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XerXers:
But our apprentice system started long ago which Harvard called the largest business incubator in the word are yet to be learnt by Yoruba and Hausa. We strengthen were we have advantage then we come to overthrow them where they used to have advantage before

writer said the American are amazed at Igbo culture and Languge that the never heard about it before,our local food called ukwa was interesting to them,iji (yam) was brought to class and the day it for the first time and were very happy,I will bring the update on my next post

What most of you are not aware of is that western liberal arts are dominated by self hating white liberals who now promote cultures and languages of exotic people across the planet towards antagonising their own White European Culture.

These Western Liberal Arts establishment seek to promote exotic cultures that can stand their ground against white imperialism.

The focus is to promote languages and cultures that have a rich history for you can't study a language without studying the culture of the people and studying culture requires a delve into the history of that people.

Yoruba and Hausa are promoted because these two languages are from two great African civilisations.

The Ibo have none and so studying it will only expose Ibo precolonial society as one lacking substance and so further the colonial mandate to "tame those savages".

Ibo language is not studied just as much as no one has any interest to study the language of the primitive pygmy people in the Congo.

The Western Liberal Arts promotion of certain African languages alongside their culture and history is not motivated by an altrustic academic quest but rather meant to further demonize European Colonial past.

So these western liberal departments seek out those African societies that had a rich history and sophisticated civilization to promote.


That's the honest truth. Promoting Ibo language will only put Ibo pre colonial society under the microscope and if this is done will only bring about ridicule to Ibos.

XerXers:
But our apprentice system started long ago which Harvard called the largest business incubator in the word are yet to be learnt by Yoruba and Hausa. We strengthen were we have advantage then we come to overthrow them where they used to have advantage before

I understand your point,were we are lacking is passing that same system to our children,some of us are even ashamed to teach our children our mothers tongue,that's the writers points..

RevDesm0ndJuju:
What most of you are not aware of is that western liberal arts are dominated by self hating white liberals who now promote cultures and languages of exotic people across the planet towards antagonising their own White European Culture.

These Western Liberal Arts establishment seek to promote exotic cultures that can stand their ground against white imperialism.

The focus is to promote languages and cultures that have a rich history for you can't study a language without studying the culture of the people and studying culture requires a delve into the history of that people.

Yoruba and Hausa are promoted because these two languages are from two great African civilisations.

The Ibo have none and so studying it will only expose Ibo precolonial society as one lacking substance and so further the colonial mandate to "tame those savages".

Ibo language is not studied just as much as no one has any interest to study the language of the primitive pygmy people in the Congo.

The Western Liberal Arts promotion of certain African languages alongside their culture and history is not motivated by an altrustic academic quest but rather meant to further demonize European Colonial past.

So these western liberal departments seek out those African societies that had a rich history and sophisticated civilization to promote.


That's the honest truth. Promoting Ibo language will only put Ibo pre colonial society under the microscope and if this is done will only bring about ridicule to Ibos.

It's Igbo and not ibo,what if I tell you that most of the writers students and proffessors are very interested to learn the Igbo culture from maazi ogbonnaya that the wouldn't want his classes to end

BitterTruth0001:
Hausa is the largest tribe in Africa which makes it the largest black tribe in the world

Yoruba simply begged and lied their way with gbajue and fake bishop propaganda to be accommodated so they can claim progress . It’s very important to the average Yoruba to be recognized as a Yoruba . They’re naturally very tribalistic . Everything they do, churches , mosques, politics , is all about pushing their tribe forward.

The way religion controls a Muslim is the same way tribalism controls a Yoruba man .

Okay read your statement again and see who is bias here, we beg lol.... well anything that will grease your ego... just that I have a lot of Igbo friends who see clearly above tribalism ... for your info a typical Yoruba man will push his Yoruba Identity first before any religion or affiliation ..... we don't care if you reject us we are who we are we are Yoruba

You mentioned Hausa language ... shallow mind read about Swahili and check how many country in Africa speak that language .... Yoruba is been recorgnise along with it because both within and outside Africa many country still use it as a language Brazil, Cuba to mention few .. victim mentality won't take you anywhere

It is not true that Igbos are not proud of their culture.

