wow do you see this people, these are direct descendants of the biblical ancient hebrew israelites as well as most of negros that are in various countries by way of slave trade!
FUCK YOU STUPID AFRICAN IGBO PEOPLE, YOU HATE US AFRICAN AMERICANS, yet you cant fucking control the few whites and asians milking you fucking country. You come in america preaching holy than though politics as if you control shit.....you smelly stinky mufuckas!
@333cated YOU are sure speaking for yourself and not for other Black Americans,because then it would be a SHAME that you would feel confident using these nasty words against anyone talk less of fellow Blacks mmm. The Hate is actually YOU! You hating the Igbos, am so sick of Low Brains like you talking nonsense . Actually with the way you sound it is obvious that Tu est Mal dans Ta Peau! Get a life, this video is not for you to see! CIAO!
During the time of slavery the British transported large group of Igbo people from west Africa via the Caribbean to the main land settlement of Central America. This settlement eventual became known as British Honduras and later Belize. A large section of Belize city became known as "Igbo town" because of the presence of the Igbo people. There descendants can now be found all over the nation of Belize including the current Prime Minister Dean Barrow..
These are merely a remnant of of the lost tribes in diaspora within the middle passage(Africa)..This is why so many were & are targeted & slaughtered via European /Hamitic sanctions through eugenics (aids ,small pox etc.) wars & starvation..When you study their culture you will amazingly see many if not most them still observing countless customs found within the Torah(old testament ) till this date.This is why chattel slaves were quickly stripped of their names & heritage via cunning Europeans.
Ifuru ka ndi Igbo si ekwutosi onwe ha. Obu maka na ndi Igbo hiri nne kwetere na Uka Kraist ka unu jiri choo i si na unu si Obodo ozo? Obodo di na akwukwo ndi uka Kraist? Unu na ezuzu ezuzu o. Ayi bu nde Igbo. Ayi si ana Igbo. Ayi esihi ebe ozo. Unu ekwutosizina nde IGBO. Igbo Kwezuonu!
@chung1chu Enyi Igbo bu ndi israel.Ga je juo nna gi onye ibu. Ndi Igbo na ebe ugwu , ndi Igbo enweghi Eze, Ndi Igbo na edobe omenala, asusu Igbo na asusu ndi Jew yiri onwe ha nke bu na onye obula nwere ako na uche ga ama na nkea AGBAGHI AKA. Ga juo ese tupu i ti nye onu na okwu i na amaghi isi na odu ya.
Nzuzu di na udi na udi. Mu na umuazi anaha ako onu na internet. Oburu na onwere ezigbo ihe ichoro ikwu, ikwu o maka na Ihe nine ikwuru bu nno iko onu. I ma di Ihe bu Jew? Ima na obu asusu, ka obu obodo, ka onwere ihe ozo obu? Kowara onye obuna ka asusu igbo siri yie asusu ndi jew. Odi mma ka onye si na oma ihe kwuo okwu doro anya, obuhu i bia na internet na acho onye oya ako onu ma onwehe ihe oma. Ewu.
@chung1chu Nkea gosiri na ibu onye ekomeko.Oburu na ichoro ka akuziere gi, wetuo onwe gi ala, dbe nti were muta ihe.Kama oburu na i si na ibu okacha mara ebe ona enweghi ihe imara, i noro na isi na iko onu.Ihe nke m dere gi mgbe mbu enweghi iko onu di ya.Ma gi onwe gi bidoro na ekwu okwu di agha. Oburu na ichoro imata ebe Igbo si, na Ndi Igbo bu, di nkwa dobe itughari uche na edemede ndi mere nyocha mere ri mgbe gbo.Obunadi nwa afo Igbo bu Oluadah Equiano dere na 17thcentury na Igbo bu Ndi Jew.
@RobertsDigital records of slave shipments shows that most of the slaves shipped to Caribbeans and North America are of Igbo extraction followed by the Ghana Akan tribe.The Yorubas and the series of other Africans were carried to mainly South America and part of the antiles.This does not also mean there may be no traces of certain tribes among the majority but that was record.Research is ongong now in one of the British univ looking at even names in those old record.
@RobertsDigital My brother if you want to argue the point you can get across to white Americans who did research on major Afro American settlers and identified Igbos.They went ahead to build Igbo village at Virginia.Because it was hard for them to construct prototype Igbo village they now called on an Igbo prof to bring Igbos to construct their village.You can as well go and argue with The National Archives and many other documentations WRITTEN BY NON IGBOS AND EVEN NON AFRICANS.
Igbos are NOT Hebrews! Igbos are genetically Indigenous Africans. Hebrews/Habarus were/are from the Levant. Igbos are closely genetically related to Bantus. Even their language is Proto-Bantu. Almost all African tribes range in complexion, the Igbos just do a bit more than other Wwst Africans.
@DaTruth2024 if language is what u will use to judge if one is hebrew or not then u re wrong. Ethiopian jews and the lemba do not speak anything close to hebrew language. but the av been proven to be hebrews. Igbos are Hebrews and its been confirmed..
@DaTruth2024 Igbos are of Jewish origin. The Igbo Jewish heritage is distinct. This is something that happened centuries ago. The problem is that people with little knowledge of Igbo heritage keep making blind argument. There are even many Igbos that know next to nothing of the Igbo heritage. Some of them do not even know their home town talks less.
You Igbos, you Hausa, you Yoruba, and all of you Nigerians: YOU DO ME PROUD, AND BIG TOO. I LOVE ALL OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR SAVING THE WORLD!! As was said in biblical prophecy: "ETHIOPIA (AFRICA) SHALL ONE DAY STRETCH FORTH ITS HAND".No one will ever divide and defeat us again. NEVER AGAIN!!
@SeventhSun That was a sketch of king Jaja of Opobo exiled by the British Empire to Barbados (or one of those islands) for resisting their influence. He died on his way back to his kingdom. In his official photo, he is dressed in full Opobo attire, but I agree with you.
