Kagarko:
A RABID INMATE OF THE ZOO
The Ibos, the Nupes and Nnamdi Kanu
By Dr. Ndagi Abdullahi

This bizarre agitation by a very small section of the Ibo population is getting more and more delusional by the day. I really didn’t want to comment on the Biafra agitation before because I know it is all political and will fade away with time. But everyday people kept on asking me to say something about the Ibos and the Nupes. And whenever I refer them to my voluminous work, titled ‘Arochukwu was Nupe’, on the historical relationship between the Ibos and the Nupes they will come back asking me to comment specifically on the Biafra Agitation.

But I have been so busy with my other works it is taking me eternity to comment on the Biafra Agitation.

Today, however, I woke up to a post on Whatsapp whereby my brother Ali Baba was quoting Channels News as saying that the entire SE region of the Ibos is not up to the size of Kwara State or Yobe State.

Seeing that post I couldn’t resist the temptation to grab my keyboard and start punching down the following paragraphs.

First I would like to point out the fact that the true population of the Ibo people today is just a little above 15 million which is far below the 27 or so million fraudulently posted on Wikipedia by some Ibo miscreants.

And the true population of the Nupe people today is well above 20 million as opposed to the 10 million or so that the Nigerian census authorities have been mischievously spurning at each of their grossly untenable census exercise charades.

And when I talk about the Nupes having a population of not less than 20 million I am not including the Nupe Diaspora of Brazil that has a population of over 200 million.

The population of the Ibo people have been overly exaggerated since colonial times. The White man wanted a ‘majority’ in every Protectorate and that is how they ended up padding up the population of the Ibos during the reign of their infamous Colonial Government.

Afterall, and as I discussed in plenary details in my book ‘Arochukwu Was Nupe’, the Ibo man, for all practical purposes, was an invention of the White man. It was the White man who invented the Ibo race. Before the coming of the White man there was not a Ibo people. All those lies about the existence of a monolithic Ibo race existing since the days of the Biblical Jews are nothing but blatant lies.

This is not the right place for me to bore you down with details on how the White man came and invented the Ibo race out of thin air. Go and read my book ‘Arochukwu Was Nupe’ on how the White man played God by creating the Ibo man.

Now, back to our discussion, the population of the Nupe man has been grossly misrepresented ever since the days of those same White colonialists who invented the Ibo man. It was the White man, staring with Lord Lugard the AntiNupe, who balkanized the Nupe nation into petty clans all of which he took away from the Nupe Nation. That was how all the Nupe sub-tribes – including the Kakanda, the Dibo, the Gupa, the Kame, and a countless others – came to be counted out of the true Nupe population.

If the population of all these various Nupe people are to be combined together with that of the Nupe people in Diaspora in all the nooks and corners of Nigeria today we will definitely end up with a population of the Nupe people that is far above 20 million.

But the powers that be in Nigeria, including our own Hilltop Generals back here in KinNupe, will not see to that.

And all this is apart from the fact that in the beginning, and before the coming of the White man, the people of Northern Yorubaland – including the Okun, the Igbomina, all the Kukuruku people, etc, etc – counted themselves as Nupe. Similarly the people of Edo-Benin, Onitsha and Nsukka, Yawuri and Borgu, Nasarawa, Kontagora and Gbagyi, and a countless other ancient Nigerian nationalities were all counting themselves as Nupe people before the White man came and balkanized the Nupe Nation and ‘liberated’ these various Nupe people from being Nupe.

Now then, and also, in terms of geopolitical comparison, all the four Ibo states of Anambra, Enugu, Imo and Abia combined only occupies a geographical section in the Southeast that is not up to half of the size of the proposed Edu State of the Nupe people.

In fact all of us can see that the entire Ibo land – of these four Ibo states – can actually be snuggled into the Zone A of Niger State. This means that the whole of Iboland is not up to half of Nupeland.

So, in terms of both population and geographical spread the Nupes are two times the Ibos. Yet the Nupes are not making up to ten percent the empty noise that the Ibos are making today.

All that noise the Ibos are making is due to lack of education. A cultured and well informed Ibo will not make the infantile noise that stark illiterate calling himself Nnamdi Kanu was making.

That boy, Nnamdi Kanu, is patently a rank ignoramus. All the things he is saying are wrong and can easily be refuted by even a casual research effort. Ibos are not being overly marginalized, other Nigerians don’t hate the Ibo people, Biafra is not the answer to any perceived Ibo marginalization, a secessionist Biafra is absolutely impossible because it amount to treason in the Nigerian Constitution, and so on and on.

The overwhelming majority of the Ibo people are peace-loving Nigerians who will not follow any Biafran agitator into another civil war that they know the Ibos will lose again in a woeful manner.

When it comes to history the ignorance of Nnamdi Kanu are so laughable that even a animal in the zoo will rate Kanu as a case study.

The boy Nnamdi Kanu is claiming that 3 million Ibos were killed during the Biafran civil war of the late 60s and early 70s. This is so ridiculous I don’t know why I am even wasting my time refuting it here.

The point is that in the 1960s the population of the Ibos was so small that suddenly eliminating 3 million Ibos in just a period of two to three years will have instantly wiped out the entire Ibo race.

If 3 million Ibos were killed during the Biafran civil war where will you dump the dead bodies? 3 million corpses within such a small and cramped Biafra State would have engendered the outbreak of such deadly diseases that would have brought an abrupt end to the civil war without any further shot from the Federal side.

