Meet Ceasar, of the Maasai Mara. He is one of the famous five sons of Notch, the greatest lion to have ever lived

http://greatestlionintheworld..co.ke/2015/11/kenyas-notch-greatest-lion-in-world.html

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The Swahili language, is basically of Bantu (African) origin. It has borrowed words from other languages such as Arabic probably as a result of the Swahili people using the Quran written in Arabic for spiritual guidance as Muslims. As regards the formation of the Swahili culture and language, some scholars attribute these phenomena to the intercourse of African and Asiatic people on the coast of East Africa. The word "Swahili" was used by early Arab visitors to the coast and it means "the coast". Ultimately it came to be applied to the people and the language. Regarding the history of the Swahili language, the older view linked to the colonial time asserts that the Swahili language originates from Arabs and Persians who moved to the East African coast. Given the fact that only the vocabulary can be associated with these groups but the syntax or grammar of the language is Bantu, this argument has been almost forgotten. It is well known that any language that has to grow and expand its territories ought to absorb some vocabulary from other languages in its way.
A suggestion has been made that Swahili is an old language. The earliest known document recounting the past situation on the East African coast written in the 2nd century AD (in Greek language by anonymous author at Alexandria in Egypt and it is called the Periplus of Erythrean Sea) says that merchants visiting the East African coast at that time from Southern Arabia, used to speak with the natives in their local language and they intermarried with them. Those that suggest that Swahili is an old language point to this early source for the possible antiquity of the Swahili language.

It is an undeniable truth that Arab and Persian cultures had the greatest influence on the Swahili culture and the Swahili language. To demonstrate the contribution of each culture into the Swahili language, take an example of the numbers as they are spoken in Swahili. "moja" = one, "mbili" = two, "tatu" = three, "nne" = four, "tano" = five, "nane" = eight, "kumi" = ten, are all of Bantu origin. On the other hand there is "sita" = six, "saba" = seven and "tisa" = nine, that are borrowed from Arabic. The Arabic word "tisa" actually replaced the Bantu word "kenda" for "nine". In some cases the word "kenda" is still used. The Swahili words, "chai" = tea, "achari" = pickle, "serikali" = government, "diwani" = councillor, "sheha" = village councillor, are some of the words borrowed from Persian bearing testimony to the older connections with Persian merchants.
The Swahili language also absorbed words from the Portuguese who controlled the Swahili coastal towns (c. 1500-1700AD). Some of the words that the Swahili language absorbed from the Portuguese include "leso" (handkerchief), "meza" (table), "gereza" (prison), "pesa" ('peso', money), etc.
The Swahili language also borrowed some words from languages of the later colonial powers on the East African coast - English (British) and German. Swahilized English words include "baiskeli" (bicycle), "basi" (bus), "penseli" (pencil), "mashine" (machine), "koti" (coat), etc. The Swahilized German words include "shule" for school and "hela" for a German coin

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Swahili language is also making its presence in the art world - in songs, theatres, movies and television programs. For example, the lyrics for the song titled "Liberian girl" by Michael Jackson has Swahili phrases: "Nakupenda pia, nakutaka pia, mpenzi we!" (I love you, and I want you, my dear!). The well-celebrated Disney movie, "The Lion King" features several Swahili words, for example "simba" (lion), "rafiki" (friend), as the names of the characters. The Swahili phrase "hakuna matata" (No troubles or no problems) was also used in that movie

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Swahili Arabic script on a carved wooden door (open) at Lamu in Kenya

It's a problem free philosophy Hakuna Matata!

Swahili Arabic script on wooden door in Fort Jesus, Mombasa in Kenya

Swahili Arabic script on a one-pysar coin from Zanzibar circa 1882 (written as 1299 AH on the coin)

Jelomy:
Please what is the meaning of the colored statement?

