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unshakablejihad:
OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BOOK.
Sources:
✓ THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA THE AFRICAN WRITTEN BY himself published in 1837.
It's important to note that the accounts of OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S childhood picture about the Igbo customs and manners dates back to his birth year (1745).
Here are some Igbo words in his book, if you have any please do contribute:
1. Essaka: Essaka is the anglicized form of the original Igbo word ISSEKE(a community located in Ihiala local government area, Anambra state). It seems Essaka(Isseke) was the birth place of Olaudah Equiano. Citing from page 9 of his autobiography:
"...This kingdom is divided into many provinces or districts : in one of the most remote and fertile of which, was born,
in the year 1745, situated in a charming fruitful vale, named Essaka. The distance of this province from the capital of Benin and the sea coast must be very considerable..."
2. Embrenche: This is an anglicized form of the original Igbo word M[G]BURICHI(an act of facial scarification in Igboland which depicts -honour or Noble-). From his book on page 9;
"...My father was one of those elders or chiefs I have spoken of, and was styled Embrenche ; a term, as I remember, importing the highest distinction, and signifying in our language a mark of grandeur. This mark is conferred on the person entitled to it, by cutting the skin across at the top of the forehead, and drawing it down to the eye-brows : and while it is in this situation applying a warm hand, and rubbing it until it shrinks up into a thick weal across the lower part of the forehead..."
3. Eadas: This should be "Ede" in the Igbo language which means Cocoyam. From his book on page 13 and 42
"...Our vegetables are mostly plantains, eadas, yams, beans, and Indian corn...I shall therefore only observe, that in all the places where I was, the soil was exceedingly rich ; the pumpkins, eadas, plaintains, yams..."
4. Oye - Eboe: It's crystal clear that the Igbo word "Onye-Igbo/Ibo" was corrupted to "Oye-Eboe". Igbos who are from a particular district call other Igbos of other districts "Onye Igbo" if they don't know your name or your home town. And it's likely that the frequent usage of the term ONYE IGBO by Igbos made the Europeans to tag all Igbo speaking people as Igbo(NB- During the pre colonial times of the Igbos, no Igbo identified himself/herself as an Igbo person; they commonly identify themselves with the name of their districts like Isuama, Ohafia, Agbaja, Onitsha, Abor, Nri etc). From page 16;
"...These are sometimes visited by stout mahogany-colored men from the south-west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance..."
–It is likely those mahogany stout men were Arochukwu men who dispersed in all IGBO areas for slaves–
5. Eboe- An anglicized form of "Igbo". From page 17;
"...The West India planters prefer the slaves of Benin or Eboe, to those of any other part of Guinea, for their hardiness, intelligence, integrity, and zeal..."
The Igbos during pre colonial era paid tributes to the Benin kingdom –which means they were subjects to the Oba of Benin–
"...our subjection to the king of Benin was little more than nominal ; for every transaction of the government, as far as my slender observation extended, was conducted by the chief or elders of the place..." - page 9
6. Olaudah- Olaudah is no form of anglicized Igbo word. Some Igbos still bear that archaic name as Olauda. OLA in the Igbo tongue means Wealth, riches etc and UDAH in the central Igbo/Isuama dialect means LOUD/CELEBRATED. I think if they (Ola+Udah meanings in Igbo) are juxtaposed with OLAUDAH'S narrative, they are related and close. From his book on page 23:
"...I was named Olaudah, which in our language signifies vicissitude, or fortunate ; also, one favored, and having a loud voice and well spoken..."
7. Ah Affoe Way Cah: It's a corruption of the Igbo words "Afor Nwoke"(pronounced Ah-for Wo Keh). Afor means a lot in Igbo - Year, Stomach, name of a market day -. Nwoke simply means man.
Page 24, "...They calculated our time, and foretold events, as their name imported, for we called them Ah-affoe way-cah, which signifies calculators or yearly men, our year being called Ah-affoe..."
8. Ah-affoe: "Afor"(meaning year in the Igbo tongue) is same with Ah-affoe. It was just corrupted! Reference same as 7.

cc. dsalvo, sonofEl.


sponge brain, plainleader u cure your Ignorance with this.

