davidmarker:


1) Benin empire was a country, a civilised country with a capital and a ruler the king.
2) therefor fighting against Benin was a conventional warfare, one for which britain was very well prepared.
3) igbo were a bunch of tribes with no central ruler, a total mess.
4) fighting igbo was tribe after tribe, you conquer one, you move to the other one, and so on.
5) stop with the "confederacy" talk, there was no such thing.

Basically, the igbo were a bunch of savage tribes. And nobody gave a hoot about your eze nri, you guys just like to add fiction to make things sweet.

Basher8583:


See them see them. Coward. War never even start you don dey run like ojukwu and namdi kanu

HallaDaTruth:
Former Nigerian Special adviser Reno Omokiri. Posted this on his Instagram account.



https://www.instagram.com/p/CIT1HHKB9Lk/?igshid=d39u923t6nsp

This is a man who tells the truth as it is.

AniOmaa:

The same savage tribes that practiced a structured political and religious system of democracy even acknowledged and studied by foreign scholars? all this achieved despite having a decentralized system of government.

The Igbos are on record to have organized the fiercest resistance to the might of the British in the history of colonialism, no tribe in Nigeria even comes close to the Ekumeku resistance that lasted from (1883-1913), yet Igbos "savages" didn't need some useless empire to achieve such feat. Meanwhile the ones with empires either had their king exiled and their bronzes and other prized historic items looted by the British (like the Benin empire), or simply forced to sign a peace treaty when faced with the barrels of British guns (Oyo empire) with little or no resistance.

Only the Kanuri people along with the Igbos can hold their head high as true warriors who bloodied the colonial war machines in decades of brutal wars before they were defeated.

CSTRR:


I don't want to go into issues of trust or distrusts


No southern group had the logistics to defeat that Biafra army alone.

This was not a time of bows, cutlass and arrows.

Which other southern group can produce a local armoured tank given the circumstances.?

Twutin:


Lol you now want to deny that the igbos have an eze nri.

The rest of what you said is trash. The eze nri was the ruler of all igbos during that time.

Nri kingdom was basically a mecca/holy land for all igbos until it’s dissolution.

Picture 1: eze nri obaliké
Picture 2: map of Nigerian kingdoms

Taye4j:


Continue to fool yourself and press your mumu button as you like.

Why don't you guys leave Lagos first and see if it will collapse or not. Come to think of it are Igbos the only tribe in Lagos apart from the Yorubas who are the owners of Lagos? No.

Every tribe is represented in Lagos and South West in general. So, if you are thinking only one tribe makes Lagos thick - I laugh in Xhosa.

Twutin:


Lol you now want to deny that the igbos have an eze nri.

The rest of what you said is trash. The eze nri was the ruler of all igbos during that time.

Nri kingdom was basically a mecca/holy land for all igbos until it’s dissolution.

Picture 1: eze nri obaliké
Picture 2: map of Nigerian kingdoms

davidmarker:


It is good to tzlk and talk and talk, but where is proof ?

Dedetwo:


There was no battle in Ore as falsely narrated by the loudmouths. The lead battalion's commander was locked up by the brigade commander in foolish Victor Banjo when he queried why the battalion should stop at Ore. Western region joined Nigerian side the day of July 29, 1966. The western regional government provided safe heaven for Gowon who roamed comfortably in Lagos while issuing orders to Yoruba to attack eastern region. Gowon ordered Adekunle to attack eastern region on July 12, 1967. On August 3, 1967, Col. Adeyinka Adebayo went to Radio Station in Ibadan to proclaim the support of western region to Gowon. Biafra initiated the attack on western front on August 8, 1967. It appears the most Yoruba peeps tend to use Oluwole calendar instead of English one to count their days.

