We did it!
Whether you are on Oke side, Akeredolu side, Jegede side, we must now accept the outcome and rally together for the sake of Ondo people and continuity in our region. Ondo people have always been outside of the political tent with rest, but they are with us now. This is a cause for jubilation.

You recall the moves recently of bringing Lagos and Ibile Holdings into the fold Oodua Investment and the reenergization of the DAWN programme to integrate. Lagos has commited to spend strategically to develop the hinterland so that our people living in Akure, Ogbomosho, as far as Ilorin will have easy commute via modern modes of transportation to move commerce and trade around. You can live in Akure and commute daily to Lagos or Ota to work. Improved productivity. You can take weekend to move from Lagos and go hinterland to see culture and traditions, it boosts wellbeing.

Our leaders have programmes to improve this region. We get most out of it when the political agenda guiding us is uniform and not in conflict.

We will sort out the differences later, as you all know. For now this win for APC in Ondo is a win for Yorubaland, period, and we should celebrate it.

May Oduduwa continue to bless Yorubaland, Ase!

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Put Jonathan in APGA in 2019 and instruct all Igbos to vote him. Let's see if he will even get victory in Anambra and Imo, not to mention Enugu or anywhere else in the wider Nigeria. You cant tidy up your politics at home you are talking of gaining relevance in foreign land.

Clowns!

seunny4lif:

Yorubas can only understand Yoruba life

Exactly!
The only thing that get Yoruba unhinged is politics, nothing else, and no one understands the intricacies better than Yoruba himself, who turns around and uses the wizardry to intrigue and disarm others.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
What does it matter?
They are factional. Some are loyal to tinubu while some are loyal to Buhari only.
The Buhari Camp oppeses tinubu even

Lol. In 2015 Eleko instructed that Agbaje is not going to rule in his domain and camped with Ambode.

Two weeks after election, at a family gathering in Iduntafa, Agbaje sat next to his uncle, Eleko, and both were discussing issues in good mood.

You have zero understanding of Yoruba politics and its inter-twined intrigues. So its best, at this age, you leave alone what you cant comprehend and focus on those you can grasp.

Lmao, im surprised no one nailed this one.

Thats Reverend Isaac Ransome Kuti with his family.

The matriarch Funmilayo
Their daughter Dola
Older son Olikoye
Fela in front
Baby Beko on mother's arm.

Lagos - APC
Ogun - APC
Oyo - APC
Osun - APC
Ondo - APC

Vote next year and complete the family in Ekiti.

God Bless all those who participated in Nairaland and did not loose the goal. Your underground work paid off and Yoruba is more united politically than any other region in this country.

Our work is unfinished and a different strategy will be used to bring Ekiti into the family.

Oodua a Gbe wa o!

Every state in Yorubaland is now APC, the amala and ewedu party. One more to go....we are coming to win Ekiti and unite Yorubaland under one banner!

May Oduduwa continue to bless this land and give us the vision to dribble and bend our enemies to support our political advantage.

Up Yorubaland! Vote next year to bring Ekiti under one house!

I like how they said "if" the need arises.

Truth of the matter is the need will never arise for him to be a najor party candidate again. If they want the need to arise they should him make him Presidential canidate of APGA, a minority party, in 2019.

Where is pazienza, feed your eyes on these pictures.

The first one and second picture you see beside the nice yummy brea.sts for good squeeze and suck and their hairdo nothing else on the girls in this Igbo picture is impressive. Look at their feet and the metal plates. You also see some ivory on them but no coral beads.

The third picture is an Igbo woman taken in the 60s, (sixties) you see the george and the blouse. No beads, no gele, no buba.

The fourth picture is a Yoruba woman taken in the 50s (fifties). You see she wore velvet, in different style to the one I posted earlier. For this and the earlier Yoruba woman you see the elaborate adornment with gold jewelries on ears, around neck, on wrist and fingers. It is easy as well to tell class, civilization and beauty. If the lady in second picture had been wearing english gown and not iro and buba it would be impossible to identify as Yoruba because of the setting and style....sophisticated!
Im sure you heard that word before.

ezeagu:


I really hope you're not suggesting "Yorubaland" was supplying the bulk of cotton in Liverpool and Manchester and not the slave-holding Southern United States.

