₦airaland Forum

bigfrancis21:
Lol. I hear you sir.

Loud and clear. Anything to put Igbo in prominence, huh.

Someone ban this onye ara.

ewa26:
looks a foolish and disgusting idea!

liquid smoke, you wan give people cancer in the name of Jollof Rice o di egwu!

Go and eat your ogiri vanilla coconut rice with vinegar and okporoko. Garnished with your own poo.

Ewu.

bigfrancis21:
Ok, that's interesting. This Ukwuani sounds more similar to Anambra Igbo.

I was able to find this song, an Ukwuani song I presume. Fast forward to 1:30. The lady says, 'Iyu fululi...'. I used to think that the word for you (first person) in Ukwuani was 'iyu' (for 'I'). I could be wrong though but listen and tell me what you think.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHVDH3Chw2M&list=PL0126DD85164FF1CA

http://www.gestaltreality.com/2013/02/03/archetypal-masculine-feminine-forces-the-key-to-creation/

Frankie. Thought that would be right up your street innit. Read it in your own time.

opella:
kudos, I don't know whether i can find the liquid smoke here in naija, I will check spar and shoprite for it.

As a word of caution I can't stress enough how much it's got to be pure liquid smoke. Wright's is the best brand. It's the only all natural liquid smoke out there.

merahki:
I learnt something great here (for whenever I will make jollof rice/more likely to tell someone to do this though)- the ginger extract to blend the peppers and tomatoes with is a brilliant idea...
...I already can guess at the awesome tasty smokiness of it all

Then the fact that there was no garlic sent me to heaven too
@Probz...well done to you and that lady

2 questions? Why use tomatoe purée instead of all fresh like we would do? I feel it has to do with colouring the rice? And also why was the foil used?
Good night all
This was enough to make me break my vow of being a silent viewer/voyeu.r of the thread, yes?

Question 1 - like you say it's all in the colouring. There's lots of things you can do to boost the popping red colour of jollof rice but the most obvious is using that conc. tomato paste (aka De Rica). It makes the red stew thicker too. You know how light and watery stews are no good for jollof. It needs to have some body to it and that's another benefit of that tomato paste.

Foil just traps all the steam in. Helps it cook more uniformly if you know what I mean. You ain't gotta worry about that if your pot's got a good vent cover still.

I'm the same re. garlic. I get why some people like it in jollof rice and stews but don't use it when you're cooking for a crowd 'cause it's one of them innit. You either love or loathe it. It's like marmite.

opella:
Are you the Obinna?

Yup. That’s my name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSjjfRKQT-A

Our Flo’s praising my idea to the high heavens on that video. Do this liquid smoke thing if you still haven’t tried it.

Fareedadey:
Can u call me

You’ll have to email me your number then won’t you.

I tried to help you but you went directly against my advice and ignored what I told you to do. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed.

LaudateII:
You are right. The jet was hired.

Someone got himself banned again.

It’s not that popular but it exists sha. E dey for ala Igbo (at least Nsukka).

Konquest:
^^^^^^
^^^^^^
@Probz

Impressive!

Thanks for doing "maximum justice" in with your
post! I have learned some profound info in this post. And by the way - I like the fact that you write in a very lucid
and neat manner from top to bottom!


About the profile pics - now I get it...
I thought you are from Arochukwu in Abia State
based on that dressing... it's all good.


The "Beke or Bekee/William Baike" definition comes from Wikipedia
but then those of use Wikipedia as Editors know FULL WELL that Wikipedia
isn't even regarded as a reliable source for
accurate information because of entry
vandalisms
and anybody can just log in and edit biographical/political/historical
entries with falsehoods/propaganda.


This is the reason why educational institutions
in the Western world do NOT ACCEPT Wikipedia
entries as references in project/research work.


It is indeed interesting getting to study
how languages and cultures evolve and
influence one another worldwide.
For example along the border areas, you will
find an intermingling/borrowing of words or languages in Nigeria: God is known by the Efik/Ibibio as "Abasi" and the Ibo use "Obasi" for God as well in "Central Ibo."



Thanks again.

All the best!

Mhm. Tell me more about Eastern Yorubaland and oyibo.

I don’t look loads different to the guy in my PP by the way. Just darker skinned. Lool. And what he’s wearing is something I myself would and do wear.

Konquest:
^^^^^
^^^^^
OK... Onye Ibo [Ibo Person] is correct!
"Oyibo" in Ibo is said to be derived from
"Onye Ibo" or "Ibo Person"!


