ch214:
To hell with the zoo Nigeria.

Biafrans wants Biafra referendum, it is either Biafra or nothing.
Biafra independence from Nigeria to happen sooner.

Biafra referendum will fail even in the South East. Ibos are not confident enough to want to exit on their own.

Ibos see themselves all over the country together with the Fulanis as the biggest beneficiary on one Nigeria. Ibos are afraid of what will happen to their interests all over Nigeria should they split.

As an insurance not to leave Nigeria, ibos deliberately add Niger Delta to their Biafraaud map knowing the virtual IMPOSSIBILITY of an inch of South South joining with OSUs. This they use as a subterfuge as to why they are not leaving Nigeria.

1nice:

What the man said is meaningful and if you are not a war analyst then you can not understand his words.

Do not you understand the man words? How, then, will you ever understand any words on Nigeria Biafra second civil war?

But other people believe that the second Nigeria-Biafra civil war will spread out over all the 36 States of Nigeria including Abuja and would not be like the first Nigeria Biafra civil war that was only fought in south east and some parts of south south regions of Nigeria ( old eastern region then).

Listen then if you have ears and pay attention to what you hear, whatever is hidden away will be brought out into the open and whatever is covered up will be uncovered: another civil war is going to happen in Nigeria again if the Nigeria government refuse to fix date for Biafra referendum this year 2023.

Biafra referendum will fail even in the South East. Ibos are not confident enough to want to exit on their own.

Ibos see themselves all over the country together with the Fulanis as the biggest beneficiary on one Nigeria. Ibos are afraid of what will happen to their interests all over Nigeria should they split.

As an insurance not to leave Nigeria, ibos deliberately add Niger Delta to their Biafraaud map knowing the virtual IMPOSSIBILITY of an inch of South South joining with OSUs. This they use as a subterfuge as to why they are not leaving Nigeria.

Radicalwarrior:

You are mentally unstable, your jealousy for igbos is eating you up like disease virus or have you forgotten how you people impersonates igbos names just to give igbos bad name or should I reveal more impersonation carried out by haters of igbos.

Your head is suffering from mental break down and nothing you say now can justify your propaganda towards the igbos.

Truth is bitter.

This chart here suggest Ibos have historically led Nigerian crime by far. You can see that South South is not naturally criminally inclined.

See also as cannibalism boundary end on the River Niger divide.

No similarities between SS/SE. Ibos carry una wahala go.

1nice:

You are writing nonsense, totally trash writeup.

You need to go back to school to be educated because you are writing and talking like an illiterate person.

When you are through deceiving yourself with false information then let me know.

Uneducated Villager animalistic sabo.

For now advocate that Ibos must carry their own passports soon. A national consensus is beginning to form on this. The stench of Ibo is becoming overwhelming and unbearable to all other Nigerians.

Radicalwarrior:

You are very stupid.
You better shut up your propaganda mouth before something bad happened to you.

I put it to you that south south people are part of biafra people.

You saboteur better go back to your deception coverage.

Biafra was an unqualified evil in minority lands.

I am quite interested in your Biafran War story. Up till now, the Igbos have completely dominated that narrative…

Yes, they’ve been blessed with powerful writers like Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Chinelo Okparanta, etc., and an army of Biafran War scholars, you know… I think, like you, most Nigerians would be interested in knowing what happened to our minorities in Biafra. I am just happy that after 50 years, I have been able to do it my way. I say my way because I am not the first minority to write about the Biafran War.

How do you think the Igbos would react to the Biafran atrocities against our minorities in your book?

Most of them think they alone suffered in the war… but, Professor Okey Ndibe, a foremost Igbo intellectual, novelist and essayist, really asked great questions at the Rain Taxi interview a day after the book came out.
Okey was really brilliant. That’s an example of someone who is listening, someone who can empathize. I sincerely believe it would be to the benefit of our Igbo brothers and sisters to listen. Knowledge is a good thing. The Igbos themselves are a people who believe in diversity. We cannot say it enough: the Igbo suffered a lot in the war—but they, too, can learn. Biafra was an unqualified evil in minority lands. They just plundered the place, raping men and women. They looked down on us. We were nothing to them. Many of them still look down on us today… otherwise, how do you explain this so-called map of the new Biafra that still includes minority lands? Who told them the Isokos want to be in Biafra? Have they asked your people?


