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Culture / Re: The Yoruba Language Supremacy by RedboneSmith(m): 10:26pm On Jan 10, 2023 |
LightOnScams: I see. Do remember to post it when you find it. Thanks. 1 Like |
TV/Movies / Re: BBNaija 2022 Live Updates Thread by RedboneSmith(m): 9:51pm On Jan 10, 2023 |
Smoothgio: When would have been the best day to drag her? 6 months after her birthday? The lie was too bold and too unsmart to be ignored. Nobody asked to know how old she was. She could have just had her birthday done without specifying her age. Plenty people do birthday and keep their age hush-hush. Saying `23` na insult to netizens. The dragging she's getting, she had it coming. Your pictures from ten years ago are all over social media showing you to be in your 20s at least, and you come the same social media ten years later to say you're 23? I personally felt my intelligence insulted when I read that. Make them drag her. 3 Likes |
Culture / Re: The Yoruba Language Supremacy by RedboneSmith(m): 9:00pm On Jan 10, 2023 |
LightOnScams: Leo Africanus visited the Western Sudan in the 16th century. He wrote about the Hausa city-states Gobir (Guber) , Katsina (Casena), Kano (Cano), Zaria (Zegzeg). But in all of his discription of Hausaland, the word "Hausa" did not appear even once. The use of that term is probably not as old as you think. 5 Likes |
Culture / Re: The Yoruba Language Supremacy by RedboneSmith(m): 8:05pm On Jan 08, 2023 |
LightOnScams: On purely linguistic grounds, no one can really present a solid defence as to why Itsekiri is a separate language. It clearly forms a cluster with southeastern Yoruba dialects (Ilaje, Ikale, Ijebu, etc.) Itsekiri is, if we are being honest, a southeastern Yoruba dialect spoken by a people who did not take part in Yoruba ethnogenesis when it got underway in the 19th and 20the centuries. Igala is a different kettle of fish though. It seems to have separated from the Proto-Yoruboid stock as long as 2000 years ago. 9 Likes 3 Shares |
Culture / Re: Do Igbos Suffer More Discrimination Than Other Tribes in Nigeria ? by RedboneSmith(m): 7:17pm On Jan 08, 2023 |
I will start with something that happened in an organization I used to work for. For context, there are people of every background in Nigeria in the organisation. Mostly Southerners and a few Northerners. There had been cases in the past where people of other ethnic groups (not Igbo) had either stolen/embezzled the organisation's funds, or used their position within the organization to give lucrative jobs to people from their own ethnic groups. When this happens and we find out, we address it without dragging the offender's ethnic group into it. Well, during my last year in the organization, an Igbo man was the Head, and he embezzled funds (something non-Igbos had done in the past). When the news broke, I immediately became very uncomfortable because from experience, I knew what was going to happen. I knew all of us Igbos were going to be dragged, and people would take the opportunity to say unsavoury things about Igbo people. Not just Nnamdi who stole money. I wasn't wrong. It didn't take time before the comments started flooding in. "Igbo man. Igbo people. This is why an Igbo man will never rule this country. It is always them. Thieves. It is always them." I was in this organization for 8 years. I had seen Yorubas and Edos and Akwa Ibom people steal money and abuse their office. There were actually more cases of Yorubas doing that sort of thing in that organization within the time I was there. Not once did anyone say a Yoruba will never rule Nigeria again because some of them that dipped hand into the organization's account. One Igbo man did it and the WhatsApp group caught fire with all sorts of ethnically-charged comments. Here's the thing. Tribalism is a pastime in Nigeria and all of us, Igbos and non-Igbos done collect. But there's something different about the antagonism that most Nigerians harbour towards Igbo people. We may try and deny it and claim that Igbos are being overly dramatic, but in doing that we'd be like the white people in America who claim that racism is over and dead, and that black people are just being