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Umu Igbo, can anyone tell me what "O kpoo" and "i shi m'mee kpoo ole" mean in the Ngwa and Owere dialects?

I am guessing "O kpoo" means "that's how it is done" and "I shi m'mee kpoo ole" means "what do you want me to do" but I'd like some confirmation.

Just as Sokoto, Lagos, Calabar, and Kano have traditional rulers, Owerri also has. The Traditional ruler of Owerri is Eze Dr. Emmanuel Emenyonu Njemanze (aka the Ozuruigbo) of Owerri. I doubt there's a direct hotline or email through which you can reach him. However, you can try leaving a message at the Owerri west LGA website.

http://www.owerriwest.gov.ng/about/contact-information/

SailorXY: niceeeeeeeeee

Ndeewoo.

pres-elect:
Ebe a wuzi cartoon network umuaka.

Ify, Pres-elect ka di ndu o. Hapu ndi iberibe.

O so ndi, o wee ndi.

ekoair: what exactly does nsibidi look like?

Crayola's image is very good. You can also see Nsibidi ideograms on the wrapper of this Ekpe member.

ekoair: no wonder you dont like the cities you lived in Aba try sweet calabar, abuja or lagos and tell me if you still feel this way

Lol, I've never lived in Aba. I've only visited it. All my life, I've only lived in the village. Abuja and Calabar are much less hectic than Lagos, but I think I would have my liberties severly restricted were I to live there. In the village, one can go about as one pleases.

igbo2011: 1. Neocolonialism
2. Religion
3. Education
4. Import everything instead of buying locally made products

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What you just wrote is the essence of neo-colonialism. Our former colonial masters ravaged our lands and used our materials to develop and improve their native-lands, leaving us with whatever we have today.

That's exactly what France is doing to much of French-West Africa. Look at Guinea. Everything there is French backed; the government, the currency, the military, the economy. And at the same time, France has a share in Guinea's resources and continues to sell goods (often on credit) to poor Guinea, furthering the cycle of economic-colonialism.

I'm telling you, were oil a valuable product back in the 19th century, the British would've found a way to suck up every drop of it and send it back to Britain.

MsDarkSkin: Exactly.



No. if Africans weren't so divisive and used their heads rather than greed there would be no way imperialists could damage Africa the way they did. Corrupt leaders are the same as their predecessors, the corrupt chiefs. Africans allied with (or should I say employed the aid of) whites in a fight against other Africans. That is the problem with Africa. Always has been, and until the people understand what UNITY is about, it always will be.

Looking at it from my perspective, African leaders were quite content and capable in the days prior to the coming of the Europeans. The African mindset to leadership, at this time, was that power rested within the will of the people. Leaders were meant to serve their people, and this they did effectively. This reminds me of King Afonso of Kongo who, after realizing the devastating effect Atlantic slavery had on his people, forbade all slave dealings with his "brother" the King of Portugal, in an attempt to save his people. He is, arguably, an example of a 'true African monarch' who willingly forfeits his personal desires for the health of his people.

This mindset to leadership was uprooted by the Europeans (particularly the Portuguese, French, and Spanish) who believed in absolute monarchies and the 'divine right to rule'. Compare the French Louis XIV (the "sun king" who oppressed millions in order to maintain his power) to King Afonso of Kongo ad determine which of these is more corrupt than the other.

European greed and their 'culture of corruption' was what corrupted African leaders. Prior to their coming, Nigerian kingdoms and states existed in perfect balance. There were those states that were strong (interior) and there were others that were weak (coastal). The weak knew their place and their leaders behaved accordingly. However, with the advent of European goods and guns, the coastal states grew in strength and began to challenge the interior states (who weren't armed with European weapons). The Europeans disrupted this harmony and allied themselves with the weaker coastal states in order to destroy the more powerful states of the interior.

