XANDERBOY85:


Biafra is ‘gone for good’ yet you’re proscribing, murdering and having sleepless nights over their matter? Keep on lying to yourself!

I think, it is more of a mental problem for them, not even obsession.

Ishilove:

For breaking what rule?

He keeps banning my account and preventing our conversation and other things, like disrupting the thread with multiple moniker.

Ishilove:

Okay. How would you describe the Igbo speaking areas in the pre-colonial era?

Prior to colonialism, we were segmental, that is Aniocha, Ukwuani, Ika, Ikwere, Idemili, Orlu, Abiriba, Ohafia, Omanbala etc.

Post-colonial we became Igbo.

See the bolded below.

pazienza:


I had told you before that the monolithic Anambra you are trying too hard to create does not exist in reality.
And we have had discussion about this your "Omanbala" thing. Omanbala to my understanding is Anambra East and West and Oyi. That's Omanbala. I don't understand how you stretched Omanbala which is just those three LGAs, and maybe parts of Dunukofia and Ayamelum, to include Idemili, Aniocha, etc.

The Orumba and Ihiala (notice it's Ihiala and not Ifiani) all speak like their brothers in IMO state, they use "Were" (Welu) "Chere"(Chelu) , "Ha"(fa) "Uhu"(Uru), etc, instead of those in the brackets.
They use "Oha" too, rather than "Ora".

Anambra like all states is an artificial Nigerian creation, it simply doesn't exist in cultural Igboland.
You are no different from those Igbos in Rivers and Delta states who had allowed artificially created Nigerian entities post 1970 to become their new identity. You are only still claiming Igbo because your town is in South East, I bet people like would deny Igbo and claim your Omambala is now a new distinct ethnic group of its own if Anambra were not in SE.

We can't continue like this.

OMANBALA1:


This uniformity you are campaigning for is ruining our individual culture. Open your eyes and stop trying to force unity among people who aren't a unit. Igbo land is unique and for us to move forward we must carefully define ourselves and therein find elements we can use to cooperate. Igbo land can never be united under one ideology. To force this unity is to destroy people's cultures. For instance, Igbo Izugbe is a cancer eating deep into the ancient Omanbala culture... I see people from many Anambra towns writing "were" and "chere" instead of welu and chelu the typical Anambra person uses. Even a titled man like Victor Umeh wrote Ohamadike instead of their Aguluuzigbo variance ,Oramalu Dike. We must resist this corruption. I also urge Ndi Abia and Imo to stop using names like Chideraa, Ifeanyi, Oluchi etc...its eroding their culture.