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The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by Justcash(m): 5:42am On Aug 16, 2015 |
Between 1895 and 1930, with British colonial forays into Africa late in the 19th century, the Igbo put up one of the toughest resistances against British colonization in Africa. While the Igbo fought, some of its neighbors fell in quick order. For instance, in January 1903, twenty four British officers led a column of 700 African soldiers of the new West African Frontier Force, many of them Hausa, fresh from the Ashanti campaigns, and marched on Kano, and defeated it at the battle of Bebedji. The Emir of Kano, Aliyu, was in flight, while his brother, Muhammed Abbas was installed as a British puppet. Emir Aliyu was soon captured, exiled, and locked up in the British military garrison in Lokoja where he died in 1926. The British defeat and killing of Sultan Attahiru, and the Magajin of Keffi, among many in Burmi on July 27, 1903, marked the formal end of the Caliph’s resistance in Sokoto against the British. Southwards, exhausted by internal rife and the hundred-year civil war following the collapse of Oyo, the Yoruba historian Johnson wrote that it was the Yoruba Obas themselves who wrote and invited the British to come and colonize Yoruba land. Oba Ovoranwen of Benin was quickly defeated by the British and exiled to Calabar, where he too died in exile. But the British fought the Igbo for thirty years, in five campaigns from 1900to 1930, until the British forced the High Priest, Eze Nri Obalike, to appear at the Awka Courts in 1930. Historians like Don Ohadike have written eloquently about the Ekumeku movement and the Igbo use of guerrilla warfare against the British. Meanwhile, the previous year in 1929, Igbo women had driven away the colonial warrant chiefs, imposed on the Igbo by the British. All that prompted, in an attempted to understand the Igbo, the British government under the Colonial Governor-General, Sir Ralph Cameron, to send a series of Anthropologists to study the Igbo. One of them, Sylvia Leith-Ross, came in 1930, and wrote the book, Among African Women, with the preface by Lord Lugard. She noted thus in her book about the Igbo: “these people are not intimidated by us, and are rather amused by us. They watch us and learn quickly what we know. God help us the day they climb the ladder.” By the 1930s, following their work as technicians, tradesmen, mid-level clerks in commercial and government jobs, and artisans helping to lay the North-South Rail lines, the Igbo, had fanned across and settled in what is now modern Nigeria. From 1937-1957 they had enough national density to mobilize and rally round Dr. Azikiwe, and were the arrowheads in the anti-colonial nationalist movement that forced the British colonialists out of Nigeria. By 1967, finding Nigeria no longer suitable for their collective interest and protection, they staged an exit and declared their own state of Biafra. The Igbo remain the only one of the major groups in Nigeria to mobilize an army, create an independent state, and fight in defence of their interests; and they have the capacity to do so again if they feel themselves, and their collective interests threatened. For three years, they fought, and in 1970, exhausted and surrounded, they agreed to a negotiated end, and returned to Nigeria. Note: NO TRIBAL BIGOTRY INTENDED Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/bhuahri-does-not-have-to-love-the-igbo/#sthash.uCdiTjeB.dpuf 15 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by SouthernBreeze(m): 5:43am On Aug 16, 2015 |
Always gullible from time immemorial 2 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by Applaner: 5:46am On Aug 16, 2015 |
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Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by Nobody: 7:45am On Aug 16, 2015 |
d Yoruba's seem to be smarter Dan der neighbors. 12 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by Justcash(m): 7:49am On Aug 16, 2015 |
lygn19: Why do you think so? |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by SOUNDKING: 9:29am On Aug 16, 2015 |
lygn19:better die fighting for freedom,than still die a loyal slave. 26 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by truefact: 9:52am On Aug 16, 2015 |
That is why they so much love one Nigeria. ...they are afraid they would kill each other If nigeria divide. ...cowards who can't rule themselves 12 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 10:01am On Aug 16, 2015 |
truefact: 30 Likes
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Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 10:04am On Aug 16, 2015 |
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Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 10:05am On Aug 16, 2015 |
SOUNDKING:This quote is very apt in reference to ojuku who ran away to abidjan after wasting the lives of silly biafrans only to come back to Nigeria and contest as a president in the same country he fought against 30 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 10:08am On Aug 16, 2015 |