In actuality, the Africans were not the ones who manipulated each other, however the Europeans manipulated the Africans in order to gain their desires (slaves, gold, colonies). African chieftains and rulers only viewed the Europeans their allies and were ignorant of their own sinister goals (or at least until it was too late). Before the coastal states knew it, they were annexed into European protection (in our case, the Southern Nigeria Protectorate) and were soon amalgamated with the interior states they had earlier rivaled. The Europeans later changed everything socially (as described in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart); changing the role of the leader from one of guidance in which power was derived from the people, to one in which the individual is the source of power.

Fast forward many years, and here we are: hunger, violence, competition, poverty, disease, corruption, etc.

toshmann: But odumchi, foto Ify with Gucci bag e-set-ighi at all. Foto ahu dika nwa school di ume-ala, ishi Zuru oke.
Ify di hot. I kwesiri inye ya hot mini skirt with kajad laps, Gucci glasses na Cuban cigar, papu face

Ify o

Anyi ma onwe ayi

I bu ezigbote onye ojoooo!

Lol biko eyekwa cigar na onu Ify goo werre onu gi kpuru ya

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Agaba bia kwupu okwu! Puta na nzozo!

toshmann: Nnaa odumchi iga akwa ala o, igara na public thread ga gbaa m oto. Na ndi na awughi ndi Igbo ga ahucha Ike m.
I gara ahapu nke ahu m gba oto maka nani threadia. Eleekwanu nke wu Ike m in public multiracial thread. Na ndi mmong, na ndi ugwu-awusa, na ndi MBA-Mmiri, na ndi Yoruba, na ndiigbo, na ndi na awughi ndi naijiria ha Nile ahula Ike m.

Esekwala m ozo Biko. A wu m ichie. Ndi umu mkpi hu ihe a, ha ga anara m echi chi echiri m

LMAO

O bughi gi bu onye seree ebe m'gbusiri ikpere na ihu gi werre gosi ohanaeze?

Agaghim esekwa gi ozo maka otu a isi echiri gi aha na obodo gi. Imakwa mo kwa abum nze na ala Onicha. Amam na Ify ga egosi ha photo a isere'm ka ha nwe ike nnaram oche'm.

NRI PRIEST: Odum, chei ! Nkea bu below the belt line!

toshmann: Chei, odumchi agbaala m oto

Chei, ala akwupula otele

Muwa, anu Ana agba egbe o na acho condom, taxi driver
Legodi otele m na UN squad
But nnaa Ike ahu Kara aka. Some umu babes gakwa n'echeta de Ike na nro n'abali, ete pres-elect na eji kajad laps Ify agba ncha

Odumchi, imeriela. Biko you win, before gi esee akpa Amu m
O choochi!!!

Odumchi birikwa o

Ify how far I ga agbadata taa?

LOL.

Akwa unu chere na m'gbafuru. Ejila'm ikike laachi

Ka anyi chilaa ngwo aha anyi (owuru otu ndi Nri Priest na asije) ka udo dili

ifyalways: Looooooool
Ala Aro bia lere oh.Odumchi,i di mean.
Ergh,biko i puru i gbanwe ewu m abuo ahu to Toshman na Ikomu or Nedu210?lol

Mgbe obula unu na enye m "thick laps"! Y'all should not invite Mr Cork here. . .and ofcourse i can cook and cleans(((no offeinse)))

Eze Nri,imela.Ahu dimkpa ahu ogologo imi ya.

Tosh o wurum ka Odumchi mere ihe a,O wuru m eh,O wuru m,a ga m . . .rofl

Ya gaziere ndi Igbo,Izu uka ohuru oma @ mmadu dum.

Mbano united:2,Aro fire boys:12

Lol

M'mara na udi ihe a ga eme. Akwa unu na adum bia see bia see ugbua m'seela ya onabu Odumchi bu onye ojoo.

Lol Ify o bu otu onhu ka i di na ife?

I think everything started with colonial influence. Had the European man never set foot on African soil, things would've been much better for us.