https://www.nairaland.com/2015869/agony-igbos-benue

Kenya breathtaking

There are about 15 main Swahili dialects, as well as several pidgin forms in use. The three most important dialects are kiUnguja (or Kiunguja), spoken on Zanzibar and in the mainland areas of Tanzania; kiMvita (or Kimvita), spoken in Mombasa and other areas of Kenya; and kiAmu (or Kiamu), spoken on the island of Lamu and adjoining parts of the coast.
Swahili is characteristically Bantu in its grammar, and it has a large vocabulary of word roots traceable to a common Bantu stock. Swahili nouns are divided into classes on the basis of their singular and plural prefixes; prefixes are also used to bring verbs, adjectives, and demonstrative and possessive forms into agreement with the subject of a sentence. Thus, in a sentence with wa-tu, “people” (singular m-tu, “person”), all the words begin with the w-/wa- prefix; e.g., wa-tu w-etu wa-le wa-kubwa wa-mekuja: “those big people of ours have come.” Verb stems may be extended by means of varying suffixes, each one with its particular nuance of meaning; e.g., funga (“shut”), fungwa (“be shut”), fungika (“become shut”), fungia (“shut for”), fungisha (“cause to shut”), and so on.
Thanks to east Africa’s long history of contact with the Arab-speaking world, the Swahili language contains an enormous number of words borrowed from Arabic. Among these loanwords is the word “Swahili” itself, which comes from an Arabic word that literally translates to “of the coast.”Most of the loanwords taken from Arabic deal with areas such as business, trade and religion. Although most of these Arab language loanwords still exist in the Swahili language, English has come to replace Arabic as the primary source for borrowed words in the Swahili language.

The Lord's Prayer in Swahili
Baba Yetu uliye mbinguni, Our Father in heaven,
Jina lako litukuzwe; hallowed be your name,
Ufalme wako ufike, your kingdom come,
Utakalo lifanyike your will be done,
Duniani kama mbinguni. on earth as in heaven.
Utupe leo mkate wetu wa kila siku, Give us today our daily bread
Utusamehe makosa yetu, Forgive us our sins
Kama nasi tunavyowasamehe waliotukosea. as we forgive those who sin against us.
Usitutie katika kishawishi, Save us from the time of trial
Lakini utuopoe maovuni. and deliver us from evil.
Kwa kuwa ufalme ni wako, na nguvu, na utukufu, hata milele. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yoursnow and for ever.
Amina. Amen

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PissedYagami:
Swahili language is also making its presence in the art world - in songs, theatres, movies and television programs. For example, the lyrics for the song titled "Liberian girl" by Michael Jackson has Swahili phrases: "Nakupenda pia, nakutaka pia, mpenzi we!" (I love you, and I want you, my dear!). The well-celebrated Disney movie, "The Lion King" features several Swahili words, for example "simba" (lion), "rafiki" (friend), as the names of the characters. The Swahili phrase "hakuna matata" (No troubles or no problems) was also used in that movie

Not to forget "Shenzi".

Found this Norwegian guy on some site. His Swahili is very good. Shows that Swahili is a popular language around the world. And I am sure Pavore and Naijalander can understand some Swahili

Swahili map

Muafrika2:

Not to forget "Shenzi".

Asante sana Squash banana, wewe NDUGU mimi hapana”
In the movie, Rafiki also chants that. Though it is broken, it is Swahili.
Swahili 10-0 Pidgin

The African American holiday Kwanzaa is rooted in two Swahili words kwanza (first) and –zaa (to bear fruit). The popular game Jenga is derived from the Swahili verb –jenga meaning to build. The Swahili word safari has also become an internationally used term to refer to a journey. These examples are only a few among the many ways Swahili is manifested throughout the world.

PissedYagami:

Asante sana Squash banana, wewe NDUGU mimi hapana”
In the movie, Rafiki also chants that. Though it is broken, it is Swahili.
Swahili 10-0 Pidgin

PissedYagami:
Found this Norwegian guy on some site. His Swahili is very good. Shows that Swahili is a popular language around the world. And I am sure Pavore and Naijalander can understand some Swahili

Swahili map

After hearing Naijalander and some other guy, I have decided to speak in serious sheng if I ever want to back bite a Nigerian in their presence

vicenzo:


I see you have been feeding off Yoruba propaganda.
1. So? There were non Igbos amongst the coup plotters too?

2. What's the relevant Of this question to the question of innocence of Ndiigbo?

3.This one is straight off Yoruba propaganda. The entire country initially celebrated the success of the coup, including Igbos.
No, no Igbo musician composed any such song. The composer of that song was a Cameroonian with Ijaw mother, and it wasn't about Fulanis.

4. It simply means that the Nigerian soldiers were incompetent and despite superior unlimited fire arms supplied to them by the British, the under armed Biafran soldiers still killed them in mass, and the incompetent Nigerian soldiers took out their frustrations on innocent unarmed Biafran citizens.

5- Millions of Biafrans also died because Nigerian Egyptian mercenaries were bombing market places in Biafra filled with women and Children, they were also bombing hospitals: https://www.nairaland.com/1876613/nigerian-federal-warplanes-bomb-residential

When if you agree that starvation is a legitimate weapon of warfare, then don't turn around expecting hand of friendship with people you exerted such wicked policy on. Don't assume they will forget it all and happily move on to build your failed nation with you. Always have it at the back of your mind, that they will never see you as brothers ever again,cos you were never their brothers, and would continue till eternity to seek separate existence from you.
Japan is not co existing as same nation with USA, neither is Germany coexisting as same nation with Israel. Boundaries had ensured those wronged healed and were able to forgive those who wronged them
and that both parties moved on. Same will do for Biafra and Nigeria.

