₦airaland Forum

Naajjii:
What about the Mark,Joseph, Mary,John, Jonanah and names like that alot of your people carry. How about the fact that majority of northern minorities speak Hausa as first language, I don't know if that is not classified as lost of identity.The Christian missionaries helped in entrenching Hausa across the North by adopting Hausa as the language to use in propagating christianity. Even in Nigeria today virtually all cultures have lost or are losing identity to the western culture. So I don't get your point on lost of identity.

Most of our people answer their tribal last names or middlenames even if they do not have a tribal first name. Only few cases do you find people with pure english names all through. Reverse is the case on the other side.
Our people speak Hausa because of the extreme linguistic diversity, especially in urban areas. Otherwise, everyone speaks his/her native languages in their villages.

Naajjii:
You are already Sounding divisive in your middlebelt Project, So you are not christinized and you sold your conscience and identity to the Igbo right? Was christianity your ancestor's religion. Islam and Christianity were not the original religion of our ancestors and all black people , they were imported. The same way some of our ancestors decided to go Christian, it was the same way some decide to go Islam. The same identity they lost becoming Muslim , you also lost becoming Christian. Religion is the major problem facing black people. You have to look at the struggle of middlebelte culturally to succeed, if you look at it in a religion way am afraid no progress will be made because no state or region in the middlebelt that don't have Muslim and Christian indigens.Let see how you go with your sessessionist project.

I have no middlebelt project anymore. I used to. I made that clear.
I am christian but I did not loose my identity to christianty. My people still answer our tribal names and uphold our traditional chiefdoms and values, we can never be compared to tribes where majority of them answer names like Ahmed Mohammed Mustapha and have thrown away their tribal names completely. Tribes that have replaced their traditional chiefdoms with islamic emirates. Tribes that are willing to submit to the rule and leadership of fulani caliphate.

oilPUSSY:
He's not Igbo.
Go through all the threads he created in the past and some of his comments as well.
So anybody who's speaking against injustice in Nigeria must be Igbo ?. Hmm, Igbos are indeed courageous to be reacting against the imbalances in Nigeria while others just "Sidon dey look " probably due to cowardice.

Continue elevating Igbos indirectly..

You Igbos are the largest united group in opposition to the evils of this nations. Kudos to you guys for standing up against the evils of the core-north. Be rest assured that we're definitely gonna be joining you guys soon in vociferous opposition to the evil leadership of the core-north.
We need to unite first. We do not have a united platform to speak with one voice and that has been our problem.

FriendNG:
There is nothing like middle belt association. The moment I heard the word then I know it's Christian assocation and not regional association.

Unfortunately for you, the middlebelt was a political party in the past which produced state governors. Middlebelt identity just seemed to be watered down since Hausa fulanis used religion to divide our people and gain the loyalty of middlebelt muslims.

Osagyefo98:
I wonder if you really from middle belt or you impersonating. Just that the fact. Remains that u guys realised your mistakes late coz ur land has been conquered.

From benue to taraba to plateau is always massacre of the highest order.

You guys fought for hausa fulani but now they are fighting you guys and taking over una lands.


Too many mistakes.....from you guys.

Check my threads from 2013 till date to know if I'm impersonating or not.

What do you mean our land has been conquered? Has the Gbon Gwom Jos been replaced with Emir of Jos or the Tor Tiv replaced?

Yes Massacre, same fulani massacre that has happened elsewhere too.

We did not fight for Hausa fulani, we fought for one Nigeria which was obviously a mistake. Yorubas and most Niger deltans also fought for one Nigeria too.

Naajjii:
Middlebelt Join Igbo in Biafra , you are funny, I said earlier you sounded like Igbo and am right from your response. If the Hausa/ fulani are out of the picture thats when uou will realise that the middlebelt people dont even consider you people. No middlebelter will agitate against one Nigeria, knowing how complex the region is.The reason why those currently pursing middlebelt freedom have not making any progress is because they made it seem like its a Christian struggle .Most of our Christians brothers in the middle belt are going alone they don't carry the Muslim middlebelters along in the struggle for a free middlebelt. They made it sound like middlebelt is a Christian thing whereas we are mixed with Muslims, pagans and Christians. Then people like you from the East that don't understand the makeup of the middlebelt keep trying come in to encourage this Christian thing. Middlebelt can only achieve 100% freedom if both Muslims, Christians and pagans in the region come together in the struggle. Note that middlebelter will never What makes it tough is the fact that alot of the Muslims middlebelter are married to the hausa/ Fulani so there is a strong overlap in culture and relationship. Not forgetting that there also Hausa and fulani people that are Christian minority in the core north and middle.
The issue of Gurrara state is the same with situation with other middle belt people asking for state , like Edu state in Niger, Apa state in Benue, Okura state in Kogi and other regions ,am sure when it's time to create new states Gurarra will definitely be granted and by the way Gurarra state will be a mixed state with both Christians, Muslims and pagans.
I suggest that you focus more on the Niger delta people whom seem to share alot and understand you better, so that you can encourage them to key into the Biafra project instead the middlebelt people.

