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Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by SPOPOVICH: 4:11am On Jan 01, 2018
Igbo people and other eastern tribes look more like people from Central Africa than they do Yoruba or Hausa.

Are Igbo people Bantus from Congo?

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by SPOPOVICH: 4:36am On Jan 01, 2018
West Africa starts at the river Niger. East of the river is Central Africa.
Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by Nobody: 4:45am On Jan 01, 2018
they're from israel, they're jews, remember?

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 5:16am On Jan 01, 2018
SPOPOVICH:
Igbo people and other eastern tribes look more like people from Central Africa than they do Yoruba or Hausa.

Are Igbo people Bantus from Congo?


SPOPOVICH:
West Africa starts at the river Niger. East of the river is Central Africa.

There is no doubt about this.

Some not-so-smart people believe that because Igbo language is classified linguistically as a KWA, which Yoruba is, Edo is, Idoma, and as well Igala, therefore all these members were one people with Igbo in a distant part.

These fanciful scholars failed to take empirical model from the Fulani, a distant ethnicity with its origin on the extreme end of West Africa and with a totally distinct language which now speaks Hausa.

Igbo assimilated into the KWA language, it has forgotten its tongue left behind in Congo, which is not in any way related or close to KWA.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 7:14am On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:





There is no doubt about this.

Some not-so-smart people believe that because Igbo language is classified linguistically as a KWA, which Yoruba is, Edo is, Idoma, and as well Igala, therefore all these members were one people with Igbo in a distant part.

These fanciful scholars failed to take empirical model from the Fulani, a distant ethnicity with its origin on the extreme end of West Africa and with a totally distinct language which now speaks Hausa.

Igbo assimilated into the KWA language, it has forgotten its tongue left behind in Congo, which is not in any way related or close to KWA.

So, any genetic evidence of this Congo origins, or should we take conjectures such as this one as solid evidence?

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by SPOPOVICH: 8:08am On Jan 01, 2018
RedboneSmith:


So, any genetic evidence of this Congo origins, or should we take conjectures such as this one as solid evidence?

No need for any genetic test, go to central africa and see the physical resemblance.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 8:12am On Jan 01, 2018
SPOPOVICH:


No need for any genetic test, go to central africa and see the physical resemblance.

Are you trying to be funny? Phenotypic evidence alone (if it even really exists for the groups in question) is far from conclusive.

People used to think Khoisan peoples got their eyes from Mongoloid immigrants from Asia. We now have genetic evidence that that is incorrect.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by Nobody: 8:54am On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:





There is no doubt about this.

Some not-so-smart people believe that because Igbo language is classified linguistically as a KWA, which Yoruba is, Edo is, Idoma, and as well Igala, therefore all these members were one people with Igbo in a distant part.

These fanciful scholars failed to take empirical model from the Fulani, a distant ethnicity with its origin on the extreme end of West Africa and with a totally distinct language which now speaks Hausa.

Igbo assimilated into the KWA language, it has forgotten its tongue left behind in Congo, which is not in any way related or close to KWA.

The only country where fulanis speak Hausa is northwestern Nigeria and Southern Niger. Fulanis speak fulfulde, not hausa. Whatever point youre trying to make this is a horrible example.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 2:54pm On Jan 01, 2018
RedboneSmith:


So, any genetic evidence of this Congo origins, or should we take conjectures such as this one as solid evidence?

We have to start somewhere...conjecture isn't a totally wrong approach if it acts as a gateway into treasures of anthropological realities that bind Igbo and Bantu in a far more kinship than could be found anywhere else beyond the Congo basin.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 3:15pm On Jan 01, 2018
AlderFadington:


The only country where fulanis speak Hausa is northwestern Nigeria and Southern Niger. Fulanis speak fulfulde, not hausa. Whatever point youre trying to make this is a horrible example.

I think the point I made went above your comprehension.

You have a stream of people generally called Fulani but with variants like tukulor, pulo, fulde, wodabe and so on. The sub that is in Nigeria has left behind its language which is still spoken at source but now speaks Hausa the indigeneous tongue of a different group it met here.

Similarly, there is a people stream known as Bantu, with variants like congo, pygymy, igbo. Those Bantus in Nigeria left their language of origin behind and speak indigeneous tongues they met here.

