Eriokanmi:
dem don scam you before . Make i no talk shaa

Yes o bro!

goodnessme1:
Foolish Amotekun terrorists will come here to show their foolishness.


Boko haram people will come here to talk nonesense.





Not that they are better.

What do mean? Yeebos practice some kind of primitive culture that are really backward , they also deprive female from inheritance and you're talking trash.
They migrate to Lagos and boast about how they came to expose us to technology.

Bkayyy:

Everybody likes to quench the smoke in another person's house while their village is on fire.
It's like the new thread in Nigeria is attacking Igbo customs and traditions while a young man is about to be hanged for ordinary religion and women can't be allowed to dress the way they like in North by Hisbah all because of religion.
Whereas in South West, the supposed female yoruba monarch that to them symbolizes their equality in gender is not allowed to be with a man talkless of marrying and giving birth.
Everybody in Nigeria is now a Nelson Mandela on Igbo Culture

Shut your dirty mouth, what part of Yoruba deprive lady from giving birth? Is it ijebu or aw or I or egba just name the tribe because I'm from a royal family from Epe and the lady who came from royal lineage is our ancestor, she was so powerful her husband is from another town and my ancestors has lost touch with those ones.
We the Yoruba's are far more civilize in the Nigeria settings the north and east are primitive

sesan85:


You mean Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani your fellow Igbo is trying to "demonize" your Igbo culture? Then why not take it up with her? Why are you crying this much?
Remember, we've not even talked about your people's cannibalism (Ngwa, Abriba people), selling your babies, baby factories, kidnapping, women not inheriting properties, Ogwu ego?
Just small talk about your primitive, uncivilized Osu tradition you're bleating like a flogged goat. slowpoke!

ZZ22:
My question is based on skull mining and ritual. Why did you skip it

Maybe we should start bring the new sources. Are you in, shall we?

oluwaahmed:


U are very unintelligent.. so stressful reasoning with you. Cant you read

Counter me if you are bold enough, I don't deal with a dunderhead and unintelligent person like you.

goodnessme1:
But when did yorubas start caring about Igbos?

After you lost Biafra war! Awolowo gave Igbo's their properties back with money. And they got access to our free education. Till today Igbo's live freely in yoruba land. You guy have very bad mind towards Yoruba.
Yorubas might be cunny in nature but we don't show hatred. I grew up among Igbo's they are use to locking thier children away from Yoruba children. They insult Yoruba from their heart. Yoruba's who are use to making jest of other Yoruba tribe don't insult with hatred only for fun.
I know one Igbo family that ran away from the north during northern crises and build house in Lagos.
I was close to this family until the day my friend called me 'Yoruba man Una no wan give us Biafra get out of my house' I was really surprised, who are telling these ones story?
Our normal discussion was science and tech previously.
If you want Biafra and the Yoruba's are playing politics hatred is not the key.
That same family later insulted my mum of which as a Lagos native I won't 4get it, if table turn tomorrow I won't hesitate to abuse power, god 4bid tho.
At this stage of my life I won't be a tribal bigot because I know the Yoruba's really love the Igbo's but we are very different in our culture and doings, we've showed the big bro sample to Igbo several times. I've seen and I've join Igbo candidate contesting some position in Lagos despite the fact the the real lagos native are deprived of governorship position in our state.

now tell what Igbo's have done to Yoruba's to show love to us. If you don't have anything to say then ignore

michealdeco:


Stop justifying rubbish

I strongly believe in traditions but I also strongly condemn the meaningless ones

Even the abobaku you're indirectly defending is very bad

Why will someone be buried alive whether it's voluntarily or not

It's evil
OSU and Abobaku are evil

He accepted willingly, he's not forced and it has been stopped already. But during the practice, no one impose it in anybody. It is different from OSU caste, a babaric act that makes entire eaceca slave and sacrifice materials to worthless gods.

goodnessme1:
All you listed up there are good culture to them.

All they care is igbo matter.



Do you know Yorubas buries their kings with human heads.

I know of this many years ago in some Yoruba town. Tell me which community in SW does this now! Tell me! Everyone has one or two backward culture but we've abandoned a lot of them. Do see the way Yoruba muslim and Christian love each other? That civilization simple

Sometimes, i try to convince myself of being a human living in the 21st century but the things i hear day by day kinda makes me feel like I'm living in the 17th century. This act is preposterous and shouldn't be allowed in a community of homo sapiens sapiens. We should have gone beyond this level of categorising people as lesser humans because of societal nuances. I hope my beautiful people of the South-East will uproot this act from their society as soon as possible.