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Rubbish

unshakablejihad:
OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BOOK.
Sources:
✓ THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA THE AFRICAN WRITTEN BY himself published in 1837.
It's important to note that the accounts of OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S childhood picture about the Igbo customs and manners dates back to his birth year (1745).
Here are some Igbo words in his book, if you have any please do contribute:
1. Essaka: Essaka is the anglicized form of the original Igbo word ISSEKE(a community located in Ihiala local government area, Anambra state). It seems Essaka(Isseke) was the birth place of Olaudah Equiano. Citing from page 9 of his autobiography:
"...This kingdom is divided into many provinces or districts : in one of the most remote and fertile of which, was born,
in the year 1745, situated in a charming fruitful vale, named Essaka. The distance of this province from the capital of Benin and the sea coast must be very considerable..."
2. Embrenche: This is an anglicized form of the original Igbo word M[G]BURICHI(an act of facial scarification in Igboland which depicts -honour or Noble-). From his book on page 9;
"...My father was one of those elders or chiefs I have spoken of, and was styled Embrenche ; a term, as I remember, importing the highest distinction, and signifying in our language a mark of grandeur. This mark is conferred on the person entitled to it, by cutting the skin across at the top of the forehead, and drawing it down to the eye-brows : and while it is in this situation applying a warm hand, and rubbing it until it shrinks up into a thick weal across the lower part of the forehead..."
3. Eadas: This should be "Ede" in the Igbo language which means Cocoyam. From his book on page 13 and 42
"...Our vegetables are mostly plantains, eadas, yams, beans, and Indian corn...I shall therefore only observe, that in all the places where I was, the soil was exceedingly rich ; the pumpkins, eadas, plaintains, yams..."
4. Oye - Eboe: It's crystal clear that the Igbo word "Onye-Igbo/Ibo" was corrupted to "Oye-Eboe". Igbos who are from a particular district call other Igbos of other districts "Onye Igbo" if they don't know your name or your home town. And it's likely that the frequent usage of the term ONYE IGBO by Igbos made the Europeans to tag all Igbo speaking people as Igbo(NB- During the pre colonial times of the Igbos, no Igbo identified himself/herself as an Igbo person; they commonly identify themselves with the name of their districts like Isuama, Ohafia, Agbaja, Onitsha, Abor, Nri etc). From page 16;
"...These are sometimes visited by stout mahogany-colored men from the south-west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance..."
–It is likely those mahogany stout men were Arochukwu men who dispersed in all IGBO areas for slaves–
5. Eboe- An anglicized form of "Igbo". From page 17;
"...The West India planters prefer the slaves of Benin or Eboe, to those of any other part of Guinea, for their hardiness, intelligence, integrity, and zeal..."
The Igbos during pre colonial era paid tributes to the Benin kingdom –which means they were subjects to the Oba of Benin–
"...our subjection to the king of Benin was little more than nominal ; for every transaction of the government, as far as my slender observation extended, was conducted by the chief or elders of the place..." - page 9
6. Olaudah- Olaudah is no form of anglicized Igbo word. Some Igbos still bear that archaic name as Olauda. OLA in the Igbo tongue means Wealth, riches etc and UDAH in the central Igbo/Isuama dialect means LOUD/CELEBRATED. I think if they (Ola+Udah meanings in Igbo) are juxtaposed with OLAUDAH'S narrative, they are related and close. From his book on page 23:
"...I was named Olaudah, which in our language signifies vicissitude, or fortunate ; also, one favored, and having a loud voice and well spoken..."
7. Ah Affoe Way Cah: It's a corruption of the Igbo words "Afor Nwoke"(pronounced Ah-for Wo Keh). Afor means a lot in Igbo - Year, Stomach, name of a market day -. Nwoke simply means man.
Page 24, "...They calculated our time, and foretold events, as their name imported, for we called them Ah-affoe way-cah, which signifies calculators or yearly men, our year being called Ah-affoe..."
8. Ah-affoe: "Afor"(meaning year in the Igbo tongue) is same with Ah-affoe. It was just corrupted! Reference same as 7.

cc. dsalvo, sonofEl.


sponge brain, plainleader u cure your Ignorance with this.

Boss small small nau
If u destroy all of them,
There would be no one left for us to dish!

aribisala0:
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Rubbish

lolzz, i definitely knew you would cum up with a weak rebutal to this.
i will waiting for those with their sponge-brain intelligence to counter this.

unshakablejihad:
lolzz, i definitely knew you would cum up with a weak rebutal to this.

i will waiting for those with their sponge-brain intelligence to counter this.

