₦airaland Forum

Edo is clearly a Yoruba nation.

On the rest of what you wrote, that's your opinion, feel free to express it.

Opan Ifa and Opele are the tools and instruments of divination.

I want to say that the Yoruba we speak today has roots in old Hebrew language.
So its my suspicion that Ifa is either a shortened form of an otherwise lengthy old Hebrew term or a adulterated one

The Yoruba in Nigeria is a commonwealth of Nations. A race of people with roots in Afro Asia.

Ijesha, Awori, Egba, Edo, Itsekiri.

Yoruba is the umbrella or the aggregator of the different nations.

There are also others in Yorubaland who are of indigenous roots but trhough war and conquest became tributaries of Yorubaland.

The Yorubas of today contain the nations of Egba, Ijebu, Itsekiri, Edo, Ajashe, Ilaje, Ijesha, and so on.

For example, the Ijebus are Canaanites of old. The Edos are also Canaanites. The Oyos are Kushites of Old and so is Ife the Kushites of old.

There are several independent researchers, none of them with any personal interest in Yoruba who have clearly said that Yoruba is an Afro Asia root. Even a former Caliph (Sultan) of Sokoto even wrote a book in which he clarified it.

You are correct there are many Yorubas who do not know the history and need to know. So I'm glad that they are here to learn it.

Chyz,

It is easy for people to quickly jump to conclusion that if you talk about Noah, Abraham or Afro-Asia or Middle East, then you are talking about Jews.

Unless the claim is explicit, you can't conclude as such.

Yorubas are proto-Semitic, not Jews, not Arabs, but a member of the Semitic roots.

Apparently you missed where I said I owe you no expression of wisdom.

I cannot have love for anyone who despises the foundation of who I am.

Ibos despise Yorubas. So do not expect a paddy-paddy response from Negro. The bet you will get from me is politeness and even that is conditional.

Hmmm!

Chinenye,

It appears you are bothered by my persistence on this matter of roots and origin, right?

Igbo bu igbo my ar+se!

I don't give a rat a.s.s where belongs to nri or which one is aro, your own people do not know their histry. Depending on who has the air waves, your Biafran propaganda to project what is not there has sunk down deep enough in your psyche that most times the average Ibo man isn't consciously aware that he is spinning rubbish.

Is the topic a correct historical account, are you jews and from all the places listed by Chinedu? That's what you ought to focus on, instead of worrying about whether Negro places Mogadishu under Nri and Darfur under Aro.

Kobo,

Just sarcasm, das all!

@OP,

The Hausa/Fulani came about as a political front considering the ruling class is Fulani but the language is Hausa.

Tpia,

Sambo is the younger sibling, a second born male following a female first child.

Tpia,

Namadina, meaning the "one from Medina (Saudi Arabiab city)".

Similar to the Yoruba synonym "omoluabi", the "one of Noah's ancestry".

That's a lie!

Namadi is a traditional Hausa name. So is Sambo.

Does he have siblings and what's their names?

If he was not Hausa, I can see him having a moslem last name like Ibrahim, Mohammed, Abdullahi, Habib and similar Arabic names, but names like Tanko, Sambo, Danladi, Sarki, Gandu and so on are indigenous Hausa names and almost impossible that a non-Hausa father raised in a patrilineal custom will then have Sambo as a family name for himself or his children.

Let's see if there are siblings and what their names are.

The botomline to sustaining any economy is really the productivity factor.

Of everthing she said not once has she talked about productivity level.

She talked about diversifying but with what is the diversification going to take root?

Untll you all stop lecturing others on their history and trying to force your ideology on others that wish not to identify as Ibo, I will be here telling you who you are and defining you the way you truly are and deny you the chance of rewriting and embellishing your history.

If you can't respect other people's desire to be who they choose, your desire to be "great" will equally be resisted.

Where are the Ibos that want to be elected into government posts in Lagos?

Operation "wet e" don dey show hin head small small. This is good time to put your name on the ballot.

Don't solicit!

Did you get it when I responded and asked you to back off?

Abagworo,

I don't care how many origin or kingship or ancestral line you have or don't have, that's your cup of tea. I am not Ibo, the origin or no origin, ancestor or no ancestor, Nri or Aro, that's your headache, not mine.

However, I am not Chinedu, I am Negro and Negro brought here what Chinedu said.

Indisputably Chinedu is not an Hausa name or Yoruba name, so have issues with Chinedu, not Negro.

You understand me Abagworo?

Chinenye,

Who appointed to be the clerical administrator here? Who said you can direct traffic for who says what and in what manners it uttered?

What are you, some genteel "can't hurt nobody" Huxtable?

Go sit yo ar+se down, sob your teary eyes into your handkerchief and blow your sniffles into it.

You can't call nobody a fool and get offended when they wag the upright middle finger in your face.

Don't fvcking start what you have no nerve to stand upto.

What I do is no different from what many of you SEasterners do here, which is push propaganda.

So for you to call me foolish is an uncalled for assault.

You have lost your damn fvcking mind ChinenyeN if you expected a silence from me.

I don't care how many fvcking times you want to repeat Nri/Aro and whatever fvcking ese Ibo cuklture is based on. Look at how many times Agbotaen and Exotic and others have told you they are not Ibo, did that stop your ar+se from accepting their explanation and desire to remain unique and unalligned with Ibo? No! At every turn you all are using different tactic to force him to accept what does not belong to him. But yet you find my tenacity to reduce Ibo to a group, which truly is what it is, uncomfortable and you term it foolishness.

What do you call what you guys do, wisdom?

Like I said, you are about to get your feelings stung.

You are free to express but you cross the line with me next time you will get stung.

Since there are no practicing Jews in Nigeria I can give the Islamic perspective.

Are you quite familiar with Islamic rituals?

Chinenye,

I normally won't tll you this 'cos you are cool and don't bother anybody but I think you overstepping.

So I need you to back off. You have to be crazy and out of your fvcking mind to even dare say what you just wrote.
I will restrain my tongue for now and let this pass.

I don't owe Ibo any expression of wisdom to begin with.

Where is the foolishness? Point to it. In the contaxt oif this post, I gave a link on an article written by an Ibo person. What's the foolishness in it?

Pleep,

CFC franc is not a competition. So no change in their case.

On physical devaluation, as I said there are many ways to do it - money laundering, smuggling, stock buy-up, etc.

I have more for you, far worse than this. Hang around and continue to read my posts.