To some extent this explains why some communities in SE say because they speak Igbo does not make them same people anthropologically with the mainstream that is ambitious to claim and collapse them under its cultural umbrella. They remain independent because they are the indigenous and authentic Igbo speaker, the mainstream is the Bantu element that settled within and assimilated to the local language.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 3:34pm On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:


We have to start somewhere...conjecture isn't a totally wrong approach if it acts as a gateway into treasures of anthropological realities that bind Igbo and Bantu in a far more kinship than could be found anywhere else beyond the Congo basin.

Conjecture that is unbacked by empirical evidence is useless as far as scholarship is concerned. It is quite that simple.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 3:37pm On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:


I think the point I made went above your comprehension.

You have a stream of people generally called Fulani but with variants like tukulor, pulo, fulde, wodabe and so on. The sub that is in Nigeria has left behind its language which is still spoken at source but now speaks Hausa the indigeneous tongue of a different group it met here.

Similarly, there is a people stream known as Bantu, with variants like congo, pygymy, igbo. Those Bantus in Nigeria left their language of origin behind and speak indigeneous tongues they met here.

To some extent this explains why some communities in SE say because they speak Igbo does not make them same people anthropologically with the mainstream that is ambitious to claim and collapse them under its cultural umbrella. They remain independent because they are the indigenous and authentic Igbo speaker, the mainstream is the Bantu element that settled within and assimilated to the local language.

Aha! Just what I suspected. Like everybody I have encountered who is pushing this Igbos-are-from-Congo story, you have a mischievous motive for doing so. You were not even subtle in the highlighted paragraph. grin

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 4:03pm On Jan 01, 2018
RedboneSmith:


Conjecture that is unbacked by empirical evidence is useless as far as scholarship is concerned. It is quite that simple.

Scholarship does not stand alone, it subsists on many inputs such as inferences, deductions, theories, tests, observations, conclusions....all forming a building block to arrive at a fact.

If you are not aware of this process then you are a fanciful scholar that brandish and intimidate with credential with nothing else in the field to show accomplishment.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 4:04pm On Jan 01, 2018
RedboneSmith:


Aha! Just what I suspected. Like everybody I have encountered who is pushing this Igbos-are-from-Congo story, you have a mischievous motive for doing so. You were not even subtle in the highlighted paragraph. grin

Do you not have a counter material you can submit?
Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by scholes0(m): 5:52pm On Jan 01, 2018
I believe they are intrinsically west african.

What kind of silly question is this sef, lol
The Cameroon Highlands is the physical and ethnological boundary between west and Central Africa. grin

Infact within Cameroon, the Cameroonian groups west of this mountain range consider themselves West african than central African.
Then there is Northern caneroon of three entire provinces that have everything to do with West Africa and nothing to do with some distant bantus in Congo forest cheesy

And Finally, aren’t the bantus THEMSELVES hypothesized to have come from somewhere around the cross river forests / Mambilla highlands region of WEST AFRICA?

All bantus are sinply a subset of the diversity of West Africa - they are just children, grand children and great grandchildren of a subset of some West africans who spread out to conquer the rest of the continent. The parents of their bantu languages can be found here in Nigeria. cheesy


This Racist OP should find a way to move back to Zimbabwe, Uncle Bob is no longer in power.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 6:03pm On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:


Do you not have a counter material you can submit?

Yes. Genetic studies have shown that the Igbo cluster more with other West Africans with whom they share linguistic ties, than with Central Africans.

They also show some genetic relations with the peoples of the Cross River language-group. This is because as they expanded from the Niger-Benue homeland of the proto-Kwa speaking stock, they most probably met and mingled with Cross River-speaking peoples. (The Cross River speakers are not Bantu, but they belong to the same Benue-Congo family as the Bantu.)

The cultural and linguistic differences between the Igbo and other Kwa-speakers are largely due to this mingling with Cross River peoples.

This your claim of distant Congo roots is extraordinary and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, of which you have nothing.

And for the last time, inferences, deductions, theories, hypotheses, etc are based on EVIDENCE, not conjectures pulled randomly out of a hat. Further evidence strengthens or disproves a hypothesis/theory, but there must be some evidence to begin with...unless you are just a village witch-doctor trying to solve a case of cholera outbreak by blaming some old woman with no evidence to back it up.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 6:06pm On Jan 01, 2018
scholes0:
I believe they are intrinsically west african.

