₦airaland Forum

Suya, in a heartbeat. Any time, anywhere.

Ifyok50:
You suppose collect award for this your narrative essay. You sabi wella.

I agree. I quite agree.

Pootle:
semo if prepared right is heavenly especially with ogbono, eba gives chest burn

To me, semo. is instantly better with any kind of ofe-draw (ogbono/okro/seafood-okro) than garri-white could ever be. Draw soup needs swallow with a smooth consistency. White garri, no-matter how well-processed (like Ijebu), is too coarse. Yellow garri fits the purpose better (it tends to be smoother) but I’d still rather take my pick from semo., pounded yam, fufu, plantain-swallow, coconut-fufu or anything-else that has a smooth texture. White garri and okro soup really ain’t it for me.

And it can show even some of the otherwise-best cooks shege, time after time. If it’s not lumpy, it’s watery, and-so-on. Where do you fit on that spectrum, or is your semo. smooth and flawless every time?

brownemmanuel43:
Ugboguru no bi egusi again?

WTF?

TeddBundy:
Igbo amaka

Hahahah

Everything boils down to tribalism with some of you people and you wonder why Nigeria remains the way it is?

ColdHunter:
How do people even enjoy rape? I've never been able to understand it.

I can't even be intimate with someone I don't like. Neither can I be intimate if I notice any sort of reluctance on the part of my partner.

If we're not both fully locked in, I'm out.

I just can't figure how you have sex with someone who was surely struggling with you.

If-only rapists had this sense.

Is it not Buccymix, or whareva?

Josywhyte:
Diabolic people too much for Nollywood. Why killing your fellow actors/actresses? This is really getting out of hand

More than likely she was just-plain ill. Let’s not drag village people into this now. Not everything is the handiwork of enemies.

So sad.
Does anyone know how she was ill?

Euromillion200:
It's actually called jackfruit buddy.

No. Jackfruit is its own thang. Breadfruit is another. African breadfruit is still-another. Don’t try and be smart when you don’t know what you’s talking about. Mtchew.

Watianoengineer:
I think it tastes better when fried. The boiled version makes me want to vomit my intestines. Terrible food I must say

You’re clearly not Igbo. Or from Enugu-Ukwu.

Harkynkunle:
Hello Boss... Good Morning

I sent a mail request to speak with you as regards one of your quotes, however you are yet to respond to my mail request.

I wouldn't know how best to contact you. I anticipate your feedback Boss

I got that notification from you on the forum but I can’t for the love of me find the actual e.-mail anywhere, not even deep in my junk.
Hmm. Maybe try sending again.

With the cost of living, can you blame them?

laiperi:
This is ironic. It was not edited from Qfemano Rice to Yoruba Rice for your miscalculated admonitions that could have been uncalled for. Yoruba did not give their stew a derogatory name, some guys did. Stop being a hypocrite.

The irony is, it was supposed to educate those labeling Yoruba stew, as a universal stew, especially among Africans and Europeans. But we never accept our own unless it goes international.

Oil is a universal part of stew. If you do not like Oil in your stew, others do. It does not mean you have to label it at home but accept and eat it in other African countries or Europe acting "civilized".

Another one is JUDE ie Ewedu, loved outside but derided in Nigeria by some group because another group love it with Amala!

Mhm-hm. I’d stop with the waffle right here, laddie-boy, and can the cheddar. You’re not making any sense.

That post was written with anti-Igbo sentiments in particular in-mind. You can tell. But as for me, wetin I don-talk, sef? Did I call anyone an ofe-mmanu? Eh?

laiperi:
Op did not put Yoruba rice but understand why it was so edited.

You cannot cook Joloof Rice without Yoruba stew or Italian lasagna without Yoruba stew.

So those who criticize Yoruba stew love to eat and learn how to cook Jollof Rice!

Stew isn’t intrinsically Yoruba. Most places in the world have some variation of stew. It’s really not a Yoruba-vs-Igbo thing. Or anything like that. From Senegambia to Spain to Peru to Russia, meat/tomato/vegetable-stew of some kind features on the menu. Likewise for curries, between South Asia and the Caribbean. Thinking stew is bound to any-one tribe is very myopic, and tells me you’re clearly not ready to disengage from overly trivialised politics. Cause nah. That’s you to a square. And the rest of us just have to live with it.

