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Nnaa Mehn, sometimes I don’t even have all the time to follow up and listen to all the interviews, all I can say is continue and never stop until our brothers, elders, duagther’s, mothers of so called coastal region, Niger Delta have sense by force…

@hansoreva1

Жыл бұрын

You are right all of nigerdelta except delta central/South and edo are not of igbo ancestry

@calistermadukwe7977

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂Omo you dey vex I can relate bro

@destinyibe9083

2 ай бұрын

Who are the Igbanis?

@chineduobi5324

Ай бұрын

Most of the people interviewed are hiding very important informations while some are speaking with fears thereby canceling the true historical background

@chineduobi5324

Ай бұрын

it's painful when the older men lies and deceive the new generation,i come in peace❤

I'm proud of Igbo

Great work , education for our people. Things that divided us is just Local Area but things that united us BLOOD. .WELDONE MY BROTHER KEEP IT ON.

What I find quite interesting is their claim of choosing the language of their slaves over theirs. Ideally, slaves learn the language of their masters.

Nnaa Mehn tv You are doing a great job. The lord is your strength. Trying to discover our lost people is not easy job . You can not speak a language you have no heritage of. Remain blessed.

Self denial is a very dangerous

You're doing a great job bro

Uranta is a typical Ngwa name from Osisioma

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

3 ай бұрын

16:17 Oga, try dey listen. Stop displaying ur ignorance proudly. U no b goat

Thanks a lot

I definitely believe what Opobo and Bonny people are saying about their ancestry,their narrations are clear and not complicated. They are straight forward with their history,in addition, their town is not ancient ,their history is more recent,so they are in a better position to tell history.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

Жыл бұрын

God bless u. 4 once, Igbo person talk true on dis matter

@acropolis6816

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 What is the truth Igbo person talk for the first time?

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@acropolis6816 concerning IBANI matter. Igbos always say Ibani ppl r Igbos but started denying Igbo after d civil war just lik ur Ikwerre cousins

@morganleonard5280

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@@acropolis6816 The truth for her is denial of any Igbo presence in Opobo and Bonny when evidence says otherwise maybe Igbo became their first language through magic. .

@acropolis6816

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@@morganleonard5280 Being Igbo is a great blessing. My first oversea employment was because I am Igbo, my employer told me. She said that Igbos who worked with her never disappointed and when she saw my name, it appears Igbo.

The second chief said his grandfathers are Igbo, that settles it. There is a cold reluctance going on here to accept the Igbo ancestry on camera, so as not to flay tempers. They understand the subject matter is a very controversial one which was left unaddressed for decades, this informs their decision to choose words carefully as they dissect the history surrounding their ancestry.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Anachronistic.... Bonny & Opobo hv always bin Ijaws. We didn't start denying Igbo 2 identity as Ijaw after d civil war lik d case of Ikwerre ppl. Go & do ur research, read history. Evn if u r not frm Ibani, our history is all over d place, well documented. If u know about Bonny, u shud know HAROLD JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE. Long b4 d creation of Nigeria, he founded d IJAW PEOPLE'S LEAGUE bcos he's an IJAW man. He didn't found Igbo People's League. Biriye was born on September 26, 1920, a member of d Royal family, d ruling family of Grand Bonny Kingdom, d DAPPA WAR CANOE HOUSE. In 1941, he co-founded IJAW PEOPLE'S LEAGUE, to unite IJAWS that were in different divisions of the Eastern region under one province. After the end of World War II, Biriye was involved in politics, he was an early member of NCNC but his experience of the competition between NCNC and AG formed his understanding that ethnic minorities needed better representation as the core base of both parties came from the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups. He began a campaign for the creation of Rivers States. In 1953, he gained the support of the Action Group for the creation of an independent State but the plan to include Old Calabar and Ogoja provinces as part of a new COR state pushed him away from the group. In response to the need of the 1957 Constitutional Conference to include all shades of opinions, Biriye pressed for the representation of Ijaws among the delegates. He was supported by the Conference of Rivers Chiefs which gave him the mandate to represent the Ijaw tribe at the conference and also to present their case that the area should be accorded the same status as it was in the 1880s when the Oil Rivers Chiefs of Bonny, Nembe, Brass, Kalabari & Degema signed treaties with the British. Unsuccessful legal presentations were made by Biriye and Udo Udoma that granting independence to Nigeria without adequate protection of the rights of Rivers Provinces as a separate state would be a violation of the treaties. In 1959, he became the chairman of the Bonny County Council. In 1967, changes in the structure of governance led to the creation of Rivers State and in 1969, Biriye was appointed a commissioner. He was commissioner for Agriculture. Biriye was appointed chairman of the National Council of Arts and Culture by General Yakubu Gowon, the council was involved in the preparation of FESTAC 77. During the Festac, Biriye was the Admiral of the WAR CANOE REGATTA event while in 1956, his father was Admiral of the WAR CANOE REGATTA that welcomed Queen Elizabeth during her visit. The Patriach of the IJAW struggle, Chief Harold J. R Dappa-Biriye passed on in a car on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 9.00 am in Port Harcourt, leaving behind a legacy of goodwill with an exclamation mark! Exactly 7 days before he died on February 10, 2005, a galaxy of Nigerian leaders and politicians visited Port Harcourt to pay homage to this elder statesman on the occasion of the launch of his biography entitled: DAPPA-BIRIYE: His Contributions to Politics in Nigeria.

@anachronistic8246

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 why have you turned blind and deaf to what an old chief just said in Queens Town, Opobo? He said his grandfather is an Igbo man and so is his great grand father. I don't understand what you are yapping about here, talking like Igbo communities are millions of miles away whereas they are just a few miles away from Opobo. Continue deluding yourself, they are all speaking Igbo so deal with that. You'll have to first annihilate all of them before you can make Ijaw out of them and we all know it's easier to raise the Queen of England from the dead than to make all the inhabitants of Queens Town speak Ijaw.

@DarlingtonIyke

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@@anachronistic8246 Wetin she write as she has deleted her comment

@nwannetheodorah909

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@@DarlingtonIyke 😂😂😂😂

@sosa9220

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Having an Igbo grandparent doesn't make one immediately Igbo, our culture works differently then than that. Also, its like una want to block out all else the chiefs are saying when they discuss the Ijaw origin and the original language.

Ekpe festival is vey common to Igbos in Abia.

nnah mehn tv God bless you

Fantastic

It's obvious that the Opobo/bonny people as it is today are of dual ancestry; igbo and Ijaw. Unfortunately the ijaw language has been dormant while the culture and heritage is still pronounced. This must be admired as a blessing for these people.

@MultiXTYPE

Жыл бұрын

This exactly my thoughts... God bless your wisdom. The people are blessed. A land that Igbo and Ijaw came together to one people

@nwannetheodorah909

Жыл бұрын

Exactly my conclusion... They have dual ancestry.

@udob4939

Жыл бұрын

@@MultiXTYPE but for some odd reason the hateful ijaw want to erase the Igbo side. They won’t succeed

@emmanuelaneri6683

Жыл бұрын

You said it all you are good

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

3 ай бұрын

​@@udob4939 kzread.info/dash/bejne/dneEraqymMe_dJs.htmlsi=Ug4mNRiuayAcnAkD

I feel like crying, God who did this to us

@hansoreva1

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Who did what? When did opobo transfer from ijaw?

@hansoreva1

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What does the royal title Amayanbo mean in igbo? There is intermarriage but to say they are igbo is a reach

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@hansoreva1 intermarriage doesn't change us my brother. Many Yoruba men marry Igbo women, but dem still b Yoruba ppl. We marry Igbo no mean say we go com change ourselves. Our forefathers will turn in their graves d day IBANI will say we r Igbo & not Ijaw. Evn d Atlantic Ocean won't 4gv us.

@emmanuelnwachukwu4311

11 ай бұрын

I mean Opobo was founded by Jaja of Opobo, Majority of the people were Igbo slaves from the hinterland. But Bonny and Opobo have the same ancestral roots

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

3 ай бұрын

​@@emmanuelnwachukwu4311 kzread.info/dash/bejne/dneEraqymMe_dJs.htmlsi=Ug4mNRiuayAcnAkD

I still like your works.