whiny. Perhaps, the antagonism stems from the first coup and the scare of Igbo domination that was propagated in that general period. Perhaps it stems from the stereotyped Igbo traits of competitiveness, aggressive go-getter attitude, a certain level of crassness and loudness, which Igbo people were said to carry with them as they left their region and moved into the region of their Nigerian neighbours. Perhaps its just sheer jealousy towards people who made much out of very little. Whatever it is, dislike for the Igbo is a whole other level of tribalism, and I make bold to say that the Igbo are easily the most despised ethnic group in Nigeria. Even with the plague of killer herdsmen, Nigerians in general no hate Fulani reach the way they hate Igbos. I mean, while herdsmen were sweeping through the Southwest and other parts of the South, people like Adeyinka Grandson were still presenting the Igbo as the biggest existential threat to Yorubaland. People went as far as ignoring glaring evidence and claimed that it was Igbos, rather than the Fulani, who kidnapped Olú Falae. Years ago,I saw videos made by some Northerners purporting that Igbo people were actually the brain behind Boko Haram. That idea was diffusing through the alleys of social media many years ago, but I don't think anyone is still spreading it today. The truth has become too plain to be ignored or twisted. But the fact remains that the Igbos are everyone's go-to fall guy. Even something like misogynism has, for some reason, become synonymous with Igbo men. When the most jaw-dropping cases of misogynistic behaviour I have seen in this my life came from I**** men. (I no wan' mention the ethnic group - I no get strength for fight.) 7 Likes 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Is Pidgin English From Portuguese? by RedboneSmith(m): 4:02pm On Jan 07, 2023 |
Lol. The origins of Nigerian pidgin English is complex and cannot be studied in isolation from other varieties of pidgin English spoken along the coast of West Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana) and the English creole languages spoken by people of African descent in the Americas. https://tribuneonlineng.com/common-ancestor-of-american-ebonics-and-west-african-pidgin-english/ |
Culture / Re: Learn The Yagba Language (Kogi, Kwara, and Ekiti) by RedboneSmith(m): 5:23pm On Jan 06, 2023 |
LightOnScams: OK. Thanks for the explanation. The word Ayọnrọn sounds very close to the words people use across Yoruba and Igbo (I'm not sure of Edo) to refer to cowrie shells. This is what raised my curiosity. You're doing a good job here. Keep it coming. |
Culture / Re: Learn The Yagba Language (Kogi, Kwara, and Ekiti) by RedboneSmith(m): 4:35pm On Jan 06, 2023 |
LightOnScams: Am I right in concluding from this that in Yagba, they don't use owo/ogho or a similar sounding word to mean 'money'? |
Culture / Re: Does Your Language Have A Word For This? by RedboneSmith(m): 5:36pm On Jan 03, 2023 |
Sehzade: Day before yesterday - Nwanne unyaa Yesterday - unyaa Today - Taa Tomorrow - Echi or Echi Niine or Echi na-abịa abịa. Day after tomorrow - Nwanne echi Day after the day after tomorrow - Nwanne nwanne echi. IGBO 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Orun Oba Ado In Ife/benin Relationship Real Facts by RedboneSmith(m): 1:44am On Dec 31, 2022 |
Ghostwon821: If I say now that the Ogisos and Obas like Eweka, Oguola and Ewuare, etc are just stories because these names do not exist in any contemporary written records by anyone whether European or local, you will go into an angry frenzy. A historian of his people (Chief Iduuwe) recorded the title 'Dein' BEFORE Obi Keagborekuzi even became obi but someone you choose to believe that the Obi invented it. How? Did Chief Iduuwe travel forward in time to find out Keagborekuzi was going to invent 'Dein' when he became king, so he decided to record the title even BEFORE Keagborekuzi introduced it? Was it also Keagborekuzi (who just became Obi 'yesterday') that convinced towns as far away as Issele-Uku, Aboh and Onitsha to introduce nwadei and umudei and Idibodein in their vocabulary and cultural spaces. Ọmọ, its too late to be up arguing inanities. Believe what you will. |