@SeventhSun the white man have no particular clothes...white man have a culture to.....we used to were cutural clothing but that was like 100 years ago..
@OftheSoil if they are hebrew and descendents of abraham this means they have a close connections with the hebrew ethiopians of ethiopia as most are from the tribe of judah,gad,levi. as we see igbos look so diverse..
@fmcneillii Not most overall, but a good number of them. The North American African Diaspora is mostly made up of people who are of Mande, Igbo, and Angola/Congo descent.
Keep it up, don't entertain even a small trace of urbanization... lead the life as such along with other living creature. At the same time maintain the number in a well balanced way so that other should not trouble.
@bioarcheology If your ancestry was traced to Enugu then that probably means your ancestor was probably a Nike (nee-kay), and was brought down to be sold by the Aro who they were in alliance with. Your ancestor could also be from Enugwu-Ngwo. Enugu is a city created in the early 20th century, but the groups above lived there before it was incorporated. Nike means 'in strength.' If you want to see a sample of that areas culture on youtube search for 'Adamma masquerade'. Congratulations.
What we call Igbo people, are a mix of Ijaws, Binis, Igalla, Efiks , Ibibbio etc. The same goes for all the tribes I have mentioned. We all share a lot of characteristics as well as bloodlines. We all know south east Nigerian tribes have been assimilating with each other since our migrations into this region. Let us try to be inclusive, it is the only way to real progress. An Ngwa has more in common with an Ibani, than with someone from Onitsha, so define Igbo.
@EgbesuJuju2010 Igbo are a people who's language and culture have an underlying similarity that is fundamental to each and every one of those cultures. The Igbo have the same deities/religious practices, they have the same market days, and the dialects and languages are over 70% similar to each other. They also physical look alike. Igbo populations migrated from a common stem. Not all the Igbo are mixed with those peoples and not all of those peoples want to be lumped with the Igbo.
@OftheSoil No one is saying everyone must be lumped with Igbo, that would never work as you pointed out. However my point is that like the Yoruba there is great variety within Igbo groups especially in language.The point I was trying to make is that is that some Igbo groups are closer to non Igbo groups than they are to some other groups that are classified as Igbo. I also believe a majority of Igbo groups are mixed with these other groups just some are not aware of it. It is not a bad thing.
@EgbesuJuju2010 I don't have a problem with Igbo being mixed with other groups, but not all of them are. I don't have a problem with unity, just that these different groups have different origins and cultures. I don't know of any group considered Igbo that are more like their neighbours, I only know of similarities. I don't refer to these groups as 'tribes' because that would be incorrect. Names have meanings in their language, for 'Kwa Ibo', if it was used, it was a European misunderstanding.
@OftheSoil It unifies South East Nigeria as a people. There are Ngwa people in Cameroun, they are not considered Igbo but are the same group of Ngwa in Nigeria. Ibibbio I hear used to be called Kwa Ibo but now are not considered Igbo. Do you not think a lot of these terms are political and do not adequately describe the identity of Nigerian tribes. Do not think I am trying to balkanize Igbo groups, I am actually trying to unify us as south east Nigerian people, some may call it Biafra .
@vixxy02 What are you doing in this Igbo forum? You said that Igbo women bleach the bodies for higher bride prices? Igbo women are the first in line when it comes to marriage not you terrorist from Quatar. You hid your identity through your diplomat father and became someone from Calabar
@crankhousedope oh ok cool nice to see us everywhere. i dont think that verse is talking about moors. japhet is dwelling in the tents of shem right now in israel calling themselves jewish
@crankhousedope because are they are the original israelites. their, our slavery was prophesied in dueteronomy 28. verse 68 is a clear indicator it being that we are the only people in history that this has happen to. these are our people i know my people when i see them. its 2010 and people still dont realize the israelite couldnt have been white according to history and the bible.
i dun get how ppl are using the bible to trace their roots...the bible is a religious book...if hindu scripts had an explanation for black ppl would u believe that?
@crankhousedope Some Igbo claim Hebrew ancestry esp. those of Nri. I don't know the whole story, but it can't be denied that there are strong similarities between old Hebrew traditions & that of the Igbo, even O. Equiano noted this in his 1789 journal. Many of them in America were concentrated in Virginia & N. Carolina, but they were taken elsewhere too. I think the Atlantic researches say around 1/5 of the slaves in the US were probably Igbo, there's even an 'Ebo landing' in S. Carolina.
I dont understand how some people sold "their own people" hundreds of years ago and now they are proud to claim them as their own, referring to DNA testing. It has been scientifically reported that a sing Black (American) dated back in the 1800s had a family comprising about 4o DIFFERENT AFRICAN TRIBES !!!. If y'all wanna claim the celebrities as your people, go ahead and make yourselves feel good. ha ha.
@demybliss1 Who told you that anyone featured in this video is not claiming their Igbo ancestry? Show me one person in here that you think that has not claimed their Igbo ancestry please or your comment will be a waste of your time.
@demybliss1 africa used serfdom notslavery stop with this shit, and they didnt sell there own people, they saw them sselfs as different, like the vikings selling the slavakians and scandinavians same race different people, or the white americans who came to america were originally slaves to brites
these are our people they come in all tones like us in america despite what most people think, we dont have to mix to come in different tones. look at dude at 1:31 he looks just like martin luther king
this proves that we are the same people. they look just like us here in america and scattered throughout the world by the slave trade. we are israelites. people say we are hametic but we look NOTHING like these hametic tribes and no its not because of mixig, we still have our dna strongly intact. we look like these people we are israelites
people mistake so many things when they say we are one nigeria no no we are not they is noting like nigeria ontil the british brings 3 kinds of people together in 1914 we are living on our own before the year 1914 i want many people to understand that if some one said we live in one nations now why did all african did not live as one nation since we did not have any ocean the share us that biafran want they freedom is not cramie cos many have taking they freedom long live biafran
@bellacinderellakk Ta! mechi onu gi there! keep quiet! you better stop using same poison the caucasians employ in destroying blacks ok! Ine kwu du umuazi!