Even the old Ibani people cannot speak their own language. How deceitful can we be?😅😅

@Southernview3k

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The language (Ibani) itself is another different Igbo dialect.

@sosa9220

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@@Southernview3k Now you are being delusional

@sosa9220

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Becuase our language being kept secret by our elders were happening before they were born. Again your obsession is showing itself

@Southernview3k

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@@sosa9220 Ibani is a dialect in Igbo just as Ebonyi people speak different dialect of Igbo.

@sosa9220

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@@Southernview3k “I bo saa , I kini arigha” translate this sentence in Igbo, quickly since it’s suddenly a dialect

For Igbo to be spoken there, it means there's an overwhelming amount of Igbo slaves there. There's no way Indigenes will leave their language to go with Slaves language. There's a massive amount of Igbo slaves there, including people migrants from Ndoki that's the only way, Igbo could be the language there. But truly, they are Dual linage

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

3 ай бұрын

Hausa language is spoken all over d middle belt, in States lik Kaduna, Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi,Niger... But they r not Hausa ppl. They still hv their various indegenous languages lik Gwari, Igala, Bwari,Idoma, Gbagyi, Nupe, Idoma, Tiv ,Jukun, Egbira, etc Opobo is IJAW. Deal with it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dneEraqymMe_dJs.htmlsi=9p9zVOvO73XQ7zsC

I what hear the igbani dialect (they called language) Thank u for ur good work Bro Nnaa menh

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

3 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dneEraqymMe_dJs.htmlsi=9p9zVOvO73XQ7zsC

Interesting. Subscribed. Many of these NigerDelta people have strong links with Ibo..

good job

We are doing ekpe culture here in olokoro in umuahia abia state

Speaking a language does not make someone to be from that tribe. Hausa is spoken in every part of Northern Nigeria and that doesn't make other tribes in Northern Nigeria to be Hausas.

Use life jacket next time. Buy it and keep it in your house for water travel to avoid the temptation of entering boat without jacket, pls and pls.

Personally I believe that nde opobo are a mixed group. My grand aunt who is Igbo is a grand/great grand mother to many people from opobo. A huge family in Opobo. They still pay homepage until this day to Igbo land.

@udob4939

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Exactly. I have relatives in Bonny. The issue is that we have elements who would prefer to erase the Igbo side Opobo and Bonny despite that their language is igbo plus cultural festivals

@chidumebiarukwe6436

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@@udob4939 why can’t we all unite and integrate well in Igbo instead of this identity crisis

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@udob4939 name 3 cultural festivals in Bonny or Opobo dat is Igbo. Apart frm Nwaotam masquerade borrowed frm Ohambele 2 Opobo, around 1940, name one cultural festival or practice in IBANI dat is IGBO. Ur relatives hv Igbo blood means all of Opobo has Igbo blood abi?

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Joy, if ur aunty or relative marries an Ijebu man, does d family, her descendants in Ijebuland bcom Igbo & not Yoruba? Dat ur aunt's descendants hv an Igbo great grandmother doesn't mean all of Opobo has same ancestry. Those ur aunts chiren, grandchildren, wot r their names/surnames? D Chief here in dis video said his name is SENIBO TAMUNOBIEPIRIM. Supposing his grandmother is frm Igbo, does dat make him an Igbo man? How do u want him 2identify himself? If u hear d name TAMUNOBIEPIRIM, will u think d person has anything 2do with Igbo? D fact is dat som of u don't know our history, culture & traditions.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@chidumebiarukwe6436 Pls how do we go about it? We shud change our names, titles? Wot about our history? Traditions, culture? We shud start practicing 4 Eke market days? Our AMAYANABO shud bcom Igwe, Obi or Eze? We shud abandon AMATEMESO & start practicing OMENELA? We shud start using KOLA 4 prayers & entertainment instead of KAIKAI & ALLIGATOR PEPPER? We shud start having UMUNNA & abandon our WAR CANOE HOUSES ? Identify goes beyond a borrowed language. We hv said it over & over, Ibani is our indegenous dialect. Ndoki was borrowed, learnt by our forefathers sometime after d arrival of Europeans, due 2 slave trade & bizness with Igbos. B4 den, Ibani xisted. We r Ijaws. Those who don't know our history or culture just conclude frm a distance. If Bonny was Igbo, y wud Mbanaso be renamed JUBO JUBOFEM ? Y ? If at all a slave is renamed, y not an Igbo name? Y wud an Igbo name b replaced with an Ijaw name? Diz r history, clearly recorded. Bonny is IJAW dat's d reason Mbanaso, an Igbo slave who was bought in Bonny was given an Ijaw name. U guys want us 2suddenly bcom Igbo in dis generation, wen it didn't happen in d time of our forefathers?