This topic is too deep for a Nairaland thread... It runs deeper than English words can describe. You really need to visit the villages to understand why this osu matter might never slide... Deeper than English

And we will be shouting "black lives matter" if this is done to black people by whites

Fleshly:



Help me ask the skull miner. He's not even concerned with the fact that Ibadan and Osogbo have been over run by ritualists, cities where more than half the population are into witchcraft and ritualism, yet they bother about a people who's system of society is better than anything they can ever dream of. Pathetic souls!!!

The system of Osu or Ohu as described is inhumane. Why should what ones ancestors have been or done follow someone around all their life. This isn't about igbo culture, it's about an abusive practice. No culture is sacred - culture is adaptive. Many African tribes used to kill twins, bury servants with their masters and perform sexual mutilation on women. These things have in the main been stopped - why not this?

The correct answer is not deflecting the obvious solution by pointing at other tribes. The difference between what you have accused say the yorubas of here is that no one comes out to proudly say he or she is a ritualist because society frowns on such practices but here you are defending a noxious practice that is in itself an arcane ritual.

In this day and age? By a generation born amidst technology? Really?

Hmmmm

GO AND ASK PEOPLE WHO YOUR REAL FATHER IS!

muykem:
Majority of Igbo especially those ones here in nairaland are actually OSU.

IS THAT HOW YOUR DUMB, PLASTIC AND WOODEN BRAIN WORKS? WHY DIDN'T YOU CARRY ON WITH KILLING OF TWINS BECAUSE IT'S THE TRADITION OF YOUR ANCESTOR'S?


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Osagyefo98:
If you are an OSU, you remain an OSU and generation unborn can't save you from that.

Forming an association of osus is nothing but inferiority complex.

Traditions remains tradition and can not change because few people feels that one or two things doesn't go their way.

The whole article is nothing but trash and nonsense. The wisdom of our forefathers surpasses that of all these generations.


The gods are wise and their ways unknown to men and for them to stipulate such rules, so shall it.


If you don't like Igbo tradition relocate to yorubaland and change your name to Olaotu or relocate to hausaland and change your name to Kawaii but if you insist on staying in Igboland them you must respect and abide by her traditions...


The tradition makes ndigbo special.

Dikebuka:


That's one thing with you people. You think igbo is like another tribe....our republican nature makes us too diverse.

Adaobi is saying what applies to her own part of igboland. I am saying what applies in my own part of igboland.

Stop showing your ignorance...I explain why igbos are abit skeptical about OSU...it goes against our core believe which is Freedom...infact OSU is against our "live and let live" slogan.

Like I said again..there are areas in igboland dt dont subscribe to that OSU stuff.. Ume is against incest and other abominable crimes which goes against our core believes. Ume in Owerri can move to Mbaise and become freeborn...

Yinmu. Freedom indeed

Useless tradition

ikenna44:
This topic is too deep for a Nairaland thread... It runs deeper than English words can describe. You really need to visit the villages to understand why this osu matter might never slide... Deeper than English

. Not so deep that a solution can't be found. Its high time they stopped this.

fellow south easterners, let's channel our energies towards this course of seeing an end to this OSU thing. If we claim we are being marginalized by others,why marginalize those we within our fold. #osulivesmatters

Blue3k:


Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54088880

The Yourubas also have slaves descendants who were considered 'Food for the gods". This set of people now make an entire tribe in Yoruba land, but the Yoruba never discriminate against them.

Etuagievin:
fellow south easterners, let's channel our energies towards this course of seeing an end to this OSU thing. If we claim we are being marginalized by others,why marginalize those we within our fold. #osulivesmatters

All lives matters not just osus.

Freeborn lives also matters.

Osagyefo98:

Tell me how Chinese treat nigerians in east, west, north and south.

Badly
Now answer my questions

omoharry:
Abeg shift go one corner jor!! .."Our fore fathers knows better" ko. Our fore fathers were men who were ignorant and limited to thier little kingdom & thier archaic way of lives as at that time . I do not blame them becos they did not know any better, but I blame your kind and that of your fathers that are educated and still practicing this barbaric custome.

