Ugomba:
I have noticed that people with (yoruba father and Igbo mother) are always quick to tell you that they have an Igbo mother when you ask them about their identity.
I have one of them as friend, he is working in warri.
Don't know why they behave that way!

Onijagidijagan:


Igbo are accomodating 4 where? in Lagos? u must be kidding me. for ur info,igbo people are not accommodating at all but that's not my point.

My point is that, Yorubas created Nollywood it started as a yoruba film before it splited into Nollywood English/Yoruba Nollywood cinema. Click on Wikipedia and read for yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria

Chinaimporter:

Now i see where your handsomness and classiness come from. A typical yoruba man can never be like you that is why you see the only yorubas good enough to have national appeal are those with igbo blood like you and segun arinze.
I know you hate your father for that singular drop of yoruba blood he gave you that almost totally contaminated you.
Thank God you have purified your blood by further diluting it with the blood of our brothers from akwa ibom and calabar.....the greatest and truest friends of the igbos and our eternal allies.May God give you the ability to shed all yoruboid thing from your blood

Yujin:

True. Yorubas secretly admire the Igbos and have such a high regard for them but you know they can never admit it outwardly. While I was in Ondo state, I did enter restaurants where Yoruba women used Igbo names to advertise their business. This happened in two occasions. One of the women could cook our soups so well that you will never believe she wasn't Igbo. The other one was nothing to write home about. You can see how they take pride in dating our women as though they are angels. Psychologically you can decipher that have an extra crave for our women as they placed ours above theirs. Which Igbo man will always make reference to his yoruba wife? Most times he can only be defensive. See the way they announce having Igbo inlaws. You don't need to be told whats up. I hate tribalism but I have to put things in their right perspective.

OkutaNla:


Lol. Guy, calm down. Desmond own good na. What of Ikwerre, Agbor, and other Igbo people wey dey deny una till today? Sotay them rename their cities to reflect their disgust and hatred for you Igbos, they even seized your properties and till today reject and deny any affiliation with you all. Till today you all are the lepers of Africa -- nobody wants to associate with your rejected lot. Your own brothers reject you left and right yet you still have mouth to talk shyt? Very shameless lot. Smh.

Yujin:

True. Yorubas secretly admire the Igbos and have such a high regard for them but you know they can never admit it outwardly. While I was in Ondo state, I did enter restaurants where Yoruba women used Igbo names to advertise their business. This happened in two occasions. One of the women could cook our soups so well that you will never believe she wasn't Igbo. The other one was nothing to write home about. You can see how they take pride in dating our women as though they are angels. Psychologically you can decipher that have an extra crave for our women as they placed ours above theirs. Which Igbo man will always make reference to his yoruba wife? Most times he can only be defensive. See the way they announce having Igbo inlaws. You don't need to be told whats up. I hate tribalism but I have to put things in their right perspective.

iffydave:
Story.....


Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Funke Akindele

Olu Jacob

Según Arinze


Among other, are all of the Yoruba tribe, they have all successfully worked with Igbo producers without changing their names.

[size=20pt] So what is your point Mr Sola ola [/size]

bigfrancis21:


Only the Ikwerres renamed some of their city names to their more native Ikwerre dialect rather than the use of Igbo Izugbe. They preferred to use 'rumu' which means 'children' or 'descendant' in Ikwerre Igbo dialect to 'Umu' the more general form in Igboland. Umunede in Ika Land is a name with general Igbo convention however, the natives pronounce it natively as 'nmunede' and the town name was not changed. Don't make it sound like every Igbo tribe in SS changed their town names. Only the Ikwerres did and that was only partially. Some towns in Ikwerre land still go by 'umu'.

OkutaNla:


Guy, leave story for the gods abeg. Nobody asked Sunday Oliseh whether he's Igbo before he rejected y'all. Till todays Agbors reject Igbo ancestry, not to mention the Rivers Igbos. Everyone knows who these people are (that they are Igbo) yet they deny you all in front of the world. You are the ones with the identity crises, not Yorubas.