Oga I used to be an admin for the largest middlebelt group online (THE MIDDLEBELT REGION) on facebook founded by Usman Okai Austin with about 400 thousand members. I just cannot drop my name here. You can check my past threads and confirm if am Igbo or not. Check my reply to Majlaw few comments back, then if you still doubt my middlebeltness, then something must be wrong with you.

Besides, I have given up on a joint middlebelt indentity somehow cos I really do not see how I as a Plateau person shares anything in common with Nupes, Ebiras, Baribas, Ilorin people and other heavily islamized tribes of the middlebelt who have sold their conscience and identity to the caliphate.
I rather unite with people from Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa, Taraba, parts of Adamawa, Gombe with which we share a lot in common.

And yes, some of our people are now buying into the sympathy of Biafra. Did you not see last year when John Danfulani of Southern Kaduna went to the east to meet with Nnamdi Kanu and solidify with Biafra?

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/southern-kadun-will-go-biafra-danfulani-tells-kanu/amp/

Not one single southern Kaduna person was against him, they were in support of him.

It's just a matter of time before our people completely allign with the seccesionist gospel. I am setting myself out for this cause! Wait till next year when you'll start hearing from us.

Any Southern Kaduna person still hoping for Gurara state to the solution of his people's problems is ignorant, cos even we in Plateau and Benue who control our states are not exempted from fulani expansionism.

Majlaw:
We are talking about Muslims/Christian Dominated States here. One thing I observed about your people is that you guys are pained. When it comes to anything religion, you guys are quick to insult. I am not claiming ownership of Lafia with you. I only told you where I came from. Why are we educated if we cannot have debate without insulting each other? I leave you in peace. The orientation they give you guys in that your meeting place is wat is promoting hatred in Nigeria. Sorry brother I am not the one who caused you pain. Any states where you feel your people are the maturity, kindly mobilize them for Next Election. Goodluck
Do you know the meaning of Cin rani??
How am I Dan cirani in a state where my dad is the king??

Kindly show me where I insulted you.
Facts are very painful. The greatest wish of your likes are for the masses to continue to remain ignorant, but not anymore.

Yes, Beri-Beri people were fraudulently granted kingship in Lafia during colonial period. Emir of Lafia? Kanuris controlling emirates, when your fore-fathers fought with their blood in Borno to ensure they weren't conquered by Danfodio and never submit to his caliphate.
Sometimes evil doers end up confusing themselves and making a spectacle of themselves with their fraudulent ways.

I guess your father and yourself are proud sons of the emirate tying your turban which your fulani masters gave you when they included you in their caliphate?

Nor be una faults sha. Our people were the cause, we kept quiet when the British were perpetrating evil in our lands.

Naajjii:
Are you sure you are from the Middle belt,You sound like from the East with this we dont want one Nigeria with Hausa fulani. What Most northern minorities do ask for is to have state of their own from Hausa -fulani so that the dominance would be reduced not "we don't want one Nigeria with Hausa Fulani" Anyone talking "we don't want one Nigeria with Hausa Fulani are mostly from the East " and you sound like one.

Many middlebelters and Northern christians are now becoming wiser and I bet you we will soon start agitating against one Nigeria like the Igbos are, or better still we join them.

Yes Southern Kaduna have been fighting for Gurara state to be free from Hausa fulani domination, and others too, does it look like they will ever get it? Even those of us who are from Plateau, Taraba and Benue who control our own states, are we still free from fulani massacre and expansionism?

