fratermathy:
The Anioma people are a conurbation of various ethnicities in Northern Delta State who came together under the Anioma umbrella. Anioma is an acronym for Aniocha, Ndokwa, Ika, and Oshimili (ANIO). The "Ma" is used a common suffix used in all the languages. Through this process of acronymy, a word "Anioma" was derived by Dennis Osadebay of Asaba (former premier of Mid-Western State now comprising Delta and Edo States) to mean "good land"!

The various ethnic groups comprising Anioma all have Benin and Igbo heritage and their cultural hybridity makes them distinct and unique. The languages spoken in Aniomaland are Igboid save for Enuani (Asaba/Ogwashi-Uku and environs) which is considered to be a pure Igbo dialect. However, culturally, the Anioma people have a lot of similarities with the Edoid groups such as Urhobo-Isoko, Bini, Esan, etc. Some of these similarities manifest strongly in the Ukwuani and Ika ethnic groups.

I came across a writup on the naming system of the Anioma people on Facebook (Proudly Anioma group) and I decided to share it here so that everyone can be educated on Anioma onomastics. See it below:






So what do you think? Are you an Anioma person? Add more names and their roots!

Anioma kwenu!
Anioma wadoo!

Let us appreciate the Anioma culture!! Say no to tribalism!

Ngozi123:


Nwannem, those people are brainwashed; you can only present them with facts and leave the conversation. They'll eventually get their wake up call. All of the Delta Igbos I've met, both within and without my family, have been proud Igbos so all of the noisemakers don't faze me .

pazienza:
" I came across a writup on the naming system of
the Anioma people on Facebook (Proudly Anioma
group) and I decided to share it here so that
everyone can be educated on Anioma onomastics.
See it below:"

Mischievous OP can't even bring himself down to mention the fact that the thread was culled from a group called "Proudly Anioma, Proudly Igbo", notice he stopped at "Proudly Anioma", while deliberately omitting the "Proudly Igbo" part of the group. Such is the character of the OP.

You Think his omission of the Igbo there was unintentional, but those of us in this field, know better.

ehikwe22:
Do you know the meaning of brainwash? We've never seen ourselves as Igbo from the beginning of time till date. Only someone that doesn't know Anioma will attribute anything to politics and civil war. These have nothing to do with them

pazienza:
The only thing i was able to take out from this
article is just another attempt by some people to
dissociate Anioma from the larger Igbos as much
as possible.


Unfortunately, going by the OP antecedents, the above is the aim of this thread.

pazienza:
" I came across a writup on the naming system of
the Anioma people on Facebook (Proudly Anioma
group) and I decided to share it here so that
everyone can be educated on Anioma onomastics.
See it below:"

Mischievous OP can't even bring himself down to mention the fact that the thread was culled from a group called "Proudly Anioma, Proudly Igbo", notice he stopped at "Proudly Anioma", while deliberately omitting the "Proudly Igbo" part of the group. Such is the character of the OP.

You Think his omission of the Igbo there was unintentional, but those of us in this field, know better.

RedboneSmith:
Uya is something along the lines of sorrow/suffering.

Abagworo:


Uya means sickness. It's variance of Oya and Oria.

Afam4eva:
If you didn't come earlier they'll say it has Bini origins.

Abagworo:


Not all Anioma people lie to themselves.

Abagworo:


Uya means sickness. It's variance of Oya and Oria.

RedboneSmith:


No, it is not a variant of oya and oria. Maybe it is in your place, but for the wider Igbo-speaking peoples (or at least the groups that I know), the words are two different words. Uya is sorrow or suffering.

In the Southeast, people also answer Uyanwanne (Sibling's sorrow/suffering) and Onwubuya (Death is sorrowful), and they make the distinction between Uya and Oria/Oya. I never saw Orianwanne or Onwubuoria.

When I was in Nnewi, I heard people saying 'Ebezina uya' which means in their dialect 'Stop sorrowing/stop weeping'; for them 'uya' (sorrow) is different from 'oya' (sickness).

@Afam4eva, no one was going to say the word is Bini. You've been acting paranoid of late over Anioma matters; you didn't use to act like that.

RedboneSmith:

@Afam4eva, no one was going to say the word is Bini. You've been acting paranoid of late over Anioma matters; you didn't use to act like that.

Afam4eva:

Maybe if you're on the other side, you would understand. I think it has come a time when everybody has to answer their father's name. The SE should focus on SE and leave other to be whatever they want to be. It's not worth it.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


While at it, they should drop Igbo names and embrace their Bini heritage in all its entirety

Afam4eva:

Maybe if you're on the other side, you would understand. I think it has come a time when everybody has to answer their father's name. The SE should focus on SE and leave other to be whatever they want to be. It's not worth it.

unstableaswater:




The one thing many of u dont know, is that IPOB is a cultural revolution, it is not business as usual.

Many of the things that use to be cool, IPOB frown upon. Like calling ur brothers Osu, we will sentence people to death for that.

Similarly, Anioma that brought war to igboland and cause 3 million igbo death are bound by blood to be everlasting igbo.

Nzegwu Coup was termed Igbo coup. The Asaba Massacre was done becos they were identified as Igbo.

Anioma state is the next hot political agenda as the South East need a 6th state.

Fratermarthy, Urhobo will join Biafra, since u have accepted ties and relation with Igbos in Delta.

kpaminose:
Stop fooling yourself Mr IPOB. Asaba massacre didn't happen because they were Igbos, but because they were sympathetic to the Biafran cause. It's two different things. Many Aniocha Oshimili communities that were found to be one Nigerianists were not massacred. It wasn't termed an Igbo coup because of Nzeogwu. So many others of the plotters are from SE. But the real suspicion arose when nobody from the East was assassinated.

kpaminose:
Stop fooling yourself Mr IPOB. Asaba massacre didn't happen because they were Igbos, but because they were sympathetic to the Biafran cause. It's two different things. Many Aniocha Oshimili communities that were found to be one Nigerianists were not massacred.

unstableaswater:




The one thing many of u dont know, is that IPOB is a cultural revolution, it is not business as usual.

Many of the things that use to be cool, IPOB frown upon. Like calling ur brothers Osu, we will sentence people to death for that.

Similarly, Anioma that brought war to igboland and cause 3 million igbo death are bound by blood to be everlasting igbo.

Nzegwu Coup was termed Igbo coup. The Asaba Massacre was done becos they were identified as Igbo.

Anioma state is the next hot political agenda as the South East need a 6th state.

Fratermarthy, Urhobo will join Biafra, since u have accepted ties and relation with Igbos in Delta.

InyinyaAgbaOku:

That makes IPOB a useless group. Sentence people to death, as what? Who are we?

fratermathy:
^^^

blues20:

You are beginning to irritate.... with this your mischievous threads. I'm a member of that group, and I saw that topic on FB, why did you omit the Proudly Igbo part?
Are you up to something?

kpaminose:
You're not being truthful. This is not from the page you are talking about. This is from another page. So tell me what front page you saw this topic? You guys have make lying your nature

blues20:

So can you kindly post the page its coming from?

blues20:

So can you kindly post the page its coming from?