

In fact, there is a booklet (68 pages) entitled, ''Celeberating the Dead in Kalabari Landhttps://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000557704/CELEBRATING-THE-DEAD-IN-KALABARI--LAND.aspx'' by Sonny Oko Braide, published by Authorhouse that seems to have been a copy of the usual work of Benaibi Benatari ( because the material includes two or more discussions I had had with Benaibi Benatari) and I do not see anyone clamoring about that publication, yet it is the one I am authoring that seems to give people the most heartache. Quite Strange!

BTW the booklet by Braide [url]http://books.google.com/books?id=D6OD9mmLG2QC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=kalabari+people&source=bl&ots=3NYlDhSPvB&sig=Y4T2Zu5XTEL9VOuxWD5e5a6_4uI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XWF6Uoa5F7LKsQSY84GYAw&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=kalabari%20people&f=false[/url]has many errors: The glaring one was that he had indicated that Amachree (traditionally Amakiri) ruled from 1770 - 1790; unfortunately that is not correct; that start-date conflicts with an essential Kalabari culture, and the end-date does not reconcile with so many different events that occurred later in Kalabari -- for one thing it would mean that Awoye Kio (aka Odum) never met Amakiri again before Amakiri was killed by Pere Ekule, which would be incorrect because Kio gathered his forces at Oduaha (as now called with their absorption into Ikwerre , but originally called Odum ama) from which he was campaigning to run Amakiri out of Kalabari City State Island, also called Old Shipping or Iwo-Kalabari. So Amakiri could not have died before Odum initiated that campaign. The Oduaha natives most of whom were the Odum forces, whom he brought with him from Benin and Forcados, are a testament to that campaign. ( This is one of the many analyses addressing errors in Kalabari History in my forthcoming book)

Cheers!

People in general accept the Status Quo of circumstances because most people are followers, and have no strength of will or character to stand up for what they believe in. Then there are the handful few, driven by their convictions, who stand up for it and die for it, even as Socrates did when he drank the poison.

Change comes at a cost, justice comes at a cost, and whether one has character or not is defined by where the one stands on issues from which most people run. Now let me see, was it a scientist who once said ''Until there is a cause for which one is willing to die or risk everything, the one has not truly lived this life.''.

Then there was the Canadian who said, ''There is no earthly hope for a man who is too lazy to acquire enemies -- be forthright and you will acquire enemies, be truthful and you will acquire enemies.''.

Finally, whenever a change is about to obtain, those who benefit from the status quo will resist the change and even fight to the death to prevent it, those supporting the change will split into two parts: Those who will also fight and die to see the change come to fruition, and Those who will stand aside and watch for development until the game-changer begins to win before they join the fray. So it is that there are those who will immediately support the materials in the book upon reading the book, there are those from Buguma and the benefiters of the Status quo who will oppose the contents and even fight to the death in an attempt to disprove the contents, and then there are those will join the fray supporting the whichever side is winning because they want to hold on to their heads with their necks.

Yet, in all these, there is a difference between the Braves and the Cowards: The Braves always die Standing up, and the Cowards die while on their knees. I should die standing up or cut my enemy down before he can do the same to me.

Oh and to that ''nobody'' who styled me as a Science guru, thank you; I had never thought of myself as one though, but then as Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caeser, ''The eye sees not itself but by reflection...''

Cheers to all!
Opubo

Chokl8!

I format the responses that way because I am addressing Tom Alabaraba, I also wanted my responses to stand alone hence the formatting style. now that I am addressing you and want no mistakes by the reader regarding whom I am addressing, accordingly in this response I have also noted your username as the receiver. I hope you enjoy this even more.

Regards,
Opubo

Tom Alabaraba,

I wrote English to you in English and you did not understand me; I wrote Kalabari to you in English, and you still did not understand me. Then, I got more obvious and informed you that you are a Bumbling Ignoramus, and that did not sink in either. May be had you got some education and then some training, as to become somewhat Erudite you would have understood me all along.

Hopefully you may understand this: You are a walking indictment of your parents.

Regards,
Opubo

Tom Alabaraba,

Obviously you are antsy to write revisionist Kalabari history and want people in-the-large to take you seriously, but nobody will, and here is why:

Those who write revisionist history and are taken seriously in the large usually have academic degrees as PhD; and people take what they write seriously because they are automatically given the benefit of the doubt. You unfortunately do not have a PhD, so people will not take you seriously and will always consider you a bumbling ignoramus.

I also do not have a PhD, but I have an MS so I analyze the revisionist history submissions of the revisionist-writers and show them up; and I am usually given credit and followed because of the near impeccability of my analyses. hear me well, my analyses are usually almost impeccable.

