CodeTemplarr:
This issue pride in ones root is what started WW2 and is gradually triggering WW3. Who Ukwa help?

if e pain you choke your head under train make e crush am

Me I told a little child of around 10 years old that she will go to hell fire 😂if she doesn't speak Igbo because she was proudly telling me that her parents doesn't want her to speak Igbo only English... The thing vex me ennn,so I had to use their greatest mind tool "hell fire" to make her fear small 😃😃

csamii:
Biafra first then we move!

Igbo first before Biafra

heniford2:
Igbo's are now making serious moves to promote igbo language which I admire we need push it upper and upper

the writer of this post is the morden pioneer of promoting the Igbo language,and the first in Africa to write physics into native Language (Igbo)

Yesterday, I introduced ụkwa in our class discussion. The interesting thing was that, nobody was asking me the name in English, instead, they were trying to pronounce it correctly.

The course was discussing rich culture of the people. I said that our rich culture connects to food as well. In some part of Igbo land, ụkwa is seen as an exotic meal reserved for some class of individuals at events. Not everyone is privileged to eat ụkwa.

Immediately I said this, the professor asked I pronounce it again. I did.

I refused to call it breadfruit that most of our people are forcing it.

Call it what it's. Your food must not have English name just as their foods don't have Igbo names. What kind of kolomental is this?

Let me not digress.

Immediately I mentioned "ụkwa", I spelled it and watched the entire class jotting it down.

The Professor asked me how it's being prepared. I began to narrate. It was an interesting conversation.

I went to Google and brought this picture of cooked ụkwa to display before the class.

"It looks like a porridge."

"Yes, very delicious food."

The Prof asked what it tastes like before cooked with ingredients.

I told her that it's tasteless. But there are other ways one can eat it without cooking it like this. When sun-dried, you can fry it like the nuts, and eat it with akị.

"What is akị?"

"Akị means palm kernel."

"Ooooh.. interesting", the class echoed.

After the class, some classmates and others taking the class tried to engage me to know more about our local foods.

I paused!

Biodun556:



You have not mention any of the reason

Igbos are extremely proud of their culture and identity

The main reason is because Igbos don't have rich history as Hausas and Yorubas and that's why foreigners don't see the importance of learning Igbo language



Then few students apply to study Igbo in the universities.


Another thing is that number and wide distribution is important


Hausas and Yorubas are well distributed in Africa and they have large population


Igbos are small in number and not indigenous to many countries as Hausas especially

. And who told you Igbo are extremely poor in culture,we haven't started telling our history,if we do,the world will respect us to the core

It makes very sense to me that everyone in my department, both students and professors know about Igbo.~ Maazi Ogbonnaya Okoro

It makes more sense when I am synonymous to Igbo, to them.

Sometimes during class, a professor would ask me: "how is it done in Igbo land?"

I would start to explain, everyone would pay attention and in admiration of the rich culture.

It's also more interesting to know that the students I am teaching know more about Igbo and Africa. They no longer believe that Africa is a country, but a continent with 54 countries.

Both students and professors have been telling people about me and I keep meeting new friends everyday. Some get to extent of telling their children's teachers about me. The school administration would be inviting me to come tell pupils and students in 7th grades/ high school stories about Africa.

It's really really getting interesting, and this is just a second week of academic activities.

I came fully prepared. Everything is making sense to me now. Stories are flying. If they hear they'd tell another person, and the person would like to hear.

Just the left office of a Professor of Indigenous Studies now, who used map to show me the indigenous languages and cultures of America facing threat and the measures taken to revitalize and preserve them. I was telling him about the Igbo language and why I worked so hard to preserve enough literature for posterity. The way we interacted you'd think we have known for ages.

The power of originality!

I paused!


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RevDesm0ndJuju:
What most of you are not aware of is that western liberal arts are dominated by self hating white liberals who now promote cultures and languages of exotic people across the planet towards antagonising their own White European Culture.

These Western Liberal Arts establishment seek to promote exotic cultures that can stand their ground against white imperialism.

The focus is to promote languages and cultures that have a rich history for you can't study a language without studying the culture of the people and studying culture requires a delve into the history of that people.

Yoruba and Hausa are promoted because these two languages are from two great African civilisations.

The Ibo have none and so studying it will only expose Ibo precolonial society as one lacking substance and so further the colonial mandate to "tame those savages".

Ibo language is not studied just as much as no one has any interest to study the language of the primitive pygmy people in the Congo.