truefact:when Governor Fashola deported destitute ibos back to iboland, werent you fools crying like sore loosers that you really are? Deport the Yorubas in iboland and let the Yorubas deport the ibos in Yorubaland. Lets see who will first bat an eyelid 23 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by truefact: 10:09am On Aug 16, 2015 |
@after1 We are not cowards. ...we are just outnumbered by nigerian and their western allies....Hausa-Fulani can't challenge igbos as a single entity and yorubas won't even think of it... Even our women are so daring....ready history diabolical fuul...have you heard of Aba woman riot? Mean we can challenge any status quo. ...yoruba are born suffercated and diabolical cowards. ...tigerfaced fuuls 14 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by pazienza(m): 10:11am On Aug 16, 2015 |
truefact: This is true( I don't mean the coward part, I mean the killing each other part) and one of the major reasons Yorubas remain one Nigerian fanatics, even when they want to deny it. The Yorubas can't stand each other, they were always on each other's throat. It was Awo and Akintola that United them, by showing them that they all had one common enemy in Ndiigbo and advised them to channel the hatred they had for each other towards Ndiigbo, that was the central message of Akintola's Yoruba Ronu speech. Yoruba union had Igbophobia at the core of its foundation. Remove Igbos from Nigeria, the Yoruba unity will fall, and they will 're channel those hatred they are currently channeling towards Ndiigbo towards themselves, with repeat of Kiriji and Wetie taking place in Yorubaland, they will reverse to their pre Nigerian state. 23 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by truefact: 10:13am On Aug 16, 2015 |
FFKfuckedBIANCA:You are cowards. ...you take advantage because igbos were dislodged and disadvantaged in the Nigerian system ...hence igbos has to go lagos to make use of the government infrastructures there.... 9 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 10:15am On Aug 16, 2015 |
[s] truefact:[/s] You are just like your late useless father, making noise and pouring smelly spit everywhere. Ojuku of cursed memory led your ediots to war and you now blaming others for your failure. Typical yeebhoe bastard. They blame everyone for there problem, you are all cursed and reason no one ever take you ediots serious. Go sleep with your smelly mother, so you can of course contribute to her baby factory business. Cursed fooools from the cursed erosion ravaged sad beast region. 18 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 10:17am On Aug 16, 2015 |
pazienza:fl'athead the whole world knows how disunited you ibos are. We know the hatred you abhour among yourselves in iboland where the Osu caste system is still practised. We have not forgotten how Senator T.A Orji sacked fellow ibos who are non-abians from the abia state civil service. It is only in yorubaland that a non-indigene can become a stte Governor. Can the same be said in iboland? Can an Ebonyi man become the Governor of anambra state? 16 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 10:17am On Aug 16, 2015 |
[s] pazienza:[/s] No one is holding you bastard cursed fools from leaving Nigeria. You ediot come online to scream Yoruba daily on a forum owned by someone you despise his tribe. You have no shame at all esp you cursed jobless ediot called Pazienza. The last time i checked, you cursed people are the one trooping to the so called Yoruba land. Why cant you stay in your cursed erosion ravaged land? Typical noise makers. 19 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 10:18am On Aug 16, 2015 |
FFKfuckedBIANCA: You dey mind that jobless ediot. He lies for a living and reason he blame Yoruba everyday for his family problem. Shameless ediot. 15 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 10:19am On Aug 16, 2015 |
truefact:Your father is coward. So you mean they are no government infrastructure in iboland? You mean there are no federal road, federal school, federal hopital, federal bridge in iboland? Ibos run away from iboland because Igboland is cursed 16 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 10:21am On Aug 16, 2015 |
after1:pazienza is a stupid ibo fool. Can you imagine him saying y1boland is more united, as if we dont know how anambra ibo and imo ibo use to fight each other even right here on nairaland. 14 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 10:24am On Aug 16, 2015 |
FFKfuckedBIANCA: The ediot is one liar that just love spewing his lies here daily. Go to Imo state thread and go see the so called Yeeebhoe unity, visit the Anambra thread and you will laugh. I hate liars and never do wells like that m.oronic ediot called Pazienzafool 15 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 10:27am On Aug 16, 2015 |