What we're talking about here isn't ankara, because we know that that was a result of a failed European mission to copy and destroy the Indonesian batik industry that took a turn and became popular in (west) Africa.

No, what we're talking about here in general is the styling of 'aso ebi' and so on.

Yoruba was in competition with the cotton belt of United States but is no way we could match their output considering they have advantage of mechanized farming and also from Texas to Georgia is four or more times larger than the farmlands of Yorubaland. No, we could not match them in tonnage or volume. There was a treaty between United States and Yorubaland that pre-existed the one with England. US, through an agent that visited and studied Yorubaland had signed treaty with Abeokuta with the vision of resettling skilled negroes with machineries to increase output. It never happened and England took note of it and made sure that treaty was nulled to avoid conflict in trade interests.


On aso ebi and styling, there is no aso ebi without owambe, and there is no owambe without aso ebi. Nowadays it is just a simple fila or gele, still, the concept is to associate and bond for blood and community.

OWAMBE on its own is an INDUSTRY!

In Ibadan they wear their hats different than in Okitipupa, different than Ilaro, different than Ijebu Ode, different than Offa, different than in Ede and different than in Isolo. So someone from Isolo go to party in Offa and sees their hat and its style. He brings it home and on next outing wears his hat like that. Others in Isolo see it and took to it. A person travels from Ijebu to Okene for owambe and brings back the styling of their hat and start wearing it. Others in Ijebu see it, like it and popularize it. So amongst us and our various owambes we copied, perfected and evolved the multitude of styles you see it out there. There are thousands of styles in Yoruba outfitting, some of which was short lived before it was overtaken by another more popular. If our tailors, drapers, haberdashers, fitters could all get together in conjunctiin with our socialites and catalogue the different syles in fabric, in color, in pattern, design, fitting and put all these knowledge down for posterity it would be a great legacy. In fact there are certain designs of fitting that certain fabrics are not compatible with....it will not come out right when finished. So there is calculation that goes into what the goal is what materials and skills need to be put into accomplishing the goal. In owambes the musicians are observing and have scouts that go into the party looking for people in aso ebi who they can use to promote their own brand, and they target those who are tidy (dapper) and sing their praises and force them to front in answer to the praise. So even though everyone in aso ebi, there is competition to invoke something unique that makes it dapper and earn you a praise song...or perharps a beautiful chick.

So styling of aso ebi regardless of what material is used, has its root in Yorubaland and its evolution is also made possible by Yoruba but others have also assimilated into our owambe and aso ebi culture and put their own signature on their styles. That is the case with the opening pics in the thread with those walking billboards.

laudate:

Like I keep asking, someone should show me the authentic Igbo bridal attire. What exactly does it look like??


Egbon, I agree that the Yoruba have adopted and popularised the Ankara, to the extent that they can now lay some claim of 'ownership' to it. Even when the textile mills in Lagos, Ibadan etc., were running, many of them were producing & churning out Ankara fabric by the dozen. Till today, Dangote's Textile Mills located in the South West still produces local Ankara fabric.

But in truth, Ankara or Dutch wax originated from Indonesia, even though it never gained ground over there. Do you remember the 'Hollandis Dutch wax that was so popular at one time? It was imported and was never produced here, even though its greatest buyers were here.

Laudate,
True statement! The Dutch producers have Yoruba to thank for where ankara is today in world market, especially when ankara is competing with silk and wool for recognition and awards in fashion styling and quality.

On Ibo traditional marriage wear for women you will not find anything older than, perharps 1980, online. It is as if photography was a forbidden practice among them. Post 1980, they have migrated and settled into other non-Ibo cultures and assimilated habits and cultures of their hosts.