The Western Liberal Arts promotion of certain African languages alongside their culture and history is not motivated by an altrustic academic quest but rather meant to further demonize European Colonial past.

So these western liberal departments seek out those African societies that had a rich history and sophisticated civilization to promote.


That's the honest truth. Promoting Ibo language will only put Ibo pre colonial society under the microscope and if this is done will only bring about ridicule to Ibos.

It's Igbo and not ibo,what if I tell you that most of the writers students and proffessors are very interested to learn the Igbo culture from maazi ogbonnaya that the wouldn't want his classes to end

XerXers:

But our apprentice system started long ago which Harvard called the largest business incubator in the word are yet to be learnt by Yoruba and Hausa. We strengthen were we have advantage then we come to overthrow them where they used to have advantage before

I understand your point,were we are lacking is passing that same system to our children,some of us are even ashamed to teach our children our mothers tongue,that's the writers points..

XerXers:

But our apprentice system started long ago which Harvard called the largest business incubator in the word are yet to be learnt by Yoruba and Hausa. We strengthen were we have advantage then we come to overthrow them where they used to have advantage before

writer said the American are amazed at Igbo culture and Languge that the never heard about it before,our local food called ukwa was interesting to them,iji (yam) was brought to class and the day it for the first time and were very happy,I will bring the update on my next post

tundegan:
This one just shows the hatred in the heart of the writer. How can you be this bitter?

The writer is the first African to translate physics to African language (Igbo) his books is been used in Igbo land from primary to university,over 60books all in Igbo language,so what is bitter there,he is just stating the truth

naptu2:


https://plc.sas.upenn.edu/languages/igbo

What the Yoruba's and Hausa's started doing for the past 30years ,we just started doing it recently,that's a wake up call for us ndi igbo

SmartPolician:
Unfortunately, I didn't read to the end. Writing articles and publishing them online is totally pointless. If you see a problem and have the capacity to solve it, go ahead and do that. That's why we are all here. We should be a matter that matters, not just occupy space and add no value.

the writer is now a student in the US,he is going global spreading and teaching the white people about Igbo culture and languages and the are madly in love with it,their perception has begin to change

helinues:
May be it's time to question the word majority tribe

Majority tribe with no global recognition

don't bring tribalism into this post....in nigeria we have more than 450 language in Nigeria,helinues can you proudly speak your mothers tongue,this post is a wake up call to my dear Igbo brothers and sisters and not to cause any tribal war

WHY YORUBA AND HAUSA ARE TAUGHT IN US SCHOOLS BUT NO IGBO~ Maazi ogbonnaya

For many years in the past, I had been writing that Fulbright scholarship— US Government funded Yoruba and Hausa language teachers to teach Yoruba and Hausa language and culture in many US universities annually, but no Igbo.

A few years ago, the call for Yoruba and Hausa language teachers to go teach in the United States was up. I saw so many ndị Ìgbo crying of marginalization. Why only Yoruba and Hausa when Igbo is one of the major languages and culture? Some blamed US government and say it's marginalization. I saw those posts on Twitter and Facebook and shook my head. I knew the problem but wasn't yet in a better position to talk. I needed more facts.

For many years, I was applying to some courses in a few universities in the US on African Studies. It was compulsory to pick any African Language. I saw Nigeria, hoping to see Igbo. I saw Yoruba and Hausa. I began to write to the school but to no avail. The general language almost everyone in America recognizes to be African language is Swahili. Even a child in America knows there is Swahili. East Africans are pushing up their identities and language. So many American linguists are studying Swahili and even teach it.

Now! Listen! I am in a better position now to tell you the true nature of events and not the lies and abracadabra some of our people display online in the name of promoting and propagating Igbo language and culture in diaspora. Something that has no root. Surface level for media projection and personal self-beating.

I was engaging professors of Global Studies and Africanist scholars on Thursday. It was an intensive discussion, as, on my usual manner, I was crazily bold and inquisitive. I was saying everything boldly.

They said something that broke my heart and I was disappointed:

"Ogbonnaya, I am sorry to say that Americans don't know anything about Igbo language and culture. Don't get me wrong. We know Yoruba, Swahili and Hausa."

I began to talk about Chinụa Achebe's "Things For Apart" as basis of my argument. Achebe's Igbo.