Majlaw:
Bros... I am kanuri from Lafia. I don't lie like you. Keffi are dominated by Aho. Thats Abdullahi Adamu tribe.
Stop this hate. Promote peace. Whoever deceived you that Nasarawa is a Christian state must be a great liar. If you wants to count your state. Count Nasarawa out.
We have 13 local governments in Nasarawa. It might interest you to know that out of these 13 local governments only 3 kings are Christian. Karu, Akwanga and Nasarawa Eggon.

You are Kanuri from Lafia. Great. You are one of the settlers. Cin rani. Is Lafia the homeland of Kanuris? Does Nasarawa state share any boundary with Kanuri homeland in Borno state? How then did you become an indigene of Lafia when there are Eggons, Migilis and Gwandaras whom have Lafia as their ancestral lands with no history of origin from anywhere else?

Keffi LGA may be dominated by Afos, but not Keffi town. It is a Hausa settlers dominated town. Is the Emir of Keffi an Afo man? How then does the town belong to Afo? Osu Ajiri is the traditional king and ruler for the Afos, why is his seat not in Keffi town?

Don't tell me nonsense about Kings being of a particular religion cos I'm not an ignorant person. Borno south is a christian dominated zone, yet all the kings are muslims.

During the colonial times, the British used the indirect system of government and forced the creation of emirates almost everywhere in the old northern region. They lumped tribes who were never conquered by Danfodio's jihad under these emirates. Some resisted this, some did not. Southern Kaduna is overwhemingly christian, but not unti 1992 when they got their chiefdoms, most of them had fulani muslim kings and were under the Emirship of Zaria.

Besides the religion of a king does not determine the religion of his subjects. The Ooni of Ife is the most revered Yoruba king and leaders, he is strongly christian, but so many yorubas are muslims.

We know the real muslim indigenes of Nasarawa state and we know the settlers.

The current Osukwo of Obi in Nasarawa is a muslim, the former one was a christian, but this doesn't change the fact that Obi LGA is christian dominated, even the Alagos in Obi are mostly christians.

The Abaga Toni of Garaku (the first class king in Kokona LGA), is not a muslim. There are other kings outside Akwanga, Karu & Nas Eggon who are christians. What abouth the Zhe Migili? Nonsense!

Osagyefo98:
Am well guided and my points are very succinct. It may interest you to know since u claim ignorance of such that arewa is a body that brings all northerners under one umbrella be it NW, NC or NE.


There is nothing like southern Nigeria as clearly everybody have a body under it for instance igbos (ohanaeze), yorubas ( afenifere) and the rest. To this there is nothing like south Nigeria. It is a name that makes no meaning to us and as such useless.
It is worthy to note that what we is obtainable are simple east, west and a mid west...u can lump people who have different ideology as south more reasons if u clearly look our political understanding and ideology differs strongly from that of a yoruba who takes more leaning in the north.

Finally political settings and in fact Nigeria of today have shown politically how we agree on issues....is a fact.

There are many Pan-southern political groups e.g, the Southern governors forum.
Do you deny the fact that you have never heard of middlebelt political and socio-cultural groups?

There was a political party called United middlebelt congress since pre independent times created to champion the interests of the middlebelt people. It was on this platform that the first governor of old Benue-Plateau state was elected in 1967.
Middlebelt identity and agitation has been there for decades, just that that of Arewa seems to swallow it up sometimes.
The south only seems different because it is divided into 3 different voices, Igbo, Yoruba and Niger-delta, with none being the absolute majority, WHILE that of the North has the middlebelt as minority and Hausa-fulani led Arewa as a strong majority.

Duru1:
Bro, the fool you responded to his/her ignorance is a typical Nigerian who is lost on deductive stream of thought. Most Nigerians tend to compare Orange and Apple. I say without equivocation that the backwardness of Nigeria is predicated on the skewed articulation. You could not be more correct on the bolded statement. Sometimes I wonder aloud what could have spurred your people to have taken arms against Ndigbo and Biafrans during the cradle of this nonsensical "One Nigeria".

Our people were deceived that Igbos were coming to attack us on full scale, so we were told to attack or be killed.

2ndly, Yakubu Gowon was nothing but a Hausa fulani puppet. He was the biggest prank used by fulani leaders to cajole our people and they clearly succeeded. They used one of our own to enhance their agenda and make us feel belonged in their evil.

