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Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by etibaba(m): 10:32am On Sep 05, 2020 |
kikero:And Heineken isn't a legit name? The case here is that those names are very uncommon here. 1 Like |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Thunderblasts(m): 10:32am On Sep 05, 2020 |
My student's Surname that year was fynface and she actually had a fine face. God help those people! They seem lost. 11 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Nobody: 10:32am On Sep 05, 2020 |
Saao: Nigeria coming under colonial rule mostly happened by 1. Conquest or by 2. Treaties (a traditional ruler would sign a treaty accepting British protection. Sometimes these treaties were obtained under dubious methods, and I'll leave it at that). No tribe sold any tribe to Lugard. Considering that many Nigerians at the time of colonization and even as late as 1960 did not know any other part of Nigeria save their village and maybe the neighborhood region 6 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by slimiyke(m): 10:33am On Sep 05, 2020 |
Does it mean they can't trace their ancestral root even after the western invasion through colonialism? How can a certain set of people completely lost a sense of ancestral identification? 10 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Ladiesdoctor(m): 10:34am On Sep 05, 2020 |
There is nothing about it......those bearing the names are anus lickers. Shikena. 2 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by dreu2fine(m): 10:34am On Sep 05, 2020 |
MrOjay1:in bayelsa also, |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by BananaPeel(m): 10:35am On Sep 05, 2020 |
oneeast3:. They didn't throwaway their origin but only adopted names due to difficulty in pronunciation. Warri isn't left out too. if they threw away their origin they would have been living like the whites, but that is not the case. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Nobody: 10:35am On Sep 05, 2020 |
etibaba: Apart from Secundus, the names are all funky so to speak Especially Heineken ( I wonder why that senator has not changed that his name, and what was his father thinking?) Still it isn't peculiar to ijawland, once saw a Zimbabwean being interviewed for a general documentary on African history. His name; Tournament Musawa. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Spiff20(m): 10:35am On Sep 05, 2020 |
There is West, Brown, Green, Yellowe, Hart, Douglas, Graham, Pepple and I'm Spiff. Thanks to European influence. 5 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by prigoz(m): 10:36am On Sep 05, 2020 |
Some also bear the name as result of the parents ie some of them were fathered by foreigners, I got this info through the indigenous people. 10 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by UniportAgbero: 10:36am On Sep 05, 2020 |
RedboneSmith: Very apt! I'm an Ijaw man and have also noticed this. Okrika is the westernized version of Wakirike, Bonny is the anglicized version of the native Ibani, Opobo likweise is from Opubo. In okrika, you have families bearing George, etc. In Kalabari, you have Harry, Bob-manuel, Briggs, Yellowe, Princewill. In Bonny, you have Jumbo, Manilla, Finecountry, Brown, Peterside, etc. It's all a rob-off of a long and entagling relationship with the early europeans. 16 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Mistakemaker: 10:36am On Sep 05, 2020 |
oneeast3:The Onitsha people quite know their origin, so they maintained it 3 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Guide777(m): 10:36am On Sep 05, 2020 |
codemaniacs:really? |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Openbusiness: 10:37am On Sep 05, 2020 |
MrOjay1:Some Southwest surnames were influenced too. You will find them with surnames such as Thomas, George, Mann, Rhodes etc. But true, most Southwesterners didn't adopt colonial surnames. They mostly adopted first or middle names. 8 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by etibaba(m): 10:37am On Sep 05, 2020 |
kikero: 3 Likes
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Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Esji80(m): 10:39am On Sep 05, 2020 |
mamaafrik:Ok, but slave trade was abolished since early .18th Century now |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Nobody: 10:39am On Sep 05, 2020 |
The major reasons for colonising the well cultured brown skinned with their names are for easy pronunciation and identification so as to create easy connection and relationship.. Same way it was influenced in African Church by the early missionaries in terms of baptismal names.. They found it difficult pronouncing our native names, so they ended up giving us their names for easy process and flow of inter communal relationship, NOT BECAUSE IT IS A COMMAND FROM GOD, except that the name is ungodly.. Reason, most African Christians are brainwashed for change of well meaning native names to the colonials' during/after baptism. 1 Like |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by UniportAgbero: 10:39am On Sep 05, 2020 |
