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plaindealer:
Some olodo ipob sitting in his abakaliki village obviously came up with that fraudulent lie and rubbish..

Who dash you intelligent?

We still believe the statistics as long as it didn't come from illiterate bonsurudeens like you from brown-roof oshogbo village whose full-time job is to dry human skulls on top of their wardrobe.

Donmobi:
Too much grammar clouds everything once more
U don't need to prove to me dat u r educated bro
Let's face d facts
U said u have utilised all possible areas for ur proposed measurements
Yet giving me a stat based on the richest lawyers is best u could come up with to prove ur point
Seriously is dis a joke?
Come on brother I believe u can do better.
Give me a better stats like let's say the number of lawyers produced per tribes in nigeria.
If it favours ur motion,
Then who am I not to believe u.

Dsalvo:
Lol. Bro, your pedantism na wa. No one will tell you there are 200k lawyers in Nigeria and 80k are Yorubas.

Statistics, for good reasons, are not collated like that for public consumption unless they contribute to delivery of specific solutions.

Educated men use available representative statistics to make informed conclusions.

Lok at the link below of the only 8 Nigerian medical practitioners in the 19th century, 7 are Yoruba with one Igbo. Even accounting for anomalies, like areas of prevalant missionaries presence, it is still an amazing achivement for Yorubas back then.

The trend remains the same today from representative collated data I have cited earlier.

It is not Rocket science buddy. Consistence dominance that does not wane with time indicates enduring brilliance.

https://www.legit.ng/1422860-meet-nigerian-medical-doctors-nineteenth-century-1800s.html

LLiKYekoba:
Ewedu muslim mugu....When the same USA release data about Igbos being the most intelligent African group, the amala balls in your mouth will suddenly feel like stones and you'll suddenly develop acute tachycardia. I bet your cardiac markers and BP levels will be shooting over the roof. Enwe!

plaindealer:
lol @ most intelligent group..

Some olodo ipob sitting in his abakaliki village obviously came up with that fraudulent lie and rubbish..

Who dash you intelligent?

LLiKYekoba:
We still believe the statistics as long as it didn't come from illiterate bonsurudeens like you from brown-roof oshogbo village whose full-time job is to dry human skulls on top of their wardrobe.

unshakablejihad:
afonja retrogressive bullshit. before any of your ancestors dead or alive thought about writing or even spelling their names an Igbo man Olaudah Equiano aleady did, to date, his legacy still lives on. bringing up this concocted bullshit of slave minors who aren't heard of or added nothing in the medical field. the only Yoruba person worthy of mention from the19th century is Ajayi Crowther.

KoshCAD:
See how e pain you to bone marrow.

You can't do nothing to your superior oga ade.

The only thing you can do is talking and laughing at the same time when others bring out fact.

unshakablejihad:
afonja retrogressive bullshit. before any of your ancestors dead or alive thought about writing or even spelling their names an Igbo man Olaudah Equiano aleady did, to date, his legacy still lives on. bringing up this concocted bullshit of slave minors who aren't heard of or added nothing in the medical field. the only Yoruba person worthy of mention from the19th century is Ajayi Crowther.

LLiKYekoba:
We still believe the statistics as long as it didn't come from illiterate bonsurudeens like you from brown-roof oshogbo village whose full-time job is to dry human skulls on top of their wardrobe.

aribisala0:
Are you folk not embarrassed to be claiming so desperately this slave fellow Olaudah?
What proof is there that he was Ibo anyway?

Ona no dey shame?
You have NO HISTORY

countryfive:
Benin republic and some part of Togo speak yoruba
And are all in west Africa.

unshakablejihad:
u can feel the hit. his name has been archived in the Uk. his biography speaks for himself.

I know it must really be hard for you. the vast majority of your ancestors shipped off as slaves amounted to nothing, little was known about them because they lack the intellectual capacity or bravery to free themselves from slavery. to-date Olaudah Equiano and all other Igbos who shapes the world view are being celebrated and statues erected in honour of them. I'm yet to see any Yoruba man from the 19th century celebrated abroad either for his bravery or impact. classless Afonja wild apes.

sink this deep into your head, before a Yoruba man could spell, read or pronounce Olaniyi an Igbo man already did and that is greatness.

aribisala0:
I am sure the more literate ones among you would be embarrassed by this .