What kind of silly question is this sef, lol
The Cameroon Highlands is the physical and ethnological boundary between west and Central Africa. grin


This Racist OP should find a way to move back to Zimbabwe, Uncle Bob is no longer in power.


grin grin
Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 6:17pm On Jan 01, 2018
RedboneSmith:


Yes. Genetic studies have shown that the Igbo cluster more with other West Africans with whom they share linguistic ties, than with Central Africans.

They also show some genetic relations with the peoples of the Cross River language-group. This is because as they expanded from the Niger-Benue homeland of the proto-Kwa speaking stock, they most probably met and mingled with Cross River-speaking peoples. (The Cross River speakers are not Bantu, but they belong to the same Benue-Congo family as the Bantu.)

The cultural and linguistic differences between the Igbo and other Kwa-speakers are largely due to this mingling with Cross River peoples.

This claim of distant Congo roots is extraordinary and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, of which you have nothing.

And for the last time, inferences, deductions, theories, hypotheses, etc are based on EVIDENCE, not conjectures pulled randomly out of a hat. Further evidence strengthens or disproves a hypothesis/theory, but there must be some evidence to begin...unless you are just a village witch-doctor trying to solve a case of cholera outbreak by blaming some old woman with no evidence to back it up.


Let me start from bottom up....you are fake scientist or pseudo-scientist, whichever you claim to be.

When Ebola broke out as epidemic, didn't scientists first reacted by blaming it on man-ape contact? Later to be proven with precision and immunization. If Africans made such wild claims its called witchcraft but because the "conjecture" came from whites scholars adopted it as base for progressive tests.

This is the way of the world, there is nothing wrong in listening to a witch's incantation....it is potent and might contain keys to provide breakthrough to hidden mysteries.


There is no ethnic called Cross River people. Are you talking Efik, Ibibio, Afang....they are all Bantu stock with Igbo.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by Nobody: 6:21pm On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:


I think the point I made went above your comprehension.

You have a stream of people generally called Fulani but with variants like tukulor, pulo, fulde, wodabe and so on. The sub that is in Nigeria has left behind its language which is still spoken at source but now speaks Hausa the indigeneous tongue of a different group it met here.

Similarly, there is a people stream known as Bantu, with variants like congo, pygymy, igbo. Those Bantus in Nigeria left their language of origin behind and speak indigeneous tongues they met here.

To some extent this explains why some communities in SE say because they speak Igbo does not make them same people anthropologically with the mainstream that is ambitious to claim and collapse them under its cultural umbrella. They remain independent because they are the indigenous and authentic Igbo speaker, the mainstream is the Bantu element that settled within and assimilated to the local language.

What you wrote is the largest pile of rubbish I've seen in a while.

First of all, the original language of fulanis "fulfulde" is known and the vast majority of them who identify as fulani or a subvariation still speak their language.

Are there any other people who identify as igbos but speak any other language that is indubitably their original language as it is with the fulani?

Secondly, if the igbo language isn't their language then whose is it? We know the fulani started speaking Hausa due to their proximity with the hausa. Did the igbo just come and start speaking an indigenous language with no origin? Where did they get igbo from?

The history of fulanis is known, so is their native tongue and how a minority of them came to speak hausa as a primary and in some cases secondary language.

I repeat that whole comparison is extremely lacking in sense and cohesiveness.

And the truth is, multiple genetic studies have proven the ethnic similarities between igbos and Yorubas. Then there is the linguistic similarity, it's too uncanny not to be true. Maybe your hatred or subjectivity or simply the need to dissociate yourselves from them leads you to make stupid claims like you're doing but that's just the fact.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 6:26pm On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:


Let me start from bottom up....you are fake scientist or pseudo-scientist, whichever you claim to be.

When Ebola broke out as epidemic, didn't scientists first reacted by blaming it on man-ape contact? Later to be proven with precision and immunization. If Africans made such wild claims its called witchcraft but it came from whites so scholars adopted it.

This is the way of the world, there is nothing wrong in listening to a witch's incantation....it is potent and might contain keys to provide breakthrough to hidden mysteries.


There is no ethnic called Cross River people. Are you talking Efik, Ibibio, Afang....they are all Bantu stock with Igbo.

