You guys are just too quick to anger and abuse at the slightest opportunity. Why on earth would you start abusing the dude in such circumstance that you have captured ? Please learn to be patient when you disagree with others....

ZaraGift:
When I was on 2go I met a guy on 2go international bearing Chibuike, but his location was Equatorial Guinea, by then I thought Equatorial Guinea was very far country/not even in African,
I asked the boy where he from and he said "IMO State", I asked where in IMO state and he said he didn't know,
I told him where I'm from in IMO state and asked again thinking he didn't want to tell me but my guy man no know, I became agree and started insulting him, he was 21yr old, I said how can person who is 21yr old not know his local government area talk less of community. He didn't tell me any thing about Igbo people their, he only told me he was born there so deleted him from my friend list.

Later when I was making use of world fact book.2011
I discovered that Igbo ethnic group in in Equatorial Guinea.

This thread is so skeletal, the information therein is so shallow.
Igbos have always been known for their concentrated population across sub Saharan Africa.
Igbo shares no historical relevance in Equatorial Guinea.

kiss the truth!

kk

1miccza:



You need help if your brain constantly tells you that everything should be about tribalism and ethnicism. Are you an adult at all??

See who is talking about tribalism. I be your protege for this game o. Wehdone boss.

bigfrancis21:


Same here. I first learned about them back in the late 90s during a Christmas visit to my maternal hometown. My uncle (mother's brother), had a factbook in his room which I was going through and saw 'Ibo' listed as a language in EG. I couldn't believe my eyes. This my uncle also used to lovingly speak of a far-off place called 'panya' which he visited or would visit and even told us then that he would take us to panya. I'm guessing bioko is the very panya he was referring to. Tekno also sang about going to 'panya' in one of his recent songs.

All the while I have been hearing about "panya" from way back in my primary sch days..I never envisaged any relationship between that and my ethnicity but I had this strong feelings that "panya" must be somehow a part of Igbo history..Then recently I travelled home for grannies funeral and in the brochure they said something about them migrating to EG and then panya, that caught my attention..anyways nice one OP, I will make more enquiries..

RedboneSmith:


Actually they have been there long before the Civil War.

They started arriving there in the 1920s, if not earlier, to work as labourers on the Spanish Cocoa Plantations.

really how do u know this

ZaraGift:
When I was on 2go I met a guy on 2go international bearing Chibuike, but his location was Equatorial Guinea, by then I thought Equatorial Guinea was very far country/not even in African,
I asked the boy where he from and he said "IMO State", I asked where in IMO state and he said he didn't know,
I told him where I'm from in IMO state and asked again thinking he didn't want to tell me but my guy man no know, I became agree and started insulting him, he was 21yr old, I said how can person who is 21yr old not know his local government area talk less of community. He didn't tell me any thing about Igbo people their, he only told me he was born there so deleted him from my friend list.

Later when I was making use of world fact book.2011
I discovered that Igbo ethnic group in in Equatorial Guinea.

Why are you people so quick to insult others? Its really terrible.
VERY TERRIBLE. What happened to taking your time to ask questions? If he wanted to deny his roots, he wouldn't have claimed to be from Imo State.


Throwing insults around has always been your greatest undoing as a tribe. Go figure.

Probz:


Ndu Oka use bia ika a for no. It’s not just an Equatorial Guinea thing.

yea. Awka says bia ika or nwokem bia ibee

sunshineG:
my sister this post is full of bigotry and unfair assumptions

What gave the assurance the person you quoted have anything to do with yoruba people

Do you know yoruba is also recognized as official language in other African countries ..so it is not a competition sis

Celebrate your culture

excuse me, where did I mention yoruba?
The last time I checked I did not mention any ethnic group name o, my comment was neutral,
that guy is never from equaitorial guinea,
he registered that alternative moniker immeditely this thread was pushed to front page inorder to discredit the thread,
btw e.guineans are portugese speaking and can never be seen in an anglophonic nairaland.
Shine your eyes

Praktikals:

See who is talking about tribalism. I be your protege for this game o. Wehdone boss.

Abeg park well. Who be that??

kanayoNickel:

In Amawbia, Anambra State you can also get Bia Nkaa or Ikaa

And Ezza man will say bia ekaa.
@Big francis I am interested in this project. I think we can raise a voice from this group

melzabull:
Nne his aim is to discredit the news and derail the thread. The fool is probably a slum dweller in one of those numerous slums and shanties in ibadam or obomoso

I get small time for una dis afternoon

abobakus are CURSED

U dnt get it, after readg comments on ds thread he became.alarmed dt igbos in Nigeria will storm d place to strengthen d Igbos there and somehow subjugate his own pple. So.brme had to register.

ZaraGift:
, I became agree and started insulting him, he was 21yr old, I said how can person who is 21yr old not know his local government area talk less of community. He didn't tell me any thing about Igbo people their, he only told me he was born there so deleted him from my friend list.

Later when I was making use of world fact book.2011
I discovered that Igbo ethnic group in in Equatorial Guinea.

That's the problem l face with Igbos...always full of insults and are most times deaf and dumb to logic. See your life now?
Next time before you igbotically insult anyone , take some red sand and eat...it works

scholes0:
According to wiki



334,463*0.07 = 23,412 Igbos in Bioko Island, circa (2015)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioko

Joshua project on its part says there are 36,000 Igbos in all Equatorial Guinea (Bioko plus the Mainland) in 2017, ranking fourth after Fang (545,000), Bubi/Fernandian (63,000), and Yoruba (72,000)

https://joshuaproject.net/countries/EK

For clarity purposes.

bigfrancis21:
As regards the language, Igbo is a recognized official language in Equatorial Guinea and it has been confirmed that the people still speak the Igbo language which has some form of deviation from the modern Igbo spoken in Nigeria. Some people who have seen them say they say, 'bia ikaa' for 'come here'. Anybody who has been in contact with these people as regards the language?

