₦airaland Forum

mellinjaga:
so the white came and start putting chains on blacks, getting them ready for transportation and the Kings and Queens, and the people folded their hands and allow it... Pls think it through and still tell me how it was possible.. No guards again, no hunters who can hunt the white beasts down etc.... I use common sense these days and not allow trash written by someone who tries not to take responsibility for his or her ancestors mistake and make change sink in to my mind....

Am a free thinker and I don't dwell on the bad that happened then only wanted to state out something cos of some comments I read here and for those that also thought the very same people that did all that will teach them to be better than them(whites)

A tiger eye gemstone will help see things clearly even as it all happened in the past only if u get 1 and know how to see with it... With the stone you will see this world is actually flat and not round like they lied and the sun is never in space but in this universe they called planet.. And also space as dark as melanin which is found in abundance in blacks or charcoal....

Man I know a whole lot of things and I speak my truth from my heart... Who wants to hear let him or her hear....


I can't be deceived anymore

Slavery had always existed in some parts of Africa, although on a MUCH smaller scale, and in some areas, there was nothing like slavery.
The European presence was what accelerated inter-tribal wars in this part of Africa, in orer to feed the European demand for slaves!

Have you read the story of Queen Nzinga of Angola for example, who tried to stop slavery in her kingdom?
Or how some Kongo chiefs were complaining that the Portuguese were always taking a lot of his citizenry away?

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oladom1:
As long as black people continue looking at that history, they remain slaves with inferiority forever. It's a very dark and shameful history for not only blacks but for humanity. No one should be reminded about it . It's too disgraceful.

It is a sad chapter of history, but the reality remains reality.
The evil behind those relics should not be a factor hindering it from display.
And it doesn't make us slaves with inferiority forever as you say - far from it. It makes us a stronger people. A people who like metal passed through the flames and came out stronger.

Opakan2:
na flattino e sure me..

What is ur problem?
Afonja slave kinda talk.

The Badagry Slavery and Heritage museum and the Badagry Slave trade ports are located in the Badagry local Government area of Lagos State, Southwestern Nigeria.
They are one of the last remaining testimonies to the brutality of Transatlantic Slavery on the West Coast of Africa.
The Badagry slave ports are located in the Bight of Benin region in the West African Gulf of Guinea. It is estimated that about 2.6 Million slaves were deported from the Bight of Benin ports to the Americas (Other sources cite up to 3 Million). A lot of these slaves were Yoruba, who are estimated to have made between 900,000 and 1.7 Million of them. The Badagry port was one of the ports where they came from, alongside others in Whydah/Ouidah (The biggest), Epe, Popo, Lagos, Porto Novo and Jacquin/Jakin (Now Godomey).
Today Yoruba culture thrives on in the Americas, and is a testament to the resilience of the slaves who have managed to preserve their cultural essence in foreign lands.
Read more about the slave coast:
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/slave-coast.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Coast

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Bomb or Bini juju?

HORRORIZON:
As a share of the overall diaspora population in the Americas at large, Yoruba lineage certainly dose hold a sizable share. Now when speaking specifically in regard to the African-American and Bahamian populations, it is a practically insignificant amount within these two populations. Igbo is the single most dominant bloodline of any one specific African ethnic group; making up the majority of the bloodline of upwards of possibly 60% of the AA population descended from the Chesapeake/Delaware Bay region alone. That's every state from Delaware down through Virginia, and even includes Southern PA and NJ as well most of the Northern part of North Carolina.

I think this is another wrong assertion, because Yoruba slaves were actually quite prominent in Bahamas.
Maybe not the most numerous there, because Angola-Congo always seem to come tops for almost everywhere but they were actually recorded to be there in considerable numbers.

This might shed some light on the Origin of Haiti's African descent population.

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HORRORIZON:
As a share of the overall diaspora population in the Americas at large, Yoruba linage certainly dose hold a sizable share. Now when speaking specifically in regard to the African-American and Bahamian populations, it is a practically insignificant amount within these two populations. Igbo is the single most dominant bloodline of any one specific African ethnic group; making up the majority of the bloodline of upwards of possibly 60% of the AA population descended from the Chesapeake/Delaware Bay region alone. That's every state from Delaware down through Virginia, and even includes Southern PA and NJ as well most of the Northern part of North Carolina.

There are books, cemeteries, towns and more in which express just how dominant the Igbo presence in the region was over all the other ethnic groups in this vast area. President James Madison's own father was believed to have been poisoned to death, by one of his female igbo house slaves, after he had sexually abused several of his young Igbo house girls. Over 80 percent of his slaves were of Igbo descent.

