Igbo mean "people" . That is the closest meaning, you can substitute the word with "oha" in a sentence and even name.

igbokwe-ohakwe, onwuzuruigbo-owunzuruoha...etc.

also "igbo" prefix or suffix is all over igbo speaking towns from igboetche and rumuigbo in rivers to igbouzo in delta and a lot in the southeast.

it never meant slave, though in the past igbos referred to themselves by their group or village, an owerri man will call himself ony owerri and his neighbors igbo....

the same way yourubas of today never identified as yoruba, but ekiti, ijesa, ibadan, oyo etc. they go to war as each gruop vs the other and not as yoruba.

the kiriji war was ekiti parapo vs ibadan, shortly after the fall off the oyo empire and ibadan people acquired power.

yoruba is a word the fulanis derogatorily used to describe oyo people only, but today an even ekiti man is a "proud" yoruba man. things change

lets leave it at that

rigarmortis:
Igbo mean "people" . That is the closest meaning, you can substitute the word with "oha" in a sentence and even name.

igbokwe-ohakwe, onwuzuruigbo-owunzuruoha...etc.

also "igbo" prefix or suffix is all over igbo speaking towns from igboetche and rumuigbo in rivers to igbouzo in delta and a lot in the southeast.

it never meant slave, though in the past igbos referred to themselves by their group or village, an owerri man will call himself ony owerri and his neighbors igbo....

the same way yourubas of today never identified as yoruba, but ekiti, ijesa, ibadan, oyo etc. they go to war as each gruop vs the other and not as yoruba.

the kiriji war was ekiti parapo vs ibadan, shortly after the fall off the oyo empire and ibadan people acquired power.

yoruba is a word the fulanis derogatorily used to describe oyo people only, but today an even ekiti man is a "proud" yoruba man. things change

lets leave it at that

Ibo means slave people.

Of course Igbo Amaka


BIAFRA AMAKA

GerogeI:


Odibo in Igbo means servant, not slave. "Igba Odibo" is something we do today in trading without shame, and in that context translates to "apprenticeship".

Igbo folklores will readily talk of Odibo and Nnia Ukwu.
"Odibo" does not mean slavery in any context, talkless of Igbo.

Servant (indentured) and Slave

Potato and Potato

Ibo = Slave

GerogeI:


Yet Olauda Equiano, a foremost 17th century authority on Eboe never referred to himself as a former slave based on the name? At least he would have mentioned he was on a second slavery experience.

Your writer not only could not pronounce Igbo words, even name of towns, but had a literal and peripheral understanding of the culture. He thinks a funeral ceremony is a second burial, that's so pathetic.
He refers to sacrificial animals (chickens and goats) as victims, a hugely controversial level of personification that would set up a conflict even in the western world, in every KFC and McDonald outlet.
Whole heartedly, he was psychologically and intellectually not fit for a study of an African culture. His outputs are most unbecoming.

Before his work of 1917, scholars have spent a lot of effort debating what it meant to be Eboe, following the works of Olaudah Equiano. As his loose reference to nationhood was quite perplexing to people like you who could not understand a society with a very flattened pyramid structure, and multiple focal points.

I have one link for you :
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3491728&ved=2ahUKEwjT8q2om67nAhXhURUIHascBEo4ChAWMAR6BAgEEAE&usg=AOvVaw3Y4QJXM88vkvyP6pm7eC3

The same reason Olaudah Equiano, called every clan he passed through a nation, is the same reason why Eboe or Igbo has no particular meaning. It is simply a name. The region held a multitude of republican political groupings seldom seen anyway in the world.

In the early centuries of colonization, every Igbo town identified itself uniquely, and refered to every other stranger of similar language as Eboe. This was not perculiar to Nri, as you can read in the write up I gave you. This is why Olaudah, remembered that his elders refered to Stout Mahogany coloured traders as Onye Igbo or Oye Eboe, yet started his book calling himself an Eboe.

As an example of this stepwise identity: Among the Awka area, towns such as Mbaukwu, Nibo, Umuawulu, and even Ugwu-Oba in Enugu state. Refer to themselves a Ebeteteh, yet each retains their unique identity. Ebeteteh identity becomes relevant in the face of larger political groupings.

