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Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Iamgrey5(m): 10:26pm On May 28, 2020
pazienza:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Sierra_Leone

He is Krio. All slaves in Sierra Leone, including the Ibos and the Akus, condensed into single ethnic group called Krio (Creole).

So he was Krio. But looking at his name, you can tell what part of Krio he came from.
Even in your supposed Evidence

There was no mention of igbos among the Krio but Yorubas Oku was mentioned several times

Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Salewa97: 10:27pm On May 28, 2020
pazienza:
Igbos in Equatorial guinea have been there before 1960 and are now registered as indigenous group there, consisting 5% of the population there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea

I dont see Yoruba recognized officially as an ethnic group in Togo.

As for Sierra Leone. The Yorubas were as much as Igbos there. The two groups were rivals and well balanced.
See this thread :https://www.nairaland.com/997451/early-colonial-views-igbos-yorubas
You guys don't know jack. Yorubas are an official ethnic group in Togo called the Ana-Ife. They are also called Atakpame .

Below is the official CIA ethnic demographics of Togo and you can see the Ana-Ife people are there.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/to.html

CC: Iamgrey5

Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Michael004: 10:29pm On May 28, 2020
[s]
Bendeco2020:
U're just feeling Inferior..... since u won carry the matter go America.

let me inform you, the total numbers of Igbo's in North and south America is more than yorubas in those continents. you can make research and educate yourself.


Brazil is not the only South American nation.
[/s]Keep believing in your own fallacy and be proud of it.
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Ibrahimmrfish(m): 10:29pm On May 28, 2020
Sammy07:
So you believe Hausas outnumbered Fulanis??

The kind of people I interact with on Nairaland is alarming cheesy
Every person with a functioning brain know Hausa outnumbered Fulani.
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Iamgrey5(m): 10:30pm On May 28, 2020
Salewa97:
You guys don't know jack. Yorubas are an official ethnic group in Togo called the Ana-Ife. They are also called Atakpame .

Below is the official CIA ethnic demographics of Togo and you can see the Ana-Ife people are there.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/to.html

CC: Iamgrey5
The dude is a lair jare

Lying like a little child. cheesy
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by AhoadaRivers:
pazienza:
Actually there is.

All ethnic census conducted by British have always put Igbos more than Yorubas.

1921, 1931, 1952 census all had Igbos more than Yorubas

https://www.nairaland.com/5875972/1952-nigeria-ethnicity-census-resu
Many yoruba know within themselves that the Igbos are more populous than them but they just can't stomach being a minority in population to the Igbo because it goes against the political narratives of the day. grin
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by ayshacom: 10:30pm On May 28, 2020
CAPSLOCKED:
EVERYDAY NONSENSE IGBO AND YORUBA ARGUMENTS ON THIS FORUM.

THE SHAMEFUL THING IS THAT THE ILLITERATE MALLAMS HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE OF THIS COUNTRY SINCE DAY ONE, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WILL ALWAYS BE.
hmmm what is literacy in your own language Mr Man?
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Michael004: 10:31pm On May 28, 2020
Bendeco2020:
How will they know.


Illiterates that see themselves as educated people.


Many educated illitrates in Yoruba land.... I swear
Anyone that follows you argue your stupidity is the most stupid fellow
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by flokii: 10:31pm On May 28, 2020
All I see here is inferiority complex from Ipob miscreants.

Yorubas are by far the richest, most educated and most populous tribe in Africa.
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Michael004: 10:33pm On May 28, 2020
Bendeco2020:
For you to believe this confirmed the illiterate I called you.
Says the illiterate that believe Hausa is 78million, when the most populated tribe is not up to 60 million.
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by pazienza(m): 10:33pm On May 28, 2020
Iamgrey5:
Even in your supposed Evidence

There was no mention of igbos among the Krio but Yorubas Oku was mentioned several times
When you are reading a wikipedia group called Okun. Why do you expect Igbos to be mentioned there?
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Ibrahimmrfish(m): 10:34pm On May 28, 2020
MetaPhysical:
Immigrants are found everywhere.

They are talking about language. Even though you travel everywhere you actually help increase the spread of your host language, not yours.

Indigenesouly Igbo is only found in Nigeria. Your language is not dispersed across boundary lines.

Indigeneously the following are spread across West Africa and their languages are widespread.

Yoruba and Hausa languages colonized others.

Kanuri - Nigeria, Chad
Hausa - Nigeria, Niger, Benin
Bariba - Nigeria Benin
Yoruba - Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Sierra Leone.
Fulani - Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Mali, Ghana, Guinea,
Hausa-Nigeria,Niger,Cameron, Chad,Sudan,Eritrea, Saudi,Ghana, Benin,Senegal.
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Iamgrey5(m): 10:35pm On May 28, 2020
pazienza:
When you are reading a wikipedia group called Okun. Why do you expect Igbos to be mentioned there?
I clicked on Kiro page oh bro

And it's Oku not Okun

Okun is a Yoruba group in Nigeria grin
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by pazienza(m): 10:38pm On May 28, 2020
Iamgrey5:
I clicked on Kiro page oh bro

And it's Oku not Okun

Okun is a Yoruba group in Nigeria grin
I don't know what you are on about.

See page on Krio here. Igbos are obviously there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Creole_people

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18506/18506-8.txt
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by compton11(m): 10:38pm On May 28, 2020
AhoadaRivers:
Igbo is found in large numbers all over the world mr yoruba man.

