₦airaland Forum

That’s my community — Agadagba Igbedi, in Kolokuma Kingdom, Bayelsa State.

I am from the ancestral home of the Kolokuma Kingdom, which also serves as the ancestral home of all Ijaws. Our heritage runs deep, tracing back over 10,000 years to the very origins of the Ijaw people.

I come from the same clan as the Governor of Bayelsa State and the same family as the First Lady of Bayelsa State, Mrs. Gloria Diri.

My late father, who passed on September 5, was laid to rest on the same sacred land where the first Ijaw man once lived — because our family lands form part of that ancient island, the cradle of Ijaw civilization.

@Ditari of Ijaw

Toruibestate:
That’s my community — Agadagba Igbedi, in Kolokuma Kingdom, Bayelsa State.

I am from the ancestral home of the Kolokuma Kingdom, which also serves as the ancestral home of all Ijaws. Our heritage runs deep, tracing back over 10,000 years to the very origins of the Ijaw people.

I come from the same clan as the Governor of Bayelsa State and the same family as the First Lady of Bayelsa State, Mrs. Gloria Diri.

My late father, who passed on September 5, was laid to rest on the same sacred land where the first Ijaw man once lived — because our family lands form part of that ancient island, the cradle of Ijaw civilization.

@Ditari of Ijaw

Are you sure you are not just making claims based on what your people insist on? Because aside from the town/ village cited, certainly your claim of 10, 000 years ago is more than questionable.

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The question of a single "ancestral home" for all Ijaw people is complex, as their history involves deep antiquity and multiple migrations within the Niger Delta. However, historical and oral traditions point to a few significant centers:

The Central Niger Delta: The general area of the Central Niger Delta (including what is now Bayelsa State) is widely considered to be the most ancient place of Ijaw settlement and a key dispersal point. Linguistic studies and archaeology confirm a very long presence here, dating back to at least 800 BCE.

Agadagba-bou: Oral traditions often mention Agadagba-bou, an ancient city-state located in the Central Delta (specifically in the Igbedi Creek area of Wilberforce Island in present-day Bayelsa State). This is sometimes referred to as the first ancient Ijaw city-state and a major center from which the descendants of the legendary ancestor, Ijo, dispersed between about 700 AD and 1050 AD.

The Oru People: More broadly, the Oru or (H)Oru people are identified in some historical narratives as the most ancient ancestors of the Ijaw, believed to have been an aboriginal or autochthonous people of the West African region, with deeper ancestral origins possibly tracing back to the Nile Valley and Lake Chad region before they settled the Niger Delta.

While Agadagba-bou is perhaps the closest one can get to a singular early dispersal point in the Niger Delta, the ultimate ancestral origin is often discussed in terms of the older Oru people and a much earlier migration into the Delta region.

*Culled.

Scholars also say that the Ijaw people are the descendants of the ORU. The ORU migrated from the Nile River Valley and Lake Chad region in northeastern Nigeria to the delta region of the Niger River.

This is one of the reasons tribalism is meaningless. Human migration and inter-mixture is too deep.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/ijaw-history-culture-facts-oldest-tribe-nigeria.html

DeepSight:
Are you sure you are not just making claims based on what your people insist on? Because aside from the town/ village cited, certainly your claim of 10, 000 years ago is more than questionable.

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The question of a single "ancestral home" for all Ijaw people is complex, as their history involves deep antiquity and multiple migrations within the Niger Delta. However, historical and oral traditions point to a few significant centers:

The Central Niger Delta: The general area of the Central Niger Delta (including what is now Bayelsa State) is widely considered to be the most ancient place of Ijaw settlement and a key dispersal point. Linguistic studies and archaeology confirm a very long presence here, dating back to at least 800 BCE.

Agadagba-bou: Oral traditions often mention Agadagba-bou, an ancient city-state located in the Central Delta (specifically in the Igbedi Creek area of Wilberforce Island in present-day Bayelsa State). This is sometimes referred to as the first ancient Ijaw city-state and a major center from which the descendants of the legendary ancestor, Ijo, dispersed between about 700 AD and 1050 AD.

The Oru People: More broadly, the Oru or (H)Oru people are identified in some historical narratives as the most ancient ancestors of the Ijaw, believed to have been an aboriginal or autochthonous people of the West African region, with deeper ancestral origins possibly tracing back to the Nile Valley and Lake Chad region before they settled the Niger Delta.

While Agadagba-bou is perhaps the closest one can get to a singular early dispersal point in the Niger Delta, the ultimate ancestral origin is often discussed in terms of the older Oru people and a much earlier migration into the Delta region.

*Culled.

Agadagba Igbedi is the ancestral home.
The community seats on the Agadagba Bou and many clans even as far as Ondo and Akwa-Ibom trace their roots to either Agadagba or to other clans that traces to Agadagba.
It's either they left there directly or left other clans that left there directly.

DeepSight:
Are you sure you are not just making claims based on what your people insist on? Because aside from the town/ village cited, certainly your claim of 10, 000 years ago is more than questionable.

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The question of a single "ancestral home" for all Ijaw people is complex, as their history involves deep antiquity and multiple migrations within the Niger Delta. However, historical and oral traditions point to a few significant centers:

The Central Niger Delta: The general area of the Central Niger Delta (including what is now Bayelsa State) is widely considered to be the most ancient place of Ijaw settlement and a key dispersal point. Linguistic studies and archaeology confirm a very long presence here, dating back to at least 800 BCE.

Agadagba-bou: Oral traditions often mention Agadagba-bou, an ancient city-state located in the Central Delta (specifically in the Igbedi Creek area of Wilberforce Island in present-day Bayelsa State). This is sometimes referred to as the first ancient Ijaw city-state and a major center from which the descendants of the legendary ancestor, Ijo, dispersed between about 700 AD and 1050 AD.

The Oru People: More broadly, the Oru or (H)Oru people are identified in some historical narratives as the most ancient ancestors of the Ijaw, believed to have been an aboriginal or autochthonous people of the West African region, with deeper ancestral origins possibly tracing back to the Nile Valley and Lake Chad region before they settled the Niger Delta.

While Agadagba-bou is perhaps the closest one can get to a singular early dispersal point in the Niger Delta, the ultimate ancestral origin is often discussed in terms of the older Oru people and a much earlier migration into the Delta region.

*Culled.

Scholars also say that the Ijaw people are the descendants of the ORU. The ORU migrated from the Nile River Valley and Lake Chad region in northeastern Nigeria to the delta region of the Niger River.

This is one of the reasons tribalism is meaningless. Human migration and inter-mixture is too deep.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/ijaw-history-culture-facts-oldest-tribe-nigeria.html

The first Ijaw migrated from a city known as Horus in Egypt and by then the people were blacks.
Not these Europeans there today.



Horus was his tribe and he was a fisherman.
He settled at Agadagba Igbedi and formed his own tribe.

Toruibestate:
The first Ijaw migrated from a city known as Horus in Egypt and by then the people were blacks.
Not these Europeans there today.



Horus was his tribe and he was a fisherman.
He settled at Agadagba Igbedi and formed his own tribe.

One hell of a journey from Egypt down to bayelsa. Maybe there was no Sahara desert those days