I must tell you right away, the Annangs, Efiks, Ibibios, Orons, Ogonis, etc., who’ve read the book are quite happy to see their towns and languages and their war dilemmas and atrocities in the book. Why should we remain fringe characters or nameless “saboteurs” in these narratives? Look, [b]Biafra was no better than Nigeria in raping and torturing and killing [/b]our peoples…We’ve been erased from the war narrative for so long. As long as you keep writing about the war as a fight between the Yorubas and Hausas and Igbos (the three major ethnic groups), the Igbos remain the victims. But as soon as widen this lens to include the minorities, at least in Biafra, then the story becomes complicated. You begin to see that the Igbos might have had their knee on our neck even while being crushed by the horrible Nigeria army.

• Ajeluorou is the publisher of online art/culture platform, AnoteArtHub (www.anotearthub.com).

https://guardian.ng/art/new-york-my-village-biafra-from-another-minoritys-lens/?fbclid=IwAR2r4PM9OTAp0p_yRFQoYHWHv5-1I2T0eBMVei2F9_0XovL39FoNUamvh8E

ch214:

Your falsehood will take you nowhere.

Below is a video of ijaw people declearing their supports for Biafra exit from Nigeria and you are the only one deceiving yourself with delusional reasoning.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2s-Ngpxe3E&pp=ygUiQmlhZnJhIHdvbWVuIHNwZWFrIG9uIE5uYW1kaSBLYW51IA

Ibos are toxic I beg. Ibos must clean up their image first. It is a curse for anyone to be attached to Ibo in any thing. South South reject that curse. Ibo na OSU.

ch214:
The three of them are Biafrans but One of them ís a betrayer and traitor of biafra people and that traitor of biafra people is Omokri the mosquito 🦟 confusionist.

Eboes are suffering from Mass Formation Psychosis.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJSwigON0k

ch214:

Stop spreading false information and take your propaganda elsewhere.

Rivers state was part of old eastern region, old eastern region is now refer to as Biafra: you can not change history and you can not speak for majority of Rivers state people who believe they are part of biafra; biafra is made up of various indigenous tribes.

Your foolishness is too much.
Spits tufiakwa

ibos are the only people hanging on to the dream of a dead region. They also want old Midwest region for whatever reason to join the ibo fraud. All these make sense only to the know-it-all ibo man, the world's sole custodian of truth.

Eboes are suffering from Mass Formation Psychosis.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJSwigON0k

ch214:

Shut up your dirty mouth you confusionist traitor.

Ojukwu second In command during the Nigeria civil war was from part of south south region know as akwa ibom state.

Even majority of south south people know that they are part of biafra people.

You devilish 😈 confusionist that lose your sense to soweto gibberish.

SS/SE Difference.
They do not eat humans (Refer to Map of Cannibalism).
They do not have OSU caste system.
They are not criminally inclined and do not carry drugs.
They are not migrant traders with apprenticeship.
They built kingdoms and lived in cities not forests.

Please why would any sane person want to join with Ibos in anything? Carry the same criminal passport with Ibo?

Please add South South. Nobody want Ibo.

Biafra was an unqualified evil in minority lands.

I am quite interested in your Biafran War story. Up till now, the Igbos have completely dominated that narrative…

Yes, they’ve been blessed with powerful writers like Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Chinelo Okparanta, etc., and an army of Biafran War scholars, you know… I think, like you, most Nigerians would be interested in knowing what happened to our minorities in Biafra. I am just happy that after 50 years, I have been able to do it my way. I say my way because I am not the first minority to write about the Biafran War.

How do you think the Igbos would react to the Biafran atrocities against our minorities in your book?

