maclatunji:


Duh, they were taking Igbos and selling them as slaves. There was very little reason to interact culturally with people you simply raided.

How come the Obi of Onitsha copies Benin regalia?

Probz:


But fluted pumpkin leaves don’t grow further west than Delta State.

Originalsly:

I have issue with most of the above....did you make this stuff up? Igbo slaves were light skinned?...first time I'm hearing about light skinned slaves period. Slaves taken to work on plantations were all Black....dark skinned.
Africans were taken to t he West wayyyy before 1790..the slave trade was well established by 1790...and slaves were still taken there in large numbers after 1809.
Africans were not kidnapped by Europeans...can you imagine a European getting off the ship and running into the forests capturing natives?.....Africans were captured by Africans.... penned by Africans and sold to the Europeans.
The Igbos inability to speak what language? One if the first things the Plantation owners did...was to separate as much as possible those who speak the same language....a safeguard to prevent them from plotting. In any African community in the diaspora there still remain words that can be traced to any tribe....tribe not race that was taken as slaves. And yes...many such words are widely used in Jamaica because Jamaica's history is a bit different from the other countries.....and because of their history....Jamaicans are even today different from other nationalities that had a history of African slavery.
No problem trying to promote Igbos...bit please... get it right.

konoplyanka:


Please stop with your ignorance. Yoruba just know ibo I n less than 150 years ago. We had nothing in common and didn't have any contact before the Advent of the colonialists. Ibos it is easy to borrow words from hausas which we have had contact with for centuries than ibos. Also, Edo had influence on ibos and could have made borrowing yoruba words easy.

You don't borrow words from people in foreign land unless they come to learn from your land.

Probz:


My name’s nowhere close to Obinna? According to who?

Lordave:
As usual, you're missing the who point of the discourse and trying too hard to make a ridicule of your initial brainfart just to massage your bigoted ego.

She asked how is it possible there are no much influence of the superior civilizations that captured and sold Igbos on the Igbos today? But the influence of Igbos are scattered almost all over Souther Nigeria?

scholes0:


Says who?
Is there some kind of weather phenomena isolated to delta state or SE?
Or you meant to write something else?

Probz:


They’ve got their own version of ofe onugbu to be fair. Ewuro.

scholes0:


Me.

Probz:


But fluted pumpkin leaves don’t grow further west than Delta State.

Probz:


Ordinary pumpkin leaves but not fluted pumpkin leaves (ugu). Jump up and fight me from behind the screen if you want but it’s true.

BabaIbo:

Lair have you ever eaten a soup called ewuro soup before, if not don't quote me again please...

It was when igbos got to these place that they started cultivating those things here or maybe it was in the forest but they were not aware of its usefulness, even up till now there is no specific thing yorubas use ewuro for...

scholes0:


Do Igbos put shit in the soil there to make the flutted ones grow? lol

Plant it in Kumasi it will grow puleeese.

BabaIbo:

Lair have you ever eaten a soup called ewuro soup before, if not don't quote me again please...

It was when igbos got to these place that they started cultivating those things here or maybe it was in the forest but they were not aware of its usefulness, even up till now there is no specific thing yorubas use ewuro for...

BabaIbo:

Lair have you ever eaten a soup called ewuro soup before, if not don't quote me again please...

It was when igbos got to these place that they started cultivating those things here or maybe it was in the forest but they were not aware of its usefulness, even up till now there is no specific thing yorubas use ewuro for...

scholes0:


Sharap there Bitterleaf is Ewuro in Yoruba and it is used to cook very well (Google Obe Ewuro) and see for yourself. You igbos just sitdown in one corner of Festac in Lagos and start making assumptions about all of Yorubaland. Lmao!
Ugu on the other hand is pumpkin leaves. and funnily enough, pumpkins aren’t even native to africa.

Yorubas have no word for punpkin leaves.

fatiaforreal:
Igbo is sub-Yoruba race. Take it or leave it, that's the truth!

RedboneSmith:


Ugu is called fluted pumpkin or fluted gourd in English, and it is native to West Africa. Look it up.

Probably its natural spread didn't extend into Yorubaland.

maestroferddi:
What nonsense are you yapping about?

Obi of Onitsha copying Oba of Benin regalia? When was this?

maclatunji:


Duh, they were taking Igbos and selling them as slaves. There was very little reason to interact culturally with people you simply raided.

How come the Obi of Onitsha copies Benin regalia?

Lordave:
I don't think you were referring to me but I me chip in, anyway.
What influence do Edo people had or have on Igbos?If Edo had an influence on Igbos it was on people of Onicha and the influence was contained there in Onicha or maybe a bit further into Anambra and not Igbos in General as you and your mischievous fellows are trying to paint it.

Your last paragraph, though. Where there ever a German, Italian, Greek or Roman invasion of England? How do you explain the so many borrowed words in English language?

Your ignorant self won't let you know that there is no superior language. You think inferior languages borrow from superior ones.

konoplyanka:


You know the influence of benins on anioma and onitsha right?

Lordave:
They never took anybody and sold into slavery.

Those kidnapped were kidnapped by criminals who ran slave trade gang in Igboland and was sold to the Bini's who latter sold to the Europeans.
Those who commited crimes against the community were also sold in slavery by their families or the community.
There were never a recognisable Bini influence in any part of Igboland, the little they had in Onicha you have to bend down to notice.

I've told you to quit been mischievous, you might grow your hairs back if you do.

Probz:


Am I now a Babatunde?

BabaIbo:


mumu, let's just assume that yorubas don't leave their caves(because na hausa full warri, eastern and northern parts of nigeria, is it only when you visit a place that you learn from them?
have ever been to UK or the US but you can type and speak English...
you learn from people when there is a form of communication, learning or influence is not limited to those that visit a place as those visiting can also influence and impact knowledge on those they are visiting... anu mpam

BabaIbo:

oniro oshi, I know Yoruba people very well.. everything you wrote there is a lie, in fact pure lie... tell me one soup yorubas cook with ugu or bitterleaf... yoruba people make their vegetable soup or soup with green(which is also borrowed from igbo) or tete or arowonjeja..

scholes0:


Nope not that either.
Why are you mentioning generic names?

Is your name generic?

scholes0:


See mumu

Ewuro is a soup and it is also a herb in Yorubaand.

We have a proverb that goes “Ewuro Lagba Igi”. ewuro is the eldeest of trees.
Also one that goes in english “Your problems might be bitter in the begining, but like Ewuro it is sure to become sweet in the end”

Shukudi, Take your time and stop making silly assumptions oooo

konoplyanka:


At least you admit they have influence on onicha what about anioma?

The English people was under the Roman Catholic for centuries and thus had Latin influence.

Ignorant mofo doesn't even know that Spanish, french and Portuguese were from Latin. The Royal family is of German descent.