Majlaw:
Brother, your pastors are deceiving you. See how Gullible you are? I am from Lafia and we all know in Nasarawa state, Lafia is the sit of power. You can only talk about the places you know. Wat about d likes of Lafia, Obi, Doma, Awe, Keana, Asakio, Kwandare, Ekye, Nasarawa. You are funny o... Even Keffi? Let the truth be told, Nasarawa state is not a Christian dominated state. Taraba Benue and Jos are all Christian Dominated state brother. You and I knows very well that in Nigeria, religion play vital roles in our politics. So tell me why Christian are yet to rule in a state where you claimed they are the majority

Northern Christians have never mixed politics with religion from the beginning, that was why in 1999, Ibrahim Mantu who was a muslim was able to win Senatorship of Plateau central district (and became the deputy senate president of Nigeria).
I guess in the eyes of you religious fanatics, Plateau central is a muslim dominated zone for them to elect a muslim senator for 8 years right?

Same thing with Taraba south, from 1999-2007, they elected a muslim senator.
Adamawa south and Taraba north have elected muslim senator many times, yet both zones are christian majority. You can never find a muslim dominated area elect a christian leader. Our people have been the fools for the sake of one Arewa.

A big thanks to you guys for opening the eyes of we Northern christians that politics has always been a game of religion. The repercussions are coming very soon I promise you guys.

BabangidaHamza:
but your brain is been blocked by mucus.. You didnt investigate whether she was a muslim or christain.. But because you are a confirmed idiot you decide to jump into conclusion.. Even though she is a Muslim let other parties field christain-christain and the one with highest number wins..

FriendNG:
Lying is encrypted in their DNA

ZKOSOSO:
Another Al taqqiya fanatic of the biggest terrorist organisation in the world. Keep slamming ya head with deception.
The major towns of Nasarawa state are Mararaba-Masaka-Auta Balefi, axis, akwanga- eggon - Lafia axis, keffi -Nasarawa-laminga-gadabuke-toto axis. Exception of the third with 50:50 Muslims /xtian all others have over 80% of Christians and ATR.
I work around these places. Nasarawa is over 73% made up of Non-Muslims. The Politics of imposing Muslim Governors started with Gen Abacha in 1996. Since then, All Political Parties especially PDP, CPC, APC have a way of suppression Christians ticket as Govs. In 2015, PDP under Adamu Muazu ensured Labaran Maku was denied the ticket, he was leading. He was equally rigged out by APC while using APGA.

Don't mind the jihadists. It's not their faults. Our people have been docile for too long. You know the mistake our people made? We thought we were one people with them from the begining as one Arewa. Our people's eyes have gradually been opened over the years to see the deception.

FriendNG:
I see some flat.head living in poto poto Republic are saying Kaduna is a Christian state, Adamawa and Nassarawa.

So why settled for a deputy governor? Since you're the majority select a Christian candidate and elect him/her as Governor.

Useless apathetic narcissistic grade A liars.

In your usual madness you probably think everyone who opposes your view is an Igbo. Wake up petty tribalist!

Majlaw:
You are a bloody liar. I am from Nasarawa state. We don't have Hausa Fulani in Nasarawa state. Nasarawa is dominated by the Alagos. Majority of dem are Muslims.
Why are you guys like dis? Must you lie to promote your religion? If Christian are the majority, how come No single Christian has rule in Nasarawa state?

You don't Hausa fulanis in Nasarawa? Really? Who dominate Keffi and Nasarawa towns then? AA Sule who is the APC governorship candidate is which tribe? Mada as he claimed?

Alagos are not the largest tribe in Nasarawa state. Eggons are! You are the 2nd largest and you are 50-50 and not predominantly muslims! I know Obi, Keanna, Doma quite well. I know Nasarawa indigenous muslims who are from different tribes like Alago, Afo, Agatu, Gwandara, Egbura, Akyekura and even Mada and Eggons have muslims too.
Most muslims in Nasarawa state are indigenes, but a good chunk of them are not. I have not even talked of the Kanuri immigrants of Lafia.

Osagyefo98:
In as much am not interested in any happenings in benue, plateau, kaduna and the rest....i must make it clear to you that all are north under Arewa....

So u can't exonerate yourself been an Arewa, hausa-fulani or a northerner....This ur gimmicks won't work.

U guys can't be looking for sympathy now wen u all outrightly were supporting the killings on the other side of the divide.

