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Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by wale101010: 6:10pm On May 30, 2017
Why Are Igbos Not Dociled or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/Tribes? I have followed this country in history and experience, one thing is certain with respect to unshackling Nigeria from the control of foreign forces and bondage, the Igbos resistance and stubbornness as clearly seen from history and also cited in many colonial books by whites. You cannot dictate for this people and neither can you put them in box. From 1960s to date, they are the only major ethnic group that have tried many times and continue to try to unshackle all us from this bondage we are under.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by rheether(f): 6:15pm On May 30, 2017
Because the igbo don't have a king..

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Nobody: 6:16pm On May 30, 2017
Go and read about "Igbo Landing Mass Suicide (1803) ", you will understand the true resolve of an average Igbo man. There is something in them I don't see in other blacks.

One thing I also noticed about Igbos is the importance of independence even in families. Go to any Igbo family you know even the rich families, you will notice that when their sons are above 18, they are forced to seek their own way; you either go to school, do business/learn trade, or travel out. You hardly see an Igbo man in his late 20s or 30s still living with their parents. I grew in Ogun and Lagos, I'll tell you this: most yoruba men in their 30s, even 40s still live with their parents. This is not joke!

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by raker300: 6:18pm On May 30, 2017
"Igbo enweghi eze"

Igbos have no king

It was something the British learnt the hard way

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by AshiwajuFoward: 6:19pm On May 30, 2017
OP, I am sure that in your typical deluded iPob mind you actually think your Yoruba sounding moniker is actually fooling us. Quit being a pu$$zzy and be yourself for Pete's sake. You can definitely pass the exact same message with a more fitting iPob moniker. Nobody will harm you. No need for this foolishness, really.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by olujuwonj(m): 6:23pm On May 30, 2017
but why are the Igbos the only tribe in Nigeria who praise their children when they obtain riches indecently.

they celebrate corrupt leader.... just asking ooo

let them have their Biafra if that's all they need...

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Fremancipation: 6:24pm On May 30, 2017
The core of igbo values system is fundamental human freedom.

We never had an empire or conquered our neighbors. They lived with us for thousands of years.

We practiced democracy even before the white man brought his own version.

We are republican in nature and culture and believe leadership comes from the consent of the masses.

The core of Judeo-Christian values was already embedded in our cultural practices and that's why we adopted Christianity rapidly without any need for forceful conversion.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Adiola(f): 6:26pm On May 30, 2017
olujuwonj:
but why are the Igbos the only tribe in Nigeria who praise their children when they obtain riches indecently.

they celebrate corrupt leader.... just asking ooo

let them have their Biafra if that's all they need...
like we celebrate tunubu

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by wale101010: 6:27pm On May 30, 2017
AshiwajuFoward:
OP, I am sure that in your typical deluded iPob mind you actually think your Yoruba sounding moniker is actually fooling us. Quit being a pu$$zzy and be yourself for Pete's sake. You can definitely pass the exact same message with a more fitting iPob moniker. Nobody will harm you. No need for this foolishness, really.

Stop this tribalism nonsense. I have tried to remain non tribal in my posts. I'm giving credit to whom it's due. Tell me one successful movement by Hausas/Fulani or Yorubas to unshackle all of us from this created country? None but all you see is by Igbos. Tell me one by Yorubas and I'll write on it because I couldn't find one.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by olujuwonj(m): 6:32pm On May 30, 2017
a society with no leader! igbos have no king!..

their government would look like what...?
no leader or what?... then what do they call obi? or eze or lorlo...
teach me oo... i wanaa learn

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Litmus: 6:35pm On May 30, 2017
Obstinacy and belligerency are sadly not solely an Igbo traite - that's if this is what op means. The rest of Africa possess these traits in spades,which is why Africa is backward. See the people of South Sudan, Central Africa ,Somalia and so on. Compare the progress made by the docile people of the world to the obstinate ones. The most belligerent nation of the carebean is Haiti. Compare Haiti to the rest of the Carebean. Compare the comparative docile people of Asia to combative Africans.