@bellacinderellakk yep you should see your sexy cuzins over here in america, haiti, jamaica, brazil, cuba, puerto rico, and everywhere else we were scattered. my beautiful diverse people.
@bellacinderellakk What a foolish comment. Igbos look like Igbos , some carribeans look like us. Get rid of your complex, people all over Africa are beautiful.
BTW I am half Igbo and love Igbo people, but your comment shows a lack of self esteem.
@bellacinderellakk lol i've been saying this for a while. Igbo people are the only Africans that looks similar to African-Americans and other new world blacks. We tend not to have a harsh look :-)
@bellacinderellakk lol its more of the fact that carribeans look like you/us...they come from us. I love nigerian girls becuse in nigeria you lot have a tendency to look so different, with so many different shades of brown and textures of hair. You lot are beautiful. South africans as well.
This video is so cool - thank you for making it and posting it.
Although there are speculations about our origins, it seems we've pretty much been in south eastern Nigeria for as long as it's possible: apparently they've found pottery dating back thousands (ie >2) of years (need to get some papers to back me up though!).
@aquerius23 There's no video, but I can tell you that the pottery was rediscovered by Thurstan Shaw in Nsukka, the same man that uncovered Igbo-Ukwu, and it proved that there was a community in present day Nsukka since 5000 BC. You can search for books with this subject, but not much has been explained although there are a few books that mention the pottery.
i loveee this video! as a 15 yr old igbo livin in the UK, its easy to be uneducated abowt ur roots and jst by watchin this video i learnt soo mch and its made me 10 times more patriotic than i was in the 1st place! thanks!
@fayahsoul yh i do go back like every 2 yrs and i think it's amazin bt these r the sort of things i wud never have thought abowt askin my parents simply because it wouldnt have crossed my mind... i jst think its great that theres a video like this on youtube with a brief summary of igbo history
Jesus Christ is Lord and His walk on earth and the power, influence and teachings associated with His name today are sufficient evidence and undisputable, irrefutable testimony and proof of His superlative divinity. John 1: 1-14, Psalm 34:8.
you are lost. you have deified your oppressor. christianized igbo land today is much worse in all respects compared to traditional igboland of yesteryears. why? think!
@fayahsoul My brother, we have repeatedly heard this. All humanity came from an African man and woman. Cultures and general knowledge have been exchanged amongst the world's peoples for centuries and centuries. People accept what they think is beneficial to them and drop the contrary. Everything one's ancestors did are not correct just as everything we are doing now is not. It also may help some to note that Christianity is not of European origination. Jesus Christ was and is not caucasian.
well you haven't answered the question.A tree is known by its fruit so if the fruits of christianized igboland is worse than the fruits of traditional igboland what does that tell you?Yes the story of jesus is a corrupted version of the osirian myth of ancient black egypt.That your buy-bull, i mean bible, is the fabricated product of a bunch of white devils at the nicene council in 325AD.Omenani ga adigide.Omenani ka ndi ichie ji nwe luzie obodo.Rapu ihe ndiocha n'eme, ogbasaro gi.
@fayahsoul Ezigbo nwanne m. Oburu na m nye gi adresi ozi-ikuku (e.mail) ma obu tel no nke m, I ga akpo m? Echere m na ozighi ezi anyi ikpa okwu nke a na ama saiba(cyber space). Mee ka mmara ihe I chere. O buru na asisa gi bu n'ezia, a gam ezigara gi ya na inbox gi. Biko hichapurum ya ma I detukwa ya. Ndewo!
@fayahsoul That is ehh!! Am telling you Nwanne, this BUY-BULL is a virus that is destroying the very existence and culture of nde biafra! i thought i was the only one with eye o!
@fayahsoul My brother, you just hit the fucking nail on the head!! That counsel of nicea with a bunch of mutated-negroids with the most depraved mind is the very virus, behind the HIV that has sofar, weakened the culture of nde biafar and all afrikans in general!..
Israel in deviation of devine instructions worshipped foreign gods at various historical periods in the wilderness(Exodus 32) and era of the kings(Judges 2:10 -15, 3:7, 1Samuel 7: 2-6,1Kings 12: 28 - 31). This violations of the sacred covenant elicited grave penalties such as: foreign conquest, enslavement, oppression of heathen nations and exile from the Promised Land.
@TheNomercy12, You have made statements that has no clarity. There are arguments everywhere on Youtube and it takes more than one to argue. Why pick on mine? Are they all arguements?. Some see it as commentaries and simple expressions of views. I did not request your support for Biafra even if I cherish it, so I cannot restrict your withdrawal of such, whatever that means. Why not comment on issues rather than sounding intolerant on people voicing unacceptable opinions to you?
@Biafrans7 bro, i see that you can throw a light on a particular issue.. i just like to no if you have any light to throwv about some africa countries that has bia b4 or after,, eg biafra, bambia, zambia, nubia, namibia etc you have any link to explain the relationship among them?
Nri Kingdom is the first in Nigeria from 9th century A.D. Imperialism which is nothing but stealing, Killing and destroying - devil's attributes, is criminal and evil hence its Igbo rejection. With God's enablement, the Igbo have ever fought oppression since they first encountered one - King Jaja, Haitian and Bolivarian revolutions, Pan-Africanism, Slavery abolition movement and Nigeria's political freedom had the Igbo playing pioneer roles. Glory! Alleluia!!!