You are mistaken to think that just because traditional Igbo customs aren't as prevalent withing the Black-North American populations than the Yoruba is within the South American populations, that the Igbo didn't care to preserve their traditions. The fact of the mater is that, the Igbo and Senegabians, due to their nature of defiance to having their liberties taken away.. were most often sent to the the Anglo colonies. The Anglo enslaving culture was extremely strict on "breaking" their slaves as soon as they arrived in port.

They tortured them until they committed to eliminating any presence of their native ways, and replaced them with that of their in-slavers right down to their very names. They created laws and punishments that constantly reinforced this situation from one generation to next until the defiance in the slave population was nearly wiped out. This is the reason the AA and other Anglophone black population in the Americas have little sign of Igbo or any other African cultural aspects about them.

Wrong.
The Igbo lineage is the third most prevalent of about 5 or 6 African regions in the US. Not dominant like you say.
You're right about the Bight of Biafra dominance in the chesapeake/Virginia area.

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But for other regions of the US for example, the numbers are lesser.

Carolinas and Georgia region.

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And even lesser on the Gulf coast.

lawani.... I am Yoruba too, but common- you are speculating on a lot of things!

lol so Awolowo underdeveloped Bayelsa, Ahoada, Eket, Okrika etc that were never for once under his control?
Three gbosa for you, OP.

You people always magically find a way to make the Yorubas the cause of your problems.

But what can one expect with every Tom, dick and Harry now taking the positions on website managers online.
More Operation blame Yorubas daily from nitwits who don't even know their own history.

Let me lay my raffia mat here.
This na FP thread.

MisterThee:
Well as a Hausa person myself its not in anyway a Hausa State. Although the name of the state is clearly of Hausa origin to me.

Wrong name.
It used to be known as West-Central state before.

justicejay:
'Akulagba' of warri?
Is Akulagba not a YORUBA word?
And leaving a whole warri to show off his billion in YORUBA land.
Why are Igbos so obsessed about the Yorubas?
Ayam north understanding.

Itsekiri word I think.

It looks like they have given up 70% hope on the Igalas, and are now moving onto the Idomas....

Yeekpa!

Moku Mogbe Modaran !!!!!

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Airforce1:
Eyaa ,

owo ti wogbo

pele

ROFL!!

Yeepa, M OKU M OGBE M ODARAN OOOOOO!!!

ibitzbarlow:
Question is which English does Nigeria speak officially? It's British English so forget about the American pronunciation and focus on the British pronunciations. In that light, the OP is correct and not teaching "lobbish".

The world is a Global village now, and the most popular forms of Global English carries the day.
Bought a computer a few months ago, and the System's own Auto Correct system was telling me that the spelling of Labour and Colour were incorrect... Yeah right
Obviously, Britain is not doing enough to protect its own legacies.

Depends of Country... British, Australian, Canadian, or American Etc. Teacher no teach me Lobbish.
I know Americans use that first pronunciation of divorce which you are telling us is wrong.

As for Often .... BOTH pronunciations with the silent T and the Audible T are correct.
Same with DATA... can be pronounced as both both DAHTAH and DAYTAH.... Americans pronounce it as DAAYDA (The roll the T as fast D) ... Australians say DAH-TAH

These are Ugbo people not Igbo.
UGBO as in UGBO not IGBO, it is standardardized Yoruba which does not begin words in a 'I" that replaced the initial U with an I.
Let these kings just stop it.....

Interesting historical accounts.

jomoh:
Am not disputing that but Yoruba has one of the most if not the most in Nigeria.

By the way Edo and Yoruba have history together so you can say they may have close level of difficulty.

What makes every language more difficult is the reception and support you recieve from it natural speakers when learning it.

any language that carries tone marks on it's letters are usually more difficult because each Mark represents a tone and the more you change the Mark the more the tone changes and invariably the meaning of the word.

What you should have said is that they are more difficult to read, not difficult to speak or understand, because you would hear the tonal differences.
To read however, would be harder without the tone markers.

I have never seen any Yoruba speaker confuse Oko (Pen!s) with Oko (Car) before.

What is the cause of the conflict?

What does it matter?

Look at the thin pillars and frames sef....
reigners burial ground.

That's not a mud house though

Na Asun sure pass
Not in stew

God have mercy
Must everything be WAR in Rivers?

Igi Iwe

DONSMITH123:
but gat brain

lol kilode?

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