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gregyboy:
I wasnt in that discussion if i was there be no need replying her, i would probably just drop a screenshot and leave her in tears


If you have it please share it to me

"Captain Horseley called it Eco, and that is how the yebous refer to it; but it is not their land: it belongs to Benin, whom have named it Korame, you can recognise the Curamo from older Portuguese reports, just like Eko represents the Ichoo from Holland Hydrographs. Long ago Korame was linked to its metropolis by a very narrow piece of land contained between the great Laguna and the sea; but it has been a while since the Yebous have seazed that very narrow piece of land of which the eastern extremity was invaded by ouyo pirates; and Karamé remained isolated at the extremity of the great Laguna, while it continues to receive from Benin it's governor or political chief."

Re: Lagos Belongs To Benin - Obanikoro's Grandson Declares

https://www.nairaland.com/6365528/lagos-belongs-benin-obanikoros-grandson/22#98149347

Basically, the yoruba are just trolling you guys. No, need to engage fools who want to rewrite history. Instead, just go about digging up actual historical accounts from actual eyewitnesses.
Your work will speak for itself.

gregyboy:
I want to ge this fact correctly


You first attempt was that curamo was a word derived from a yoruba lingua....

But

Ruy de Sequeira’s “Lago de Curamo” you mentioned talks about him naming lagos after curamo a name in Portuguese meaning healing......


So i want to know ma where do you stand so i can proceed... Further


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Your argument here is baseless and provoking


There is no word like curamo in Portuguese the closest you can get is curar meaning healing

Then my question is why did the Portuguese name lagos lake of curar if we are to help assume curamo was a corrupt form of curar

Did any significant thing happen maybe a miraculous healing on a Portuguese sailor or a religious revelation giving to one of the sailors while sailing on the coast of lagos

Any If any of this assumption had taken place it would have been noted and documented by the protuguese for such important significant associated with healing....
If this our assumptions were correct then were is the Portuguese document relating to the name lago de curamo, if there is non then our assumptions were to far fetched i would say....


This is basically an attempt by Nigerians to whitewash their history for their usual supiority complex over other tribe....


And again lago was the derivative giving by the Portuguese and not the name lagos, why did we corrupt lago to the city lagos in Portugal.... Another inferiority complex that we need to look into


A yoruba guy on quora attempted to change the world lekki to a Portuguese name, according to him, lekki is a name of a Portuguese slave owner.... When it is clearly an edo word for market... Eki meaning market in edo, which partained to the the market activites going on in lagos in those centuries

Now i begin to imagine when a Portuguese person storm upon that yoruba guy statement on quora he will begin to wonder how on earth the name lekki is a name in their dialect he is not aware of, his conclusion would be the yoruba nigga is not highly educated to know the word lekki is an African word and he may give the impression we are truly advance monkeys.....

I only wonder why you guys like to engage that chronic yoruba liar. Several months ago I showed a French text in which the author whom is an eyewitness to our ancestors clearly stated that Lagos belongs to Benin and it was called Korame by Benin. The fraud whom you are engaging and most if you were in that discussion. I don't see any need to relitigate an already proven fact, there is proof that the yoruba fraud is lying.

humility33:
thats great we have yoruba speaking edos too we call them mainly Usen part of benin

Think waje is from there ever since i read she is from edo state

Eriokanmi:
Also akoko edo people are mostly yorubas. l served there in my nysc days so I know this for a fact. Ovia people too. Their oba bears a yoruba name they speak the language too. Whether edo in it's entirety is yoruba or not, by the time Nigeria breaks up( because we know this would happen in view of the goings on in the country ) , we shall know where they'd lean on. Many had come up with disputed views and history about the ancestry of edo people.

How I wish you yoruba would stop obsessing about us Edos. Look, we are not yoruba and any of us who happens to speak yoruba learnt it for his or her own convenience.
An equal number of us also speak igbo and haussa for the same reason.
Why can't you guys just leave us alone, what is it with you ?

Untill the 19th century there was no such thing as yoruba and when the term was born, it only meant people from oyo kingdom.

Awolowo and his political group among others created what you guys now call yoruba today. And us Edo are not part of it. Nor are our Itsikiri brothers. We all voted to not be part of the yoruba dominated western region.

The yoruba of today is either a former dahomian, a slave returnee or an oyo, or some other indigenous tribesman who accepted the yoruba tag. We are not yoruba, we are Edo, that is our ethnicity and it predates yours.

Needless to say, Akoko-Edo are Edo (and not yoruba) like their name suggests.