Who was that that new the world was round before the means and how did he? Explain yourself. Am glad am addressing your real problems. Why quote Matthew that talked about Christ if you are anti Christ and believe the Bible is all false? You have not explained what you claim to have explained. You are a liar too. Of course, those who deny Christ's existence while knowing in their hearts the truth but rejecting it are liars. Why is it easier to believe in God whom you have not seen? Explain now!
nomadicbede, The stereotyping of believers in Christ as gentle, longsuffering, kind and forgiving is not an excuse to attack them. You may just get what you do not expect. Yes they may emulate Christ but Christ was angry too in the temple and with Pharisees. Christ also delivers justice. Don't forget that. That anti-Christ spirit in you will be resisted with all certainty. The Bible remains forever true and you are mad cause it speaks against your sins. Yes, it does, so you rave and rant.
nomadicbede, if man believed the aerth was flat, did your information state that "man" was Christians and nobody else? Your little newly found history gets you exuberant and speaking before you think. How did man know the world was round until he had examined it? Why shift the blame of prior ignorance to just Christians? You are sick and it is not name-calling. Your statements afirm your believe in God. I ask: Why do you believe in God if you've not seen Him? The Church fought not the faith.
Your challenge has been all disproved with facts and rationality and you are mad for it. My statements will judge you as the truth will. You are entitled to your opinion but not to your facts. A fool who believes there is God whom he has not seen but disputes Christ whose evidence of walking on earth abound. Take your sick head to the doctor for proper psychological examination. You may have long been in dire need of that. Things have to be real because psychopaths like you say so. Get help now!
nomadicbed, keep feeling sorry please. You are blind and lost, even to commonsense that you had the obnoxious, repugnant and obscure guts to challenge the existence of Christ. Be gone! You are a less than a blip in the radar of contention. Find out your problems and face them since no reasonable person can read without pitying you. I am a sinner saved by His grace, but I won't take any nonsense from fools who make stupid statements. I wish all those who believe won't. God has love and anger too
nomadic, I believe I have given you facts and logic that has unfortunately dislodged your trash. Live and die opposing Christ Okay. I cannot make you a believer in him but I can disprove the nonsense you rant. Has anything changed because of your unbelief. Nothing. Lnock yourself out and keep displaying your air-head in opposing of a faith that has spread over 2000 years. HIS walk on earth even changed the world so much that that time is marked by that - 2010 A.D. "Tedious" means right, I guess.
Here you talk about West's "Super-hero." If there is an idiot here, is it not clearly you? Your emptyheadedness is a burden to you. If you believe in God, why so? What proof do you have there is God then? Have you seen him? Why have you not answered my question on your faith. What do you believe in? Stop hurting yourself and being an ignorant moronic psychopath, idiot! You see, I can give you a dose of your trash. You will get more if you can't talk like someone who has been to school. Have you?
nomadicbede, Don't think Christians do not lambast foolhardy people. I asked if you believe Mohammed exists, never said you did. And please scroll back and show yourself where I talked of hearing voices. Your name-calling shows you have no point, hence your base resorts. You will be very well ignored if this continues.
nomadicbede, if you can't help yourself, how can you help others? Virtually 6 billion people in the world talk to their supposed or actual "Gods" and its called "prayer," but you ignore that and attack the Christian for talking to his. Are you not sick? Do you believe in God or are you an atheist? Speak up on this if you possess the courage and forthrightness. Ranting and raving against the Gospel is an infinitesimal effort that can only undermine your malicious intent. You can't talk sensibly.
nomadicbede, You are not a 100% sure Mohammed existed but you are a 100% sure Christ did not? Listen to yourself if you can. Am somehow amused at your rants and raves which do not intelligently address the issues raised. You are actually exposing your ignorant frustrations which is caused by your unstable beliefs. If you have not read the Bible, do not be mad at those who have. Books are read all over the world for knowledge of their content.
Did Mohammed exist? Please give me an answer on that. Why do people admit God has the infinite power to do all things but they deny Him the power to have A SON,(John 3: 16) or HOLY SPIRIT or ANGELS. The faith is there as others all over the world. You chose it or refuse it. In no name on earth are people raised from the dead, healed of myriad sicknesses - cripples walk, blind see, Aids healed, Cancer, Leukemia, etc. Those who worship Him must believe that He is. Ask Him to show you that He is.
Yes there are God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - Quotes - Matthew 28: 19; John 1: 1 - 10, 6: 46, 8: 19, 14: 5 - 14, 26, 15: 26,. The New Testament describes how God as Man ministered in Israel as Jesus of Nazareth. Thus in Jesus thus in Jesus tthere is further revelation of God, particularly as having the nature of Holy Love. (1 John 1: 5). If God the father sends a part of Him as His Son to earth, why should that be impossible to comprehend? No man has raised the dead before to live.
I take it that you are not acquainted with Christian history, but you should not be assertive of things you are not well informed about. The scrolls of the epistles are still there today and John was with Christ and wrote about him and that was not thousands of years after Christ but within a century of His physical departure. Please get your facts right.
nomadicbede, you know, just making unfounded baseless statements as Christ not existing will be easily ignored by the serious. Make serious statements if you are to be taken seriously. Yes religion has caused lots of problem but I speak of a relationship with Christ which is ultimately personal, not religion. Truth has also caused problems for the lie; the good for the bad, light for darkness, justice for injustice, righteousness for wickedness and so on. Africa is not exempt from that.
nomadicbede, Those that dispute Christ existence mention evidences of a piece of cloth; historical writings and records. Should evidence not then count? Pilgrimage of millions of people to myriad sites in Israel also should be ignored? Jesus came to ask us to worship God but also Him. He said: "I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life." - John 14: 6. Just mentioning a verse that inspires Christian Faith. Contents of a belief- system should be discussed to better understand the faith expressed.
nomadicbede, no-one is compelling you to believe in Christ. The choice is yours as anyone's. The hypocrisy here is that people have never seen God yet you advocate belief in Him but Christ who was physically on earth you reject His existence. Why? So Christ blasphemed for saying He is the Son of God? If we humans ascribe "sons of God" to our identity, why not Christ? Yes, Jews believe Christ was a prophet,(his existence) not the Son of God. But is all they believe right? This is no nonsense.