Most of them think they alone suffered in the war… but, Professor Okey Ndibe, a foremost Igbo intellectual, novelist and essayist, really asked great questions at the Rain Taxi interview a day after the book came out.
Okey was really brilliant. That’s an example of someone who is listening, someone who can empathize. I sincerely believe it would be to the benefit of our Igbo brothers and sisters to listen. Knowledge is a good thing. The Igbos themselves are a people who believe in diversity. We cannot say it enough: the Igbo suffered a lot in the war—but they, too, can learn. Biafra was an unqualified evil in minority lands. They just plundered the place, raping men and women. They looked down on us. We were nothing to them. Many of them still look down on us today… otherwise, how do you explain this so-called map of the new Biafra that still includes minority lands? Who told them the Isokos want to be in Biafra? Have they asked your people?


I must tell you right away, the Annangs, Efiks, Ibibios, Orons, Ogonis, etc., who’ve read the book are quite happy to see their towns and languages and their war dilemmas and atrocities in the book. Why should we remain fringe characters or nameless “saboteurs” in these narratives? Look, [b]Biafra was no better than Nigeria in raping and torturing and killing [/b]our peoples…We’ve been erased from the war narrative for so long. As long as you keep writing about the war as a fight between the Yorubas and Hausas and Igbos (the three major ethnic groups), the Igbos remain the victims. But as soon as widen this lens to include the minorities, at least in Biafra, then the story becomes complicated. You begin to see that the Igbos might have had their knee on our neck even while being crushed by the horrible Nigeria army.

• Ajeluorou is the publisher of online art/culture platform, AnoteArtHub (www.anotearthub.com).

https://guardian.ng/art/new-york-my-village-biafra-from-another-minoritys-lens/?fbclid=IwAR2r4PM9OTAp0p_yRFQoYHWHv5-1I2T0eBMVei2F9_0XovL39FoNUamvh8E

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There already are enough Ibo channels on Youtube

forgiveness:


If Oduduwa was from Benin, why did Benin send emissaries to Oduduwa to replicate the system of monarchy rule in Ile Ife?

What was his father's name in Benin?

From Ikaladerhan to Oduduwa: The Story of a Prince of Benin

Eweka I & the beginning of Oba Era {About 1200AD-1235AD} After the banishment of Owodo; the last Ogiso under the {Ogiso periods} for misrule Evain who had earlier distinguished himself as a brave man by destroying the man-eating Osogan, wasappointed as an adminstrator who ruled Benin for nearly 40 years. At his old age, Evian nominated his son Ogiamien as a successor. Unfortunately, this nomination did not go well with the Edo people who maintained that succession to the the throne is always applicable to kings and not to commoners to which class Evian belonged.

Spear headed by Oliha, there was a serious agitation to bring back the monarch.The nation was thrown into a state of internecine war and as a way out the elders {led by Oliha} went on a search party to look for Ikaladerhan {the banished son of the last Ogiso Owodo} who had for some time taken refuge at Uhe {or Ife as is now known}.

The search party reached Uhe to meet Ikaladerhan already enjoying the status of a king. The Edo people could not persuade him to return home. Nevertheless he Ikaladerhan now known as Oduduwa agreed to send his son if only the Benin could take care of him. This is how Oduduwa sent his Grandson Oranmiyan to Benin.

To test whether the Edo people would care for their king, Oduduwa gave the Edo people three years to nurse the common louse. On their success, the great Oduduwa was convinced that the people really would care for their king.

Oranmiyan was thereafter sent to Benin in 1170AD. He came into Benin amidst the serious opposition of Ogiamien who refused him entry into the city which was still under the firm grip of his administration. Oranmiyan was therefore forced to settle at Usama which was an outskirt of the city State . There he remained under the political support of the elders {Edion} headed by chief Oliha. Oranmiyan had both language and cultural handicaps because of his Yoruba backgrounds.

Although he had a Benin father {Ikaladerhan} yet he was really born and bred in yoruba land which was then the adopted kingdom, a refugee prince who had now found a new home at Ife. When Oranmiyan could neither speak nor understand the Benin custom, Unable to bear the animosity for very long renounced his position and labeled Edo land [Benin kingdom] lle Ibinu meaning land of annoyance and vexation and declared that only a child of the soil educated in the culture and tradition of the land could rule the kingdom. He thereafter returned to Uhe{IIe Ife}

On his way back home he stopped briefly at Ego where he impregnated princess Erimwinde the daughter of the Enogie of
Ego who bear him a son. In his early years couldn’t talk when his father who by now established the Alafin dynasty in Oyo had of his son
predicament, sent his son’s mother Ehendiwo seven marbles. While playing this marbles with other children one of his throws hit the target in excitement screamed Owomika {I have succeeded} which was Corrupted into Eweka.

