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What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by FreeStuffsNG: 11:01am On May 21 |
What I learnt from Yoruba land When I get into a new environment, I study the way of life of the residents, in order to understand how and why they do things. Whatever I consider admirable, I copy it. Whatever I don’t consider special, I don’t copy. https://punchng.com/what-i-learnt-from-yoruba-land/ 160 Likes 17 Shares
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Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by FreeStuffsNG: 11:01am On May 21 |
Even though I had spent two years in Ondo State as a child, it was when I arrived in Lagos during my post-university National Youth Service Corps scheme that I was mature enough to study the way of life of the Yoruba people. When I get into a new environment, I study the way of life of the residents, in order to understand how and why they do things. Whatever I consider admirable, I copy it. Whatever I don’t consider special, I don’t copy. This is the responsibility of everyone and it is taught from the home and beaten into your ears in most Yoruba families. If you're outside Yorubaland, the counsel of your parents and family will be ringing like a bell in your ears so you constantly remember that they are waiting for you at home. You just want to mind your business and appreciate your host. We are very very careful not to get involved in the local politics of our hosts outside our region in the country. There's a reason why. Our progressive approach to politics and governance is completely different so there's no point getting involved in the politics of your host who are not familiar with your kind of progressive politics. If you want to do politics, come back home to your Yorubaland and do your progressive politics. Btw, at Yoruba events, we love to share branded souvenirs and wear prescribed colour of wears and/or aso ebi too. That's a Yoruba event signature too with the plenty music and food , some non-Yoruba think that we are being wasteful but don't understand that we do these to preserve the memories of momentous events. This is a brilliant write up by Azuka. I have always loved his column. I remember his column protesting how people write their home address by inserting comma after the number in a wrong way. Thank you Azuka. May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs! 109 Likes 14 Shares
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Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by gidgiddy: 11:06am On May 21 |
Yorubas and Igbos are as different as night and day, and that's why the British made a big mistake of putting both ethnic groups in one country Yorubas and Igbos should have been in different countries 173 Likes 13 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Toosure70: 11:09am On May 21 |
Hmmmm, run o, the senseless attackers are coming your flat head, abi you come head inside that your flat head ni? 13 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Armaggedon: 11:13am On May 21 |
They take life easy by using their people's body parts for ritual but when an Igbo man prospers more than them they begin to envy him. They show off the most by doing owambe at any slightest meeting but when an Igbo sprays money, they are thrown into mass envy, questioning his wealth and tagging EFCC again him. The most ethnic minded people I've come across, yet they do not love one another. The fiercest celebrity rivalry and spat usually happen amongst them. The biggest farmers of hate and injustice. Whoever is unpopular among his people becomes their closest ally and whoever is born among them learns to hate his people until he grows up to meet his people and learns the truth. 66 Likes 13 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Armaggedon: 11:13am On May 21 |
Nyamiriflathed:someone who calls himself nyamiriflathed is reporting me lol. 25 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Bulldozer90: 11:14am On May 21 |
Lol 1 Like |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by BossGerald: 11:23am On May 21 |
Freestuffng were ya nwayoo 😂 Nigerians were living in harmony until tinubu/buhari/Apc happened at the national politics. There're the goods and the bads in every tribe and place, one man's opinion is not enough for your self aggrandisement. We still remember what Apc hooligans did to non Yoruba voters in the last election 45 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by killsmith(f): 11:30am On May 21 |
Freestuffs hope you're now able to afford a pressing iron now your uncle is president? 33 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by RaySimran: 1:10pm On May 21 |
A distorted comparison mixed with blunt ignorance. Your article should've been accurate if the focus was mainly to beautify us (who are foreigners to these environment) with Yorubas' unique artributes and not what's lacking in other tribe who has an entire different idealogy. God bless Nigeria. 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by adekolaelect(m): 1:11pm On May 21 |
Armaggedon:to ho is this? 87 Likes 5 Shares
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Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by NyamiriFlathead(m): 1:15pm On May 21 |
Never compare darkness to light... Those people from that land are backward in everything 64 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Sultanofpiglets: 1:15pm On May 21 |
