SlayerForever:



The name is Okoloma not Okoloama.

SlayerForever:



That's how Ijaw towns are named. But Igbo towns have a dominant Ma suffix in their town names too. So automatically your position is debatable.

SlayerForever:




On scholarly validity and admissibility the memoir is superior

SlayerForever:
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Bro this is absolute rubbish.

SlayerForever:
Some of the IYC goons in Bonny tried converting a popular Igbo masquerade's title from Ekwemma to Ekwema to slowly ijawnize the name but the youths resisted .
The youths instead redesigned the name to fully express its Igbo heritage. They wrote the name this way instead : Ekwe-mma lollllllll Let's be honest, many Bonny youths are Igbo lovers

BlackSaints:
And have you igbos carry out DNA test on Okrika people to know the results? Ignorance is when you think that you know others better than themselves.

Alabo7978:
Do you now want to say igbos speak an Oru dialect?


You aren't even saying anything about the mode of greeting
Imbanua which can be understood by ijaws.

That alone is a pointer on who the oru's are, and why a sub Igbo people instead of answering IBOS and using the CENTRAL DIALECT, they chose to say imbanua.

Brother open your brain.
It's morning, your brain should be s noharp naa.

Alabo7978:
Do you now want to say igbos speak an Oru dialect?


You aren't even saying anything about the mode of greeting
Imbanua which can be understood by ijaws.

That alone is a pointer on who the oru's are, and why a sub Igbo people instead of answering IBOS and using the CENTRAL DIALECT, they chose to say imbanua.

Brother open your brain.
It's morning, your brain should be sharp naa.

Igboid:


Alua, nua, etc, are Igbo greetings Ijaw copied.
These greetings are used as far as Nsukka at the border of Igbo and Igala.
And the Ika at the border of Igbo and Bini/Esan.

They have nothing to do with Ijaws, rather the Ijaws copied them from their Oru/Olu Igbo neighbors, some of who they have assimilated and Ijawnized.

Anyone that grew up in Enugu in the early 2000s will know of a radio station on ESBS Enugu by Nsukka people called "Nsukka Alua".

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281498706_Local_Dialect_Radio_Programmes_Rural_Development_and_Social_Integration_The_Case_of_Nsukka_Alua_Radio_Nigeria_Enugu_Programme

Ojiofor:


Take your frustration somewhere else.I only asked a question.

Igboid:


Alua, nua, etc, are Igbo greetings Ijaw copied.
These greetings are used as far as Nsukka at the border of Igbo and Igala.
And the Ika at the border of Igbo and Bini/Esan.

They have nothing to do with Ijaws, rather the Ijaws copied them from their Oru/Olu Igbo neighbors, some of who they have assimilated and Ijawnized.

Anyone that grew up in Enugu in the early 2000s will know of a radio program on ESBS Enugu by Nsukka people called "Nsukka Alua".

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281498706_Local_Dialect_Radio_Programmes_Rural_Development_and_Social_Integration_The_Case_of_Nsukka_Alua_Radio_Nigeria_Enugu_Programme

Parachoko:
Don't you get tired in partaking in this kind of senseless thread?

JANK23H:
Alabo7978 you can do a thorough work on the Oru-Igbo and Ijo connection.I'll do same.

Your hypothesis may be correct considering the typical Ijo migration pattern.

Who knows if the original occupants of Onitsha and some riverine communities in Imo are Ijos.It will be fantastic to know.With their fixation on Ijo history, Igboid, Slayerforever and other goons might have Ijo connection sef

SlayerForever:



Mindi is a purely Igbo word.

nuelleoz:




To be honest. I dispute this history, As a Izon man, it is contrary to what I know and also contrary to two other accounts of the ancestry of the Ijaw people.

Alabo7978:

You're right owei...

It is very known that wherever there is a river, an ijaw Man isn't far off at all.
The greatest ever sailors and navigators of all the water bodies even as far as Liberia and beyond. We are definetly the Vikings of Africa.
The igbos stayed far off from the river and did more agriculture, but Ekealterego SlayerForever Igboid biafrarep bkayy eastisbae Eastlink want us to believe the igbos are affiliated to the water bodies.
If not tell me why the Oguta people ALWAYS call on ijaw people of kalabari to come and settle land dispute and overlooking their nearest neighbors?
Orlu might also be Oru who knows?

Ekealterego:

Vikings had great blacksmiths, arts, philosophies and conquered vast territories and also kings on lands. Vikings were not doing rudimentary Stoneage fishing. There were Igbo kingdoms that were famed for their ability on the waters. Laird and Oldfield in the 1830s commented on the commercial and agricultural power of the Igbos in the Rivers.
Again, in those days, those creeks were less desired and almost inhabitable. That is why the population of the creeks are still scanty even today.

And for this topic, if you added a reference and compare arts and archaeology, it will help your hypothesis further.

Did the Ijaws migrate through the Nile River? How did they jump all the way from Egypt straight to the southernmost tips of Western Africa? If i am to guess, the Ijaws were more from the West, from around Sierra-Leone. They have similar culture to the Kru people.