The real issue is that few students apply to study Igbo in the universities.


Another thing is that number and wide distribution is important


Hausas and Yorubas are well distributed in Africa and they have large population


Igbos are small in number and not indigenous to many countries as Hausas especially

RevDesm0ndJuju:
What most of you are not aware of is that western liberal arts are dominated by self hating white liberals who now promote cultures and languages of exotic people across the planet towards antagonising their own White European Culture.

These Western Liberal Arts establishment seek to promote exotic cultures that can stand their ground against white imperialism.

The focus is to promote languages and cultures that have a rich history for you can't study a language without studying the culture of the people and studying culture requires a delve into the history of that people.

Yoruba and Hausa are promoted because these two languages are from two great African civilisations.

The Ibo have none and so studying it will only expose Ibo precolonial society as one lacking substance and so further the colonial mandate to "tame those savages".

Ibo language is not studied just as much as no one has any interest to study the language of the primitive pygmy people in the Congo.

The Western Liberal Arts promotion of certain African languages alongside their culture and history is not motivated by an altrustic academic quest but rather meant to further demonize European Colonial past.

So these western liberal departments seek out those African societies that had a rich history and sophisticated civilization to promote.


That's the honest truth. Promoting Ibo language will only put Ibo pre colonial society under the microscope and if this is done will only bring about ridicule to Ibos.

You are very correct


History of Igbos is almost not available

julaion:
WHY YORUBA AND HAUSA ARE TAUGHT IN US SCHOOLS BUT NO IGBO~ Maazi ogbonnaya

For many years in the past, I had been writing that Fulbright scholarship— US Government funded Yoruba and Hausa language teachers to teach Yoruba and Hausa language and culture in many US universities annually, but no Igbo.

A few years ago, the call for Yoruba and Hausa language teachers to go teach in the United States was up. I saw so many ndị Ìgbo crying of marginalization. Why only Yoruba and Hausa when Igbo is one of the major languages and culture? Some blamed US government and say it's marginalization. I saw those posts on Twitter and Facebook and shook my head. I knew the problem but wasn't yet in a better position to talk. I needed more facts.

For many years, I was applying to some courses in a few universities in the US on African Studies. It was compulsory to pick any African Language. I saw Nigeria, hoping to see Igbo. I saw Yoruba and Hausa. I began to write to the school but to no avail. The general language almost everyone in America recognizes to be African language is Swahili. Even a child in America knows there is Swahili. East Africans are pushing up their identities and language. So many American linguists are studying Swahili and even teach it.

Now! Listen! I am in a better position now to tell you the true nature of events and not the lies and abracadabra some of our people display online in the name of promoting and propagating Igbo language and culture in diaspora. Something that has no root. Surface level for media projection and personal self-beating.

I was engaging professors of Global Studies and Africanist scholars on Thursday. It was an intensive discussion, as, on my usual manner, I was crazily bold and inquisitive. I was saying everything boldly.

They said something that broke my heart and I was disappointed:

"Ogbonnaya, I am sorry to say that Americans don't know anything about Igbo language and culture. Don't get me wrong. We know Yoruba, Swahili and Hausa."

I began to talk about Chinụa Achebe's "Things For Apart" as basis of my argument. Achebe's Igbo.

"Chinụa Achebe's Things Fall Apart is an African literature written in English language. We see it as African culture and not Igbo. In academic world, the Igbo can just be quoted on research, after that nothing else. I am sorry, Americans don't know Igbo language and culture, just as I mentioned. Yoruba, Zulu, Swahili and Hausa are the languages of Africa, popular amongst the United States scholars"

Not that I didn't know all this. But I needed to hear from experts. Those in Global Studies carry out extensive research about all this. Government and other agencies could assess their research and reports.

Is it whose fault that Americans don't know anything about the Igbo language and culture? Ndị ọcha or ndị Ìgbo?

Is it some people who understand Africa to be a single country will know there is anything like Igbo, when you don't say what you are?

Will they give your language, a position, when there is no one showing any interest about it?

I love the Yorubas on this and give it to them. I doff my hat for them. No pun intended, it's a fact. The Yorubas are in all the faculty of African Studies across the world, pushing their culture and language. People are studying the Yoruba culture and languages. Yoruba kids will take their language as elective course in the university abroad. I truly love them for doing this. But our people will mock their own for studying the language and culture.