6- I don't understand this part of your post.

7- Zik never did such. By the way, I wonder what you mean by the word " dominate".
8- You were really well fed with Yoruboid junks. Onitsha has no such meaning.

9- You simply have little or no knowledge of the events predating the foundation of Biafra, and as such had demonstrated poor judgement, conclusion and understanding of events.
Infact, as this juncture, I'd advise you go on a proper research on issues surrounding Biafra and stop feeding on Yoruboid faeces as sources.
Julius Nyerere was an African figure that was widely respected, you can read his take on the Biafran issue here:https://www.nairaland.com/2318977/biafran-struggle-through-eyes-julius

I'm not an expert;never said I was. I do know much of the narrative is false!
There are it seems at least two near identical meanings of Onitsha;

apparently the people of Onitsha were prone to "look down" upon the people of the towns adjacent to them. 'Onicha' may be a contraction of either 'Ọnịsịlị-ncha', meaning 'too headstrong [to be disciplined]'; Ọnyịsịlị-ncha, 'too headstrong [for everyone]';

http://okekechuks..co.ke/2012/12/the-history-of-onitsha.html

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Indeed the name of one of their most prominent settlements, Onitsha, is said to be derived from Onini (to despise) and Ncha (others), meaning "one who despises others." Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, former Nigerian president and Igbo leader, even described the attitude as supercilious.

Speaking of the famine which killed almost 3 mn it now appears Ojukwu himself is largely if not wholly culpable.

His own US PR man revealed this during the war when he resigned in frustration.
Robert S. Goldstein, an American and Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the USA, accused the late Ojukwu of using ‘ starving hordes as hostages to negotiate a victory in the war.

His letter of resignation, which was first published by the defunct Morning Post on August 17, 1968, resurfaced in the wake of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s damning condemnation of the role of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo during the war, especially the blockage of food to the rebels.

Goldstein, in the letter, recalled various efforts he made to swing public opinion in Europe and the USA in favour of the defunct Biafra and the subsequent recognition of such countries like Gabon,Tanzania, Zambia, Ivory Coast and Haiti until Ojukwu began to undermine those achievements by “hoping to use these unfortunates with world sympathy on their side as a tool to further your ambition to achieve war concessions at the upcoming peace talks in Addis Ababa.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/revealed-how-ojukwu-rejected-food-aid-for-starving-biafrans/

Didn't he leave fighters at the front to surrender or die while he flew off to comfortable exile in Gabon? Some say there were several limos in the aircraft he escaped in.

IDK if this is true but it purports to show how Igbos in the North celebrated the murder of N leaders during the first coup.



Despite such unwise behaviour nothing happened to Igbos til the 1966 counter coup a year later. Also did non Igbos in Biafra go along with secession? What did Ijaws and Ibibios think? Was there a referendum or at the very least an opinion poll to gather their thoughts on the secession of their homeland?

"Until now efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of the central government of Nigeria to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now - and starvation is the grim reaper. This is not the time to stand on ceremony, or to go through channels or to observe the diplomatic niceties, The destruction of an entire people is an immoral objective even in the most moral of wars. It can never be justified; it can never be condoned."
Mr. Richard Nixon, September 9, 1968- During the Presidential Campaign.


"Federal troops, killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Warri, Sapele, Agbor, "
New York Times, 10th January, 1968.


".It’s (mass starvation) is a legitimate aspect of war, " Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian Commissioner for Information at a press conference in (New York, July 1968)
"Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we have every intention of using it against the rebels, "
Mr Alison Ayida, Head of Nigerian Delegation, Niamey Peace Talks, Republic of Niger, July 1968) "


All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder."
Chief Obafemi Awolowo (Nigerian Minister of Finance, July 28th 1969) " ,


The Igbos must be considerably reduced in number" (Lagos Policeman quoted in New York Review, 21 December, 1967)
One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards secessionist Biafra: genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria's decision to stop the International Committee of the red Cross, and other relief agencies, from flying food to Biafra ,
" Washington Post (editorial) July 2, 1969 "


In some areas outside the East, Igbos were killed by local people with at least the acquiescence of the federal forces, 1000 Igbo civilians perished in Benin in this way"
(Max Edward- Reporter on the ground-New York Review, 21 December 1967) "


After federal forces take over of Benin, troops killed about 500 Igbo civilians after a house-to-house search with the aid of willing locals"
(Washington Morning Post, 27 September, 1967)

"The greatest single massacre occurred in the Igbo town of Asaba where 700 Igbo male were lined up and shot as terrified women/children were forced to watch"
(London Observer, 21 January, 1968)

"Federal troops, killed, or stood by while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Wari, Sapele, Agbor, "
(New York Times, 10th January, 1968)

"There has been genocide on the occasion of the 1966 massacres, the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, federal troops having, for unknown reasons, massacred all the men"
(Paris Le Monde, 5th April, 1968)

"In Calabar, federal forces shot at least 1000 and perhaps 2000 Igbos, most of them civilians"
(New York Times, 18th January, 1968).


