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Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by MalcoImX(op):
With lots of claims, ignorance and treasonable acts, there has not as yet any clearly defined territorial extent or boundary by the latter day 'Biafranists.'

The question remains, where on Earth have you seen people fighting for a country whose land border is as foggy, wavy and as distant the mirage?

Just as the boundary, the name 'Biafra' itself right from its Portuguese origins, through colonization to Ojukwu's, Uwazuruike's and the slippery Nnamdi Kanu's era has no known ancestralal basis and linkages in present-day Nigeria's Igboland.

Image I: The Portuguese named a country 'Biafra' after Mafra in Portugal. It extended from mid-Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Nigeria's South South and South East was called "Benin" and was never part of 'Biafra.'

Image II: Mafra, Portugal

To the Portuguese, the present-day Igboland was a Benin territory, or a vassal state of the Kingdom. The real 'Biafra', being in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon indicated a massive Igbo migration in earlier centuries that limited the Benin Kingdom to the swampy and less agriculturally viable parts of the Kingdom.

Logically, therefore, the so-called 'Biafrans' should relocate back to their ancestral lands in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, and any claims to 'Biafra' and its independence should also start from from those lost territories.

Image III; A 1644 W. J Blaeu's Map puts 'Biafra' clearly in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Sai Tome and Principe.

Image IV: A 1710 Hermann Moll Map of 'Biafra' (Cameroon's original name), and Benin (present-day Igboland's name).

https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/maps-continent/continent.html

Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by MalcoImX(op): 8:40am On Jun 26, 2021
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Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by OnionBandit(f): 8:42am On Jun 26, 2021
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Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Biodun556(m):
Igbos should go back to thier ancestral home of Guinea and Cameroon if they want biafra.



From lost Israelis to lost biafrans. They will need another DNA test.
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by JuanJO(m): 8:55am On Jun 26, 2021
Biodun556:
Igbos should go back to thier ancestral home of Guinea and Cameroon



From lost Israelis to lost biafrans. They will need another DNA test.
As it stands now. Are you sure Cameroon is not even better than the glorified Zooholehuh
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Randerl: 8:56am On Jun 26, 2021
Interesting, bookmarked.
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Kriss216: 8:59am On Jun 26, 2021
Mad people full this forum, walai undecided
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by MalcoImX(op): 8:59am On Jun 26, 2021
JuanJO:
As it stands now. Are you sure Cameroon is not even better than the glorified Zooholehuh
Whether better or not, start your agitations from your ancestral homes.
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by lastcall: 9:00am On Jun 26, 2021
You deserve to be win Nobel prize for this greatest research and discovery!!! You are indeed an indispensable asset to your race and generation
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by MalcoImX(op): 9:09am On Jun 26, 2021
[quote author=Biafranboys post=103063237][/quote]Biafranboys, which one do you prefer - Cameroon, Gabon or Equatorial Guinea?
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by IjapaTiroko: 9:15am On Jun 26, 2021
Regardless, any country can so name itself whatever name it pleases.

Modern day Ghana isn't even the real Ghana.
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by MalcoImX(op): 9:18am On Jun 26, 2021
Shokoloko:
I look forward to it. Thank you
YouWillNotWin:
Oh, you have this Pearl of information about the origin of the igbos , but you are unable to provide us with at least a teaser, you know , like a few sentences before the main event this weekend ?

You should do more comedy - LMAO

Jokers everywhere.
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by OnionBandit(f): 9:22am On Jun 26, 2021
MalcoImX:
Biafranboys, which one do you prefer - Cameroon, Gabon or Equatorial Guinea?

Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Aboks(m): 9:26am On Jun 26, 2021
Where are those cameroneans ugm go and do DNA test
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Shokoloko(f):
[quote author=MalcoImX post=103104194][/quote]Thanks for tagging me. May I have a link to the source? I'd like to research the reference quoted for this write-up

Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by sammyj: 9:52am On Jun 26, 2021
Hope this is not a ploy for Biafra to join Cameron. Anyways, it's their land, they are free to go anywhere that please them
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by eastOFwest(m): 10:52am On Jun 26, 2021
MalcoImX:
With lots of claims, ignorance and treasonable acts, there has not as yet any clearly defined territorial extent or boundary by the latter day 'Biafranists.'

