Only a fool does not know his root. I am from Igbontor Igbanke and we are not from Benin but of the Igbo ancestory. In Igbanke we have Ngbidi, ikwerre, onu iyi where Rema the music super star came from, ozo iyi-oma where our farmland are. Same language, market days, marriage rites, burial rites. Our festivals are egwu which is iwa ji, new yam festival. No Benin residents in Igbanke but come and see our Igbo families from other eastern states in Igbanke because they are in their land. Not that enogie the governor of Edo state called our reverred kings. We call our kings Eze, Obi or Ezigbon. We greet our kings, HIGHNESS! We are Igbos period!

@godsanointed3397

14 күн бұрын

You are lost

@goddywhite7210

14 күн бұрын

@@godsanointed3397 where do you missed your way? If you're from Benin return back there

@danielalozie2811

14 күн бұрын

​@@godsanointed3397 If you think this information is false then you are the lost one...

@WAFFENBANK

12 күн бұрын

Proudly Igbo🥰🥰🥰🤗

Benin is not a tribe e.g like Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo Benin is a combination of different ethnicity

Igbos spead all over the place you called portharcourt now(igwe ocha) ...all those people and places were occupied by generations of igbos, calabar people are also of igbo origin story had it there mother was stammering woman and her husband was a mute thats where their different tongues came. And all over the area and it's waters are called kingdom of biafra and bight of biafra.. because those living around the sea banks are prone to attacks from invaders mostly merchants slave ships, igbos had to run inward to the mainland to live together very close to each other because millions are being kidnapped and sold to slavery to Arabia, Persia, later Europe and America's because they the igbos are the most sort after slaves because of their intelligence and smartness, also because then palm oil was like the crude oil of the world then, our people shpped in theirthousands as slaves, who works in refining establishments where they are forced to refine palm seeds to its finished products, ...is such a shame that the British that first came to the area called nigeria today as merchants turned around and subjugated the indigenous people and turned them into their property. All the rail lines and roads they supervised to built then was not because they wanted us to develop it was just a route they used for transportation of all the valuables they were getting from our lands for onward loading into their ships headed to their countries.

@WAFFENBANK

12 күн бұрын

@LorenzBinaz Woo thx for this inf ✌👋

Just to correct something. Igbo means Ndi gbo the ancient people and not Bush people.

@augustineezeike139

15 күн бұрын

No. It relates more to inhabitants of bushy area . gbo is also representing the root word for bushy area. Even ndi gboo

@tochika3598

15 күн бұрын

You don't understand the context where he is coming from.. For instant in South Africa one of the biggest oldest tribe is koi kois tribe /bushmen ( or u call them bush men and they exist till today ) bush men doesn't mean they are foolish people 😊 No. It's mean they originate from the forest. So try to understand what the man is saying. As for me I can relate cos as a historian I can understand him clearly.. Bush men don't necessarily mean derogatory words. It's means ancentral origin💯👍

@jennybrews9352

13 күн бұрын

​@@tochika3598 Igbo means ancient people ndi gbo Know your history and the meaning of the name

@jennybrews9352

13 күн бұрын

​@@augustineezeike139gbo means ancient. Learn. Bush is ohia and Forrest is Ime ohia. Learn

@augustineezeike139

13 күн бұрын

@@jennybrews9352 no you don't understand. you are just misunderstanding. Whether you call it ancient people or bush people, its the same. its pointing to inhabitants of forest area. even Yorubas call bush Igbo. Igbo themselves call fellow Igbos in hinterlands, Igbo and call those in riverine area Olu

Turning logic on its head

Try to keep the one in your hand.

I love listening to this wise man but I think it should be... kenmgbe Eri, Eri mgbe, Eri oge. Not Nri. We love you as you keep teaching us the history but let not because of anything get any fact twisted.

@EbezeNduka

14 күн бұрын

You are correct. This eri thing is only spoken in Anambra north and some in Anambra central.

@agbaenyi1221

14 күн бұрын

@@EbezeNduka no it's not just in Anambra. Some Igbo dialect would say... eshi/echi, while some would say ehi but never Nri. Let's not deceive ourselves for no positive reasons, if we really want to unite Let's call things as they are without minding who the accolades is going to as long as it's truth.

@flamelyta8318

13 күн бұрын

Every Igbo person knows what is Eri, and references Kemgbe Eri as in the times of Eri our fore fathers.

They don't evidence of what they says. Always talking without evidence. Show us concrete evidence.

This guy is a joke,he needs to appear in a night of thousand laughs. Benin is not a tribe or are you talking about Edo nation.

Trying hard to rewrite history the igbo way.

You people are always lying in every podcast which you people make against Benin .it will clear for una eyes very soon 😅😅😅

@tochika3598

15 күн бұрын

Illiterate na you go tell us our history.. why are u so bittered and jealous. Igbos have been existing immemorial along side bini. Guy park well or get out of our Igbo page n go form your own bini page. We dont entertain touts on this platform📚💯

@bettyangel7009

14 күн бұрын

Why do you wait to clear their eyes, he is telling his story as he knows it, tell your own story and let people be educated.

@antonamah5954

14 күн бұрын

Let me see you as a comedian, you claimed to be but you are no where near success.

@chimeremezelove1041

14 күн бұрын

Clear clear people that doesn't have balls

@osakweog

14 күн бұрын

And what exactly are you going to do? You can't even hold your brothers from Esan and you get mouth. You're a tiny tribe. Getat 😂

The word 'Igbo' means Bush in yoruba not in Igbo language. The origin of the word 'Igbo' as it denotes the Igbo people is not known. In fact, the people referred to as Igbo people today were not all known as Igbo people until the British colonial days. There were some people that know themselves as Igbo people, some know themselves as Ikwerre people, some as Ika, some as Aro, some as Ndi Olu and many others. It was the British that brought together all tribes that spoke that Language which they, the British generally called Igbo, and referred them as Igbo people. So, that brought the rancour with the Ikwerres, Omoku, Igbanke and the rest. This is because some of them already know some people as Igbo people before the Birtish. So they would not agree to be subsumed under that name. If the British had used a neutral word to describe the tribes and tongues that speaks that language they referred to as Igbo language, everyone that speaks that language would have accepted it fully.

@chimeremezelove1041

14 күн бұрын

What's your point, so the word Igbo means bush in yoruba does it mean that it's yoruba that gave us the name , what is the meaning of yoruba in yoruba language??

@IkennaChibuzo

14 күн бұрын

@chimeremezelove1041 The word 'Igbo' does not mean Bush in Igbo language. I do not know the meaning nor the origin, but it is definitely not Bush. In Igbo language, Bush is regarded as Ofia or Ohia or akwu or Agu/okofia ( forest) and rest of it. No word in any igbo dialects seems to support that claim that Igbo means Bush in Igbo language.

@osakweog

14 күн бұрын

How can you say the British people gave us the name Igbo ? Are you drunk?

@IkennaChibuzo

14 күн бұрын

@@osakweog you shut up! Don't be silly. What do you know? Do you read?

@dermotwallace5533

14 күн бұрын

Clearly, you're ìnsañe

Keep dreaming

@chimeremezelove1041

14 күн бұрын

Keep watching us succeed and unite.

@chaohi3881

14 күн бұрын

@chimeremezelove1041 I am not against your success or unity making up stories will only set you back. Don't build your nation on lies and delusion