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Igbo kwenu

He already promised that

Where d ten Kay... lol the Op self no get 5k

1-0 barca wins

DearOp, Really nice topic you've raised here. As a Nigerian you must learn your mother tongue, I'm from the SW but loved the igbo accent that I have an Igbo wife just to get closer to them and also feel the raw igbo blood/culture because my children will be multi lingual in Nigeria and also dual citizens in the eventual breakup of Nigeria
I love the igbo hi-life music cos it reminds me of the igbo hustling spirit especially when you goto markets like alaba, oshodi, ladipo etc..
Don't worry about the feature, use everything available at your disposal to achieve it and remember to set a time frame so as to trigger your will-do power.

uchefefe:
My family speaks Onitsha Dialect. I know it's not a different as something like the dialect spoken in Ebonyi, but it's difficult to figure out what someone is saying as a learner. For example, it took me a while to figure out "achoro m" means "I want" in Onitsha when it means "I don't want" in Izugbe.

@Opiletool and @bigfrancis21
This is honestly where my concern and apprehension with focusing on the language (at least now) comes from; it's future seems very bleak. Will the language still have a significant presence in the future? I can devote all my time and attention into learning the language, but who will I speak it with once the people in my parent's generation are gone? I've never met an Igbo person around my age who uses the language regularly even if they know how to speak it.

My worry is that I'll spend all my time mastering Igbo, then when I teach it to my kids it won't matter because they will live in an environment that doesn't reinforce its value. Can I be sure they'll master the language or even speak it out of the home? Can I be sure that they'll teach it to their own children or their children's children? Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead, but I'm just one Igbo person of several million. Even if 1/4th of us value the language and put effort into preserving it, that can't counterbalance the 3/4th that don't. Then I'll end up struggling to learn another language while also teaching my children that language.



Many African Americans would love to know what cultures their ancestors belonged to. There are millions of black people on the planet that had their language stripped from them, so it's sad seeing so many that still have theirs throwing them away.

Also, thank you for the bolded. It really means a lot to me



It's not just Nigerian, but unfortunately African seem to be among the worst offenders. One thing I will say that is unique to Nigerians is not speaking your language in the presence of those that understand it. I'm in a club for African students at my university. We have around 30 students with about half of them being Igbo. I've been in this club 4 years and have not heard a single word of Igbo at any gathering. Meanwhile I've heard plenty Twi, Ga, and Swahili despite groups speaking these languages being a minority.



I'd like to thank everyone for the Igbo resources and advice. I'll look into them!

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We the developers

Beauty of democracy

He spoke well until he name mentioned Kayode Fayemi

Jagaban has spoken...


Food for thought

Wow awesome. but which one be light for culvert again, my people with color light sha..

Dumb question.

Whatever suits him

And the time bomb is ticking

And u came in and truncated it

Weytin kill am

Does it really count? What about the conditions 6 commissioners, has it been met?

Children of today know your history.

There's no way Yorubas and igbos were of the same descendants, check your history. Yoruba is a one person in respect of Oduduwa, and in contrary...

Igbos are nation, they are the migrant children of Obed who fled from their nation around 9th - 10th century, during the time of great affliction of the Israel nation by the Assyrians. They settled by the lower bend of river Niger and cross river where they found fertile ground and started farming just like the Israelites.
Their system of government and administration is patrilineal clan system, every clan or village trace themselves back to their ancestors.

Origin of Yoruba tribe
Oduduwa who came from northwest Africa and settled at Ile ife, but oral tradition says that Oduduwa came from heaven and created the earth.
The descendants spread and founded seven kingdoms namely: Oowu, Sabe, Popo, Benin, Ila, Ketu, and Oyo.
Oranmiya founded the Old Oyo kingdom around 14th century, Ife became the spiritual and cultural centre of the kingdom. The government of old Oyo kingdom consists... Alafin, Oyomesi, The Eso, Ogboni, and Ilari.

Hausa tribe traced their origin from Bayagida who was a prince from Bagdad that married the queen of daura. Their children founded the true Hausa states known as Hausa bakwa, such as Biram, Daura, Katrina, zaria, Kano, Gobir and subsequently zanfara, Kebbi gwari, yuari.

Stop misleading and rewriting history all because of you want to be patriotic or try to unify the country.

tesppidd:
What sort of stuppid arrangement is this?

South West and North East should goan sit down.


*North East is too close to North West to produce President and SP.

*South West do not deserve it because they already have VP and they really fumbled by giving a lot of votes to Atiku/Obi.


The Senate Presidency must go to South South.

They worked hard by giving this government an imaginable number of votes especially in Edo, Delta and Akwa Ibom.


Senate President - South South.
DSP - North East.
Speaker - South West.

Chech ur map SW to NE has a distance farther than both NW and SE check ur map, and its illogical of you to think that Yorubas massively voted Atiku obi.., what happened to the igbos and ss in the region.
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tesppidd:
What sort of stuppid arrangement is this?

South West and North East should goan sit down.


*North East is too close to North West to produce President and SP.

*South West do not deserve it because they already have VP and they really fumbled by giving a lot of votes to Atiku/Obi.


The Senate Presidency must go to South South.

They worked hard by giving this government an imaginable number of votes especially in Edo, Delta and Akwa Ibom.


Senate President - South South.
DSP - North East.
Speaker - South West.

Chech ur map SW to NE has a distance farther yhanvboth

Weyrey jatijati

Orisirisi.

Stewpid ppl, so dem no no all dis b4 dem give us condition not to do our normal daily functions wey dey make money for us...

There's an unrest going on in and around Abule-Oko, a local community in Ewekoro local gov't. There are rumours that its a fight between the Fulanis and Yoruba indegeines which a man has reportedly been killed. More details and pictures loading.

I love this .

You said you are not a hater but your post depicts one. 2019 dont hate pray baba God answer your prayers stop hating

Hundreddegrees:
I'm not a hater but this guy is disgusting and not funny

If you call creativity dressing in trash cans and trying to make fun of what people wear then I'll pass

Big Sean, Sade Adu,

SeanT21:
Nas is a Nigerian?

Nas is a blooded Nigerian, his name is Nasiru Oludara Jones.. goto his Twitter to confirm.

Too bad

Move out and get a life