For marriage their men dropped the george wrapper and that monotone black dress with prints of tiger, ivory and sometimes alligator, they also dropped the red knit hat that droops over the ears. Ibomen began wearing sokoto, buba, danshiki, gbariye, agbada, they now wore lace, aso oke, guinea, satin, they wore red caps on head now. For the women they abandoned their two tiered george wrapper, the simple high sleeve white blouse is gone and with it they also abandoned their simple scarf or head tie. Ibo women jewelries were mostly metal plates and ivory. Traditionally they did not wear beads. Now they dress in iro and flared arm length buba with deliciously scandalous gele, or they will dress in shape hugging maxi and with plenty of red beads. Genevive should be given credit for giving Ibo women a new cultural look. Pictures of her dressed like an Edo woman was recycled over and over for many years on internet to showcase Ibo beauty and style. She bridged the make over of Ibo women assimilating into Edo wedding styles. Thos who settled in Yorubaland bridged the gaps for their assimilation into Yoruba wedding styles and even everyday wear. You go to political rally in SE today and everyone is styled out like its Yorubaland, no sign of george wrapper, no ear drooped knit hat, no monotone black gown.

If you go online you can classify Ibo pictures into three groups
1 - the dark age when they lived in n.aked.ness with metal tubes on feet and ivory around neck. The best impression is their nice hairdo, everything else is primitive.

2. The civil service years when they dressed in borrowed styles from Efik and Ibibio (tthe george wrapper, tunic, knitted hat). For work they dress in suits and tie.

3. The exodus years. Wearing assimilated styles from delta people, edo people, yoruba people.

I found no clothing style in Ibo culture, whether in casual or formal, that is indigenously Igbo-grown. Likewise I cant find any non-Ibo culture that has borrowed and styled itself in Ibo traditional wears.

RIP

Is this in Kenya?

galeiiTNA:




Ankara is Dutch. Go back to wearing leaves that your likes wore before colonization

dont make me vex load pictures of your fathers in Onitsha shortly after amalgamation. Its not pretty!

By the way since you dont know adire, hardly you know velvet. Here it is nicely adorned by, of course, Yoruba woman.

pazienza:


I don't know what is Adire and I honestly don't care to know, since it's Afonja related. I only know of Ankara, and Ankara remains an Indonesian- Dutch clothing invention.

Dont worry, when we reinvent adire your billboard crazed politicians will teach it to you. You shall wear an adire with picture Ojuku on the @$$, Kanu in front, Okorocha on one sleeve, Kaalu on the other, Nwobodo on the right knee and Ikpeazu on the left knee.

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pazienza:


Didn't read that.
Another pile of Yoruba falsehood and propaganda.
I think I would pass.
Ankara remains an Indonesian invention, modified and re introduced into West Africa by the Europeans.
It had nothing to do with Yorubas.

My great grand mother lived all her life in Ogidi, and she had many "Akara" materials. She knew no Yoruba trash.

this thread is about Ibo taking ankara do billboard. Contribute to that. Why so many pictures on one person, na wetin happen?

pazienza:


You need full psychological examination.
We are talking about Ankara, not Adure or whatever. Stay on topic.
Most Igbos don't know about your Adire, what we know and wear are Ankara.

same technology, wax print! One is batik process, the other is the tie process. Both uses wax to create negatives.

Even adire sef don join ankara on catwalk. After we tire for ankara we go jump back on adire now.

pazienza:


No such thing as that.

Ankara came to West Africa same time.
Yorubas can't wake up overnight and start claiming Ankara.
Yoruba culture is Ase Oke. Ndiigbo had Akwete.
Yorubas can't wake up overnight and come and be claiming Ankara. , an Indonesian clothing culture.

Ok, let me give you the chronology.

Dutch manufactured it for Indonesia. It was not a success there. They brought it to West Africa, Ghana to be specific...it did not succeed. Yorubas put ankara to world stage via ASO EBI.

Back when owambe was owambe, in the 70s, Im looking at my grandma picture on the wall in her velvet and gold jewelries and grandpa in his damask as i type. . Back when party happened every weekend in Palmgrove, Isale Eko, Epetedo, Lafiaji, Ilubirin, Surulere, Shitta, Eko Club, Shell Club, Lagos Island Club, Lagos Tennis Club, Mushin, Yaba, Ebute Meta, ..... back when Shagamu, Ijebu Ode, Ayetoro, ....

