IDENNAA:


Knowing that you are from Anambra makes me sad because you behave like a lost ffool. You don't have the slightest intelligence to deciphere who is who and the underground game the north is playing. The north doesn't need to plant a mole within you , they know with ddummies like you half of their job is done....lmao

And, stop beating drums of war, please. Your doom is that you are yet to under Igbo politics in contrast with Nigeria's.

@ help me tell the young man. He is living in one glorious ideal paradise. Point which idealist that has ever achieved anything meaningful.


The people who understands how things work are realist.


Achieve even put it in a more eloquent English that I can master...."The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace"


He is a realist and some kind of dumb idealist.

IDENNAA:



I didnt denigrate anybody but I will not stand by and watch some nonentities defame and ridicule the elegant and beautiful culture of Omanbala people. That will not happen. Lately, some people from southern Igbo areas have been working very hard at tarnishing the image of Nri. They want to divide Anambra buy squaring Awka vs Nri online squabbles and I will not let that happen. Anambra people practice a near homogeneous culture excluding towns like Umunze etc.

I hope you know that Omanbala isn’t the native spelling of Anambra.

IDENNAA:


Knowing that you are from Anambra makes me sad [/b]because you behave like a lost ffool. You don't have the slightest intelligence[b] to deciphere who is who and the underground game the north is playing. The north doesn't need to plant a mole within you , they know with ddummies like you half of their job is done....lmao

And, stop beating drums of war, please. Your doom is that you are yet to under Igbo politics in contrast with Nigeria's.

See my civiled Broda ohhh

Probz:


I hope you know that Omanbala isn’t the native spelling of Anambra.

What's your point ?
Cc. Probz

Omanambala:


What's your point ?
Cc. Probz

So you don’t need to erroneously use Omambala in place of Anambra to sound more like a true nwafor.

Omanambala:


What's your point ?
Cc. Probz

So you don’t need to erroneously use Omambala in place of Anambra to sound more like a super-duper Igbotic nwafor. It’s Anambra, not anything else.

Probz:


So you don’t need to erroneously use Omambala in place of Anambra to sound more like a super-duper Igbotic nwafor. It’s Anambra, not anything else.

The name Anambra was a corruption of Omanbala.

IDENNAA:


The name Anambra was a corruption of Omanbala.

You sure it wasn’t just derived from Anam river?

Probz:


You sure it wasn’t just derived from Anam river?

No , this is an open knowledge.

"There are several myths & mysteries surrounding Omambala which lead to different interpretations by many tribes and nationalities, hence the mispronounciation of Omambala as Anambra by the earlier European explorers."

IDENNAA:


No , this is an open knowledge.

"There are several myths & mysteries surrounding Omambala which lead to different interpretations by many tribes and nationalities, hence the mispronounciation of Omambala as Anambra by the earlier European explorers."

I think its actually from Anam-branch, later reduced to just Anambra.

pazienza:


I think its actually from Anam-branch, later reduced to just Anambra.

Exactly.

The name Anam-Branch would suggest that it was the Europeans who named the river, since 'branch' no be our language. This immediately raises two questions. One, does it mean the river had no native name before the Europeans came? If it had a native name, then what was it?

Second question, if the name was Anam-Branch, why is it that even the earliest European records from the 19th century still recorded the name of the river as Amambara or Anambara? The Europeans named it Anam-Branch and still corrupted the name by themselves in the same century? Highly implausible.

Also bear in mind that the river actually has its source in Igalaland, around Ankpa, from where it flows through Olamabolo, Igalamela/Odolu, Ibaji and finally through parts of Igboland before joining the Niger above Onitsha. And the Igala call it Omabolo or Imabolo, which is very clearly their own variation of the Igbo name Omambala. The Igbo who dwell in the valley of the river know that its name is Omambala and that Anambara/Anambra is an European corruption.

pazienza:


I think its actually from Anam-branch, later reduced to just Anambra.

Is there a colonial write up that made reference to this name, Anam-branch ?