Real identity

My mother is from Iseyin in Oyo State, while my father is from Ilorin in Kwara State. My great-great grandfather originated from Mali and I am talking about some 150 to 200 years ago. And they are Fulani and that is where we got our Fulani connection from. My great grandfather settled in Ilorin preaching the religion of Islam. A section of Ilorin came from Gwandu and they were religious, but my people came there as practising Muslims from Mali with their own Quran. In fact, the Emir and I used to joke that we had our own Quran and that nobody gave us Quran. My great-grandfather brought our own Quran to Ilorin from Mali to Agbaji where we settled. The Agbaji quarters is about 200 to 300 years old. Over the years, religious piety and devotion have led the prohibition of drumming (in whatever circumstance) in the area.

But because of our connection with the Southern people, a lot of Yoruba are always in Ilorin and so we speak the same language.

If you look at the Ilorin people, the real Ilorin people like Saraki for example, the culture and their ways share affinity with those of the far Northern Nigeria. That accounts for the difference you observe between us and, particularly, people of the South-West, despite the existence, now, of Yoruba as a common language. I leave people to say whatever they like about me. Some people even say I am from Ogun State and some even say I am from Togo but I know where I am from. Even, not long ago, I had a letter inviting me to join in the formation of a Mali-Fulani Organization and that I should be its chairman.

What about your ancestral lineage? People have accused you of bearing Alhaji Abubakar Saraki when you needed votes from the North, Chief Olusola Saraki when you needed votes from the South-West and in the South-East and South-South, you answered Dr. Sola Saraki. How do you reconcile these differences?

People are just reading political meanings to my actions. My Islamic name is Abubakar. When were growing up in Lagos in those days, unless you were a Christian or bore a native indigenous name, you couldn’t get a school. If I wanted to be admitted to a school, I had to drop Abubakar in favour of Sola as virtually all the schools belonged to Christian organizations. It is not correct that I was changing names to garner votes. Politicians invent those kinds of stories against their opponents. You, yourself, should know who you are.

silverdam:
You removed fine name like Olusola from your name because of one stupid Nollywood movies and Igbo producers. Why is he so fake like many of us? But now that you want to join Politics and need the help of the people, you quickly remember Olusola.


Why would a sane person replace Olusola with Desmond? I'm proud to have a yoruba name "Oluwatosin" I will never substitute it for anything in this world, I'm proud of my culture and where I'm coming from. Why should I be ashamed of my name because of Igbo producers? Too bad!!!

bigfrancis21:


As if we don't know that Saraki has consistently denied being Yoruba? How about the Yoruba-speaking ones in Kogi and Kwara states that deny being Yorubas?

https://www.nairaland.com/311148/saraki-fulani-mali

Yorubas are not left out. Some Yoruba-speaking groups consistently deny being Yoruba. I had a Nigerian classmate, Ayo, who graduated last spring who told me is not Yoruba but from 'one tribe like that in Ondo' state. Guy abeg relax jor.

bigfrancis21:


The article you quoted still says the same thing I have been saying. Yorubas started acting plays/films first in the whole of Nigeria while others started later but they did not create a movie industry named 'Nollywood' in the 1960s. Nollywood proper was to start out later as an Igbo movie industry in the 1980s and the movies were initially referred to as Home Videos.

By the way, you are confusing the name, 'Nollywood' with 'Nigerian movie industry'. There is a difference. Notice that the title of the article did not say 'Nollywood' but 'Cinema of Nigeria' to include all of Nigeria's movie industries. 'Nigeria', being an all-inclusive name, refers to the entity comprising of all 250+ tribes and the phrase 'Nigeria's film industry' refers to all language movie industries in Nigeria. On the other hand, Nollywood refers to the section of Nigeria's film industry that initially started out as an Igbo language industry turn English language industry. Yes, Yorubas did start Nigeria's film industry, which I have mentioned before, but Igbos created Nollywood proper. Please don't confuse the both. Asides Igbo and Yoruba movie industries, there is also the Kannywood Hausa industry that does not seem the least bothered about affiliation to Nollywood. It seems to be a stand-alone movie industry.

Or maybe you don't know that Nollywood is manned by the Actors Guild of Nigeria (made up of mostly Igbo producers and actors and actresses) and the Yoruba speaking industry is manned by the ATNP (or ANTP. Not sure which it is).