"Bestialities and indignities of all kinds were visited on Biafrans in 1966. In Ikeja Barracks (Western Nigeria) Biafrans were forcibly fed on a mixture of human urine and faeces. In Northern Nigeria numerous Biafran house-wives and nursing mothers were raped before their husbands and children. Young girls were abducted from their homes, working places and schools and forced into sexual intercourse with sick, demented and lepros men.
Mr. Eric Spiff (German War correspondence Eyewitness, 1967

"There has been genocide, for example on the occasion of the 1966 massacres , Two areas have suffered badly [from the fighting]. Firstly the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men. According to eyewitnesses of that massacre the Nigerian commander ordered the execution of every Ibo male over the age of ten years.
" Monsignor Georges (sent down on a fact-finding mission by His holiness the Pope reporting his finding in Vatican Rome
Le Monde (French Evening newspaper) April 5, 1968. ",

650 refugee camps, contained about 700,000 haggard bundles of human flotsam waiting hopelessly for a meal, outside the camps, was the reminder of an estimated four and a half to five million displaced persons, the Kwashiokor scourge, a million and half children, suffer(ed) from it during January; that put the forecast death toll at another 300,000 children, More than the pogroms of 1966, more than the war casualties, more than the terror bombings, it was the experience of watching helplessly their children waste away and die that gave birth to, a deep and unrelenting loathing, It is a feeling that will one day reap a bitter harvest unless, "

(Frederick Forsyth, British writer January 21st 1969) ",

I saw several hundred of Zombie-like creatures -men, women and children, lying, sitting or squatting in the midst of others who were dead. The living ones were completely reduced to skeletons and could not talk. I was seeing for the first time, kwashiorkor, Frankly, I took fright, I believe that any foreign troops from anywhere in the world occupying Ikot Ekpene or any other town in Biafra would have shown much more sympathy, "
(Gen. Alex Madiebo, Ikot Ekpene, July 1968)


"One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards Biafra:- genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria's decision to stop the International Committee of the red Cross, and other relief agencies, from flying food to Biafra , " The Nazis had ressurrected just here as Nigerian forces,
Washington Post (editorial) July 2, 1969

"The loss of life from starvation continues at more than 10,000 persons per day - over 1,000,000 lives in recent months. Without emergency measures now, the number will climb to 25,000 per day within a month - and some 2,000,000 deaths by the end of the year. The new year will only bring greater disaster to a people caught in the passion of fratricidal war, we can't allow this to continue or those responsible to go free."
Senator Kennedy appeals to Americans - Sunday, November 17, 1968 ",


I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary and no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot at everything even at things that do not move, "

( Benjamin Adekunle. Commander, 3rd Marine Commando Division, Nigerian Army to French radio reporter). ",


The war aim and (final) solution properly speaking of the entire problem, is to discriminate against the Igbos and in their own interest. Such discrimination would include above all the detachment of those oil-rich territories in the Eastern Region, in addition, the Igbos' freedom of movement would be restricted, to prevent their renewed penetration into other parts, leaving any access to the sea to the Igbos, is quite out of the question, "
(Federal Nigerian Minister speaking to E. C. Schwarzenback, Swiss Review of Africa, February 1968)


"Let us go and crush them. We will pillage their property, rape their womenfolk, kill off their menfolk and leave them uselessly weeping. We will complete the pogrom of 1966"
(The theme song of Radio Kaduna, government-controlled, 1967-1970).


"Unfortunately this [Gowon's] enlightenment at the top level does not penetrate very deep: a Lagos police officer was quoted last month as saying that the Igbos must be considerably reduced in number"
Dr Conor cruise O'Bien , 21 December 1967 New York Review


"Myself and The same UNICEF representatives went on to convey something of what lay behind this intransigence: "Among the large majority hailing from that tribe (Yorubas) who are most vocal in inciting the complete extermination of the Igbos, I often heard remarks that all Nigeria's ills will be cured once the Igbos has been extaminated from the human map , "
Dr Conor Cruise O'Bien (21 December, 1967, New York Review).