Olaudah is a fictitious character. The creation of the white colonial. If you don't believe the white dude that wrote about your history then why should anyone believe a fake "Eboe" that can't even spell his tribe right?

OfoIgbo:



I am an Nri man from Enugwu-Agidi and one thing I know is that IBO does not mean slave. However ODIBO means servant. Slave and servant are two different things. ORU is slave, so this is the case of the white man making inaccurate assumptions. ODIBO is different from IGBO or IBO.

Secondly Nri people did not conquer IGBOS as Nri people are bonafide IGBOS and much of Igbo people are descended from us or from any of the UMU ERI patriarchs.

NRI Ji OFO. and NRI BU ISI IGBO. But Nri did not conquer Igbo as Nri culture frowns on violence. Nri was totally about peaceful neighbourliness.

Dude, if you are not Igala by origin, then you are one of their Ibo slaves

Igalas are the Nris

You don't have Nigerian role model ??

hahahaha

Another slave forgotten in Yankeee

Maadoo:


Primitive man, keep hating while the world keep praising.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmyZNoOF6yk

Yujin:

Lol. No Igbo group is superior to another. Our land is the land of free people. Anambra is a recent creation and is subject to any future political change.
Our expansion is clear and we went even to the heart of Benin Empire until the decline of the Empire forced the return of lots of our people back(Ezechima migration). The Ika and Ndokwa areas are all Igbo frontier territories. The Benins and Esan people migrated into Ika while the Urhobos and Isokos migrated into Ndokwa but the aborigines are Igbos. Today, they are all Igbos.
Igbos from the oldest regions didn't conquer other groups. They simply dispersed and attracted other neighbouring groups by the way they lived. The Nri priests were known to move about majority of Igboland cleansing and settling disputes. They constantly reminded the people of not shedding blood. Violent conquest is not an Igbo thing. The Igalas that tried in the Nsukka, Aguleri and Enuani areas failed though won some battles around a tiny Nsukka area but couldn't conquer them. Same happened for the mighty Benin Empire around Agbor but couldn't conquer. Igbos love their freedom and will do anything to enjoy such living.
Finally, you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to belittle such a great people. You can only envy us yet can stop us.

Next time, ignore the idiot.

kayfra:


Olaudah is a fictitious character. The creation of the white colonial. If you don't believe the white dude that wrote about your history then why should anyone believe a fake "Eboe" that can't even spell his tribe right?

You are some work.
If Olaudah is a fictitious character, whose works have been debated by the British Royal Societies and various academics since the 17th century,
Then am very sure you are just a draft Google machine learning algorithm, trying to be human.

rigarmortis:
Igbo mean "people" . That is the closest meaning, you can substitute the word with "oha" in a sentence and even name.

igbokwe-ohakwe, onwuzuruigbo-owunzuruoha...etc.

also "igbo" prefix or suffix is all over igbo speaking towns from igboetche and rumuigbo in rivers to igbouzo in delta and a lot in the southeast.

it never meant slave, though in the past igbos referred to themselves by their group or village, an owerri man will call himself ony owerri and his neighbors igbo....

the same way yourubas of today never identified as yoruba, but ekiti, ijesa, ibadan, oyo etc. they go to war as each gruop vs the other and not as yoruba.

the kiriji war was ekiti parapo vs ibadan, shortly after the fall off the oyo empire and ibadan people acquired power.

yoruba is a word the fulanis derogatorily used to describe oyo people only, but today an even ekiti man is a "proud" yoruba man. things change

lets leave it at that

Oga, if igbo means people, what does Ndi means then. Stop fooling yourself, igbo means slave. That is the fact.

Maadoo:


Lazy man secretly wishing to be an igboman. Just beg God to create you an igboman in your next world. It is best privilege a “Primitive man” can ever have.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc5xL48odCA

It is a taboo in Yorubaland to think of being barbarians who were still learning how to wear clothes in 1921.I will rather be a fish than be an Igbo.
Igbo means slave.