"Chinụa Achebe's Things Fall Apart is an African literature written in English language. We see it as African culture and not Igbo. In academic world, the Igbo can just be quoted on research, after that nothing else. I am sorry, Americans don't know Igbo language and culture, just as I mentioned. Yoruba, Zulu, Swahili and Hausa are the languages of Africa, popular amongst the United States scholars"

Not that I didn't know all this. But I needed to hear from experts. Those in Global Studies carry out extensive research about all this. Government and other agencies could assess their research and reports.

Is it whose fault that Americans don't know anything about the Igbo language and culture? Ndị ọcha or ndị Ìgbo?

Is it some people who understand Africa to be a single country will know there is anything like Igbo, when you don't say what you are?

Will they give your language, a position, when there is no one showing any interest about it?

I love the Yorubas on this and give it to them. I doff my hat for them. No pun intended, it's a fact. The Yorubas are in all the faculty of African Studies across the world, pushing their culture and language. People are studying the Yoruba culture and languages. Yoruba kids will take their language as elective course in the university abroad. I truly love them for doing this. But our people will mock their own for studying the language and culture.

The Igbo man is the most hitted in this issue of colonialism. He completed lost himself and loves mimicking external culture as a superior culture to his inferior one. It started from primary and secondary school in Igbo land where teachers would flog you for speaking Igbo. It's vernacular. Speak only English.

When some heard I am now in the United States, studying Arts and Humanities, they came with their uselesss advice:

"There is no money in Arts and Humanities. You better find your way and look for STEM courses. The world has left Arts behind. I am advising you because I have been here for years before you."

Life starts and ends with money. This mundane thought is why their children would rather choose Swahili, German, French as language requirement over Igbo. They don't want their children to speak Igbo because it's primitive to them. But you will see them cry and complain of American government marginalizing them by granting the Yoruba and Hausa teachers the opportunity to lecture in most universities.

If America add Igbo language, who are the teachers going to teach in America? Goat? Cow? Chicken? Don't you know that these people go with data? Don't you know there were people who pushed for it, created contents and value that made their language to be accepted?

Just few months ago, some tried to bully me for rendering Fizikisi in igbo. So many debates took place. "Nobody will read it. He is just wasting his time. Who still reads Igbo."

This didn't come from outsiders. You know them. Even some so called Igbo scholars. If you don't take yourself serious, why should others take you serious?

From the report I got. A few schools that had crash courses in Igbo in the past had suspended it because of lack of interest of students. Most Igbo children in school here would rather pick other languages but Igbo. When they saw how Yoruba children eat their language, some would rather go for Yoruba. Like I said: I love the Yorubas when it comes to their language and culture. Imagine if that fizikisi was done in the Yoruba language...

We like playing on the gallery.

The question is: who are those ndị Ìgbo claiming to be propagating the Igbo language and culture abroad? Is it just a show off? Media show offs? Surface without root?

What our people in diaspora see as promoting Igbo culture and language is hiring a hall, get some yam, wear isiagụ and red cap and click back of their hands three times, then one at the front. They will dance: "Ike Pentecost." "Ndị ike ndị ike", "O nwere ngabasị". They spray money. Then post on Facebook. People will be jubilating that they are promoting the Igbo culture and language abroad. Ụwa hà ọzọ ha ga-abụ ndị Igbo. Is that all?

Remember, there is no serious symposium. The so called yam festival should have a serious symposium just as Ahịajịọkụ lecture of Owere those days. Their new yam festival abroad has no foreigners that matter as observers. I am talking about those in academic world or a university platform to back that up, then inculcate it into the educational research on the Igbo. It is a way to display the rich culture and get others interested.

It's just your community; perhaps you contributing money and hosting events to entertain your ego or show off. How many outside know about this? How many know about your culture? I am talking about institutions.

These things you feel they don't matter, matter a lot.

Each year, so many foreigners receive grant to travel to Tanzania and other East African countries to live there and study Swahili in a term. It's part of their academic work. Do you know why? Swahili told their stories. Swahili are proud of their identity. They love their culture and appreciate who they are. The Yoruba and Hausa are doing well in this regard. They do not forget their tongues. The only thing we remember about our culture is isiagụ, isiọdụm, red cap, hand-fan and walking about the camera as if we are doing beauty contest.

But a typical Igbo man sees no need for all this. It will not bring money. Who complain more? You know.

Eating yam in different parts of the world, wearing isiagụ up and down with Victor Ume's long cap doesn't make you a promoter of Igbo culture, when the owners the land you dwell aren't even carried along to observe your culture and notice you exist.

