Achibyke:
Meaning of gwo gwo gwo gwo is the sound the elephant footsteps were making while walking fast to meet up.

s'oro niyen

AlfaSeltzer:


I get am before no be property.

that one dey

NwaliE01:

Like serious!!!

it's not that deep…
But what is Gwo gwo gwo ngwo?

phantom:


Na wa o! Sewer rats running all over the place! Nairaland used to be a place where intellectuals gathered to discuss enlightening and deep issues. Even the worst of us in the early days make the best of today look like dunces! 🤦🏾‍♂️

what is more intellectual than probing for facts

elipheleh:


Haaaa. Low self esteem will kill this SW tribe. Always trying to steal everything Igbo has.
Stole houses.
Stole food.
Stole lands. Edo owns Lagos.
Stole Nigerian election.
Stole Donald Duke childhood picture.
Stole people's skull for rituals.
Even steals from the graves.
Now stealing Igbo songs.

Land of thieves and low esteem mothafuckers

get away you, go and sell market

jumpandpas:


Taa! mechie onu nsi gi ebe ahu.

se ba puo

All this tortoise stories when I dey small

JAMO84:
What exactly is the meaning of gwo gwo gwo ngwo?

It's just onomatopoeic.

JAMO84:
What exactly is the meaning of gwo gwo gwo ngwo?

It is just onomatopoeic.

Smartcitizen:



Thanks so much and I believe we all are going to be smart citizens.

Then when it eventually happens, otilo, it will be game over to them. Polooticians.

elipheleh:


Haaaa. Low self esteem will kill this SW tribe. Always trying to steal everything Igbo has.
Stole houses.
Stole food.
Stole lands. Edo owns Lagos.
Stole Nigerian election.
Stole Donald Duke childhood picture.
Stole people's skull for rituals.
Even steals from the graves.
Now stealing Igbo songs.

Land of thieves and low esteem mothafuckers

Every tribe in Nigeria has its own stories and if you compare them together you would find many of it quite similar so it isn't about stealing Igbo songs

guidelight:

It is just onomatopoeic.

Ok, thanks

Warmaterial:
Moral lesson... never give up find a solution to that problem, nothing is impossible, think deeper change the modus operandi and adopt your own patterns and strategies.

This English no too much for a skit dance blown out of fun. No start any yeye motivational speech here abeg

Just goes to show, even the most seemingly innocent requests can have hidden agendas!

shortgun:
My great grand father, The Great Ikuku Mmuo used to tell us this story and many other stories when I was little.
He told me how africans were so close and inseparable with nature in time past that they communicated with the earth, animals, trees and all lived in harmony...
The white man came with corruption, greed, disunity,diseases, and their religion to create enemity between brothers who slept in the same womb of mother Africa.

I kid you not, even one particular British historian who was here during the colonial era alluded to what your great grand father said, and in his journal he wrote this:
" I think that it is possible that igboland's dibia were developing real skills---or sciences --- in sphere of what we would now call extra sensory perception. The imposition of colonial rule has basically put an end to these skills, and deflected Igbo intellectual energies into such 'modern' spheres as medicine or physics. It is possible that in doing so it cut off a real and original advance of human mind, and impoverished the total development of human knowledge"
--Isichei, A history of the Igbo people

Emperormartin:
There were many folklores in igboland...

These kind of folklores groomed the kind of story writers we later have to become recognized international standards.

Powerful story writers like Chinua Achebe, Cyprian ekwensi, Christopher okigbo, chimamanda Adichie, Buchi emecheta, Flora nwapa, Elechi Amadi et al were all groomed by these kind of folktales being told by there parents and grandparents and thus they became international acclaimed writers.

Mike ejeagha only carved his niche of the same folklore stories through his music.

Sadly, the folklore stories is eroding fastly in Igboland as cartoons and other children online programs has replaced it...

No wonder we now produce Dancers, musicians and actors at the expense of Story writers we were once acknowledged with

Elechi Amadi is not Igbo please

Emperormartin:
There were many folklores in igboland...

These kind of folklores groomed the kind of story writers we later have to become recognized international standards.

Powerful story writers like Chinua Achebe, Cyprian ekwensi, Christopher okigbo, chimamanda Adichie, Buchi emecheta, Flora nwapa, Elechi Amadi et al were all groomed by these kind of folktales being told by there parents and grandparents and thus they became international acclaimed writers.

Mike ejeagha only carved his niche of the same folklore stories through his music.