OkutaNla:


Guy, you don't have to lie to make a point. At worst Saraki acknowledged that he has Yoruba blood even if from his mother's side. Unlike your fellows in the SS who flatly deny any affiliation with your people even though they bear Igboid names. Nobody asked Sunday Oliseh before he denied being Igbo. Even if Saraki denies being Yoruba (which he didn't thanks to his admittance of his mother's Yoruba roots), the Yoruba speaking Kwara and Kogi people, as a group, have NEVER done so, unlike your kindred in the SS who hate your guts and won't spare any opportunity to deny any affiliation with you -- yeah, it's that bad for you guys. Yorubas don't have such identity crises, only you leprous lot do.

In an interview with P.M.NEWS in his palace at Ijebu Ode, the monarch, when reminded of his claim in 1983 that the Ijebus are from Waddai in Sudan, said every tribe in the country migrated from somewhere.
Says Oba Adetona: “Let me tell you, there are ways of settlements, even before Oduduwa came to Ile-Ife, Ife was already in existence. All you just have to do is go to history books, you’ll see all these things there.”
Reminded that the statement is often used against the Ijebus with people regarding them as aliens, Awujale described such act as rubbish, saying “how can they use it against the Ijebus? Who is using it against them? What about others? Are they not from other areas before they settled here?”
Oba Adetona who marked his 76 birthday on 10 May, 2010 said no Nigerian has any right to use the source of migration against another as it is evident all over the world that everybody has his or her roots.
In his royal message, the Awujale advised traditional rulers to steer clear of partisan politics as it is obvious that their subjects can never belong to the same political party and a royal father must not seen to be taking sides.
He told P.M.NEWS that his memorable encounter with the first civilian governor of Ogun State, the late Chief Olabisi Onabanjo, in 1983 occupies a chapter in his book that will be launched tomorrow at the grand finale of his coronation anniversary at the Gateway International stadium, Ijebu-Ode.
On the clash between him and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunabde Sijuade, Oba Adetona said: “Don’t forget, people try to say we have differences, no, not at all. I am the Awujale of Ijebuland, my instrument of office says so. Ooni is Ooni of Ile-Ife, the instrument of office given to him states so.
“All the claims he is making now are not correct, they are not tenable. The first time the Obas ever met in Yorubaland was in 1937. Before then, they never met, so I think the man is playing politics, trying to over price himself,” Awujale explained.
Asked if they’ve both met of recent, the paramount ruler exclaimed: “Where and for what!?”
He stressed that they were not competing for anything and he has no cause to go to Ile-Ife just as Ooni has no mission in Ijebuland.

OkutaNla:


Lol. Gerrarahere and quit deceiving yourselves abeg you rejects/lepers. If Igbos are so great, Ikwerres and Agbors won't be denying you all left and right. Instead you all are the ones always shouting "my brother, my brother", while they keep rejecting you all, sotay they seized your properties and renamed their cities to show their contempt for you. You people and your delusions. Smh.

bigfrancis21:


Ijebus Deny Being Yoruba, Claim to Be From Sudan

Onijagidijagan:


you didn't study it well. you are insane? why will you call Nollywood an igbo movie industry? it was dominated by Yoruba actors/actresses films before it was taken over by the igbos. u r indeed an illiterate and bigots 4 saying so. N ow you see how accommodating yorubas are really are? d Igbos there self are mostly igbos in yoruba land( d ones that can never join you to fight for Biafra) and can even speak yoruba fluently and reside on yoruba soil.

Nollywood truely comprises Hausa, Yoruba Igbos and other Nigerian tribes if you like it or not and Yoruba founded it like they did to the music industry. If it is Igbo movies, it will be the following:

It will be totally in Igbo language
Industry will be on Igbo territory/soil
For sale in Igboland.
it will be dominated by igbo

Don't mind d person that manned d word, it was culled frm Hollywood in America not as if ''Nollywood'' is an ''Igbo'' word is more of a Nigerian word.google.com is there for u to use and understand

Is people like u dat says Lagos, Ekiti and Akure na Igboland cuz many igbo people are there. an igbo guy still told me this on Nairaland this morning in my previous posts.

