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Politics / Re: Full And Unredacted Case File Of Tinubu's Drug Money Seizure - David Hundeyin by RedboneSmith(m): 5:04pm On Jul 18, 2022 |
YungMillionaire: You can't be a Tinubu supporter and be talking about people's looks. The irony is too rich. Must be crack, or (Tinubu's) heroin. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Full And Unredacted Case File Of Tinubu's Drug Money Seizure - David Hundeyin by RedboneSmith(m): 4:58pm On Jul 18, 2022 |
thebosstrevor1: Una funny for this country. Laundering money for a drug trafficking ring = being involved in drug business = being a drug criminal. 4 Likes |
Culture / Re: Fact About Pa Idu by RedboneSmith(m): 3:21pm On Jul 18, 2022 |
Idu as a historical person is very unlikely. Idu is an exonym, a name given to Benin by Igbo people. It is an Igbo term (with Igbo meanings), and not an Edo term. It's re-invention as a person is likely the result of latter-day mythopoesis. 5 Likes |
Culture / Re: Igbo Ukwu Kingdom Existed Before The Birth Of Abraham by RedboneSmith(m): 2:51pm On Jul 17, 2022 |
IbileIfe: You need to spend many many more years studying history before you can talk about it. Because frankly you are just jumbling a lot of things up! Like, I do not even know where to begin correcting you on the chronology mistakes you keep making. The stone age findings at Okigwe, Afikpo, Nsukka etc are older than "Abraham". But the bronze findings from Igbo-Ukwu ARE NOT! I put "Abraham" in inverted commas because it seems you understand that Abraham might have been a myth. If however we accept him to be a historical figure, there is no way we can place him as late as the later half of the first millennium AD, which is where radiocarbon dating places Igbo-Ukwu. By the later half of the first millennium AD, Christianity, the daughter-religion of Judaism (a religion associated in its early more primitive days with Abraham) was already a world religion, which means that we cannot place a historical Abraham anywhere near as late as the first millennium AD. Simple logic! Stop throwing around words like "the Bronze Age" when you don't really understand the context that they are used in world history. The Middle East/Europe entered the Bronze Age long before the use of bronze was recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africans (outside of Kush) learnt to work iron quite early, but didn't use bronze until much later in their history, in the centuries after Christ. For this reason, Sub-Saharan Africans didn't have a true bronze age, because we went from the stone age straight into the iron age; whereas, Eurasians went from a stone age to a bronze age and finally to an iron age. I doubt that you'll even understand what I am saying, given how screwed up your understanding of history is. Policy makers in this country really messed up by not taking history education serious, leaving people to miseducate themselves on the internet. 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: Igbo Ukwu Kingdom Existed Before The Birth Of Abraham by RedboneSmith(m): 11:37pm On Jul 16, 2022 |
IbileIfe: LOL. So many things to unpack here. First of all, it appears you don't understand chronology. 11th century BC came before 9th century BC. So, by your own dating, Abraham still came before Igbo-Ukwu. Secondly, you say the white people lied about the age of Igbo-Ukwu. Alright. Did you carry out an independent radiocarbon-dating or any other form of dating of the archaeolgocal sites and came up with a date older than the ones obtained by Thurstan Shaw? If you did, why didn't you publish your findings? If you published your findings, where can one read it? 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Meet The Hausa Man Who Can Speak Igbo Fluently by RedboneSmith(m): 6:32pm On Jul 16, 2022 |
Ndibunna: Same thing I was thinking. There are lots of Igbos who speak fluent Hausa. They (the Hausas) don't consider it a big deal over there. In fact, some of them expect you to know their language, while they generally have no interest in yours. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Igbo Ukwu Kingdom Existed Before The Birth Of Abraham by RedboneSmith(m): 5:09pm On Jul 16, 2022 |
