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Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 2:46pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
The Bight of Biafra is a region identified by Europeans (and subsequent historians) to describe the part of the western African coast between the Niger River and Cape Lopez. This region encompasses the coasts of several modern African nations, including eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and northern Gabon. Biafra is not something that started in the 1960s. The English deliberately embarked on a campaign to erase the rich culture of Biafra, an Empire that was lucrative and flourishing before the Cacusoids even left their shores.
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Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by ELTON123(m): 3:12pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
That's my country u are talking about ![]() 10 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 5:45pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
ELTON123:Yesoo! 3 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Hemah(f): 6:04pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
PLEASE IGBOS DO NOT EVER USE THE WORD #BIAFRA, IT IS A VILLAGE IN PORTUGAL – OZODIOBI OSUJI The below population data is from The World Almanac and Book of Facts. (New York: World Almanac Books, 2015) page 717. According to it, the populations of major Nigeria groups are: Hausas: 25 million persons Yorubas: 19.4 million persons Igbos: 18 million persons Fulfulde (they are found in several West African countries for total 11.6 million persons); if nearly half of them live in Nigeria so about 5 million Fulanis live in Nigeria Kanuri: 3.8 million persons Kanuri central: 3.2 million persons Tivi: 2.2 million persons The other Nigerian tribes, according to the book, do not have over two million persons; the book ranked groups with over two million persons, worldwide. You may ask why I chose to use the World Almanac data instead of data from Nigeria. Good question. Do Nigerians keep accurate data? Do Nigerians conduct clean census? All we are given are cooked figures calculated to make some groups seem large for political purposes; Nigeria bands around its population as 120 million today, tomorrow 150, another day 170 and even180. It is a mess, that bizarre country called Nigeria. They cannot get anything correct. But that is not our problem right now. The issue at hand is this: there are about five million Fulanis in Nigeria and this minority ethnic group rules all Nigeria (Buhari is Fulani). Five million Fulanis since 1804 ruled the Hausa states (they appointed emirs in major Hausa towns and cities and ruled them from their headquarters at Sokoto). Fulanis ruled Northern Nigeria and have now completed their quest to rule all of Nigeria with the victory of Mohammadu Buhari as the president of Nigeria. Five million people, a minority rules Nigeria a country of about 140 million people! What does that make Fulanis? It makes them politically savvy. They are like the Tutsis of Rwanda and Burundi. The Tutsis are very few in numbers but for centuries (from, at least, 1300 AD) have ruled the majority Hutus. For our present purpose, we have a situation where a handful of so-called Nigerians rule the majority of Nigerians. And such large ethnic groups as Igbos, who are, at least, 18 million people (Igbos are the third largest Ethnic group in Africa, behind Hausa, and Yoruba) are now ruled by minority people, Fulanis! The amazing thing is that members of this Fulani tribe are probably the least educated tribe in Nigeria. Who is going to compare them to the hugely well-educated Yorubas and decently educated Igbos? How did it come to pass that a bunch of illiterate Fulanis rule Nigeria? Just look at Mohammed Buhari, a man with only shoddy secondary school education (I doubt that the man can write a good sentence) ruling Yorubas and Igbos; two groups with a basket full of doctorate degree holders. What does that make Igbos? It makes them politically unsophisticated. A handful of Fulanis rule Igbos and they come to the public square telling the world how they are a superior people and expect the world to believe them? The world sees Igbos as not what they claim to be, for if they were the gods they claim to be a minority people, a mostly illiterate bunch for that matter cannot rule them. Nigeria is actually in the situation of Apartheid South Africa where five million white folks ruled forty million black folks. Let me repeat: five million Fulanis (who probably have Arab blood in them) rule 140 million black people called Igbos, Yorubas, Kanuris, Tivi, Edo, Efik, Urhobo and other ethnic Nigerians. Is this not an outrage? How is it that a minority tribe, Fulanis, who are not even from Nigeria, who came from Guinea only a few hundred years ago, are ruling Nigeria? Is it the case that black folks are always ruled by people with Caucasian blood in them? Fulanis are said to be part of Maghreb Arabs, Arabs who left Arabia (may be around 700 AD) and journeyed across North Africa until they got to Morocco. Some turned north and conquered Spain in 711 AD and some turned south to Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali and so on. Fulanis, Arabs of sorts are ruling Africans in Nigeria! This is amazing, I say. If Europeans did this to us we would all be complaining about colonialism but when Arabs colonize Africans, Africans do not complain. Well, this Igbo, this African will complain. I do not want to be ruled by white folks or by Arabs and if Fulanis are Arabs I do not want them to rule me. I have begun my war to eliminate the Fulani rule of Nigeria (they actually want to make all Nigeria their fiefdom) and rule it in perpetuity! This war will end only when Fulanis, a minority group accept ruler-ship by majority Nigerians or there is no deal, there is no Nigeria. Alaigbo must separate from Nigeria rather than allow itself to be ruled by Arabized Africans. [b]Please Igbos do