For a period of over 30 years, the administration of Benin City was virtually in the hands of Ogiamien family until1200 AD when the "Boy-King" Eweka I as a young king ruled the kingdom with the assistance of his maternal grandfather Ogiegor. Oba Eweka I started the reign of the Obas. Hitherto, the kings were known as Ogiso but when Eweka I came as a king, he was referred to as Oba. The word Oba meaning is probably from an abbreviation of the original name of the first Ogiso {Obagodo {Oba godo}-Oba king; godo-high : High King}. The word came into use as connoting kingship during Oba Eweka I in 1200 AD. Oba Eweka reigned for 35 years at his demise , his rival children ruled in succession.

Fejoku:
The Edo people of Ondo State.

From Ikaladerhan to Oduduwa: The Story of a Prince of Benin

Eweka I & the beginning of Oba Era {About 1200AD-1235AD} After the banishment of Owodo; the last Ogiso under the {Ogiso periods} for misrule Evain who had earlier distinguished himself as a brave man by destroying the man-eating Osogan, wasappointed as an adminstrator who ruled Benin for nearly 40 years. At his old age, Evian nominated his son Ogiamien as a successor. Unfortunately, this nomination did not go well with the Edo people who maintained that succession to the the throne is always applicable to kings and not to commoners to which class Evian belonged.

Spear headed by Oliha, there was a serious agitation to bring back the monarch.The nation was thrown into a state of internecine war and as a way out the elders {led by Oliha} went on a search party to look for Ikaladerhan {the banished son of the last Ogiso Owodo} who had for some time taken refuge at Uhe {or Ife as is now known}.

The search party reached Uhe to meet Ikaladerhan already enjoying the status of a king. The Edo people could not persuade him to return home. Nevertheless he Ikaladerhan now known as Oduduwa agreed to send his son if only the Benin could take care of him. This is how Oduduwa sent his Grandson Oranmiyan to Benin.

To test whether the Edo people would care for their king, Oduduwa gave the Edo people three years to nurse the common louse. On their success, the great Oduduwa was convinced that the people really would care for their king.

Oranmiyan was thereafter sent to Benin in 1170AD. He came into Benin amidst the serious opposition of Ogiamien who refused him entry into the city which was still under the firm grip of his administration. Oranmiyan was therefore forced to settle at Usama which was an outskirt of the city State . There he remained under the political support of the elders {Edion} headed by chief Oliha. Oranmiyan had both language and cultural handicaps because of his Yoruba backgrounds.

Although he had a Benin father {Ikaladerhan} yet he was really born and bred in yoruba land which was then the adopted kingdom, a refugee prince who had now found a new home at Ife. When Oranmiyan could neither speak nor understand the Benin custom, Unable to bear the animosity for very long renounced his position and labeled Edo land [Benin kingdom] lle Ibinu meaning land of annoyance and vexation and declared that only a child of the soil educated in the culture and tradition of the land could rule the kingdom. He thereafter returned to Uhe{IIe Ife}

On his way back home he stopped briefly at Ego where he impregnated princess Erimwinde the daughter of the Enogie of
Ego who bear him a son. In his early years couldn’t talk when his father who by now established the Alafin dynasty in Oyo had of his son
predicament, sent his son’s mother Ehendiwo seven marbles. While playing this marbles with other children one of his throws hit the target in excitement screamed Owomika {I have succeeded} which was Corrupted into Eweka.

For a period of over 30 years, the administration of Benin City was virtually in the hands of Ogiamien family until1200 AD when the "Boy-King" Eweka I as a young king ruled the kingdom with the assistance of his maternal grandfather Ogiegor. Oba Eweka I started the reign of the Obas. Hitherto, the kings were known as Ogiso but when Eweka I came as a king, he was referred to as Oba. The word Oba meaning is probably from an abbreviation of the original name of the first Ogiso {Obagodo {Oba godo}-Oba king; godo-high : High King}. The word came into use as connoting kingship during Oba Eweka I in 1200 AD. Oba Eweka reigned for 35 years at his demise , his rival children ruled in succession.