The question remains, where on Earth have you seen people fighting for a country whose land border is as foggy, wavy and as distant the mirage?

Just as the boundary, the name 'Biafra' itself right from its Portuguese origins, through colonization to Ojukwu's, Uwazuruike's and the slippery Nnamdi Kanu's era has no known ancestralal basis and linkages in present-day Nigeria's Igboland.

Image I: The Portuguese named a country 'Biafra' after Mafra in Portugal. It extended from mid-Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Nigeria's South South and South East was called "Benin" and was never part of 'Biafra.'

Image II: Mafra, Portugal

To the Portuguese, the present-day Igboland was a Benin territory, or a vassal state of the Kingdom. The real 'Biafra', being in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon indicated a massive Igbo migration in earlier centuries that limited the Benin Kingdom to the swampy and less agriculturally viable parts of the Kingdom.

Logically, therefore, the so-called 'Biafrans' should relocate back to their ancestral lands in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, and any claims to 'Biafra' and its independence should also start from from those lost territories.

Image III; A 1644 W. J Blaeu's Map puts 'Biafra' clearly in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Sai Tome and Principe.

Image IV: A 1710 Hermann Moll Map of 'Biafra' (Cameroon's original name), and Benin (present-day Igboland's name).
Rubbish! So oyinbo man will draw one crazy map and tell you what you are. I can see that ethnic bias has fatally corrupted some people's brains

Mumu topic.

Signs out.
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by gawu1: 10:53am On Jun 26, 2021
JuanJO:
As it stands now. Are you sure Cameroon is not even better than the glorified Zooholehuh
At least you have a better place to stay in then.
Leave the glorified Zoohole for us and go claim your biafra back from Cameroon. Simple!
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by theFilmtric: 11:02am On Jun 26, 2021
eastOFwest:
Rubbish! So oyinbo man will draw one crazy map and tell you what you are. I can see that ethnic bias has fatally corrupted some people's brains

Mumu topic.

Signs out.
grin grin
No be the same oyinbo man produce the name "Biafra" you love so much?
No be oyinbo language you dey speak?
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by eastOFwest(m): 11:16am On Jun 26, 2021
theFilmtric:
grin grin
No be the same oyinbo man produce the name "Biafra" you love so much?
No be oyinbo language you dey speak?
What part of - SIGNS OUT do you not understand??
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by theFilmtric: 11:18am On Jun 26, 2021
grin
eastOFwest:
What part of - SIGNS OUT do you not understand??
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Asidy(m):
This shows that the true Biafrans are there in Cameroon, Guinea and some part of Gabon. What we have here are chest beaters and land grabbers.

Also this report confirm that Igbo are land grabbers who migrated to Nigeria and start claiming what is not theirs.

However, If you a true Biafran you can relocate to your ancestral land and start the real struggle.

If care isn't taking one day they will claim Lagos and Sabon Gari Kano.
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by OfoIgbo: 11:45am On Jun 26, 2021
They also seem to have placed Benin in Igbo, Efik and Ejagham lands.

But in actual fact, we know the Nri-Igbo kings authorised the crowning of any Igodomigodo and Benin obas.

So to correct the inaccuracies, just move the labels BENIN and BIAFRA further to the west, and place them in their correct locations
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by fozapi(m): 11:49am On Jun 26, 2021
MalcoImX:
With lots of claims, ignorance and treasonable acts, there has not as yet any clearly defined territorial extent or boundary by the latter day 'Biafranists.'

The question remains, where on Earth have you seen people fighting for a country whose land border is as foggy, wavy and as distant the mirage?

Just as the boundary, the name 'Biafra' itself right from its Portuguese origins, through colonization to Ojukwu's, Uwazuruike's and the slippery Nnamdi Kanu's era has no known ancestralal basis and linkages in present-day Nigeria's Igboland.