When you see their posts... You know.. 23 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by EmiloCorn: 1:44pm On May 21 |
BossGerald: Do you have any concrete evidence of this? ![]() jmoore: Ohhh, you mean the TIE & THROWAY inside GARRI BAG type of burial? ![]() gtown: Yes I know, you just go to any food market like the one in Iddo, go to beans section, price or beg for like one empty beans rafia bag and buy for your relatives burial ![]() Very cheap and dirty but straightforward. I love it ![]() 7 Likes |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by ASAPFERG: 1:52pm On May 21 |
God bless yorubas. ![]() God punish the other tribe ![]() 66 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by jmoore(m): 1:56pm On May 21 |
Summary: No culture is better than the other. 21 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Antivirus92(m): 1:57pm On May 21 |
FreeStuffsNG:rubbish, Azuka can choose to copy or behave anyhow he likes but should leave igbo out of his madness. Culture varies, orientation varies. What works for Yorubas may not work for the igbos and vice versa. Trying to promote one above the other is rubbish. Many Igbo business men will spit on you if u tell them to come and sit down idly drinking beers and gossiping. It's not in their nature and it's working for them. Azuka should shove his ideas down his as.s 20 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by BigBlackPreek(m): 1:58pm On May 21 |
Yoruba lagba 🦹 28 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by EmeeNaka: 1:59pm On May 21 |
This post is not useful. 9 Likes |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by jmoore(m): 2:00pm On May 21 |
If he travels to northerner muslim part, he will like to copy their burial too. No casket. 6 Likes |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Nyamiriflathed: 2:06pm On May 21 |
Nice 1 Like |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Goodlyhrt(m): 2:14pm On May 21 |
Don't you think that the "OVER" activity of the Igbo group as you said is more beneficial economically? By this, all the economic sectors are always busy with one activity or the other all year round. And you are wrong that the Igbos don't go on vacations. As the Xmas period is widely known in Nigeria as the Igbo holiday period where they troupe home en mass to celebrate the yule with family. A better article should have highlighted the different cultural idealogies of the two groups to somehow make the reader understand and appreciate the two cultures not to advice a particular group to discard their harmless way of life. Poor article 25 Likes |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by LexngtonSteele: 2:15pm On May 21 |
Never seen a Yoruba man write essay on SE. SW is USA to this guys. One poto×poto guy told me he became 10x more successful in screwing yamleggies by claiming he was Femi. He became 100x more successful when he lied he would take the gals to Lagos. ![]() 24 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by LexngtonSteele: 2:16pm On May 21 |
Nyamiriflathed: Don't even bother calling MODs. It's open season. Do me I do you. One of them had been stupid all through my ban, writing nonsense and getting 200likes on FP and the Mods will look away... Na him mama I finish last night. Don't bother reporting. Fight fire with fire. 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Nyamiriflathed: 2:20pm On May 21 |
LexngtonSteele:Problem is that if we do bigotry for bigotry, they are now dishing out 6 weeks ban mostly to Yoruba posters. I got 6 weeks ban in the past for calling someone IPOB terrorist after he wished violence in the SW. Got another one in the past for calling someone Igbo after the poster used the word cone head. Guess what, the guy was not banned. 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by LexngtonSteele: 2:21pm On May 21 |
Nyamiriflathed: 6 weeks is good. My own na 6 months to 9. And yes their Mods leave their offensive posts.often on the FP 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Nyamiriflathed: 2:22pm On May 21 |
LexngtonSteele:😂 1 Like |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by MANNABBQGRILLS: 3:02pm On May 21 |
This is a very good piece. Interesting to read. For emphasis sake, Here we go.... IGBO/BIAFRA VS TINUBU/YORUBA: TOLERANCE BECOMING A CRIME By Dr Chinedu Akabuike 1. Why do we hate Tinubu? What for? 2. Tinubu never worked with federal or Eastern Nigeria let alone stealing money from Ndi Igbo. He never worked as Minister or taken any Federal Appointment! 3. He never joined APGA let alone sabotaging our Party's interest? 4. Tinubu didn't meddle in Igbo internal affairs either! 5. Why do we call him thief? What did he steal? 6. We call Yoruba "slaves". We never reflect on what it means to be slaves in the true sense of the word. 7. We are putting mouth in Lagos politics without caution, yet we have a proverb that says it is the foolish housefly that follows the corpse into the grave. 8. Can Yoruba man become an Association or Local Government Chairman in the East? Let us be sincere with ourselves. Yet, we enjoy all these privileges here including Assembly Membership! 9. Why asking for what we can't give? 10. We are here helping the "slaves" to develop their land. Who then is a slave? 10b. You call their city a no man's land so that we can further be enslaved slaving to develop it, and our generations are wasted gloating over mere privileges. Who is a slave? Do we actually think? 