₦airaland Forum

Konquest:
@Magnificenttop,

Your post is succinctly stated.

My concern is just that with half-truths and outrightly forged historical information being deliberately and regularly posted by these creeps online and offline to tarnish other ethnicities' histories, CLEAR facts like the 4 academic screenshots that I have attached to my last post debunking the claims of these youngsters among the Ibos have to be sustained by more enlightened folks instead of being aloof.

There is well documented evidence from Reverend George Basden (who lived in Onitsha as a respected Missionary for years) who wrote a book titled "Among the Ibos of Southern Nigeria" showing that Ibos were head hunters and ate human beings for food (based on the confessions of some of Ibos who converted to the new White man's religion told him). Rev. George Basden said areas to the East of Onitsha ate human beings for food even well into the 1900s and the British Colonialists created a "HEAT MAP" showing the ethnic groups in Southern Nigeria that ate humans for food and the IBO areas featured prominently.

A gory episode involving Doctor Stewart, a White British-born medical doctor who was riding a bicycle in the Mbaise area of today's Imo State in 1906 is well known in history. The White man (Doctor Stewart) who lost his way while in a group was killed and his human flesh was eaten, with his bicycle tied to a tree to "prevent" it from "escaping." This is the episode that led to the British forces organizing a punitive expedition to deal with the Mbaise people for the killing and eating of the flesh of the White doctor. This Doctor Stewart's cannibalism story was also used by Achebe in his book Things Fall Apart. But the Mbaise killing of that White man was NOT a fiction, but it happened historically in 1906 and was even reported in New York Times based on archival documents I have seen. The Anioma communties, Edos, Yorubas, Igalas, etc, had NO cases of eating human beings OR cannibalism on that Cannibalism Distribution map. Sir. Allan Burns who was the Acting-Governor General of Nigeria also Indicated in his famous book "History of Nigeria" that the advanced civilizations before 1900 were Oyo Empire, Benin Empire, Sokoto, and Kanem Borno Empire of the Kanuris.

The Ibos were prominently classified as part of the primitive societies or cultures of Nigeria in Sir. Allan Burn's book, so, how the hell will these overbearing, highly dishonest creeps who are being BRAINWASHED by their Ibo secessionist Websites and propaganda be bragging or claiming that they are better than other ethnicities in terms of foods and more? These are the same people who are historically known to the European or British Colonialists and their immediate ethnic neighbors such as the Igalas, Bini-Edos, and Anioma communties to be notorious human flesh eaters for food as indicated in the last screenshot BELOW this post well into the 1900s, and they walked half-clothed. It's share LOW self-esteem on their part to be honest!

Please save and share the screenshots and historical facts as well showing the etymology or origin of these Yoruba words such as Egusi, Akara, Agidi, Elubo, etc, so that the younger ones and even others can be properly educated.


Cheers.

Mogbeee. I need to grab that books o. Cheers for this damn..

1Sharon:
Mogbeee. I need to grab that books o. Cheers for this damn..

@1Sharon, how's it going?

My pleasure... I'm glad the historical EVIDENCE-BASED info posted by me here made sense to folks like you and others. Indeed, If you don't know your history or where you're coming from, you won't be able to take full control of your immediate environment using the elements of foresight.

If you're interested in getting those hard copy books I listed here that were published from several decades back, then you can start off FIRST by searching for the book titles via Google Books, OR simply just type and Google the book titles with PDF at the end of the book titles and voila!... The books will download immediately on your mobile device or laptop.

The direct Web link for downloading the 1921 book "Among the Ibos of Nigeria" by Reverend George Thomas Basden where he wrote about the eating if humans (cannibalism) for food by Ibos in the wider areas East of Onitsha is BELOW: Always check the Index pages of the book for quick references to cannibalism, osu caste system, or any other words you are interested in.

=>https://archive.org/download/amongibosofniger00basd/amongibosofniger00basd.pdf

https://archive.org/details/amongibosofniger00basd
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I've also had for many years now a 1949 copy of this awesome book "HISTORY of NIGERIA" in my personal home library. The book was originally bought in 1949 by my late paternal grandfather with his name still written on it with pen ink in 1949.

The direct Web links for reading and/or downloading the 1929 classic historical book "History of Nigeria" by Sir. Allan Burns are BELOW: Check the index pages of the book for the word "cannibalism" among the Ibos, and he wrote in the iconic book about the killing and eating of Doctor Rogers Stewart (the White medical doctor) in 1906 at Mbaise which led to a British punitive expedition. Sir Alan Burns (1887-1980) was a British colonial administrator who served as the Governor General of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and he was also the Acting-Governor General of Nigeria in 1942. He had lived in Nigeria for many years prior, so, his advanced book was based on FACTS of history.