And, where are the pictures of the 3 million dead bodies? We are all familiar with pictures of the corpses from the sites of the concentration camps of the Second World War, where are the pictures of the 3 million corpses from Biafra.

The only pictures we see are those of malnourished, Kwashiorkor-stricken, children caused by Ojukwu’s blockade of international aid getting into Biafra during the war. And even these pictures were overly exaggerated by the Catholic mission priests who were in actual fact European intelligence officers working for the Republic of Biafra. It was these French and Israeli Mossad intelligence officers, disguised as Catholic missionaries, who spread the pictures of a few hundred malnourished children in Biafra to the world media claiming that millions of children are malnourished inside Biafra.

Nnamdi Kanu obviously don’t know anything about history, otherwise he won’t come out to the public and be making very ludicrous claims that even History itself will laugh at.

Imagine Nnamdi Kanu is saying that the Ibos are Jews and that the Ibos originated from Israel! This boy is such an unmistakable illiterate!!

Well, let me tell the illiterate that the Ibos are Nupe and they originated from here KinNupe!

Let me immediately add that I am not saying this on my own authority, because I know even my own Nupe people will not believe me.

It was Professor A.E. Afigbo, who is himself an Ibo man and who is also the greatest Ibo scholar of Ibo history ever, that wrote on the 24th page of his book titled ‘Ropes of Sands’, that the Ibo people originated from Nupe. Professor Afigbo emphatically added that the Ibo race originated from the general Bida area and not from Israel or the Middle East.

I want to repeat that Professor A.E. Afigbo categorically emphasized on that page 24 of his book

Kagarko:
A RABID INMATE OF THE ZOO
The Ibos, the Nupes and Nnamdi Kanu
By Dr. Ndagi Abdullahi

.....Imagine Nnamdi Kanu is saying that the Ibos are Jews and that the Ibos originated from Israel! This boy is such an unmistakable illiterate!!

Well, let me tell the illiterate that the Ibos are Nupe and they originated from here KinNupe!

Let me immediately add that I am not saying this on my own authority, because I know even my own Nupe people will not believe me.

It was Professor A.E. Afigbo, who is himself an Ibo man and who is also the greatest Ibo scholar of Ibo history ever, that wrote on the 24th page of his book titled ‘Ropes of Sands’, that the Ibo people originated from Nupe. Professor Afigbo emphatically added that the Ibo race originated from the general Bida area and not from Israel or the Middle East.

I want to repeat that Professor A.E. Afigbo categorically emphasized on that page 24 of his book

limeta:
This person need to go back to bed .
Alhaji you need some sleep

Sapiosexuality:
Lolololol. Looks like someone woke up, drank some left over toxic drink and put pen to paper. The only thing he said(that's if I understand him well) that is true is that the word 'Igbo' or 'Ibo' didn't exist till the white men came. The same with the word 'Yoruba' and some other names around. But to claim that all was under the Nupe tribe is off. This is not even worthy for debate.

ShootToKill:


Everything he said in there is nonsense including his assertion that the word Igbo didn't exist before the whiteman came. Pure lies

Places like AguluizuIgbo in Anambra, AmaIgbo in Imo existed before lugard's great grand father was born.

Names like Igbonacho, Igbokwe, Igbogadi have been existent before last 5 generation of British crown existed.

Nobody can re-write the history of the Igbo. Ibo is a white man corruption of the word 'Igbo' due to their inability to pronounce the 'gb' consonant.

Sapiosexuality:
From my study of Igbo History, we were all identified by the name of our grandfathers. Names like Umueshi and Umuokoro.

Names like Umueze, Igbogadi, and Igbokwe are names that came after the white man had invaded Eastern Lower Sudan(or Today's Eastern Nigeria).

Igbokwe and Igbogadi suggest resistance. Probably resistance to the attempt of the colonialists to break down the man.

Why should there be an AmaIgbo in igboland? We know how our fathers gave name in the past and such names are suggestive of external threats.

I know history can be corrupted and full of truths and lies, like Napoleon said, 'History is but a fable agreed upon', but I think the absence of a word 'Igbo' in the past makes sense.

pazienza:


Stop talking on things you know little about.

Names like Igbokwe and Igboanugo had been in existence in those parts of Igboland they are still found today, before colonial masters came, and those names are not found in areas of Igboland outside those areas they had always been found.

Why shouldn't there be an AmaIgbo in Igboland? Are you roaming?

Umueze is a universal name in Igboland , named after many Igbo towns and villages, and is found in all parts of Igboland, and their existence predate the colonial era.

Sapiosexuality:
I use to think so too but after studying different histories on the language and the origin of the name, I employ induction in arriving at my conclusion. I'm ready to hear your reasons though.

ShootToKill:


Everything he said in there is nonsense including his assertion that the word Igbo didn't exist before the whiteman came. Pure lies

Places like AguluizuIgbo in Anambra, AmaIgbo in Imo existed before lugard's great grand father was born.

Names like Igbonacho, Igbokwe, Igbogadi have been existent before last 5 generation of British crown existed.

Nobody can re-write the history of the Igbo. Ibo is a white man corruption of the word 'Igbo' due to their inability to pronounce the 'gb' consonant.

pazienza:


What reasons?

It's self evident. Families who bear such Igbo names had always bore them.

Masterclass32:
'' Igbos are Nupe and originated from kinupe''.
Can you imagine?

laudate:


Isn't Nupe closer than Israel?