safarigirl:
This is what Wikipedia says of the term

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyibo

So can everyone now shut up and stop trying to make eediotic claims? It's a Nigerian term, shikena!

Aigbofa:


Is oga a yoruba term? The answer is yes. Yoruba came into contact with whites before ibos did, it makes no sense Yoruba would refer to the white man as oyinbo and ibos didn't.
Not satisfied with trying to claim our cities you also try to lay claims to our language! It's all good.

Aigbofa:


A Nigerian word of Yoruba origin just as there are Nigerian words of ibo, hausa, Edo, Ijaws origins.

Darkrebel666:
gotten from wordpress. Its something i have read before in the past so lemme share..

extract
Now, let’s examine the word, “Oyinbo”, which is supposed to refer to “(a) White Person/Caucasian/Non Black-African”. The etymology has never been agreed on, and even though a famous scholar once wrote that it is derived from “Oyin + bo” which roughly means “(Someone) peeled by the honeybee

get it?
it wasn't gotten from the complexion of the ibos or any of those balderdash up there..
the Yorubas simple used it in referring to light skinned people...Albinos, Europeans ...

Oyin means Honey
Bo means peel

together they mean - Oyinbo -

safarigirl:
yeah, you can get an Igbo explanation on wordpress too. If I typed it on wordpress, you'll mos def get it

It's on wiki too- along with the Igbo origin. So feel free to accept anyone that appeals to you, but do not debunk the other claim. I posted te wikipedia explanation on the previous page

Feel free to check it out. This argument is old

kaorama:
Oyinbo was rather a derogatory remark made by the early white slave merchants to refer to an Ibo slave. It was transliterated Onye Ibo which means Ibo man. The early Whit slave merchant could not hide their preference for Igbo slaves whom they saw as hardworking. To register that preference, the whites usually asked for Onye Ibo which they themselves mid pronounced as Oyinbo. I have researched widely on this and can prove the word has its root in the Igbo history.

mmsen:
The OP's 'explanation' is farcical to anyone with even a basic semblance of the migration of peoples.

Why would people who descend from southern or central Africa have 'white skin'?

White skin is a genetically useless trait - hence why it is a recessive trait.

Besides that there have been other stupids claims made in this thread that made me laugh.

Stay out of churches and visit the library - you might learn something.

safarigirl:
my friend use google and stop exposing your illiteracy here

The Niger Deltans (Benin) came across whites first, not Yorubas, so by your logic, it's the Bini and not the Yorubas that coined the term.

Oya, give us the etymology for Oga in Yoruba land cuz I heard UN is dashing money for every claim on a pidgin term

Justfollowit:


I will go with this

I disagree with the op's

Darkrebel666:


I debunked it cos it was false. My grandmother has told me these things before. I just don't have time or energy to explain

kaorama:
Oyinbo was rather a derogatory remark made by the early white slave merchants to refer to an Ibo slave. It was transliterated Onye Ibo which means Ibo man. The early Whit slave merchant could not hide their preference for Igbo slaves whom they saw as hardworking. To register that preference, the whites usually asked for Onye Ibo which they themselves mid pronounced as Oyinbo. I have researched widely on this and can prove the word has its root in the Igbo history.

GentleToks:


In response to the one u chose to believe.

The write up does not make sense from d beginning to the end. Why trying to alter what is unalterable? If slave merchants used Onye Ibo as derogatory remark in reference to hardworking Ibo slaves, how come the same derogatory words are being used against the same white slave merchants who used the same derogatory words on their slaves? It didn't even hard up in the first place. How could ""On""-ye Ibo be called Oyinbo?

As usual, you come up with this meaningless assertion to sell to d gullible ones to buy and funny enough, few have bought it already. Chaiii!!!!.......

How come there is no slavery book that has ever made reference to this Onye - Ibo? As at 13/03/2015, white people are still being called Oyinbo in Nigeria and they(the ones in the country) have never seen it as derogatory words.

Finally, my Family name is "FATOYINBO"(OYINBO) and this name was given to my progenitor cos of his xtremely fair in skin complexion (very fair in skin colour).

N.B Right from genesis, Igbos have always called white people Onye Ocha, how has Onye Ocha transcend to Oyinbo.

Aigbofa:


Now who is the illiterate? You can't even comprehend basic English. Yoruba came into contact before ibos did. How is that statement connected to when the Bini came into contact with whites?
Retard.

blacko:
This Igbo people don start when u don't even have a definite history this is common sense what is onye what is Igbo how do the two words relate with oyinbo?

redcliff:

but did you read it? Most times ftcs do not read the posts before commenting.

safarigirl:
I know you have comprehension problems.

The statement is connected because the Binis first came into contact with whites and interacted with them. So if we use your logic ie based on who met whites first, then the Binis should have original claim to the term before the Yorubas

Have you applied for the UN award yet? You guys make white people feel so special arguing about who came up with their pet name

Aigbofa:


This is not about making anyone special you are simply not making sense.
How come ibos did not originally refer to the whites as oyinbo?
And what did the Binis call the white folks? Olodo.

safarigirl:
my friend use google and stop exposing your illiteracy here

The Niger Deltans (Benin) came across whites first, not Yorubas, so by your logic, it's the Bini and not the Yorubas that coined the term.

Oya, give us the etymology for Oga in Yoruba land cuz I heard UN is dashing money for every claim on a pidgin term

kaorama:
Oyinbo was rather a derogatory remark made by the early white slave merchants to refer to an Ibo slave. It was transliterated Onye Ibo which means Ibo man. The early Whit slave merchant could not hide their preference for Igbo slaves whom they saw as hardworking. To register that preference, the whites usually asked for Onye Ibo which they themselves mid pronounced as Oyinbo. I have researched widely on this and can prove the word has its root in the Igbo history.

Justfollowit:


I will go with this

I disagree with the op's

SirShymexx:


Lool. Even Bokohalal and PhysicsQED will never say landlocked Bini came in contact with Europeans before Yorubas.

They always claims Itshekiris but Itsekiris are of Ijebu stock - so they are still somewhat right. Anyway, Yorubas (Ijebus) came in contact with Europeans before any other group in Nigeria. Ijebus were trading clothes with the Portuguese explorers as far back as the 12th or 13th century.

Aigbofa:


This is not about making anyone special you are simply not making sense.
How come ibos did not originally refer to the whites as oyinbo?
And what did the Binis call the white folks? Olodo.

SirShymexx:


Lol. You will go with the most illogical hypothesis out there, no?

Why would Yorubas even borrow the word from Igbos, when they had contacts with Europeans way before them? And isn't 'ibo' a recent construct? I thought you are Yoruba and I have a better understanding than you do, then you might be an impostor.

The topic has been overflogged anyway.

safarigirl:
the net says Bini.....but that's not the root of this silly argument

I've made my point previously. Both Igbos and Yorubas came up with oyibo, I hope we can now go to sleep and stop acting like white people asked us who came up with their pet name

safarigirl:
nobody borrowed the word. Both tribes were using it without the other knowing. That's pretty easy to digest

And I can't fathom how

Oyin- peeled
Bo- bleach

Would translate to peeled 'skin'...why not peeled 'bleach'?

kaorama:
Oyinbo was rather a derogatory remark made by the early white slave merchants to refer to an Ibo slave. It was transliterated Onye Ibo which means Ibo man. The early Whit slave merchant could not hide their preference for Igbo slaves whom they saw as hardworking. To register that preference, the whites usually asked for Onye Ibo which they themselves mid pronounced as Oyinbo. I have researched widely on this and can prove the word has its root in the Igbo history.