Nollywood’s bawdy humor — or fright or fantasy — appeals to a public seeking escape from depressing living conditions. The industry[sic: Nollywood] itself was born out of economic desperation during the early 1990s, a period of military dictatorship, low prices for Nigeria’s oil and Western-mandated “structural adjustment” of its economy. Actors and cameramen were out of work because of budget cuts at the national television station. Movie theaters were closed because no one wanted to venture into the dangerous streets at night. According to legend, the first Nollywood movie was made by a small-time electronics trader named Kenneth Nnebue, who, stuck with a large shipment of blank videotapes, decided to unload them by making a movie about a man who sells his soul for wealth. That movie, “Living in Bondage,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies and established Nollywood’s archetypal plot elements: martial discord, greed, a conflict between Christianity and juju, as the occult is called in West Africa. From these accidental origins, a cultural phenomenon emerged.

Other merchants, overwhelmingly members of Nnebue’s ethnic group, the Igbo, followed him into business. They literally made things up as they went, shooting movies in just a few days, based on vague scenarios instead of scripts. Directors approximated tracking shots by pushing their cameramen around in wheelchairs. Quality was shaky, but the buying public didn’t care. Between 1994 and 2005, production in Nigeria went from a handful of feature movies a year to more than 2,500.

“We watch these Africa films like ‘Blood Diamond’ and ‘The Last King of Scotland’ — they’re always from the perspective of the Europeans,” says Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, who has directed more than 160 features. He was the subject of a documentary called “Nollywood Babylon,” which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, and he told me that when he went to the festival, he was shocked to discover that some American directors had been working for years to make just one movie.

Kenneth Nnebue quit Nollywood a few years ago, retiring to his village to devote his life to preaching the Bible. But the industry he established remains tightly controlled by the same group of Igbo businessmen, an insular guild sometimes called the Alaba cartel.

bigfrancis21:


As if we don't know that Saraki has consistently denied being Yoruba? How about the Yoruba-speaking ones in Kogi and Kwara states that deny being Yorubas?

Saraki Denies Being Yoruba

https://www.nairaland.com/311148/saraki-fulani-mali

Yorubas are not left out in the identity crisis game. Several Yoruba-speaking groups have consistently denied being Yoruba. The Ijebus deny being Yorubas. Egun people in Lagos state are not Yoruba. I had a Nigerian classmate, Ayo, here in the US currently working with Cisco who graduated last spring that told me he is not Yoruba but from 'one tribe like that in Ondo' state. So guy abeg calm down jor. Some Yoruba-speaking people do not like being called Yoruba.

Yujin:

Lol. You know I said the truth. Presently two of my relatives are married to Yorubas. I've spent a lot of time with Yorubas so I know them.
The Ikwerre story is quite different. They are trying to run away from their shadows the way a fowl will keep on running when you tie a black polyethene bag to its leg. They don't travel outside Rivers state so the SE Igbos in their place who are majority from Imo state do tolerate there insolence so much that's why they insult Ndigbo. Those of them who have stayed outside the SS are more respectful of Ndigbo. During my Service days I met one and we became friends right from camp. Fortunately we were posted to the same LGA for the PPA and so worked closely. During our interactions I sacrificed a lot for him cos I wanted to show him brotherliness but when he wanted to abuse it I cautioned him fiercely and he respected himself. No matter how the Ikwerres claim not to be Igbos they are still drawn to Ndigbo when a crowd of different ethnic groups gather.
For Ndi Agbor its better. Majority of them know that they are Igbo just that they feel there's a difference between them and the SE Igbos. They are well travelled and reside where other Igbos reside. Generally most Igbos tend to prefer speaking their dialects than central Igbo and it makes the Ikas shy to speak theirs openly as its very divergent from the central Igbo. Then ignorance of many SE Igbos doesn't help matters as they tend to call those ones fake Igbos. So a sort of fence was built that makes the Ikas want to maintain their uniqueness however at present a lot of changes has happened and many SE Igbos now know that the Ikas are just as Igbo as they are. The barrier has been torn down though few people still want to tap into the previous state for personal gains eg Sunday Oliseh.
Every tribe have something nice about them so I don't do tribalism. Just stating the fact as it is.

bigfrancis21:


You lack the history. You need the history. It is so easy to claim Nollywood now because it is successful. I guess you need understanding. Let me make things clear to you.