In sincere terms I condemn such intimidation and humiliation of xtians in north but many things has gone wrong to start putting things right.

What killings are you talking about that we supported? What is arewa? Are Igbos, Yorubas and Niger deltans all classified as one because you all are Southernerns? Get your points straight pls.

NdiaraIGBO:
Yoruba people in yorubaland!

Get that into your igbotic flat skull!

Nigerian constitution does not recognize anything like Yoruba land or Hausa land or Urhobo land. Is there a governing unit like yoruba land with an elected administrative leader?
Only States are recognized in Nigeria. And as long as Nigeria is concerned, indigenes of Edo, Ondo, Oyo and Anambra are non indigenes of Lagos state.

oilPUSSY:
Even Adamawa ?
I think it's not yet late to start given northern Christians positive orientation about politics.
If nothing is not done now, by next 200 yrs, northern Christans will be totally subdued (God forbids)

Yes Adamawa. 200 years is too far, if we don't start agitating, in 50 years time the deed will be done. We are waking up already and some serious work is about to begin.

oilPUSSY:
Nawa oo, these Fulanis should never be given change to settle in any area. Their mission is nothing but to subdue.
The reason why I asked is because I have heard several times that it's a Christian dominated state, yet they haven't produced a Christian governor.
This Is terrible.

Yes this is true. Northern christians are a politically weak bunch. Adamawa state is also christian dominated but only produced a christian governor by luck.
Our people were cursed with naivety. The kind of christianity which came to our people was the orthodox kind which heavily discouraged politics. While we were busy preaching that politics was for the sinners amongst ourselves, Hausa-fulanis were busy planning and strategizing how to dominate, preaching politics all over their mosques.
Christianity made our people weak and foolish.
The british also made matters worse through indirect rule with emirates.

oilPUSSY:
Nice one.
I want to digress a bit. Is Nasarawa Christian or Muslim dominated state ?
What's the population of Christians and Muslims in Nasarawa?

Indigenously, Nasarawa is like 70% christian, but a huge immigrant population of Hausa-fulani into the state has diluted it to like 60% christian.

ZKOSOSO:
Elrufai is just a disaster. Major disaster waiting to happen in Kaduna state. When Kastina state was cut out of old Kaduna state in 1987, Christians became majority while Muslims started moving in to Kaduna in droves from neighbouring core northern states even huge almajiris from Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal etc were dumped in the towns by Muslims leaders to increase their population by all means.
The city center then had Christian LGA Chairman both Kaduna south and Kaduna north LGAs.

Today, the story has changed. Religion has because a very major issue in Kaduna every day life. It's a matter of life and death. This is what Elrufai want to stoke the flame once again. He carefully eliminated the Agwom Adara first then this.

Hmm, This is nothing but the truth.
In terms of indigenous population in Kaduna state, Christians have the majority, but Hausa fulanis made sure they challenged this status by immigration from core-northern states.

Southern Kaduna and Plateau people, wake up. One Nigeria with Hausa-fulani people is not for us. You cannot form national unity with expansionists.
This is the same plan these people have to use immigration to dilute the christian majority of Jos city and control Plateau state from there.

FriendNG:
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Stupidity of the highest order!
1. Did choosing Christian deputy save Kaduna from Tribal and religious Crisis before
2. Does the present Christian deputy stop Kaduna Christians from attacking innocent travellers slaughtering them?
3. Are Kaduna Christians ever ready to subjugate to El - Rufai's government?
4. Is Plateau not a Christian Christian tickets for long?
5. Did you ever call for same justice to the Muslims of plateau?
Whatever you think is the reason for Christian Christian tickets in Plateau, same applies to Kaduna. Therefore speak for all, or keep silence

This comment of yours is nothing but the height of your ignorance.
Comparing Plateau state which has a very small muslim indigenous population to Kaduna state which about half of the indigenous population is christian is a show of stupidity.

Of the 17 LGAs that make up Plateau state, only Wase & Kanam have a muslim majority. If you think otherwise, please tell us which other LGA in Plateau have a muslim majority.

In Kaduna state, out of 23 LGAs, 11 of them are Christian dominated. The entire 8 LGAs of Kaduna south senatorial district are christian domimated. 3 others in the central and even 1 in the northern senatorial district are christian dominated, yet you are here comparing Plateau and Kaduna states.