How then does "Onye Ibo" [Ibo Person] TRANSLATE to mean a "White Person or
White man?"

It DOESN'T make SENSE to me!



1. How was "Oyibo" evolved by Ibos?
What is the etymology or origin?

How does this compare with the
following Ibo-derived words for
"White man?"


A. Onye-Ocha/Ndi Ocha[White man] which is the
standard Ibo term for White man

B. Bekee[White man], which was derived from
the LAST name of a Scottish explorer by the
name of William Baikie who FIRST visited West Africa/Nigeria in 1854!



2. Like I stated, "Oyinbo" [White man] etymology or
origin in Yoruba is:
Oyin+Bo= Honey+Peel [Peeled Brown Skin].


The Itsekiris, some Eastern Yoruba dialects, Urhobos, Isokos
use "Oyibo" to refer to "White man."
In Edoland, "Ebo" I learnt refers to "White man."



Last but not least, @Probz, are you from
Arochukwu? I deduced from "your" dressing
and profile pics that you might be. There are some questions
about Aro history[which I have read in the past for years
now] that I want to ask later from a FIRST-HAND
source
because I love learning about different
cultures/histories worldwide.



All the best and happy Sunday to you!

All I know is I was literally born and oyibo was being used for anything and everything to do with the white man in the Anambra/Enugu/Delta Igbo axis and I'm only a few years away from 30. I'm sure it didn't magically pop up into existence in 80s/90s. It might just be one of those ejime-ejire-type scenarios. None was directly loaned from the other but we share the word together through Igala while the ultimate etymology's Yoruba. That's fine. You won't see me heavily debating the origin of the word oyi(n)bo on here but I think it's just shared. It's not a 21st century pidgin loan word like some people on here make out.

I know Edos use ebo for white man, yh. I didn't know anywhere in the Eastern flank of Yorubaland use oyibo. I was watching this video of an Akoko Ondo lady speaking something in her conc.-arse dialect and she used oyinbo (and she said that word more than once). And is the Ekiti equivalent not eyinbo?

I'm not from Arochukwu, nah. It's not even me in that profile picture. I could bore you with a lengthy story of my maternal and paternal ancestries but not one of them ties me to that side of Igboland. I'm a full-blooded Anambra nigga. Links to Nsukka and Igala but nowhere in Imo State. And likewise literally no one in Nigeria outside of southern Igboland calls the white man bekee. It's exclusively an Abia/Imo thing. Onye ocha's the central standardised way of calling a white man specifically but people from northern and western Igboland (Enugu through to Asaba) don't know anything other than oyibo. You'll never, ever hear anyone from Ogwashi Ukwu or Awka calling a white man bekee. Never. It's genuinely a foreign word to us.

Oh and it's a myth that bekee derives from William Baike's surname. I can't remember the name of the Tumblr account who posted the evidence but it's actually been proven that that bekee was used in some form or other before Baike was even born so that's that theory out of the window. Either it's a contraction of either bia i ike ["he (the white man) has come to divide" in Igbo] or mbracka (Efik-Ibibio for white man) or it was copied from somewhere. But it's nothing at all to do with William Baike.

I know those jute leaves (ewedu) go by different names in Igbo (kekeren, ahira) - anyone know how to cook the Igbo version of ewedu soup?

JoshMedia:
Before posting here nau.

Anyway, you don chop am, go wash the plate

I’ll present the soup however I want. We’re not all ajebos.

JoshMedia:
You should have at least molden the EBA nau

You try sha

Am I now presenting to a 5-star continental restaurant?

donblazer10:
your father

Your mother’s vagina.

donblazer10:
come shut am nah..shit eater

Oloshi oloribukuru.

Everyone has their off days in the kitchen. Today was one of my off days. Just one of them innit. No need to get yourselves all vexed up.

Cynate:
Did you put all the leafs? Na bitter leafs?
That's too much
Sorry to say

It’s ugu. I know it’s too much. You won’t get any arguments from me there.

donblazer10:
wtf is this shit...

Shut your mouth.

Some will say it doesn’t look appetising, that they can make a better one than this. I don’t give a f*ck.

It’s okro soup gone wrong but it’s still tasty enough.

ewa26:
Pls just one last question oo, erm how will I get about wearing the shimi under the wrapper so as to avoid looks from ignorant people who don’t know that it’s quite appropriate for men?

also what colour should the shimi be and what examples of men wearing shimi-like garments across d world

Shimi’s worn underneath the wrapper so it’s not like anyone would know about it either way.

Colour black. No florals or fancy decoratives.