For Africa to progress, Africans simply need peaceful environment in which to work. They need to buckle down and work for all, especially the future of thire children. They need long term planning not short term ones.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by AshiwajuFoward: 6:36pm On May 30, 2017
wale101010:


Stop this tribalism nonsense. I have tried to remain non tribal in my posts. I'm giving credit to whom it's due. Tell me one successful movement by Hausas/Fulani or Yorubas to unshackle all of us from this created country? None but all you see is by Igbos. Tell me one by Yorubas and I'll write on it because I couldn't find one.

Yinmu. You Igbos are the stupidest lots in the history of stupid people that ever liveth. You still don't get it that you've been busted for the impostor that you are, huh? Smh.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by feelgoodInc: 6:37pm On May 30, 2017
rheether:
Because the igbo don't have a king..
Yes Every igbo man is a king, that's why we don't bow or lie down to greet any one. it's all man for himself, Survival of the fittest, very hard before you see an igbo man beg for food with plates this days.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by vantage001: 6:39pm On May 30, 2017
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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Nobody: 6:42pm On May 30, 2017
Adiola:
like we celebrate tunubu

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Nobody: 6:47pm On May 30, 2017
wale101010:
Why Are Igbos Not Dociled or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/Tribes? I have followed this country in history and experience, one thing is certain with respect to unshackling Nigeria from the control of foreign forces and bondage, the Igbos resistance and stubbornness as clearly seen from history and also cited in many colonial books by whites. You cannot dictate for this people and neither can you put them in box. From 1960s to date, they are the only major ethnic group that have tried many times and continue to try to unshackle all us from this bondage we are under.
Right from when colonials made contact with ibos, they never like us cause of our ability to mount a strong opposition against oppression. Even if we have to die to get back at you we will. Checkout Igbo landing, celebrated till this day.

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/igbo-landing-mass-suicide-1803

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by DerideGull(m): 6:51pm On May 30, 2017
olujuwonj:
but why are the Igbos the only tribe in Nigeria who praise their children when they obtain riches indecently.

they celebrate corrupt leader.... just asking ooo

let them have their Biafra if that's all they need...

Ndigbo do not have Asiwaju or other silly craps found in Yoruba land. Yoruba chap will steal from Apapa Wharf and one foolish juju musician will call him any fashionable name in Yoruba lexicon.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Diademk07: 10:57pm On May 30, 2017
AshiwajuFoward:


Yinmu. You Igbos are the stupidest lots in the history of stupid people that ever liveth. You still don't get it that you've been busted for the impostor that you are, huh? Smh.

You dey mind that dead brain skull..

He doesn't even know the act of being subtle to avoid being busted. Very stupid eediot.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by igwebuike01: 11:33pm On May 30, 2017
AshiwajuFoward:
OP, I am sure that in your typical deluded iPob mind you actually think your Yoruba sounding moniker is actually fooling us. Quit being a pu$$zzy and be yourself for Pete's sake. You can definitely pass the exact same message with a more fitting iPob moniker. Nobody will harm you. No need for this foolishness, really.
is the moniker important? please lets discuss his message, its more important

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by igwebuike01: 11:39pm On May 30, 2017
Litmus:
Obstinacy and belligerency are sadly not solely an Igbo traite - that's if this is what op means. The rest of Africa possess these traits in spades,which is why Africa is backward. See the people of South Sudan, Central Africa ,Somalia and so on. Compare the progress made by the docile people of the world to the obstinate ones. The most belligerent nation of the carebean is Haiti. Compare Haiti to the rest of the Carebean. Compare the comparative docile people of Asia to combative Africans.

For Africa to progress, Africans simply need peaceful environment in which to work. They need to buckle down and work for all, especially the future of thire children. They need long term planning not short term ones.
how about RUssia and Isreal??
Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Ballmer: 1:26am On May 31, 2017
Why are ipob so daft for God sake ? The Igbo as an ethnicity as never stood up for anything except for their selfish interest or the interest of some group of Igbo nitwits. Because some miscreants believe they can disturb the polity just like Ojukwu did which eventually got his fingers burnt before he surrendered does not translate to what you are insinuating.

Igbo are the most subdued, traumatized, disrespected abused, rubbished among the ethnic group in Nigeria. The average Igbo in Nigeria understand this and continuously plead for freedom which every other Nigerian as refused to grant to the Igbo having inherited these bulk of OSU slaves from the British.