Neckpresser101:


Another lie



Have you heard of Agbede and it's neighboring communities in northern edo ?


They're conquered Muslims


Lamba people

Edo are overhyped no cap


Igbos were ahead of them



Igbos are way more ancient than any tribe in Nigeria


My reasons are based on archeological facts


1. Nsude pyramids Udi Enugu State dated 2630-2610 BC



2. Igbo potteries they're distinct with Uli design which is an igbo artistic style Results indicate that pottery making has been in existence in the Igbo culture region since before 2000 B.C. The earliest evidence to date comes from Afikpo.


3. Igbo ukwu bronze works almost all dates back to the 9th century AD
The arts where first ever bronze work done in not just Nigeria but west Africa as a whole at that time using a lost wax casting method to make the surface well detailed.
The composition of the metal alloys used in the production of the bronze is unique, with an unusually high silver content and is distinct from alloys used in Europe, the Mediterranean or other African bronze centers
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art describes them as being "among the most inventive and technically accomplished bronzes ever made cool

4. Nsịbịdị writting have been dated to 400 AD and even earlier

Igbos are very ancient people like my grandad use to say

Igbo is a compressed igbo word for "ndi gbo" literally means "old people" in my dialect


Igbo civilization outdates even the nok civilization in Nigeria

So how did Ibos end up like this just in the last 20th century? Ibos are bush (igbo) people only rescued by the coming of the white man.

The only time this boy make sense.
Criminalize wealth and you spread poverty.

bjdon:
Mention anything about tribe and see low intelligence Africans get all excited and emotional. Who cares where who originated from? What should be of importance is what's going on now. No Nigerian state has pipe borne water across the whole state, dilapidated schools and hospitals, universities that are no better than secondary schools in the west. Crashing currency, insecurity... so many issues that should focus the mind, but no, all low intelligence people want to discuss is tribe this, tribe that.
Africans are a cursed lot!

We are going to divide and that is why it is important we all understand who we are now so we know where we will end up.
The problem is your Ibos don't want to stand on their own.

Obi Lamba

mabea:
His name is Edozien like in Edo indeed. Edozien is an Igbo word

The people of Onitsha are from the Benin Empire (Edo Kingdom). Obi of Onitsha.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxQKyPh7I8

Ogochuks101:

Op you must be very stupid and I'm sure you're not from Ndokwa and you are from Edo state. Always looking for lands to grab.

We Ndokwa/ukwuani people are pure igbos or Anioma people if e pain you go commit suicide.

Whenever you see the "We", know it is ibo masquerading as some other tribe. Only Ibos have that speech pattern.

Neckpresser101:

Eze Chima was an Aro native doctor. In pursuance of the role of the Aros in the Atlantic Slave Trade quoted…from Michael Crowder’s story of Nigeria, Chima left Arochukwu to Benin to set up as an agent of the Aro Long Juju, for the usual purpose of collecting slaves from Benin.