1. I never said Cross River Peoples were one ethnic group. They are a Benue-Congo linguistic family of two subfamilies, Upper Cross and Lower Cross; and they cover a range of ethnic groups from the middle belt (eg, Jukun) through Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State to Rivers State (e.g., Ogoni, which is a Lower Cross group.)

2. Ibibio and Efik are not Bantu. The Igbo even less so. The closest we have to Bantu in Nigeria are the Tiv, the Ejagham and the non-Efik elements in Calabar, such as the Efut. These groups are 'Bantoid', and migrated from the 'east', i.e., Cameroon/Central Africa.

3. You clearly do not know diddly squat about African genetics and linguistics and you are clearly just here to waste people's time with nonsense.

Not me. Not today.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by Nobody: 6:32pm On Jan 01, 2018
RedboneSmith:


1. I never said Cross River Peoples were one ethnic group. They are a Benue-Congo linguistic family of two subfamilies, Upper Cross and Lower Cross; and they cover a range of ethnic groups from the middle belt (eg, Jukun) through Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State to Rivers State (e.g., Ogoni, which is a Lower Cross group.)

2. Ibibio and Efik are not Bantu. The Igbo even less so. The closest we have to Bantu in Nigeria are the Tiv, the Ejagham and the non-Efik elements in Calabar, such as the Efut. These groups are 'Bantoid', and migrated from the 'east', i.e., Cameroon/Central Africa.

3. You clearly do not know diddly squat about African genetics and linguistics and you are clearly just here to waste people's time with nonsense.

Not me. Not today.

Lol. He's a charlatan and hes clearly fuelled by some vendetta against the igbos and his moniker gives him up. I'm not even igbo but I can see that clearly, some of his claims are very comical to say the least.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 6:43pm On Jan 01, 2018
AlderFadington:


Lol. He's a charlatan and his clearly fuelled by some vendetta against the igbos and his moniker gives him up. I'm not even igbo but I can see that clearly, some of his claims are very comical to say the least.

grin grin

I am still confused about the Congo story though. I have heard it a couple of times before. And it is always from people trying to ridicule Igbos. Last week on Facebook, a Yoruba guy was mocking me with it. First, I really don't even know why Congo ancestry would be deemed an insult, if indeed it was true.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 6:50pm On Jan 01, 2018
AlderFadington:


What you wrote is the largest pile of rubbish I've seen in a while.

First of all, the original language of fulanis "fulfulde" is known and the vast majority of them who identify as fulani or a subvariation still speak their language.

Are there any other people who identify as igbos but speak any other language that is indubitably their original language as it is with the fulani?

Secondly, if the igbo language isn't their language then whose is it? We know the fulani started speaking Hausa due to their proximity with the hausa. Did the igbo just come and started speaking an indigenous language with no origin? Where did they get igbo from?

The history of fulanis is known, so is their native tongue and how a minority of them came to speak hausa as a primary and in some cases secondary language.

I repeat that whole comparison is extremely lacking in sense and cohesiveness.

And the truth is, multiple genetic studies have proven the ethnic similarities between igbos and Yorubas. Then there is the linguistic similarity, it's too uncanny not to be true. Maybe your hatred or subjectivity or simply the need to dissociate yourselves from them leads you to make stupid claims like you're doing but that's just the fact.

Dude,
This topic is really not about Fulani but the mention was initiated by me and only to cite as a model but looks like you are stuck in and trying to derail.

I stop responding on anything fulani on this topic. There is a separate topic on fulani that im contributing to if you want to join that id appreciate it.

Thanks sir.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by Nobody: 6:59pm On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:


Dude,
This topic is really not about Fulani but the mention was initiated by me and only to cite as a model but looks like you are stuck in and trying to derail.

I stop responding on anything fulani on this topic. There is a separate topic on fulani that im contributing to if you want to join that id appreciate it.

Thanks sir.

And my point is that your model was wrong. I'm glad you agree.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 7:07pm On Jan 01, 2018
RedboneSmith:


1. I never said Cross River Peoples were one ethnic group. They are a Benue-Congo linguistic family of two subfamilies, Upper Cross and Lower Cross; and they cover a range of ethnic groups from the middle belt (eg, Jukun) through Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State to Rivers State (e.g., Ogoni, which is a Lower Cross group.)