Image I: The Portuguese named a country 'Biafra' after Mafra in Portugal. It extended from mid-Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Nigeria's South South and South East was called "Benin" and was never part of 'Biafra.'

Image II: Mafra, Portugal

To the Portuguese, the present-day Igboland was a Benin territory, or a vassal state of the Kingdom. The real 'Biafra', being in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon indicated a massive Igbo migration in earlier centuries that limited the Benin Kingdom to the swampy and less agriculturally viable parts of the Kingdom.

Logically, therefore, the so-called 'Biafrans' should relocate back to their ancestral lands in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, and any claims to 'Biafra' and its independence should also start from from those lost territories.

Image III; A 1644 W. J Blaeu's Map puts 'Biafra' clearly in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Sai Tome and Principe.

Image IV: A 1710 Hermann Moll Map of 'Biafra' (Cameroon's original name), and Benin (present-day Igboland's name).
But the fulanis are landlocked senselocked in the north
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Akudaisi: 12:36pm On Jun 26, 2021
[quote author=OnionBandit post=103104356][/quote]the 3 are better than Nigeria especially Gabon
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Rickyzagy: 12:41pm On Jun 26, 2021
Ignorance is a disease.

Do you know what BIAFARA Means?
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Rickyzagy: 12:42pm On Jun 26, 2021
Why are you more interested in Biafra mata when your kinsmen are being killed by herdsmen who killed your people in the name of Islam
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Kingof2nations(m): 12:46pm On Jun 26, 2021
show us Nigeria in the old map then
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Thereddevil: 12:57pm On Jun 26, 2021
Kingof2nations:
show us Nigeria in the old map then
I think the op needs to tell us the link to that map.. I can't see nigeria on it.. Could it mean Biafra existed before Nigeria?
Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Nobody: 12:59pm On Jun 26, 2021
MalcoImX:
With lots of claims, ignorance and treasonable acts, there has not as yet any clearly defined territorial extent or boundary by the latter day 'Biafranists.'

The question remains, where on Earth have you seen people fighting for a country whose land border is as foggy, wavy and as distant the mirage?

Just as the boundary, the name 'Biafra' itself right from its Portuguese origins, through colonization to Ojukwu's, Uwazuruike's and the slippery Nnamdi Kanu's era has no known ancestralal basis and linkages in present-day Nigeria's Igboland.

Image I: The Portuguese named a country 'Biafra' after Mafra in Portugal. It extended from mid-Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Nigeria's South South and South East was called "Benin" and was never part of 'Biafra.'

Image II: Mafra, Portugal

To the Portuguese, the present-day Igboland was a Benin territory, or a vassal state of the Kingdom. The real 'Biafra', being in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon indicated a massive Igbo migration in earlier centuries that limited the Benin Kingdom to the swampy and less agriculturally viable parts of the Kingdom.

Logically, therefore, the so-called 'Biafrans' should relocate back to their ancestral lands in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, and any claims to 'Biafra' and its independence should also start from from those lost territories.

Image III; A 1644 W. J Blaeu's Map puts 'Biafra' clearly in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Sai Tome and Principe.

Image IV: A 1710 Hermann Moll Map of 'Biafra' (Cameroon's original name), and Benin (present-day Igboland's name).
Stop making a fool of yourself.

Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Nobody: 1:00pm On Jun 26, 2021
MalcoImX:
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Comedian

Re: Old Maps Show Biafra Was Actually In Cameroon And Was Never Part Of Nigeria by Brimstone77: 1:03pm On Jun 26, 2021
being intelligent by half is really dangerous...


Op can you show us the exact location of the African continent in the first map you shared??


And also indicate the location of yorubas and hausas in the map you shared..

Do you no how the name Biafra was adopted? Before ojukwu declare the state of Biafra was ndi igbo known as biafrans??


During the period that the said map you agreed was drawn were the Igbo been referred to as biafrans...??
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