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post=90082970:
Voters registration across states in Nigeria mind you many pro Biafra refused to register, check typical Yoruba states and Igbo states

pazienza:
https://www.nairaland.com/5875972/1952-nigeria-ethnicity-census-result

This remains the last official census result of Nigeria where ethnicity were considered. Before then was 1931 and 1921, and Ndiigbo were clear leaders in all.
Everything else is speculative.

Until a new one is conducted, Ndiigbo remains the most populous ethnic group in the South.
To the best of my knowledge, a champion remains a champion until a new tournament is conducted and he loses. But until that new tournament is conducted, he remains a defending champion, and no matter what bitter contenders might think, the champion retains his belt.


Stop disturbing my mentions with emotional tantrums.

Only mention me when you have official result to beat 1952 numbers.

You can go visit Yemi Oluwale for Ewedu NBS stats and masturbate on that, if it makes you feel good. But don't bring me in. I only deal with official figures from neutral sources.

sesan85:
Stop lying, IPOB man. There's no documented history of Igbos being taken to Brazil. The Bantus from Angola, Yoruba were the majority. No Igbo in Brazil. I have your time today.

post=90082970:
Voters registration across states in Nigeria mind you many pro Biafra refused to register, check typical Yoruba states and Igbo states

Mightyhaiz:
funny request..


Can u bring a reference to show actual populations of your group in your own very country Nigeria?


I encounter lots of Igbo traders in port novo ..far more than any other Nigerians there.. If u have ever visited benin,u can attest too

GODPUNISHALABI:
those guys are not yorubas they only practicing Yoruba culture....yoruba people are usually black and very skinny with cone heads...Brazilians don’t look like that most black Brazilians are light skin big with flat heads same as African Americans

Sammy07:
Cc:
Metaphysical
Legendhero
Totit
Topics70
Iamgrey5
Benevento
Michael004
Laudate

I don't wanna laugh alone
Is it the Same South west of Nigeria or another one

sesan85:
Lol, what is the population of Igbo traders in Benin. And please, don't bring some dubious figure from the stables of IPOB Bureau of Statistics.

sesan85:
Typical IPOB monumental buffoon! Salvador da Bahia has the largest black population in Brazil, and the Yorubas are the biggest, predominant ethnic group taken to Bahia. There are Yorubas here in Lagos, Porto Novo and Ouidah who still have relatives in Brazil. The descendants of Rodolfo Manuel Martins de Andrade (Bamgbose Obitiko) are spread all over Brazil and Nigeria. Same thing with the Assuncao-Alakijas. Your own Igbo people are usually black too, IPOB nitwit!

Mightyhaiz:
well perhaps there are actually audio Yorubas as earlier insinuated after all.. Cos they are barely visible or maybe they dress and speak like Igbo's

AhoadaRivers:
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 several millions.

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 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.

GODPUNISHALABI:
how can you claim this two group of people are related in any manner Is there something inside that amala that you guys eat?

Juliusmalema:
IPOB bureau of statistics is more reliable that one million boys and useless Awawa miscreants junk of statistics.

Obamaofusa:
In Yorubaland,even to beg is a taboo.This is why you see the news of money rituals recently being quickly reported in our media and the article on emerging traits of begging in Yorubaland. In fact in Yorubaland,little crime,big exposition and loud noise because it is an anomaly.

Your assertion means that Igbos are a lawless people.
Does it mean that social criminality is an ingrained culture in Igboland.

Small wonder because we have seen instances where a whole or majority of Igbos backed known Igbo criminals.

A lot of social and ritual criminalities go on in Igboland which are not exposed because they have become the norms, the culture.

Imagining not knowing that prostitution,factory births, bastards birthing etc are topnotch criminalities but with no adverse name given to them because they have become a kind of norm,a culture.
No wonder...

Michael004:
You are just happy with your lies with your not found source.

Iamgrey5:
There are only 33,000 Igbos in Equatorial Guinea whereas there are 2 million Yorubas in Benin and 300000 Yorubas in Togo

He is saying 33,000 is greater than 2.3 million.

pazienza:
Which Yorubas led the revolution in Brazil?

Don't get it twisted.

Congo, Angola groups are the majority in Brazil and they came earlier at a time "deAfricanization" was common in Americas. So they lost they cultures and had to embrace the Yoruba culture of Yoruba slaves who were late comers at a point the deAfricanization policy had been relaxed.

That you see a black slave in Brazil bearing Yoruba name or practicing Yoruba culture, does not mean they were originally Yorubas.

NoIgboSoundTueh:
I can ignore all those distortions and lies you wrote since.
But the bolded you sound stupid
Metaphysical come and see what your in-law wrote

pazienza:
Which Yorubas led the revolution in Brazil?

Don't get it twisted.

