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Danielmoore:Stone building started in ancient Greece? What the hell are you talking about? The pyramids were built of stone at a time when there was no Greece to speak of. In the early phase of her history, Greece was learning from Egypt and not the other way around. |
Ancient Egyptians were not 100% one-thing. There were surely elements that came from the Horn, and it was this element that brought the Afro-Asiatic language of Ancient Egypt with them. There was also elements that came from the drying-out Sahara Desert to the west, and this element is thought to have brought the tradition of mummification, a cow cult and some other aspects that went into the religion of the Ancient Egyptians. There were other elements that came from Western Asia, and is thought to have introduced crops like wheat and barley and also the wheel to Egypt. All these elements were drawn to the fertile Nile Valley very early in history, and they mixed there to produce the Ancient Egyptian people. |
ONCE-youngest king. |
If you understand why we call our native country motherland, it begins to make sense. And yes, mother tongue, NOT mother's tongue. |
Menase:Fabrics have been here for well over a thousand years. There has been some changes in style and fashion, no doubt, but the whole point of culture is that it is dynamic. |
Troll level: 100000 |
nengibo: ![]() |
Dhugal:Calm down, oga. I did add a caveat when I said it probably has a different meaning that eludes me. Others have already pointed out the actual meaning to me without being combative about it. And Tabansi does sound like what I said, especially to other Igbos from outside the Aguleri area where the name appears to be from. The first person who interpreted the name like that to my hearing was actually Igbo, and every Igbo person in the room laughed about it. Calm down. |
naijalander:Every traitor is also a freedom fighter from his people's point of view. Ojukwu was a freedom fighter from the Biafran point of view. George Washington was a traitor from the British point of view, and a liberator from the Colonists' point of view. If you break faith with someone who you are supposed to owe allegiance to (your king, your emperor, your lord) for whatever reason, you are a traitor, from your liege lord's point of view. So, yes, from a Metropolitan Oyo point of view, Afonja was a traitor. I am also kind of skeptical about any claims that Afonja broke from the Alaafin's authority because he was fighting for his people's freedom. Truth be told the man had his personal ambitions. But he was not a sell-out to the Fulanis as he has been accused. Of that I am sure. He simply miscalculated Alimi and his unruly horde of Jamas, and it cost him. |
Technically, he was a traitor to the Alaafin, like many other chiefs in that time of decline of Oyo imperial power. But he wasn't a traitor in the larger sense that he has been accused today. He was just a general who miscalculated his strength and ability to control the band of Northern elements he gathered around him. |
Another strange name I have encountered in Oshimili (Delta State) is Njokanma -Evil is Better. I am also hoping this one too has a deeper meaning that eludes me. |
Tabansi is an Igbo name that literarily means Keep Eating Sh!t. But maybe it has a deeper meaning that isn't apparent to me. |
Efewestern:More likely the poster is just pulling you people's legs. |
nengibo:I saw your name and I knew somehow somehow you go bring Igbos into it. You no disappoint. Wehdone. |
maxinvile:There is a town called Egede in that Udi area of Enugu State. I wonder if they have any connection with you people. They also have a kind of music they play around there called Igede music. It is played with big drums. |
SAVAGEBETS:Arthur Nzeribe? C'mon, he was never that wealthy. We are talking about the single wealthiest individuals of their time in all of Nigeria. |
maturemindsonly:Let me humour you a little. How much do you think Solomon was worth? |
BiafranBushBoy:Not forgetting, it is Pressure not Preyyure. Measure, not Meayyure. |
Ajikobi1:With a name like Ajikobi, it surprises me how you could say Yorubas are the minority and Baribas the majority in Kwara State. |
Kachimkwu = As my God declared OR As (my) Fate would have it. Maduemezia = Someone has set (it) right. |
The Akalaka episode is just a fraction of the Ikwerre story. Ochichi was not Akalaka's brother. Some Ikwerre people who had an agenda to pursue invented that brotherhood. Ochichi came from the opposite direction from Akalaka. There are many other sides of Ikwerre origin that have been ignored and may soon be forgotten because many Ikwerre are determined to bury any recollections of their true historical connections. |
Okay. Nothing to see here. Except maybe for Saraki's children. That one surprised me a little, I will not lie. Apart from the complete lack of hair covering, look at the girl seated to the right. That plunging neckline, wtf! And the uncovered thighs of the other seated girl. A bit much for a Muslim family. |
JikanBaura:The late Sardauna identified himself as a Fulani man when he was alive. I've read a conversation he had with a certain gentleman who thought he was Hausa. He replied him with an emphatic no; that he was Fulani. |
Most people I know think Hausa is the easiest, and I think there may be some truth to it. Maybe its easiness to acquire/learn may partly account for the way it is spreading rapidly and eating into the territory of other Northern Nigerian languages. I know an uneducated Igbo man in a village in Enugu State who learnt to speak very good Hausa (albeit with a heavy Igbo accent) without ever leaving his village, simply by interacting with passing Hausa shoemakers. I have a friend from Anambra that went to learn trading in Kano, but had to come back after four months because of disagreement with his master. In four months he had acquired enough Hausa to have conversations with Hausa okada riders in the Lagos. A lot of people say Igbo is the most difficult. I think part of the reason is that most Igbos still speak dialects. The standard/General Igbo is not yet a Spoken language. The Yoruba and the Hausa have been more successful in coming up with Spoken Standards (while still retaining their dialects.) The kind of Igbo Emeka is teaching you may have some differences from the kind of Igbo the girl in the next shop is speaking. This isn't much of a problem for native-speakers (except in extreme cases), but for a learner, it could be quite a challenge; one could get quite confused and frustrated. |
I repeat: Ndagi Abdullahi is crazy and despite the fact that he went to medical school, he is something of an illiterate. |
I can't emphasize this enough: Ndagi Abdullahi is crazy. |
Oh, you look a lot more light-skinned and more 'mixed-race' here than in the picture in your previous post. |
If you are going to call the Akan an ethnic group (rather than the collection of ethnic groups that they really are) , then may I inform you that there is an African 'ethnic group' that is bigger than the Akan which does not appear in your list. The Nguni number over 26 million people. |
Mphumalanga:Igbo Catholics say 'Jeeso'. They write it as 'Jesu', but pronounce it as 'Jeeso'. The 'chapels' you attended must have been English-speaking ones. |
AshiwajuFoward:Going by this explanation, Igbo migrants in the North should be largely commercial farmers, and those in Ogun and Oyo should be largely miners and poultry farmers. Is that the case? OP, there are many wealthy Igbos who are based in the Southeast; I have lived in the Southeast and I know. That a lot of Igbos migrate to other zones doesn't mean that only those who migrate make it. The main problem the southeast has is that they have a rather small landmass relative to their population size, and this has necessitated a culture of the 'excess' population having to move elsewhere to live and earn a living. |
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only lately I found out they are not. In west northern state it's not a big deal if you are Hausawa, Fulani, zabarmawa as long you speak hausa it's every Hausa and none hausa Will looks you as Hausa(to some extant) Sai in gardama ta tashi a tunama Kai Ba Hausa bane. Lol ;