4 all those insulting & abusing IBANI bcos we say we r Ijaw, make una try o. U don't know our history, u hv no idea about our traditions, u don't know how our WAR CANOE HOUSES operate. U just use ur own perspective, frm ur own culture & point of view, u conclude & begin 2rain abuses which will end up in d Atlantic Ocean or bounce back 2u. We hv d Atlantic Ocean with us dat swallows & drowns evil ppl lik those insulting us. So continue. Igbo & Ijaw can live 2geda as brother & sister. But it's lik Igbos don't want dat. All Igbos want 2hear is 4 us 2say we r Igbo, full stop ! No story, no xplanatn, 4get ur history, abandon evrytin u r & accept Igbo. They lik 2insult & abuse u once say u r not Igbo. Igbos & Ijaws hv done bizness & intermarried for centuries, long b4 Nigeria came in2 xistence. Many Ijaw ppl hv Igbo ancestry, especially d EASTERN IJAWS(Akassa,Nembe/Brass, Kalabari,Okrika, Bonny/Opobo, Nkoro). A lot of Ijaw men married Igbo women in den days. In places lik Nembe/Brass, Kalabari, Okrika, Bonny/Opobo,Akassa, marrying an Igbo woman was very common. Infct it was seen as a form of prestige, levels. We hv Chidi-Ama in Brass Island of Bayelsa State. One time king, AMAYANABO of Nembe Ogbolomabiri,ALAGOA MINGI was a descendant of an Igbo person dat was ENCULTURATED. Many Igbos, Ibibios were ENCULTURATED. Slaves, escapees frm slave raiders/kidnappers, ppl who were barnished frm their towns 4one reason or d oda, ppl meant 4 sacrifice who managed 2 escape, etc Ijaws accepted, ENCULTURATED & assimilated everybody without discrimination. Anoda tin Igbos don't know is dat som Ijaws r MATRINILEAL. U can claim ur mothers side. In places lik Nembe, Akassa, etc a child belongs 2d mother evn more dan d father, anywhere u lik u can stand ur ground, inheritance, kingship, chieftaincy, land, evrytin, u can lay claim in ur mother's family. Unlike Igbos where a child has no say in his mother's place. Take 4 instance, a child who has an Igbo father but d mother is frm Nembe, maybe d father dies & d family members r ill treated, dat woman & her child/children will simply go 2d mother's family & will b accepted with open arms, infct d child will b given more privileges dan cousins who r children of male family members. Children born 2a woman has rights, levels, privileges, authority more dan those of d men. Dat's how som Ijaw clans operate. A child who probably is born out of wedlock & is stigmatised in his father's place, d mother's family accepts him, land, inheritance, evn kingship can b give by virtue of d mother. D child clings 2their maternal home, establish, marry, hv chiren, live & die there amongst Ijaws but d history, d story is passed on 2d chiren, so u hear someone saying I'M IJAW, I'M not Igbo, tho I hv Igbo blood. 2u, it sounds ridiculous, stupid, senseless, absurd, foolish, but wot u don't know is dat our culture,tradition, practices r DIFFERENT frm ur own culture. Ijaws practiced ENCULTURATION in d days of slave trade. Many Igbos, Ibibios, Efiks were ENCULTURATED by Ijaws. Such families will always say : I HV IGBO ANCESTRY. Dat doesn't mean d whole clan or kingdom has Igbo ancestry. Som families do hv Igbo ancestry....... But diz days, if someone says I'm Ijaw, tho I hv Igbo blood, I hv Igbo ancestry, d person gets insulted. D likes of Asari Dokubo, he's Kalabari but his great grandfather was an Igbo man who was ENCULTURATED. Asari Dokubo, his family is frm Kalabari, has Igbo ancestry but KALABARI is not an Igbo clan/kingdom. Not all families in Kalabari hv Igbo ancestry or links. No ! Igbos want us 2 abandon evrytin Ijaw & claim Igbo. Once u don't do dat, u r a fool according 2 Igbos. They hv no idea wot ENCULTURATION is. In Igboland, a slave becoming king is impossible. An outcast, OSU shud b kept at arms lengt. But in Ijawland, dat same person is accepted, allowed 2 thrive, succeed, rise 2any level in society, evn becom a king ! And u xpect d descendants of such a person 2deny he's Ijaw ? Una dey reason d matter at all ? We know dat after d civil war, som Igbos began 2deny their Igboness. Ikwerre, Etche etc, but dat's not d case with IBANI. We hv always identified as IJAW. Research, read about JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE, a chief frm Bonny. He founded IJAW PEOPLE'S LEAGUE in 1940, decades b4 d independence of Nigeria. He was frm Bonny, he didn't identify as Igbo as at 1940, he didn't found Igbo People's League rather it was Ijaw People's League, way back 1940. There was no civil war yet ! JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE was frm d DAPPA WAR CANOE HOUSE, d Royal family of Grand Bonny Kingdom. As at 1940 Nigeria hadn't evn gained independence, a Bonny man if he saw himself as Igbo, had no bizness establishing a platform 2fight 4d rights of Ijaws . Other clans/kingdoms in Rivers State r denying Igbo bcos of Biafran civil war but IBANI isn't one of d clans/kingdoms dat used 2b Igbo but started denying Igbo bcos of Biafran war. IBANI has always identified as IJAW. Individual families with any foreign or outside ancestry know their history, origin. Any particular family with Igbo ancestry acknowledges dat, personally 4demselves. But generally, IBANI as an ethnic stock has always been IJAW. We don't know New Yam Festival, we don't knw anytin about Eke, Orie,Nkwor, Afor market days. We hv AMAYANABO, not OKPALUKWU System. We hv WAR CANOE HOUSES, not UMUNNA. After EGEREBITE & BIBITE CEREMONIES a women bcoms IRIA not UMUADA. We hv AMATEMESO ,AKASO not OMENALA. Our titles r Ijaw, hv always bin Ijaw. AMAYANABO, SENIBO, WARIDABO, WARISENIBO, ALABO ,ALABOTA. We don't hv Mazi, Ichie, Onowu, Eze, Obi, Igwe. Our individual names/surnames r Ijaw names. It didn't start after civil war. Jaja of Opobo had his Igbo name Mbanaso dropped & an Ijaw name JUBO JUBOFEM was given 2him. Dat is bcos Bonny is IJAW. D change in name frm Mbanaso to JUBO JUBOFEM aka JAJA didn't happen due 2 BIAFRAN war. IBANI dance(konju seki), songs/music(nume) r Ijaw, similar 2 Kalabari , Okrika. Same tin with dressing. We wear Etibo, Wòkò, Angapu/Don. We don't do red cap chief stuff. Our indegenous masquerades r Ijaw masquerades. We hv Owu Ingbila, Owu Tarigha, Owu Minji, Owu Otobo, Sika, Agiri. D Igbo masquerades Ekpe & Nwaotam dat we practice is borrowed culture, not indegenous. D history of NWAOTAM IN OPOBO can be seen here on KZread, if u care 2search. Nwaotam was imported 2 OPOBO just recently, around 1940 or thereabouts, less dan 100yrs ago. D list is endless. I cud go on & on. If u care 2know a little history of d origin of Bonny, search here on KZread ; AMAYANABO OF OPOBO KING JAJA FULL UNEDITED INTERVIEW. In d video, u'l hear d current king of Opobo clearly stating how Bonny was founded & later on OPOBO. So u guys shud stop dis insult & abuse. Anyone abusing & insulting us, without knowing our history, culture & traditions is simply showing ignorance or sheer stupidity. As a fan of BIAFRA, all diz nonsense talks & abuses is doing us more harm dan good. Dis idea of insults is further destroying d BIAFRAN DREAM. BIAFRA wasn't strictly Igbo. We r IBANI, we r IJAWS. We don't hv 2b Igbo 4us 2 cooperate & coexist. We can b BROTHER /SISTER, without been TWINS. I rest my case

concerning the Iroanya matter, he said it meant a group of people, if I may ask what is “people“ in ubani language and what is “group“ in ubani language? I want to check something

If it look like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's most likely a duck 🦆 It's only a slave that does not know his roots.

The Igbani people were enlightened by the Igbos. So they have no choice but to keep communication with the Igbos and make them the household families. So they became 1 people.

🌷Guy u are doing a very great job, most of this natives u interviews are very much afraid to admit their Igbo ancestry only God knows why

@emekanwosu2987

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True. I hope these people will go research on Igbo history and origin. And understand how vast Igbos spread. Deltas don’t deny Igbo origin. Igbos spread very vastly all the way to central Northern Nigeria - Kogi state etc. It’s just unfortunate

@sosa9220

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We literally say we are partially igbo. But y’all want to come in here acting like our main root and origin is Igbo. Na wa for you

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@sosa9220 No na ! It's only wen u say "I'm Ibani & Ibani is Igbo, pure Igbo & nothing but Igbo" , dat's d only time u r saying d truth. Anytin else is a lie, fallacy & invented history dat began after Nigeran civil war.

Things fall apart by okonkwo

This oil will be useless one day.

@sosa9220

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Continue hating in your irrelevance

@emmanuelezenwa3386

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Offcource. One day those fools will come to their senses.

@sosa9220

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@@emmanuelezenwa3386 And one day hopefully you will love y’all selves enough to stop pushing propaganda just so y’all can claim other peoples history and resources

@innocentewuziem6821

2 ай бұрын

The oil is one of our blessings lets us thank God for it

There was a guy told king jaja came with other men that how Igbo language start growing

When UK took over Nigeria, Igbo were said to be about 5 million and Ijaw were said to be 400k - error actual number is more like about 170k. These numbers are correct because ogbia and related groups, epie attisa, degema, etc told the British that there are not ijaw and the bonny/opobo spoke ndokki Igbo. All these group did not speak ijaw and so the number today by some of these groups in rivers and bayelsa state is misleading if called ijaw. Therefore in Bonny the Igbo population to Ijaw is 10 Igbos to 1 Ijaw could be normal. Even if you add the cross rivers Ibibio and others, Igbo will still be 7 Igbo to say 3 Ijaw/ibiobio cross people. To communicate all the people had to use Igbo because the majority were Igbos of founders, settlers, Immigrants or slaves.

@anachronistic8246

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So why didn't the Ijaw, Ibibio/Efik loose their language? It takes thousands of years for a language to be formed, not something you can loose in less than 60 years.

@knwaoke6193

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@@anachronistic8246 if you go to the USA and bring up children, your child and your grand children will not be able to speak nothing but USA English. Bonny started booming from the slave trade era 17th century and by 1800s, the majority population was Igbo. Not 60 years but 200 years. Igbo has more population than Ijaw/others 6.5/7 to 3 in old eastern region too.

@knwaoke6193

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@@anachronistic8246 if you go to the USA and bring up children, your child and your grand children will not be able to speak nothing but USA English. Bonny started booming from the slave trade era 17th century and by 1800s, the majority population was Igbo. Not 60 years but 200 years. Igbo has more population than Ijaw/others 6.5/7 to 3 in old eastern region too.