ChoCho54:
We know fulani gave you the name yoruba meaning slave, now tell me who enslaved igbos and told you the word IGBO means slave?

Igala, you can ask for fact.

Just like a lot of things began to make sense when I read about the history of almajiri slaves in the hands of their Fulani masters.

Susu888:
So Igbo tribe means the slave tribe?! alot of things makes sense now.

ChoCho54:
We know fulani gave you the name yoruba meaning slave, now tell me who enslaved igbos and told you the word IGBO means slave?

Igala, you can ask for fact.

Lol Fulani, how can set of people I ruthlessly dealt with in oshogbo colonize me. Has your front brain shift to the back

JonDon12:
Wow. Nice to know. One thing I have read about of ibo land is that anytime a slave got to iboland, he became free. So I think there's a school of thought that some Ibos are runaway slaves from the Benin Kingdom and the kingdom of nri provided them protection. I don't think that any historians think that igbos came in a mass migration. The diversity of the people and the numerous easily puts that claim to rest

Why did might kings not chase the slaves into Igbo land and recover their subjects or was Igbo land too strong for anybody to mess? Yari.ba, Hausa, Nupe and Igala lands were such much raped by the Fulani that the traces of such actions were visible even to a blind man today. Even though Ndigbo did have institutionalized stools, their sons became the kings in places stretching from Bakassi to Ubani (Bonny).

GerogeI:


You are some work.
If Olaudah is a fictitious character, whose works have been debated by the British Royal Societies and various academics since the 17th century,
Then am very sure you are just a draft Google machine learning algorithm, trying to be human.

You are not the only one that can pick and choose history selectively is my point.

Fake news... All I know is that IGBOS are over 3000 years old in this part of the world.

Ọfọ

The Ibo-speaking peoples number about 3,185,000 people, and are centred mainly in the Onitsha, Owerri, Benin, and Ogoja Provinces of Nigeria.

It is with the North-Western groups inhabiting the political divisions of Onitsha Province, known as Nsukka and Awgu, that this paper is principally concerned.

According to Dr. Talbot the Ibo consist of a number of sub-tribes such as the Awhawzara [" the people of the shrub bush "] and Awhawfia [" the people of the thick bush "]. But these terms are primarily geographical, and the most striking feature of Ibo society as a whole is the absence of any strong tribal or sub-tribal organization.

In the Nsukka and Awgu divisions there is no higher social or political unit than the " village-area ", i.e. the group of villages united by the possession of a common name and territory, the belief in descent from a common ancestor, the sharing of common customs and cults, and sometimes of a common chi or soul. The village-area may thus constitute a clan.

But it is frequently a local rather than a kinship grouping ; for, though the component villages may vaguely claim a common ancestor, it can often be proved that there was no original relationship, and in many cases, indeed, no relationship is claimed. Such unity as they possess is due to economic and political circumstances and to intermarriage.

A village-area is known as an obodo or mba or ala, and includes a number of subdivisions known as nkporo or ogbwe.

The nkporo in turn is subdivided into smaller groups or hamlets known as qnuma or nchi. The hamlet may coincide with the single kinship grouping known as umunna or may embrace several umunna.

An umunna may be composed of a single group of related families each of which consists of such close relatives as a man and his wife, brothers or first cousins and their wives and children ; or it may consist of two or more related groups of such families.

Where the umunna consists of a single group of related families it may, for the purposes of this article, be described as an " extended-family " and where it consists of two or more groups of related families it may be described as a " kindred ".

* photo of Chief Onyeso from Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge (1913)

Ibo Law by C.K Meek

Essays Presented To C G Seligman by Evans Pritchard E.E. (1934)

More proof that it's a settlement of slaves. No common origin or ancestors

@anambraslstson

The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society 1898

Notes of a Journey to Bende by Major Arthur Glyn Leonard

The people belong to the Ibo race, as do also the Aros.

There is nothing particularly distinguishing about the men, who are moderately strong and well built, but among the women I noticed some very fine looking specimens.