@nomadicbede, The Bible is a historical account and also a spiritual message. Yes question, question all things! Question Christianity and question your faith also. It is through questioning and seeking that we find the truth. Like other continents, Africa has never been a land of cultural, religious or linguistic homogeneity. There has been, always, multifarious religions in Africa, as much as its linguistic plurality. Why are my statements considered "bashing" but yours exonerated? May I know?
@nomadicbede, Are you disputing Christ because of his unparalleled influence in the world; in true search of the truth or simply to dissuade people from embracing what you may have adjudged wrong since its "foreign?" Its no racial bait that the "middle-east" was in Africa and inhabited by people of color. How are people "Bible-bashed," "bullied" and "harangued"with simple statements. Its not my "stories about a son" but written by witnesses as other historical accounts. It destroys Africa? How?
"In tracing the sources of many Ibo customs, the investigator cannot help being struck with the similitude between them and some of the ideas and practices of the levitical code." --- Notes on the Ibo Country and the Ibo People, Southern Nigeria by the Reverend George T. Basden (MA). The Geographical Journal. Vol. XXXlX No 3. March, 1912.
also it was the igbo people who developed the NSIBIDI system of writing in WEst africa. Yes we did have WRITING in west africa although 99.999% of black people in the west are oblivious to that FACT. Go ahead and google it: NSIBIDI writing west africa. It was an ideographic style of writing developed by initiates into the secret societies. ITs similar to hieroglyphs in that the writing system is comprised of SYMBOLS. These same people built the 10 pyramids of west africa
@TheBlackRite Nsibidi is in my video about the Igbo influence in the Caribbean. Many Igbo people do get mistaken for Americans or Caribbeans and vise versa. One day all will find their root.. Thanks for watching and commenting.
well ya know some blacks here in the amerikkka change their slave names to African names. I dint know osi from africa. I thought he was born in the u.s and changed his name like some blacks do. thats all
sexy as black women at 0:29 lol1 Notice the genetic diversity?Light skinned, dark skinned, in between. Proof positive that our genetic diversity here in amerikkka is NOT solely due to amalgamation. We are the ORIGINAL BLACK MAN AND WOMAN and the other races are MUTATED from us. But most people- blacks included- claim that lighter skinned blacks in amerikkka were diluted through miscegenation. BUt the color diversit of these west africans who have NOT mixed with crackers prove them wrong
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MegaBlueman, the Akans were a a diverse of tribes. Ashantis were successful & militaristically. Such peoples are seldom slaves. The British took slaves from everywhere & Cormante (Akan) slave were very expensive -£50 ahead- & no planter cld hv so many slaves from the Cromante: bc of simple reason of rebellion. Many types of slaves were in Jamiaca- igbo were cheapest & British had more or less a monopoly of the trade in the Bight.
@24Cenac:well, son i wonder who invented ur own history books...most ibo slaves were kidnapped by english paid sea ppl or sold by communities who found them after rigorous scrutiny n judgement to hv committed serious unpardonable taboos(chief priests, community chiefs n d republican parliament decided).any private slave dealer was treated with disdain no matter hw highly placed(go check the records)...then come n tel us why "RED HEEBOE, EBOE, RED BONE cost highest. u ignoramus, i'll school u
@MultiFlexxi Sir, thank you for your comment. I never wrote the history, but two of the most leading American scholars on Igbo and slavery (Douglas Chambers & David Eltis) did. They argue as experts igbo were plentiful n cheap. The women were popular for night time activities. Maybe bc they were lighter...( 24Cenac)
well i don't care because people label us igbos as evil people, which we are not...Igbo has a rich and belle culture..people talk ignorantly but don't ask for question first...I love Haitians because the are the few countries that recognized Biafra very well during the war with Nigeria
please I'm igbo and im not trying to insult my native tongue,but someone told me that ibo lele is what the haitian used to call the devil,back in the day when they did all that voodoo stuff
my dear, haitian vodou has no devil. vodou is simply a new world version of vodu from nigeria, the ancient 5,000+ year old animistic religion that existed long before the white man foisted christianity and islam on the west africans. vodou is still practiced by many haitians and even foreigners today; it is a beautiful religion of great power and healing. the ibo nation is a nation of spirits in vodou, from their igbo roots. blessings to you, sister.
@VioletSable. The error in religions have been in all cultures of the world prior to the advent of Christianity which standards are clearly superior to all. Nevertheless, it has many abusers as a lot of engagements associated with man. Voodoo, while an erroneous practice and mainly deserted in modern times by former cultural and ancestral adherents,(eg.Haiti) Christianity is not a European religion. They borrowed it, learnt from it and were remarkably abusive of it in relation to other cultures.
I never said it was a European religion... where did you get that? In fact I didn't say anything that warranted you trying to give me a (false) history lesson. Take your Christian supremacy on where it's appreciated... by the way, there are a good number of people in the world who still practice Vodou/Vodu/Voodoo... where did you get the "mainly deserted" statement? I really hate it when people try to teach me something, and only expose that they are more ignorant than myself... sigh.
Ah... no. In fact, many Haitians still practice Vodou (that's the correct spelling) which is different from Voodoo (which is the New Orleans branch of the religion). Vodou doesn't have a devil, because we aren't caught up in concepts of eternal damnation for mistakes made in life.
VioletSable, willy-nilly facts are facts. The influence of foreign religions in Africa has caused a significant desertion of theirs. Voodoo is a religion from Benin, brought by slaves from that region to the Western Hemisphere. There is nothing fundamentally of the Almighty God of the Judeo-Christian religion in it. It is considered evil and remains so in our eyes. They are not caught up with the concepts of eternal damnation for "mistakes"(actually pre-meditated sin and evil) in this life.