Whenever, in the olden days, a native doctor travelled to a place, he by custom would, on arrival, report himself to the local chief or to the head of the society of native doctors of the land. He is either the guest of the head chief of the clan or puts up with head of the local society of native doctors. Accordingly, when Chima arrived Benin he reported himself to the Oba of Benin who accepted him as his guest. In time Chima settled down and set up practice as a native doctor and agent of Aro Oracle. He impressed the Oba of Benin so much with his magical art that he became very influential over the Oba. In consequence, the Oba installed Chima a chief in the palace of Benin. Thus the plain blunt and ordinary native doctor who left Arochukwu to establish an agency of the Long Juju, earned a chieftaincy title and became Chief Chima or Eze Chima.
Having found his feet firm in Benin, Eze Chima sent for his brother Ekensu and other relatives from Arochukwu, and also set up an Aro settlement in Benin similar to those Aros had set up within the description of Michael Crowder, in other areas throughout former Eastern Nigeria.
With the march of time, Chima’s practice in Benin expanded down to Niger Delta. Among the Urhobos and Itshekiris also the fame of the Aro Oracle spread and clients from those areas trooped to him to consult the Oracle. The greatest index of Chima’s influence on culture in Benin Kingdom is found in the fact that Benin people adopted the Igbo days of the week – Eke, Orie, Afo and Nkwo – on which Chima made one sacrifice or the other or observed his abstinences and spiritual disciplines, as names also of Benin week days. And till today the Binis have, as the Igbo, Eke, Orie, Afo, Nkwo – as names of their week days.
According to Mr Wellington Igunbor a Benin historian, who on the mother side, belongs to one of Benin’s traditional chieftaincy families (Chief Gaius Obaseki’s family – Gaius Obaseki who was the Iyase or Prime Minister of Benin in 1947) – the settlement of Eze Chima in Old Benin was established in the area through which Siliku Street runs in the present-day Benin city. As Eze Chima’s influence increased so did population of his settlement expand. So influential was Eze Chima and so completely absorbed in the society was he and his clan that there was hardly a thing he and his people could not do on the basis of equality with Benin indigenes.
How Chima left Benin:
At the time Eze Chima lived in Benin, the mother of Oba of Benin was Asije. The Oba’s brother who also was the Oba’s War Lord was called Gbunwala. One day, Asije the mother of both the Oba and Gbunwala, the Benin War Lord went into a farm belonging to Eze Chima’s people and collected firewood. Eze Chima’s people then caught Asije the Oba’s mother, and beat her thoroughly for taking wood from their farm without permission. Back home, Asije reported to her children – the Oba of Benin and Gbunwala, the Benin War Lord, her bitter experience with Eze Chima’s people. Red with anger, Gbunwala, the Oba’s brother and War Lord, took some of his soldiers, went to Chima’s settlement, set upon Chima’s people – beat them thoroughly and killed some of them.

From that day, Gbunwala began to harass Eze Chima and his people. In the circumstance, Eze Chima decided to quit Benin with his people and return to the East whence he came to rejoin his Igbo kith and kin – or, in the alternative to find new settlements for himself and his people in places far and safe beyond the reach of Oba of Benin.

This story was told in Igbo Primer popularly known as “Azu Ndu”, approved by Government Education Department for infant classes of primary schools in the Igbo Provinces of then Eastern Nigeria, now Biafra, since the beginning of the 20th century.



On their way out of Benin, some of the Eze Chima’s people settled at Agbo (Agbor), 44 miles away from Benin City which they considered far, and out of reach, molestations and influence of the Oba of Benin and his brother, Gbunwala. Others went beyond this distance and settled at Isele-Uku, Onicha-Olona, Onicha-Ugbo and Obio. When they reached the West bank of the Niger, some took a canoe and paddled down the River to Abo and settled. Led by Oreze, the eldest son of Eze Chima, the balance of Eze Chima clan crossed the River Niger to the eastern bank and settled among Oze people – the original inhabitants of what is today the big and prosperous commercial and education centre in Biafra – Onicha (Onitsha). On page 73 of his story of Nigeria, Mr Michael Crowder believed that the migration of Onicha (Onitsha) people – this is of Umu Eze Chima clans – from Benin took place in the 17th century.

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The people of Onitsha are from the Benin Empire (Edo Kingdom). Obi of Onitsha.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxQKyPh7I8

Bendeco2020:

That's not about Onitsha People.

Zik was just whining them maybe for political favor.

Current Obi of Onitsha ( His Roy. Highness Nnaemeka Afred Achebe) already debunked that fake story.

I myself, am from Onitsha

You lie. Hear it from the Obi himself.
The people of Onitsha are from the Benin Empire (Edo Kingdom).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxQKyPh7I8

Bendeco2020:


Don't mind the funny guys.

They keep hyping Benin

No mind that funny Azikiwe.
He kept hyping Benin.
Onitsha people sef.