AniOmaa:

Typically I don't think it's healthy to my time and a quotient of intelligence engaging low IQ and unfortunately uninformed mo.rons like yourself, but maybe it will suffice you to know that you don't need an *empire* to be a well organized and structured civilization (the purveyors of what we know as democracy today were the Greeks... and they didn't have an "empire". While at it, your overrated Oyo empire couldn't even hold a candle to far better empires like your Benin neighbors, Songhai empire, Mali empire, Karnem-Bornu empire and other historical African greats... yet we don't see those formidable civilizations make noise like you ewedu guzzling apes with bad cholesterol for reasoning faculties... that's what too much consumption of red stew and excess ororo does to one's IQ. You mock the Igbos for not having an empire, yet in the history of Africa, Igbos were among the few the put up the longest and fiercest resistance to the British colonial war machines. Google the Anglo-Aro wars, and then the Anglo-Ekumeku war which lasted for nearly two decades! all these facts are easily available and accessible on credible sources and database, and have been used for research purposes.

Your useless empire was on record to have been beaten black and blue by the Damohey warriors - I mean you once lost to a bunch of breast-swinging teenage girls for goodness sake , they even beheaded your king (imagine the insult) and sacked your communities before you managed to avoid complete annihilation against small girls.

Aside from Lagos (thanks to the Bini empire), that resisted the British admirably, the whole yaribanza nation fell like a pack of wild cards to the Hausa dominated Royal Niger company commanded by British officers... Aboki sacked all your communities, raped all your ugly women and forced your chiefs and Oba's to sign a peace treaty by force... only the Ijebu people even tried fighting back before they were brutally crushed by maxim guns of the British colonial soldiers.

When you brag about empires, maybe you should learn some humility and learn from your Benin who don't make noise despite having a bigger sphere of influence on the footprints of history when it came to African empires and influence.

unshakablejihad:


my man keep shut if u hv notin to say...

arochukwu kingdom fought the british for gud five months,they gave the british the taste of their own medicine..

but ur puny kingdom culdn't witstand such a small force, i thought u guys said ur oba commanded large forces nd ur empire extended to dahomey.... if ur kingdom was dat strong ah swear it wuld hv taken the british 7months to subdue it due to the large forces and manpower that wuld hv rallied behind the bini kingdom.

great kingdoms were knwn for there prowess in battle and the ability to rally battallions.

but bini na one gun shut everywere dislodge.

Etinosa1234:


Mynd44... I only have him a useful advice... He ought to be in his books... Not on nairaland

Shiver99:


Let's make it clear. The mushroom empire of Benin was only great to Benin and their brothers, the Yoruba.

It didn't have the influence or economic power of the aro confederacy or prestige and history of the nri kingdom . Thats why It was considered inferior even compared to other Yoruba towns in the west by British explorers.

Igbo lond-distance merchants were aware of your village empire. It was a place where artisans could ply their trade due to already high supply of skilled craftsmen in Igboland, pack up and go home.

It was not the slightest bit considered a threat or concern, and rarely did any Igbos want to stay. This is why at the height of the Benin 'empire's, most Igbos didn't know it existed.

The only 'empire' in the world that has ever threatened the Igbo nation was the British empire. Which forced them to unify their various democratic states into one unit.

Shiver99:


Let's make it clear. The mushroom empire of Benin was only great to Benin and their brothers, the Yoruba.

It didn't have the influence or economic power of the aro confederacy or prestige and history of the nri kingdom . Thats why It was considered inferior even compared to other Yoruba towns in the west by British explorers.

Igbo lond-distance merchants were aware of your village empire. It was a place where artisans could ply their trade due to already high supply of skilled craftsmen in Igboland, pack up and go home.

It was not the slightest bit considered a threat or concern, and rarely did any Igbos want to stay. This is why at the height of the Benin 'empire's, most Igbos didn't know it existed.

The only 'empire' in the world that has ever threatened the Igbo nation was the British empire. Which forced them to unify their various democratic states into one unit.

Shiver99:


Let's make it clear. The mushroom empire of Benin was only great to Benin and their brothers, the Yoruba.

It didn't have the influence or economic power of the aro confederacy or prestige and history of the nri kingdom . Thats why It was considered inferior even compared to other Yoruba towns in the west by British explorers.