Mr Man, una don spoil Yorubaland for us!

Back when my people go party and block five roads just for one party, and you have three or four live bands there entertaining...which kind food you want, which kind drinks, campari sef na free pick which bottle you want.

Back then...Yoruba's choice of fabric for aso ebi is Sanyan, Etu and Alaari, Damask, Velvet, Lace, Satin, Guinea. Nobody dey wear ankara go party. Who wear lace pass Yoruba? We get am for different color and pattern and each has its own name. Yorubaland don baje nau, e no dey like before. How about damask, we get different pattern and shades. So for velvet. You go see velvet for soyoyo body your blood go hot as you go see say the baby set well well.

We dey wear ankara for Yorubaland before civil war sef...but like I said go look at Yoruba picture in the 60s and see if you spot anybody put ankara for body take snap picture. Ankara na play cloth, na something mommy go wear because she dey kitchen and no wan soil her good clothes. Shey u get?

When textile importation tight and economy don baje it became hard to get damask and lace and other expensive stuffs. I no even mention gele sef. That one is a whole book on its own. But as importation and economy and crime spoilt everything, buying expensive and wearing expensive to party lost its taste. Yoruba will never stop owambe...never never never never, and aso ebi will never ever ever stop either...but we reinvented the scene.

Its true we did not invent it but each ethnic group can be differentiated in the motif and pattern of ankara worn by them. If you look around today what you see are the Yoruba patterns. We reinvented ankara and made it the preferred stock of aso ebi.

Yorubas have also been very stylish. We put styles in ankara that no one ever thought of....we turned it from street hawkers wear and took into the corporate rooms.

We put ankara on the catwalk...you hear me? Ankara is what it is today because of Yoruba cultural influence. Even Hausa that does not wear ankara have bought into it and are wearing it now. Ibo has taken it to another level by turning it into a billboard.

I hope I answered your question.

pazienza:


What is this post supposed to mean? That Ankara is
a Yoruba product or Of Yoruba origin?

From African perspective, both!

May his soul rest in peace!

Saudi prince sent special invitation to President Buhari

I noticed contradiction. If the bilateral trade talk is between Nigeria and UAE, wetin concern SAUDI PRINCE for the matter?

Do you mean Emirate Prince?

Is it possible for my people to understand that not everyone in uniform is mandated to give salute?

Firefighters are a civilian component of civil service and in times of emergency they form a protective brigade to secure life and property against fire, chemical and othe flammables and incendiaries but they are excluded from military or para military corps. As such they are not required to give salutes.

As part of civic lessons and awareness, citizens also must understand, moreso now that we have multi-layers and redundancy in uniformed personnels, what each uniformed agency does and so they are not exploited unecessarily by men using uniform to intimidate and extort or commit crimes.

Happy birthday to the twins, much blessings,may I witness my own 100yrs,and my loved ones also.

To pazienza and ezeagu,
In all of colonial England, Manchester and Liverpool were singularly famous for their wool and cotton industries. There is nobody and nowhere in Europe that grows cotton but all over the globe English cotton and wool was a popular and best brand.

Do you know who was the single major supplier of cotton to Liverpool and Manchester? Let's start from this foundation before I give you instruction on the root of ankara and other fabrics connected with Yoruba culture.

Go and read up on the cotton growers of Yorubaland first and get some sense and sober up.

You need to know the footprint of Yoruba antiquity and its contributions and influence on popular culture and fashion around the globe.

May his soul rest in peace.

This Itsekiri girl has never lost her beauty. Look at her....that picture was taken in 87. We are almost in 2017,!
I pray God give me woman like this wey go age with grace. Amazing!

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Which one of the Belgores?

laudate:


Thank you. now please post the pictures of Igbo bridal attire and let us see the difference. We can compare & contrast it with those of other tribes.

Pre or post Yoruba influence on Ibo bridal outing?