The Igbo man is the most hitted in this issue of colonialism. He completed lost himself and loves mimicking external culture as a superior culture to his inferior one. It started from primary and secondary school in Igbo land where teachers would flog you for speaking Igbo. It's vernacular. Speak only English.

When some heard I am now in the United States, studying Arts and Humanities, they came with their uselesss advice:

"There is no money in Arts and Humanities. You better find your way and look for STEM courses. The world has left Arts behind. I am advising you because I have been here for years before you."

Life starts and ends with money. This mundane thought is why their children would rather choose Swahili, German, French as language requirement over Igbo. They don't want their children to speak Igbo because it's primitive to them. But you will see them cry and complain of American government marginalizing them by granting the Yoruba and Hausa teachers the opportunity to lecture in most universities.

If America add Igbo language, who are the teachers going to teach in America? Goat? Cow? Chicken? Don't you know that these people go with data? Don't you know there were people who pushed for it, created contents and value that made their language to be accepted?

Just few months ago, some tried to bully me for rendering Fizikisi in igbo. So many debates took place. "Nobody will read it. He is just wasting his time. Who still reads Igbo."

This didn't come from outsiders. You know them. Even some so called Igbo scholars. If you don't take yourself serious, why should others take you serious?

From the report I got. A few schools that had crash courses in Igbo in the past had suspended it because of lack of interest of students. Most Igbo children in school here would rather pick other languages but Igbo. When they saw how Yoruba children eat their language, some would rather go for Yoruba. Like I said: I love the Yorubas when it comes to their language and culture. Imagine if that fizikisi was done in the Yoruba language...

We like playing on the gallery.

The question is: who are those ndị Ìgbo claiming to be propagating the Igbo language and culture abroad? Is it just a show off? Media show offs? Surface without root?

What our people in diaspora see as promoting Igbo culture and language is hiring a hall, get some yam, wear isiagụ and red cap and click back of their hands three times, then one at the front. They will dance: "Ike Pentecost." "Ndị ike ndị ike", "O nwere ngabasị". They spray money. Then post on Facebook. People will be jubilating that they are promoting the Igbo culture and language abroad. Ụwa hà ọzọ ha ga-abụ ndị Igbo. Is that all?

Remember, there is no serious symposium. The so called yam festival should have a serious symposium just as Ahịajịọkụ lecture of Owere those days. Their new yam festival abroad has no foreigners that matter as observers. I am talking about those in academic world or a university platform to back that up, then inculcate it into the educational research on the Igbo. It is a way to display the rich culture and get others interested.

It's just your community; perhaps you contributing money and hosting events to entertain your ego or show off. How many outside know about this? How many know about your culture? I am talking about institutions.

These things you feel they don't matter, matter a lot.

Each year, so many foreigners receive grant to travel to Tanzania and other East African countries to live there and study Swahili in a term. It's part of their academic work. Do you know why? Swahili told their stories. Swahili are proud of their identity. They love their culture and appreciate who they are. The Yoruba and Hausa are doing well in this regard. They do not forget their tongues. The only thing we remember about our culture is isiagụ, isiọdụm, red cap, hand-fan and walking about the camera as if we are doing beauty contest.

But a typical Igbo man sees no need for all this. It will not bring money. Who complain more? You know.

Eating yam in different parts of the world, wearing isiagụ up and down with Victor Ume's long cap doesn't make you a promoter of Igbo culture, when the owners the land you dwell aren't even carried along to observe your culture and notice you exist.

You can have all the money in the world, but if you don't have an identity or recognition, ị tọrọ atọ. I am going far. How about some Igbo think tank groups in Igbo land? Their meeting is a place to show off who is elite and who is not— a show of emptiness masked in flowery English.

Chimananda is doing her best, but she's in pop culture and literature. Achebe's works were recognized as African literature.

Yoruba and Swahili keep showing up, pushing their languages and cultures and taking over African studies. We only boast of being the most traveled. It should even be the more you travel, the more you table down your culture and language, pushing it in academic world. Mana onye ọbụla chọrọ ego ọkụ ọkụ. Some chọga grant. When they get the grant to do what will profit the Igbo language and culture, ha anarie with the money. You think they don't know all this.

