Sorry, bu this video is very misleading. You people keep presenting Igboland as one society that is still in the 1800s. Most of these customs mentioned here are either outmoded and people no longer pay any attention to them. The rest are only true of specific areas of Igboland but here you've generalised them.

Videos like this are the reason why there are people who legit believe they will be eaten if they go to Enugu. Y'all should do better.

Dmj28:


Yeah it's black men who don't recognize me or being the same ethnic background with them. So yeah no the truth is when I show a Fulani people that I have shown here cuz usually don't receive them as black they receive them as indian. So if black people can't even act as nice when it's black unless you tell them what they are and then in your heads you trying screw it in your heads to think that they're black too. And obviously you don't recognize them as you're saying rays looking at them. Maybe it was a good idea that caucasians to pick them under the Caucasian category.

Not trying to be funny or anything, but I literally don't understand anything you said here. Your country in Africa is probably Francophone.

OP, why do I feel you don't hang out with a lot of black people, and date white dudes (or chicks, depending on how you roll) exclusively.

Dmj28:


Yes we are I remember seeing that about the wolof on my DNA test well actually my mom's. That still got nothing to do with the way society perceived us the language spoken in America is English across the board what Caucasian is defined by is being a native of north Africa Middle East east or European and Caucasian cranial structrue

What percentage Eurasian (North African, Middle Eastern, etc) showed up on your DNA tests, or your mom's?

bigfrancis21:


I’m not sure if Igbo names for those animals exist. Ancient Igbos gave names to those things which they encountered/interacted with. Pandas are from Asia I think and did not exist in ancient Igboland. The closest to panda would be chimpanzee which Igbos call Ozodimgba, partly in reference to their tendency to fight/wrestle. Maybe a modification of Ozodimgba could give rise to a name for Panda. For eg Ozodiocha.

You don't understand why I asked him that question.

Christistruth00:

Fulani are Black Africans mixed with Berbers that met Somewhere between Senegal and Mauritania

around the 7th Century


https://www.modernghana.com/news/349849/who-are-the-fulani-people-their-origins.html

The truth. The Fulani are related to the Wolof and the Serer, and these were all black African groups living in the Senegal area. At some point in history the Fulani were infiltrated by Berber pastoralists from the North, who are responsible for the lighter skin tone and narrow features of some, but definitely not all, modern Fulani people. They still speak a Niger-Congo language today rather than a Berber language; and this is in keeping with their black African foundational roots.

The idea of Eze Ndị Igbo in diaspora is deeply nauseating. Wearing royal robes and crowns, prancing around and calling yourself 'royal highness' and 'majesty' in a land that is not yours. Ridiculous.

Our kingship typifies simplicity and grace. We wear our monarchy lightly because at heart, we are truly republican.

Obi Christopher Akazue Gbemudu II, the Ogbelani of Illah.

clericuzzio:


I think Odum is Tiger

Can you help me with the Igbo names for panda bear and reindeer?

Moblux:


We are talking about the pre Odùduwà Yorubas history here. Like I said, research is on going...Ghost DNA could be of great help...this is not claiming any ethnic superiority...After all there is a fairly big town in Yoruba land that is of Delta origin and they proudly call themselves Yorubas

So no evidence whatsoever. Not in oral tradition, not in language. Nothing. Okay. Got it.

Dmj28:


I don't think they shoot black people indiscriminate nately it's those that follow a certain subculture but you'll find white people who follow that subculture have the same problem.

I know where you're going with this. Amadou Diallo was not a 'thug'. Man was literally just standing in front of his house, when the cops showed up with the usual racial profiling of him looking like a rape suspect. The only difference between him and countless white people who stand around their homes without getting shot is his skin color.

Dmj28:


Even racists white people can see we're Caucasian. And I'll say that's definitely true when they're racist they don't normally go straight to talking about being black but being mena heritage ergo the whole sand N slur. And other epithets.

Even the racist whites can see you're Caucasian?

Mehn, quite playing! Racist whites won't even recognize an Indo-Aryan from India as Caucasian. Italians were even called Guineas (a term that mean Africans or black people) in 1900s White America. They don't see your West African Fulani self as Caucasian. Quit the self-deception.

If they call you sand nigger, it's because of your Muslim-Arabic name and your oriental dressing, and not your phenotype. Try wearing jeans and t-shirt and calling yourself Winston. At best you'd look like a redbone (a light-skinned African-American man) to them. Quit playing.

In any case, I seriously doubt you're Fulani.