2. Ibibio and Efik are not Bantu. The Igbo even less so. The closest we have to Bantu in Nigeria are the Tiv, the Ejagham and the non-Efik elements in Calabar, such as the Efut. These groups are 'Bantoid', and migrated from the 'east', i.e., Cameroon/Central Africa.

3. You clearly do not know diddly squat about African genetics and linguistics and you are clearly just here to waste people's time with nonsense.

Not me. Not today.

Indigeneous Igbo exist. They have been silenced by a more noisy and chattery Igbo, I will call it mainstream Igbo for purpose of clarity.

Mainstream Igbo is a settler with origins in Congo and whose original tongue is not Igbo language but Bantoid.

The Bantoid Igbo (the mainstream) migrated to the Udi Hills and later assimilated linguistically. No trace of Bantu left in their dialect but it is evident genetically in their physical features and social evolution.

In all of the ethno types in Nigeria Igbo mainstream has a physique and feature that is an outlier from the pack.

In all the KWA groups, Igbo mainstream does not have similarity with any other in looks or evolution.

This is because its roots is in Bantu, a people historically known for migrating and settling other places. They are physically stocky, muscular and move with quickness.

If there is a Igbo in KWA group it will be the indigenous Igbo that has so far been silenced into the background, they are far less in number and may face extinction.

Look at how mainstream Igbo has continued in its evolution of migration and settlement even till today.

Do you get it now?

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 7:33pm On Jan 01, 2018
ImperialYoruba:


Indigeneous Igbo exist. They have been silenced by a more noisy and chattery Igbo, I will call it mainstream Igbo for purpose of clarity.

Mainstream Igbo is a settler with origins in Congo and whose original tongue is not Igbo language but Bantoid.

The Bantoid Igbo (the mainstream) migrated to the Udi Hills and later assimilated linguistically. No trace of Bantu left in their dialect but it is evident genetically in their physical features and social evolution.

In all of the ethno types in Nigeria Igbo mainstream has a physique and feature that is an outlier from the pack.

In all the KWA groups, Igbo mainstream does not have similarity with any other in looks or evolution.

This is because its roots is in Bantu, a people historically known for migrating and settling other places. They are physically stocky, muscular and move with quickness.

If there is a Igbo in KWA group it will be the indigenous Igbo that has so far been silenced into the background, they are far less in number and may face extinction.

Look at how mainstream Igbo has continued in its evolution of migration and settlement even till today.

Do you get it now?

What am I supposed to get? The fact that you don't know "evident genetically in their physical features" is ridiculous contradictory nonsense?

Please go and play with someone else.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 1:43am On Jan 02, 2018
RedboneSmith:


What am I supposed to get? The fact that you don't know "evident genetically in their physical features" is ridiculous contradictory nonsense?

Please go and play with someone else.

Now shifting to semantics after you could no longer hold an argument to displace what you called "conjecture".

Anyway, Ive been warned never to accept anything Ibo say on its face value. Im taught to fact check behind claims tendered by an Ibo.

So I did...here is result

Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by omaar12(m): 8:21am On Jan 02, 2018
Imperialyoruba Shut Your Mouth And Stop Concorting Those Incantation U Call Words Out Of It, You Are Not Igbo U Can Tell Me My Origin, What Do You Mean Real Igbo, Can't Two Different People Have Similar Feature, Let Me Just Assume What Yo Saying Is Right. And That Ur Fictive Real Igbo Is Going Into Extinction, Then The Language Of The Real Igbo's As U Said Shouldnt Has Stood The Test Of Time As Ur Submission Puts Them In The Minority, It Takes A Minimum Of 200years For An Indigenious Tongue To Be Assimilated And Go Into Extinction, Now 200years Is Long Enough Time For The Bantus To Have Come Into The Igbo Terrain In Mass And Still Maintain Their Bantu Language. So U See Ur Opinion Doesnt Hold Water. Bantu Stock Originated From Benue Akwa Cross And Migrated To Un Occupied Lands In Cameroon And Congo. That My Own Assertion.

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by Olu317(m): 11:58am On Jan 02, 2018
AlderFadington:


What you wrote is the largest pile of rubbish I've seen in a while.