The Aros, on the contrary, are, intellectually and physically, far superior to the other branches of their own race, over whom they domineer with an iron hand concealed under the silken meshes of deep diplomacy.


With their headquarters at Arun, they are, from what I could learn, divided into fourteen families, or factions, that have outposts scattered all over the country from a long way into the interior down to the Cross River on the one side, and the Niger and Opobo Rivers on the other.

Consequently they are looked upon by the other Ibos, Quas, Ibibios, and other tribes with whom they are in contact, as great travellers, and hence the aggressively arrogant attitude they usually adopt.

With all their bounce they are not, however, in my opinion at least, a fighting race; relying on the wiles of deception, and more especially on the widespread reputation and blind belief that their fetish has earned for them.

The information that the Abam people fight as well as carry for them, I quite believe to be correct.

That the Aros, however, evidently believe in themselves, and that this belief is to a great extent justified, is not only seen in the hold they everywhere have, and in their own over-bearing swagger, but in the bearing of their women, who, I must say, are ever so much handsomer and finer than of any of the tribes in the Niger Delta.

Indeed, they look quite a different and altogether superior race.

In the arrangement of their head-pieces alone they are to be distinguished from any of the other tribes, for the wool is pulled out to its utmost length, coiled and curled by the aid of combs, grease, and pieces of wood, into shapes so stiff and so fantastical — some of them the exact image of the ancient Greek and Roman helmets, others like the three-cornered, and others again into the pattern of the cocked, hat — that one wonders what can induce them to carry about and sleep with a burden that must be not only heavy, but very uncomfortable.

There is, as far as I can see, but one answer to this — vanity.

For even in these western wilds of Africa fashion holds her imperious sway at the expense of ease and comfort.

* photo from The Women's missionary magazine of the United Free Church of Scotland.(1903-1904)




The Arochukwu are amongst the superior Igbos

kayfra:
Ọfọ

The Ibo-speaking peoples number about 3,185,000 people, and are centred mainly in the Onitsha, Owerri, Benin, and Ogoja Provinces of Nigeria.

It is with the North-Western groups inhabiting the political divisions of Onitsha Province, known as Nsukka and Awgu, that this paper is principally concerned.

According to Dr. Talbot the Ibo consist of a number of sub-tribes such as the Awhawzara [" the people of the shrub bush "] and Awhawfia [" the people of the thick bush "]. But these terms are primarily geographical, and the most striking feature of Ibo society as a whole is the absence of any strong tribal or sub-tribal organization.

In the Nsukka and Awgu divisions there is no higher social or political unit than the " village-area ", i.e. the group of villages united by the possession of a common name and territory, the belief in descent from a common ancestor, the sharing of common customs and cults, and sometimes of a common chi or soul. The village-area may thus constitute a clan.

But it is frequently a local rather than a kinship grouping ; for, though the component villages may vaguely claim a common ancestor, it can often be proved that there was no original relationship, and in many cases, indeed, no relationship is claimed. Such unity as they possess is due to economic and political circumstances and to intermarriage.

A village-area is known as an obodo or mba or ala, and includes a number of subdivisions known as nkporo or ogbwe.

The nkporo in turn is subdivided into smaller groups or hamlets known as qnuma or nchi. The hamlet may coincide with the single kinship grouping known as umunna or may embrace several umunna.

An umunna may be composed of a single group of related families each of which consists of such close relatives as a man and his wife, brothers or first cousins and their wives and children ; or it may consist of two or more related groups of such families.

Where the umunna consists of a single group of related families it may, for the purposes of this article, be described as an " extended-family " and where it consists of two or more groups of related families it may be described as a " kindred ".

* photo of Chief Onyeso from Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge (1913)

Ibo Law by C.K Meek

Essays Presented To C G Seligman by Evans Pritchard E.E. (1934)

You are nothing but a CLOWN running from pillar to post!

kayfra:
The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society 1898

Notes of a Journey to Bende by Major Arthur Glyn Leonard

The people belong to the Ibo race, as do also the Aros.

There is nothing particularly distinguishing about the men, who are moderately strong and well built, but among the women I noticed some very fine looking specimens.