Seriously, it's not your fault. It's the fault of my people who chose to believe in 'one Nigeria' with the Hausa-fulanis. A lot of this will soon change and the tide that will sweep, Hausa-fulani born to rule leaders will not bee able to contain it. It's a matter of time.

fk001:
Stop fooling yourself, there are Christian terrorists.


Just because you people are quick to shout victims that doesn't mean there are not handful of wicked and babaric people amongst you.


Berom and southern Kaduna are naturally wicked and carnivorous, I have watch so many videos of them eating human flesh apart from the video I am also a first hand witness.



I will never accommodate or support wicked people, be it Christains or Muslims.

And what are fulani herdsmen? Can you show me one post of yours where you have openly condemned and berated your fulani kinsmen? Pathetic hypocrite.

FriendNG:
May Jannatul Firdaus be his final destination.

It's all clear who the evildoers are. It shall not be well with both the Berom Christian terrorist and their sympathizers on social media.

The police should arrested those bastard women that protested against the search of his body/car in the so called ancestral pond.

This is not the first time Berom Christian terrorist have killed innocent Muslim travelers going in or out of Bauchi via Plateau State. They should all be fished out and face Justice.

Useless terrorist

If Beroms are terrorists, what are your fulani herdsmen then? Rubbish.

Ozibe:
Op I will respond to this falsehood in another thread later. It is good to say good things about Yoruba but please, saying things that don't add up and worse listing them as number 2 on what basis? Where are the Ashanti's of Ghana.. Please make sure u are well researched on this topic cos, I will come and dismantle allbur lies. Later when I'm less busy. Stay tuned.

Gbam. I almost forgot the Akan people (Ashantis etc of Ghana & Ivory coast).
@Proxillin. Any list without the Akan people cannot be taken seriously. These people are most likely the largest coastal ethnic group of West Africa and even arguably Africa as a whole. They are the dominant ethnic group in Ghana & Ivory coast and number over 20million people.

Ozibe:
How do mean influence? What makes Yoruba more influencial than the igbos. The igbos were the most sort after slaves and most expensive because of the hard work and fair complexion. The igbos were seen as superior race. www.nairaland.com/attachments/3606242_img20150921052004edit_jpeg1e50872f539456818f3b813301de20e3

Mind u, 60% of the Black's you see in america today originated from bight of biafra (through the port of calabar and bonny) which composed of the ijaws, efiks, Ibibio and majority igbos. What notable slave of Yoruba origin was more influential than Olaudah Equiano, who born his freedom, rallied round to work to abolishment of slavery. And he is the reason slave trade was abolished? Which Yoruba's slave was more notable than James Africanus B Horton, whose works was recommended to the British house of common for the establishment of self government?

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3606203_265940620150722195618jpeg4f3d8eea0d927617038a897e4bd7efd1_jpeg_jpegceaf32e4c1a92c7bcec4254f46e42d8a

What notable historical event, action or activities was taken by the Yoruba's slaves like the Igbo landing at St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia.which today is a historical tourist site and has been used to teach about black history in america till this day.

What of Nat Turner, the rebel Igbo slave who fought against white oppression and his story has been adapted into a movie "Birth of a Nation".

What of the word Ebony? Do you know it was adopted from the word EBO as it was called then? ...op if you are new to nairaland. Just stay humble before u are disgraced out of here.

Another big lie from you, Yoruba's and Fulani's are not the largest ethnic group in African. I don't know which is the largest but I know the by 1920 populations census, igbos were not only almost double Yoruba's, they were 2/3 of southern Nigerian. (Check physical anthropology of southern Nigeria). www.nairaland.com/attachments/3606711_img20160415205559_jpeg6889d8ed59c6c554cfd840f11f842271

Again, another lie, Yoruba's are not older than igbos. Igbos are the oldest ethnic group, to inhabit nigeria. Don't worry, I will post all for you. You are a fake researcher, a bias one and you know nothing. Shame.

This is the same way you all deceived yourselves with most educated, most professors, most doctors, lawyers and engineers. Yet facts and documents keep showing that you guys are far behind the igbos. You guys cant make an objective research without being biased. What are u guys ashame of, why do you like lying to urselves

Nice facts from you my man. I won't be surprised if the OP Proxillin is a yoruba person. However, his work is commendable, just that we can kindly disagree with some of his points.