@anachronistic8246

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@@knwaoke6193 These children born in the USA were born by parents who were removed from their ancestral lands and sold into captivity or by parents who emigrated with no plan of ever returning, thereby breaking all ties with their language, culture and tradition. Ofcourse, their offspring will follow the ways of their new found environment over time. In the case of the Ibani tribe, they are aboriginal to the land and claim to have a language alien to the Igbo language. I agree they are smaller in population but that is no reason to loose your mother tongue by foreign association. In North America the population between USA and Canada is about 400 million while the Inuit population (American natives) in Canada and Alaska is about 100 thousand. This astronomical disparity in population numbers did not erode the Inuit language and dialect which dates thousands of years in formation. This is so because language is the DNA to establish the nexus to person's identity. Those who were sold into slavery using the slave ports of Opobo or Bonny were not made to walk freely and interact as casually as you make it seem, you made it sound like they were brought into the communities and allowed to mingle with the indigenes so much as to alter their indigenous language. Lest we forget, the people were captured as slaves and held prisoner in fiercely secured enclosures until they were shipped off to foreign lands. Yes this heinous crime lasted for several centuries which brings me to the question, how could the prisoners who were held against their will, petrified and terrified beyond their wits, tired and hungry, trampled with brute force as they wait to be shipped off in iron cages have the access to communicate with locals so intensively to influence their age long language, culture and tradition?

@knwaoke6193

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@@anachronistic8246 Ijaw ibani is still spoken in bonny Ijaw enclaves villages like Inuit enclaves or French enclaves. Opobo, Queenstown, etc migrated from bonny city different from bonny island generally and other towns like finima, orubiri, Ijaw fishing villages. Bonny city is like trying to maintain speaking Cherokee, Inuit, Igbo, etc in New York city, Toronto city, big cities, over 3-4 generations. Bonny city town is different from bonny island. Bonny city has always spoken mostly Igbo from documents since 1800s. It was bilingual but Igbo took over as English did in New York city. A small population in the Island speak ibani Ijaw in enclaves - these are people always shouting bonny is Ijaw. Yes their own Ijaw village in bonny island speak Ijaw as an isolate. Amish in some small villages in Pennsylvania USA speak Dutch but Philly city speak English.

KZread node gree mek we share am

How can old ppl b lying boldly? They can't even look at d truth face to face.

The older people were the once deceiving the younger ones of which I don't know why,iroanya for example is typical igbo

@hansoreva1

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What does iroanya mean in Igbo?

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@hansoreva1According 2d presenter, Nnaa Mehn, IROANYA means Envy Eyes or Eyes of Envy. In Ibani, dat's not wot IROANYA means. D old man's name is SENIBO TAMUNOBIEPIRIM, but according 2 Igbos, he's an Igbo man.

@abaachijioke4306

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 is Uranta not an igbo word? abi you want to paint words?

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@abaachijioke4306 Wot I mentioned in my comment above is IROANYA. And I already gave d IJAW meaning in my earlier comment. Where r u bringing URANTA frm? Who is talking about URANTA?

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@abaachijioke4306I tot I heard him say his name is SENIBO TAMUNOBIEPIRIM ...... Tell us if these r Igbo names. Tamuno is wot in Igbo language? Bieipirim means wot? SENIBO means wot in Igbo? Funny ppl ! U heard URANTA but u didn't hear SENIBO TAMUNOBIEPIRIM abi ?

DNA text can determine the ancestry of any group that wishes to re-discover his/her roots…..

Finally he finally accepted dt he's own granfather is an igbo man

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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These people are the funniest people on earth. So, all these self-denial is because of crude oil? You have crude oil, still you come to Imo state to steal oil at Egbema? You have crude oil, and you come to Abia state to steal oil at Obigbo town? You have crude oil, still you come to Anioma land to steal oil at the Ukwuani Anioma communities of Ogba, Omoku, and Ndoni? You have crude oil, still you people cannot produce a single billioniare industrialist? And you think that denying that you have Igbo ancestry will improve your lives? Have you asked yourselves, why is it that the Igbos have the highest billioniare industrialists in west africa despite the fact that they don't have much oil? Why is it that Rivers state indigenes are still poorer than Igbo people, despite the fact that they stole all the oil belonging to Igbo people after the war? I travelled from Elele to Porthacourt airport and i couldn't even find a single functional filling station. And these are people telling themselves lies because of crude oil?. Go to Imo state and you will find classy filling stations with in-built super market at every one kiliometer. I have broken my ribs with laughter. People with low self-esteem.

@ekinematics

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Rivers State people are poorer than Ibos yet you "rich Ibos" cannot live in your wealthy states, but run to Rivers State for greener pastures🤣🤣🤣

Both iru anya and iji are Igbo

I am suspecting that Opobo people have something to do with Ngwa people. They have the same culture and bare same name I'm an Ngwa man. My father's native is Jaja

Let the people be. Allow them their own identity. You can can't rewrite their history for them with these interviews . Let them be.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Honestly, I don't understand. We tell our history but strangers frm nowhere keep insulting & abusing us dat we r lying. It's funny

@Enzo.C

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 I always saw your comment here and your in some way being bias.. you might not be from Igbo sub group in bonny...but what about the whole of them who has Igbo roots...if you happen to be among of them would you come out to say that opobo and bunny is ijaw...we can't overlook majority of Igbos there..so saying is ijaw is bias because if you go by it they re minority...this group is bilingual and has diversity...I think we better find a suitable way to corporate and focus on the interest of the whole people of bunny and opobo...like Many regions re doing... human migration has always been normal right from Time and we only believe the his, evidence,and tradition we met...there is evidence, language, culture of Igbo people..a huge lot in those areas...it isn't by mistake..it didn't fly from sky,the reason why all this evident is still there is because of the people...and that can't be overlooked....like wise efik,ijaw and Ibibio....that they re minority in Nigeria didn't erase their roots and identity because that's who they re and runs in their blood....I think we stop addressing it as a one tribe .. because me and you know very well that's not true...and it shouldn't be overlooked...one love..

@lordfedjoe

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Let me guess, if they commit crime now, you will be the first to call them Igbo

@calistermadukwe7977

11 ай бұрын

What you guys fail to understand us that even in present day Iraq, there are Jewish iragis, they still believe that they are Jews, Mordecai and Esther tomb is till in Iraq till date, in the case of opobo some claim that they are Igbo, I mean those from king jaja descendants while those from other chief that left with jaja claim to be ijaw .

It is very sad and very unfortunate that some people would deliberately be inventing and fabricating funny stories just to try and deny their ancestors. Your ancestors will not forgive you.

@victornwalo849

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Even old men. They agreed their fathers, ancestors are Igbo but them are not. This is not ordinary