You're probably a Horn African pretending to be Fulani (most likely the same Somali troll that plagued this forum for years).

What country in West Africa are you from?

Dmj28:


Lastly hamitic race is simply a subset race of the Caucasian race like Semitic race. All anthropologists have put Fulani tibou and tuaregs as Caucasian with the Hausa Fulani as black africans. Even the Sahara map demonstrates this as it cuts off in northern new her a which means the Fulani aren't even native to sub-Saharan Africa according to the us census anyone native to Saharan Africa is Caucasian.

Again, Hamitic is an outdated term that is no longer in use. Ask any anthropologist, they'll tell you no one in academia uses it anymore. It was used to refer to Afro-Asiatic language families spoken solely in Africa. That is, Ancient Egyptian, Coptic, the Cushitic languages like Somali and Galla, the Chadic languages like Hausa and Angas, and the Berbers languages like Tuareg.

The Fulani don't even speak a language that can be classified as a 'Hamitic' language. They speak a Niger-Congo language, same as most Sub-Saharan Africans like Igbos, Yorubas, Zulus, etc.

It was racists from a past-era that attempted to use 'Hamitic' to mean a racial group, instead of the language super-group that is was. Everywhere in Africa where they found tall skinny people with narrow facial features, they slammed the term 'Hamitic' on them, and tried to claim that they were the 'master race' who civilized the 'backward' Negro types. That was how peoples like the Tutsi, the Maasai and even the Fulani all of whom do not even speak Afro-Asiatic languages got slammed with the term 'Hamites'. And you are feeding into that old school racialism.

Fulanis are not Caucasians.

Moblux:


Oko and Oba in Anambra are of pre Odùduwà Yorùbá origin...though further research still ongoing. There people of Yorùba origin in Sudan through the trade between Sudan and Ejigbomekun market in Ile Ife.

Any sort of evidence for this claim that Oko and Ọ̀bà in Anambra are of Yoruba origin? The slightest bit of evidence other than name similarity would suffice.

Also, what does Ọ̀bà mean in Yoruba?

The white cops who shot and killed the aristocratic Fulani man, Amadou Diallo in New York did not see him as anything but a black man. If you like be there and be deceiving yourself.

Dmj28:


Yes we are.

You're quoting the outdated works of Sergei, a widely discredited colonial racist for me? You're not serious.

Nobody in modern anthropology uses the word Hamites or Hamitic anymore. This is not 1901.

"Why don't people mention that Fulanis are Caucasians..."

Because Fulanis are not Caucasians.

What does this sentence mean:

"Otube mu kpofo alu Obuga."

Specifically, what does Obuga mean?

Olu317:
Okay,I got your point but Gahà was not an ibariba man. Ibariba do not speak Yoruba language talkless of becoming Báṣọ̀rún.

Nigerians seem to be very uncomfortable with acknowledging that their ethnic group received input from their neighbours. But admit it or not, it is a fact that many Bashorun were of non-Yoruba origin. I'm not the one saying; acclaimed Yoruba scholars have written the same thing. Gaa, Magaji, Woruda, Biri, Jambu, Yamba, etc - these men were Bashorun of Old Oyo whose names suggest were not of Yoruba origin.

Chioma4eva:
I mean they toast you for weeks endlessly and try to get your love and attention and when you finally give them the attention and give them the chance to win your heart and maybe after dates and probably sex, they lose interest and go cold. Why is this so? Is love dead in Nigeria?

Love is not dead. If a guy did this to you, he never loved you to start with. He liked what he saw and wanted to tap that. And after he was done tapping that there wasn't much else to hold his interest. The sex probably wasn't even that good for him, or he would have kept coming back. No man ever willingly leaves a good pvzzy.

But, yea, love is there. The one who loves you will stick around.

Traditionally, the first son is the first son (regardless of how he was begotten.)

In these modern times however, most men would most likely disinherit the first son in favour of the one that is biologically his.


In ancient times, a man and his wife might separate for a while (not divorce oh), and the woman would go and have an affair and bear a child. When he eventually reconciled with the woman, that child that was begotten from an affair na still the husband get am. The guy she had the affair with would have no right to come and claim the child.

missidy:
Please I currently I have one bobo from Enugu that likes me and wants a serious relationship. He was born and schooled in the east. I have known him for 5 years now and one thing that stands out about him is that he is stingy. I have seen comments on Instagram before where girls say men from this particular state are that way. Please is it true that Enugu men are stingy? I am afraid he will never change. I am not Igbo so please igbo babes help me out.

