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To you guys, popular means being being recognized in the Southwest. Phyno was already a big deal in the Southeast before he began doing collabos with Olamide. You can say working with Olamide brought him bigger recognition in the soutwest, but he was already a star before then.

tollyboy5:
yes
The total landmass of ijebu people including lagos ijebu part.
Oyo is a state tho not ethnic group

Lagos is a teeny-tiny state. The part that is Ijebu cannot add significantly to the total landmass of Ijebuland.

And apart from being the name of a state, a sub-ethnic grouping of the Yoruba go by the name 'Oyo'.

tollyboy5:
ijebu of course.
Epe,lekki,ikorodu,ibeju lekki,ijebu ode,ijebu igbo, remo, ijebu igbo and manymore.

Ijebu has the largest land mass in Lagos and in ogun state

Do the Ijebu have a larger landmass than the Oyo?

KingOKON:
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They lie like SATAN,
Aros ruled over them all the reason they wanna claim Aro

Aro ruled over who? All of you on this thread are just the same, walahi.

ariesbull:
We celebrate ikeji to commonerate the take over and enslaving the ibibio after wr have decimated them

The igbo named it Arochukwu or Okeigbo (the great igbo)

Installed our king called him Eze Aro....


ARO is in the hands of igbo forever... And the way ilorin is in the hands of fulani

Proud Aro man has spoken


We also took over Abriba areas frok those weak minority tribes

When did you become an Aro man? The way you people switch identity on this platform just to win an argument is beyond hilarious.

nosiebaba:
Colonialism only ended in 1994 in South Africa hence the heavy influence and spread of the colonists

Technically, colonialism ended in 1910 in South Africa when the British granted the colony independence. What ended in 1994 was white minority rule.

garfield1:
Highly petty and igbotic

The anti-Igbo tribalist in you is showing, Mr Objective.

garfield1:
You are not objective then.to outsiders,it is clownish.a mother cannot reject her ugly child.by the way, I like igbo traditional
dance

Do you even know what objective means?!!!

This is someone who says someone's culture is clownish because it doesn't conform with his (or even other people's) ideas about cultural aestethics. If that is not the very definition of subjective, please tell me what is?

How old are you? This entire thread and your comments are so childish.

garfield1:
I believe strongly that the south south ethnicities like efik,Bini,urhobo,ijaw,itsekiri but I'll place the efik culture as the number one...


Mynd44
Lalasticlala
Fergie001
Helinues
Juliusmalema
Igboson
Ojiofor
Pazienza
Igbotongue
Fairguy
Otokx
Chrixxx

Apart from the tribal squabbles for which this forum is infamous, what is the point of this thread?

No. The Haratin are related to Mande-speaking peoples like the Soninke.

The thing that irks me about these kinds of threads is that, all African cultures are riddled with toxic elements like these. But ONLY Igbo people disparage their culture online. It is very hard to see people from other cultures doing this. And because of this, there is this very real impression that Igbo culture is the most misogynistic, most toxic, most etc., and it most certainly isn't!

ImembaN:
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I never insinuate that KW is absent...
But according to how I'm thought (by my parents) to write Chuku.. their should be no KW in it...

Okay. I see.
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Secondly most Ngwa in urban areas don't speak Ngwa to non Ngwa..(I wish this can stop)..
So to access the true Ngwa language visit the villages and don't use what you see in Aba to judge Ngwa opinion on anything.... Because most people claiming wa-Ngwa in ABA are actually from Onitsha...

When I say I have listened to Ngwa people speaking their dialects, I wasn't saying they were talking to me. No. They were having conversations among themselves and I was just listening in. Like when my Ngwa neighbor in Enugu that year was visited by relatives from the village and they held conversations in concentrated Ngwa.

Are you perfectly sure there is no 'Nw' in the Ngwa dialect (or dialects, because I get the impression that there are more than one way to speak Ngwa)? I listen to people when they talk, and I can swear I have heard Ngwa people use 'nw' in their speech.

Also when yoy write Wachuku with a k and not a kw, are you also saying there is no kw sound in Ngwa, or that there is, but Ngwa people don't use it when pronouncing Chukwu?

LiberatedGirl:
The Guy done Run ? Why Na.

Yea. The guy don run. Bye, Feminazi.

LiberatedGirl:
There is no Explaining you can do to save the mistake for not reading the whole thing through. If you read the piece over and over and over you will see I said " to me ".

I read the whole thing. I responded to the part that stood out for me, as being representive of a common mistake people make about rankings. Sheesh!

Why should I read the piece over and over and over? Is there going to be a test based on it?

LiberatedGirl:
Women are so intelligent. Men always miss the point always in a hurry to show Superiority that is a figment of the imagination .

Okay, I'm getting feminazi vibes now. Sorry oh for my "very offensive and misogynistic" comment. Do enjoy the rest of your day. Bye-bye.

LiberatedGirl:
As usual a man will always miss the point in a bid to be more intelligent than a woman

You see this part of your comment? Totally unnecessary. You don't know me, but you've concluded in your head that I am a sexist and a misogynist. You all need to calm down; some of us are actually allies.

The first part of your post suggests that Jordan shouldn't be the sexiset man because you've seen sexier men. And my response was just to highlight that that is not quite how things work. I was responding specifically to that first part. I did not miss the point. And I certainly wasn't talking down to you because you're a woman.

Again, calm down. Some of us in the 'scum' gender support and stand up for women.