You can have all the money in the world, but if you don't have an identity or recognition, ị tọrọ atọ. I am going far. How about some Igbo think tank groups in Igbo land? Their meeting is a place to show off who is elite and who is not— a show of emptiness masked in flowery English.

Chimananda is doing her best, but she's in pop culture and literature. Achebe's works were recognized as African literature.

Yoruba and Swahili keep showing up, pushing their languages and cultures and taking over African studies. We only boast of being the most traveled. It should even be the more you travel, the more you table down your culture and language, pushing it in academic world. Mana onye ọbụla chọrọ ego ọkụ ọkụ. Some chọga grant. When they get the grant to do what will profit the Igbo language and culture, ha anarie with the money. You think they don't know all this.

I am writing this to upset and provoke thought. Nobody know your language because you don't even know it. Wearing isiagụ doesn't mean you are promoting Igbo culture. There is no culture without language. Some of the shows and gatherings are just for ego. Ndị nwe obodo no know anything about their culture. The ones transporting their culture and language are doing it quietly with one mind. Ndị be anyị bụ competition. I cannot do it, you should not do it.

For clarity sake, ala Igbo will bear me witness that I have done my part and my best. This truth must be told.

I was laughing when some asked me why is it that some Americans don't know about our yam and new yam festival and other culture despite our people's show offs and yam festivals. I told them the truth. Our people go just organize themselves in one hall, contribute money, wear isiagụ, decorate the place, dance, show offs, send pictures on the Internet. Noise everywhere —they have taken the culture to obodo oyibo. Mana ndị ọcha nwa amadịghị ìhè há na-eme. Something even the government should be funding and promoting. Something that should even be a curriculum of its own.

Next time you see them blame United States government through Fulbright scholarship for marginalizing the Igbo language, remind them of this post. Professors of Global Studies hid nothing from me and from my personal research and observations, it's true.

Most things our people do here in the name of promoting Igbo language are just for social media surface level, to entertain those back home; show classism, no root. How you lay your mat determine how people will lie on it.

UNESCO saw all this and predicted the extinction of Igbo language and culture; some people felt they were blabbing. The joke is on you.

I paused!

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spearman:
Ibo migrants in Edo gaslighted LP and voted for PDP because Yoruba man Asue's wife is Ibo and she had promised to "recapture" Igodomigodo for Biafra.

Ozor the current apc governors elect wife is she not Igbo? Mumu man

So na angel Gabriel the represent Yoruba people

Nairalanders don turn zombie finish, una no fit watch the video them sumarise wetin the priest the try pass,he said sometimes it is good to sing for your wife,it will make her blush and look young,be romantic to each other....but Una comments prove say una too dull and I wonder how una take pass jamb self with una coconut head

Jayhome24:
God bless you Rema. I'm proud of you as a true Benin boy not like those cursed useless animals called obidient Edo chapter who are so useless and contributed nothing to Edo than insulting the revered monarch Oba of Benin, insulting elders of the land to please a bastard that his drug dealing killed his father now claiming saint.

God bless you Rema and God bless all responsiblee Edolites and amadioha strike every Edo nonentity that belong to obidiet. Izeh!!!

and who told you that Rema is a Benin boy

Iamanoited:
GOVERNMENT MUST PROSCRIBE THE PROTEST.
LAGBAJA EGBETOKUN MUSA MUST BE READY TO DESTROY THE PROTEST TO ITS FOUNDATION.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH NO MORE SURREPTITIOUS BIAFRA PLOT. NO MORE BMFBOKOISWA. NO MORE PROTEST IN NIGERIA.

Mumu u can't cum without mentioning biafra

South Africans Begs as Nigerians have successfully created maximum Bolt surge in Cape Town and Johannesburg, rendering most South Africans stranded over unavailability and expensive rides.

MissKudoswrite:
Very funny but weird

so na true say u don't run mad

It was obvious DtigressNG
didn't stick to their game plan against France, but it payed off so well today 💪
Kudos to the whole team, but when you have Kalu, Amukamara and Musa running on that court, be sure that no peace for the opponent till the blast of the whistle

First ever African team (Men or Women) to play in #Olympics Quarter-Finals:

It's Nigeria! 🇳🇬

We the Igbo's are wiser now

TInubu must go!! Enough is Enough!!

lamentor78:
Please ask this idiot what will this protest bring or change at the end of the Day...... absolutely nothing.

I will only take this protest seriously if only a prominent figure is involved.

tinubu must go!

If Edo enter e don't set

Ndi Ofemanuu don start to disgrace us with drug sniffing just two days wey Olympic open