I am writing this to upset and provoke thought. Nobody know your language because you don't even know it. Wearing isiagụ doesn't mean you are promoting Igbo culture. There is no culture without language. Some of the shows and gatherings are just for ego. Ndị nwe obodo no know anything about their culture. The ones transporting their culture and language are doing it quietly with one mind. Ndị be anyị bụ competition. I cannot do it, you should not do it.

For clarity sake, ala Igbo will bear me witness that I have done my part and my best. This truth must be told.

I was laughing when some asked me why is it that some Americans don't know about our yam and new yam festival and other culture despite our people's show offs and yam festivals. I told them the truth. Our people go just organize themselves in one hall, contribute money, wear isiagụ, decorate the place, dance, show offs, send pictures on the Internet. Noise everywhere —they have taken the culture to obodo oyibo. Mana ndị ọcha nwa amadịghị ìhè há na-eme. Something even the government should be funding and promoting. Something that should even be a curriculum of its own.

Next time you see them blame United States government through Fulbright scholarship for marginalizing the Igbo language, remind them of this post. Professors of Global Studies hid nothing from me and from my personal research and observations, it's true.

Most things our people do here in the name of promoting Igbo language are just for social media surface level, to entertain those back home; show classism, no root. How you lay your mat determine how people will lie on it.

UNESCO saw all this and predicted the extinction of Igbo language and culture; some people felt they were blabbing. The joke is on you.

I paused!

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You have not mention any of the reason

Igbos are extremely proud of their culture and identity

The main reason is because Igbos don't have rich history as Hausas and Yorubas and that's why foreigners don't see the importance of learning Igbo language



Then few students apply to study Igbo in the universities.


Another thing is that number and wide distribution is important


Hausas and Yorubas are well distributed in Africa and they have large population


Igbos are small in number and not indigenous to many countries as Hausas especially

Biodun556:
You have not mention any of the reason

Igbos are extremely proud of their culture and identity

The main reason is because Igbos don't have rich history as Hausas and Yorubas and that's why foreigners don't see the importance of learning Igbo language



Then few students apply to study Igbo in the universities.


Another thing is that number and wide distribution is important


Hausas and Yorubas are well distributed in Africa and they have large population


Igbos are small in number and not indigenous to many countries as Hausas especially

. And who told you Igbo are extremely poor in culture,we haven't started telling our history,if we do,the world will respect us to the core

Shadomaan7:
Low key, the Igbo's have been sidelined in most things. The earlier we accept this bitter truth, the better for us.

more like we Igbos have sidelined ourselves, why won't Igbo be unknown, when our fuulish Igbo brothers would travel overseas and be forming phoney, you go see Yoruba people proudly communicating with their language, same with Hausa but Igbo man go see fellow Igbo man dey form phoney, I witnessed this thing many times in London when I travel, I met my fellow Igbo man wey be from Imo state for Barking station northeast London, funny thing the ediot was speaking with his mother on the phone we were in the same train 🚆, immediately he finished I communicated with him in Igbo just to show brotherly to my greatest surprise the fool come dey form phoney for me as if he doesn't understand what I was saying but this was the same ediot that was speaking local Owerri dialect for his mom over the phone. Not just him but thousands of Igbos in diaspora do that especially from Imo state. Forming useless phoney. But you see Yoruba proudly speaking their language even with their kids. So I am not surprised it has to do with our fuulish brothers there that decided to alienate our language

Biodun556:
You have not mention any of the reason

Igbos are extremely proud of their culture and identity

The main reason is because Igbos don't have rich history as Hausas and Yorubas and that's why foreigners don't see the importance of learning Igbo language



Then few students apply to study Igbo in the universities.


Another thing is that number and wide distribution is important


Hausas and Yorubas are well distributed in Africa and they have large population


Igbos are small in number and not indigenous to many countries as Hausas especially

and who told you Igbos have no rich history who made you spokesperson for Nigerian cultures abeg shift. The main reason is that Igbos don't like speaking promoting their language like other tribes maybe recently we have started trying but before you hardly see Igbos commune with their fellow Igbo brothers in their native tongue in diaspora.