I think when he talks about INFLUENCE IN SLAVE TRADE, he mostly hinted on the population of slaves taken away and most importantly, how much of the culture or influence of the ethnic group survives in the Americas today. I'm not so sure. But if I'm correct, then the Proxillin may not really be wrong on Yoruba being more influential than Igbo in the slave trade.

From my point of view, I vehemently disagree with Yoruba or Fulani being the largest ethnic group in Africa, not even West Africa. Hausas and Mende speaking peoples should be larger, whereas in Africa as a whole, Oromos, Somalis and Amharas will definitely come in. How about Berbers? They should really be the largest. If Arab can count, it's definitely the largest.
However I think Yorubas could most likely be more than Igbos considering their additional population in Benin republic and Togo.

proxillin:
Thats not fatcual.
1. Jews
2. Arabs
3. Asians


Maybe Yorubas will make 20th position.

Jews are the most influential race on the planet.

Exactly... Can yoruba really make top 50? When we have the Japanese, Han Chinese, Koreans, English, French, Italian, Castillian, Germans, Portuguese, Dutch, Scandinavians, Russians, Persians etc?

@ImperialYoruba, just stop claiming thrash. No native African ethnicity can be among the top 20 influential in the world if we are to be realistic... What have we really achieved and what do we have to show for in the world today?

If we talk about history, only African ethnic groups like Abyssinians (present day Amharas etc), Nubians, Egyptians, etc may stand out today. Did yorubas evolve and indigenous system of writing before Arabic and English writing came? Where are the monumental buildings and structures erected by the yorubas before contacts with whites?

proxillin:
The video influenced my work. And the video you watched placed Yoruba as 2nd too. Ofcourse I know the owner of the video, we belong to the same group. However, I didnt influence his decision.

Let me ask you. Which of the tribes in Africa is known for any religion in Americas? Only Yorubas. Yoruba is now a religion in American Continent.

They influence their host. I dont know why this is debatable to anyone.

You are the one who is clearly bias here. A simple search through wikipedia will even shut your mouth.

Let me restate that this is for education purpose. If you feel aggrieved that your ethnic group is not well represented, kindly rewrite your own history and push it to wikipedia.

I admire this thread of yours. Kudos.

But please, Yoruba religion is not the only surviving religion of the Americas. Vodun (which belongs to the Fon people of Benin republic) is very popular in Haiti and other places. Also, that of the Angolan/Congolese is also quite influential and observed among the Santeria religion of Cuba, that of Brazil and others.

Yoruba religion was heavily and largely retained in Brazil and Cuba due to the 'recent arrival' of an extremely large population of Yoruba slaves even up into to the 18/19th century when slavery had been largely abolished.

rapwide:
where calaba pipu na lolz

Exactly. Ibibio/efik people were also very influential in the transantlantic slave trade. This article definitely failed to recognize them as they were also a large coastal ethnic group.
Ibibio-efik words even exist in one of the creoles of some Caribbean countries, to show you the influence. I read about this. Take note @OP Proxillin

proxillin:
People mentioning Ijaws...Hausas...

These tribes are not as infuential as Zulu.

The list is top 10. If we are to continue. Zulu will make 11th position.

Zulus were not part of the transantlantic slave trade. Read the topic right.

SarkinYarki:
If 100 million people where on poverty in 2014 how come Nigeria wasn't poverty capital of the world then ? If 100 million people where in Poverty in 2014 how come there is no data to show people living poverty yet there is enough data to show more and more people slipping into poverty under Buhari govt ?

You clearly don't know how poverty is graded , we are talking about extreme poverty here ( below 50 cents a day ) and it's about 90 million ..when we use the 5 dollar yardstick to measure poverty over 160 million Nigerians including you fall into that bracket

Thank you for enlightening CilicMarin. There is a difference between 'poverty' and 'extreme poverty', the rankings are different. Nigeria has more extremely poor people than any other country in the world. What a shame!.

Kazikazi:
Arusha is a tourist city in northern Tanzania.its located 80 kms from Kilimanjaro mountain,40 kms from Kilimanjaro inter.airport. At the backyard of the city there's mount meru.The favorable climate,the beautiful vegetation,the surrounding tourist attractions and mining have attracted many foreigners to settle there.A lot of international organs have made this city their permanent home.E.g. African postal union,UN's international criminal tribunal,East African community, African justice courts.some call this is Geneva of Africa.

I see. Thank you.