Are things right or wrong simply because of how they look in our eyes? Conscience is the well-spring of "the law," conceived, constructed and instituted to govern societies. Human laws are imperfect but the conscience seeks truth, yet can be ignored or suppressed. As cultures evolve in time and place, so has religion. We must have standards to measure righteousness. The highest of that is Christ. "sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons not to God" - 1Cor. 10:20. Yes, some seek God in things.
You sound like a 13th century Western European crusader. Leave people to their beliefs. I'm not convinced that your culture "evolved" and produced Christ, I'm sure someone planted him there for their own gain/satisfaction. Not everyone thinks Jesus is their savior.
@OftheSoil How I sound to you should not form your judgment basis over my words. I am not holding anyone against his/her beliefs. Religion is a central formative phenomenon of culture and that is just a fact not an opinion. Why would someone had "planted" Christ's existence and message, I believe you mean, for their gain but not your own belief or deities for similar purpose? Just a thought. Innumerable things are thought by people, but there being Right or Wrong is indisputable reality.
Biafrans7, How has the Africans situation changed for the better since their introduction to Christianity. If Christ was brought for their gain could you explain to me why their nations are the worst on earth, including Nigeria? Did we not have people in Akwa Ibom drilling nails and pouring acid on their children because of Christianity. Why do you think the early 20th century converts had their Igbo names removed for Cyril, David and Silvanus instead?
@OftheSoil The West may have introduced Christianity for cultural colonialism but killing twins, ritual killings etc, for example (adopted by most cultures of the world including Europeans) stopped as cultural practice. Check, my brother, the values the Bible has set a righteous standard for many, even forming the basis of "Canon Law", "Common Law" and "Civil Law". Its not the faith that's wrong but the practitioners. Similar violations as in Akwa-Ibom were, in the past, practiced as culture.
@OftheSoil Africa has improved greatly judging from when the Europeans who plundered and ravaged the land and its peoples for 500 years left in the 1960s - a recent past. Slavery and colonisation were obtructionist factors to African development but its effects, still obtainable, are no doubt waning. Akwa-Ibom violations were not Christianity. Its not in the Bible which condemns such practice(sorcery and divinations). Change of names were the bad effects of colonialism. Igbo are reverting back.
Biafrans7, It is not my intent to bash Christianity, neither am I going to allow it to be revered as a religion introduced for the spiritual and intellectual development of Africans. I have been fortunate to research out of the things we are made to believe as Africans. I have seen evidence that points back the origin of Christianity all the way back to the root of African religions. Please do your own research before you condemn the source of sustenance of your ancestors.
@OftheSoil Man, since his sojourn on earth has constantly reinvented and remodeled his belief and relationship to his maker - a prove of religious evolution. We learn always since we do not know everything of anything. Africans are today mainly Christians and were not forced to accept the faith, at least within the continent. They observed its evident virtuous principles. I respect my ancestors but I too will become an ancestor. Should all things done in this generation be good for posterity?
wow do you see this people, these are direct descendants of the biblical ancient hebrew israelites as well as most of negros that are in various countries by way of slave trade!
Shimaryah 1 month ago
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FUCK YOU STUPID AFRICAN IGBO PEOPLE, YOU HATE US AFRICAN AMERICANS, yet you cant fucking control the few whites and asians milking you fucking country. You come in america preaching holy than though politics as if you control shit.....you smelly stinky mufuckas!
333cated 1 month ago
@333cated YOU are sure speaking for yourself and not for other Black Americans,because then it would be a SHAME that you would feel confident using these nasty words against anyone talk less of fellow Blacks mmm. The Hate is actually YOU! You hating the Igbos, am so sick of Low Brains like you talking nonsense . Actually with the way you sound it is obvious that Tu est Mal dans Ta Peau! Get a life, this video is not for you to see! CIAO!
NollywoodRocksCinema 1 month ago
@333cated I don't think you are a black american.
KingAfro88 1 month ago
@333cated You can't hate the roots of a tree. For many black americans have Igbo in them. You could very well be hating yourself.
KingAfro88 1 month ago
During the time of slavery the British transported large group of Igbo people from west Africa via the Caribbean to the main land settlement of Central America. This settlement eventual became known as British Honduras and later Belize. A large section of Belize city became known as "Igbo town" because of the presence of the Igbo people. There descendants can now be found all over the nation of Belize including the current Prime Minister Dean Barrow..
ederrick987 3 months ago
i see alot of nollywood stars who resemble black americans that i know its so crazii i always say that they must have the same bloodlines
braggs619 4 months ago
@braggs619 Well said!
NollywoodRocksCinema 1 month ago
i love being igbo..we are so bright, beautiful, and no matter the shade-have radiant faces!
okpalaj 4 months ago 2
Igbo means Bush or Weed. That says it all. LOL
YoungHorusMedia 4 months ago
These are merely a remnant of of the lost tribes in diaspora within the middle passage(Africa)..This is why so many were & are targeted & slaughtered via European /Hamitic sanctions through eugenics (aids ,small pox etc.) wars & starvation..When you study their culture you will amazingly see many if not most them still observing countless customs found within the Torah(old testament ) till this date.This is why chattel slaves were quickly stripped of their names & heritage via cunning Europeans.
dogramite 6 months ago in playlist Nigeria - Igbo (Ibo) Tribe 3
love being igbo! spread the igbo love
okpalaj 6 months ago
Ifuru ka ndi Igbo si ekwutosi onwe ha. Obu maka na ndi Igbo hiri nne kwetere na Uka Kraist ka unu jiri choo i si na unu si Obodo ozo? Obodo di na akwukwo ndi uka Kraist? Unu na ezuzu ezuzu o. Ayi bu nde Igbo. Ayi si ana Igbo. Ayi esihi ebe ozo. Unu ekwutosizina nde IGBO. Igbo Kwezuonu!
chung1chu 6 months ago
@chung1chu O bughi naani ndi Igbo na sị ndi igbo shì ebe ọzọ. É kwerem ihnye Í dèrè.