Igbo lond-distance merchants were aware of your village empire. It was a place where artisans could ply their trade due to already high supply of skilled craftsmen in Igboland, pack up and go home.

It was not the slightest bit considered a threat or concern, and rarely did any Igbos want to stay. This is why at the height of the Benin 'empire's, most Igbos didn't know it existed.

The only 'empire' in the world that has ever threatened the Igbo nation was the British empire. Which forced them to unify their various democratic states into one unit.

davidmarker:

1200 is only the number of white soldiers, not counting the black soldiers who fought as cannon fodders for britain.
The british had maxim guns with which they had walked through everybody in the region.
Also the british only managed to capture Benin city, the capital, but some Benin generals continued the guerrilla warfare for a year or so.
The british forces were led by an admiral. It took britain 2 years to prepare for the war.
putting things in context...it is called telling the truth.

davidmarker:

"democracy" amongst cannibals, because you are forgetting that igbo tribes were famous for cannibalism and eating white people in particular.
I guess igbo held elections to elect the next people to be slaughtered and eaten.
But anioma are not igbo eventhough you slowpoke seem to be brainwashed into thinking anioma are.
Anioma were citizens of one great precolonial country, I will let you guess which one.

Bkayyy:
Our people said that Nwoke nusia ọgụ, Nwaanyi enwere akụkọ meaning "After Men are done fighting, Women tell the stories"
Ndigbo and Hausa-Fulani are done fighting the Biafran war, now Yorubas jump up and down telling stories whenever the war is mentioned.
Shameless people.
You won't see Arrewa say nonsense in sensitive issues like this or Ofoigbo. These are people from the tribe of warriors that participated in the fight but the Yorubas that know nothing will shout and shout and even quote Kemi Olunloyo's blog as proof for the fight in 1967-70.
Lol, what do you even expect from a tribe that the greatest war in their history was the fight against the women of dahormey that they lost.

unshakablejihad:

davidmarker:


Sorry, I don't consider texts taken out of context, if you want to quote a paper, then provide access to it, otherwise there is no ppaper, for all I know, you might have written that paper yourself.

unshakablejihad:

unshakablejihad:

osuulola:


True! Great Biafra did it all without help. Her emissaries were just travelling all around the world to take selfies.

Oh, No selfies those day! It's friends - penpals they were making. They only said Bia to France and some little mercenaries here and there!

davidmarker:


Sorry, I don't consider texts taken out of context, if you want to quote a paper, then provide access to it, otherwise there is no ppaper, for all I know, you might have written that paper yourself.
Even in your hypothetical paper, it seems the 1200 people refer only to the royal marines.
To which you shall add the other forces

HallaDaTruth:
For your little mind, you think say Nigeria go fit face Biafra without help?. Nigeria had to go and get Egypt, the then soviet Union, England, chad, Niger, Cameroon and Morocco to face Biafra. Tribalism don affect una brain. You people can't think straight. If Nigeria is powerful, let Nigeria defeat boko haram

unshakablejihad:


lmaoss so wiki is account abt ur fable empire was written byy me is dat wat u're trying to say.

so the account of harry rawson regarding to ur midget kingdom as smelling,uncivilised nd litered with dead bodies used for sacrifice are all fake right? hahahaha.. plz deal with ur inferiority complex ur kingdom was a stench nd smelt of barbarism...damn

davidmarker:

So it is more credible now because there is a picture on it ? man you were quoting wikipedia ?
How old are you slowpoke ?
Which kind of adult quotes wikipedia which anybody can modify as he wants ?
Too much cannibalism by your ancestors have affected your brain.

unshakablejihad:


lmaoss so wiki is account abt ur fable empire was written byy me is dat wat u're trying to say.

so the account of harry rawson regarding to ur midget kingdom as smelling,uncivilised nd litered with dead bodies used for sacrifice are all fake right? hahahaha.. plz deal with ur inferiority complex ur kingdom was a stench nd smelt of barbarism...damn

Etinosa1234:


All African tribes practiced Human sacrifice... Just that Benin own was worse