I need to draw the attention of nairaland users to a mis-match code which seems to be gaining ground on nairaland in describing all yorubas.
This is very wrong as the name afonja has nothing to do with the name Yoruba.
This name could only be associated with ilorin and its an insult to use it to describe all yorubas..
This is not meant to cast aspersion on any tribe as am not a candidate of such.
My aim for this post is to use it as a correction fluid for those who lack knowledge of history.
I think seun need to stop this.
CC: Seun

Mr op,, yu ursef need to understand something about this forum...the name 'Afonja' to them seems like a word they can use to gain an advantage and someone frustrated.. You and I know they r wrong about this.. but pls let dem continue... I see it as a way of promoting the yoruba history...

Pls,, let them continue,, they want to frustrate the yoruba race tru this mins... But we are happy they are helping us selling the yoruba heritage to the world...
They think they are taking advantage of the name to the yorubas disadvantage but they never knw its to their advantage...

There is no offence in someone calling anybody here AFONJA...
PLS, Mr Op, LET THEM CONTINUE OO..

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They started with Yoruba.(even this one is not even offensive to say the least)
Now it is AFONJA

agborodun:
I need to draw the attention of nairaland users to a mis-match code which seems to be gaining ground on nairaland in describing all yorubas.
This is very wrong as the name afonja has nothing to do with the name Yoruba.
This name could only be associated with ilorin and its an insult to use it to describe all yorubas..
I think seun need to stop this.
CC: Seun

You sounds like APC member, it's good to insult GEJ and bad to insult Buhari. You and your likes were calling them IPOB, UGADIANS, LOST TRIBE OF ISREAL, FLAT HEAEDS aka Igbos, UGU HAWKERS etc. Now they have decided to give you a baptism name (AFONJA) and you are complaining. Sorry, this is beyond Seun.

What does afonja mean? and yorubas also refer to we igbos as FLAT HEADS a.k.a Igbos. So it's a kinda do me i do you

agborodun:
I need to draw the attention of nairaland users to a mis-match code which seems to be gaining ground on nairaland in describing all yorubas.
This is very wrong as the name afonja has nothing to do with the name Yoruba.
This name could only be associated with ilorin and its an insult to use it to describe all yorubas..
I think seun need to stop this.
CC: Seun

Bros there is nothing offensive in that name...
Its a just a misrepresentation referring to the yoruba race as Afonja...
Like the man above me rightly said,, let them continue
because they wont stop,, untill the sensible ones among them start telling them to look for something else to frustrate the yorubas because if they think the name AFONJA is bin use to ridicule anyone,, is just a colossal miss..
I think ofenmanu is even more offensive

Boybrano:
What does afonja mean? and yorubas also refer to we igbos as FLAT HEADS. So it's a kinda do me i do you

God no go vex

Boybrano:
What does afonja mean? and yorubas also refer to we igbos as FLAT HEADS a.k.a Igbos. So it's a kinda do me i do you

What yu dont understand is that using afonja is not in anyway offensive...But Using the word cone head is even more provoking

Israeljones:

What yu dont understand is that using afonja is not in anyway offensive...But Using the word cone head is even more provoking

You see why nigeria is not progressing?

So Afobja OP what should we use instead

The Ilorin Emirate is a traditional state based on the city of Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria. It is considered to be one of the Banza Bakwai, or copy-cats of the Hausa Kingdoms.

At the start of the 19th century Ilorin was a border town in the northeast of the Oyo Empire, with a mainly Yoruba population but with many Hausa and Fulani immigrants. It was the headquarters of an Oyo General, Afonja, who rebelled against the empire and helped bring about its collapse with the assistance of the Fulani.[1] The rebellion was powered by Nupe and Bornu Moslem slaves.[2] Afonja had been assisted by Salih Janta, also called Shehu Alimi, a leader of the local Fulani. In 1824 Afonja was assassinated and Alimi's son Abdusalami became Emir.[3] Ilorin became an emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate.[1]

For some time Ilorin was a major center of the slave trade. In the past slaves had mainly been sent north across the Sahara, but now they were being sent south via the Yoruba lands to the coast to supply demand from the USA, the West Indies, and Brazil. Slaves were taken from the Igbo lands to the east and from conquered Yoruba towns, as well as from areas further to the north, and were traded for cloth and other goods. Ilorin continued to expand southward until it was checked in the 1830s by the growing power of Ibadan, an Oyo successor state. The Ilorin cavalry were ineffective in the jungle to the south, and by the 1850s Ibadan had access to guns from European traders on the coast.[1] The capital was occupied by the Royal Niger Company in 1897 and its lands incorporated into the British colony of Northern Nigeria in 1900, although the emirate continued to perform ceremonial functions.[4)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilorin_Emirate

agborodun:
I need to draw the attention of nairaland users to a mis-match code which seems to be gaining ground on nairaland in describing all yorubas.
This is very wrong as the name afonja has nothing to do with the name Yoruba.
This name could only be associated with ilorin and its an insult to use it to describe all yorubas..
This is not meant to cast aspersion on any tribe as am not a candidate of such.
My aim for this post is to use it as a correction fluid for those who lack knowledge of history.
I think seun need to stop this.
CC: Seun

Sheybe Yoruba dey call Ibo Biafraudd too?

comshots:
Sheybe Yoruba dey call Ibo Biafra too?

Biafra is a name even ibos are proud of.

agborodun:

Biafra is a name even ibos are proud of.

I mean Biafrau.d.

Lmfao
Afonja!!

comshots:
I mean Biafrau.d.

Whoever call Ibo Biafrau.d is himself a fraud.