The word Biafra owes its origins from old Portogese maps detailing the now Bight of Guinea.

The original name of the Bight of Guinea was Bight of Mafra.

Mafra being a Portogese slaving port in present day Cameron that was named after the Portogese port city of Mafra which was a major rallying port for Portogese slavers.

Along the coastal areas of west Africa starting at present day Togo, the Portogese named their ports of calling after cities in Portugal.

So we have Porto Novo in Togo, Lagos in Eko , Escravos and Forcados in present day Delta, Marfra in Cameron, Malabu and Fernando Po in Equatorial Guinea

The original rendition n Portogese maps was Bight of Mafra and written in short hand as "Bi. Mafra" just as you will see "Isle" in place of Island.

Over the years it came to be known as Biafra . This may be as a result of other European sailing expeditions mistaken the area as Biafra since the maps may have degraded over the years and difficult to read and new reproductions based on the original Portogese maps rendered it as "Biafra" instead of "Bight of Mafra".

We could also explain this as not a mistake but a deliberate renaming by the British from the original Portogese rendition so as to deny any future claims of the area by Portugal. The scramble for Africa was going on at this time and so competiting European powers would rename areas that fell into their control.

The word Biafra had nothing to do with the Igbo language as postulated by that great ignorance peddling swill known as Radio Biafra. According to Radio Biafra , the word came from two Igbo words : " Bia" and "Fra" meaning come and go in the Igbo tongue. This is highly unlikely as the first use of the word was to designate the adjourning waters close to the Portogese port of Mafra in Cameron and for the obvious fact that the igbos were not known as a sea fearing people and their enclaves were far into the hinterland and never by the coastal areas.


The irony here is how Igbos named their nation after a major Slaving port in Portugal .

STFU
Does it matter.
They are probably trying to remind themselves of the slavery nigerians have subjected them to.

dem don start, igbo this igbos that, dem no go leave us alone yet dem sey we no dey important but dem no fit allow us drink water keep cup. you guys are obssessed with igbos

RevDesm0ndJuju:
The word Biafra owes its origins from old Portogese maps detailing the now Bight of Guinea.

The original name of the Bight of Guinea was Bight of Mafra.

Mafra being a Portogese slaving port in present day Cameron that was named after the Portogese port city of Mafra which was a major rallying port for Portogese slavers.

Along the coastal areas of west Africa starting at present day Togo, the Portogese named their ports of calling after cities in Portugal.

So we have Porto Novo in Togo, Lagos in Eko , Escravos and Forcados in present day Delta, Marfra in Cameron, Malabu and Fernando Po in Equatorial Guinea

The original rendition n Portogese maps was Bight of Mafra and written in short hand as "Bi. Mafra" just as you will see "Isle" in place of Island.

Over the years it came to be known as Biafra . This may be as a result of other European sailing expeditions mistaken the area as Biafra since the maps may have degraded over the years and difficult to read and new reproductions based on the original Portogese maps rendered it as "Biafra" instead of "Bight of Mafra".

We could also explain this as not a mistake but a deliberate renaming by the British from the original Portogese rendition so as to deny any future claims of the area by Portugal. The scramble for Africa was going on at this time and so competiting European powers would rename areas that fell into their control.

The word Biafra had nothing to do with the Igbo language as postulated by that great ignorance peddling swill known as Radio Biafra. According to Radio Biafra , the word came from two Igbo words : " Bia" and "Fra" meaning come and go in the Igbo tongue. This is highly unlikely as the first use of the word was to designate the adjourning waters close to the Portogese port of Mafra in Cameron and for the obvious fact that the igbos were not known as a sea fearing people and their enclaves were far into the hinterland and never by the coastal areas.


The irony here is how Igbos named their nation after a major Slaving port in Portugal .

Which of the state in lgbo land that speaks "Fra" as go by interpretation. Just want to know.

There is also Ebonyi , a state in the heart of the SE.

The word Ebonyi is from old Latin meaning "black wood".

Present day Ebonyi draws its name from the Ebonyi River that was originally named by Marrano Slavers who used the River to get access to their preferred slave markets boycotting the coastal middle men.

The Marrano Jews named the river after Ebonyi in mockery of their commodity which they referred to as black wood.

Black wood because of the nature their slave commodities were stacked on top each other and side by side in the hulls of their slaving vessels.