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@victornwalo849 Go & read about ENCULTURATION. Most of d ppl dat were ENCULTURATED were Igbos. ENCULTURATION is a tradition practiced among Eastern Ijaw clans, lik Kalabari, Okrika, Nembe, Bonny, Akassa..... ENCULTURATION is kinda like adoption but in dis case, instead of official documents, court papers etc, we hv certain traditional rites performed dat binds u. Ppl who got enculturated were slaves dat r bought & d master/owner gets 2lik d slave either bcos d person has good behaviour/character or d master simply likes him/her, d person wud b enculturated after som years. Also, som ppl escape frm slave raiders/kidnappers but they r unable 2trace their way back 2their original homeland. Anoda group of ppl dat got enculturated r those who got barnished frm their towns 4one reason or d other, either thieves, rapists, murderers (accused or real). Som were outcasts, OSU. Or ppl who were meant 4 sacrifice 2d gods but somhow escaped. Ijaws didn't discriminate against SLAVES or outcasts. Ijaws accepted, assimilated everybody. Dat's d reason evn after centuries, d descendants will say "I AM IJAW". Evn those whose great grandfather was Ibibio or Igbo, they may pass on d history, so d nxt generation knows but it doesn't change anytin. Imagine someone who was barnished frm Orlu or Ogidi, got 2 Opobo, was accepted & got enculturated, married an Opobo indegene, had chiren, evn became a king, died & buried in Opobo, 300yrs later, do u want his descendants 2say I am Igbo? Of cos they know d history of their great grandfather frm Igbo or grandmother frm Igbo, but they hv lived 4 generations as Ibani. Once u r ENCULTURATED, u can NEVER hurt, backstab, plan against or abandon ur family. If u want 2talk about it or tell ur chiren & descendants ur history , it's ur choice but NOBODY will insult or abuse u with it. U can visit ur original homeland som years after, enculturation if u care to or if u can remember or trace ur way but u MUST com back 2where u hv bin ENCULTURATED else d traditional rites performed invokes d gods of d land wich is AMATEMESO or AKASO, & u cud die or go mad. Unless u denounce ur enculturation & forfeit evrytin dat goes with it. DENOUNCING never really happened in practice, there's no history of anyone DENOUNCING after ENCULTURATION. Many ENCULTURATED ppl never wanted 2hv anything 2do with their original homeland bcos of d hospitality, freedom & success they enjoyed in d new place. 4someone who was barnished maybe after been wrongfully accused, or 4 someone who's uncle or family member eliminated his parents, tried 2kill or sell him into slavery in order 2take over d person's inheritance, properties, such persons cut ties with their origin. But som return home evn after many years 2 establish or renew relationship with their original families but they still return 2their ENCULTURATED family & den keep in touch with their original homeland. Som visit once in a while, but d law is u must b buried where u were enculturated, no matter wot. There's a saying "MÈNI FÉ BÒ, INGBÁ FĒĢHAÀ meaning evn if u take d flesh/body, d bones must return. Frm d above, I guess u hv an idea y som families in Bonny, Opobo, Kalabari,Okrika hv Igbo ancestry. D likes of Asari Dokubo who is frm Kalabari. He's an Ijaw man, but has Igbo ancestry. Ijaws ENCULTURATED a lot of Igbo, Ibibio, Efik ppl. ENCULTURATION age is above 14 for females & 17 for males. Once ENCULTURATED, u become a full fledged family member with EQUAL rights, privileges as well as responsibility of a family member. Ur name, identity, evrytin changes & u bcom Ijaw. Ur status as a slave is neva mentioned or used against u in anyway. In evrytin, Land, properties, inheritance, ascending kingship throne, chieftaincy stool/titles etc U hv complete rights. One famous example of enculturation is MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA. Lik many other non natives, Mbanaso Okwaraozurumba, a young boy of about 12yrs frm Amaigbo in present day Imo State, was sold by a slave trader frm Ogwuta also in present day Imo State 2a Chief in Bonny. D Chief who bought Mbanaso was Alali Opubo. After som yrs as a slave, Alali Opubo decided 2 enculturate Mbanaso. Mbanaso was ENCULTURATED by his master & his name was changed to JUBO JUBOFEM wich basically means frm one to d other. Kind of lik frm one hand 2d other hand, one person 2d other or one place 2d other. Europeans couldn't pronounce JUBO JUBOFEM & called him JAJA. Alali Opubo d master turned father by virtue of ENCULTURATION was a very wealthy Chief & Jaja consolidated & improved his father's bizness, after his father passed on, he replaced his father as Head of d WAR CANOE HOUSE. In Eastern Ijaw, our families r grouped in WAR CANOE HOUSES. Lik d Igbos hv UMUNNA, we hv WAR CANOE HOUSES. Wen Alali Opubo died, a tussle, disagreement with another War Canoe House member led 2 Jaja leaving Bonny along with 14 other WAR CANOE HOUSES. Jaja's WAR CANOE HOUSE & d other 14 WAR CANOE HOUSES, 15 in total founded d new kingdom. Jaja took over frm his father & ruled Ani Pepple House. D Senibo, Warisenibo, Waridabo & Wariopusenibo of d 14 different WAR CANOE HOUSES voted 4 Jaja, who was head of Ani Pepple House 2 rule d new found Opobo Kingdom.

@ikay_osuji

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​@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Thank you for this detailed account of Igbo/Ijaw history. I hope one day this story will be told around the world.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@ikay_osuji U r welcome bro. One lov 🙌

Ile rue anya ala. To look after or look well

Started from the name of the town say it all, is Queenstown there native name. i have not hear or see any town in igbo or yoruba that don't have there native.

@anselmpaulinus8048

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@Vincent Aloy The town is called Queen Ama translated to Queens town in english.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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1)Okoloma (Bonny) 2) Opubo(Opobo) 3)Kalabiama 4) Minima 5)Ayaminima 6)Iloma 7) Oloma 8) Iwoma 9) Finima 10) Epelema Peterside, Queenstown Diz r d towns of Grand Bonny Kingdom & Opobo kingdom. Pls tell us amongst ALL diz names, wich of dem is an Igbo name. Same goes 4names of individuals. Our individual names & surnames War Canoe Houses r not Igbo names. ALL our traditional/native names r IJAW. NEVER Igbo. So d question is, if we r Igbo, y do we hv names dat r Ijaw? Masquerades, marriage rites, ceremonies, dressing, nothing is Igbo. We don't hv d 4 Igbo market days. We don't do red cap chief stuff. We practice MONARCHY kingship not OKPALUKWU System of rulership. We hv AMATEMESO not OMENELA. We hv WAR CANOE HOUSES not UMUNNA. We hv IRIA WOMEN, after undergoing EGEREBITE and BIBITE ceremonies. We don't hv UMUADA. Our masquerades r OWU MINJI ,OWU OTOBO, OWU INGBILA, OWU TARIGHA, OWU SIKA, AGIRI... None of our indeginous masquerades is Igbo. D only Igbo masquerade we hv is Nwaotam wich was borrowed frm Ndoki only recently, around 1940s or thereabouts. D history of Nwaotam in Opobo is here on KZread. Search & watch it. D history of Opobo is also here on KZread. Search for : AMAYANABO OF OPOBO KING JAJA FULL UNEDITED INTERVIEW.

@vincentaloy3728

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I just ask why the town answer Queens town, is not a native name whether is ijw or igbo is not what ask

@vincentaloy3728

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 ijaw igbo will can leave together ask brother an sister

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@vincentaloy3728 My point is, QUEENSTOWN as a name is hardly possible in Igboland. Igbos don't do without their traditional native names. I don't know anywhere in Igboland dat a town is given an English name or an Ijaw name. But all d towns in Grand Bonny Kingdom & Opobo kingdoms, none has an Igbo name. If it were Igbo territory, d names of d towns wud definitely reflect it

Very funny 🤣🤣🤣 Africa American are tracing their ancestry homes from America, but you that are leaving at our backyard refuse to accept you're origin but answering the same name culture with Igbo people, nawaoo

@kala-adaidakariopusunju6809

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Leave us alone we know where we came from

@calistermadukwe7977

11 ай бұрын

They are not igbo, they are from mercury 😂😂😂😂abeg leave this people jaree

@anthonyobioraokeke3788

4 ай бұрын

Very funny people 🤣😂😂🤣

URANTA and OBAMANU is it not Igbo names plus Nkoro village is it not Igbo names

Most of these commentators are ignorant. Imagine that old man saying when they are in Bonny, they had igbos, Hausas and yorubas. These guys are ignorant of history. Bonny has a very rich documented history.

@knwaoke6193

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Age without education or knowledge is around too.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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kzread.info/dash/bejne/dneEraqymMe_dJs.html Digital War Lord, above is d video of d AMAYANABO OF OPOBO giving d history of Bonny, Opobo. Lik u said, we hv a well documented history, and u Igbos, outsiders don't know our history more dan us. It's funny how u ppl go about forcing us 2accept ur version of our own history, our origin. It's crazy. Absurd infact !

Old man deceiving himself. And is any Igbani person bearing Hausa,Bini,Yoruba or Fulani names because they inter married with them.