Note - please I don't wants any guys comments, only females. I don't have strength for nairaland guys and their rubbish talk.

You ask a question about men and say men shouldn't respond. Haqhaqfuckinghaq.

Yes, Enugu men are stingy. Very stingy. Stay away.

The internet is a toxic place. That's all.

BentizilL:

We accomodate you and your people and that's a fact...
Go back to your region if you're not satisfied with this fact...

Do I look like I live in the southwest or any corner of your accursed country? Lol.

My Igbo brethren will continue to buy up land in Lagos. My brother-in-law has Yoruba tenants in his house in Egbeda. He is the one accommodating them. You can drop from a rope if you don't like it.

BentizilL:
Stop trying to rewrite facts, you're the one that hate other People...
You even hate the Yoruba that accomodate you...

First of all, this "accommodate" story that you people keep spitting has become ridiculous. Unless, I'm living in your house, you're not accommodating me. You are not accommodating an Igbo man that owns his own house and probably has tenants of his own in Ajah or Egbeda.

Same way I am not accommodating an Edo man living in Enugu or an Hausa man in Asaba, unless he is living on my property.

Nigerian nationhood has made it so. If you don't like it, then add your voice to the call for Nigeria to break up, so that you can conceivably call a non-Yoruba living in Lagos a non-citizen, an alien and someone you're accommodating. Until then you are not accommodating any Nigerian living in Nigeria. He is in his fatherland.

Ologbo147:
There is Oza-nogogo in delta state whose language consist of 90% Bini diction and is at the heart of the igbo is speaking areas

Ozanogogo is not at the heart of anything. Ozanogogo is on the periphery of the Ika areas. Only a small river separates them from their Ozanisi brothers in Edo State.

Delta and Edo should do a swap. Edo should take Ozanogogo and give Igbanke to Delta.

sagitariusbaby:
My Pastor is from Oza Nagogo and he said he is a Bini man not Ika, his people are also heavily marginalised in Delta state until recently when Okowa gave them a little respite. Meanwhile no one is stopping you from joining your kits and kins in delta state just leave Edo land behind as you do so.

What does "Edo land" mean? The Igbanke have been where they currently are long before anyone dreamt that there will be an Edo State. The land does not belong to Edo State that was only created yesterday; it belongs to Igbanke people.

And where Igbanke people go (Edo State, Delta State, Anioma State or wherever), the land will go with them.

delpee:


Interesting! I'm surprised actually. I've been to Anambra and Enugu before and assumed they're full Igbo states. Thanks for enlightening me.

Our inlaws from Anambra claim Igbo ancestry with a traditional title attached to the family (Chief). Probably a mixed or acquired heritage based on your analysis.

Surely, you know what this guy wrote is a load of crock.

Igala villages do exist in Anambra and Enugu, but they are a small collection of tiny villages in Anambra West and Ụzọ-Ụwani LGAs. They are so small and so invisible that many people in Anambra and Enugu don't even know they exist. And they are certainly not richer than the Igbo. If anything their areas are impoverished and inaccessible.

akunjohn:




You nailed it, sometimes ago around 1994 to 1996,I was posted to Idah for a road projects with my friends from Ibadan and before we left that place, we've mastered the language very well...they always call us omoyaji...
My colleagues even got married there.
The good old days

This Omoyaji sounds like Iyagi or Ayagi, which is used in parts of Northern Nigeria to mean 'a Yoruba person'. I think it originates from a Nupe exonym for the Yoruba people. In some parts of Anioma you may hear "Nyenji" used for a Yoruba person which originates from the same Nupe expression.

shortIGBOman:


The entire Anambra is IGALA ancestral State, half of Enugu is also Igala. Most of those wealthy people you see as Igbo are actually Igala. The IGALA in Anambra and Enugu are actually richer than the Igbo who live in those areas

The reason why the Igala embrace Igbo language is that, Igbo language is the language of trade in that Region. Just like Hausa is that language of trade in the North. Which forced other minorities in that region to speak Hausa.

A whole lot of gibberish.

samonak:

I am Idoma and my mum is part Igala, so I should know better, there a lot of similar words in Idoma and Igala. Both languages also bear the similar names.

These similarities are because they've been neighbours for centuries and have mixed and borrowed from one another. Lexically, Igala is still closer to Yoruba by far than to Idoma. The closeness between Igala and Yoruba are so much so that experts believe they both separated from a common language stock.