There is no country in the world where you don't find an Igbo man. We all know this.
Stop pushing it, propaganda days on your newspaper are over.
he is talking about indigenous ethnic not ajala travellers
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by senatordave1(m): 10:40pm On May 28, 2020
Sammy07:
You know their problem?
If they see some Igbos doing business anywhere outside Igbo land, they'll assume that Igbos are many and populous.

They even claim Igbos are the largest group after the indigenous in any state in Nigeria. grin
That is why I said igbos are a loud minority.this attitude exaggerates their population. In calabar,igbos outnumber yorubas by a tiny margin.in my street,5 igbos will be so loud and ubiquitous while they will be six yorubas who are quiet and always on low key
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Salewa97: 10:40pm On May 28, 2020
AhoadaRivers:
[s]Shut your dirty mouth, If we add the Igbo DNA carriers in the carribeans and south America. The Igbo population will dust yoruba population by million.

You want to pretend that most African Americans are not of Igbo heritage, you want us to fill this thread with pictures of AAs rediscovering their Ibo roots? Most Jamaicans are of Igbo descent, the Jonkunu yam festival in Jamaica and Carribeans stems from the Igbo culture, do yorubas celebrate yam festival?
The word 'Unu' in Jamaican patois and Carribean pidgin is an Igbo word derivative. The first black president of Haiti was a former slave of Igbo descent.

So if you yorubas want to go that lane, be our guest, as we all know that it if we factor in Igbo-descendant population in the Americas and Caribs and add it to the local population and in diaspora, 200 million will be a conservative figure for Igbo global population count.[/s]
Stop saying nonsense on a public forum!
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Iamgrey5(m): 10:41pm On May 28, 2020
pazienza:
I don't know what you are on about.

See page on Krio here. Igbos are obviously there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Creole_people
Screen shots the igbos there

Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Bendeco2020: 10:42pm On May 28, 2020
Ibrahimmrfish:
Every person with a functioning brain know Hausa outnumbered Fulani.
leave them.

The so called educated tribe (Yoruba)

They don't even know that Hausa's has more population than Fulani yet they claim to be educated. Disgracing their tribe here
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by AhoadaRivers:
compton11:
he is talking about indigenous ethnic not ajala travellers
Travelling to Papau new guinea doesn't strip me of my Ibo heritage. The list said 'most populous African tribe' not 'most populous African tribes resident in Africa'.

So all African tribes both at home and in diaspora are factored in. Get it?
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by AhoadaRivers: 10:43pm On May 28, 2020
Salewa97:
Stop saying nonsense on a public forum!
Your 1kb brain no fit respond to facts with counter-facts.
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by senatordave1(m): 10:43pm On May 28, 2020
Ibrahimmrfish:
Arabic then Swahili Hausa is probability number 3,while Yoruba 4,5 or 6
Arabs are not an ethnic groub,Swahili is a language spoken by several ethnicities in east Africa.Hausa's are the largest
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by pazienza(m): 10:45pm On May 28, 2020
Iamgrey5:
Screen shots the igbos there
Here.

Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by compton11(m): 10:45pm On May 28, 2020
AhoadaRivers:
Travelling to Papau new guinea doesn't strip me of my Ibo heritage. The list said 'most populous African tribe' not 'most populous African tribes resident in Africa'.

So all African tribes but at home and in diaspora are factored in. Get it?
yoruba are all over the world too.

but bro,are u actually in Papua new gunea?
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by senatordave1(m): 10:46pm On May 28, 2020
pazienza:
I don't know what you are on about.

See page on Krio here. Igbos are obviously there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Creole_people

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18506/18506-8.txt
Yorubas outnumber igbos in Africa starting from Nigeria. The yorubas in Benin rep are more than the igbos in equatorial guinea or even sierra Leone.just accept it
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Iamgrey5(m): 10:46pm On May 28, 2020
pazienza:
Here.
I am.talking about them recognized as ethnic groups of their own like the Yorubas
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by senatordave1(m): 10:46pm On May 28, 2020
pazienza:
Here.
They are more yorubas than igbos,surrender
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Iamgrey5(m):
senatordave1:
Yorubas outnumber igbos in Africa starting from Nigeria. The yorubas in Benin rep are more than the igbos in equatorial guinea or even sierra Leone.just accept it
He was talking about how 33,000 igbos in Equatorial Guinea is more than the 300,000 Yorubas in Togo.
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by pazienza(m): 10:49pm On May 28, 2020
senatordave1:
They are more yorubas than igbos,surrender
Afonja, are you tired of claiming Calabar? grin

Choke on this. https:///5875972/1952-nigeria-ethnicity-census-result
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by pazienza(m): 10:51pm On May 28, 2020
Iamgrey5:
I am.talking about them recognized as ethnic groups of their own like the Yorubas
No Yoruba is recognized as ethnic group in Sierra Leone.
Stop it already. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Sierra_Leone
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Bendeco2020: 10:51pm On May 28, 2020
Why I hate to argue with an average Yoruba person is that they lack facts and don't argue with points.

They will be wrong and still very loud, vomiting only insults.


The only strength they have is insults.


One of them said that Fulani are more populous than Hausa and I was expecting one of their brothers to correct him but all supported the rubbish.


How can I continue to argue with this kind of people?
Re: Top 10 Africa's Most Populous Ethnic Groups. Yoruba is number 3 by Iamgrey5(m):
pazienza:
No Yoruba is recognized as ethnic group in Sierra Leone.
Stop it already.
You are not an honest person

They are even recognized in Gambia cheesy

Oku aka Aku Muhammadian

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