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ContentedK:
Brainless zombie on the loose, unity isn’t initiated forcefully. Well it’s too late coz Biafra is already here, if you like beg till infinity. Zoogerian

It's ''already here'' inside your thick block head.

Not in actual reality.

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There were no ethnic groups in Nigeria prior to the colonial era.

There was nothing like a Yoruba man.

Or a Hausa man.

Or an Igbo man.

That way of identifying people simply did not exist.

Message to secessionists:

Biafra is NOT your father's history.

Even the name Biafra is Portuguese.

There was no sense of Igbo nationhood prior to the colonial era.

So the whole 'Biafra' concept - the very concept of there being an ''Igbo people'' is European-originated, oriented, and influenced.

Your ''Igbo identity'' is a Tokunbo notion, every bit as foreign as your average, dodgy 2nd-hand junk.

Prior to the colonial era, the fact that you spoke the same language as another person did not mean you were of the same ''ethnic group'', different from those who spoke a different language.

That simply was NOT how we viewed ourselves in AFRICA.

Kinship and group identity were about blood connection and lineage, which transcended languages spoken, and often involved various languages existing within the same kinship group caused inter alia, by migration and inter-marriage.

In pre-colonial times, you were not ''an Igbo person''. You were a person who spoke Igbo language. Finish.

What identified you was your clan and your village or town, and your lineage therein, not the language you spoke.

There were Igbo-speaking groups who knew their cousins that spoke Yoruba or Edo a 100 miles away, and were closer to them by lineage than to Igbo-speaking communities even in the next town.

That is how we were. It wasn't about the language you spoke.

Today, out of European-influenced modern triibalism, we find previously connected people and communities now separating themselves by language, and denying ancestral links with those who merely speak a different language.

ALL OF THAT IS COLONIAL-INFLUENCED.

If you don't know your history, let us, your elders tell you your history.

Every person who hates another because they are supposedly of a ''different ethnic group'' is acting out the playbook written by 18th century European colonizers who came here to divide and conquer, and is NOT following in the ways of our fathers.

Thank You.

WhoRUDeceiving:
The OP is there as a "NIGERIAN"....named in the same manner you name a dog.

A slave name from people from Scotland dem.....



That alone tells you he has 0 concept about freedom nor his papa history.

Biafra is NOT your father's history.

Even the name Biafra is Portuguese.

There was no sense of Igbo nationhood prior to the colonial era.

So the whole 'Biafra' concept - the very concept of there being an ''Igbo people'' is European-originated, oriented and influenced.

Prior to the colonial era, the fact that you spoke the same language as another person did not mean you were in the same ''ethnic group'', different from those who spoke a different language.

That simply was NOT how we viewed ourselves in AFRICA.

Kinship and group identity were about blood connection and lineage, which often transcended languages spoken, and often involved various languages existing within the same kinship group caused inter alia, by migration and inter-marriage.

In pre-colonial times, you were not ''an Igbo person''. You were a person who spoke Igbo language. Finish. What identified you was your clan and your village or town, not the language you spoke. There were Igbo speaking groups who knew their cousins that spoke Yoruba a 100 miles away, and were closer to them by lineage than Igbo-speaking communities even in the next town.

That is how we were. It wasn't about the language you spoke.

Today, out of European-influenced modern triibalism, we find previously connected people and communities now separating themselves by language, and denying ancestral links with those who speak a different language.

ALL OF THAT IS COLONIAL-INFLUENCED.

If you don't know your history, let us, your elders tell you your history.

Many guys on this forum are no different from him in sentiment.

All they haven't done is build a statue (presumably).