@acropolis6816

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Na wa oooo

@sosa9220

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How many Ibani people historically have been married to Bini, Yoruba, and Hausa people. I swear y’all like to act daft for know reason. Location and slavery led to the Igbo indelible within our land.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Stephen Iwundi, first & very important, we r IBANI not IGBANI. IGBANI has a totally different meaning in Ibani dialect. Don't call us Igbani pls. 2ndly , we don't bear Igbo names. No Ibani indegene bears Igbo names. As 4 Yoruba, Hausa, we didn't intermarry frequently, they r not our neighbours.

All i can say is that they are of Igbo decent. You can see the poeple in of Kurdish that runs from Iran, Irak ,turkey ,Syria and Lebanon. They have dialect but all are Kurdistan

He can't even lie!!!!!!! Nwatam an Ijaw festival?????!!!!!!! Haba wen old ppl hide d truth...... Time will tell

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

3 ай бұрын

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Ask him to speak igbani

All the problems were because of the intrusion of the Igbos into the Opobo town and later took over the community with Igbo language.

Jaja was of Nkwerre ancestry in Imo State. He was sold into slavery and grew up in the Anna Pepple House in Bonny, where Igbani language was spoken. Eventually, he became a free man in that house, but had to leave Bonny to present-day Opobo. So Igbo and Igbani languages are a staple of the Opobo people.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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We r IBANI not IGBANI. D meaning of both is totally different. In Ibani dialect, Igbani means something negative. Wen u call us Igbani we don't find it funny

@enod9746

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Thanks for the correction. I am not from Rivers state and would not have known.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@enod9746 Cool. I understand

@daniel2377

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 wow agiri from igbani what does agiri means in igbani that’s just an igbo name sorry ibani

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@daniel2377 Goat ! Dat's y u hv a foreign name DANIEL. U hv no roots , no origin, no identity. Wot is DANIEL? Wot does it mean? Maybe it means cow shit

The question I want to ask the people over there is that is it only Igbo who where only slaves at times that makes the to start speaking Igbo why no hauwsa and yorobas

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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U r funny. Where is d nearest Hausa & Yoruba kingdoms to Ibani territory? U tink it's 2day dat u can travel by car? There were slave transit ports in Lagos, Delta & Bayelsa. Yoruba & Bini slaves were shipped frm those places, not Opobo. Ibibio, Efik, Igbos r d tribes close 2 Opobo

@nwannetheodorah909

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 and Calabar ports too

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@nwannetheodorah909 I don't understand wot u mean by CALABAR ports bro. Wot did Calabar ports do?

@nwannetheodorah909

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 u mentioned slave transit ports and I included Calabar(Bight of Biafra) as a transit port too🤷‍♀️. Meanwhile, am not a bro

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@nwannetheodorah909 Oh, ok, sorry. Na now I dey look d name NWANNE. I didn't take note earlier. Anyway , yes, d ports on d Eastern side include Calabar, u r right. D difference is dat they didn't practice ENCULTURATION, didn't hv WAR CANOE HOUSES. Ijaws practiced ENCULTURATION, so som slaves frm d hinterland were adopted into d various WAR CANOE HOUSES tru d traditional, cultural process of ENCULTURATION

These Opobo people are Igbo by blood and culture but Ibani/Ijaw by political affiliation.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Pls wot r d IBANI cultures dat r Igbo? We haven't done DNA test 2know d genetics & blood. But we know culture & tradition so tell us lik 5 cultural practices of IBANI dat r Igbo related. I can list lik 10 different masquerades, ceremonies, marriage rites etc practiced in IBANI dat r IJAW but not Igbo

@morganleonard5280

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 From language to some of their festivals like Nwaotam.Do you need DNA test when most of them testified that their grand parents came from Igbo main land to Opobo.Even the Opobo Chief confessed in this interview that his grandfather was an Igboman and he mentioned their names. Was King Jaja of Opobo not Igbo by blood?If he was his descendants remains Igbo by blood and genetics.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@morganleonard5280 U said frm language 2som of their festivals, but u mentioned only Nwaotam. Dat's just ONE masquerade. We hv many masquerades in Ibani so pls tell us som more. Also d cheif mentioned his grandfather is Igbo, do u know if it's his maternal grandfather? Supposing it's his mother's father dat is Igbo, & his mother was married will u say he's an Igbo man? If his grandfather is Igbo, wot is his surname? If dis particular chief has Igbo grandfather, does dat mean all of dem hv Igbo grandfathers? Nobody came 2 Opobo frm Igbo mainland, u r lying. No part of d interview said anything lik dat. They came frm Bonny 2 Opobo not frm Igbo mainland. Now, d Jaja of Opobo u talk about, u know he was bought as a slave, his descendants hv Igbo blood by wot percentage?😄 Jaja, along with 14 other WAR CANOE HOUSES left Bonny 2found Opobo. Each War Canoe House is made up of minimum of 60 able bodied men/warriors, women & chiren not inclusive . So imagine how many IBANI ppl left with Jaja. Jaja didn't found Opobo alone. He didn't go 2 Igbo land 2bring anybody. He was ENCULTURATED into Ijaw society, dat's y his name was changed frm MBANASO to JUBO JUBOFEM wich d Europeans couldn't pronounce so they shortened it 2 JAJA. Jubo Jubofem is an Ijaw name. Bonny is Ijaw. D ppl who bought JAJA r Ijaws. They ENCULTURATED him dat's y he cud rise 2bcom a king. Jaja married Ibani women, had chiren, lived & died as an Ibani man. It's bin hundreds of years now, & u r saying his descendants hv Igbo genes. Yes his descendants hv Igbo genes but wot's d amount of Igbo genes compared 2 Ijaw genes? U say most of dem testified dat their grandfathers r frm Igbo. How many ppl r in dis video dat u r saying MOST OF THEM?😆 Pls, just go & read about d history of Bonny & Opobo. We hv always bin Ijaws. Read about HAROLD JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE. He was a Bonny chief, he founded d IJAW PEOPLE'S LEAGUE in 1941, long b4 Nigeria was created. Igbos argue dat it's after d civil war Ibani ppl started denying Igbo & identified as Ijaw. HAROLD JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE founded IJAW PEOPLE'S LEAGUE in 1941, he didn't found IGBO PEOPLE'S LEAGUE. He started fighting 4d rights of Ijaw ppl evn b4 d independence of Nigeria. He represented d Ijaws in d 1957 Constitutional Confrerence. An Igbo man cannot represent Ijaw tribe in Constitutional Confrerence. No

@morganleonard5280

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 You are asking too many unnecessary questions Please take your time and watch the video again and also watch the other interview conducted in Opobo main Town. the Chief said his grandfather was Igbo(paternal grandfather) and he even mentioned some of their names it does not matter whether they came from Bonny or Igbo mainland Igbo is Igbo.Jaja descendants remain Igbo by blood and genetics till tomorrow even if their mothers were to be Ijaw or any other tribe it does not matter, Igbo blood flows in them.Are you from Opobo?

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@morganleonard5280 looool 😄 U can't force us 2b Igbo. I'm partly frm Opobo & we r Ijaws. Jaja alone didn't found Opobo so there's no way one man frm Igbo will overshadow & dominate 14 other War Canoe Houses. Jaja is lik a drop of water in a cup full of water. One War Canoe House in d midst of 14 War Canoe Houses definitely can't determine who we r. Funny tin is, if Jaja were 2b in Igboland, u ppl will label him OSU. U won't allow a slave rise 2bcom a king. But bcos Ijaws r liberal free, u want 2take advantage of it. Well, sorry tho. Ibani is Ijaw, not Igbo

Igbani still igbo language

It appears the interviewer was desperately trying to establish an igbo link or ancestory that does not exist...Jaja gained his freedom as a slave and left Bonny with some indigenes of Bonny not Igbos....however, due to interactions, marriages and commerce, the Igbani language got diluted with Igbo...even the Akwa Ibomites have links too...but the history is clear..Opobo is not Igbo or Akwa Ibom.