You should consider going to school and either get a PhD so you can continue with the revisionism lifestyle you opt for or get into analysis so you can prove people like me wrong.

Let me give you an example of what I mean by analyses: You say that Seleye Fubara was a direct son of Owuerre-Daba. You even assert that I do not speak Kalabari, well that may be so, but Seleye Fubara in Kalabari means ''Fubara son of Sele'' and not ''Fubara son of Owuerre-Daba''. This is an obvious demonstration of your intellect as a bumbling ignoramus.

Here is another example: There is written record in the Portuguese archives and referenced by Jones (The Trading States of the Oil Rivers; Oxford University Press, 1963) that Owuerre-Daba ruled Kalabari in 1600, and there is also evidence that Seleye Fubara challenged prince awo for the right to rule Kalabari Ethnic Nation after the death of King Kalagbaa in 1770. So there is at least 170 years between King Owuerre-Daba and King Kalabara's death. Now generation analysis based on 50-year generation spans means there would be at least 3 generation-spans within the 170 years implying that Seleye Fubara would have to be a grandchild of Owuerre-daba. On the other hand if one were to use the more realistic 40-year generation-span then there would be at least 4 generation spans in the 170 years which means that Seleye Fubara would be greatgrandchild of Owuerre-Daba. So most obviously everybody with modicum of intelligence considers you a bumbling ignoramus.

Finally please notice that in the above paragraph I used the technique I adopted in developing the contents of the book, "The True Kalabari History, Kalabari Evolution Under The True Kalabari Monarchs: Kalabari Kininyanabo". Here is the explanation: First Event referencing was used to set the bounds of 1600 and 1770 using two events: the rule of Owuerre-Daba and The challenge of Seleye Fubara; then Time Sequencing was used to guess-estimate the intra-references event of the Seleye Fubara Generation, and then the period of birth of Seleye Fubara was again guess-estimated as in-between the penultimate generation span to show that even in the best case scenario for your postulate, Seleye Fubara would at least be a grandchild of Owuerre-Daba.

I hope that I have taught you something today; and as any intelligent person reading the above submission would surmise, "the assertions in my book are almost impeccable". I am going to spare humiliating you any further by not addressing the rest of the rubbish you posted.

Tom Alabaraba please go to school and get some learning. You are a disgrace to your family, and you are a disgrace to the proud Kalabari peoples as a whole that the community produced a bumbling-ignoramus as you.

Regards,
Opubo

Tom Alabaraba,
You wrote:
"The entire Duen ala is part of Briggs compound and my paternal grand mother's mother was the ADA of Ideriah who was the head of the DUEN ALA family.. Oruwari was from the AKIA family of ABISSE that lived among the AKIALA ame in ELEM ama. The Horsefall of Buguma are also Part of the AKIALA. listen to their drum name and also learn from that.. OLOMINA OGINA NGERI KPOKPO...Chief Young Briggs drum name. use it to compare with the drum name of ABISSE.."

First of all get the spelling of the names right: The name is ''I ida-eria'', and not Ideria. Second, Oruwari's mother was Duwein ala which was part of Akiala ame. Third, Horsfall who was the younger brother of Akoko, the father of Chief Wokoma, was from Tema and not Abisse.

Finally Chief Young Briggs also known as Ishi-Owu was an Igbo man adopted by Oruwari Briggs, now get your history right.

The Akiala-ame consisted of more families than just the Duwein-ala, which was all that was left of that family groups. Also, not even the Duwein-ala Chieftaincy exists as of now. Check it out. In fact Ishi-owu would not even allow it. You are so wrong in so many places.


You also wrote:
"MEIN OWEI meaning a MAN or The MAN from MEIN kingdom was aware of his people who were trading at OBU AMAFA. so his journey to OBU AMA FA FROM OGOBIRI was not a stray or drift but a normal trade mission. The word KALABARI was a what other Ijaws called the MEIN people that had gone there to trade. PA KALA AKI IBARI. sUBSEQUENTLY it became a tag and was shortened to KALABARI. So when Mein owei married the KENI woman ,the son she bore was dubbed PEREBO OF THE KALABARI.. PERE means strong man, champion, wealthy man or leader. He got this title cos of his wealth.."

Unfortunately if you do not even know that your forebear Ishi-owu was an Igboman, I doubt that you would know of my family, and their travels. Oh many be you think you are so smart that I will disclose what I have written in the book by responding to you. Unfortunately I am older than you and have done such things for much longer than you.