Too wordy and too lengthy. Information overload.

Why do you think I would spend my time reading your vomit?

No rebuttal because I did not even bother to read it.

I do not have time to read illiterate "cut and pastes"

unshakablejihad:
lolzz, i definitely knew you would cum up with a weak rebutal to this.

i will waiting for those with their sponge-brain intelligence to counter this.

Too wordy and too lengthy. Information overload.

Why do you think I would spend my time reading your vomit?

No rebuttal because I did not even bother to read it.

I do not have time to read illiterate "cut and pastes"

He was a slave and he also claimed to be Benin and to have been born in Carolina so clearly he was confused

What is important is
WHY IS HE RELEVANT?

aribisala0:
Desperate grasping at straws

Stop lying

The UN never decllared Eboe endangered

I have kicked your ass with pure logic and you are trying to throw up a smokescreen before you disappear. Tell your friend to give us the link to the credible article that quotes any UN agency that stipulates that Yoruba is endangered, possibly with the year this UN agency assertion was made.

Donmobi:
Boss small small nau
If u destroy all of them,
There would be no one left for us to dish!

they are filled with delusions, paranoia and advanced complex issues. their very sole foundations was built on lies and fallacies. they love to argue blindly even when they face thr facts and they know it a fact.

they claimed to have the richest doctors and engineers in nigeria meanwhile Igbo men are at the top of the radar on the pecking order. I bursted their lies and they all began to run on emotions typing jiba jaba that doesn't correlate with the topic. claiming how they had civilization while their region is still stucked between 19th century and illorin still remains a conquered city to-date.

OfoIgbo:
I have kicked your ass with pure logic and you are trying to throw up a smokescreen before you disappear. Tell your friend to give us the link to the credible article that quotes any UN agency that stipulates that Yoruba is endangered, possibly with the year this UN agency assertion was made.

I have no friends on Naiaraland
I have already said


HERE ON THIS THREAD



Once again I ask

Where is the UN report that says the Eboe language is endangered and is it endangered in SE Nigeria or elsewhere

What has the Eboe language being endangered got to do with the subject matter of this thread


Yoruba language can never be endangered

Is that something to be proud of . How do the contents of your head operate?

aribisala0:
Too wordy and too lengthy. Information overload.

Why do you think I would spend my time reading your vomit?

No rebuttal because I did not even bother to read it.

I do not have time to read illiterate "cut and pastes"

dumb rhetorics and excuse as usual. the article i posted is above your intellectual capacity to de-bunk, if only u knew the meaning of "illiterate" u did know it not a word to be thrown abt carelessly. u can go wail in peace.

unshakablejihad:
dumb rhetorics and excuse as usual. the article i posted is above your intellectual capacity to de-bunk, if only u knew the meaning of "illiterate" u did know it not a word to be thrown abt carelessly. u can go wail in peace.

Can we stick to the subject matter and avoid all this Abakaliki English

What difference does it make whether or not Eboe is endangered to the subject matter

Did anyone test the proficiency of languages during the US census?

People SELF REPORTED a question used to establish identity among other things

If indeed the language is "endangered" in a diaspora population and they do not identify as Eboe then they are NOT Eboe it is as simple as that

It is not only the language that is in danger even the identity is in danger if people perceive that it is shameful to be identified as such

Whoever said yoruba has no written language before advent of coloniasim is simply ignorant.
Islam arrived yorubaland in the 16th century and by 19th century places like Ede already has strong Islamic community.
Yoruba was written in ajami script long before Samuel ajayi developed the romanised yoruba written system.
Ilorin musicians were writing waka songs in ajami script by mid 19th century during Ramadan period to wake up faithful for prayers.

This distorted view that Africans had no written language b4 colonialism is daft.

Written language developed independently in just 3 places..china, Mesopotamia and India. Whatever language written elsewhere originate from the 3 above...incl all European language.

unshakablejihad:
his ethnicity was never in doubt not even for once . Yorubas never had any form of a writing system, your ancestors were irredeemably too daft to raise a pen. u can only fool the dumb monkeys from the west with such malicious lies.