Pic below illustrates the reasoning why Jewish slavers referred to their human cargoes as black wood.

gidgiddy:
For anyone who calls himself a "proud Nigerian", I ask you this:

How can you be proud to answer a British colonial name created in London in 1897?

How can your national identity be an imported English name?


How can a British journalist be the person who named you?

For those who do not know, there was nothing called "Nigeria" until 1897 when a British journalist called Flora Shaw wrote a piece in the London times about the British protectorates of the "Niger Area" in west Africa. She then joined the two words "Niger" and "Area" and referred to the people who lived around the River Niger as "Nigerians". The colonial office in London then adopted this name

Nearly 130 years later, we are still running with this imposed shameful colonial name.

joe54:
STFU
Does it matter.
They are probably trying to remind themselves of the slavery nigerians have subjected them to.

after4:
dem don start, igbo this igbos that, dem no go leave us alone yet dem sey we no dey important but dem no fit allow us drink water keep cup. you guys are obssessed with igbos

joe54 and after4 have no problem with gidgiddy talking about the name Nigeria, but when Nigerians start talking about the name Biafra, then you will want Nigerians to leave you guys alone.

Una wan dey dish out what una no fit accept.

freetheking:
Which of the state in lgbo land that speaks "Fra" as go by interpretation. Just want to know.

Argue with Rabbi Kanustein

He was the one who peddled that lie that Biafra is derived from the Igbo language

joe54:
STFU
Does it matter.
They are probably trying to remind themselves of the slavery nigerians have subjected them to.

Marrano Jews own you.

Nigger.

d name suppose be Otobo wey mean village square in ibo. Otoboland and Otobos

Chaii.. Whether mafra or biafra, stay in your teritory because we don't care.

after4:
dem don start, igbo this igbos that, dem no go leave us alone yet dem sey we no dey important but dem no fit allow us drink water keep cup. you guys are obssessed with igbos

Who stop you?

Just saying that in the quest to restore your slave plantation nation you should stop claiming land and Jewish mockery as your nation name.


Kappish?

ObosiLandlord:






joe54 and after4 have no problem with gidgiddy talking about the name Nigeria, but when Nigerians start talking about the name Biafra, then you will want Nigerians to leave you guys alone.

Una wan dey dish out what una no fit accept.

They exist in an echo chamber .

Below is the so called alleged blasphemy by DEBORAH. Are we really in one country?

SULTANATE COUNCIL OF SOKOTO APOLOGIZES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR THE MURDER OF DEBORAH, STUDENT WHO SAID JESUS IS THE GREATEST AND JESUS MADE HER PASS HER EXAMS

It's unfortunate.

Her crime was that she said that Jesus was the greatest and that Jesus made her pass her exam.

That is what they call blasphemy.

It's not that she said anything against their religion.

She talked about her own religion and Christ.

It is now blasphemy for Christians to speak of their faith in this secular country called Nigeria.

Lanre Ayoola.

Ijoh:
Below is the so called alleged blasphemy by DEBORAH. Are we really in one country?

SULTANATE COUNCIL OF SOKOTO APOLOGIZES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR THE MURDER OF DEBORAH, STUDENT WHO SAID JESUS IS THE GREATEST AND JESUS MADE HER PASS HER EXAMS

It's unfortunate.

Her crime was that she said that Jesus was the greatest and that Jesus made her pass her exam.

That is what they call blasphemy.

It's not that she said anything against their religion.

She talked about her own religion and Christ.

It is now blasphemy for Christians to speak of their faith in this secular country called Nigeria.

Lanre Ayoola.

Which part of Allahu Akbar do you not understand ?


They think their moon goddess Aliat aka Lilth is the greatest and will behead any one who thinks contary.

The fact that their god is Adam's estranged first wife who vowed to destroy all the seeds of Adam and Eve, these Muslim goats wage war on the daughters of eve on behalf of a female deity .

Allah is aliat, the moon goddess of Arabia who is actually lilth .

Don't tell them but these goat fckers worship a woman

joe54:
STFU
Does it matter.
They are probably trying to remind themselves of the slavery nigerians have subjected them to.

OSU maximum copium

Conrod

joe54:
STFU
Does it matter.
They are probably trying to remind themselves of the slavery nigerians have subjected them to.

And you then name your Igbo OSU republic after a major Marrano Jewish slave port?

When you don't know where you are coming from how the hell do you know where you ate going?

Sunbow know your slave history