Scottish and Irish men sometimes wear kilt liners (essentially half-shimi) under their kilts. Arabic/Muslim men wear an izaar (half-shimi) under their thobe gown. It’s done all over the world. It’s no more of a gendered thing than wrappers are. Just natural underclothes. Anyone who says they’re for women alone’s obviously been brainwashed by westernisation.

Like I say that’s enough. Wear it.

gbbec:
Coconut moi moi, make sense die!
D moi moi itself na complete diet with meat, fish, egg, grated coconut, shrimps, liver etc

Moimoi with 9 lives!!! That's what I intend cooking this Christmas with other things for my family

Except I don’t like eggs. Sounds good.

ewa26:
Sorry Hun, please would you wear d shimi underneath d wrapper because you say you wear wrapper and do you consider it appropriate for men?

I would. Shimi is no more masculine or feminine than wrapper. Like I say there's nowhere in the world that wore bifurcated trunks more than 300 years ago and men all over the world still wear wrapper and shimi. Only ignorant people would call it cross dressing.

That's enough now. No more questions about shimi/wrapper.

pressplay411:
Most feminists are from only girls families or raised by single mothers.
Raise a girl right and she would never consider herself equal to a man but only sue for equal rights and opportunities.
Imagine complimenting a girl that she drives so good like a man. Biko is this not a good compliment? A freaking feminist finds this offensive.
But don't worry, we understand your problem, Feminism is all these single girls explanation of why they're not yet married.
You'll never see a married girl shouting I'm a feminist.
When reality dawns on you that all your friends are married, you will become a masculinist by force. Oshi.

Wow.

Olu317:
Not really necessary for such words. The man was only appreciative of what he saw as an information..... Easy!

Shut up your stinking mouth.

Konquest:
^^^^^
^^^^^
@ewa26


Urhobos also have "Oyibo" as surnames just like they have
"Okoro" as surnames. Even some Yorubas have "Okoro" as surnames
and they have different meanings to the Ibo "Okoro!"


However the word "Oyinbo" of Yorubas is NOT the same
as "Oyibo" of Ibos.


I clearly explained the meaning/origin of "Oyinbo" in my last post
on this thread and you can READ it carefully below:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Figuratively the BROWN SKIN["Honey-coloured" or "Oyin"]
gets PEELED["Bo"] in Yoruba.


Oyin+Bo [IN Yoruba means HONEY+PEEL]


"Oyinbo" is a Yoruba word meaning
PEELED honey[BROWN HUMAN SKIN].

When you REMOVE the OUTER BROWN layer of the
Nigerian person's skin, due to hot water burn
or hot oil burn as an EXAMPLE, the SKIN TURN WHITE!


Oyin+Bo
Yoruba II English
-------------------
1. OYIN, [Honey]
2. BO, [Peel]


The African skin complexion is BROWN like honey!


Figuratively the BROWN SKIN["Honey-coloured" or "Oyin"]
gets PEELED["Bo"] in Yoruba.

~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Meanwhile "Oyibo" to the Ibos simply means "Ibo People/Person"
and does NOT refer to "White People."

Ibos call white people "Onye Ocha" or "Bekee"


All the best!

Point of correction: onye Igbo means Igbo person. Oyibo means white man.

hornyofife:
we flock there to economically colonize you, the same way chinese and indians do...

Dont forget, igbos, chinese, Indians, Germans and jews have been listed as the most intelligent races in the world by international scholars....they are called middle minorities.. go and read more about middle minorities or Black Rednecks and White Liberals written by Thomas Sowell who is the world most respected hereditary economics...he is an American, not an afonja

Races with traits like that of middle minorities are always victims of jealousy and attacks from their neighbours..so your jealousy is well understood

LMAO. I’m igbo myself. I’m just into facts and not ego-massaging lies.

What a world.

[quote author= post=62854295]Southwest has the worst cities in southern region, outside Lagos own by all, Abakilike is far ahead of Osogbo, Ado ekiti, Abeokuta and Akure.[/quote]So why do people flock to Ibadan and Eko instead of anywhere in Ebonyi State?

I’m another Anambra first son but I don’t like seeing ndi beanyi telling blatant lies for the sake of saving face or soothing their egos. There’s no way the East is more developed than the west and that’s a hard fact. Play to your our strengths instead of pretending that our level of urbanisation is the most advanced in the country.

And you should’ve mentioned Owerri or Enugu if you wanted to prove your point. Abakaliki’s ratchet as ratchet comes. Don’t use the capital that’s got the worst reputation among even fellow Igbos to prove your point.