First of all, the original language of fulanis "fulfulde" is known and the vast majority of them who identify as fulani or a subvariation still speak their language.

Are there any other people who identify as igbos but speak any other language that is indubitably their original language as it is with the fulani?

Secondly, if the igbo language isn't their language then whose is it? We know the fulani started speaking Hausa due to their proximity with the hausa. Did the igbo just come and started speaking an indigenous language with no origin? Where did they get igbo from?

The history of fulanis is known, so is their native tongue and how a minority of them came to speak hausa as a primary and in some cases secondary language.

I repeat that whole comparison is extremely lacking in sense and cohesiveness.

And the truth is, multiple genetic studies have proven the ethnic similarities between igbos and Yorubas. Then there is the linguistic similarity, it's too uncanny not to be true. Maybe your hatred or subjectivity or simply the need to dissociate yourselves from them leads you to make stupid claims like you're doing but that's just the fact.
Yoruba have no genetic connection as such with Ibos. In fact, the DNA carried on Yoruba and blood related group didn't identify IBO's with Yoruba. The only connections that was found staggering was that Ibo language was classified as the mother of all languages, because it was termed as the oldest language in Africa and the rest of the world. Research has been done on it and more still being carried out. On the Bantu issue isn't as badly as been postulated because Yoruba too have less than 1% blood trait with these group, especially the Bantu of Kenya. The point here is that Ibo-Bantu connection has been postulated and research wouldn't stop until more evidence are given. Language wane once a small group move out from the original source, especially if such language fuse with a new one,which directly become interwoven and becomes related in a new environment.
DNA link group within West Africa to Yoruba

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by RedboneSmith(m): 2:05pm On Jan 02, 2018
Olu317:
Yoruba have no genetic connection as such with Ibos. In fact, the DNA carried on Yoruba and blood related group didn't identify IBO's with Yoruba. The only connections that was found staggering was that Ibo language was classified as the mother of all languages, because it was termed as the oldest language in Africa and the rest of the world. Research has been done on it and more still being carried out. On the Bantu issue isn't as badly as been postulated because Yoruba too have less than 1% blood trait with these group, especially the Bantu of Kenya. The point here is that Ibo-Bantu connection has been postulated and research wouldn't stop until more evidence are given. Language wane once a small group move out from the original source, especially if such language fuse with a new one,which directly become interwoven and becomes related in a new environment.
DNA link group within West Africa to Yoruba

Oh my God, do you even understand that what you posted is an ancestry test result of one person, and not a chart of the genetic closeness (or distance) between the ethnicities listed? grin

'Ibo-Bantu connection has been postulated'. Postulated by who? Non-scholarly online mischief makers don't count. Give the name of one social scientist or geneticist who has made a postulation like that.

BTW, Igbo being the oldest language, blah blah is yet more pure hogwash. Where do you people pick up these things from - Catherine Acholonu's pseudohistorical mumbo jumbo?

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by ImperialYoruba: 2:29pm On Jan 02, 2018
omaar12:
Imperialyoruba Shut Your Mouth And Stop Concorting Those Incantation U Call Words Out Of It, You Are Not Igbo U Can Tell Me My Origin, What Do You Mean Real Igbo, Can't Two Different People Have Similar Feature, Let Me Just Assume What Yo Saying Is Right. And That Ur Fictive Real Igbo Is Going Into Extinction, Then The Language Of The Real Igbo's As U Said Shouldnt Has Stood The Test Of Time As Ur Submission Puts Them In The Minority, It Takes A Minimum Of 200years For An Indigenious Tongue To Be Assimilated And Go Into Extinction, Now 200years Is Long Enough Time For The Bantus To Have Come Into The Igbo Terrain In Mass And Still Maintain Their Bantu Language. So U See Ur Opinion Doesnt Hold Water. Bantu Stock Originated From Benue Akwa Cross And Migrated To Un Occupied Lands In Cameroon And Congo. That My Own Assertion.

grin grin
What is it in Bantu that scares Ibo? Why do you all deny and take up arms to fight when associated with Bantu?

You have a problem! grin

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Re: Are Eastern Nigerians From Central Africa? by Probz(m): 2:32pm On Jan 02, 2018
I’m low-key siding with Olu on some points. There’s nothing interesting about being overly objective 24/7.

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