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Ify, ndeewo na otu i si saa mu ajuju m.

Andre, thank you very much for that detailed explanation.

Abagworo: The Catholic Church has ended osu among Catholics in Imo State. I heard this at a wedding in Owerri where the Arch Bishop said that any Parent who prevents the son or daughter from marrying an osu he/she is in love with will be banished from Catholic Church.

Abagworo I think you might be the right person to ask this:

Does the name "Nwosu" mean "child of an osu"?

Thanks for the suggestion.

Uka lzrel a agwula m ike.

A bit over a century ago, most of the Igbo knew little to nothing about anywhere beyond their immediate localities, now, one hundred years later, the Igbo peoples are supposedly from Israel. Funny.

Antivirus92: Odumchi nnukwu onye nkuzi! Daalu nnukwu. I wish many people could be like you.

Ndeeeewo oo.

Ndi Igbo, asi m ka m juogodi unu ajuju:

Kedu ka unu si ekwu "it depends" na okwu Igbo? Biko nu, na onye asakwala m "o dependiri" maka igwakata Bekee na Igbo adighi nma.

Ndeewo nu o,.

Lol no problem.

*Kails*:


So basically for us English speakers "gb" is just silent?
I want to hear someone who is Igbo say it, so I would know the proper way to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6yYLxcPJiA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The Igbo language has a host of sounds that don't exist in English (kw, kp, nw, gb, and zh). In the intro, she pronounces the word 'Igbo' but you can also go to 1:50 to hear how 'gb' is pronounced.

*Kails*:
well why is it always pronounced as "EEBO"
and not IG-BO? in documentaries

The proper pronunciation isn't "eebo", it's pronounced "I-gbò". The 'gb' is a diphthong and it produces a sound that is alien to English.

People (especially non-Africans) sometimes fail to pronounce that 'gb' sometimes out of sheer ignorance, most times because they can't (or atleast find it hard to).

Any ideas?

I'm ready to work hand-in-hand with you guys.

LesbianBoy: "Old age" no good o......he was a cute boy back then, see as him come resemble shaggy of scooby doo cartoon!!!

I don die.

How does this even resemble Onicha main market? This is only the riverbank.

That was an interesting video, however [to me] this really isn't new. When it comes to ancient African civilizations, all people ever mention is the Nile axis. I, personally, would like to know more about ancient West Africa.

somalia5: odumuchi. dont mind this fool.


i know where to draw the line. i have not used the N word. i have only said things that they dont want to hear.

doumuchi this is not a thread to u, but i already have somalia6, and somalia7 ready incase u take unfavorable actions.


i demand to be respected.




clearly this fool hasnt been in america. in prison? i was called a pirate four times today before i went to work.

before i go to the first red light i was given the middle finger several times.

patanjaly: @moderator i think calling african nigga,ugly monkey,slaves,sambo,gorilla are word which are banned everywhere in the world even in football.in America u can be imprisioned.so why should nairaland be different?

Thanks for making the complaint. I will keep an eye out.

shymexx: Wtf are you on about? Don't chat shyte, just fvck off... You're on here now because I mentioned Igbo GTFOH...

And was I on the other thread? - do your damn job and piss off, prick...

If you haven't noticed, I could care less about the ethnic wars/battles on here. You can say whatever you like about anybody but the truth is that it doesn't affect me in any way. All I'm telling you to do is to act responsibly and take responsibility for your action when the need arises.

I hope it's not too hard.

Ify, kedu imi i ji akpo snuff?

pres-elect:
Kedu ebe onye obula gara?

Toshman !
Blackpikin!
Agaba12345678910
Achi eji eshi ofe!
Odumchi
Ndi b'anyi ayi nwere nzuko ebe a o.
Biawanu
Brand new umuasa ga agbakwa plural( maka ndi 'o huru nwayi kwe onwu')

Onye obula gara icho otu o ga esi akpata nri ya.

shymexx: At least Poland has some big ti.ts having blonde chics, something you'd never see in Anambra... Quit talking about NY, you're not from there...

What chic don't know tampons are a necessity?? I'm a NECESSITY to all the chics from around my way - and I'm cocky about it like my dyck...I need to start question your sex now, you're probably another transexual disguising to be a female...

Tired of these hairy chested and beards having fugly transexuals following me around... What the fvck is wrong with you he/she humanoids Stop quoting me, I only love chics/females, ok??

Learn to avoid making statements like this so as to avoid the trouble that accompanies it. When the heat gets unbearable you'll look for someone to blame.

I've said my own.

Thread moved.

patanjaly: Pls n pls moderator ban this somali5 he had been making racist comment abusing the black race.or do u think in europe or america any reputable website will allow such remarks n the unfortunate is dat he is black wit negroid features.

Could you cite a specific thread in which he made racist comments?

Ali Ngwa thirsts for the governorship.

Ha dicha otutu.

Na mgbe ochie, ana ekewa ndi mmadu na uke (age-grade). Uke obula nwechara oru o kwesiri iru na obodo. Ka m wee maa atu: mgbe ochie, na ubochi eke, umu okorobia ndi dicha afo iri-iri n'ise nwere ike iga aghota nku ha ga-eji emezi ulo nzuko obodo ha.