Your comprehensive skill is poor. read to digest before you start wanking off and displaying your shallow ignorance.

u either educate me on the Yoruba man who could write and read before him or you shut up till eternity.

Olu Atuwatse I (Olu Dom Domingos Studied in Coimbra University. 1600 - 1611.

forgiveness:
Olu Atuwatse I (Olu Dom Domingos Studied in Coimbra University. 1600 - 1611.

I would like to see his autobiography.

OfoIgbo:
You and confusionist ways are like 5 & 6

The list of endangered Nigerian languages that you dragged out, are they from 2006?

Read the article on this page and see that they are talking specifically about late 2006, and I am sure that you are aware of this 2006 time slice, after all you tried to disparage any article, as unacceptable. This clearly tells me you are aware of the time in question

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330854897_UNESCO_Prediction_of_the_Igbo_Language_Death_Facts_and_Fables

Also, as you also claimed that Yoruba was also listed in a credible article, as endangered. Please show us that article, which presumably quotes a UN agency, that states that Yoruba is also endangered. We are all eyes.

And by the way, if you are still interested in reading where UNESCO stated that Igbo language is endangered, please search and find UNESCO publication(s) on endangered Nigerian languages in 2006

I asked you to show me where UNESCO classified Igbo as an endangered language on their website, you weren’t able to show it.

It even tells about your level of education if you think Igbo, a language still spoken by more than 30million people in the minimum was classified as an endangered language. Go and read the meaning of endangered language and you’ll understand me.

Even the journal you were able to lay your hands on topic is Prediction by UNESCO. A prediction is different from classification by UNESCO. The paper keep saying prediction while I showed you actual endangered languages on UNESCO website.

Can you please give me the sources to the “UNESCO publication(s) on endangered Nigerian languages in 2006” you claimed coz I can’t find the publication by UNESCO online through rigorous search. I’m waiting.

SHOW US YOUR UNESCO SOURCES NOW!!!

Also you are very ignorant, if you see the image I posted in my first post, you will see on the left side that the last updated was in July 2017. They keep updating the language as new ones are added so your claim of 2006 is baseless and useless. How can 2006 surpass 2017?

You asked me for where I saw someone claim Yoruba as endangered language by UNESCO, below is the link.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/01/12/nigerias-local-languages-as-endangered-species/?amp=1

http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol14num3/fabunmi.pdf

unshakablejihad:
I would like to see his autobiography.

Type his name and you will get it.

unshakablejihad:
[s]his ethnicity was never in doubt not even for once . [s]Yorubas never had any form of a writing system, your ancestors were irredeemably too daft to raise a pen. u can only fool the dumb monkeys from the west with such malicious lies.

Your comprehensive skill is poor. read to digest before you start wanking off and displaying your shallow ignorance.

u either educate me on the Yoruba man who could write and read before him or you shut up till eternity.
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Go and learn Yoruba ajami script b4 talking daft n stupid.

unshakablejihad:
dumb rhetorics and excuse as usual. the article i posted is above your intellectual capacity to de-bunk, if only u knew the meaning of "illiterate" u did know it not a word to be thrown abt carelessly. u can go wail in peace.

Open a dictionary and check the word "illiterate"
Next

Look in a mirror

gentiles:
But igbos always claim to be the majority in USA

There are alot of things that they claim they are that they are not.E.G I discover of recent that 90% of estate developers on Lagos are yorubas and they will not let us rest with they own Lagos bla bla bla.


https://www.nairaland.com/4110844/real-developers-lagos-top-30




The same thing is applicable to Nigeria film industry. Majority of recent high quality and grossing films are produced by the yorubas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Nigerian_films

forgiveness:
Olu Atuwatse I (Olu Dom Domingos Studied in Coimbra University. 1600 - 1611.

Dude the Yoruba tribe is a big and great one
Don't drag them low for ur selfish interest
Stop claiming that itsekiri king of warri
Go find another
Or better still
Dive deeper into research than feasting on falsehood

Ekealterego:
What do you mean by traits? Have you asked "Why".

Do you know so many of them still have uncles, brothers, sisters, aunties who died as a result of the Western backed and funded Nigerian war against Biafra?

Do you know what many of them experienced after the war? Left with no money and starting from the scratch?

Yes, it was them against the whole nation.
So, maybe you should think hard about losing your loved ones, father and mother and having to start life alone with people against you.
Experience that and come and tell me how it feels.