Biodun556:
You are very correct


History of Igbos is almost not available

Other than some very primitive languages that are studied as part of linguistic research such as the tongue clicking language of the Bushmen tribe in South Africa and Namibia or the languages of the Amazonian isolated tribes people, no one studies any language for the sake of linguistics.

Language studies are always tied to cultural and history of the people.

There's nothing worth studying Ibo language because from the perspective of the western liberal , it will only reaffirm the western imperialism just as the Spanish conquest of the Mayan and Aztecs due to their brute civilization.

No one is making any effort to revive the Phoenician language because we all know how brutal they were .

If you are in a literature class reviewing Oliver Twist, you must study the Dickinson era or Victorian England. Any Shakespearian literature will require a delve into Edwardian England. The Austria-Hungarian empire gave the world classics such as Snowhite, Cinderella that showcased a romantic royal setting.

Studying Ibo language won't go beyond 1940s because that's the height of Ibo society and it could not be termed Ibo in any sense because it was westernised .

Biodun556:
You are very correct


History of Igbos is almost not available

Yes.
Because the igbos shocked the so called whites other tribes worship, by building the first surface to air missile in self defense, refined their own crude oil during the civil war, built an airport; something more than 80% of Africans struggle to build on their own till date.

Igbo languages are taught in the US and maybe not widely distributed because the tribe itself is not conquering like the English, Hausa, etc.
They do not fight to conquer territories through swords/languages/religion etc ,

they are known to have practiced the purest form of democracy known to mankind

The mantra of Igbo is mmadu ( the beauty of man)


Live and let live!

BitterTruth0001:
Hausa is the largest tribe in Africa which makes it the largest black tribe in the world

Yoruba simply begged and lied their way with gbajue and fake bishop propaganda to be accommodated so they can claim progress . It’s very important to the average Yoruba to be recognized as a Yoruba . They’re naturally very tribalistic . Everything they do, churches , mosques, politics , is all about pushing their tribe forward.

The way religion controls a Muslim is the same way tribalism controls a Yoruba man .

So so sorry for your bitter soul 😢 😞 😔

Biafra first then we move!

Igbo's are now making serious moves to promote igbo language which I admire we need push it upper and upper

All languages are taught

heniford2:
Igbo's are now making serious moves to promote igbo language which I admire we need push it upper and upper

the writer of this post is the morden pioneer of promoting the Igbo language,and the first in Africa to write physics into native Language (Igbo)

csamii:
Biafra first then we move!

Igbo first before Biafra

julaion:
the writer of this post is the morden pioneer of promoting the Igbo language,and the first in Africa to write physics into native Language (Igbo)

I no him am his friend we mate in Enugu back then so you don't need to explain him to me.. i even have his contact with me.... So relax igbo's are trying to promote igbo global...

julaion:
the writer of this post is the morden pioneer of promoting the Igbo language,and the first in Africa to write physics into native Language (Igbo)

I no him am his friend we mate in Enugu back then so you don't need to explain him to me.. i even have his contact with me....

So relax igbo's are trying to promote igbo language globally which will happen soon with is wave in time getting American to accept Igbo language is easy but we need have much people ready hungry to learn Igbo and that's what every igbo should be doing..

Biodun556:
It is not true that Igbos are not proud of their culture.

The real issue is that few students apply to study Igbo in the universities.


Another thing is that number and wide distribution is important


Hausas and Yorubas are well distributed in Africa and they have large population


Igbos are small in number and not indigenous to many countries as Hausas especially

Igbos is by no means small in number.Igbos were recorded having higher number than Yoruba before independent.

Shadomaan7:
Low key, the Igbo's have been sidelined in most things. The earlier we accept this bitter truth, the better for us.