Here's my theory of why things are the way they are:

The advent of Europeans brought negative colonial influence which resulted in corrupt leaders. Corrupt leaders resulted in poor administration which resulted in poverty. Poverty resulted in rivalry and a lack of cooperation between social classes and countries (on a much larger scale). This lack of cooperation between countrymen and countries then resulted in an Ineffective African Union.

ROFL!

Poverty na bad thing. Abeg, make we no laugh, e be good say he don recieve help

See as Ify don scatter una brain lmaooo

Toshmann no forget say you still be my driver. LMAO

On a serious note, I want you to wash the blue mercedes for my outing tomorrow morning.

Everybody, see wetin Ify take Toshmann na Pres-Elect do LOL

toshmann: be careful what you ask for

LOL na declaration of war be dat.

Asim unu na unu ekwekwa ka umu nwanyi mechuo unu ihu. Lekwa ihe Ify na eme ochie oche kagbara nka di ka Tosh na Pres-Elect

Tosh chere obara aba. O chefuola na oka wu driver mu lmao.

Ohanaeze leekwa ihe Ify ji Tosh na Pres-Elect na eme. Nwanyi emeela ha iho ewu.

Ngwa, Toshmann abiala'm. Bia nara akarachuchu.

Unu Lekwa mgbe ndi bekee choputara Toshmann lol

OAM4J: @Odumchi, Thank you my guy, with a friend like you, I know i don't have to watch my back.

@ifyalways, Nigeria movies dey always get part 2, then part 3 and part 4.

The next part is where pres-elect starts to misbehave too, and in part 3 other suitors came to disturb u, and part 4 is where I came to rescue you and you realized how much u love me while teaching me Igbo language. Then we got married had children and lived happily ever after. and the movie ended. lol

What are mates for

ifyalways: Nri Priest 2,Agaba 0

Kedu ka Agaba ga-esi je nwusia nmai na otunweke bia na Nkpor na akuwa bottle bikonu?

Eze Nri gbachapu ya nkiti maka na asiri guwa agbara o tewe uri onu.LOL

Ok,Odumchi so iji style wee gba oso.No attempt isaghachi Toshman okwu?no fall my hand oh,bia zigara Tosh ozi.

OAM4J,lol.Actor don dye so movie don end.no part 2 and 3.Ify and pres-elect are back together,haterz can suck their fingers till it rots.LOL

Igbo bu Igbo,ekene m unu.

Chai, Ify itukwasi'm obi?

NRI PRIEST: Ify nwanyi di oke onu,nne ya diba maka na ogu adiro ebe aga anu ya. Biko,keduzi ebe ODUMCHI jelu ? Amu na atogodim hia...lol

Ma gikwa Nri?

Odumchi anaghi ekwu ihe olu eme ihe odo. M'nawa ese ya.

Tosh nwonyeke'm, chokwa ebe ima ezo ihu gi. Lol

Tragic and very sad. It makes you wonder how people can do things like this just for money.

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amor4ce: Odumchi, I feel that there may be a kidnapping trend/pattern as the areas of Igboland today regarded as notorious for kidnapping for ransom might be the same areas in the past notorious for the kidnapping of people as trans-Atlantic slaves and for feasts. [s]If so the implication is that your people should focus on re-orientating the psyches, including value for human life, of people from such areas so as to quench the obnoxious act.[/s]

And I do have friends who are Igbo but the feelings displayed on NL...

Like I said earlier, save for a few groups in the extreme east of Igboland, slavery was illegal in all parts of the 'Igbo country'. Kidnapping was also illegal in all parts of Igboland, however this didn't stop individual slave merchants from going out and capturing slaves themselves. Since this was not a communal affair, you can't draw a relationship between it and the (as you put it) "areas of Igboland notorious for kidnapping".

It was in this same manner that both Jubo Jubogha of Opobo and Oluadah Equiano were captured and sold.