Looking at all the pictures of dead uncles and aunties who I only see in pictures, I am usually astounded at how quickly forgiving Igbo people actually are.

They paid the price of treachery and rebellion

Ovamboland:
They paid the price of treachery and rebellion

Wisdom left when you were still eleven!

Basic123:
There are alot of things that they claim they are that they are not.E.G I discover of recent that 90% of estate developers on Lagos are yorubas and they will not let us rest with they own Lagos bla bla bla.
The same thing is applicable to Nigeria film industry. Majority of recent high quality and grossing films are produced by the yorubas

I don't see it wise to let ur dreams known to the public

LegendHero:
Really? What about people living in Abuja? Why are they not getting visa due to the proximity to the embassy because going by your logic we should have more Hausa/Fulanis/Middle belt people in Western countries by now.

Why must you guys always find excuses to everything in life? Is this like a kind of genetics issue?

Its ,especially when it doesn't favour them.A statistics will be released favouring Southwest and this guys will argue Lagos state should be removed when Lagos state government machinery from governor to councillors are 99percent yorubas and a senatorial District of the state as seized to be country capital 30years ago.Also,when Anambra and other states infrastructure is not built by Igbo cooperative society,it was still built and still being built by FG money and its allocation to it.

Putindbutt:
The thread is unusually cold. I was expecting the usual "we dominate the US kinda chest beating". I am surprised that so far the narratives are fast changing to excuses in the face of a humbling statistics.

They will be chest beating on something and the official statistics will be saying different thing.

They are rich-they are not even top 5 on Nigeria billionaire list and Southeast is the most impoverished region in the south

They developed lagos-90 percent of Lagos developers and government officials are yorubas

ETC

Parada:
Everything is not by noisemaking n chest beating. It is over my dead body that I will admit igbo as a tribe in it's entirety as any edge over Yoruba be it in business or education. Any Yoruba that make such concession to the Igbo is either ignorant or need his brain checked.

Unfortunately many yorubas need their brain checked.They have forced that narratives on many naive,ignorance and unexposed yorubas. Sometimes,I argue with some yorubas on that

unshakablejihad:
incoherent trash filled with poor gramatical sentence.

E pain am.

I dare you to highlight the error and do the correction.

I know as usual, you will run.

Poor osu.

Ovamboland:
They paid the price of treachery and rebellion

That's fine...and you are paying a higher price. You are at the very bottom of what human life represents.

aribisala0:
Open a dictionary and check the word "illiterate"
Next

Look in a mirror

stop projecting your insecurities on me say u no fine mean say oda pple no fine.

Basic123:
They will be chest beating on something and the official statistics will be saying different thing.

They are rich-they are not even top 5 on Nigeria billionaire list and Southeast is the most impoverished region in the south

They developed lagos-90 percent of Lagos developers and government officials are yorubas

ETC

Really tragic. They can never defer to factual statistics when it goes against them. The ridiculous excuses will begin coming out.

They will blame the source of the statistic. Blame Lagos-Ibadan Yoruba media or claim Tinubu paid for the reportage.

When a man (Igbo) does not accept he has problems , he will not seek solutions.

Also, a supremacist who does not think he can learn anything from others will never improve himself to become the best he can be.

These are the reasons Igbos, forever living in a bubble of self-delusion and empty egotism, are always shocked and flabbergasted to learn that the more humble, wiser, more pragmatic, more cultured, more accommodating and more tolerant Yorubas, with a far better socio-economic reality, have silently achieved far more than they have.

Just look at the backward and chauvinistic culture of Igbos where women cannot even inherit their father's estate despite being eldest child.

Chinamanda Adichie, their most famous daughter, complained about this and they insulted her name and standing automatically, unrepentantly and instantly.

How can such a backward and openly discriminatory people, resistive to positive and progressive change, be claiming to be on a par with the long-civilised, tolerant, progressive and equitable Yorubas let alone be superior to them?

If Igbos are a people capable of being honest to themselves they will easily see why Yorubas are better than them at everything.

