Like Good Medicine, History Is Not Always Pleasant

To those who want to unfollow me because of what I wrote about the dominance of the Bini in Precolonial Niger area, please be my guest. Do not delay. Do so now.

To all those who hate me because of that revelation, please accept my sympathies. I am a researcher and a meticulous record keeper. History is not always pleasant. If you want history to always glorify you, then you do not want history, you want story. Truth is the bitterest pill to swallow.

Let me even annoy you some more, many of the people in modern-day Onitsha are of Bini origin. In fact, the elite and titleholders of Onitsha have very close consanguinity to the Binis.

Let it not be said that if you want to hide anything from our people, you should put it in writing.
As long as you do not know your history, you will repeat it. And as long as you are angry when history is revealed because it does not glorify you enough, you will never fully know your history.

Two things made the Igbo more susceptible to slave-raiding than other ethnicities.
The first was the Osu caste system, which made many Igbos sell their own kith and kin to others.
The second thing is that the Igbos never united under one king, neither were they willing to submit themselves unquestionably to one person. That made it possible for other smaller ethnicities who had united under one king to raid Igbo villages.

It is what it is.
The walls of Benin were the largest Earth structure on Earth. Please Google it. Research it. They were larger than anything man had previously built without bricks, bar none. The Benin moat was one of the longest on Earth EVER. Who do you think built it? You think the Binis did that brutally hard work themselves?

It is this same emotional response to issues that made it possible for smaller ethnicities to take advantage of disunity in the past. In 2021, what has changed?

On July 5, 2021, Southern Governors held a meeting in Lagos to press for a Southern Presidency in 2023. All the Southwestern Governors attended. Three Governors of the South-south attended. Only one Governor from the Southeast attended (Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state).
The very next day, Ohana’eze Ndi’Igbo released a statement saying that if the Presidency must return to the South, it must go to the Southeast.

I happen to agree with them. However, how can you get to lead when you do not yet understand the power of unity? As it stands now, if power returns to the South, it is going to the Southwest, not because they deserve it, but because they are united.
Precisely what has changed between 400 hundred years ago and today? And then when someone unearths that history, so lessons can be learned going forward, you gather to heap insults. At the end of the day, the same mistakes of the past are made in the present.
Anybody that tells you what you do not like is your enemy. He has been recruited by Hausa and Fulani.
You want to hear sweet lies about the past. Is that not what the All Progressives Congress did to us? And how far has it taken us?
Again, as I said before, history is not always pleasant. But if you do not learn from it, then your future will also not be pleasant.
As Christ said “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Free from marginalisation, fractionalisation, and alienation.
Thank you all, and may God bless you.
Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

The honest and undiluted truth is always never pleasant to the ears.

Thanks for this history even though some of us have had snippets of the story passed down from generations before us.

Ok Sir Omokri.

This man dey find ipob trouble every now and then, so what he is trying to say is that, the Benin kingdom was using the black Israeli jews as slaves or what?...

HONESTFACT101:
i blame OBI CUBANA

I swear

You mean ikwerres and ikas ?No wonder they claim Benin origin.

This stupid man.

Always talking gibberish.

So Igbos actually developed Benin Kingdom den

Osu slaves

More derogatory slam on igbos, they have bitten more than they can chew

slaves

Ever8090:
This man dey find ipob trouble every now and then, so what he is trying to say is that, the Benin kingdom was using the black Israeli jews as slaves or what?...

.... Ehhn now

People think history should be fairytale. That's why they keep making same mistake over and over. I challenge every youth to research their tribal and National history and see if decision making process don't get better.
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[/s] like wth man..make your own thread. Have some decorum

Ever8090:
This man dey find ipob trouble every now and then, so what he is trying to say is that, the Benin kingdom was using the black Israeli jews as slaves or what?...

It's quite telling that you equate all Igbos with IPOB....just like your god, Buhari!

Reno mokri from #buhariTomentor to #igboHater, typical Afonja man

N'di developer

EmmanuelScott1:
Reno mokri from #buhariTomentor to #igboHatred, typical Afonja man

The government has settled him.

EmmanuelScott1:
Reno mokri from #buhariTomentor to #igboHater, typical Afonja man

He is not Yoruba

Happy now?

Na now we knw the original slaves

BlowYourMind:
More derogatory slam on igbos, they have bitten more than they can chew

Are you really serious!?

Only a small and bigoted mind like yours would attach any significance to the anti-Igbo posts and utterances of Reno Omokri! Igbos, on the other hand, have gotten used to these kind of rants...they're like water off a ducks back!

Hopeless country. Just look at the poorly informed comments on this thread. Wasted youths

Nbotee:
So Igbos actually developed Benin Kingdom den

Ibos developing everywhere since 1678

After Buhari .......na reno be una father

ThreeEyedRaven:
Hopeless country. Just look at the poorly informed comments on this thread. Wasted youths

Come up with your version now.....you people think we are all fools and forgetful , you started this when you start your revisionism in the hope that it attratcts sympathy to your biafra agitations but alas it has backfired.....havent you noticed other tribes that were initially sympathetic to your cause have seen through your tissue of lies to attract sympathy and have since stopped being sympathetic to biafra agitation. everyone has seen that your agitation is greed driven.

If you want to trend and be noticed in life just mention Igbos and cook up a silly story about Igbos.

This man is damn too childish and bigoted.

louqas:


Come up with your version now.....you people think we are all fools and forgetful , you started this when you start your revisionism in the hope that it attratcts sympathy to your biafra agitations but alas it has backfired.....havent you noticed other tribes that were initially sympathetic to your cause have seen through your tissue of lies to attract sympathy and have since stopped being sympathetic to biafra agitation. everyone has seen that your agitation is greed driven.

You see that hatred I was referring to. You are all over the place looking for Igbo threads to continue spewing gibberish and casting aspersions on Igbos.

Which tribe has ever supported Biafra or sympathetic to Biafra since this agitations started?
I don't think you only hate Igbos but rather afraid of Biafra.

PIGS don sufa in the hands of Omokirikiri

There's a way to understanding this man


This is an emphasis for igbos to unite or form a strong base for their unity


I only observe that he has employed sarcasm to take his point home


Igbos should read meaning here and stop barking this time

Boudiccao:


You see that hatred I was referring to. You are all over the place looking for Igbo threads to continue spewing gibberish and casting aspersions on Igbos.

Which tribe has ever supported Biafra or sympathetic to Biafra since this agitations started?
I don't think you only hate Igbos but rather afraid of Biafra.

If everybody hates you then you need to check yourself.....

The iboman needs to tell himself the truth and stop playing the ostrich. Everyone hates you but you have refused to leave where you are hated , isnt that insanity?
Look around the east, how many fulanis do you still see.....they have almost all gone because they see real hate that have been shown them theŕe.....if you have really been hated in other parts of Nigeria , you would have headed back east since...

louqas:


If everybody hates you then you need to check yourself.....

The iboman needs to tell himself the truth and stop playing the ostrich. Everyone hates you but you have refused to leave where you are hated , isnt that insanity?

They wouldn't leave their sweat for you.
Go look for more igbo threads to gnash your teeth because of Igbos.
The Fulanis are still all over the country with their malnourished cows. Nobody will leave their sweat for others just because you think Igbos should do so.


Responding to you and your obsession /hatred for Igbos is a waste of time. End of discussion!!