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Re: Bill And Hillary Clinton On Why They Admire GEJ by AjoMmuo: 8:56pm On Jun 11, 2011 |
@Ezeuche you stated and I quote "The only Igbo groups that really had interactions with the Europeans were my own group, the Aro Igbo. But we still have our Igbo names". I do not know the time frame you had in mind when you made this assertion. Slave trade era? Nevertheless, that assertion is not entirely correct. What of Onitsha and Niger River bank? We all agree on the huge influence of the early catholic missionaries in Eastern Nigeria. Do you know the hub of catholicism in eastern Nigerian? Where do you have the only minor basilica in Nigeria? The answer is Onitsha not Arochukwu. Holy Trinity Cathedral Onitsha it is. Maybe a little history of the early catholic missionaries in eastern Nigeria will help you realize that Onitsha had early interactions with Europeans. Yes, we still have Krios in Onitsha but they are well integrated now. Surnames like Coker, Venn, Brown, Koldsweat,etc. I hope everybody still remember Franca Brown of the old NTA TV series Behind the Cloud. She is Onitsha. Larry Koldsweat of Nollywood is an Onitsha man of Krio descent. Onitsha just like Lagos was divided those days. You had the 'Enu Onitsha'-Inland Town, where the Onitsha natives lived and still live. 'Otu Onitsha' was mainly where the Krios and other non-onitsha Igbos settled. The fact that the Main Market is in 'Otu Onitsha' was due to the presence of the early Krios in Onitsha. The Krios in onitsha then were mainly merchants and traders in what we know today as the biggest market in West Africa- the Onitsha Main Market. |
Re: Bill And Hillary Clinton On Why They Admire GEJ by naijaking1: 11:30pm On Jun 11, 2011 |
I have a family member who went to Port Harcourt with my father in the early 1950/60s. His name was Joseph Ukachukwu, but during the war, he was unable to escape back to the Igbo mainland. He settled down somewhere between Rivers and Cross Rivers states. Today, his children have names like Jerry Joseph, Tony Joseph, etc, having dropped their father's original last name. This just shows that one has to dig deeper than people's last names in to know their backgrounds. |
Re: Bill And Hillary Clinton On Why They Admire GEJ by namdo(m): 12:04pm On Jun 13, 2011 |
so if i mess sef, una go discuss my mess for NL. chaiiii, na waaa. |
Re: Bill And Hillary Clinton On Why They Admire GEJ by otitokoro1: 3:27pm On Jun 13, 2011 |
Bill and Hillary Clinton admire Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for different reasons I wonder why Jonathan would have attended such a meeting. He should learn to delegate authority on all this American Idea to Discourage, Kilishi abi na clinton was trying to tell Jonathan that a serious President don't attend such gathering, |
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