I am mystified as to why the same Igbo that identify himself boldly as a second class citizen "slave" with no right can suddenly turn history on it's head and claim it is the not docile or easily controlled tribe. Right from memorial the entire Igbo race as been docile, dominated and turned into savages in their own land. They dare not aspire for the highest position in the land. They dare not ask for the rail that past through Aboki land talk less of the land of the Ipob gods the SW.

I weep for the race with no balls. Another Igbo charade just ended without eliciting a message from any official of the federal republic and yet a miscreant wake up to claim that his people are not easily controlled or docile. The same tribe that it's right and birthright as been denied to it since inception of this country since 1960.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by hornyofife: 1:41am On May 31, 2017
Read what the missionaries who about the igbo in 1865

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by hornyofife: 1:43am On May 31, 2017
another

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by hornyofife: 1:46am On May 31, 2017
nigerdeltaaa:
Nat Turner: Igbo-American Warrior and Freedom Fighter

"In August 21, 1831, Nat Turner led a revolt in Virginia that killed approximately 60 whites. In accordance with his Igbo (Egbo) origins, Turner bestowed upon himself the honors of Odogo (Odogwu) a ceremonial ritual in which an Igbo warrior places feathers in his cap to signify the killing of a person of rank in war. After killing Hark Travis, the head of the Travis farm, Turner placed feathers in his cap and a red sash around his waist."

REFERENCE:
Nat Turner & B.L.A (Historic Marker, igbo Odogwu Ritual, Libation, Resistance) - Haki Kweli Shakur

POETRY :
"In scary night I wandered, praying,
Lord God my harshener,
speak to me now or let me die;
speak, Lord, to this mourner.

And came at length to livid trees
where Ibo warriors
hung shadowless, turning in wind
that moaned like Africa,"
FROM:
"The Ballad of Nathan Turner" by Robert Hayden
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MOVIE:
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
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IGBO WARRIORS OF OLD:
"One distinguishing rank among the Egboes is the Odogo, or captain of war, of which there are several grades; the title is distinguished by the individual carrying on his cap a long feather, which signifies that the wearer has killed in war a person of rank. These feathers are either white or red. The highest rank of captain, equal to a general, wears six, and the field-marshal is entitled to display seven. To perpetuate their valour in war, not having any written chronicle to leave their name to posterity, they plant a young bombax whenever they kill an enemy of consequence."

REFERENCE:
West African Countries and Peoples,by James Africanus Beale Horton, Page 179, Published 1868
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"Warriors of renown are respected and honoured, and happy is the man entitled to don the eagle's plumes and the red tail-feathers of the parrot, in token of his prowess in battle. In life he enjoys special privileges, and in death is granted the dignity of a warrior's funeral."

REFERENCE:
Amongst the Ibos of the Niger by GT Basden, page 205, Published 1921

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by MetaPhysical: 1:57am On May 31, 2017
wale101010:
Why Are Igbos Not Dociled or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/Tribes? I have followed this country in history and experience, one thing is certain with respect to unshackling Nigeria from the control of foreign forces and bondage, the Igbos resistance and stubbornness as clearly seen from history and also cited in many colonial books by whites. You cannot dictate for this people and neither can you put them in box. From 1960s to date, they are the only major ethnic group that have tried many times and continue to try to unshackle all us from this bondage we are under.

..but Nnamdi Kanu is in docile mode. He doesn't have to respect any of the conditions given him by the court. He can flaunt all of them, but why is he not? Is he not Igbo? The zoo is dictating to him how to conduct himself and he has not crossed the line drawn for him. Has he stopped being Igbo? grin

OP, please find another reason to explain why Igbo is the way you say they are.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by fSociety: 4:06am On May 31, 2017
AshiwajuFoward:
OP, I am sure that in your typical deluded iPob mind you actually think your Yoruba sounding moniker is actually fooling us. Quit being a pu$$zzy and be yourself for Pete's sake. You can definitely pass the exact same message with a more fitting iPob moniker. Nobody will harm you. No need for this foolishness, really.

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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by Nobody: 4:10am On May 31, 2017
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Re: Why Are Igbos Not Dociled Or Easily Controlled Like Other Ethnic Groups/tribes? by cupidFlint(m): 6:55am On May 31, 2017
rheether:
Because the igbo don't have a king..
Igbo amaghi Eze. Igbos are egalitarian in nature.

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