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The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 12:19am On Aug 21, 2021 |
This is a historical fact before the British expanded Onitsha Aboh was the primary point of trade on the Lower Niger they controlled all trade that went up and down the river, they were the naval power of the Niger River at the time with their influence going up to Igala Land and all the way down to the coast they traded in salt, cloth, iron, brass and many other goods, the products they traded reached as far as Ghana and Egypt. Thei Naval power was so strong that they defeated the British in multiple battles from the 1840s till the 1880s after which the British overwhelmed them and took over the trading system of the Niger River and transferred it to Onitsha But One day Aboh will again become a vital point of trade and a River Port along the Niger River for now we wait for when the time is right
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Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 12:22am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Osaka70: Don't bring this nonsense to my thread |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 12:24am On Aug 21, 2021 |
K. Onwuka Dike an author wrote in his book " By the 1850s Aboh exercised what could be called an effective trade monopoly on the lower niger with war canoes capable of holding 80 men armed with iron and brass cannon" |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by vasel15: 12:52am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy: Which language do they speak in aboh? |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 1:05am On Aug 21, 2021 |
vasel15: They Speak an Ndokwa-Ukwuani-Anioma type Language so they are essentially an Igbo and Bini Sub group but they were albeit an independent kingdom 1 Like |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Sufferingboy(f): 9:02am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Another one again? Igbos nor dey tire? Ishilove come see. 2 Likes |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Admissionclass: 9:04am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohs were the first people to be called igbos (Eboes) 5 Likes |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by AfricanColumbus: 9:23am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy: This would mean the war canoe tradition is not an Ijaw reserve or may even not have been originally Ijaw? If you're conversant with the war canoe tradition throw more light on it please. 3 Likes |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by SlayerForever: 9:35am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy: This is somehow naive to say. Every Igbo tribe was independent. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Marotzke(m): 9:52am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy:Obi Imegwu o Obi Imegwu bu Eze Aboh, Chris Ijomah Christian Nwa Ijomah bu Onye Aboh. Ali Nwa Chukwuma bu onye Aboh. Lyrics from a popular Igbo musician Ali Chukwuma declaring Aboh's Igboness. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Mrexcell(m): 10:58am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Marotzke: But a lot of aboh or ika people are still vehemently rejecting that they are actually igbos maybe for political covenience. 2 Likes |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by BKayy: 11:01am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy:Trade monopoly on which people? Is there any proof for that? 1 Like |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by BKayy: 11:06am On Aug 21, 2021 |
From your statement "Before the British expanded Onitsha" I can deduce that the aim of this your lies is to throw your Shameless tentacles on Innocent Ndigbo minding their business. Probably to make your Aboh people hit limelight by insulting Ndigbo like your colleagues Ikwerre and Ika have done successfully. But let me burst your bubble "Ndigbo have changed" Any attempt to iberibe on this thread will be met with more Shameless iberibe. See his mouth "Before the British expanded Onitsha" as if Aboh is not the first recorded Igbo Community (When they were Igbo) to fall to Britain Shameless and declared a province when others were still fighting. 11 Likes |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Marotzke(m): 11:15am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Onyema Nwachukwu. Brigadier General and Nigerian Army's spokesman with complete and unashamed Igbo names bu onye Aboh. 1 Like 2 Shares |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Liebermantic: 11:25am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Marotzke:Onyema Nwachukwu is from Aboh(Ndokwa ) precisely..and he is proudly IGBO 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:25am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Admissionclass: Yes that's true but they also have bini blood in them so it's a mix 3 Likes |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:27am On Aug 21, 2021 |
SlayerForever: Nope some were conquered or assimilated into larger kingdoms the Nri took over more areas around them and the Aro took over lots of land such as those of the Ohafia and Edda |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:28am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Mrexcell: Because not all of them are Igbos some of them are bini and some are igbos so we consider ourselves an independent people |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:30am On Aug 21, 2021 |