Ihe a niile socha wuru nrube isi.

afam4eva: Why can't an informative thread like this one be moved to the frontpage...@Odumchi biko, do something.

No problem, but next time please use this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/1004554/promoting-culture-board-frontpage

Had I not come here, I wouldn't have seen this.

shymexx: Why did you relocate the thread??

All the obsession started in this section and you failed to do nothing about it...

What was my handle doing on a thread that had nothing to do with me? - yet you were on the same thread??

Or did you forget the NL rules about attacking other posters
.

The thread was moved because it served no purpose in the Culture section.

Like I said earlier, it will be cleaned in due time or should I suspend my life and abandon all of the other things that need to be dealt with because of your particular case?

You need to be conscious of time; that particular thread is over 17 pages long and will require many hours to clean.

I know you are well aware of the method in which we do things here.

Ptolomeus: Hello dear friend!
A few months ago, I felt the same way in a thread.
I totally agree with you.
I'm convinced that the only difference is the way to worship God ...
I have observed that Christians speak and ask God directly ... I understand that a god is very immense ... do not think any human being has the right to talk to him ...
But are interpretations, and everyone is his own opinion.
A warm greeting dear friend!

Exactly.

Thanks, Ptolomeus.

shymexx: That's Odumchi's fault... Other mods recommend topics for frontpage but that's something Odumchi is allergic to..

Blame Odumchi for that...

People need to realize that as moderators our jobs aren't easy. We are not ominiscient, as we sometimes require the assistance of you board frequenters in order to identify and solve problems.

It's obvious that the Culture section is marginalized in terms of home page representation, and as a result, Michelin and I have been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work in order to help make things "more equal" or at least the way they are supposed to be.

Threads like these have been created for the sole purpose of using you guys' opinions to improve this section and to get more of your threads on the home page:

https://www.nairaland.com/986799/drop-suggestions-improving-culture-section

https://www.nairaland.com/1004554/promoting-culture-board-frontpage

However, if no one takes advantage of them, we can't do anything about that. Our involvement with the homepage threads are limited and if you guys don't suggest what you'd like to see on the homepage to us, then we can't be blamed when we make those decisions.

shymexx: The culture section is the most important and educative section on the forum, but Odumchi has single-handedly destroyed this section with his nepotism and negligence... I had to get this out there because this section made me register on NL and subsequently made NL my favourite forum on the internet...

I discovered NL whilst searching for Yoruba and Benin architectures on google last December, after reading a book about the history of Nigerian cultures... My discovery of NL and some of the educative/educational threads made me an instant fan of the forum... And my first two months on this forum were arguably the best two months in my quest for diverse views on Nigerian cultures/history... I was able to read more than 100 threads and posts, from different posters(both intelligent and ignorant), and I decided to register after that..

Odumchi, if you can't do your job properly, can you please resign and let someone else do the job?? Honestly, I'm tired of the obsession with my handle - this section isn't about me, it's about Nigerian culture... However, I'm a Briton, and I'm loving every bit of it because it's banter to me - but Nigerian culture(s) is bigger than me...

Please, let get back to why this section was created and do your job, Odumchi...

Example of what they turned the Culture Section into, and I wasn't even on thread lol: https://www.nairaland.com/1025026/describe-country-one-word

Honestly, this is nothing more than misplaced banter.

Based on my observations, I've concluded that you're complaining because your personality was mentioned in that thread (which has yet to be cleaned). Instead of constantly blaming us [moderators] for every woe, you can always take a minute to appreaciate the time and energy that we have invested in order to make this section a better place.

Please, if you have anything to say against me or my co-mod, please bring up clear and specific examples.

Kobojunkie: um . . . there presence in the Sahara means they crossed into it from someplace, whether from the North or the South or the East . . they were able to migrate into and out of the Sahara. That wiki page tells you some of that.

I don't think you fully comprehend the enormous geographic barrier presented to sub-Saharan Africans as the Sahara desert. The desert was very difficult to cross due to its vast size and sheer inhospitality. I've also never heard of Asians (Indians/Persians/etc) crossing it.

Kobojunkie: Again, this thread is not on Europeans . . but on Africans going out to explore and bring back ideas to develop their own land. As far back as 300 BC, there are records of Africans reaching Rome . . . so, it know that Africa was not as isolated as you pretend it was then and is today. Africans did go out and some of them did come back.
The question the @OP now poses why didn't the Africans of those days apply the technologies, knowledge, etc, of their time to developing Africa.

If the Europeans didn't have knowledge of anything south of the Sahara then it's implied that the sub-Saharan peoples had little to no knowledge of anything above it. Other than the indigenous nomadic traders that roamed it, very few people crossed it not to talk of entire peoples migrating across. Today, with all our technology, it is still very difficult to cross the Sahara not to talk of thousands of years ago.

Let me say it again: "black" Africa was kept out of the loop of technological advancement that spread across Eurasia due to the Sahara. Our ancestors used what they had to satisfy their needs.