You must be filling cool with your self for being part of the free born and the joy it gives you in looking down on another due to what your wicked society has conditioned them to be for a life time ..

If our fore fathers knew any better and their generation after them are expected to abide by the very practices they left behind, then by now there won't be any twins in our society.This is becos in those days twins were considered as bad omen to thier parents and thus must be killed according to laws of the land . Now does that practices sound alright to you ?? Or does the practice of human sacrifice that was once part of our religious rite, so as to appease the gods of our fore fathers, a normal thing to you in this modern age ? Have these dark practices not been abolished ? So why are still hanging on to this archaic practices that is design to demean another and strip them of thier dignity in the very society they call their own ? Why ?

I pray that in your next life, you should be born an Osu /Ohu, so that you can have a taste of the bitter pill of been called an Osu and suffer thesame fate these people go through in every areas of thier lives . Wicked soul .

All lives matters including that of freeborn. Finish your life here first in God's fear before talking of afterlife.

Ofoigbo come and say something about the slavery system

muykem:
Majority of Igbo especially those ones here in nairaland are actually OSU.

and u are what? A m0nkey right? Cos that's what science alleges to be ur ancestor.

Bro... Trust me... This osu topic is not a day's discussion. It's about bloodlines... It's as hard as going back in time to undo what has been done.

I used to think it was a matter that could handled at our level... But after bin properly educated on why the system exists... I must tell you, it's not that easy to undo.

You have to go to the villages and have In-depth conversations with the villagers to understand where I'm talking from.

Etuagievin:
. Not so deep that a solution can't be found. Its high time they stopped this.

TheChameleon:


Keep quiet.

Asari Dokubo said you're all Ijaw slaves and you all ran away in fear.

Have you asked yourself why ijaw population is small?
Where do you think those ohu and co came from?
There is a reason Igbos don't like discussing history

tollyboy5:

After you lost Biafra war! Awolowo gave Igbo's their properties back with money. And they got access to our free education. Till today Igbo's live freely in yoruba land. You guy have very bad mind towards Yoruba.
Yorubas might be cunny in nature but we don't show hatred. I grew up among Igbo's they are use to locking thier children away from Yoruba children. They insult Yoruba from their heart. Yoruba's who are use to making jest of other Yoruba tribe don't insult with hatred only for fun.
I know one Igbo family that ran away from the north during northern crises and build house in Lagos.
I was close to this family until the day my friend called me 'Yoruba man Una no wan give us Biafra get out of my house' I was really surprised, who are telling these ones story?
Our normal discussion was science and tech previously.
If you want Biafra and the Yoruba's are playing politics hatred is not the key.
That same family later insulted my mum of which as a Lagos native I won't 4get it, if table turn tomorrow I won't hesitate to abuse power, god 4bid tho.
At this stage of my life I won't be a tribal bigot because I know the Yoruba's really love the Igbo's but we are very different in our culture and doings, we've showed the big bro sample to Igbo several times. I've seen and I've join Igbo candidate contesting some position in Lagos despite the fact the the real lagos native are deprived of governorship position in our state.

now tell what Igbo's have done to Yoruba's to show love to us. If you don't have anything to say then ignore

Yorubas are not cunning, they are wise and full of wisdom.

Every human nature is to either directly or indirectly dominate the other. In Nigeria' s case, the Yoruba has the upper hand in dominating the Nigerian state but we do not do this by force, because no tribe wins, irrespective. But at the same time, the Yorubas has to be wise not to be dominated by any other tribe.

So for those that want to dominate but are not given free hands to do so, they resulted to violence, became bitter when not successful at it and always thought they have imaginary enemies in Yorubas. They thought we do not support their ways of doing things, which is true. Now that's not Yoruba being cunning. It is wisdom.

Yoruba is so wise to the extent that she determines the Nigerian future. We ve repositioned ourselves within the Nigerian state. This was not achieved through violence and bloodshed. It was achieved peacefully and subtly. Young man, That is called wisdom and not being cunning.

NB: All your other write up makes sense.

Nigeriabiafra80:
At least now you know why igbos detest slavery
Unlike our southern counterparts

seriously, u didn't make sense. At all. If they so much as detest slavery, why the stigmatizati0n of former slave descendants who are no l0nger slaves n0r had a hand in making their ancestors one? D0n't give the SE bad representati0n oga.