truefact: Look at this product of baby factory, so there is no infrastructure in Yeebhoe land? You said yeebhoe land is the best and now you still saying you have no infrastructure and have to escape to the SW. You have no shame at all, go hawk your gala and stop spewing rubbish online. 19 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by truefact: 10:34am On Aug 16, 2015 |
after1:You are a debased being. ...if you are not a coward, fight for an only yorubas country where there will be no igbo to hate...cowards can only rant and curse....cowards makes excuses. ...cowards can't challenge the status quo on their own.....yoruba you are nothing without your Hausa-Fulani master ...you lots are debased and diabolical cowards ...you are all products of ince.st....I know your grandfather is your biological father...suffercated and diabolic fuuls...coward connie...Scratchfaceds fuuls 3 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by NigerMan1: 10:35am On Aug 16, 2015 |
FFKfuckedBIANCA - Bro are you an INDIGENE of Lagos? Which state of origin are you? Would you be proud of your REAL ancestral lineage? And WHY each time Nigeria states and regions are mentioned, the only place you guys bring up for defense is LAGOS? I hope you know that most Yorubas are also MIGRANTS to Lagos? I hope you know that Lagos was DEVELOPED (and still being sustained) with Niger Delta OIL, as the main business capital for Nigeria? Again, I ask you: "Are You An INDIGENE of Lagos?" Just this morning, one of the most prominent true Lagosians gave this interview: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/open-letter-to-buhari-on-behalf-of-lagos-state-indigenes-1/ PS: Read it; learn something critical from it FFKfuckedBIANCA: 9 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by truefact: 10:40am On Aug 16, 2015 |
FFKfuckedBIANCA:You are a debased being. ...if you are not a coward, fight for an only yorubas country where there will be no igbo to hate...cowards can only rant and curse....cowards makes excuses. ...cowards can't challenge the status quo on their own.....yoruba you are nothing without your Hausa-Fulani master ...you lots are debased and diabolical cowards ...you are all products of ince.st....I know your grandfather is your biological father...suffercated and diabolic fuuls...coward connie...Scratchfaceds fuuls 2 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 10:43am On Aug 16, 2015 |
[s] truefact:[/s] More rant from a cursed product of baby factory, a criminal loser produced by a wicked local wh.ore. You yeebhoes are the ediot making noise daily on nairaland about biafra, No one is holding you cursed fools from forming your country. I still dont know how Yoruba are your problem, you come to there land and still screaming biafra. You have no shame, and reason everyone laugh at you ediots. if Ohaneze is not begging for appointment today, your m.oronic governors and reps are trooping to Abuja to pay homage to the man you call dull.ard. Go mess your smelly mother before she go out for her daily womanliness sharing business. Shameless son of a mad wh.ore. 10 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by SLIDEwaxie(m): 10:46am On Aug 16, 2015 |
Have u heard of the amazons? The dahomey saga? Why do u people just talk anyhow? Your people put up great resistance, yet, you were the tribe who kept selling their families and brothers to slavery! At least, history had that on grip! 2 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by truefact: 11:19am On Aug 16, 2015 |
after1:You are silly a coward. ..go and ask your grandfather about your real father, you know that the diabolic tigerfaced suffercated fuul gave birth to you, hence you are coward. . Can you fight? Do have dream and aspirations? You are nothing, hence you aspire for nothing. ..son of an incestuous and diabolical wh.or.e 2 Likes |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 11:40am On Aug 16, 2015 |
truefact: This son of a lazy wh.ore can't even spell well. You keep screaming coward everywhere like a deranged animal, your thin god ojuku of cursed memory remains the only coward that flee when faced with real war. You better go continue with the f.ucking of your wh.orish mother, else I will e-smash your flat head. Cursed animal 9 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by Nobody: 11:43am On Aug 16, 2015 |
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Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by baralatie(m): 11:45am On Aug 16, 2015 |
Justcash: this is the most false history of either the British invasion or about the oyo empire,the Benin dynasty and the incursion of the British on the inland. When you get your history right then you can talk thus how students fail history class and blame their lecturers 1 Like |
Re: The Yorubas Wrote to The British To Colonize Them. Were they scared? by after1: 11:51am On Aug 16, 2015 |
[quote author=BuddahMonk post=37010586][/quote] Ebuka my Padi, How far? |
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