11. Can Yoruba tell Okorocha "o to gee" in Owerri? He doesn't even need it. He is too intelligent to die for a pot of ofe manu or nothing. 12. After the civil war, for many of us who were old enough to have witnessed it, the Yoruba were the first to open their arms to receive and accept us as we were, crude savages in search for means of survival. It was regardless of what we equally did to them before and during the civil war. No party to the civil war was innocent! I also remember not paying any rent among Yoruba guys without a penny for my first 3years in Lagos and another 2 years in Ibadan. 13. Can we survive Yoruba attack in Yoruba land if they actually mean to? Will an Mbaise man cooperate with the Nsukka or Afikpo, or the Imo with Anambara? 14. If we all decide to relocate at once, Babangida send me home phenomena is still in the memory of some of us who survived the incessant and uncontrollable spate of robbery across the Onitsha bridge. How many people will want to go in spite of our empty pride? 15. If Yoruba people are as foolish as we foolishly think, why agitating? How will agitating be to our benefit? 16. Why not "O to gee" in Abia, Enugu or Owerri? 17. Can a man from Aba become a Commissioner or Perm.Sec. in Enugu State Civil Service? Yet it happened here! Why not be careful. 18. We adopted APGA and but "wisely" voted PDP. How was Tinubu our headache. Was he the cause of our downfall? Why always blame others for our inabilities and want to take glory for any small thing we think we have done well and even overblow it? 19. We claim we were so creative during the civil war. Now history. We also claim every made in Nigeria is from Aba. But go to Oyo and Osogbo to see what "lazy" mechanics are doing quietly in the automobile industry, yet we make noise that other ethnics are either mumu or lazy except we (alagbara ma mero baba ole; the most hardworking humans who cannot develop their own land unfortunately). 20. Why looking for avoidable problem? Why? 21. It was you in the North being attacked, in Malaysia being killed, in Gabon and Ghana being molested. 99.9% of Nigerians killed in South Africa are of Igbo extraction, and sometimes by fellow 'hardworking' Igbo. Why? 22. We choose Kanu and he dictates to us without consultation with any one of us. They choose Tinubu who becomes a hero among them by bowing to or adopting the choice of their majority. Why are we angry? We chose Azikwe and they chose Awolowo. How are they more mumuish followers than ourselves? Zik became a President and we gained from it, Awo was only a Premier, but we are only struggling to beat their records in all ramifications including education till today. How are they mumus? We chose APGA and they chose APC, why agitating? Yoruba are yet to say Tinubu is their problem why do we want to die for nothing? Why working in APGA but planning to collect salaries in APC? I pray for the success of Biafra, but do we still remember that as Igbo we will automatically become foreigners on the streets of the Lagos we call a no Man's land? How many of us will actually want to relocate home, should Biafra actualises or if citizenship is on the condition that you relinquish all other citizenship in Africa? I leave that answer to the individual. Nwayo nwayo biko unu. 22 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by Christistruth00: 3:10pm On May 21 |
gidgiddy: It was because the British knew exactly what they were doing that they deliberately put them in different Regions 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by WizardOfNG: 3:31pm On May 21 |
jmoore: Not true. You are just saying this to be politically correct or to fraudulently exalt the culture of your ethnic group when it is undeserving compared to others. Yoruba culture is far superior and more sophisticated in comparison to Igbo culture. Look no further than the one example of how there is no culture of discrimination against the female child in a Yoruba community or household. Compare to Igbo culture where, till today, a female eldest child, ostensibly because she is inferior to male siblings younger than her, cannot inherit the estate of her father. Intelligent men dont talk for the sake of it. They try to ensure what they say make sense and/or can stand the test of factual and intellectual scrutiny. This is one example alone I give yet many more exist, such as the Yorubas universally acclaimed respect for elders, to show Yoruba culture is vastly superior to that of Igbos even if you wish to delude yourself it is otherwise. I dont expect different from you though because it is not in the nature of Igbos to give credit where due to then learn from others to become better. Instead Igbos are automatically envious of and threathened by those they percieve as better to then be obsessed with badmouthing and running them down or comparing d1cks wtih them constantly. 13 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: What I Learnt From Yoruba Land - Azuka Onwuka by gidgiddy: 3:32pm On May 21 |
Christistruth00: Igbos and Yorubas should never have been in the same country together, it was a disastrous mistake by the British. It had created a situation where both tribes will be politically fighting each forever But God will be merciful one day and divide both tribes into different countries of their own, there will be nothing to fight about any more, and everyone can finally rest from this disastrous British colonial contraption called Nigeria 6 Likes |
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