The Aros, on the contrary, are, intellectually and physically, far superior to the other branches of their own race, over whom they domineer with an iron hand concealed under the silken meshes of deep diplomacy.


With their headquarters at Arun, they are, from what I could learn, divided into fourteen families, or factions, that have outposts scattered all over the country from a long way into the interior down to the Cross River on the one side, and the Niger and Opobo Rivers on the other.

Consequently they are looked upon by the other Ibos, Quas, Ibibios, and other tribes with whom they are in contact, as great travellers, and hence the aggressively arrogant attitude they usually adopt.

With all their bounce they are not, however, in my opinion at least, a fighting race; relying on the wiles of deception, and more especially on the widespread reputation and blind belief that their fetish has earned for them.

The information that the Abam people fight as well as carry for them, I quite believe to be correct.

That the Aros, however, evidently believe in themselves, and that this belief is to a great extent justified, is not only seen in the hold they everywhere have, and in their own over-bearing swagger, but in the bearing of their women, who, I must say, are ever so much handsomer and finer than of any of the tribes in the Niger Delta.

Indeed, they look quite a different and altogether superior race.

In the arrangement of their head-pieces alone they are to be distinguished from any of the other tribes, for the wool is pulled out to its utmost length, coiled and curled by the aid of combs, grease, and pieces of wood, into shapes so stiff and so fantastical — some of them the exact image of the ancient Greek and Roman helmets, others like the three-cornered, and others again into the pattern of the cocked, hat — that one wonders what can induce them to carry about and sleep with a burden that must be not only heavy, but very uncomfortable.

There is, as far as I can see, but one answer to this — vanity.

For even in these western wilds of Africa fashion holds her imperious sway at the expense of ease and comfort.

* photo from The Women's missionary magazine of the United Free Church of Scotland.(1903-1904)




The Arochukwu are amongst the superior Igbos

There is no authentic version of the Igbo history.


Going by the Yoruba history, we can claim that the Yorubas are slaves/destined to be slaves.

There are claims that Yorubas are runaway dahomey slaves, some claim they are Benin slaves who prince oduduwa took with him when he left the Benin empire.

Alaafin Aole, before he committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation and said they will be slaves wherever they are.


Sango, before the committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation, that they would be slaves to other black tribes.

When the Oyo empire was about to collapse, Yoruba states were are war with other. The Yorubas started kidnapping their fellow yorubas from neighboring states. They sold their fellow Yorubas to slavery to obtain money to buy horses for their army.

This happened for more than 15years...

Merchants from the sahel exchanged one horse for ten yoruba slaves.

I can go on and on about the history of the yorubas.

The Yoruba history is a story of cowardice, treachery and slavery.


Cc lzaa immhotep

MrColdsweat:



There is no authentic version of the Igbo history.


Going by the Yoruba history, we can claim that the Yorubas are slaves/destined to be slaves.

There are claims that Yorubas are runaway dahomey slaves, some claim they are Benin slaves who prince oduduwa took with him when he left the Benin empire.

Alaafin Aole, before he committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation and said they will be slaves wherever they are.


Sango, before the committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation, that they would be slaves to other black tribes.

When the Oyo empire was about to collapse, Yoruba states were are war with other. The Yorubas started kidnapping their fellow yorubas from neighboring states. They sold their fellow Yorubas to slavery to obtain money to buy horses for their army.

This happened for more than 15years...

Merchants from the sahel exchanged one horse for ten yoruba slaves.

I can go on and on about the history of the yorubas.

The Yoruba history is a story of cowardice, treachery and slavery.


Cc lzaa immhotep

Funny. Yoruba history is well documented. The most documented black race and we are proud of it

kayfra:


Funny. Yoruba history is well documented. The most documented black race and we are proud of it

You didn't even argue that you yorubas were selling yourselves to buy horses...

We are done here!...

MrColdsweat:



There is no authentic version of the Igbo history.


Going by the Yoruba history, we can claim that the Yorubas are slaves/destined to be slaves.