ChinenyeN:
No. I won't do this nonsense back and forth with you. I don’t know why people like you, who don't know anything about Ngwa oral traditions, always feel entitled to debate the subject, but I’m not entertaining this foolishness.

..
Because Ngwa kept silent..and created a vacuum..
Just as south east gov. created a vacuum that caused IPOB to fill it with ESN..

What a Totally Stupid Thread. RedboneSmith what's the matter ? You can't find the pills to treat your mental illness ?

This RedboneSmith is totally stupid no wonder he has so few Threads of his own. I'm going to follow and comment to every single comment he has made on Nairaland , but I have to be careful it's not good to follow the insane closely, one could join their madness.

RedboneSmith:
I just remembered an Igbo-language book I read in secondary school. I do not remember the title, but I remember something strange I read in it.

When the old people in the story were saying their traditional prayers (ịgọ ọfọ), instead of the usual Iseee! response, they were responding with Ọfọ ọọọ!

My question now is, are there any Igbo-speaking group that uses a response that isn't Ise in traditional prayers or Ịgọ ọfọ?

By Igbo-speaking, I mean every group within the Igboid family, including Ikwere and Ekpeye.

Nonsense, the words of a Mentally Unstable Man. Many are Mad. Few are Roaming

ChinenyeN:
For the sake of your gods, SHUT UP already. You Igbo people are annoying.

Chai. I don tey this Ijaw woman was disguising.
Lol!
She was like hiding in plain sight.

ChinenyeN:
Ignorance. There isn't a single surviving community that speaks anything close to proto-Igbo, so how can you think you're any less "bastard" than we are? The height of hubris.

We even showed on this platform that it is "bastard" lects like ours that actually contribute the most towards reconstructing proto-Igbo. So does that not show that our lects are more authentic than yours? Foolishness. I personally don't believe that, but I'm using it as an example to paint a picture of how dumb your words sound.


Igbo people are so annoying when it comes to accepting the diversity of the region.

See yourself. In your arrogance, you came and regurgitated us migrating from Isu. Igbo historical research shows that Ngwa was settled way before the 15th century, which predates the Isuama migrations that you are even referencing. That aside, the actual oral tradition in the Ngwa-Mbaise area is nfulala, and we considered the Isu to be strangers. Honestly, just shut up now and stop talking about what you don’t know.

Eastlink, Bkkay, Ekealterago, make una come see o.

RedboneSmith:
The name Anam-Branch would suggest that it was the Europeans who named the river, since 'branch' no be our language. This immediately raises two questions. One, does it mean the river had no native name before the Europeans came? If it had a native name, then what was it?

Second question, if the name was Anam-Branch, why is it that even the earliest European records from the 19th century still recorded the name of the river as Amambara or Anambara? The Europeans named it Anam-Branch and still corrupted the name by themselves in the same century? Highly implausible.

Also bear in mind that the river actually has its source in Igalaland, around Ankpa, from where it flows through Olamabolo, Igalamela/Odolu, Ibaji and finally through parts of Igboland before joining the Niger above Onitsha. And the Igala call it Omabolo or Imabolo, which is very clearly their own variation of the Igbo name Omambala. The Igbo who dwell in the valley of the river know that its name is Omambala and that Anambara/Anambra is an European corruption.

RedboneSmith you are clearly an Authority Igbo culture can you tell us about Igbo culture from 1967 - 1970 ?

Igboid:


Eastlink, Bkkay, Ekealterago, make una come see o.

I have seen worse from ChinenyeN, the Ijaw individual.
The individual is constantly writing subtly against Igbo unity but champions Ijaw unity and exaggerate their influence. He is always armed with quotes from his favorite Fraudfessor.

Baddest0007:


Nonsense, the words of a Mentally Unstable Man. Many are Mad. Few are Roaming

redbonesmith wetin you do this babe ka wai!

I saw this and decided to post it here …

“Ise” as used in prayers is not related to the number five. That much is clear from comparative linguistics.

Also this thing about five original Igbo groups is without substance.