You know these things shouldn't be taken all that seriously, right? Every year, a different man is named Sexist Man Alive. Does it mean that the person who was named the previous year always drops in attractiveness and has to be replaced the next year?

People are just having fun, nothing else. It's like the Most Beautiful Woman in the World pageant; nobody believes the winner is truly and literally the most beautiful woman in the world. On what objective scale can you even determine who the most beautiful woman in the world is (assuming it is even possible to visit every woman in the world and carry out an assessment) .

And Michael B Jordan may not be your cup of tea, but he works for a lot of women.

What is the ethnicity of the emeritus professor of medicine, Umaru Shehu? All I could find online was that he was born in Borno State, which would suggest that he might be Shuwa Arab. I have seen pictures of many Nigerian Shuwa Arabs, and Professor Shehu is lighter-skinned and more Caucasian-looking than any Shuwa Arab I have seen in the pictures.

Is this man's roots outside Nigeria? Is he descended from an Arab/Berber family that crossed the desert not too long ago? Is he half-Nigerian, half-European like Amina J. Mohammed? What is he?

I found www.tubidy.com to be a good side for good obscure music. You might find what you're looking for there. Who knows?

EmmaJnr1:
executive members of Agbor daughters association. Agbor is regarded as the the largest city among the Igbo nation. During the Biafra war, Nigeria military tried to annihilate many of them (Asaba Masacar ) but they didn't succeed.

Why are you conflating Agbor with Asaba?

SlayerForever:
As big as the Yoruba is in the South it does not have as much as 40 languages it has influence on or birthed. I stand to be corrected.

You are yet to name these 40 languages Igbo has birthed as well as show linguistic evidence that they were birthed by Igbo

Comprehensive response, ChinenyeN, thanks a lot.

BlackPantherxXx:


Yea, I'm still a f'cking dimwit. Me and the people wey born me.

Don't be too hard on yourself, you hear?

This may be true of people who go there to drag food. Or the Umuada and co who make specific demands, and even ask for things they don't eat in their houses.

But when you're seated quietly and food is brought to you, are you supposed to reject it? Who will now eat all the food the bereaved must have prepared? It should waste? Is that one not more conscience-less?

neonly:
Alaba at ojo in Lagos comes to my mind the name has been change to alaaba but why

Alaba has been changed to Alaaba? Since when? Who else knows about this?

Many years ago, I was at the NYSC camp in Nonwa, Rivers State. They used to bring in instructors to teach the corpers the cultures, languages, etc, of the indigenous peoples of the state. I remember one instructor (he was probably Ogoni) who was saying something about Oyigbo LGA. Even though no one was arguing with this man, he felt the need to shout at the corpers and other facilitators present: "It is not Obigbo ooo! It is Oyigbo! Igbo people are trying to steal the place and they went there and changed the name..." Then I think he realised that he was letting his Igbophobia show unnecessarily in public, because he now added: "I am sorry to say that."

Now, I don't know much about Obigbo/Oyigbo, but when I looked at the research that has been published on the area, it seems it was founded not too long ago by Igbo immigrants from around Owerri. You can see the works of R. Iorgulescu for this. In one of the papers she co-authored, a sentence simply states, "In 1958, villagers from Umuluwe together with other migrants searching to earn cash income founded Obigbo in the oil rich coastal areas of southeast Nigeria." [https://www.utgjiu.ro/revista/ec/pdf/2007-01/3_Raluca%20Iorgulescu%20Polimeni.pdf]

Below is a screenshot from the PhD thesis of respected Ogoni historian, Sonpie Kpone-Tonwe (1987, University of London). Everywhere the word appears in the thesis (it appears 4 times), it is written as Obigbo; never as Oyigbo. Note that this was written by an Ogoni scholar; and not an Igbo. Note also that this was written post-Biafra War (1987), so one couldn't say that Igbo predominance in Eastern Region influenced him to follow 'Igbo orthodoxy' and write Obigbo. If anything, this was a period in which the minorities were asserting themselves.

Kpone-Tonwe suggests, based on Ogoni traditions, that Obigbo is a mixed bag of Eleme and Igbo elements. But the ethnic composition is not really the point of my enquiry, but whether or not the place was originally Oyigbo, before the Igbo people 'went and changed the name'.

Is there any document preceding 1987 that has the name written as Oyigbo? I'd really like to know.

NB: This post is just me seeking to be informed. I don't pretend to know anything about this area.

Olu317:
Is this the best way as a mature person to handle a life threatening issue to someone's life? Suddenly you came on a thread that has nothing to do with Ethnography instead his Herbal produced Product and the best you can posit, is aligning Hebrew Yoruba origin's quagmire ?

O mámà l'ẹ̀bi
Alapà tió jẹ́ kí wọn dà ẹiyẹlé pọ mọ́ adiẹ

Did I say his life is not threatened? Did I express any doubts about what he has experienced? What I asked is if he is sure it is macof that is behind it. I have followed their diasagreements on this platform, and it would be bizarre if someone would go all out to get someone based on their petty disagreements on this platform.

Even your own response to him is asking basically the same question I asked. Don't mention me and type nonsense please.

And macof is purportedly doing all this, going through all this trouble, because you and him disagree on whether the Yoruba are of Hebrew origin or West African origin?

Have you considered that maybe, maybe, you are wrong?

Never really liked that word 'clan' being used for the groups that make up the Igbo ethnolinguistic group. In the European cultures that we borrowed the word from, clans are smaller,more closely-knit kin groups than Ngwa or Ikwerre or Ika are.

Don't like 'tribe' either.

This guy shaaaa