Abiodun starts a company, ABC, in 1960 dealing in fruit production. However, his market outreach is within a particular zone.

In 1980 Emeka starts a company, DEF, dealing in fruit production as well as soft drinks within his zone. Later Emeka changes to food production proper seeing the greater demand for food nationwide and also the greater market coverage and business potential that lies in it. 20 years later, his company grows exponentially and expands into other zones and the country decides that it would be a good idea to merge ABC and DEF into one greater national comapny, ABDEF, that represents the entire country, however each company still maintains and runs its own affairs within.

This is only but an artificial narration to help you understand the history of Nigeria's movie industry today.

It is very clear in the minds of Nigerians that Nollywood is an Igbo success story. Igbos gave Nollywood the life and spirit that it has today. Yorubawood can split out of Nollywood today and Nollywood will still remain strong as if nothing left. Yorubas know that Nollywood isn't Yoruba and often use it to refer to as an Igbo movie industry.

In life, it is not about who started first. One thing is constant in life - change. People worldwide know this. It is only amongst Yorubas that I see this idea of their being first in this or that means that they must own or control that thing forever. In the business environment, competition exists. You have to find what gives you that competitive advantage over your competitors else others will take over. That is life. The Igbos being naturally competitive and business minded grew their movie industry to overtake prior movie industries in Nigeria to build the number 2 largest movie industry in the world and number 3 in terms of gross annual revenue, ahead of the Chinese, Japanese, British, Australian, New Zealand, South African movie industries in little under 30 years. This feat attributed to the hardwork and success of the Igbos who made it possible. The switch from Igbo to English helped in expanding the Igbo movie industry while still maintaining the Igbo culture and traditions in the movies. The section of Nigeria's movie industry the world outside sees is the Igbo-acting part, and not the Yoruba acting part. Unlike the Yoruba-speaking industry, the Igbo movie industry is not limited to the SE and Igbo-speaking areas of SS. It is expansive and exclusive to all of Nigeria, Africa, the Caribbean (my Haitian colleague at work tells me how she and her sister love Nollywood movies and how she has picked up words such as 'nna anyi, 'Igwe' etc. you commonly hear in Nollywood movies), Europe, Asia and America. I walk into stores right here in America and see Nollywood movies for sale alongside American movies. The level of achievement of Nollywood.

On the other hand, Yorubawood is limited to the South West with far lesser market or viewing audience compared to Nollywood proper. Left to the Yoruba-speaking industry, Nigeria's movie industry would not have been what it is today had we waited on the industry. Till today this industry still struggles to make profitable revenues and their actors and actresses are grossly underpaid compared to what those in the Nollywood industry earn. Yoruba actors and actresses in Nollywood are richer and more popular than their counterparts in the Yoruba-speaking industry. Save for a few Yoruba producers, such as Kunle Afolayan, of recent who are taking advantage of the current popularity, fame, status and worldwide audience Nollywood has created to make money, the industry is nowhere to be compared to Nollywood proper. Of recent, we are now beginning to see more Yoruba movie stars crossing over into Nollywood proper such as Funke Akindele, Eniola Badmus etc.

Let us learn to give honour to whom it is due. Nigeria can only be great if we decide to leave the unnecessary tribal gimmicks and appreciate the efforts of others.

Onijagidijagan:


It has been declared as a rumour. Yorubas founded Ijebus

Click here to know about Ijebus if u want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijebu_Kingdom

have never met an Ijebu man that says he/she is not a yoruba

macof:




Ok enough laughing.