not ever use the word Biafra in referring to us. Biafra is a village in Portugal. A Portuguese, during the age of exploration, in the 1400s, gave the Atlantic Ocean area directly below the lower River Niger the name the bight of Biafra. That Portuguese sailor probably came from the village of Biafra and gave the name Bight of Biafra in honor of his village? There is no need for Igbo people to call themselves by a Portuguese name, Biafra. I feel insulted been referred to by a Portuguese name, Biafra. “Biafra took name from “Bight of Biafra” as labeled by colonial conquerors “On 30 June 1849, Britain established a colonial protectorate over the Bight of Biafra, under the authority of the BritishConsuls of the Bight of Benin “Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state in south-eastern Nigeria that existed from 30 May 1967 to 15 January 1970, taking its name from the Bight of Biafra (the Atlantic bay to its south).[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra“[/b] So, let us stop hearing that nonsense called Biafra. Please refer to us as Alaigbo. Forget Ijaws, Efiks and other groups that were in the so-called Biafra. No ethnic group should dominate others. Igbos should strive for their independence and allow other groups to do the same and give up the delusion that they need to call themselves Biafra so as to have Ijaw, Efik and others in it. Those groups do not want to be ruled by Igbos and this Igbos does not want to dominate other ethnic groups. Nigeria_North_And_South-Igbo I want independence for my people. There must be a Republic of Alaigbo with capital at Owerri. This is not a negotiable proposition, it is a done deal; if you do not like it you are free to go jump into the Atlantic Ocean and drown yourself and I could care less. Africans self-rule does not mean that we should allow ourselves to be ruled by half Arabs called Fulanis. Half Arabs used to rule all of Sudan and abused real Africans in South Sudan and currently do so to real Africans in Darfur province of Sudan. Internal colonialism whereby one so-called African group dominates others should not be tolerated just as white rule of Africans should not be tolerated. I will not tolerate Buhari and his Arabized Fulani rule of Alaigbo. The subject is not open for debate. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 6:07pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
lisimmo:It was not just a country my Dear it was an entire Kingdom ran mostly by Arochukwu people from modern day Abia State. By the mid-nineteenth century the Aro world included 150 diaspora settlements across the Biafra hinterland. 4 Likes
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Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 6:18pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Hemah: I agree with you on everything else except what you wrote below, how can you alone say this is not negotiable? I want independence for my people. There must be a Republic of Alaigbo with capital at Owerri. This is not a negotiable proposition As for the rest of your right up it is historically correct. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Nobody: 6:21pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
please can one ipob member on this forum tell us what Biafra means in Igbo language ![]() |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Kyase(m): 6:23pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
lisimmo:Are you minding the male queen? |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 6:28pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Ioannes:I have read in some places BIA =Igbo language meaning come and they will say something of Fra meaning all or something like that good question. This is what I found:
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Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 6:29pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
EasternLion Emmalexabl NOBLEDANDY Abagworo come and tell us about the word Biafra biko! |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Nobody: 6:32pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
biafranqueen: I see. |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 6:37pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Kyase:Who is a male your mother right? Keep showing us you had upbringing in the gutters of the slum..... 5 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Obiagu1(m): 6:40pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
The original Biafra would have been better for the Igbo than with the Hausa and Yoruba, people we have no interactions, connections, culture nor relationship with. The British really messed up. I think Nigeria is the greatest injustice to Africa by the Europeans! If a country comprising current Biafra, Cameroon (minus the Hausas), Equitorial Guinea and Gabon was created instead, it would have been awesome. We are all bantoid. 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Kyase(m): 6:42pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
biafranqueen:Kikikik the male queen as spoken. But know say i dey beat people oooooooo more especially male queens |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Nobody: 6:49pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
biafranqueen: Stop deceiving yourself. There is no biafra. Look at yourself, posting biafra on on a NIGERIAN forum? Spending NIGERIAN NAIRA, using a NIGERIAN DRIVERS LICENSE AND PASSPORT. When asked your country or nationality you say NIGERIA. Why? YOUR BIAFRA IS NOT RECOGNISED AS AS A NATION. GET THAT INTO YOUR HEAD. YOU CAN WHINE AND POST AS MUCH AS YOU WANT ONLINE AND MAKE NOISE IN YOUR HOUSE. THIS IS THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA! You want biafra. ..go to the government house and start the war.. if you have the balls. Last time I checked your ojukwu wh started the trash ran away in exile with many so called biafra children suffering and starving. You guys failed... and will fail again. There is no biafra there would never be. And if there will be. It's gonna be war and u gonna die. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 6:55pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Obiagu1:Humm would you care to expand? Not sure that we have much in common with Southern Somalians or other Africans in Angola or Congo. 3 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Obiagu1(m): 7:00pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