Abraham was born in the 11th century AD? Do you understand what you just wrote? |
Culture / Re: Let Us Try To Give Etymology To Common Yoruba Words by RedboneSmith(m): 4:16am On Jul 15, 2022 |
YonkijiSappo: According to Isola Olomola, Owa comes from an archaic Yoruba word for 'great house'. The word still survives in the ikedu records, where we find Owigho (Owa Igho) meaning "House of Money". Note that the ancient Egyptians also used a word that meant 'great house' (i.e., Pharoah) to refer to their rulers. Also, the word 'obi' used in Anioma area of Delta State to refer to kings has a similar meaning. Interestingly, the word for 'house' in Edo areas is still Owa. |
Culture / Re: The Groups Of People That Make Up Ijaw (photos). by RedboneSmith(m): 8:53pm On Jul 13, 2022 |
UGBE634:Well, if the Esan then agrees that they are Ijaw and joins Ijaw National Congress (the way Obolo and these other groups have), who are we to tell them what to do with their lives and identities? |
Culture / Re: Evolution Of Ohali Royal Stool by RedboneSmith(m): 8:50pm On Jul 05, 2022 |
Ohali and Nwajari. These sound like some names we use in Anioma. Ohai and Nwajeri or Nwajei. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: The Groups Of People That Make Up Ijaw (photos). by RedboneSmith(m): 10:02am On Jul 05, 2022 |
GreatBoss: You all left the person who asked a perfectly reasonable (but apparently an uncomfortable) question to come and pile on me. Clowns. Please, answer his/her question. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: The Groups Of People That Make Up Ijaw (photos). by RedboneSmith(m): 7:55am On Jul 05, 2022 |
Ebi2233:Eat shit, you uncomprehending buffoon. Did I argue about the validity of their ethnic cohesion? Was I not simply explaining the linguistic situation to someone who asked a question about it? PS: They are not 'all of one Ancestor' (whatever that means). No ethnic group in the world is 'of one Ancestor', despite what their origin stories might say. 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: The Groups Of People That Make Up Ijaw (photos). by RedboneSmith(m): 5:55am On Jul 05, 2022 |
Maazieze:The peculiar thing about Ijaw 'ethnic' identity is that it doesn't always align with linguistic realities. Indeed, Obolo speak a language that is a close relative of Ibibio. But they are not the only 'Ijaw' group that doesn't speak an Ijaw dialect as their mother tongue. Engenni and Epie are linguistically Edoid subgroups. Abua, Ogbia and Odual speak closely related non-Ijaw dialects collectively called Central Delta languages. Opobo is Igbo-speaking. And the Apoi of the Western Zone don't speak Ijaw, but Yoruba. Omoyele Sowore (notice the Yoruba names) comes from Apoi of the Western Zone. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: History Of Yewa(egbado) by RedboneSmith(m): 4:25pm On Jul 04, 2022 |
Why did they change their name from Egbado to Yewa? Egbado sounds better. |
Culture / Re: History Lesson For A Foreigner? by RedboneSmith(m): 9:31am On Jul 04, 2022 |
Since it's Lagos you're going to, how about you start with the history of Lagos? Historian Kristin Mann wrote an accessible history of the city in precolonial times. http://library.lol/main/9DD23C63D3D5300144E6F5CA4B6209B5 |
Culture / Re: Why Are Igbos Mostly Fair ? by RedboneSmith(m): 8:01pm On Jun 27, 2022 |
blazingblender: It's not. Other parts of Igboland have their own different origin stories. 1 Like 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Why Are Igbos Mostly Fair ? by RedboneSmith(m): 5:22pm On Jun 27, 2022 |
JustPowerApps: I guess they were also bleaching in precolonial days when the relatively high occurrence of light skin tone was observed among them in the Americas, leading to the expression "Red Ibo". 3 Likes 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Why Are Igbos Mostly Fair ? by RedboneSmith(m): 4:44pm On Jun 27, 2022 |
blazingblender: Unless you are from an Umueri town (Aguleri, Nteje, Nando and co.,) you are not descended from Eri. And you are not descended from Israelites either. It's high time we stopped promoting the legend of a small corner of Igboland into the national origin story of the whole Igbo "nation". 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: Yorubá History by RedboneSmith(m): 8:55am On Jun 22, 2022 |