There are claims that Yorubas are runaway dahomey slaves, some claim they are Benin slaves who prince oduduwa took with him when he left the Benin empire.

Alaafin Aole, before he committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation and said they will be slaves wherever they are.


Sango, before the committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation, that they would be slaves to other black tribes.

When the Oyo empire was about to collapse, Yoruba states were are war with other. The Yorubas started kidnapping their fellow yorubas from neighboring states. They sold their fellow Yorubas to slavery to obtain money to buy horses for their army.

This happened for more than 15years...

Merchants from the sahel exchanged one horse for ten yoruba slaves.

I can go on and on about the history of the yorubas.

The Yoruba history is a story of cowardice, treachery and slavery.


Cc lzaa immhotep

Some claim they are Benin slave, some claimed they are diomey slave. Is this how igbo race is so confused?.

In 2020, you people still finding it hard to know your root, you keep attaching to Israel that keep rejecting you. You people that lived with money after in run away from igala people that colonized you.

Better go find your history,

Igbo are destined to be slaves that why they are still slave in the country till date.

MrColdsweat:


You didn't even argue that you yorubas were selling yourselves to buy horses...

We are done here!...

Lol is that not better than selling your children to buy Garri that is peculiar to you igbos.


Beside, how does this change the fact that igbo means slaves.

MrColdsweat:



There is no authentic version of the Igbo history.


Going by the Yoruba history, we can claim that the Yorubas are slaves/destined to be slaves.

There are claims that Yorubas are runaway dahomey slaves, some claim they are Benin slaves who prince oduduwa took with him when he left the Benin empire.

Alaafin Aole, before he committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation and said they will be slaves wherever they are.


Sango, before the committed suicide, cursed the Yoruba nation, that they would be slaves to other black tribes.

When the Oyo empire was about to collapse, Yoruba states were are war with other. The Yorubas started kidnapping their fellow yorubas from neighboring states. They sold their fellow Yorubas to slavery to obtain money to buy horses for their army.

This happened for more than 15years...

Merchants from the sahel exchanged one horse for ten yoruba slaves.

I can go on and on about the history of the yorubas.

The Yoruba history is a story of cowardice, treachery and slavery.


Cc lzaa immhotep

GMBuharii must hear this
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Another igbo thread on NL
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Gabkosh:
Lol is that not better than selling your children to buy Garri that is peculiar to you igbos.


Beside, how does this change the fact that igbo means slaves.

Keep quiet mr man.

A word can mean anything in any language.


Olaniyi means a useless person in igboland. Does that mean anybody bearing olaniyi is useless?


You yorubas sold yourselves to slavery. It is documented.

Till date, you are still slaves to the north.

Gabkosh:
Some claim they are Benin slave, some claimed they are diomey slave. Is this how igbo race is so confused?.

In 2020, you people still finding it hard to know your root, you keep attaching to Israel that keep rejecting you. You people that lived with money after in run away from igala people that colonized you.

Better go find your history,

Igbo are destined to be slaves that why they are still slave in the country till date.

See the real slaves.

kayfra:


Servant (indentured) and Slave

Potato and Potato

Ibo = Slave

Odibo does not equate to Ibo, two different words.

Are you daft or just pretending to be thick.

Further, there is nothing like Ibo as a name in our language.
Ibo means to "accuse or to lift a load onto someone". It is a verb and not a noun.

You have Igbo, which is our name. Incase your are still trying to make a linkage
Odigbo in Igbo , means "existing from ancient times"

We all know what ibo means the word you trying to play with is Igbo or Eboe as used in ancient times. No wonder you and your writer are so confused.

kayfra:


Dude, if you are not Igala by origin, then you are one of their Ibo slaves

Igalas are the Nris

No Igbo man is Igala by origin!
Igala is a much smaller ethnic group and cannot give rise to a group several times larger than they are.

On the lighter note, yesterday I was reading the Great travels and Travellers by Jules Verne, and actually saw the reference to the king of Yaariba, which obviously is Yoruba.

I had thought the Y-a-r-iba thing was a joke. No wonder you are so disgruntled.