There is a textbook written about the Yorubas linking them to ancient Egypt. The author made a compelling submission by comparing Yoruba old arts with ancient Egyptian arts. A very compelling book. However, I read this book in a library like 7 years ago and I do not know if they have an electronic version and I cannot remember the name of the book exactly.
When I see it, I will recommend that you pursue this comparison system to find answers, it will somewhat solidify your postulations.

SlayerForever:
The casual allusion that the Igbos didn't live near water is a fallacy that will soon be destroyed forever.

Ekealterego:

I will provide the quote soon. I think it's from Allen 1841. The water abilities of Igbos. There is even a drawing of the Igbos on the Niger.

Alabo7978:

There were different migration patterns.
Some people also came from iselema-warri, some Benin. One particular people didn't form the ijaw Nation, so there is every pointer that we had a batch from Egypt.

But feel free to tell me the one you buy.

SlayerForever:



Thank you in anticipation. The navigational and naval prowess of the great Igbos were captured copiously across several literature. Our academia have done us a generational disservice by not bringing this to the consciousness!

Alabo7978:

The first BOLDED part very rightly explains why the creeks belonged to the ijaws alone, it was very undesirable for habitation due to the disease and death in it. That was why we had to use our trading canoes to go upstream to azumini blue river(the center of commerce then) to batter our salt, dried fish, perriwinkles, snails etc for yams, oil, maize.
We also traded with the Benins who like the hinterlands didn't see any good in coming down to the creeks. It was during the palm oil trade that things changed.
You just said exactly what I've been saying all along.

They didn't jump.
Those days, there were navigable route to even Arabia from Nigeria, so there was a long hike through trading route. They were most probably fleeing an invasion.

The sierraleonean kru are too small to have had ijaws come from there.
The kru people you know were fishermen who got lost during fishing expedition, I also had a cousin who got lost one early morning back from fishing, he was returning from camp and the fog was too much and when it cleared, he found himself at Kula.
Ijaw men who go on long fishing expedition on the coast get lost, some never came back again and it is a well known tale from those days.

The comparison with the Vikings were based on commanding a water vessel, and yes I know of that book by the Yoruba guy. In one page he made mention of the ijaws too.
I could research and write a thesis on it but that's not my calling.

Alabo7978:

You're right owei...

It is very known that wherever there is a river, an ijaw Man isn't far off at all.
The greatest ever sailors and navigators of all the water bodies even as far as Liberia and beyond. We are definetly the Vikings of Africa.
The igbos stayed far off from the river and did more agriculture, but Ekealterego SlayerForever Igboid biafrarep bkayy eastisbae Eastlink want us to believe the igbos are affiliated to the water bodies.
If not tell me why the Oguta people ALWAYS call on ijaw people of kalabari to come and settle land dispute and overlooking their nearest neighbors?
Orlu might also be Oru who knows?

BKayy:

You just like writing nonsense.
When did Kalabari turn to Ijaw? Have you forgotten Boma of BBNaija that also confirmed that Kalabari being referred to as Ijaw is fallacy on national TV?

Maybe your stupidity is not yet cleared because you still call the place "Kalabari" which is a corrupted form of "New Calabar".
The real name of the place is "BOM" go and ask their Elders.

I am happy that you are the one that decided to expose the alien nature of Ijaw in between one Igbo clan of Oguta (Ugwu-nta) , Kalabari (Bom) etc.
I remember when we showed you people "Ụmụ Okirika" in Imo State and you were shocked. Atleast the breeze of truth now blows from all sides including you aliens.

cc SlayerForever, Ekealterego, Igboid

Igboid:


Do we actually have Igbo academia? I doubt.
More like salary earners only interested in feeding themselves and their families and no thought about the Igbo nation they hail from and how to contribute something tangible to her.
Look how Alagoa fraudulent distortions went under radar for decades, yet we have useless history lecturers in SE Universities all parading empty "copy and paste" Ph.Ds and other worthless certificates.

Biko Ekealterago, please don't forget to deliver on the promise about Igbo naval and Marine prowess.
I'm looking forward to it.

Igboid:


Nnaa, where you go since nah.
Your absence was sorely felt here.

BKayy:

You just like writing nonsense.
When did Kalabari turn to Ijaw? Have you forgotten Boma of BBNaija that also confirmed that Kalabari being referred to as Ijaw is fallacy on national TV?

Maybe your stupidity is not yet cleared because you still call the place "Kalabari" which is a corrupted form of "New Calabar".
The real name of the place is "BOM" go and ask their Elders.

I am happy that you are the one that decided to expose the alien nature of Ijaw in between one Igbo clan of Oguta (Ugwu-nta) , Kalabari (Bom) etc.
I remember when we showed you people "Ụmụ Okirika" in Imo State and you were shocked. Atleast the breeze of truth now blows from all sides including you aliens.

cc SlayerForever, Ekealterego, Igboid