Yes because they started the first coup and killing in Nigeria till date even to get evidence u will see that they still kill people in their region daily .
Don't forget is their people killing their people so imagine if one of Dem should bcom a president 😢

Nigeria will wreck

Me I told a little child of around 10 years old that she will go to hell fire 😂if she doesn't speak Igbo because she was proudly telling me that her parents doesn't want her to speak Igbo only English... The thing vex me ennn,so I had to use their greatest mind tool "hell fire" to make her fear small 😃😃

In Ernest do we really need anyone to authenticate our language

Igbo language wasn't taken seriously in the times past

There weren't many scholars involved in Igbo language

The only one that comes to my mind as a kid was Dr F C Ogbalu of

To me Worrying about African language is even the least of worries

What are we doing about underdevelopment, poverty and backwardness across Africa

Believing oyibo Man to vet your language then you feel you have arrived to me is inferiority complex


We have many issues bedeviling us

That should be our worries

In conclusion
Igbo parents should endeavor there children know Igbo language both writing and reading
Know the vowels, sound and right way of pronouncing it


I thank God my parents made us learn to read and write Igbo language from childhood

I was a fluent Igbo language reader as young as age 9 I was already reading Igbo Bible even in Sunday school lesson

heniford2:
Igbo's are now making serious moves to promote igbo language which I admire we need push it upper and upper

You only need to develop your language within your territory, control your own resources and by all means stop invaders: this is the whole essence of progressive living for all humans in a particular environment.

It is not in our DNA to conquer.
That's why the world can't understand democracy from the point of raw hardwork and ingenuity, therefore, practice democracy and autocracy through conquest.

It may interest you to know, world community only united with Nigeria when Biafra struck the first surface to air missile (one of the purest ingredients of democracy)

... they do not understand this aspect of self defense, but fear the Biafrans would go ahead to develop a surface to surface missile if not stopped.
The Belief in surface to surface missile can not be considered acts of self defense but an adulterated ingredient of democracy (obtainable in so called developed countries)

RevDesm0ndJuju:
What most of you are not aware of is that western liberal arts are dominated by self hating white liberals who now promote cultures and languages of exotic people across the planet towards antagonising their own White European Culture.

These Western Liberal Arts establishment seek to promote exotic cultures that can stand their ground against white imperialism.

The focus is to promote languages and cultures that have a rich history for you can't study a language without studying the culture of the people and studying culture requires a delve into the history of that people.

Yoruba and Hausa are promoted because these two languages are from two great African civilisations.

The Ibo have none and so studying it will only expose Ibo precolonial society as one lacking substance and so further the colonial mandate to "tame those savages".

Ibo language is not studied just as much as no one has any interest to study the language of the primitive pygmy people in the Congo.

The Western Liberal Arts promotion of certain African languages alongside their culture and history is not motivated by an altrustic academic quest but rather meant to further demonize European Colonial past.

So these western liberal departments seek out those African societies that had a rich history and sophisticated civilization to promote.


That's the honest truth. Promoting Ibo language will only put Ibo pre colonial society under the microscope and if this is done will only bring about ridicule to Ibos.

Story story

How does the oyibo view Africa as a whole?

Which sophisticated civilization?

Show me one black African tribe that had written language documented from past?

Absolutely non

We have Hebrews, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, japanese, Indian, Nepal, etc languages with documentation as far back as 4000 years ago

So forget all these sophisticated civilization stuff

The only people that had an edge over other tribes in Nigeria was the Fulani s because of there exposure and influence of Islam over 600 years ago

That's why they still have that advantage over other tribes in Nigeria

There where renowned Islamic scholars of repute who were Africans like world renowned ibn bhatuta

But claiming sophistication
There wasn't anything sophisticated about it

Ojiofor:
Igbos is by no means small in number.Igbos were recorded having higher number than Yoruba before independent.

This is a lie that will always sit well with propagandists.

What census figure did you use to accertain the current population of Igbos across the continents ?

helinues:
May be it's time to question the word majority tribe

Majority tribe with no global recognition

You too hate Igbo people

m4una:
You too hate Igbo people

Abeg where is the hatred in my comments?

Broveens42:
This is a lie that will always sit well with propagandists.

What census figure did you use to accertain the current population of Igbos across the continents ?

Go and check the population census before indepedence between Yoruba Igbos.

Ojiofor:
Go and check the population census before indepedence between Yoruba Igbos.

You give room for the notion that igbos are no longer higher in number.

The Igbo race had, have and will continue to have the highest number of blacks from Africa.