=>https://ignca.gov.in/Asi_data/18507.pdf
[You can rename the PDF book after downloading it from "18507" to the actual book name which is HISTORY of NIGERIA by Sir Allan Burns].

https://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_Nigeria.html

https://archive.org/details/historyofnigeria0000burn_l3h8


Enjoy the rest of your day Sharon.


Ciao.

Magnificenttop:
I enjoyed reading through your informative reply. We'll continue to have need of people who're good custodians of quality history.
I agree with you to a good extent, documented and undocumented verbal stories relate to verification of such practice in East.
Every tribe/sect has it's negative sides, therefore, knowing the behavior of our people on that side to twist/manipulate record, deny facts and project their misdoings on others to a higher degree, it won't be wrong to have historical record, not for bad reasons but for good intentions. Note that I didn't see any images you said to have attached to your first reply (the one before this last one).
But at the end of the day, against all these odds, like I said, at this point, we will have to put our differences behind us throughout anywhere a black community can be seen in the world.

Thank you. Your post is nicely put.

As a member of Gen X who's also cosmopolitan and well-traveled internationally, I've always known the importance of living in harmony with others in a world that isn't monolithic in terms of cultures. But with the relentless narcissistic attitude of these youngsters from among the Ibos who don't even know their own sordid history, and who deliberately engage in online forgeries in order to disseminate highly defamatory, fake histories about other Nigerian ethnic groups online for many years now, (simply because of the loses by the mainly Ibo rebel secessionists in the 2 years and 6 months Nigerian Civil War), then it's time to STOP being "politically correct" and counter their shameful propaganda with EVIDENCE-BASED historical books, videos, and screenshots like we've done here to show them FACTS and enlighten the younger ones from all ethnicities. There's absolutely NO time to exchange curses or swear words with them like you've also stated... Just move and retreat with guerilla warfare and go for the jugular with pure FACTS based on screenshots, videos, and PDF downloads of books.


Enjoy your weekend.

Ciao.

Konquest:
Thank you. Your post is nicely put.

As a member of Gen X who's also cosmopolitan and well-traveled internationally, I've always known the importance of living in harmony with others in a world that isn't monolithic in terms of cultures. But with the relentless narcissistic attitude of these youngsters from among the Ibos who don't even know their own sordid history, and who deliberately engage in online forgeries in order to disseminate highly defamatory, fake histories about other Nigerian ethnic groups online for many years now, (simply because of the loses by the mainly Ibo rebel secessionists in the 2 years and 6 months Nigerian Civil War), then it's time to STOP being "politically correct" and counter their shameful propaganda with EVIDENCE-BASED historical books, videos, and screenshots like we've done here to show them FACTS and enlighten the younger ones from all ethnicities. There's absolutely NO time to exchange curses or swear words with them like you've also stated... Just move and retreat with guerilla warfare and go for the jugular with pure FACTS based on screenshots, videos, and PDF downloads of books.
Enjoy your weekend.

Ciao.

You're very right.
Sad truths.
We continue to hope for the better days.

Enjoy your weekend too.

Ondo, Ekiti and parts of Osun, yes. Beyond that, not at all.

StraightGaay:
Who con get pepper soup?

Igbos and Deltans/Naija Deltans.

Sleekfingers:
1. Obe gure ( Water leaf soup)
2. Marugbo soup
3. Obe kowu ( cotton seed soup)
4.Obe osiki
5. imoyo ( fresh Eja odo, obokun, tilapia, croaker, barracuda, red snapper, crabs , Jumbo prawns)
6. Ila Alasepo
7. Obe Apon
8. Egusi ijebu
9. Efo riro
10 Obe Efo elegusi
11. Obe dindin
12. Obe Ewuro elegusi ( bitter leaf soup)
13. Gbegiri
14. Obe ilasa
15. Etc


It is only a fool will say we Yoruba don't have soup....Na sopono go kill anybody wey say Yoruba no get soup

Not half your so-called soups being stews.

Obe-dindin? Really?

Probz:
Igbos and Deltans/Naija Deltans.

That's a lie.

Pepper Soup is West Africa and common in Nigeria and Ghana. Or do you want to tell me that there are Igbos in Ghana too?

You guys just love to claim everything.

LifestyleTonite:
That's a lie.

Pepper Soup is West Africa and common in Nigeria and Ghana. Or do you want to tell me that there are Igbos in Ghana too?

You guys just love to claim everything.

I’m jot talking about in a broader west African context, though. I mean in Nigeria itself. Yes, it’s become popular across Nigeria but Yorubas are known for pepper-stew/s more than pepper-soup. It’s always traditionally been much more of a(n) Igbo/Delta thing. Calabar people seem to vibe with the interface between pepper-soup and plantain porridge (which is to die for with goat-meat, I can’t lie) but even they aren’t traditionally big pepper-soup-for-pepper-soup’s-sake people. A little, but not like Igbos and Delta/Rivers/Bayelsa people. At least not originally.