Nice & thorough interview. Senibo Tamunobiepirim, u try. U gave a good history but u got d masquerades mixed up. Owu is Ijaw, not Igbo. But Nwaotam is Igbo while Ekpe is Ibibio/Efik. Nwaotam was borrowed frm Ohambele in Ndoki axis, Ekpe was borrowed by Arochukwu/Abriba ppl & den Ibani borrowed frm Arochukwu ppl. But d different OWUS r native 2 IBANI. OWU INGBILA, OWU TARIGHA, OWU OTOBO, OWU MINJI, AGIRI OWU, OWU EGBELEGBE, OWU OFRIMA, all d OWUS r Ijaw masquerades, not Igbo or Ibibio.

@vitusobi3529

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Good job my man Nnaa. But from the elders interviewed you can see that things have really fallen apart. unrooted history being handed over the youngsters as received or intentionally decided to be deceitful for some salient reasons best known to them. Hence my people perish only for, what (?) LACK OF KNOWLEDGE!!!

@Vinus739

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The old man is saying his grandfather, a retired police officer was an Igbo man. But he is Ibani. How does that add up?

@Vinus739

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What is the name of the language of the Ijaw tribe? Us it called Ibani?

What exactly is making these people to deny their Igbo ancestors? I wonder.

@dubemellit2932

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Abandoned properties issue, Britain did a great job by bribing all their ancestors in order not to allow Great Igbo nation to emerge….. Britain divide and rule formula has been in place, don’t forget ! A chief or village head who’s a fisher man with canoe, who never seen bundle of money all of a sudden was given a speed boat, and 500k , will surely tell his children his great grand fathers came from Osun state.

@nwannetheodorah909

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@@dubemellit2932 you couldn't hv said it better👌

@sosa9220

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So were you not hearing when the chiefs acknowledge their mixed ancestry, I swear una just want to yarn with no sense

@sosa9220

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@@dubemellit2932 Continue making up fairytales propaganda, your insincerity shining like a diamond.

My grandfather is Igbo man but nothing affiliates me with the Igbos!

@nwachukwudarlington3633

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LoL… so u are denying ur bloodline 😂

@calistermadukwe7977

11 ай бұрын

So your proginetor is an Igbo yet you are not Igbo fine, did you believe in bloodline? Which blood line are you.

@tamunoj5437

5 ай бұрын

African americans can also say they are igbos not Americans😂

Y’all in the comments really need to go to a doctor for this obsession you have with telling Ibani people who we are. We explain how we are partially of Igbo descent, y’all want to claim that’s our root culture. We explain and show proof of a Ibani language , names, Tradtional systems religion, etc and y’all still want to act blind. We explain it clearly how our maternal language went down, and then y’all want to start making jumps in logic and theories. Y’all even get mouth to insult our elders when they tell you what we have been saying. I would feel honored had this came from a place of want to connect, however I know the truth. All of this is just for propaganda, because anyone who genuinely want to to connect with the Ibani’s link to Igbo would ask respectfully and not go into rants about us lying about our origin, especially after we provide proof which trumps many of y’all’s weird and poorly put together theories.

@knwaoke6193

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You are equally as guilty. Ibani are the Ijaw in bonny island. But there is the Igbo majority who are a majority mixed with Ijaw/ cross River. You are claiming that everyone is Ijaw ibani which is wrong especially as Ijaw ibani are a minority. Those Igbo mixed majority in opobo, Queenstown and bonny city claiming Ijaw ibani are not Ijaw ibani. You Ijaw ibani want to take everything in bonny island and make the majority non ibani Ijaws second class citizens so to exclude them from oil shares as non indigenous people.

@sosa9220

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@@knwaoke6193 And yet again we have y’all coming in with lies, acting as if we are not indigenous. And with your lie, you just exposed yourself. All you want is our oil and natural resources. That’s why you want to create lies that the foundation of Bonny and Opobo are Igbo, despite them always have being ibani, so that y’all can suddenly say y’all have oil. It’s really sad and pathetic that you’re really willing to lie and gaslight people all for this.

@knwaoke6193

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@@sosa9220 only thing founded by Ijaw in bonny island are the fishing camps like orubiri. Bonny city or bonny kingdom was founded by unknown person but likely Igbo because the majority are Igbos. So if you wish claim your own bonny island part as Ijaw ibani and others will claim their own bonny island part as Igbo. But in any system, majority wins, who are mostly Igbo since recorded history in that Island. So if you want to create Ijaw ibani state , you can not include Igbo speaker in bonny kingdom, opobo, queenstown, etc. So that's why you stay in rivers state or you break up your Island.

@sosa9220

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@@knwaoke6193 you might want to check your head with those jumps in logic. It’s littteraly stated the founders of Okoloama, see the name a full Ibani name,we’re priest kings. This your revisionist history is crazy

@sosa9220

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@@knwaoke6193 Who recorded that we were mostly Igbo? So becuase we speak Igbo now that make us majority Igbo. Get real

Nigeria government have divide igbos you now blame theme

In Igbo language, according 2 Nnaa Mehn, IROANYA means Eyes of Envy or Envy Eyes. But In IBANI Dialect: Iroanya / Ironanyu = Famous/Fame or Great ppl/Great family Irosomoye= Fame giver/Fame producer

@ogb.e3355

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Please that is not correct meaning of iroanya in igbo, first of all, in igbo it depends on your dialect, that is why some areas don't answer some surnames, Iroanya means eyes that sees far or outside, some dialect Iro means outside, while ilo means enemy depends on your dialect but iroanya doesn't mean eye of enemy.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@ogb.e3355 I'm not an Igbo person & I don't speak Igbo language well, I can only pick a little Igbo language. My interprete of IROANYA is based on wot d presenter said in d video. He said Eyes of Envy or Envy Eyes, I don't know. I didn't hear him say ENEMY. Wot I heard is ENVY. But in Ibani, IROANYA has nothing 2do with Eyes or envy. IROANYA means Famous or Great.

@knwaoke6193

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Miss do not make stuff up? Ijaw igbani is an Ijaw dialect that I can check. So do not write propaganda as I will check. Igbani Ijaw is a dialect of Ijaw. Nothing like Iro in Ijaw. Nothing like Anya in Ijaw. Nothing like ananyu in Ijaw. So must be borrowed from Igbo language. Iro and Anya are Igbo words shows you again that majority of bonny kingdom are of Igbo origin. As I said to you in another post Bonny kingdom city is made up of majority Igbos with Ijaw and cross Ibibio minorities.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@knwaoke6193 first & 4most, d name is IBANI not IGBANI. If u can understand IBANI, y do u hv 2check? U shud know d meaning already !

@acropolis6816

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 It depends on the situation and place and the Igbos dialects. Iro anya means more than what the host said. It means the following: sherrif; CCTV; outside watch; Anger detection; road attractions etc in Igbo depending on your dialects, place and use.

They are ndi Ubani. Ubani is corrupted to ibani to give it an ijaw coloration!

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Thank u sir. Pls wen did d corruption start? Jaja was originally named Mbanaso. But he was bought as a slave in Bonny, ENCULTURATED & his Igbo name was dropped & an Ijaw name JUBO JUBOFEM was given. Y was d Igbo name changed 2an Ijaw name? Pls tell us bcos it seems like u know our history more dan us. Since u know dat we r Ubani but changed it 2 IBANI, pls tell us wen d change occurred & y ?

@bekeeagbaraagbara4976

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Jaja's name at the time he left Amaigbo was actually Joo joo pronounced: jaw jaw. He was a very strong man. Ask people from Amaigbo.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@bekeeagbaraagbara4976 😅😅😅😅 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Suddenly d history of MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA who was renamed JUBO JUBOFEM is all a lie ? Igbo ppl , som of u guys r just funny Aiswear ! Wot !😯 🤣🤣🤣🤣 So d name Mbanaso OK never existed? D history is all lies ? So tell me wot d so called JOOJOO means ? Wot's d meaning of JOOJOO ? If JOOJOO left AMAIGBO with d name JOOJOO, how com we hv d history of MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA sold in Bonny, ENCULTURATED & renamed JUBO JUBOFEM ? Pls tell us. Thnx 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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D towns in IBANI r OLOMA, ILOMA, IWOMA, FINIMA, MINIMA, AYAMINIMA, KALABIAMA, EPELEMA, OKOLOMA, OPUBO. Diz r d names of d communities/towns dat make up Grand Bonny Kingdom & Opobo kingdom. Pls tell us d original names b4 they were corrupted 2gv dem Ijaw coloration. All diz r Ijaw names, so pls tell us d original Igbo names. If Ibani was Ubani, wot about OPUBO? ILOMA, OLOMA, KALABIAMA, FINIMA, etc.... Waiting pls. I'd really love 2know d Igbo names of my towns frm a good historian & knowledgeable person lik u

@bekeeagbaraagbara4976

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Great, i love your spirit. Inbox me 'cos the secrets hidden is monumental!

