₦airaland Forum

RedboneSmith:
Asaba.

Hehehe. Trust Delta boy himself to say that.

Brains1990:
Igbos and their usual wahala. It's just an evidence of a useless tribe called Igbo.

As opposed to a timid and cowardly tribe called Lukumi.

ChinenyeN:
Are you asking about the current cities and which is best (under what criteria)?

Or, if I'm understanding Bigfrancis's response well, are you asking about thoughts on where to locate a capital for a hypothetical "Ala Igbo" country?

Yh. In an idealistic setting.

What a lovely thread.

Moneywomen17:
u mean Yoruba people have the best stew for rice despite the ingredient being “just oil and pepper Yoruba and pepper” u said Yoruba are not know for nutritious soup save they are from some state(ondo and ekiti), my question to u is are ekiti and ondo u mentioned not Yoruba I mean why exempt them.

Because Ondo and Ekiti people have good soups. That’s it.

Ishilove:
JackBizzle and wereypey: poster children for BPD. Bipolar Personality Disorder

Borderline. The bipolar/manic-depressive psychoses are in a whole different league. Let’s get up to speed with the basics instead of spreading myths about severe mental illness.

PrecisionFx:
This is very meaningless bro.

Have a degree in medicine, do you?

baby124:
They were. The Yoruba type. Now the delicacy has spread around the country. Even delta people now have Egusi peppersoup.

The only thing that’s spread is the word egusi itself. Egusi’s been in Igboland since time immemorial. Especially in Anambra State.

vioment:
One thing about naijans, is that when determined above the sky is the limit. We are too intelligent to be okay with running the country too foolishly. I wished we were at the levels of the countries that came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th.

Nah. This thing applies to Igbos and Igbos alone.

Other tribes aren’t dynamic to that extent.

binasdina:
that's a lie nothing like that in Edo state

Did the article say Edo or Enugu?

I wonder how many people won’t take any of that seriously because it’s a woman talking.

DejiSantos:
Why do you say that

There are bigger threats to ala Igbo than women’s empowerment. Not being funny. And you might want to familiarise yourself with pre-colonial gender relations in Igboland over Victorian ideas that were forced from a foreign land.

And you might also want to learn to type a bit more articulately. You’re a big girl/boy. Enough with the three-word questions.

It’s evolving like English did.

Airtime’s such a silly example. What’s the Igbo equivalent for that one then?

No.

Eberejesus111:
Read all your comments, and I must say I'm the most impressed... Well let me bring it down to you, for the Delta Igbos and River Igbos, these sort of groups were primarily Igbos, but had denied their identities based on the onset of the civil war and it's aftermaths. A case study: Rivers igbo, these groups had started denying their cultural names, changing it to English or German names, just to bring home their point, and had also denied any cultural attributes with the Igbos, based on the juicy returns the government of that period would want to give them, so in basic terms "they had sold their identity for a morsel of meat(gains)"...
Anioma/Anoicha likewise.
And as for the prevalence of the said "Yoruba culture having prevalence in the Americas", this could be a mockery,because most African descents in landing in the Americas had been stripped off their culture, and identity, and as for the Igbos, if you could research in history, you'll found out that the Igbos being resisting, and also industrious (had used this kind of trade as a means of making wealth) resisting because the colonist couldn't impose their rules on them, they were tiring to govern, and industrious because there was a demand, and the Igbos had to make a supply in that period. This two criteria, had brought in an overlap of igbo slaves in the Americas and also stripping of identities by their colonist. Making what we call Creoles(making British men out of black individuals). The Yorubas came at a latter period, around the 1800's when slavery was being abolished and sentiments of slave emancipation was on the way. In that period, the yorubas, brought their folklore, and traditional practices, in which most slave workers accepted because of its dejavu effects and African culture remembrance.

Meanwhile I’m up there trying to show Igbo world superiority part of which is a compensatation of an advanced direct culture and paziena says anything that isn’t 100% gleaming with ego boosts to be an insult to the Igbo nation because he’s such a fervent nationalist. Zenith of maturity.

Mega-nationalistic idiot.

RedboneSmith:
Assuming this is true (because the Internet is full of shit) which country is it, and shouldn't it be a crime for her to be sleeping with him?

16’s the age of consent in many countries. Not least the UK.

Ziggylady:
Oh interestting!

Interesting that he doesn’t come from one of those insular Yoruba clans. Them ones are the worst.

See the hyper-religiousity in this country. Where was God the other time by the bridge? Snorting coke up in the sky?

Invisible bastard.

dancocity:
It can only be God!

Shut up.

I smoke a pack a day. It is what it is.

