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Culture / Re: Is Hausa Fulani The Only "Non-diabolic" Tribe In Nigeria? by RedboneSmith(m): 2:49pm On May 19, 2022 |
What does diabolical mean? Someone that goes around murdering people when a prophet that has been dead for over 1000 years is insulted is more diabolical than someone that quietly worships his Ogwugwu or his Osun and does nobody any bad. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Who Do You Honestly Believe Is Most Likely To Win 2023 Presidential Election? by RedboneSmith(m): 11:42am On May 06, 2022 |
Tinubu or Atiku will win it, because Nigerians are addicted to suffering. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Alaafin: Traditional Worshippers Frown At Open Display Of Monarch’s Corpse by RedboneSmith(m): 9:58am On Apr 27, 2022 |
Was the Alaafin even a practising Muslim, with his 18 wives? |
Culture / Re: Between Yorubas And Hausas-fulanis, Who Are The Dirtiest People In Nigeria? by RedboneSmith(m): 6:26am On Apr 17, 2022 |
Are there no MODS here anymore ffs?! 3 Likes |
Culture / Re: A Yoruba Nairalander's Son Rock Igbo Attire by RedboneSmith(m): 1:03am On Apr 15, 2022 |
Sweetplum:My dad nutted in you? Is that what you do for a living? |
Culture / Re: A Yoruba Nairalander's Son Rock Igbo Attire by RedboneSmith(m): 12:45am On Apr 15, 2022 |
Sweetplum:Your father is mad. |
Culture / Re: A Yoruba Nairalander's Son Rock Igbo Attire by RedboneSmith(m): 7:14pm On Apr 14, 2022 |
Sweetplum:What is the meaning of this unprovoked display of stupịdity on a positive post such as this one? 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: Why Do The Remaining Igbo State Hate People From Ebonyi State? by RedboneSmith(m): 10:39pm On Apr 12, 2022 |
blackboy: Stereotyping and looking down on some subgroups is an unfortunate but rather commonplace thing in large ethnic groups, where perfect homogeneity of culture and uniform development is absent. Sub-groups that have been more favored by Westernization and Urbanization will tend to look at less fortunate subgroups as 'bush people'. There's nothing particularly Igbo about it. I've lived in the SW, and I know and have heard the things certain subgroups say about other subgroups. 5 Likes |
Culture / Re: Why Do The Remaining Igbo State Hate People From Ebonyi State? by RedboneSmith(m): 8:38pm On Apr 12, 2022 |
Looool. May the lies you people tell in your efforts to throw discord among the Igbo give all of you onu ikputu. Nobody calls Ebonyi people 'osu'. That was the first sign that you are a harbinger of mischief and discord. Because of the development gap between Ebonyi and the other SE states, there was some tendency for Ebonyi people to be looked down on, but that is fast disappearing as Ebonyi State is rapidly developing, especially in the area ot infrastructure. But they were never called OSU at any point. That is a lie some of you in the SW came up with to foment trouble between brothers. 6 Likes |
Culture / Re: Whats The Opinion On People From Delta In Nigeria? by RedboneSmith(m): 11:54pm On Apr 09, 2022 |
JonOfAustrlia: Lol. He meant cunning. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: 100% Of Arrested Hoodlums In Anambra Are Not Anambra Indigenes - Soludo by RedboneSmith(m): 12:25am On Apr 09, 2022 |
CyynthiaKiss: Leave IPOB to keep trying to run the state into the ground. All of you that are supporting this madness going on in the east are full-on retardéd and insane. 5 Likes |
Culture / Re: How The Igbos Falsely Claimed Olaudah Equaino by RedboneSmith(m): 4:00pm On Apr 06, 2022 |
"How the Igbos falsely claimed Olaudah Equiano". (proceeds to post an excerpt from Olaudah where the man himself said he was Eboe) 11 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Ponzi Scheme: Chinmark Investor, Nuella Commits Suicide by RedboneSmith(m): 10:56am On Apr 05, 2022 |
I am skeptical about this. Nuella doesn't have a last name? Doesn't have a picture? How about her Facebook page? Chinmark's victims (sorry, investors) were drawn largely from Facebook, so I'd expect that someone that threw in that sum of money would have a Facebook presence. |
Culture / Re: Have You Ever Met A Shuwa Arab by RedboneSmith(m): 10:44am On Apr 03, 2022 |
It's the Eurocentric ideas of beauty that Negroes have been swallowing like Vitamin C since being invaded by white people that make y'all think Shuwa Arabs are the most beautiful women in Nigeria. Y'all can't seem to keep it together anytime y'all sight light skin, straight nose and straight hair. 9 Likes 2 Shares |
Culture / Re: Will Smith Is A Real Man by RedboneSmith(m): 7:38am On Mar 30, 2022 |
No, he's not. Any man can start a fight (especially with someone he knows he's physically stronger than). It takes a real man to keep his emotions in check. 3 Likes |
Culture / Re: African Languages by RedboneSmith(m): 9:02am On Mar 29, 2022 |
Most African countries don't even use African languages as their official languages. The few that actually list African languages among their official languages (in southern and Eastern Africa) still predominantly use European languages in formal settings. This is what you should address first before going to the UN. 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: What Does Okpolo Mean? by RedboneSmith(m): 11:50am On Mar 26, 2022 |
You didn't indicate the language. I am assuming it's Urhobo/Isoko. In which case okpolo means big. |
Culture / Re: Wike Urges New Oba Of Ogbaland To Emulate His Late Father by RedboneSmith(m): 12:30am On Mar 26, 2022 |