AlvaroRios: Have you read Prof Akintoye's "A History of the Yoruba People"? |
Culture / Re: Names Of Some Animals In Isoko Language Of Delta State by RedboneSmith(m): 9:38am On Jun 21, 2022 |
Prettygirl200: What does Igbide oral traditions say about the origins of the clan? Care to share? |
Politics / Re: Likes for Peter Obi. Shares for Atiku Abubakar. by RedboneSmith(m): 1:52am On Jun 03, 2022 |
duro4chang: But polls are. No one said this was an election. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Tambuwal Is The Most Deserving To Be The Vice President Of Atiku by RedboneSmith(m): 3:18pm On May 30, 2022 |
North-North ticket. Okay. A very smart political move. Give yourself a pat on the back. |
Culture / Re: The Original History Of Arochukwu... From The Exact Source by RedboneSmith(m): 1:28pm On May 27, 2022 |
Mods, bigfrancis21, Fulaman, Odumchi. Could you please unhide my comment here that was hidden by the spambot. Thanks. |
Culture / Re: The Original History Of Arochukwu... From The Exact Source by RedboneSmith(m): 8:29am On May 26, 2022 |
DitariDisciple2: Nonsense. Let me see a reference. And don't bring a nationalistic Ijaw website. There are scores of those floating around online. 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: The Original History Of Arochukwu... From The Exact Source by RedboneSmith(m): 12:07am On May 26, 2022 |
Alabo7978: Known by who? Ijaw nationalists? From your moniker I can tell you are Ijaw. It is hardly surprising that you would make these unfounded claims, given your ethnic persuasion and what is known of your people's not-so-subtle expansionist agenda. Now while Egbema and Oguta do indeed mention migrations from outside Igboland in their traditions, neither of them points to Ijawland. They point to Benin. Oru-Igbo doesn't mean Ijaw. I am aware that you people seem to think that Oru points exclusively to Ijaw origin, but along the Niger, Olu or Oru simply means a riverine clan, whether they be Igbo, Ijaw or Igala. The term is geographic and nothing more. No Egbema or Oguta source mentions Ijawland as a point of origin. It's only on Ijaw-centric, Ijaw expansionist, Ijaw nationalistic sites that these lies are peddled. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: The Original History Of Arochukwu... From The Exact Source by RedboneSmith(m): 3:14pm On May 25, 2022 |
Alabo7978: Who told you this? |
Culture / Re: Ipob And Precolonial "Igboland" by RedboneSmith(m): 9:36am On May 24, 2022 |
IgbuduMonkey: This part I will strongly, very strongly, disagree with. In the 21st century, an Igbo ethnic identity is as real as the earth that you stand on. That something didn't exist yesterday doesn't mean it cannot exist today. Every ethnic group today arose from different groups who at some point in in the past didn't recognize a common identity. The English? At one point, they were Jutes and Angles and Saxons and Frisians and even Danes. Disparate groups who in the course of their common history slowly evolved a common identity and took the name of one of the melding groups (Angles) as their common name. The Zulus? Until the adventures of Shaka, Zulu was the name of a small clan. There were several clans in the area with their own names and identities, until fighting in Shaka's army instilled in them a common brotherhood which in time led to the development of a common Zulu identity. It's the same story with practically every modern ethnic grouping of considerable size: Shona, Yoruba, Hausa, Lingala, Ijaw, etc. In the course of the 20th century, the different Igbo-speaking groups of Southeastern Nigeria under colonial and early post-colonial pressures forged an Igbo ethnic identity, and that identity is as real as the gadget you are using to read this. Na person wey no know wetin ethnogenesis mean dey call am 'pseudo'. All that is needed for an ethnic group to exist is for the people involved to have a strong conviction that they are one people, with a common history (real or imagined) and a common destiny. No one will argue that the Igbo of the Southeast do not possess this. And about different Igbo clans fighting and enslaving one another, please. In the 19th century, no group in this country was fighting and enslaving their brethren from other subgroups like the Yoruba. Nobody today argues that Yoruba ethnic identity is not real. Before Usman dan Fodio's jihad, the different Hausa city-states warred against one another: Gobir against Katsina, Kano against Zazzau, Zamfara against Kebbi, everyone against everyone else. Nobody argues that Hausa ethnic identity is not real. These your 'hot takes' on the Igbo, while sometimes containing a kernel of a bright idea are always full of, excuse my language, nonsense. 3 Likes |
