₦airaland Forum

Ihuomadinihu:
Lmao!
Which customers? Boy shut your trap up!! Enlightened people are correcting certain misconceptions,it's either you contribute or you simply walk away and stop messing up yourself. It's unfortunate that the only addition you can make on this insightful thread is to use words like ashawo and prostitute for someone you don't know beyond this thread. Child, keep those insults to yourself,i don't have that time!

spanishkid:
same way your wretched father died from the bullets of the Nigerian army.

Yujin:
Nwanna rapu okwu. Inugo nwanyi anuberom. Rapurum asa a mara nma ka m je i ije na isi ya ka I choro ka m gwa nwanyi ogume? Lol

spanishkid:
igbo savages like you will never learn. You'll soon die. That I can assure you

Ihuomadinihu:
Shut your damn mouth. So igbos should keep quiet when they are being misrepresented on nairaland? Some people lack thinking faculty!

spanishkid:
and shut that your disease infested mouth. Thunder fire you and your entire generation. Misrepresented in what way? You guys are a nuisance and bunch of wailers. Get the Bleep off my mentions. Useless Igbo hoe.

Ihuomadinihu:
Yes, Mike Ezuruonye is from the Old Bende,so he dresses like them when he wants to go traditional. Being a star actor,am sure he is given the leverage to inject his style in his wardrobe. That being said,his attire does not necessarily reflect how all Igbos dress but how modern Igbos dress with the isi agu shirt,trouser and wollen cap which is substituted with red cap around the Anambra axis( without the Bende belt of course).

Other than that, throwing over a simple wrapper whether akwa ocha or george whether over the shoulder or on the waist still stands for all Igbos as the may be. As for the women, both single and double wrapper are used. If we reached back into the past,you would understand that 'Igbo fashion' was much more flamboyant and uniform than what is presented today.
So to say that Igbo dressing is modelled after Edo is a great fallacy.

ChinenyeN:
Yep, Izugbe is an artificial creation. It didn't evolve from anything. Instead, features of Izugbe were deliberately handpicked, based off what the standardizing committee believed to be the underlying basis for modern Igbo speech forms. Izugbe is not the natural dialect of any Igbo-speaking people or township.

boskolin:
If Igbo men are so great why are Igbo girls running after Yoruba men? twitter is full of angry Igbo girls crying over Yoruba men and they are the ones promoting this Yoruba boys slander on twitter. Igbo men are just too rude and primitive, everything about them is money .

akksplendor:
A Nigerian man was apprehended and charged with s*xual assault after pulling down his pants, bringing out his joystick, self servicing and releasing sperm on a woman, police in the United Kingdom said. The 32-year-old man identifed as Peter Fabiyi has been sentenced to serve 4 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of s*xual assault.

According to the Bullet Gist, Fabiyi stood directly in front of the 20-year-old victim on the train before pulling down his pants and self servicing with vigor.

Fabiyi released his sperm on the woman who then fled to the next car and reported the assault to another passenger who called the police. Fabiyi was identified and caught after police reviewed surveillance videos of the train.  In addition to the prison sentence, Fabiyi has been banned from approaching women traveling alone in trains except for transportation employees.
http://www.splendormag.com/2015/10/photo-nigerian-man-brings-out-manhood.html

fratermathy:
I admire your perseverance. I still stand my ground. Although, I'll acknowledge at this point that my earlier statement that Igbo system of leadership and dressing draws from Edo system maybe hyperbolic. Nonetheless, minute traces are there!

nwanlecha:
It does! Just stop with the argument k. Both groups borrowed things from each other, but both have also managed to carve out their own unique looks.
@tonychristopher, you are right about the famous akwete. In all, I love Igbo dressing 'cus it's just so regal and beautiful.

aim5:
Agenebode is a riverport that links to Kogi.

aim5:
Agenebode is a riverport that links to Kogi.

fratermathy:
I said my tribe but you were to blind to see it. That is your problem. You see only what you want to see. Ask her and she'll tell you my tribe

aim5:
Gele Gele is linked to the Bight of Benin. Gele Gele was how Portuguese and Benin did trade... Also Agenebode has a little port too. Benin wasn't/isn't a seaport in the classical sense, but Gele Gele was an entry way for trade between Portuguese and Edos.