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unshakablejihad:
OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY BOOK.
Sources:
✓ THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA THE AFRICAN WRITTEN BY himself published in 1837.
It's important to note that the accounts of OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S childhood picture about the Igbo customs and manners dates back to his birth year (1745).
Here are some Igbo words in his book, if you have any please do contribute:
1. Essaka: Essaka is the anglicized form of the original Igbo word ISSEKE(a community located in Ihiala local government area, Anambra state). It seems Essaka(Isseke) was the birth place of Olaudah Equiano. Citing from page 9 of his autobiography:
"...This kingdom is divided into many provinces or districts : in one of the most remote and fertile of which, was born,
in the year 1745, situated in a charming fruitful vale, named Essaka. The distance of this province from the capital of Benin and the sea coast must be very considerable..."
2. Embrenche: This is an anglicized form of the original Igbo word M[G]BURICHI(an act of facial scarification in Igboland which depicts -honour or Noble-). From his book on page 9;
"...My father was one of those elders or chiefs I have spoken of, and was styled Embrenche ; a term, as I remember, importing the highest distinction, and signifying in our language a mark of grandeur. This mark is conferred on the person entitled to it, by cutting the skin across at the top of the forehead, and drawing it down to the eye-brows : and while it is in this situation applying a warm hand, and rubbing it until it shrinks up into a thick weal across the lower part of the forehead..."
3. Eadas: This should be "Ede" in the Igbo language which means Cocoyam. From his book on page 13 and 42
"...Our vegetables are mostly plantains, eadas, yams, beans, and Indian corn...I shall therefore only observe, that in all the places where I was, the soil was exceedingly rich ; the pumpkins, eadas, plaintains, yams..."
4. Oye - Eboe: It's crystal clear that the Igbo word "Onye-Igbo/Ibo" was corrupted to "Oye-Eboe". Igbos who are from a particular district call other Igbos of other districts "Onye Igbo" if they don't know your name or your home town. And it's likely that the frequent usage of the term ONYE IGBO by Igbos made the Europeans to tag all Igbo speaking people as Igbo(NB- During the pre colonial times of the Igbos, no Igbo identified himself/herself as an Igbo person; they commonly identify themselves with the name of their districts like Isuama, Ohafia, Agbaja, Onitsha, Abor, Nri etc). From page 16;
"...These are sometimes visited by stout mahogany-colored men from the south-west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance..."
–It is likely those mahogany stout men were Arochukwu men who dispersed in all IGBO areas for slaves–
5. Eboe- An anglicized form of "Igbo". From page 17;
"...The West India planters prefer the slaves of Benin or Eboe, to those of any other part of Guinea, for their hardiness, intelligence, integrity, and zeal..."
The Igbos during pre colonial era paid tributes to the Benin kingdom –which means they were subjects to the Oba of Benin–
"...our subjection to the king of Benin was little more than nominal ; for every transaction of the government, as far as my slender observation extended, was conducted by the chief or elders of the place..." - page 9
6. Olaudah- Olaudah is no form of anglicized Igbo word. Some Igbos still bear that archaic name as Olauda. OLA in the Igbo tongue means Wealth, riches etc and UDAH in the central Igbo/Isuama dialect means LOUD/CELEBRATED. I think if they (Ola+Udah meanings in Igbo) are juxtaposed with OLAUDAH'S narrative, they are related and close. From his book on page 23:
"...I was named Olaudah, which in our language signifies vicissitude, or fortunate ; also, one favored, and having a loud voice and well spoken..."
7. Ah Affoe Way Cah: It's a corruption of the Igbo words "Afor Nwoke"(pronounced Ah-for Wo Keh). Afor means a lot in Igbo - Year, Stomach, name of a market day -. Nwoke simply means man.
Page 24, "...They calculated our time, and foretold events, as their name imported, for we called them Ah-affoe way-cah, which signifies calculators or yearly men, our year being called Ah-affoe..."
8. Ah-affoe: "Afor"(meaning year in the Igbo tongue) is same with Ah-affoe. It was just corrupted! Reference same as 7.

cc. dsalvo, sonofEl.


sponge brain, plainleader u cure your Ignorance with this.

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Equiano's baptismal record at St Margarete Church, Westminster, dated 9 February 1759, records that he was born in 'Carolina'.

A Royal Navy muster roll from Constantine Phippa Arctic expedition of 1773 says that Equiano was born in 'South Carolina'.


https://brycchancarey.com/equiano/nativity.htm

This is about Gustavus Vassa aka Olaudah Equiano, he said before God that he was born in South Carolina?

