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Ekealterego:
I think in terms of history older than 200 years, little was written on Oru as one group.

However, there are evidence pointing towards two Orus. The Oru-Igbo, who are today, Aboh (Delta), Oguta (Imo), Ndoni (Rivers), Orumba (Anambra), Oru west/East (Imo), Onitsha etc. too numerous to mention.

There are also Orus who I would say were assimilated into the Ijo culture or language.

There were evidence from Baikie and Adams that people from around that area of Aboh, Oguta, exchanged or sojourned towards Brass and Nembe areas and from the way they interrelated, one would doubt if they returned. down the mouth of the Niger and Orashi rivers, one can still see these small villages with Igbo names but with now a different language.

However, some of the Orus are also Ijaws, no doubt or now Ijaws or probably were or just an intermixture because of trades or immigration or migration along the rivers.

There are many books written on Oru-Igbo culture.

See page 7, 8 and 9
https://www.nairaland.com/6897301/notable-ijaw-scholars-history-book/7

@vintagepipes posted a map in a typical Oru-Igbo town in Imo state. You will see even places with names like Okirika, Oru this and Oru that.

Those pages I posted were rich with information.

Okay. Thank you. I think quite a section of the Orus got mixed up with the Ijaw and got totally assimilated. Today they have more or less disappeared.

It's a nice pitch. And it will need maintenance from time to time. But this is not an ultramodern facility bro.

Who knows the meaning of Amakiri.

So much generational lies on this thread. Kalabari has no meaning in Ijaw.

Kalabari old name was New Kalabar. The area first settled by the Igbos with Igbo kings. Then the Efik influx brought the Efik into prominence in the area and thus the area was recorded in their name by the seafarers : Kalabar (New Kalabar). The agressive boat dwellers known as the Ijaw came last. Over centuries displacing the Igbo and Efik populations and absorbing the rest.

They displaced and almost totally absorbed the Igbos at Okrika. Okrika's Igbo heritage only remains only minute traces. They have almost completed absorbed the Igbos of Nembe. The Oru remnants of the Igbo race at Nun are gone forever. Completely absorbed.

This tendency to revise history is very bad from the boat dwelling Ijaws. Saying Kalabari means Kala and Bari is a devilish falsification. Kalabari's origin points to Igbo and Efik. Though they are nearly completely Ijawnized now.

Umu Nembe kwenu

Ekealterego kedukwanu. Compliments of the season.

Have you been able to decipher who the Oru are, based on those historical texts.

Also the name Ogolo predominant in Opobo appears to be a misspelling of the original Ogulu. Do you have any information on this?

Pass11:
Why did you limit it kalabari ethnic group and okrika ethnic group? Is Ndoki, opobo and Bonny no longer ijaw people again opobo and Ndoki man will be governor come 2023 .

You are so correct.

Lolllllll. This guy's thread are very funny atimes.

My brother Raymond I remember you used to be very anti Igbo back then. What changed?

Power is taken, not given.

Ezike!

Another wound reopened.

How are you sure. Are you in God's mind.

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dogheart:
The Igbos that say Kalabari are not Ijaw are sick and useless.
We Kalabari are 100% Ijaw

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What is this

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Malawian:
Oga Nembe is 100% Igbo I no wan leave anything at all to Ijaw except wooden canoe. I am that vindictive.

It's allowed.

Malawian:
Nembe nko?

Nembe has part Igbo ancestry.

God have mercy.

QueenAgbo:
Slayerforever na street work you dey do?

Smh

QueenAgbo:
Slayerforever calm down,ww are close and help each other.

Perhaps,here in enugu I do help many Igbos even more than I receive their help.

You are a liar.

It's a pity the Igbo boy, our brother, doesn't know what you think of his tribe.

But if you eat somebody's food and still curse his people at the back the food will kill you.

Eastlandx:
Which book is this pls

cc Afonjafula