Congo, Angola groups are the majority in Brazil and they came earlier at a time "deAfricanization" was common in Americas. So they lost they cultures and had to embrace the Yoruba culture of Yoruba slaves who were late comers at a point the deAfricanization policy had been relaxed.

That you see a black slave in Brazil bearing Yoruba name or practicing Yoruba culture, does not mean they were originally Yorubas.

pazienza:
Can't you see Bight of Biafra there?

pazienza:
Can't you see Bight of Biafra there?

Obamaofusa:
You are quick to say that you are more than Yoruba in some places only because you are traders who are always seen in markets etc.

The fact is that Yorubas are the most viral travellers in Nigeria because of their ingrained lust for adventure and success.

Itshekiri,Olukumi,Yorubas that have become Igbos in IMO state,Yoruba indigenes in Dahomey now Benin Republic etc all left Yorubaland to travel long and wide to these places.

It was only the civil war that turned Igbos to travellers but they still have a smaller number in the diaspora compared to Yorubas.

Vyzz:
Igbo is recognised in equatorial Guinea
And jamaica even though it isn't recognised in the rasta nation

bigfrancis21:
Equatorial Guinea. The language is regionally recognized there.

In the spirit of Brazil and Cuba Yoruba-descended slaves, plenty Igbo descendants in Jamaica, Haiti, United States, Guyana, Belize etc.

sesan85:
Bight of biafra doesn't mean "Igbo." Try harder. Now post the ones from 1801 till the Transatlantic slavery stopped in Brazil in 1897? Lol.

bigfrancis21:
The overwhelming majority of slaves taken from this Bight were Igbo and it was consistent from the start till the end of the slave trade. Igboland was densely populated and had the population to sustain the slave trade demands.

bigfrancis21:
The country recognizes Igbo as one of their languages. According to the 1994 census of EG (I know Wikipedia should not be used here, I also provided you a snapshot of the webpage where this data was pulled from), you could see that the Igbo were the 3rd largest group in EG. In Igboland, EG is called 'panya' and in the 20th century, thousands of Igbos relocated to EG in search of economic opportunities (similar to the Yoruba group that left Nigeria to settle in Togo many decades before) and they have long naturalized there.

bigfrancis21:
Igbo influence lingers in more subtle ways, especially linguistically, down to the Pidgin English (imported from the Caribbean) that we speak in Nigeria! Una (from Igbo 'unu'), 'dey' (from Igbo 'di' i.e Chi di/God dey), tee (from Igbo 'tee' ie o teela/e don tee) etc all come from Igbo language. The Jamaicans still say 'unu', not even 'una'! Igbo 'unu (una, wuna, uno, unnu, wunu) is used virtually across all English-based patois in the whole world, from Nigerian PE, Sierra Leone PE, Ghanaian PE, in Belize patois, Jamaica, Guyana etc. You name it.

An Island here in the US is called 'Ebos landing' and up until the 1980s, some African Americans still bore 'Ebo' as their surname! Due to the high concentration of Igbo slaves in the state of Virginia, US, VA was nickamed, 'new eboeland' and in this regard did the state, not Igbos, decide to build an Igbo village in Staunton VA in recognition of the past heavy Igbo presence.

Yoruba Ifa which originally was practiced by Yoruba slaves was embraced by descendants from other tribes (even till this day) as a way of connecting to Mama Africa/their African heritage and has transformed into a religion for afro-descended blacks but it does not mean that all adherents are Yorubas or have Yoruba ancestry. A substantial number aren't Yorubas by blood and their DNA admixture test will prove this. Brazilian and Cuban blacks are a good mix of Congolese, Angolese and European genes. Some Igbo as well. Roman Catholicism originated from Rome and spread worldwide to have hundreds of millions of adherents. A good number of Igbos today are Roman Catholics but they are not Romans. Also, in Judaism, you could be a Jew either by religious conversion or by having Jewish (esp maternal) ancestry. However, only those of true Jewish genetic ancestry are regarded as Jews.

When many afro-descendants start to investigate into their African ancestry, they often encounter Yoruba Ifa first but I've seen many of them join and leave the religion, especially after DNA testing indicates non-Yoruba origins. I belong to several Afro-descended DNA testing groups on Facebook and an overwhelming number of results come up with Igbo DNA (some as high as 70% Igbo) and Yoruba comes up once in a while (again, confirming the number breakdown posted previously). Do not confuse all Ifa adherents in Brazil and Cuba as Yorubas, because, genetically, they are not. A good number have Congolese and Angolan DNA in them.

It is very easy to make emotional-based claims but DNA testing results have consistently shown a different story.

In SW Nigeria today, due to the high rate of inter-tribal marriages, a substantial number of Yorubas have 50% Igbo blood to as high as 75% or 80% Igbo blood (those with Igbo mothers and Igbo paternal grandparents), despite being 'Yoruba by name'. Yoruba by name, Igbo by DNA.