Full stop, end of the story, your silly and pointless lies can not dispute the man's own assertions.

Go and sit your lying ass somewhere..

Dsalvo:
Really tragic. They can never defer to factual statistics when it goes against them. The ridiculous excuses will begin coming out.

They will blame the source of the statistic. Blame Lagos-Ibadan Yoruba media or claim Tinubu paid for the reportage.

When a man (Igbo) does not accept he has problems , he will not seek solutions.

Also, a supremacist who does not think he can learn anything from others will never improve himself to become the best he can be.

These are the reasons Igbos, forever living in a bubble of self-delusion and empty egotism, are always shocked and flabbergasted to learn that the more humble, wiser, more pragmatic, more cultured, more accommodating and more tolerant Yorubas, with a far better socio-economic reality, have silently achieved far more than they have.

Just look at the backward and chauvinistic culture of Igbos where women cannot even inherit their father's estate despite being eldest child.

Chinamanda Adichie, their most famous daughter, complained about this and they insulted her name and standing automatically, unrepentantly and instantly.

How can such a backward and openly discriminatory people, resistive to positive and progressive change, be claiming to be on a par with the long-civilised, tolerant, progressive and equitable Yorubas let alone be superior to them?

If Igbos are a people capable of being honest to themselves they will easily see why Yorubas are better than them at everything.

Ogbeni I've observed that your posts are always inundated with baseless verbosities, braggadocious assertions, and emotionally-induced rants, almost feels like you're about to burst a nerve or two and have brain aneurysms ... fara ba le, if you're so sure that Yorubas have achieved more than the Igbos at all levels and benchmarks of human accomplishments... then break down your facts on the basis of metrics so we can preen your facts and figures accordingly. No be to say write lengthy trash with big words to project some alpha image of intellectual superiority when in truth you're reel out the very symptoms of an insecure under-achiever who is trying SO HARD to come off as resoundingly smart. Personally when it comes to quantifying achievements, you have to be very statistical, empirical in presenting your facts, and analytical in your overview of all those facts presented... It's not as simple as naming few notable Yoruba global heavyweights in their respective fields of expertise, and then predicating the premise of your own narcissistic conclusions without recourse to a broad and unbiased objective debate... once again you're RANTING from a place of emotions and not facts, which makes you equally as guilty for the wrongs and maladies you accuse the Igbos of.

Now let's break down these human achievements on a comparative analysis of "ethnic superiority" between both ethnic groups (Igbos vs Yorubas) since you guys are so bent on feeding your egos with your jaundiced definitions and "I better pass you syndrome", can you list all the indices and metrics where you are so sure Yorubas have surpassed the Igbos?

Education? Bring your facts (stats)

Sports/entertainment/Art? Bring your facts and argue your stance intelligently

Global icons?

Diplomats?

Historical legends?

Technological advances?

Note that I'm breaking it all down to sample sizes so it can make your arguments easier, that's how intelligent people reason... no be to dey shout upandan and writing in power-points.

Dsalvo:
Really tragic. They can never defer to factual statistics when it goes against them. The ridiculous excuses will begin coming out.

They will blame the source of the statistic. Blame Lagos-Ibadan Yoruba media or claim Tinubu paid for the reportage.

When a man (Igbo) does not accept he has problems , he will not seek solutions.

Also, a supremacist who does not think he can learn anything from others will never improve himself to become the best he can be.

These are the reasons Igbos, forever living in a bubble of self-delusion and empty egotism, are always shocked and flabbergasted to learn that the more humble, wiser, more pragmatic, more cultured, more accommodating and more tolerant Yorubas, with a far better socio-economic reality, have silently achieved far more than they have.

Just look at the backward and chauvinistic culture of Igbos where women cannot even inherit their father's estate despite being eldest child.

Chinamanda Adichie, their most famous daughter, complained about this and they insulted her name and standing automatically, unrepentantly and instantly.

How can such a backward and openly discriminatory people, resistive to positive and progressive change, be claiming to be on a par with the long-civilised, tolerant, progressive and equitable Yorubas let alone be superior to them?

If Igbos are a people capable of being honest to themselves they will easily see why Yorubas are better than them at everything.

Or the insane barbaric culture of brothers taking turns and marrying their dead brother's wives and the poor widows can not do a damn thing about it.

Very sad..