OftheSoil 6 months ago
@chung1chu Enyi Igbo bu ndi israel.Ga je juo nna gi onye ibu. Ndi Igbo na ebe ugwu , ndi Igbo enweghi Eze, Ndi Igbo na edobe omenala, asusu Igbo na asusu ndi Jew yiri onwe ha nke bu na onye obula nwere ako na uche ga ama na nkea AGBAGHI AKA. Ga juo ese tupu i ti nye onu na okwu i na amaghi isi na odu ya.
thirdexodus2008 5 months ago
@thirdexodus2008
Nzuzu di na udi na udi. Mu na umuazi anaha ako onu na internet. Oburu na onwere ezigbo ihe ichoro ikwu, ikwu o maka na Ihe nine ikwuru bu nno iko onu. I ma di Ihe bu Jew? Ima na obu asusu, ka obu obodo, ka onwere ihe ozo obu? Kowara onye obuna ka asusu igbo siri yie asusu ndi jew. Odi mma ka onye si na oma ihe kwuo okwu doro anya, obuhu i bia na internet na acho onye oya ako onu ma onwehe ihe oma. Ewu.
chung1chu 5 months ago
@chung1chu Nkea gosiri na ibu onye ekomeko.Oburu na ichoro ka akuziere gi, wetuo onwe gi ala, dbe nti were muta ihe.Kama oburu na i si na ibu okacha mara ebe ona enweghi ihe imara, i noro na isi na iko onu.Ihe nke m dere gi mgbe mbu enweghi iko onu di ya.Ma gi onwe gi bidoro na ekwu okwu di agha. Oburu na ichoro imata ebe Igbo si, na Ndi Igbo bu, di nkwa dobe itughari uche na edemede ndi mere nyocha mere ri mgbe gbo.Obunadi nwa afo Igbo bu Oluadah Equiano dere na 17thcentury na Igbo bu Ndi Jew.
thirdexodus2008 5 months ago
@chung1chu ya!
obifromsouthlondon 1 month ago
A large percentage of African Americans,Caribbean people,Jamaicans,including black south Americans are from Nigeria.
RobertsDigital 6 months ago
@RobertsDigital records of slave shipments shows that most of the slaves shipped to Caribbeans and North America are of Igbo extraction followed by the Ghana Akan tribe.The Yorubas and the series of other Africans were carried to mainly South America and part of the antiles.This does not also mean there may be no traces of certain tribes among the majority but that was record.Research is ongong now in one of the British univ looking at even names in those old record.
thirdexodus2008 5 months ago
@thirdexodus2008 On really?....So you are saying that African Americans came from Siberia then, isn't it?
hmmm....Amazing! Can i give you a hug?
RobertsDigital 5 months ago
@RobertsDigital My brother if you want to argue the point you can get across to white Americans who did research on major Afro American settlers and identified Igbos.They went ahead to build Igbo village at Virginia.Because it was hard for them to construct prototype Igbo village they now called on an Igbo prof to bring Igbos to construct their village.You can as well go and argue with The National Archives and many other documentations WRITTEN BY NON IGBOS AND EVEN NON AFRICANS.
thirdexodus2008 5 months ago
Informative
EmpressAfua 7 months ago
Igbos are NOT Hebrews! Igbos are genetically Indigenous Africans. Hebrews/Habarus were/are from the Levant. Igbos are closely genetically related to Bantus. Even their language is Proto-Bantu. Almost all African tribes range in complexion, the Igbos just do a bit more than other Wwst Africans.
DaTruth2024 8 months ago
@DaTruth2024 if language is what u will use to judge if one is hebrew or not then u re wrong. Ethiopian jews and the lemba do not speak anything close to hebrew language. but the av been proven to be hebrews. Igbos are Hebrews and its been confirmed..
mercyshalom 8 months ago
@DaTruth2024 and lest i forget the Bantus are Hebrews.. like the Lemba's are known as bantus..(Meaning the people).
mercyshalom 8 months ago
@DaTruth2024 Igbos are of Jewish origin. The Igbo Jewish heritage is distinct. This is something that happened centuries ago. The problem is that people with little knowledge of Igbo heritage keep making blind argument. There are even many Igbos that know next to nothing of the Igbo heritage. Some of them do not even know their home town talks less.
thirdexodus2008 5 months ago
You Igbos, you Hausa, you Yoruba, and all of you Nigerians: YOU DO ME PROUD, AND BIG TOO. I LOVE ALL OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR SAVING THE WORLD!! As was said in biblical prophecy: "ETHIOPIA (AFRICA) SHALL ONE DAY STRETCH FORTH ITS HAND".No one will ever divide and defeat us again. NEVER AGAIN!!
afrosolinc 9 months ago
I am not African but I hate to see the still where the Igbo dresses in white man's attire as a form of colonisation by them.
Dress in the way of your culture and stand up for yourself.
SeventhSun 10 months ago 3
@SeventhSun That was a sketch of king Jaja of Opobo exiled by the British Empire to Barbados (or one of those islands) for resisting their influence. He died on his way back to his kingdom. In his official photo, he is dressed in full Opobo attire, but I agree with you.
OftheSoil 10 months ago
@OftheSoil hey somethings wrong with the video it stopped at 1:02
MDefsquad9 9 months ago
@OftheSoil i love the vid as well as the song. whats the song called, if u dont mind me asking?
robinlue2008 5 months ago
@SeventhSun
stay to your own affairs before you criticize
KillahB89 7 months ago
@SeventhSun the white man have no particular clothes...white man have a culture to.....we used to were cutural clothing but that was like 100 years ago..
Wazztheweasel 6 months ago
they are hebrews,,,,biblical descendants of abraham
vera747 10 months ago 2
@vera747 ...or Hebrews are descendants of the Igbo.