So Olaudah Equiano is the greatest Ibo man in history?


Pathetic plonkers





Olaudah was a slave that lived in the 19th century,
Many slaves had been writing long before his father was born so there is nothing pioneering about him
His place of birth is disputed and debated by historians to this day

Many groups in Northern Nigeria and Yorubaland were writing in Arabic long before the 19th century when your people were still howling and shrieking

aribisala0:
I am sure the more literate ones among you would be embarrassed by this .

So Olaudah Equiano is the greatest Ibo man in history?


Pathetic plonkers

Your sense of history and self is shameful


Olaudah was a slave that lived in the 19th century,
Many slaves had been writing long before his father was born so there is nothing pioneering about him
His place of birth is disputed and debated by historians to this day

Many groups in Northern Nigeria and Yorubaland were writing in Arabic long before the 19th century when your people were still howling and shrieking

LegendHer0:
Check this list of Yorubas in Hollywood thread. We are talking about people that won Grammies on multiple occasions, athletes in the USA hall of fame, and etc and you’re here taking about some imaginary famous Igbo actors according to you that are not A-list in their game.

Almost over 80+ of those Yorubas in Hollywood are listed on he thread below.

https://www.nairaland.com/6000583/50-hollywood-european-stars-yoruba

rdokoye:
This discussion is about US demographics, not which ethnic group is the best. Most of the people in that list you posted, are not American. You just read something, and interpreted it the way you wanted.

How does JME or Skepta, two individuals born in England, prove there are more Yoruba people in America?

DOTian:
The whole of the former Eastern Nigeria, from Calabar through Port Harcourt to Enugu needs to have more diplomatic presence. Combined, we are chasing a hundred million people. We should be adequately represented closely to the diplomatic community since those of you in the South West and the North are desperately trying to annihilate the East for your parasitic economic agenda! I don't know where you're coming from about excuses. The data above proves nothing to me. So which excuses? I was making a related point to the topic and was not making any excuses. Don't take yourself too serious.

So What if the Yorubas are bigger than the igbos in numbers around the world!? So freaking what? Why should I be stressed to defend such!? You want One Nigeria where you will be measuring diks everyday? You don't want consulates in the East. You don't want train stations in the East! You don't want international airports in the East. Almost all local airports in the East were built by State governments! How many airports in the North and South West were built by individual contributions as was the case in Owerri? And when I talk about that you say I'm making excuses? Excuses for what really?

unshakablejihad:
afonja retrogressive bullshit. before any of your ancestors dead or alive thought about writing or even spelling their names an Igbo man Olaudah Equiano aleady did, to date, his legacy still lives on. bringing up this concocted bullshit of slave minors who aren't heard of or added nothing in the medical field. the only Yoruba person worthy of mention from the19th century is Ajayi Crowther.

Dsalvo:
Lol. Can you folks evet think and talk intelligently? We are talking about 7 out of 8 only Nigerian doctors in the 19th century being Yorubas and you begin a silly diatribe about an 18th century writer and abolitionist.

Equiano was an enslaved child, born in 1745, who ended up in Britain so of course he had the chance, per circumstances, as one of the early victims of the transatlantic slave trade beginning the 16th century, to recieve formal education.


Remember the British outlawed slavery in 1807? Equiano, long before that, was a victim of the transatlantic slave trade with routes to the British West Indies and Americas.

If was Michael Henry Pascal, Equaino's eventual slave master, who sent Equiano to Britian to attend school so he could read and write. His education, denied many other slaves, was directly due to the benevolence of his slave master.


The relevant point is that Yorubas born in the 19th century, from circa 1825 after the abolition of slavery, took advantage of the improved chances to obtain formal education (more direct interaction with the West, specifically the UK) to produce 7 out of the only 8 Nigerian medicial practitioners of the time.

A very remarkable achievement for that period different to the path to formal education of Equiano who was taken as a slave child to the Caribbean on a ship and sent onwards to Britain where he eventually became an educated free man.

Equiano could almost not miss formal education whereas the doctors I cited all sought medical training and had the intellect to gain it as born free men after the end of slavery.