It’s very shameful that things like this can even be said.

DrAda:
Never grew up with the Sunday rice tradition. Learnt about it for the first time after marriage

Really?

DeltaBachelor:
lol. It is still very much in vogue

Exactly. How could it not be?

Mariangeles:
So, this is the ose-Nsukka.
I'll have them planted when I get to the village this year.

Ose-Nsukka is a very special pepper.

Is it just me or does anyone-else HATE eba-ocha (white-garri eba) for draw-soup? I don’t mind garri with egusi or afang but soups like okro need a smooth swallow to me. It doesn’t have to be nni-oka (hard to come by these days, annoyingly) but at-least let it be semo., let it be pounded yam, akpu, plantain-fufu or yellow garri if we have to use garri at all. White garri is too coarse.

As luck would have it this side of Easter, ose-Nsukka dey-abound for open market. In an ideal scenario, wetin you go-use am to cook? Is it abacha, ofe onugbu or even some sort of floral-aromatic stew that can take a certain regional Igbotic kick?

We4all:
Banished for committing murder? Why wasn't he handed over to the police?

Because this is Nigeria. Sigh.

It’s safer than alcohol. Let him be.

Nigeria get dentists, sef?

My grandma had myeloma. Horrible disease.

How are you people getting on?

AjaanaOka:
Enebeli and Ojugbeli are actually Ukwuani/Aboh names. You will also find them among Ogbaru people in Anambra State who are cultural cousins of the Ukwuani. I do not know any Igala person who bears these names. But it there are, they borrowed them ultimately from Ukwuani.

Enemona is Igala. It has an Igala meaning and is used by Igala people till date.

The use of Alumona cuts across Nsukka and into the Oshimili-Aniocha axis of Delta State. I have no idea what it means, but the people I asked pointed to Igala as the source. If the name came from the Igala, then it has been altered in Igbo mouths, because the name in that form does not exist in Igala. The "-mona" ending is strongly suggestive of an Igala providence where a number of names with "-mona" endings do exist, eg., Ilemona and the already mentioned Enemona.


Well, the Ibaji people kind of fit what you're thinking here. These were a people on the border area between Kogi, Enugu and Anambra who are essentially a mixture of Igbo and Igala. They spoke both languages with equal facility; and ethnographic information from the last century and the late 19th century suggests that until the hardening of ethnic lines in late Colonial and post-Colonial times, they leaned more towards the Igbo, culturally. Their names seem to have been predominately Igbo (that is changing today), they took Ogbuefi titles and venerated Ikenga. They wouldn't have identified as Igala in precolonial times - but this doesn't mean they would have identified as Igbo either. They were simply Ibaji or Olu - as more hinterland Igbo called them.

So when you speak about some of these "Igala" women already speaking Igbo, you're probably speaking of the Ibaji people. There was a village in Awka that did marry quite a lot from Ibaji: Umubele Village. While Ụmụzocha travelled to Nsukka and the hinterland Igala villages (i.e., the non-riverine parts of Igala), Umubele travelled to the riverine areas north of Onitsha, covering the Anam communities, Ibaji and as far north Idah.

I did meet some of the last of the old generation of Ibaji women married to Umubele name, and I particularly remember one of them who went by a regular old-school Igbo name, but was known to everyone as 'nwanya Igala'.

What-about Alandu? Is that an Igala name?

pipnator00:
Ukwa and Rice? Na bro! Ukwa I know goes with corn, abacha. And if you're a wife and wants your husband to pay your bride pride the second time, add any of these dry fish/Okporoko,dry meat, and serve chilled stout!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1D7oUGBHwY?si=icFtngxVMGOjKUds

That’s just a direct exemplification of wetin I-dey talk.

Love800:
I don't how they cook ukwa, but that thing is so special more than rice.

It’s special alright. That’s for-sure.

Kobojunkie:
Those who know nothing about a place would blindly jump in to comment? 🥱🥱

Those who know nothing or have no interest in this topic shouldn’t really be commenting in the first place.

Kobojunkie:
You came up with the topic so why are you asking us? 🥱🥱

Because that’s generally how discussion-forums work.

Magnoliaa:
^ yes

Let’s go, then. What are we waiting for?

Shall we try again, and talk about what matrilineal anchoring means in this context?