As for your Bread propaganda. Again, that was straight off Nigeria a usual propaganda, and I am beginning to suspect your neutrality on this issue.
If after that link on Julius nyerere on Biafra, you are still vomiting Nigerian propaganda here persistently, then I'm forced to question your neutrality on this issue.

Here is a link busting that fake bread picture:https://www.nairaland.com/2690144/mystery-1966-loaf-bread..north-distortion
That bread pic came of the same Nigerian propaganda factory that propagated the lie that an Igbo musician made a music where the murdered northerners were depicted as goats. When in truth, the one who sang a similar song was a Cameroonian with an Ijaw mother called Lawson, and the song was not deriding Northerners.

vicenzo:

"There has been genocide, for example on the occasion of the 1966 massacres , Two areas have suffered badly [from the fighting]. Firstly the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, Federal troops having for unknown reasons massacred all the men. According to eyewitnesses of that massacre the Nigerian commander ordered the execution of every Ibo male over the age of ten years.
" Monsignor Georges (sent down on a fact-finding mission by His holiness the Pope reporting his finding in Vatican Rome
Le Monde (French Evening newspaper) April 5, 1968. ",

650 refugee camps, contained about 700,000 haggard bundles of human flotsam waiting hopelessly for a meal, outside the camps, was the reminder of an estimated four and a half to five million displaced persons, the Kwashiokor scourge, a million and half children, suffer(ed) from it during January; that put the forecast death toll at another 300,000 children, More than the pogroms of 1966, more than the war casualties, more than the terror bombings, it was the experience of watching helplessly their children waste away and die that gave birth to, a deep and unrelenting loathing, It is a feeling that will one day reap a bitter harvest unless, "

(Frederick Forsyth, British writer January 21st 1969) ",

I saw several hundred of Zombie-like creatures -men, women and children, lying, sitting or squatting in the midst of others who were dead. The living ones were completely reduced to skeletons and could not talk. I was seeing for the first time, kwashiorkor, Frankly, I took fright, I believe that any foreign troops from anywhere in the world occupying Ikot Ekpene or any other town in Biafra would have shown much more sympathy, "
(Gen. Alex Madiebo, Ikot Ekpene, July 1968)


"One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards Biafra:- genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria's decision to stop the International Committee of the red Cross, and other relief agencies, from flying food to Biafra , " The Nazis had ressurrected just here as Nigerian forces,
Washington Post (editorial) July 2, 1969

"The loss of life from starvation continues at more than 10,000 persons per day - over 1,000,000 lives in recent months. Without emergency measures now, the number will climb to 25,000 per day within a month - and some 2,000,000 deaths by the end of the year. The new year will only bring greater disaster to a people caught in the passion of fratricidal war, we can't allow this to continue or those responsible to go free."
Senator Kennedy appeals to Americans - Sunday, November 17, 1968 ",


I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary and no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot at everything even at things that do not move, "

( Benjamin Adekunle. Commander, 3rd Marine Commando Division, Nigerian Army to French radio reporter). ",


The war aim and (final) solution properly speaking of the entire problem, is to discriminate against the Igbos and in their own interest. Such discrimination would include above all the detachment of those oil-rich territories in the Eastern Region, in addition, the Igbos' freedom of movement would be restricted, to prevent their renewed penetration into other parts, leaving any access to the sea to the Igbos, is quite out of the question, "
(Federal Nigerian Minister speaking to E. C. Schwarzenback, Swiss Review of Africa, February 1968)


"Let us go and crush them. We will pillage their property, rape their womenfolk, kill off their menfolk and leave them uselessly weeping. We will complete the pogrom of 1966"
(The theme song of Radio Kaduna, government-controlled, 1967-1970).


"Unfortunately this [Gowon's] enlightenment at the top level does not penetrate very deep: a Lagos police officer was quoted last month as saying that the Igbos must be considerably reduced in number"
Dr Conor cruise O'Bien , 21 December 1967 New York Review


"Myself and The same UNICEF representatives went on to convey something of what lay behind this intransigence: "Among the large majority hailing from that tribe (Yorubas) who are most vocal in inciting the complete extermination of the Igbos, I often heard remarks that all Nigeria's ills will be cured once the Igbos has been extaminated from the human map , "
Dr Conor Cruise O'Bien (21 December, 1967, New York Review).

OK OK, these situations that arose in the past were and always will be abominable. FYI am also fully aware of the circumstances of the Nigerian civil war and the sad fate that befell the ibos. I always say to people who care to listen that that war killed more people than the equally reprehensible Rwandan civil war of 1994.
It's still off topic.