Culture / Re: Are All Human Races One Species? by RedboneSmith(m): 8:02am On May 24, 2022 |
Awoleesu: No. There's still a little controversy about how Neanderthals should be classified. They are generally classifed as Homo neanderthalensis , which would mean that they are a different species [since their species name, neanderthalensis, is different from ours, which is sapiens.] Other taxonomists however classify them as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, which will mean that they are the same species as us, Homo sapiens sapiens, but not the same subspecies. In contrast, all modern humans are the same species and the same subspecies (Homo sapiens sapiens. Whichever taxonomy you go with, Neanderthals are not exactly the same as modern humans. But this raises the question: how come many modern-day Europeans have Neanderthal DNA? Because Neanderthal DNA among Europeans means that Homo sapiens sapiens played hanky panky with Neanderthals the natural way, and produced viable non-sterile offspring. If we say that this is only possible with animals of the same species, then it should mean Neanderthals and us are the same species. Well, not exactly. Genetic studies have actually shown that relations between humans and Neanderthals only rarely proved successful and that in cases where they were successful, the offspring was often sterile. Virile Neanderthal-Sapiens hybrid were not as common as one might think. See this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4072735 Also, and perhaps more important than the previous point, Neanderthal DNA has been sequenced and compared to the DNA of extant human types. We are actually very different from them on a genetic level. 4 Likes |
Culture / Re: Are All Human Races One Species? by RedboneSmith(m): 7:38pm On May 23, 2022 |
Many people have already explained what a specie is here, so no need for me to rehash. By the scientific definition of specie, all races of mankind belong to one and the same species. There are no questions about this. And for people who might read too much into the physical differences between the different races of humans, always remember this: German Shephards, Doberman pinschers, Rottweilers,Pitbulls, your local Ekuke (Basenji), and all hundreds of other breeds of dogs, may look very different from one another, but they are all ONE SPECIES. They are all Canis lupus familiaris 4 Likes |
Culture / Re: Twenty Reasons Why Queen Amina Of Zaria Never Existed by RedboneSmith(m): 11:11am On May 20, 2022 |
IbileIfe: Point 3 is factually incorrect. Islam penetrated Hausa land as early as the 14th century. And Hausa rulers with Islamic/Arabic names predate the 16th century, Mohammed Rumfa of Kano being a notable example. Some of the other points are weak as well. If we argue that Amina doesn't exist because there are no contemporary written records that mentioned her, then by the same token we can argue that most of the celebrated figures of Nigerian history before the coming of the Europeans didn't exist, since there are equally no contemporary documents mentioning them. As usual Dr Ndagi Adullahi is writing with an agenda. He subtly sneaks in his pan-Nupe agenda in point 10. Those of us who have been following his harebrained writings know what he is up to. 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: Twenty Reasons Why Queen Amina Of Zaria Never Existed by RedboneSmith(m): 11:02am On May 20, 2022 |
OloYeOfEgbE: The writer of the article (Ndagi Abdullahi) isn't Igbo. The OP who shared it here isn't Igbo. The word Igbo doesn't appear even once in the article. But you don drag Igbo enter the discussion. This obsession is not healthy oh. 2 Likes |
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