Culture / Re: Orun Oba Ado In Ife/benin Relationship Real Facts by RedboneSmith(m): 1:31am On Dec 31, 2022 |
Ghostwon821: So people's orally-preserved memories of their past are completely of no value? Noted. You are yet to provide proof, for your info, our West African languages can't be analysed via etymology because their written form is too recent. K. |
Culture / Re: Orun Oba Ado In Ife/benin Relationship Real Facts by RedboneSmith(m): 1:17am On Dec 31, 2022 |
Ghostwon821: The fact that in many Kingdoms all over Anioma, nwadei is prince and umudei is descendants of a king, and Idibodein means servants of the king, and they didn't start using those expressions when Obi Keagborekuzi Ikenchuku ascended the throne should be evidence enough for people who can recognise items from lexicons. Edit: Also forgot to mention that Chief Iduuwe who wrote a manuscript on Agbor history before Keagborekuzi became the Obi, stated quite clearly that the first Obi of Agbor, called Ebonka was known by Dein. |
Culture / Re: Orun Oba Ado In Ife/benin Relationship Real Facts by RedboneSmith(m): 1:02am On Dec 31, 2022 |
Ghostwon821:Nobody changed the title to Dein. Dein was used in ancient times. Obi, and even eze, were used too. Obi became more prominent along the line, especially under colonial rule. The present Obi of Agbor is merely trying to return the old title of Dein to the prominence it once enjoyed. Even outside Agbor, in places like Issele-Ukwu and co., nwadei (nwa-Dein) still means a Prince, ie, son of a king; and umudei (Umu-Dein) still means children of a king. This underscores the 'ancientness' of Dei/Dein in that axis. It is not a recent creation. |
Culture / Re: Learn The Yagba Language (Kogi, Kwara, and Ekiti) by RedboneSmith(m): 12:51am On Dec 31, 2022 |
Great post. NB: I thought Deji was Ayere, one of the tiny linguistic groups in that area that has nearly or completely been subsumed by the more prominent Yoruba/Yoruboid linguistic grouping. |
Culture / Re: Civilization Or Madness??? by RedboneSmith(m): 7:15pm On Dec 28, 2022 |
Nobody's business. |
Culture / Re: Yorubas And Igbos Once Spoke The SAME Language - Evidence by RedboneSmith(m): 3:41pm On Dec 26, 2022 |
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Culture / Re: Philip Nwaenyea Brown - Eze Egi The 1st Of Ogba Land by RedboneSmith(m): 11:32pm On Dec 25, 2022 |
FreeIgboho:You say this as if it's a terrible thing. 3 Likes |
Culture / Re: How Do You Call Christmas In Your Language? by RedboneSmith(m): 2:25pm On Dec 24, 2022 |
cheruv: This looks like your personal coinage. You should emphasise that so that readers don't go thinking Igbo people actually say this. Neither in written Igbo Izugbe nor in the spoken forms have I ever seen anyone use uka kiriisi. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Yorubas And Igbos Once Spoke The SAME Language - Evidence by RedboneSmith(m): 1:25am On Dec 24, 2022 |
MimiSheWrote: 2000 years sef far. If we go back just 500 years ago, it will be extremely hard, to communicate with our own people. Forget 1000 years ago. You will understand nothing. When you look at languages that have a long history of writing you'll realise how true this is. Take English for example. Shakespeare wrote his plays 450 years ago. English speakers today struggle to understand him. In school, we had to use the glossary pages to make sense of plays like Macbeth and Merchant of Venice. Another English writer, Chaucer, wrote Canterbury Tales 630 years ago. I have tried to read it. I no understand wetin him dey talk. And this was "only" 630 years ago. 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: How Do You Call Christmas In Your Language? by RedboneSmith(m): 10:10am On Dec 22, 2022 |
Does anybody even use these expressions? Even old uneducated people in the most isolated villages in Igboland will not say ekeresimesi. At best what you may hear is 'kirisimaasi'. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: IS Nigeria Really Poor? Watch This VIDEO by RedboneSmith(m): 6:58pm On Dec 21, 2022 |