Then you wrote:
"How did the Kuro ame start speaking KALABARI dialect ? and having KALABARI names. Kuro is a KALABARI word and yes Awo me is Awo ame AND ANOTHER KALABARI word. How did a BANTU people from Sudan start speaking KALABARI ?. Mind you I am a direct Kuro ame offspring by way of Jackrich who was a descendant of Owuere Ye Daba. "

Dont be silly, Jackrick was an Igboman adopted by Seleya Fubara which is why he goes by the name of Jacklease Seleye Fubara. Just in case you do not know Jack was the trading name of Seleya Fubara, hence Jacklease was called Jack-lease, slave of Jack. You are an idiot, get your family history right and stop embellishing your lies. Not even Seleye Fubara was a direct descendant of Owuerre-Daba.

Seleye Fubara like Ngo the grandfather of Wokoma were grandchildren of Owuerre Daba. You are so messed up with your stories you are funny.

I am going to stop replying you. You are so disinformed I waste my time.

Tom Alabaraba,

I am not writing about the history of Ke, or Kula, or Abisse, Soku, Angula-ama, Sanga-ama, Ifoko, or Abala-ama. I wrote about the founding of the Kalabari Ethnic Nationality, its origin and construction.

Yet I am curious how you came up with the assertion that the Kuro-ame, the spelling is not Koro-ame being derived from Opu[kuro]ye when he was ruling, were sons of Kalabari? Or that Opukuroye was the father of the Kuro-ame? First, Opukuroye was a descendant of Awome, the Chieftain of a Bantu group. Second, Opukuroye was not the father of the Kuro-ame. The Kuro-ame consisted of several families from their origin. Remember I am of the Kuro-ame by blood, but also know that your family Jacklease (now spelled Jackreece and Jackrich) was an Igbo adopted by Seleye Fubara, who was my cousin by blood. I think I am in a better position to know of the Kuro-ame than you do, but as I wrote before, I am not writing about the families of Kalabari but rather the evolution of the Kalabari Ethnic.

Curious, of course, who were the six groups that the Kalabari community met at Opouama? The Old Shipping or Kalabari Iwo-ama is actually originally known as Opouama. Do tell.

Also who were the Egodo-ame that joined Kalabari-ame and Awome-ame at Obu-Amafor?

Perhaps I should also advise you that the Briggs family in Abonnema therefore is not Akiala-ame. It was not the Akiala-ame chieftaincy that was relocated to Abonnema but rather the Chieftaincy of Oruwari Briggs. But I forgive you, you are not acculturated in the Kalabari Culture, and so not versed in the Kalabari Culture. The Akaila-ame was virtually destroyed by Amachree, sans The Duwein Ala Family. Even the chieftaincy of Akiala-ame was prevented by Amakiri from being recreated by Oruwari Briggs because the Chief of Duwein-Ala challenged Amakiri by publicly warning him to behave himself. Do you even know current whereabout of the Akiala Chieftaincy?

So if the category of people writing the Kalabari History on Social-Network Media are of your class of culture-ignoramus then I need not be a part of it. After you guys have finished writing the history, do publish it in a book as I do mine and then the Kalagbaa Organization shall review it for accuracy or lack there of.

As I said I am not writing the history of the peoples of the communities of Kalabari Ethnic Nation; rather I am writing of the evolution of the Kalabari Ethnic Nation from the life of Mein Owei. Buy and read the book, you might even learn a thing or two that you can use in the Social Network Media gibberish of intellectualism you are engaged in.

Regards,
Opubo

Tom Alabaraba,

I chose not to respond to any of the history you have written here since 2009. Rather I chose to let the readers buy the book, read the book and decide for themselves the veracity of my development of the Kalabari history through their evolution from Mein Owei through Kalabari right up to the Iwoffe War, and then today. of course, my interest is not in the founding of the families of Kalabari but rather the evolution of Kalabari and therefore the ability of the every Kalabari person to consequentially truthfully ascertain the "Kalabariness" of the person.

For someone who has never read the book, you certainly have an opinion on the nature of the book, and the sources I have used. Now that is rather interesting.

This much is for certain though, the evolution of Kalabari will certainly resume as the bona fides Kalabari people begin to read the book more vastly, because ultimately each person will be able to self-assess the "Kalabariness", or if you prefer the Kalabari Ethnicity, of the person; and then perhaps the Kalabari peoples will then have some measure of peace, and tranquility.

That said , Good luck to you.

Regards,
Opubo

The link is this: http://www.okumaye.com/books/societalstudies/The-True-Kalabari-History-Opubo-G-Benebo.php
the full-stop at the end of the previous post causes problem.

For those who may be interested in Kalabari History, I have put together a book the name of which is "The True Kalabari History: Kalabari Evolution Under The True Kalabari Monarchs: Kalabari Kninyanabo", and the online description can be found here: http://www.okumaye.com/books/societalstudies/The-True-Kalabari-History-Opubo-G-Benebo.php

Now available for purchase at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Kalabari-History-Evolution-Under-Monarchs/dp/0988996073