Is it the right of a women to give his children names. Sir old man is diveating from the truth even his own name has Igbo names and the town is URANTA.

OPOBO PEOPLE ARE IJAW PEOPLE WHO TRADED WITH IBO PEOPLE AND GAINED TWO LANGUAGES AS A RESULT OF THAT. THEY ARE NOT IGBO PEOPLE; THESE YOUR QUEST TO TURN IJAW IBANI PEOPLE INTO IGBO IS A WORK IN FUTILITY

Elder lied or is saying what he knows nothing about. Iroanya is not ijaw language it’s purely Igbo name

I read that Queenstown and opobo were given to king jaja - by the Andoni (obolo) after the bonny Civil War of 1869. One thing that is clear is that all the nationalities of coastal areas of the bight of Biafra were more closely linked together than modern day Nigerians understand. If they claim to be any of the nationalities, then they are right. They are Igbo, Ibani, efik etc, all blended into one. But I think they're majority Igbo which explains the fact that they all speak Igbo despite the political efforts to change their native language. It will be very unfortunate to try and separate these nationalities after centuries of living together.

These people with these their lies lies lies that they are not Igbos, God save them, they are always pretenders, pretending to not understand Igbo

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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😅😅😅 🤣🤣🤣 Looooooool 🤣 So na by force now 2understand Igbo language? Honestly, I don't understand u guys evn one bit. Aiswear !

@omokhoamonday7027

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Everybody in Nigeria Are igbo even fulani too Are igbo

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@omokhoamonday7027 😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣 Looooooool 🤣 My belle eh ! But u end am 4 Fulani ? Y u no cross 2oda countries na? Bene & Togo ppl no b still Igbo too ?😜

Lost old man.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Xactly d way ur grandfather got lost. Ur father is a lost old man. Obori

Donald Trump of Opodo. Deny , deny , deny. IRU ANYA Igbo translation…..frontal eye.. boss you are d well.

@dermotwallace5533

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😅😅😅

@obiflex

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Thank you. That's my own Igbo translation of Iruanya

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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So somebody's name is FRONTAL EYE ? Like a child is born & parents will call d child FRONTAL EYE ? In IBANI, IROANYA = Fame/Famous or Great Family. U guys 4get dat a word or name can hv different meanings in different languages. 4 example : ● AWO : In IJAW, d word AWO means CHILD. But in Igbo AWO means Frog 🐸. We hv IBANI names lik AWOALA. ALA means Wealth. AWOALA means CHILD'S WEALTH. WEALTH FROM CHILD. But in Igbo, AWO means Frog & ALA means EARTH/LAND. So in Igbo language AWOALA wud mean FROG LAND or Land of Frogs. If Igbo man hears an Ibani or Kalabari person bearing d name AWOALA, u will say it's FROG LAND. Who will call a child such a name? ● BIA means COME in Igbo but in Ijaw it means COOKED/DONE/RIPE Again there r certain words dat mean d same tin in both languages. Lik AKPA(Bag), INGAJI (Spoon), IGODO (Key/padlock). So u guys shud get dat. Dat IROANYA has a meaning in Igbo language doesn't mean it can't hv a different meaning in Ijaw language. Many IBANI ppl bear d name AWOALA but no Igbo man will name his child AWOALA. So make una leave IBANI matter. D Igbos in Rivers State r Ikwerres, Etches, Ndoni, Oyigbo, Ogba/Egbema, etc. Not IBANI. Igbo language came in mainly during tru slave trade & was adopted 4use generally in bizness. Lots of Northerners speak Hausa, but there r many oda tribes lik Gbagyi, Jukun,Nupe, Birom. But Hausas don't insist they must accept Hausa

@dermotwallace5533

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Shere display of ignorance my dear. What do you know of the term, 'dialect'? The same Igbos in Ebonyi do not use same terms as Anambra Igbos. Even in Benue State, I met Idomas who used different terms to refer to same things but they agreed they are all Idomas. In fact, there's a tribe called "Utonkom" of whose dialect most Idomas hardly understand but that never made them renounce being part of Idomas. Stop ranting bollocks if you have nothing to say. I told you much earlier to go and conduct some research. It would help you a great deal rather than showcasing all these about you everywhere. And I'm not running away. I'd still be correcting you wherever I find your disparaging, deceitful and misguided comments. Mind you, I am NOT even Igbo before you come attacking as usual. Why do you not speak your own language, Ibani? Stop living in DECEIT.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@dermotwallace5533 What is SHERE? Is it SHEER u r trying 2spell ? Lol 😆 Anyway, since u r not an Ibani man & do not know d history, y r u insisting that Ibani is Igbo? Ibani is a dialect of d Ijaw language. There is no Igbo dialect called IBANI. I don't understand y u r having headache concerning IBANI matter? Ibani dialect has no relationship whatsoever with Igbo. Now u mentioned Idoma, do u know how many Idoma & Benue State ppl who speak Hausa language? But Hausa ppl don't lay claim 2 Idoma or Gbagyi ppl. I don't understand y Igbos think that bcos som Ibani ppl speak Ndoki dialect therefore we Ibanis hv 2change identity & bcom Ijaws. It's funny 😄

This is a real confused race. Judging from what am hearing from the 2 elders.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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There's no confusion anywhere. They gave d history clearly. D 2nd guy was a bit slow, not too articulate looks lik he suffered a mild stroke b4 but d 1st man was clear & thorough

@nwannetheodorah909

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@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767. The first guy at a point was asking somebody nearby, he didn't look sound to me or maybe he wasn't free speaking on camera going by his body language.

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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@@nwannetheodorah909 D 1st guy is sound. He only asked his son d exact town frm wich NWAOTAM was imported & d son told him OHAMBELE. Apart frm dat, he was straight, articulate. Evn wen Nnaa Mehn said BOTH PPL shud uphold d culture, he asked him both ppl, how. Who r d BOTH PPL. D man clearly pointed out there's no BOTH PPL in IBANI

Bro you're trying

You can not come to another man Land and introduce you' language if some part or usa where all thé igbos slavery was would have been speaking igbos some part or America will speaking igbos while this no part un North that are speaking igbos whereras as early as 1882igbos are already in north.you Can bée in your village and people trying to call You slavery thé person should wait untill he found You in France before calling you' slavery

It's a shame he doesn't even know the meaning. He's making up things he doesn't know. He tries to belittle the Igbo importance yet it's evident ...no Igbo ...no Ubani

@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767

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Mumu. Who is Igbo ? R u normal ? No Igbo no IBANI how ? Idiot ! kzread.info/dash/bejne/dneEraqymMe_dJs.html

confused people.

@sosa9220

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Nna gi. If your confused just say that because we’ve been explaining this clearly

This man is not sincere at all

@emmanuelezenwa3386

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He is deceiving himself.

@emmanuelezenwa3386

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He is deceiving himself.

Your doing a great job bro, and I understand your passion for Igbo and igboid race....but plz,. This is very racially tentional,. If alot ogonis marry and have a lot of afair with igbos doesn't mean ogonis all of a sudden have become igbos,. Behind all the Igbo languages in these different tribes, Thier lays the core indiginous blood of those people and in this case is Ijaw blood and ibani blood,. Plz leav it at that and know peace,. Afterall the core igbos all came from south Sudan and mixed with the runaway tribes called the Akan people of central Ghana...