Finally I think that Igbos of Nigeria do need to reach out to our people in Bioko to re-strengthen our ties and the language.





http://gobiafra.com/t-bioko-independent-movement-by-igbos


cc Probz Ajaanaoka, Redbonesmith, Pazienza, Ishilove, Ngozi123, Cheruv, Ezeagu, Odumchi

ur source is gobiafra.com ?

Amarabae:
excuse me, where did I mention yoruba?
The last time I checked I did not mention any ethnic group name o, my comment was neutral,
that guy is never from equaitorial guinea,
he registered that alternative moniker immeditely this thread was pushed to front page inorder to discredit the thread,
btw e.guineans are portugese speaking and can never be seen in an anglophonic nairaland.
Shine your eyes

Of course you didn't have to mention a tribe since we are all aware the ogbomoso you mentioned is a local government in Anambra.

Kiss the truth!

I must say that I'm ecstatic to learn about my fellow Igbos diaspora. A diaspora of Igbo immigrants that have constituted a third of a country's population.

hmm...ibos everywhere. .dont you think these tribe is one of theten lost tribesof isreal. .n.a. wa ooo

Yes. Bia Ikaa sounds so much like bia ukaa in Nnewi dialect. They both have the same meaning. I have also seen a picture of the Gabonese president as a child in the midst of other refugee biafran children flown into Gabon during the civil war. His igbo origin was also part of the political topic debated by the oposition during their last election. Sao tome and cote devoire also have a population of biafran children who can no longer trace their families in Nigeria.

Amarabae:
excuse me, where did I mention yoruba?
The last time I checked I did not mention any ethnic group name o, my comment was neutral,
that guy is never from equaitorial guinea,
he registered that alternative moniker immeditely this thread was pushed to front page inorder to discredit the thread,
btw e.guineans are portugese speaking and can never be seen in an anglophonic nairaland.
Shine your eyes

acussing the writer of been indigene of oshogbo seems be neutral to you, isn't it? Your response is joke sister, if you think your initial post was truly neutral

As a matter of fact, English is a universal language and it is not uncommon to find people from non-english speaking countries speaking and writing in English perfectly

Furthermore, have you truly done a quick research on the points he raised to dis credit them as propaganda

My people o o. Scattered all over panya, veranda p.o., Ambazonia (Southern Cameroon), and up to DRC and Zaire. Chai! God dey. Yet they say we are Nigerian major minority. Shmmm.

Wow! This is intriguing. All my life I have never heard anything of such. It feels so good and relaxing reading this. Let's share this on all social/cultural platforms especially that consisting Igbos, I believe many more Igbos are like me, no idea of such. And you never can tell who will be interested. We can actually extend more hands of brotherhood and friendship to these our umunne.

Amarabae:
so you registered this afternoon immediately after this thread was posted and this is your first comment
I smell FRAUD! And an alternative moniker.
How can you be living in Ogbomosho your hometown and be claiming to be from equaitorial guinea?
Fear God o.

Well permit me to differ in this line of thought, let's say he is indeed what he claimed to be, and has been reading posts on Nairaland as a guest (of course many people does) now suddenly this afternoon out of nowhere such topic graces the front page and he really want to comment. (you can never comment as a guest in here you know) this is what I think anyway, could be wrong shaa. But then, for an imposer to go to that length writing such long text with seemingly verifiable facts just to discredit a post and claim, Hmmmmm. I wonder, to what end anyway.

A picture of Biafra fast forward. Kanu has a new hat and the girls have brand new grass skirts.

Igbo kwenu they are spreading like ants.

interesting

bigfrancis21:
As regards the language, Igbo is a recognized official language in Equatorial Guinea and it has been confirmed that the people still speak the Igbo language which has some form of deviation from the modern Igbo spoken in Nigeria. Some people who have seen them say they say, 'bia ikaa' for 'come here'. Anybody who has been in contact with these people as regards the language?

Finally I think that Igbos of Nigeria do need to reach out to our people in Bioko to re-strengthen our ties and the language.





http://gobiafra.com/t-bioko-independent-movement-by-igbos


cc Probz Ajaanaoka, Redbonesmith, Pazienza, Ishilove, Ngozi123, Cheruv, Ezeagu, Odumchi

so as to come and cos trouble for us more abi

asawanathegreat:
Igbo kwenu they are spreading like ants.

the lost tribe of juda uzeioku

Very interesting!

Something too needs to be done to strengthen ties with the hundreds of mal-nurished igbo children that were taken to Gabon and Cote d'ivore during the civil war.

wonderful!

d ones we are habourin in naija hia are plain land grabbers!

ndi Igbo, bikonu go to ya ancestral land, Bioko abi na boko haram of equatorial guinea, na dia una belong

bigfrancis21:


No I do not know much about them at this point, but from all indications, they do not seem to be suffering from a hostile/anti-Igbo environment as obtains in Nigeria.

You appeared to be a reasonable fellow but now this comment of yours is distasteful.

What do you mean by 'hostile/anti-igbo environment'?

And so?