Sadly, the folklore stories is eroding fastly in Igboland as cartoons and other children online programs has replaced it...

No wonder we now produce Dancers, musicians and actors at the expense of Story writers we were once acknowledged with

I intend to write a comic in manga style set in a quasi modern time that would incorporate the Igbo folklore themes and characters and the Igbo Ọdinani. Hope to use it to revive our awareness and consciousness of who we are before things fell apart.

A very enlightened man...God bless you Chief

Gajagojo:


Actually it is not that Yoruba have theirs



This is a plagiarism call out and direct claim of cultural appropriation

Don't twist it

Simple question
Is there any where Ibos recorded this story and on what date?
Nothing wrong in saying you adapted a Yoruba story

But the theme of a tortoise deceiving an elephant into capture came from somewhere?

Show us any book where this story is recorded by an Ibo before now

Nonsense. You expect me to be dragged into this your childish argument? It's very clear now that you are pained. Bros go and rest. No one cares
Don't expect further response. This one will suffice. Have a nice day

pongwa:
it's not that deep…
But what is Gwo gwo gwo ngwo?

You need to understand the music before the gwo gwo gwo ngwo would make sense.

It was rhetorically implied in his story to mimic the steps of Elephant. It makes lots of sense if you understand Igbo language.

NwaliE01:


You need to understand the music before the gwo gwo gwo ngwo would make sense.

It was rhetorically implied in his story to mimic the steps of Elephant. It makes lots of sense if you understand Igbo language.

Don't bother to respond to these guys. They know you what they are doing. Trying to drag you into an argument about the Yorubas telling this story first

GorillaApp:

Nonsense. You expect me to be dragged into this your childish argument? It's very clear now that you are pained. Bros go and rest. No one cares
Don't expect further response. This one will suffice. Have a nice day

Emotions will change nothing
You can call it childish
Changes nothing

The theme
Tortoise deceiving elephant and leading him into captivity

My assertion is
It is worth doing a literature search to see where that theme came from

It is not likely to have been developed separately independently
It certainly moved
Either from A to B or

B to A
Or from C to A. and B

It might not even be Nigerian theme
The issue is honest objective inquiry not emotions
To the best of my knowledge it is well documented in Yoruba written material for decades
Even the late Sikiru Ayinde sang about it
So it is not new
It is a legitimate question to ask about the original source
Nothing childish besides your churlish response

Gajagojo:

Emotions will change nothing
You can call it childish
Changes nothing

The theme
Tortoise deceiving elephant and leading him into captivity

My assertion is
It is worth doing a literature search to see where that theme came from

It is not likely to have been developed separately independently
It certainly moved
Either from A to B or

B to A
Or from C to A. and B

It might not even be Nigerian theme
The issue is honest objective inquiry not emotions
To the best of my knowledge it is well documented in Yoruba written material for decades
Even the late Sikiru Ayinde sang about it
So it is not new
It is a legitimate question to ask about the original source
Nothing childish besides your churlish response

Good luck to you then. I have better things to do with my time then embarking on a dick measuring contest.

GorillaApp:

Good luck to you then. I have better things to do with my time then embarking on a dick measuring contest.

You are an idiot
What makes you think
I give a shit about you
Or your opinions

Gajagojo:

You are an idiot
What's makes you think
I give a shit about you
Or your opinions

This imp is pained.
Go sleep deluded mofo

GorillaApp:

This imp is pained.
Go sleep deluded mofo

You are an irrelevance

NwaliE01:


You need to understand the music before the gwo gwo gwo ngwo would make sense.

It was rhetorically implied in his story to mimic the steps of Elephant. It makes lots of sense if you understand Igbo language.

I'll look it up, thanks for the explanation

GorillaApp:

Good luck to you then. I have better things to do with my time then embarking on a dick measuring contest.

you are behaving childish here. There is no crime in wanting to know whose dick is bigger. It helps to know

shortgun:
My great grand father; The Great Ikuku Mmuo used to tell us this story and many other stories when I was little.
He told me how africans were so close and inseparable with nature in time past that they communicated with the earth, animals, trees and all lived in harmony...
The white man came with corruption, greed, disunity,diseases, and their religion to create enemity between brothers who slept in the same womb of mother Africa.

they lived in Harmony yet bini empire conquered half if south west Nigeria, yet Usman Dan fodio conquered northern Nigeria. African Kings literary sold their own people to Europeans and performed human sacrifices all over Africa 🙄