1. Yoruba film department is exclusively yoruba, although Edo and few igbo folks who can speak yoruba participate, it's yoruba language, about Yoruba societies. Note as much people understand yoruba like english so english spoken movies sell more. .
2. Nollywood mainstream is not exclusively igbo, the language of the movies are not igbo. The participation is largely igbo yes but with indispensable Non igbo contributions, production is fast and of large quantity by Igbo producers yes. ..
3. what about quality of production? We all know that Yoruba producers like Kunle Afolayan and the Edo men Lancelot Imasuen and Charles Novia also Jeta Amata(and other filmmakers from his family) make QUALITY NOT QUANTITY and their movies gain wide publicity and popularity such that we remember the titles of the movies after watching. .. Can you or anyone mention any igho filmmaker who's movies is up to the quality of the men I mentioned above? All the movies from Igbo men that we forget their titles right after watching? Is that you are bragging about. . Movies with ridiculous titles like "royal snakes" sequel to "cobra of the palace" with Igwes that don't even portray Igbo Culture
Infact Tchidi Chikere is the only Igbo filmmaker in their league. ..but stil beneath them cus I can't remember any good movie from him right now. .I just have him in my head as a filmmaker with potential
4. Nollywood mainstream has movies that show beautiful aspects of Yoruba, Edo, Efik culture and Identity ... upon the many Igbo involvement in Nollywood not so many movies show anything significant on Igbo culture

Nollywood’s bawdy humor — or fright or fantasy — appeals to a public seeking escape from depressing living conditions. The industry[sic: Nollywood] itself was born out of economic desperation during the early 1990s, a period of military dictatorship, low prices for Nigeria’s oil and Western-mandated “structural adjustment” of its economy. Actors and cameramen were out of work because of budget cuts at the national television station. Movie theaters were closed because no one wanted to venture into the dangerous streets at night. According to legend, the first Nollywood movie was made by a small-time electronics trader named Kenneth Nnebue, who, stuck with a large shipment of blank videotapes, decided to unload them by making a movie about a man who sells his soul for wealth. That movie, “Living in Bondage,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies and established Nollywood’s archetypal plot elements: martial discord, greed, a conflict between Christianity and juju, as the occult is called in West Africa. From these accidental origins, a cultural phenomenon emerged.

Other merchants, overwhelmingly members of Nnebue’s ethnic group, the Igbo, followed him into business. They literally made things up as they went, shooting movies in just a few days, based on vague scenarios instead of scripts. Directors approximated tracking shots by pushing their cameramen around in wheelchairs. Quality was shaky, but the buying public didn’t care. Between 1994 and 2005, production in Nigeria went from a handful of feature movies a year to more than 2,500.

“We watch these Africa films like ‘Blood Diamond’ and ‘The Last King of Scotland’ — they’re always from the perspective of the Europeans,” says Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, who has directed more than 160 features. He was the subject of a documentary called “Nollywood Babylon,” which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, and he told me that when he went to the festival, he was shocked to discover that some American directors had been working for years to make just one movie.

Kenneth Nnebue quit Nollywood a few years ago, retiring to his village to devote his life to preaching the Bible. But the industry he established remains tightly controlled by the same group of Igbo businessmen, an insular guild sometimes called the Alaba cartel.

bigfrancis21:


Ijebus Deny Being Yoruba, Claim to Be From Sudan

OkutaNla:


Guy, you are a fool and you have failed woefully. Ijebus have never and will never deny being Yoruba. Even the very first Awujale (King) of Ijebuland was sent by the Alaafin of Oyo from the capital of the empire. They may not agree that all Yorubas descended from Oduduwa -- I personally don't buy that myth, but they will never claim not to be Yorubas like Ikwerres and Agbors do about their igbo roots. Even the article you cited never stated that they repudiated their Yoruba roots.

The Politics Of Saraki And The Identity Crisis Of Northern Yoruba In Nigeria

It is disturbing to note that for disclaimer over presidential slot in the north are the Yoruba ethnic groups from Kwara and Kogi States even if they can speak Hausa, the northern lingua franca. Perhaps, to avoid such embarrassment in the league of northern traditional rulers, the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari quickly deleted his lovely Yoruba middle name ‘Kolapo’ shortly after he ascended the throne. Although, this was a contradiction to his forbearers’ reverend and veneration for their Yoruba name and cognomen such as Aiyelabowo, Alabi Opo, Oroganloye, Oba digi Aye, Momolosho, etc. In the same wavelength is our brother - a press dynamo from Ilorin, Modibbo ‘Lanre’ Kawu who also made a public renunciation of his popular Yoruba middle name. However, a group called Arewa Integrity Forum under the leadership of one Abdulmuminu Adamu fired the first salvo of negative sentiments to Bukola Saraki’s presidential aspiration.

bigfrancis21:


The Oba himself, the custodian of Ijebu customs and culture denied being Yoruba. What else can I say. I accept his word for it. Ijebus are not Yorubas but Sudanese. Period.