If you’re Igbo you’re safe.

pazienza:
Yet we have many people who claimed to be originally Igala, Bini, Chinese, Japanese , who had all been culturally influenced by Ndiigbo to jettison their supposedly sophisticated cultures, for a supposedly primitive Igbo One.
What a paradox.

Anakogheli.

You’re too ... paziena to see what I’m saying. That’s alright. Anyone who wants to listen will listen.

No need to insult when someone says something beyond your mega-nationalistic understanding.

No.

The Igbo race show their world superiority in other ways than direct culture. I’ll end it there.

Eberejesus111:
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Really... OK then... But truly you made no point.

Good thing then that I weren’t talking to you.

pazienza:
Since we had eviscerated the very idea that the survival of Yoruba culture in the new world was as a result of the sophistication or superiority of their culture.

Please, can you list concrete reasons and examples to prove Yoruba culture sophistication over the Igbo.

Isn't it ironic that in an era when people are claiming that they were Binis who mere interactions with Igbo people resulted in them assimilating Igbo culture in terms of Language, Market days, ancestral god's, and names, some one like you that support such views would still come forward to project the jaundiced opinion that a culture capable of robbing its neighbors of their own natural language and ways of life, without use of force or coercion, is an inferior culture?

You need to keep your thoughts and narratives straight, bro.

I could go long and deep into it but then I remembered this is paziena we’re talking about. No point.

Igbo culture at base level is primitive. And that’s exacrly what makes the Igbo nation such a great one. That’s not something you’ll find out by current empirical research. You’ve got to be a certain type of person to understand certain things about Igbo and wider world civilisation and culture. You definitely won’t see it with overly objective-lens.

Eberejesus111:
to me you hadn't really made any point.

This thing’s not for you.

pazienza:
You are not making any sense, I hope you know that, right?

There is nothing whatsoever to prove Yoruba culture being more sophisticated or advanced than those of Ndiigbo, if you hold unto this opinion, then by everymeans do, but don't for once think they could pass for anything other than ignorance driven jaundiced opinion and don't pretend to speak for Ndiigbo, for no true Igbo man holds such opinion.

Bigfrancis had already explained why Yoruba culture survived in Americas, While in contrast, the Igbo, Kongo, Malian, etc cultures barely survived, now you can go on to continue believing that this happened dude to phantom sophistication and superiority of Yoruba culture that you can't prove, or you can simply accept the logical and rational explanations Bigfrancis21 offered.

Yoruba culture is more sophisticated and advanced than Igbo culture because Yoruba people are more deeply rooted in culture. Igbos are more dynamic. Fact. End.

I know a guy like you won’t agree but I made a plain point up there. Igbo world influence is mirrored across the globe in many different ways. Not in direct culture.

You can carry on being the fanatical nationalist that you are and claiming everything for yourself or you can look at it from another perspective and admit that Igbo doesn’t need to have the most influential or refined direct culture to be the progenitor of world civilisation as a whole.

German, Jewish, Indian, Italian and especially Yoruba cultures are direct expressions of Igbo in more ways than someone like you could imagine. Igbo mustn’t be the obvious dominant black cultural force in the diaspora for that to happen. Our cultural influence is more subtle.

pazienza:
Goes to show how impervious to reasoning and common sense some people can be, if you had to produce this reply to justify a very wrong conclusion of Igbo culture being weaker than Yoruba culture, as ignorantly propagated by redbone, despite plethora of evidence produced by Bigfrancis and other posters here to explain the reasons for the seemingly dominance of Yoruba religion and cultural imprints in the Americas.

I can't come online to boast of how much I had contributed to Ndiigbo, but I'm damn sure that people who believe Igbo culture is inferior to that of any group are completely incapable of contributing to Igbo uplifltment, for one can't offer what one lacks.

Sometimes the best things in life need to hold onto certain primitive features. That’s something that’s directly opposed to advancement but that’s the point.

Some latent Igbotic tendencies come to their fullest expression in the Yoruba. Definitely doesn’t mean the parent tribe’s behind on the whole. Just in certain areas.

Igbo culture doesn’t need to be as advanced or sophisticated as Yoruba culture because we’re not as deeply rooted in culture as a people and that’s because we don’t need to be. Dynamism and conservation are two opposed qualities meant for two different people. Parralels, equivalents.

One nation can’t have it all.

RedboneSmith:
Even the woman co-ordinating this doesn't know what 'mgbanwe' means. The light-skinned girl asked her if it was change as in money and she said yes.

They’re not like us. They’re nothing more than a young Brit off-shoot when it comes down to it. Try as they do.

How many fatalities?

Whichever but it’s more of an Igbo thing.

I only do green garden eggs.