₦airaland Forum

odumchi: This isn't anybody's fault. Rather, it's a perfect example of the dialectal difference in Igbo. In my own dialect poverty is 'mgbei' and we don't have anything like 'owu'.

Prior to you guys' explanations, I knew that that saying (owu as gi, i ga amalu ife) had something to do with hardship/poverty but I didn't exactly know what 'owu' meant.

Patsey: It would have been noted that apart from the Fulani people (many of who have skin colour resembling those of the Arabs), some Bini and Igbo people are light skinned. Why is this? I am proposing that in 1515 when Capuchin monks from Portugal made the first (but failed) attempt at evangelising Nigeria, these monks who operated mainly in the Bini Kingdom bleeped several Bini women whose offspring intermarried with the Delta-Igbos. These also intermarried with the Igbos, east of the Niger, and so on and so forth. Bla bla bla!

Frankly speaking, if you're light-skinned Bini or Igbo, go for blood test, you could qualify for Portuguese citizenship. lol.

ChinenyeN: Alright, so then what about it's origins? I've heard Ika from Afam and Abiriba from Andre, and maybe (due to its very common/popular usage in the area) Onitsha.

Abagworo: Agbotaen is not alj_harem. agbotaen's name is Solomon Mgbejume and he is from Owa in Delta State. Even his facebook page and Ikaworld site is full of personal assumptions. He even opened a facebook page for Obi Efeizomor the traditional ruler of Owah. He has been rebuked severally by older Ikas but he keeps bringing shame to his family.

souldust: Someone said there are similarities b/w igala names and igbo names. But i cant see any similarity really. Is it Arome, Enejo, Ele, Idoko, Ojonugwa, Chenemi, Omele or which name really is similar with igbo.

ogugua88: No one here is a child, but I see some read too fast out of emotion. Read what I said again, carefully and slowly. I did not call anyone a rogue.

ogugua88: @Obiagu1 I will support an honest non-Igbo over a rogue Igbo any day. I will support an honest Igbo over a rogue non-Igbo any day. Tribalism has consumed all Nigerians. Rather than search for a candidate with political experience, knowledge, courage despite adversity, and other traits we would love in a president, we're busy searching for who can represent our tribe best in the presidential election in 2015. I don't have time for that.

ACM10: That's why u think that other Igbos that refused to join the protest are stup!d. BTW, did u take part in the protest? Hmm. . .u are behind your keyboard organisin foot soldiers that will go out to take the bullet for u. Pls post a picture of u taking part in the protests on this thread or forever remain silent. You can't lead from behind. When u mobilize people to protest, u must take the lead.

ogugua88: I'm in all three. Anambra Association, Neni Develoment Union, and Sacramento Association of Nigerians.

If you want a fair and free Nigeria, then you should start acting like it. Everyone wants the nation to break up because they think it's easier that way.

Fuel subsidy removal doesn't have to be your headache. If something is wrong, you can't stand against it? If wrong is wrong, I'll be vocal. You make it seem like Igbos weren't effected by the removal. People traveled to their villages in December and couldn't return home because prices doubled overnight.

I could not care less who the person is or where they are from. I will support a Hausaman or a Yorubaman if I feel he is more experienced than a fellow Igbo. I don't push anything due to region. That's silly.

bashr8: am not defending obi i could care less about him , i hate lies and image assasination of anambra state.

Unemployment rate in Anambra is among the highest in the South-east zone, at 21.3 per cent, it is higher than the national average of 21.1 per cent. Imo’s unemployment rate is 29.9 per cent and Enugu is 15 per cent. The state has tried to reduce unemployment through its Anambra Integrated Development Strategy (ANIDS) and the Anambra Youth Reorientation and Empowerment Program (ANSYREP), but the problem with these programmes is that they contribute very little to the production base of the state.

The incidence of poverty in the state is very high – actually disappointing. The South-east has a food poor incidence of 41.0 per cent of which 60.9 per cent is absolutely poor, while 66.5 per cent is relatively poor and 56.8 per cent live under a dollar a day. Anambra has a poverty index of 22.8 per cent, the third highest in the zone, and shares the sixth lowest position in Nigeria with Rivers State which also has 22.8 per cent. About 47.6 per cent of the state’s population is core poor, 45.0 per cent is moderately poor and only 7.4 per cent of the state’s population is classified as none poor. Income inequality as measured by changes in Gini co-efficient between 2003 and 2010 increased slightly by 7.6 per cent as against 18.1 per cent for Ebonyi and Enugu States 7.5 per cent increase.

Mr Mandilas: I want u to also know that Isu is different from Isuama.

Ofuks: Please see what an expatriate had to say about
Nigerians, especially in the light of the recent airline
crash: "All their indifference and mad obsession with their
own self interest will ultimately come to haunt them.
A lack of integrity in all sectors of their life means that
all processes are compromised. Police lending out
guns, doctors operating for the sake of the costs
associated with it, government official selling free donated drugs meant for the poor, fake medicines
being made, no emergency response because
contracts awarded and looted! Teachers selling exam papers, people importing fake
fuel! Soon, their buildings will be falling, bridges will
collapse and yet they will still continue to smile and
praise themselves for being able to navigate this hell
they have created for themselves! After the Dana
crash, I listened to them, not a statement about the ills that have created this crisis, not a single
appreciation of the scale of the social ill that engulfs
them! Tomorrow they will all go about their normal
lives, cheating, lying and looting! Come Friday/Sunday, they will pray for the deceased
and in particular that they themselves do not enter a
plane destined to crash!"
This has to be Difficult to disagree with!!

Odenigbo Aroli: I noticed that too and that is definitely not Idenmili Igbo; Both of the materials are written in Izugbe. I think Achebe is getting too old
That "Achebes Igbo"(the one used in the material) is definitely not Ogidi Igbo who we share boarders with.

odumchi: Lol . It's not our fault that some people were unable to comprehend Isuama due partly to the presence of Arochukwu. Isuama was just trying to blend dialects from every corner of Igboland and Arochukwu just happened to be in the extreme east.

Anyway... I found a few interesting (at least I think they are) documents. The first one is of Chinua Achebe's lecture in Owerri (1999) in which he denounced Standard Igbo. He wrote it in his own native Idenmilli dialect (NRI I know you will have no problem deciphering it) .

The second is the same exact document, however in Standard Igbo. Maybe they will help.

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/igbo/achebe/index.html

And yeah, if anyone knows how to speak Isuama please give us some examples.