biafranqueen: Not with the full bantus but with the semi-bantus people of ancient Biafra. You can hardly differentiate an Igbo from a Gabonese. 6 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Kyase(m): 7:10pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Obiagu1:But do u know that the Bantus are the tivs of Nigeria? |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 7:12pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Strahovski: Even though it is not recognized now does not mean that we can not use peaceful means to actualize it. Are you familiar with Weimar Germany which was composed of Germany, Poland and Russia? I know it is normal for emotions to overflow when countries breakup but you should look at the bright side. You will now get a bigger share of the "South-South oil revenue" so cheer up ![]() 8 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Obiagu1(m): 7:13pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Kyase: Yes, Biafrans are not regarded as bantus but semi-bantus. 2 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Kyase(m): 7:18pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Obiagu1:So logically biafrans are tivs decendant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiv_people?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C7662096515 |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 7:22pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Obiagu1:That is true. did you know also that I was reading about how in 1967, Haiti became the only country outside of Africa to recognize the independent Igbo Republic of Biafra in secession from Nigeria The vote of confidence in favor of Biafra on the part of this tiny Caribbean nation was due to the Haitian’s memory of their own “ Igbo “ revolutionary past. The numerous and successful slave revolts in Haiti are clearly documented as “Igbo” uprisings. They found the strongest presence of the ancestral deity Legba (Eshu) among the Haitians. I thought that was really interesting. 7 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by biafranqueen: 7:24pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Obiagu1:Can you give us more insight into the word Biafra, its meanings and origin ? 1 Like |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Nobody: 7:31pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Obiagu1:greatest injustice indeed. It is modern day slavery, a money making entity for the british and you won't believe that people are proud of it 5 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by carnegiefan: 7:55pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
BIAFRA it is! Never Aligbo. Biafra is an IDEAL which supersedes Igbo in desirability. Even if Biafra ends up being only Igbo areas, it should still be called BIAFRA. Honestly there are MANY things Igbo that we shall definitely do away with in Biafra. After watching this Igbo movie, it reminded me of all those things we must remove from our culture when Biafra comes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObnVPCzdVMk Immediately after getting Biafra we shall instigate a CULTURAL REVOLUTION to end GREED, SELFISHNESS and weird foreign cultures that are killing us and making us slaves in Nigeria. 4 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by kel4soft: 7:56pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
Obiagu1: Because of the Oyel right? |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by Ilaje44(m): 7:57pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
biafranqueen:Weimar Germany was never made up of Germany, Russia and Poland. Germany was Germany, while Weimar Germany was bigger than the Germany of today, it never contained the two other countries. Germany though lost a relatively big chunk of its territories to both countries after WW2. The territories lost to Poland include Pomerania, Silesia, part of East and West Prussia, while they lost part of East Prussia to the USSR (today's Russia). |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by carnegiefan: 8:01pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
biafranqueen: The name really doesn't matter. What matters is that it is NOT Aligbo because there is not much to be proud of about being Igbo today. Our people are viciously SELFISH, SELF-CENTERED, GREEDY, and mindlessly craven. You see them working very hard to destroy their brothers out of jealousy and st.eewpid wickedness. Your success as a person elicites very bad reaction from your own relatives, acquaintances and friends as if you caused their failures (or whatever is their problem). I'm not proud of being Igbo; but I'm very proud being BIAFRAN. ![]() Even Nnamdi Kanu noticed the same issues and made the same conclusion. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by carnegiefan: 8:03pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
kel4soft: When are you people going to get tired of this insane obsession with oil? Do y'all think that oil will last forever? Biafra is about IDEALS. Ideals that set the black man free from mental slavery and backwardness. 4 Likes |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by carnegiefan: 8:04pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
I think I'll open a thread on these issues I'm talking about here. 1 Like |
Re: Biafra Has Been Recognized Since June 30th 1849 by kel4soft: 8:13pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
carnegiefan: Like how the ideas have turned South East states into Dubai. Abeg park well. |
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