aribisala0: Lol. Typical Omonnakoda. First, I am not IPOB. But I know to some of you, anyone that says anything that is pro-Igbo in the slightest is IPOB. Me that have fought IPOB supporters so hard Igbo nationalists have decided to rip me of my Igboness Second, Professor Emenanjo is not unknown in linguistic circles by any stretch. You don't know him because you don't follow linguistics. The only linguist you know is Williamson. And you only got interested in her and her work because they give you the opportunity to troll Igbos. Third, I said Williamson's work was done "athwart" the Civil War. In English, that means the period close to the beginning and shortly after the Civil War, when anti-Igbo feelings were high. Her study on "Lower Niger languages" came out in 1973. "Lower Niger languages" by the way are what we today call "Igboid" languages. She initially won't even call them a collective name that had "Igbo" in it. Professor Manfredi was the one who introduced "Igboid" as a compromise in 1989, and it stuck. Interesting enough, Williamson did most of her linguistic work in different Ijo dialects. She is more known as an authority in Ijo than in Igbo/Igboid. . She was well aware that all forms of Ijo were not mutually intelligible. Yet she called them Ijo and called them dialects. She didn't try to come up with a neutral term like "Niger Delta languages" the way she did with Igbo/Igboid. By the way, she didn't publish the first Igbo dictionary. French missionaries did. And yes, she interviewed native speakers for her work on the Igbo, because as she herself admitted, she didn't speak the language. Again, her primary area of interest was Ijo. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Wike Urges New Oba Of Ogbaland To Emulate His Late Father by RedboneSmith(m): 8:06pm On Mar 25, 2022 |
aribisala0: Professor Nolue Emenanjo was a notable "EbOe" academic linguist from Delta State, and he disputed Williamson's conclusions. Among other things, Williamson's research was carried out in the period athwart the Civil War, and practically all of the people she interviewed during her fieldwork were "Igbo"-speaking people on the Nigerian side of the conflict. I don't think anyone needs to be reminded that there were real political reasons at the time for people on the periphery of "Igbosphere" to dissociate themselves from the "core." Just pointing this out. 3 Likes |
Culture / Re: Wike Urges New Oba Of Ogbaland To Emulate His Late Father by RedboneSmith(m): 6:51pm On Mar 24, 2022 |
ChebeNdigboCalm: Leave that troll. Old Intelligence reports and colonial writings record Eze Ogba and never Oba. Oba in Ogbaland is post-1967. 4 Likes |
Culture / Re: What Is Igbo? by RedboneSmith(m): 10:31am On Mar 24, 2022 |
A linguistic group. Like Celts or Slavs or Nguni or Akan. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Wike Urges New Oba Of Ogbaland To Emulate His Late Father by RedboneSmith(m): 5:44am On Mar 24, 2022 |
Tranquill: Oga, lie nsi. Lijuo nsi onu. 6 Likes |
Culture / Re: Wike Urges New Oba Of Ogbaland To Emulate His Late Father by RedboneSmith(m): 8:35pm On Mar 23, 2022 |
MyopicMods: They've started saying Oba gha to kpere in Ogba, too? Changing the title of the ruler from Eze Ogba to Oba wasn't enough, I see. Lol. Even other "Igboid" kingdoms that are far more Benin-like in their political structure than Ogba haven't gone quite as far yet. The complex is strong in these ones. 5 Likes |
Culture / Re: Accent Challenge (british Vs India) by RedboneSmith(m): 5:46pm On Mar 23, 2022 |
Awww. Trevor Noah called. He wants his joke back. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: A Nigerian Man With 18 Accent by RedboneSmith(m): 5:42pm On Mar 23, 2022 |
Iziduhjoseph5: All I can say is keep practising. This was hilarious. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Ochichi: A Possible Example Of 'igbonization' In The Etche-ikwerre Area? by RedboneSmith(m): 10:01pm On Mar 22, 2022 |
What does Ochichi mean in the Etche/Ikwerre land? Does it mean rulership? |
Culture / Re: Comprehensive List Of Animals In Igbo Language by RedboneSmith(m): 3:04am On Mar 22, 2022 |
noobsaibot2: There they go again with this core Igbo nonsense. Ngwa is as peripheral, geographically, as my axis is. I'm not sure whats makes you feel so "core" or so "central". My questions are simple, and you could have used the time you used to run a background check on me or the time you used to type this to answer them. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Comprehensive List Of Animals In Igbo Language by RedboneSmith(m): 9:49pm On Mar 21, 2022 |
noobsaibot2: Asking direct simple questions have now become arguing. Typical deflective reply of someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. |
Culture / Re: Comprehensive List Of Animals In Igbo Language by RedboneSmith(m): 8:19am On Mar 21, 2022 |
noobsaibot2: In which Igbo dialect is Nze Leopard? Did you also have tigers in that village you grew up? |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Russia's Elite Plan To Assassinate Putin, Pick Bortnikov As Successor by RedboneSmith(m): 4:43pm On Mar 20, 2022 |
Predictable. An attempt waa bound to be made on his life at some point, especially as the war becomes more and more unpopular inside Russia. Probably won't succeed though. He seems like a very careful man. |
Politics / Re: Murray-Bruce Announced Bianca Ojukwu As Miss Intercontinental In 1989 (Video) by RedboneSmith(m): 6:05pm On Mar 19, 2022 |
I didn't know Ben Murray Bruce has been doing this for this long! Didn't even know Silverbird was around in 1989. |
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