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Obviously not Yoruba.

I’m from Anambra State but I have maternal links to Igala so my mum’s side of the family speaks a decent range of Nigerian languages. My mum’s grandma was from Nsukka and she married an Idah man and her daughter (my grandma) married an Awka man. She’s bilingual in Igala and general Northern Igbo (Nsukka and Awka dialects). My mum picked up Yoruba in Lagos and she was born in Kogi during the war so she can understand about a third of Igala. Her sister was born in Borno so she’s bilingual in Igbo and Hausa. My paternal side’s monolingual in Igbo. That’s four languages represented in my family – the main three (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) + Igala. Yours?

I've noticed that most people from Awka are a little mixed with Igala and my maternal side's no exception. Not surprising.

How many of these threads do you think you'll fill these boards with?

Nigeria > Senegal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Liberian > Ghana.

No firewood means the end of the party rice era. I'm all for grassroots firewood cooking.

Igbo and/or Yoruba.

That's a natural ting. The taste of even the smokiest owambe jellof don't wow the cooks themselves. It's 'cause you made it.

Priceless200:
OK. I have her app sef. But seems the thing stopped working early this year. Thanks. Will check that out

No problem.

Priceless200:
Please teach me how to make Agidi please. I often crave it. Don't know where to buy

I don't know. I buy my agidi.

http://www.allnigerianrecipes.com/breakfast-recipes/agidi-eko.html

Flo's your go-to nigga for any Nigerian food you don't know how to make. Watch her video on agidi.

And where do you live that you can't find agidi?

Jcolston89:

That comment was obviously tongue-in-cheek.

Isiagu attire will do just fine. Follow nkaigbo and Igbo Amaka (The Igbo Monitor) on Instagram for inspiration. They'll show you how we dress on traditional occasions.

agadez007:
my own igbo isnt tonal

Then you're not speaking Igbo.

Traditional men tie wrapper. We're into cross dressing in the east.

agadez007:
i dont really believe any language is hard or easy,it depends on the zeal of the learner,i know an Igbo guy who learnt spanish in six months,does it means spanish is easy?
I have been hearing how easy Hausa is,i tried learning it still cant get one sentence right for a very long time now

i also know a full blooded yoruba guy born and raised in lagos who speaks Igbo fluently,he has never been outside his whole life

pls stop discouraging anybody,that it is hard for you dosen't mean it would be same for another

Igbo is one tough language though. The intonation alone's off-putting for an outsider.

Hausa wouldn't click with us southerners. Yoruba's the most influential and it's a sweet language.

But then a lot of afonjas would be getting high on their superiority complex. Pidgin's lingua franca enough.

Elegushi o gini?

Chimo. Good luck with that.

Some nice ofe egwusi. Broke the agidi roll with hard eba.

Yup, I do use the same two plates for ofe and swallow.

Still in agidi mode. This time with pepper soup.

Chysler:
This is Just like most Igbo Dialects of Ebonyi people mixed with the prominent owerri "ri" .... Am an Anambrarian and I understood about 40 to 50 percent of the review just the same margin I do understand Ebonyi dialects and this is my first time of hearing the language...

This people on context of language don't have the stand to say their language isn't Igbo dialect.. It would sound more reasonable to a third party if their stance on not being Igbo stems from not having Igbo consciousness which is the negative side of igbos nature in being republicans with loose and many dispersed fragmented dialect

As I normally tell anyone who cares, the strength of Igbo as a prosperous tribe comes from our Republican and egalitarian nature with everyone not recognising the other as superior and believing they possess the can-do spirit as the other WHILE on the other hand, our problem as a fragmented ununited heterogeneous people stems from same. But I believe as we evolve we will overcome this and come to recognise that our weakness can be our strength if united.

I'm from Anambra too and I could understand a similar percentage (up to half). Your comparison with Ebonyi dialects is true since Ika and Izzi/Ezza are on the same plane (both distinct Igboid or Igbo languages). I used to think Abakaleke lects were merely distinct dialects of 'Igbo proper' (probably because they happen to be part of the 'core East'). It was later that I found out that they're in the same boat as Ikwerre and Ika.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAUgbPoAJs

This Ika actually sounds a lot more Igbo than those other clips.

Revolva:
perfect bro i am an igala inact you spoke it well...igala is Yoruba...truly...that is my dialect u even wrote it perfect





bro calm down ok he is correct ok igala language have element of yoruba in them........

Don't mind that nigga.

ewa26:
oo tnx, pls how would I go about getting the really smoky one? is roasting d pepe (presumably in oven) enough or should d rice burn small?

Heat some coal till it smokes and let it cook in the rice. That and the roasted pepper and it'll be one smoky jellof, no need to burn it wello.

ewa26:
please probs, how will I cook a good jollof rice? and everyone else that posted tasty looking recipes, be teaching me the secrets so I will also no how to make rhem

Here’s a basic recipe I use that works every time.

1. Mix a small tin of De Rica with water and add your spices (curry, Maggi, white pepper).
2. Fry with onion, ginger/garlic and scotch bonnet till the water dries.
3. Add beef stock and the rice (and add bay leaves) and let it cook.

That works for about 2 cups of rice and that’s usually the quantity I make in one go. I like my rice grainy and a little underdone so I don’t usually parboil but wash till the water runs clear. But you can parboil if you want, just until you can cut the rice with your fingernails. Stop the parboiling right there else you’ll be making a mushy red mess. And remember that jollof rice cooks mainly by steaming and not by boiling it in loads of water. The water should be more than the rice during the second cooking but not much more.

Roast tatashe and green pepper and add the blend to the tomato paste if you want a smokier owambe jollof.

That's just a standard lazy way of making jellof. You can go ahead and vary the protein and add whatever spices you want but make sure Maggi and curry are there.

misskenny:
according to Google it's called "efinrin' in Yoruba language which is 'scent' leaf in English

You're talking about scent leaves, not parsley leaves.

Edit - not worth it.

Where you fit see brown sugar and vinegar for Potakot? Okwa that's where you say you base?

Imagine how it's this that looks bad compared to ewa's vomit. O di egwu.

ewa26:
early morning egg spaghetti

I rest my case.

egbabiekperemo1:
This kind plastic plate na wa o

Don't start looking for shakara with me. Commot for here.

ewa26:
to be honest that looks very bad, so u no fit design the food small or serve it in appetising plates, you plates are very dirty and d rag is messy and honestly dat does nt say good tings about you as a pesin, d agidi is very badly presented and d ofe aku looks like vomit my 3 year old nephew would poo up. you need to go to cooking school and check out my ofe aku recipe ok because i know how to make it well

even sef d aku soup looks more like onubu than banga and you say you no how to cook

Hmm, the one where you put cinnamon and curry and served am with indomie abi?

Agidi akwu. I didn't make the agidi this time. I didn't make the ofe akwu either. But it's homemade.

Another nri Ndi Igbo thread. What regions in Igboland do you associate with certain foods? I'll go first.

Ofe Nsala - Anambra/Delta Ibo
Ofe Akwu - Anambra/Delta Ibo
Ofe Onugbu - Anambra kwenu
Okpa di Waawa - Enugu (9th mile)
Ofe Owerre - Owerre (Imo)
Fiofio - Enugu (especially Nsukka)

Over to unu.