Meanwhile, you are quoting Wikipedia for me, where just any Tom, Dick and Harry can write nonsense even without creating an account on the website. Wikipedia that is forbidden in the research world to be quoted as reference. Please come up with something better.

bigfrancis21:


Akuko chandum. I na-akolu beati na-amaro ife okwia.

Ndi mu na fa na-akoli na thread anunwa asogbue m amu.

*In my thick Anambra accent* Nna, prease lead the forrowing article again. Yorubas denying their ancestries, not one but so many of them!



http://saharareporters.com/2010/12/08/politics-saraki-and-identity-crisis-northern-yoruba-nigeria

iffydave:
Story.....


Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Funke Akindele

Olu Jacob

Según Arinze


Among other, are all of the Yoruba tribe, they have all successfully worked with Igbo producers without changing their names.

[size=20pt] So what is your point Mr Sola ola [/size]

Onijagidijagan:


i'm glad u said Oba. Is oba not a yoruba king? is ijebuland not a yorubaland? if some people are frm Sudan they will go back to Sudan. ur problem is that you dont knw d meaning of the yoruba word u r using

OkutaNla:


Guy, you will keep embarrassing yourself in your weak attempt to drag our great race into your Identity crises issues with your renegade kindred in the SS. I will keep sharp-shooting your fables, perhaps you'll be better for it as you'll learn something useful for once in your useless life. If you are learned you would KNOW that the Emir of Ilorin is Fulani (his lineage is unbroken from the first Emir, Alimi, they're all Fulanis and not Yoruba), he merely added the Yoruba "Kolapo" to his name to identify with the Yoruba Ilorins, therefore he's free to drop it if he so wishes coz he's NEVER been Yoruba to begin with. You can't deny what you're not, get it? ? Same applies to the Kawu guy. They are Fulanis in-to-to but adopted Yoruba middlenames for convenience and political expediency in a Yoruba-dominated Ilorin/Kwara. You Igbos have serious inferiority complex issues and frankly I think you're hopeless.

The Politics Of Saraki And The Identity Crisis Of Northern Yoruba In Nigeria
BY ABDUL-RAHOOF ADEBAYO BELLO

It is disturbing to note that for disclaimer over presidential slot in the north are the Yoruba ethnic groups from Kwara and Kogi States even if they can speak Hausa, the northern lingua franca. Perhaps, to avoid such embarrassment in the league of northern traditional rulers, the Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari quickly deleted his lovely Yoruba middle name ‘Kolapo’ shortly after he ascended the throne. Although, this was a contradiction to his forbearers’ reverend and veneration for their Yoruba name and cognomen such as Aiyelabowo, Alabi Opo, Oroganloye, Oba digi Aye, Momolosho, etc. In the same wavelength is our brother - a press dynamo from Ilorin, Modibbo ‘Lanre’ Kawu who also made a public renunciation of his popular Yoruba middle name. However, a group called Arewa Integrity Forum under the leadership of one Abdulmuminu Adamu fired the first salvo of negative sentiments to Bukola Saraki’s presidential aspiration.

Princess4eva:
Igbo people always insecure and paranoid over trivial things. Too conscious and over reacting, crying foul when actually there's nothing. I hate that many people always thought me to be Ibo when I am 100% Yoruba . Their reason? It's only Igbo girls who are capable of such beauty.

Whenever I tell them I am Onye Yoruba, they argue I am hiding my identity. One even advised I should get a cutlass and threaten my mum to reveal my real identity. Deep down in me, I am beginning to accept may be I look like them. Too many people who are meeting me newly almost always just conclude I am Ibo and their assumption is always based on the same reason. Yeah Igbo girls are beautiful but Yoruba girls are cuter. Some will say don't go out anyday Igbos are being killed. They would have finished you before they discover you are Yoruba. My point- I don't like igbos, too aggressive and lousy, would have preferred to look like a Hausa babe. They are too full of themselves.

I am sorry about my rants, just an outpouring of my mind.