Yes. Nigeria is a poor country. It you try to tally the country's generated revenue with its population size, it is a poor country. If you check how many people are unemployed or underemployed, it is a poor country. I don't know of any indices that one will use that Nigeria will not be rated as a poor country. The display of wealth by a small fraction of the population means next to nothing. It only means that scarce resources have been cornered by a few, and huge sections of the population and the country at large have been left with nothing. Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, also has fabulously rich men and women, flashing obscene sums of money around the world and buying hugely expensive property in New York, London and Paris. But over 40% of the Haitian people can't get jobs because there are none. We shouldn't confuse the fact that a tiny fraction of a population controls an obscene amount of wealth with the nation itself being a rich country. |
Culture / Re: I Am Not Igbo, I Am Ikwerre! by RedboneSmith(m): 7:58pm On Dec 14, 2022 |
ariesbull: True. Isoma is a term used all over the southern half of Imo State to describe 'upland' Igbos; and it comes from Isuama, the name of the Igbo-speaking stock of the Orlu axis in the more northerly part of Imo State. The claim that it means 'good slave' is a malevolent lie, which is of course not surprising, considering who it is coming from. |
Culture / Re: I Am Not Igbo, I Am Ikwerre! by RedboneSmith(m): 10:56am On Dec 14, 2022 |
UGBE634: Lol. Calm down, sir. Not that deep. |
Culture / Re: What Would You Pick This Guys Life In Naija Or Uk Japa. Video Included by RedboneSmith(m): 9:38am On Dec 06, 2022 |
Peace of mind is a priority for me. And for me, peace of mind is tied to things like security, stable political climate, a sociopolitical system that works, etc. Things that Nigeria as it is cannot assure me of right now. I will be fine if I never become wealthy, but can live comfortably and in peace. Which is why I will not think twice of picking a life in the UK and an annual income of less than a £100,000 (but at least up to £35 - 40,000) over a life in Nigeria and annual income of £200,000 to 300,000. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Igbo Villages Are The Best In Nigeria by RedboneSmith(m): 11:16am On Dec 03, 2022 |
omonnakoda: Omonnakoda Stop acting like a neurotic little bitch on NL all the time. You're too old for this shyt. You've been on this forum since it's creation, you geriatric schizophrenic. Act your age. This is from your comment that I reacted to. You asked if there was anything in Igbo culture like will. You asked for the Igbo name for will. You didn't say anything in this particular comment I responded to about 'written will'. Non-written wills are wills, too. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Igbo Villages Are The Best In Nigeria by RedboneSmith(m): 9:50am On Dec 03, 2022 |
omonnakoda: 'Will' is 'ike ekpe' in Igbo. |
Culture / Re: How do I delete a post on Nairaland by RedboneSmith(m): 8:56am On Dec 01, 2022 |
You can't. Once your post has been posted, you can only modify. |
Culture / Re: The Igbos From Benin by RedboneSmith(m): 2:36am On Nov 30, 2022 |
It's funny that a character who told me, an Anioma man, that I cannot contribute on an Edoid thread because I was "Igbo" is also here, dragging Anioma and trying to shield us from "Igboness". Very funny. 2 Likes |
Culture / Re: Ekaladehan A Lie That Never Existed And The Real Truth Of The Ile Ife-ile Ibinu by RedboneSmith(m): 11:25pm On Nov 28, 2022 |
GhostOfNigeria: This is a bold claim. Can you actually demonstrate that the names of Kings of Benin had ALL been Benin names? |
Culture / Re: Fact About Pa Idu by RedboneSmith(m): 12:38pm On Nov 27, 2022 |
macof: They will not accept these as evidence for cognacy because they don't understand how linguistics work. 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Fact About Pa Idu by RedboneSmith(m): 12:21pm On Nov 27, 2022 |
samuk: I am just seeing this. The only word here that can be argued to have diffused into Igbo from Edo is Ise. Every other word here is attested in YEAI and even Niger-Congo proto languages. *kuko words from cock are even found as far away as Zulu in Southern Africa. 1 Like |
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