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Re: . by horsepower101: 4:26pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
pazienza: Pazienza, I know that a lot of people don’t like your brutal honesty and bitter truth but it's really appreciated by some of us. If we are ever going to become one United igbo people, we have to learn to start telling ourselves the truth. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: . by Xander85: 4:32pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
pazienza: There's this interior part of Azumini where my mum comes from that they call Uhu! This is distinct from other parts of the town like the cottage hospital. So Uhu actually means 'home'? I guess you learn something new every day! 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: . by B2mario(m): 4:35pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
mightguy:Ok noted. But no offence to anyone, people should trace their origin based on community names not on concorted fairy tales that has no basis. 1 Like |
Re: . by Xander85: 4:40pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
ckenneths: Never knew Agbor was this cosmopolitan! ![]() It's more built up than some state capitals in the north, and could easily pass for a state capital in its own right! 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: . by odogwu125: 4:45pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Xander85:The place we call uhu in our village is a shrine 1 Like |
Re: . by pazienza(m): 4:47pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Xander85: Yes. Uhu means home. Infact, while Uhu had been reduced to just names of places in other parts of Igboland. In Isuikwuato dialect , Uhu is still used in everyday conversation , in lieu of ulo. 3 Likes |
Re: . by pazienza(m): 4:49pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
odogwu125: Probably the shrine was beside the first place of settlement of the progenitor of the kindred, village or town, as the case may be. Before his children(descendants) dispersed to other places nearby, to found new homes and start up their own families. Perhaps, the shrine is all that is left of their original Uhu. Just a hypothesis. 3 Likes |
Re: . by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 4:50pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
G letu: Very false school of thought. No be only 90%. 1 Like |
Re: . by pazienza(m): 4:53pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
horsepower101: Dalu, nwannem. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: . by B2mario(m): 4:53pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
pazienza:I ji okwu, udo diri gi nwannemmadu. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: . by odogwu125: 4:54pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
odogwu125:Pazienza, what's your take on my proposal here |
Re: . by odogwu125: 4:59pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
InyinyaAgbaOku:Not just Eri alone but Areli and Arodi sons of Gad have towns similar to their names in igboland 1 Like |
Re: . by Daewang: 5:04pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
pazienza: After these ones the next people we should be wary about are the so called Lagos Igbos (yorubaland Igbos). Many of them (not all) have strong psychological issues of inferiority complex. They will do anything to ingratiate themselves with yorubas even if it is against Igbo interest example Joe Igbokwe. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: . by B2mario(m): 5:08pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
pazienza:Pazienza, I won't totally agree with you on this one, uru and uhu mean two different things from ulo or uno. Pls do more research on these. I know of two different towns in Imo state that bear Uhuala and Uruala but the people still use Ulo as the word for house. |
Re: . by B2mario(m): 5:15pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
pazienza:you are correct bro 3 Likes |
Re: . by mightguy(m): 5:15pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
For oba in anambra... We ave uruagu. Uruokokwu. Urueze.... echetara echetara 1 Like |
Re: . by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 5:16pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
odogwu125: No be only Areli and Arodi. Let they keep disgracing their ancestors 1 Like |
Re: . by B2mario(m): 5:27pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
mightguy:What's the meaning of Uru there? Uru I know in Igbo means benefit or fattened meat (uru anu). |
Re: . by Xander85: 5:30pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
pazienza: Now you've explained it, it's all adding up and making sense! That place i mentioned is the oldest part of Azumini! 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: . by mightguy(m): 5:42pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
B2mario:i jst asked my mum and she talk say she know know.. But I will ask my granny. I go call her 1 Like |
Re: . by pazienza(m): 5:49pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Zik was able to seize leadership because he had constitutionally recognised region. Zik had his own struggles. The regions were limited in power, they were quasi regions, as they all had white governor general who they reported to. Compare it to the quasi Federal system we practice today, where almost everything is controlled by those who run Abuja. The constitution then, the McPherson constitution was rigged against the indigenous people by British, the regions were powerless. Rather than resign to fate and say that the constitution can't be fought against, like IPOB are doing today. Zik got involved in the government, launched a frontal attack on those parliament members in the East who were feeding fat from the current constitution then, paralyzed the government and won, replaced them with his own henchmen, and held the British at the jugular, forcing them to re negotiate the McPherson constitution. The end result was that the almighty Britain had to review the McPherson constitution and replaced it with the lyttleton constitution, which granted more powers to the regions. Notice that Zik ultimate goal was Independence, yet he was in 1950 fighting for more power to be granted to the regions. He fought it in tiny bits, watering down the British influence gradually and patiently, before going for the real deal. You see, Zik met similar problems we are dealing with today. 1. Strong oppressor (British) 2. Internal collaborators who wish to retain the system for their selfish interests ( the politicians) 3. An unfavorable constitution. How did he go about surmounting these obstacles? He secured the home front first, by going after the number 2. Once that was done, the rest fell in place. Anyone who seek to liberate Ndiigbo today, must first tackle the number 2, ie our current political jobbers and office holders. There is no two ways about this.
Igboland was balkanized for the first time in 1938 by Bernard Bourdillion, who took Western Igboland and joined to Lagos colony(SW) to form western region. So you see, Zik also had to deal with the issue of balkanization of Igboland. But he focused more on uniting us all under one political party and ideology under NCNC, working closely with Dennis Osadebey, and it was only a matter of time before we pulled Western Igbo out of Western region, and created a Midwestern region for them. If Nzeogwu and co didn't mess things up, it was also a matter of time before the East merged with Anioma. So you see, instead of crying over British cunning game of diving to conquer us, Zik wielded political solidarity as a veritable tool, to unify us and rendered the regional lines, redundant. This is what IPOB ought to be doing, and not crying over SS. If we have a unified political system and party totally controlled by Ndiigbo, manned by highly intellectually radicalized Igbos who are patriotic to the Pan Igbo agenda, holding atleast 90% of all elective posts in the entire Igbo speaking areas from Anioma to upland Igboid Rivers. I assure you the geo political boundaries would be the least of our headaches, they would be rendered redundant, and would naturally fall on their own.
Good ideas, but everything starts with getting involved in the political process of the SE, toppling our current crop of political jobbers who are comfortable with the current oppressive system and who are feeding fat off the current state of things, while the masses suffers. 11 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: . by ckenneths(m): 5:50pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Uru or Uhu exists in most Igbo towns. We have Uhuafor and Uhuagu in my town. 1 Like |
Re: . by ckenneths(m): 5:51pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Golf course estate, Enugu 8 Likes 1 Share
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Re: . by ckenneths(m): 5:52pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Golf estate Enugu 3 Likes
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Re: . by pazienza(m): 5:52pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
B2mario: Urueze. Eze's home. It means that the progenitor of that compound was a man by the name, EZE. All parts of Urueze are decendants of Eze's home/compound. Urueze in that case means Eze's family. 5 Likes |
Re: . by ckenneths(m): 5:54pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Sebastine Okoh is contesting to rule Delta state.........
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Re: . by ckenneths(m): 5:58pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
Igbo Ukwu, Anambra state 8 Likes 1 Share
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Re: . by pazienza(m): 5:58pm On Oct 02, 2018 |
B2mario: I still believe Uru/Uhu means home. See, language evolves. That's why we have synonyms. They also absorb foreign words. Uhu/Uru and Ogwa, are synonyms and Old Igbo words for home . Uhuala can mean a house that is at a lowland/valley/plain, as against others that are in a hilly place. Perhaps the people once lived in a hilly environment, but latter found a much level ground than their previous abode. And in appreciation, named the place, accordingly. 3 Likes |
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