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The Alake is number four in hierarchy?

I'm gonna have to brush up my Yoruba history a bit. But this doesn't sound right.

Is the Alake among the kings that received a crown from Oduduwa?

Rivertemz:
Nigerian men

The first guy is African-American. Other than that, on point!

OP, The title of the thread reads different from what you intended. Edit. Writing 'to' is not that difficult.

tonychristopher:
Oh is it petrifying ..pardon my oversight MUNGO PARK DIED AT IBUSA WHICH IS ANGLIZED VERSION OF IGBUZOR.....now why don't you research IBUSA/IBUSA/igbuzor/igbobinuzor

Listen, my good man. Mungo Park did not die in Ibusa or Igbuzor. He never came anywhere near Ibusa or even Southern Nigeria for that matter.

Mungo Park died in Bussa which was a town in what is now Niger State in Northern Nigeria.

Try not to confuse yourself.

africanusvu:
I stil see anywoman that can go for beauty contest as a prostitute.just my view.

This got likes??

Nigerians have got zero chill. A man can't clown around on twitter again.

tonychristopher:
Can you pls shut up..igbo was not a creation of British. ...before the advent of British there was igbo ukwu,obi igbo and igbuzor where mungo partk died ...igbo had been in existence before the British came
People bear igbo names like igbokwe,igbodi, igbodo, etc

Did you say Mungo Park died in Igbouzor?

The things I see on Nairaland eh...!

FabioPeter:
"Educative" correct word is "Educational"

Educative is a correct English word.

Topshow4real:
Expantiate => you will never find this word in the dictionary

Because the word is actually 'expatiate'.

Gwazah:
@ op check my screen shot below, u tried but got it wrong with the word disvirging, my dictionary have it.

Did you notice that in your screen shot, the example of the use of the word (disvirgin) was taken from a book written by a Nigerian (Gideon Mekwunye)?

The word was apparently coined in Nigeria, but seems to be gaining some popularity even outside Nigeria, which is a good thing.

We shouldn't fight the use of these Nigerian coinages. We should encourage people to use them. Who said we can't evolve our own variant of English, when Australians and Americans and white English-speaking South Africans have their own peculiar English words?

playtheblues:
One lecture was acting like you till his wife travelled to UK with their 3 kids for their Masters and got married to a very rich white man who built 3-storey building for her in her father's house at Mbaise. She cited the man's excessive infidelity and escapades with his female students as the reason for her action.
The man never got to see those kids again till he entered his grave few years ago.

Masters students are not allowed to bring in dependents to the UK.

There are also some Tiv in Nasarawa. Don't know how large that population is, however. I hear it is 'significant'.

In the end, it does seem that the Tiv outnumber the Nupe,even if by a small margin.

From school days, we were taught the Tiv were the largest minority ethnicity in the Middle Belt. The Nupe probably come in second.

Nigerians have a weird idea of what constitutes 'facilities'. I was expecting to see pictures of the inside of laboratories, the inside of libraries, the inside of classrooms. Things like that. Instead I'm looking at pictures of roads and the exterior of buildings. These buildings could have no noteworthy facilities inside them for all we know.

You now write 'Somali' as 'Somalian'. You now claim to live in the UK, and not in the US. You think you have us fooled, but I know it's you. Even if no one else knows it's you, I do.

This is ancient. Very ancient.

Fulaman198:
We Fulani (Fulbe) or Fellata in Arabic that speak both Fulfulde and Hausa consider the Fulanis in the Northwest as mainly Hausa. They call themselves Hausa-Fulani, but I just call them Hausa. They don't have any element of Pulaaku.

I remember you explaining to a non-Nigerian on this site that Buhari was a Fulani. That would appear to contradict what you're saying here, since Buhari is from Katsina State, which is in the Northwest.

WIZGUY69:
Which tribe still practice this barbaric culture in this 21st century

Oh, you didn't read it, did you?

Does this old lady have any idea how widely separated Efik-Ibibio lands are from Edo State?

Efik-Ibibios would have to be indigenous to Abia, Rivers and Delta before one can even begin to talk of Edo.

Izbanda01:
Please, which part of Delta state? Definitely not Asaba.

Definitely not Asaba?

Are you from Asaba?

alanmwene:
Correction:Fela was a great musician,but not the greatest African musician who ever lived.He was more known for his militantism than his musical prouesses.Musically,luambo Makiadi alias Franco,the father of Congolese modern music was ways greater than Fella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOl931WovCM

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

Fela may not be the greatest African musician who ever lived. But he was a far more legendary music figure than your Franco.

I doubt you will find 10 people outside of Central Africa who have even heard of the man. (I hadn't heard of him until now.) The name 'Fela', however, is recognised across the African continent and even outside it.

Even you, a Congolese, have heard of Fela. I'd wager no one on this thread knows or have ever heard of your man Franco.

Udmaster:
every little thread, u start calling 4 front page.

You noticed that, too?

Your pictures threads are way better than your more recent threads. You should perhaps stick to making that type of threads.

I can attempt a few, mostly the ones from the Anambra axis:

Azikiwe - The youth are quick to express anger.

Achebe - a contraction of Anichebe. Means 'May the Earth (goddess) watch over/protect'. Such contractions are common in the Anambra communities close to the Anambra and the Niger rivers.

Obiano - in full, it would be 'Obi anoo m mmili'. 'The heart has been softened/filled with compassion'.

Anyim - I believe the bearer was named after the Cross River - or (more generally) a big river.

Adichie - I'm not very sure. But if it means what it sounds like to me, it would mean something like 'has been replaced'. The kind of name you would give a child born after you had lost a previous one - kind of like Edochie and Onochie. I could be wrong about this one.

Tansi - Contraction of Tabansi. Means something along the lines of 'Have patience'/Endure.

Abii - a bearer of this last name I know from Mbaise says it means 'manilla money'.

bigfrancis21:
If you want statistics, I could provide it to you. Survival of Igbo customs and traditions do not have to be in form of religious and cultural practices. It could also survive in behavioural attitudes, similar ways of life or thinking, etc.

Whatever it is you think you've got, go ahead and post it. You don't need to seek my go-ahead to do so. Knock yourself out.

bigfrancis21:
And how about the Ubanis in Anambra and Enugu state, 'nitwit'?

Or are you saying there are no Ubanis in Northern Igbo? Some who I have personally come across? Are you this slow?

I hope that by 'those you have come across' you are not referring to the Comrade you brought up earlier, whose hometown is nowhere stated.

Its a funny day when an epically dum.b person such as yourself calls another person 'slow'. Kind of like the proverbial mad man who thinks it is everyone else who is mad.

Bring forward your Enugu and Anambra Ubanis, and I will give you a lesson on your own Igbo history. I do not doubt that you will find a few and only a few (no way as common as in the Ngwa/Ukwa area). I know of an Ajalli man (Anambra) whose grandfather was named Ubani. I know why his grandfather had that name. But I'll wait for you to fool yourself before I school you on that.

bigfrancis21:
Well, they do. Amadi-Ama is an example of one such town. Oyind simply confirmed that. What do you have to say about that?

For the billionth time, it is not their native language. They also speak Igbo in Otukpa, Benue, but it is not their native language but a second language. Do you think you can understand this?