oneeast3: see your sef? How can Europeans that came using ships leave the coasts of Niger Delta and navigate all the way to Onitsha that isn't a coastal town before coming down to Niger Delta centuries later? Just asking! 31 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Tajbol4splend(m): 10:39am On Sep 05, 2020 |
etibaba: Lol 1 Like
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Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Exmilitant(m): 10:40am On Sep 05, 2020 |
MrOjay1:The riverain people of rivers, delta and bayelsa were slaves enroute to the americas in the late seventeenth century they were freed by the british navy in the atlantic and dumped in those locations. The british gave them those names as means of identification. Overtime, a common language was developed among them. Bonny, calabari, engenni, nembe, brass, itsekiri, okrika, ogbia, and the ijaws. Although, some of them are outcast and renegades from igbos. Igbos calls them Olu. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by codemaniacs: 10:41am On Sep 05, 2020 |
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Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by kikake: 10:41am On Sep 05, 2020 |
MelesZenawi: In the Uk, people of Scotland do not pretend that the wealth on the soil of London is Scottish wealth; Scots can’t even take it as commonwealth. There is fiscal federalism in the Uk. Areas use wealth in their places to develop their areas, then pay tax to the central government. No militants in the UK. 6 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by juman(m): 10:43am On Sep 05, 2020 |
It shows there was one time having foreign surname was in vogue and highly respected in their communities. So most people there followed the pattern. 2 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by onward4life(m): 10:43am On Sep 05, 2020 |
MrOjay1: because of d baggas in them |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by oneeast3: 10:43am On Sep 05, 2020 |
UniportAgbero: Show me one college or even church in Rivers state that is older than DMGS, CKC or QRS all in Onitsha. These colleges were established by the British in Onitsha because they actually settled down in Onitsha, something they never did in Rivers except using coastline for movement of slaves trade. They never established anything in the present day Niger delta like they did in Onitsha. Why? 2 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by iykejackchree: 10:43am On Sep 05, 2020 |
oneeast3: Stop talking about things you don't have any knowledge on, which Onitsha, The Europeans came through the hinterland and settled with the locals first, does Onitsha have have sea or ocean? 16 Likes |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by KingsArome(m): 10:44am On Sep 05, 2020 |
MrOjay1: This one na wetin north the call Yahoo name. |
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Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by HarryDuce(m): 10:44am On Sep 05, 2020 |
It was/is more a thing of prestige --to distinguish themselves from their neighbours-- and for easy pronunciation on the path of the Europeans after centuries of close interactions. They didn't "lose" their culture like some ignoramuses claim. They bear European surnames alongside their native names. For every Horsfall, Lawson, Hart, Tariah, Pepple, Bobmanuel, Quaker, Douglas, Braide, David West, Princewill, Jackreece, Jack-Rich, Briggs, you have; Amachree, Dagogo, Igoniwari, Alalibo, Origoni, Batubo, Kalio, Diepreye, Okilo, Ikoli, Dokubo, Omubo, Darego, Owunari, Idoniboye-Obu, Ibulubo, Ibama and many more . 12 Likes 1 Share |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by Nobody: 10:45am On Sep 05, 2020 |
Esji80: LOL....yes fish and other kinds of cargo 1 Like |
Re: About The Surnames Of Rivers State Indigenes by DeejaywonDJ1(m): 10:45am On Sep 05, 2020 |
Some change their name due to religion and some to command respect due to their education and class and Most of them are descendants of freed slaves returnees as well, the Amaros, Saros. The returnees mostly resided in the Lagos Colony, with substantial populations in Abeokuta and Ibadan. Some also settled in Calabar, Port Harcourt and other cities in the Niger Delta. Though many were originally dedicated Anglophiles in Nigeria, they later adopted an indigenous and patriotic attitude on Nigerian affairs due to a rise in discrimination in the 1880s, and were later known as cultural nationalists. Notable families of the returnees are: Davies Cole Fernández Fernando Coker Sawyer Ransome Kuti Bright Smith Collins Fergusson Thompsons Vivour Williams Briggs Clarke etc. 8 Likes |
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