If you can't argue relevantly and intelligently then shut up because I am sure you're embarrassing your Igbo brethren who, by the way, have all run away in recognition of the fact that sensible folks don't continue to argue when kororoko facts is shoved in their faces.

Your continuous nuisance on this thread just shows that you don't recognize your own unintelligent trolling.

plaindealer:
The mindless and pointless rubbish they beat chest with sometimes fit make pesin laff out of control.

Who is the equano pesin they beat chest within ​the grand scheme of things? The man was not in igbo to start with..


This is the kind of irrelevant rubbish they come up with when they lose an argument.

The funniest and the most ridiculous chest-beating ever was when one of them said igbo man was the first person to distribute pamphlets at the UN. I laughed so hard I wear..

They are shallow thinkers for real.

plaindealer:
The mindless and pointless rubbish they beat chest with sometimes fit make pesin laff out of control.

Who is the equano pesin they beat chest within ​the grand scheme of things? The man was not in igbo to start with..


This is the kind of irrelevant rubbish they come up with when they lose an argument.

The funniest and the most ridiculous chest-beating ever was when one of them said igbo man was the first person to distribute pamphlets at the UN. I laughed so hard I wear..

They are shallow thinkers for real.

SonOfEl:
Finally, i am back. I guess i came late to the party. So, what were you guys saying about the igbos vis-a-viz the yoruba achievements?

If i get you correctly, you said you mentioned 7-8 yoruba doctors in the 18th and 19th century (i.e 1700s and 1800s) in a way of proving how 'better exposed' the yorubas were than the igbos. Please enlighten me more, maybe i made a mistake. This is because i am about to objectively debunk that notion.

pre-eminent

adjective: preeminent
surpassing all others; very distinguished in some way.

Dsalvo:
Laaawwwwd. Why is comprehension an Issue for you Igbos? Point is Yorubas have always been a preeminent Nigerian ethnic group.

To avoid senseles back and forth you lot enjoy, and so you and your fellow Igbos don't quote me ignorantly and annoyingly, I have taken the libertu to present the meaning of preeminent below.

I hope that makes things crystal clear for you and other trolls. Goodbye.

aribisala0:
Are you folk not embarrassed to be claiming so desperately this slave fellow Olaudah?
What proof is there that he was Ibo anyway?
He was ONE of THOUSANDS of slaves, Are you telling us he was the first slave to learn to write in English? What was so special about him?

Ona no dey shame?
You have NO HISTORY

rdokoye:
This discussion is about US demographics, not which ethnic group is the best. Most of the people in that list you posted, are not American. You just read something, and interpreted it the way you wanted.

How does JME or Skepta, two individuals born in England, prove there are more Yoruba people in America?

SonOfEl:
If equiano was not igbo (even by HIS OWN ACCOUNT), then who was he?

This inferiority complex has really left you in denial

SonOfEl:
"Pre-eminent" as how? In Nigeria or where? Quit being ambiguous and be specific about what areas of pre-eminence you are referring to. 'Oluwole' sense at play

Dsalvo:
Can you lot stop this show of idiocy and do even minimal research before presenting ignorant opinions here?

Do you know Equaino's path, fortuitous rather than intentional, that led him to become the "first educated Nigerian" and "first African author"?

Equiano would have been another of the many uneducated slave if not that his most significant slave master, Michael Henry Pascal, took it upon himself to send Equiano to Britain for the specific purpose of enrollment into formal schooling.

Equiano did not become the first Nigerian able to read or right of his own free will as you ignorantly brag so why will any knowledgeable Yoruba envy Igbos because of his achievement that is a product of good fortune and the goodwill of another?

He was a beneficiary of the benevolence of a slave master coinciding with the fact he was one of the earlier Nigerian victims of the transatlantic slave trade but with an eventual path different to most slaves who ended up working as uneducated servants in plantations in the Americas.

Equiano's significant slave master was an Officer in the British Royal Navy who made Equiano his valet. Equiano therefore mainly worked mainly on ships learning good skills and traveling where his master went.

He was not sent to the American cotton fields as was usual then for most slave who were then neglected and not formally educated. Instead his slave master eventually sent him Britain to be formally educated.

Read a bit and stop coming online talking half-baked and ignorant garbage. All for the sake of comparing d1cks with Yorubas when you should just be gracious enough to give credit where due.