BKayy: It's clear you know nothing about history go and read about the Political Economy of Aboh 1830-1857 you'll read in that book before 1850s Onitsha wasn't a waterside town and the people didn't really use boats that often it wasn't until the british set up a missionary school and trading post that Onitsha expanded to the riverside and started taking over Aboh's monopoly on trade. They were not shamelessly defeated in any fight they were part of the Ekumeku Movement against the British and through out the 1800s they dealt with any british who tried to take away their power on the Niger River 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:33am On Aug 21, 2021 |
AfricanColumbus: It's not originally Ijaw based off of my research on the Lower Niger at the time thr Ijaw were simply salt makers and fishers not really concerned with war canoes unless it was an inter tribal thing it was the Igala and Aboh people that owned large war canoes able to fit 80+ people and armed with cannon and sophisticated guns this is why they were able to control trade all the way from ijaw land up to the confluence and beyond because of how strong their navy was. I'm not exactly sure of how the tradition started but I know till this day in my village we still have these displays with our large canoes and our traditional war dances and songs along the Niger River |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Admissionclass: 11:35am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy: The binis amongst them were migrants refugees who fled Binni kingdom in large numbers to avoid being sacrificed,of course they intermarried with the indegenous igbos and lost their Binni heritage,it just like an Igbo child born and bred in Lagos everything about you will be Yoruba but you will know you are from the southeast.. |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:36am On Aug 21, 2021 |
BKayy: Yes there is. Every single British person that came up through the Niger River found that the Aboh People through their King ( Obi ) was able to regulate all trade and movement on the Niger River and even as they moved up they were still able to see Aboh People trading in Hausaland. The Aboh were such amazing traders that it's said the trade volume that they had produced on the Niger River was twice as large as the one seen on the Rhine in Germany one of Europe's most powerful nations. They even had their own bronze currency that they used all along the lower Niger |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:37am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Admissionclass: I know that's what happened but for whatever reason my people consider themselves independent to a degree well not all of them those with obviously igbo backgrounds and names or those who know their ancestry very produly consider themselves Igbo but apart from them we simply call ourselves Aboh People or Ndokwa People |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Mrexcell(m): 11:40am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy: Just like the ikwerres it's alright. |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by BiafraInc: 11:42am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy:Spoken Ndokwa-Ukwuani-Anioma are dialects of Igbo and not languages. Thus the language spoken in Aboh is Igbo. What brings bini into this? That you have some bini migrants into those areas doesn't make their dialects related anyhow to bini language. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:45am On Aug 21, 2021 |
BiafraInc: It does actually because a significant amount of Bini people came and their language became involved in ours we speak a dialect of the igbo language that's merged with aspects of the Bini language I can't give you examples because the language is dying out and only my late grandfather was able to speak it in our family |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by BiafraInc: 11:47am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy:Stop lying and misinforming the people. The correct word is MOST of them are Igbos and just a FEW of them are migrants from bini who are IleUbinu children from IleIfe yoruba land. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:48am On Aug 21, 2021 |
BiafraInc: Who says MOST there's no data for this so i'm not going to make a speculation when we do the enxt census under a good leader maybe then we will be able to do an ethnic breakdown of the population |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by BiafraInc: 11:50am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Mrexcell:Stop being ignorant. There are no elements of bini amongst Ikwerre people. Stop reading propaganda from the lagos-ibadan expressway gutter media. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by Abohboy: 11:50am On Aug 21, 2021 |
An example of a mid Sized Aboh War Canoes
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Re: The Aboh Are The Most Powerful People In The Middle And Lower Niger by BiafraInc: 11:54am On Aug 21, 2021 |
Abohboy:Don't sound dumb. When has ethnicity ever been included in your nigeria census forms? You want to leave reality to hope on hopelessness? You need data to determine the population of Igbos and their guests in Igbo people's land? What arrant nonsense. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
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