Christistruth03:



But why didn’t they just Civilise them

like the Yorubas Civilised those around them and integrated with them

They tried and and tried forever but many back then as they are today were hardened in their ways. It wasn't only the Binis that were involved. It was everyone collectively. It was the Yoruba, the Izons, all the way to the Volta. An edict was passed abolishing cannibalism from all lands. Many who bluntly refused to adhere to the edict were expelled. Most went into the Congos but a few remained trapped around here. It then fell upon the Binis to banish those few remnants of the cannibal tribes into the forest of isolation. They are the Ibos of today.

Neckpresser101:

So Onitsha hate and look down on Ibos? This Zik self. Na champion of wvaulence and neck-pressing. Hear him:

"One day I asked her (grandmother) the meaning of the word 'Onitsha'. She explained that it had historical significance. The terminology meant one who despised another. It is a contraction of two words, Onini to despise, and Ncha meaning others. So that the two words when joined together mean one who despises others. Then I asked her why we despised others. She patted me on the back and told me that it was due to our aristocratic background and tradition. I insisted that she should explain to me the basis of this supercilious social attitude. She told me that we despised others because we descended from the Royal House of Benin and so regarded ourselves as the superiors of other tribes who had no royal blood in their veins, "

Topic for another day.

Mrfeel:

I ask the question again, who is a igbo man, who are the Igbos, define who the Igbos are?

Long long ago, Ibos lived West of the Niger river with everyone else. Spearheaded by the Binis who have had an insane abhorrence for cannibalism, a proclamation was made prohibiting the practice i.e. cannibalism. Many tribes refused to give up the practice of cannibalism and so were chased out with ferocity. Most of these tribes were chase into the Congo region but a few of them did not go as far. They were banished to the empty forest East of the Niger. These are the Ibos of today and that is why they remained isolated in that forest for most of their existence.

Dem no trust am

Abagworo:



Being from "Bini" doesn't mean you are not Igbo. That is the point you need to understand beyond Zik's book. Inside Bini there were Igbos and Beyond Bini into today's Ondo State and Northern Edo there were Igbos but the truth is that there was no collective tribal identity yet the Igbo language was widely used all through. In present day Nigeria when an Omuma man says he's from Rivers you cannot dispute him about it but it doesn't mean he's a Riverine tribe like Kalabari or Okrika. What most of you arguing are doing is on assumption that the Benin empire had only Benin tribe or Edo tribes under the Oba but reality is that Igbos, Urhobos, Ijaws and other tribes at one time or the order came under Benin rule and became part of the Empire led by Bini people and some of them were equally given appointments as part of the ruling class or as representative of Oba in their respective localities. Once you understand this fact your brain becomes free from the confusions.

You are a reasonable man even if I disagree with some of your assertions. This story as told by Zik many of us also heard from our parents and great grand parents.

creativehubb:

If they could they would, even today the fulanis are trying to encroach south, between the start of the jihad of Usman Dan fodio and when the British came to Benin was 80 years, 80 years is enough for the Fulani jihadist to take the south if they could, they tried but we're chased back by the military of the Benin empire. The fulanis didn't go back by themselves they were chases back, their plan was to force us all to become Muslims. When you people were bush men, Benin empire had civilized states, and an army that can raise 10,000 men within days. If not for Benin empire you would be a Muslim today. Show respect to the gods of the earth. Have you seen Benin city walls, longer than the walls of China, have you seen the Benin moat, a defense mechanism built by the empire thousands of years ago, when your progenitors were bush men. You are a slave, we are gods and kings.

Benin moat was built with Ibo slave labor. No great civilization builds monuments with the labor of their own free born citizens.

Mrfeel:

So zik and his grandmother knows the history of the Igbos more than the Igbos? First who are the Igbos? Can you define who the Igbos are?

Why don't you write your own book first like Zik of Africa? We know, we know; Ibo man knows it all. The sole custodian of all things true.
I Before Others

Neckpresser101:

You're the clown here 🤡🤡

where is eze China originally from?

Do you know eze actually means ' PRIEST ' in ìgbo language before it was corrupted to mean

Argue with Azikiwe: he must be the clown as these are his words.

"One day I asked her (grandmother)"

So you know his own history better than him - the great Zik of Africa and you know their history better than the grandmother, Who do Ibo people this thing?