Ihuomadinihu:
Foreign bead is out of it. Igbos already had beads. Wrapper or whatever is out of it. What next? Nsala soup?

boskolin:
Ika are not Igbo. Igbo are found of copying others.

fratermathy:
There were no mistakes. There were only ethnically proud people who would rather engage in a verbal tournament than overlook simple things or at best, correct them in as academic a way as possible.

fratermathy:
This is the root of our argument. It is no aberration that Edo kingdom has overarching influence in Southern Nigeria as much as Nigeria has overarching influence in West Africa. It is a law of politics and sociology. Even in small Warri there, there is a struggle of overarching influence by the Ijaws, Urhobos and Itsekiris of which the Itsekiris seem to have it for now. Urhobos have been influenced greatly by Edo nation so also with Ijaw, Itsekiri and IGBO!!! Accept it or not; it is a fact.

fratermathy:
This too doesnt explain what I wrote earlier. All you are doing is to prove that Igbos made their own beads. Okay. Did they also invent kingship?

fratermathy:
It was not an error. It was a misconception of intent and message easily corrected or ignored. Correction could have been done calmly like this:

"Op, Igbos dont dress like Edos. Please correct yourself. "

and not:
"this is trash, bunkum, rubbish, etc etc"

Ihuomadinihu:
Lmao! Nobody owns any foreign coral beads! That is what we want you to understand. Igbo, Igala, efik, Edo etc traded with each other not borrowed beads.

fratermathy:
That is the point, I never insulted the Igbo nation. Saying that their dressing/traditional system were modelled after the Edo system does not relegate their culture. It is an academic fact that the Edo empire had overarching influence in the whole of Southern Nigeria.

aim5:
Benins aren't riverine but they still managed to trade with the Portuguese. When they traded with Portuguese merchants, they would probably trade in one of those riverine areas in the Delta since Benin Kingdom was in control of Southern Nigeria. It's very reasonable to say that Edo isn't a littoral area since it's not near the coast, but to say that the Edo weren't traders is mind boggling. Considering the fact that they also played a role in the early development of Lagos (Eko) along with the Portuguese.

Ihuomadinihu:
Lmao! So because Fish is imported through Lagos seaport,the people in Abia shouldn't equally use the fish how the want it? Ignorance! It was imported and used by all sorts of people in Southern Nigeria.

fratermathy:
Or is it less plausible than the fact that Igbo IMPORTED them from VENICE and EGYPT

boskolin:
Igbo have no culture, they are Jewish wannabe.

Ihuomadinihu:
Coral beads are imported beads which were sold to Africans. Are you trying to say that only Edos have exclusive right to use what was brought by white traders or what? OMG!

nwanlecha:
Biko all I want to correct is the false impression that head-tie which we Ndi Igbo call ichafu, is a yoruba creation. Yorubas have always been known for their aso-oke and not ichafu. The fact that yoruba women now tie ichafu which they call 'gele,' does not in any way make it a yoruba creation or part of the ancient yoruba culture. Also the yorubas certainly don't own the music industry. I don't know where the OP got such silly notion from.
@OP, instead of indulging in this unnecessary argument, don't you think it will be better for you to make the appropriate correction in your write up? Simply describe the Igbo culture without likening it to that of the Benin people, in order not to insult the sensibility of the great and unique Igbo nation.That is certainly not too much to ask is it?

ezeagu:
"Regardless, the talent of these casters was truly astonishing. Many of the castings were made in stages. For instance, in one bronze bowl set on a flat stand found at Igbo-Ukwu, small decorative items including insects and spirals were cast first and placed in the wax model before the main parts of the bowl were made. The vessel itself was then cast in two parts and fitted together by casting a middle band. In addition to a variety of ritual vessels (whose designs appear to reproduce the form of gourd vessels to which metal handles have been attached), many other bronze items have been found at Igbo-Ukwu, including pendants, crowns and breastplates, staff ornaments, swords, and fly-whisk handles. These works were also found with tens of thousands of beads, attained through trade for slaves, ivory, or spices. Igbo-Ukwu bronzeworking was an isolated phenomenon at the time, but bronze casting developed several centuries later in other parts of Nigeria."

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/igbo/hd_igbo.htm

fratermathy:
Call it bunkum. It can always beat the best you've got! Doubt that and lets continue this.