OftheSoil 10 months ago 3
@OftheSoil 1 n the same
vera747 10 months ago
@OftheSoil if they are hebrew and descendents of abraham this means they have a close connections with the hebrew ethiopians of ethiopia as most are from the tribe of judah,gad,levi. as we see igbos look so diverse..
MDefsquad9 9 months ago
@OftheSoil HEE-BREW = EE- BOW
childofconvenant 1 week ago
@vera747 ....of course they are hebrews!
Shimaryah 1 month ago
I heard that most of us black african americans inherited most of our african dna from igbo people (among others). Can anybody verify this?
fmcneillii 10 months ago
@fmcneillii Not most overall, but a good number of them. The North American African Diaspora is mostly made up of people who are of Mande, Igbo, and Angola/Congo descent.
OftheSoil 10 months ago 4
African Americans are definitely distantly related.
MrsMamouna 11 months ago
honors english 2 FTW!!!
MrColonelPopcorn 11 months ago
Is E1b1a Paternal DNA Igbo or Yoruba?
akin242002 1 year ago
What are the structures at 4:23 in this video?
CameroonStar 1 year ago
I love my IGBO people. Uzoma in the US.
uzoma0024 1 year ago
Keep it up, don't entertain even a small trace of urbanization... lead the life as such along with other living creature. At the same time maintain the number in a well balanced way so that other should not trouble.
annaiahramesh 1 year ago
I had my DNA test doned some years ago. I am Igbo Paternally and Yoruba Maternally. The match for my Igbo ancestry is from the town of Enugu!
I am a Professor of Anthropology.
Thanks for the post
bioarcheology 1 year ago
@bioarcheology If your ancestry was traced to Enugu then that probably means your ancestor was probably a Nike (nee-kay), and was brought down to be sold by the Aro who they were in alliance with. Your ancestor could also be from Enugwu-Ngwo. Enugu is a city created in the early 20th century, but the groups above lived there before it was incorporated. Nike means 'in strength.' If you want to see a sample of that areas culture on youtube search for 'Adamma masquerade'. Congratulations.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@bioarcheology me too
osemudiame123 1 year ago
What we call Igbo people, are a mix of Ijaws, Binis, Igalla, Efiks , Ibibbio etc. The same goes for all the tribes I have mentioned. We all share a lot of characteristics as well as bloodlines. We all know south east Nigerian tribes have been assimilating with each other since our migrations into this region. Let us try to be inclusive, it is the only way to real progress. An Ngwa has more in common with an Ibani, than with someone from Onitsha, so define Igbo.
EgbesuJuju2010 1 year ago 4
@EgbesuJuju2010 Igbo are a people who's language and culture have an underlying similarity that is fundamental to each and every one of those cultures. The Igbo have the same deities/religious practices, they have the same market days, and the dialects and languages are over 70% similar to each other. They also physical look alike. Igbo populations migrated from a common stem. Not all the Igbo are mixed with those peoples and not all of those peoples want to be lumped with the Igbo.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@OftheSoil No one is saying everyone must be lumped with Igbo, that would never work as you pointed out. However my point is that like the Yoruba there is great variety within Igbo groups especially in language.The point I was trying to make is that is that some Igbo groups are closer to non Igbo groups than they are to some other groups that are classified as Igbo. I also believe a majority of Igbo groups are mixed with these other groups just some are not aware of it. It is not a bad thing.
EgbesuJuju2010 1 year ago
@EgbesuJuju2010 I don't have a problem with Igbo being mixed with other groups, but not all of them are. I don't have a problem with unity, just that these different groups have different origins and cultures. I don't know of any group considered Igbo that are more like their neighbours, I only know of similarities. I don't refer to these groups as 'tribes' because that would be incorrect. Names have meanings in their language, for 'Kwa Ibo', if it was used, it was a European misunderstanding.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@OftheSoil It unifies South East Nigeria as a people. There are Ngwa people in Cameroun, they are not considered Igbo but are the same group of Ngwa in Nigeria. Ibibbio I hear used to be called Kwa Ibo but now are not considered Igbo. Do you not think a lot of these terms are political and do not adequately describe the identity of Nigerian tribes. Do not think I am trying to balkanize Igbo groups, I am actually trying to unify us as south east Nigerian people, some may call it Biafra .
EgbesuJuju2010 1 year ago
@EgbesuJuju2010 AMEN! God bless you for this! You are quite right,unity is the way to progress,and a united progress is UNSTOPPABLE!
PEACE!!
vixxy02 1 year ago
@vixxy02 What are you doing in this Igbo forum? You said that Igbo women bleach the bodies for higher bride prices? Igbo women are the first in line when it comes to marriage not you terrorist from Quatar. You hid your identity through your diplomat father and became someone from Calabar
Nnfefe 8 months ago
@crankhousedope oh ok cool nice to see us everywhere. i dont think that verse is talking about moors. japhet is dwelling in the tents of shem right now in israel calling themselves jewish
FLpolo 1 year ago
@crankhousedope because are they are the original israelites. their, our slavery was prophesied in dueteronomy 28. verse 68 is a clear indicator it being that we are the only people in history that this has happen to. these are our people i know my people when i see them. its 2010 and people still dont realize the israelite couldnt have been white according to history and the bible.
FLpolo 1 year ago
Belize!!!
belizeanalien 1 year ago
Blair Underwood is Igbo. Damnnnn! No wonder why he's so sexy.
ChiChiBeDaGoddess 1 year ago
i dun get how ppl are using the bible to trace their roots...the bible is a religious book...if hindu scripts had an explanation for black ppl would u believe that?
rantazz23 1 year ago
they are very beautiful (men and women) and very stylish
rantazz23 1 year ago
@crankhousedope Some Igbo claim Hebrew ancestry esp. those of Nri. I don't know the whole story, but it can't be denied that there are strong similarities between old Hebrew traditions & that of the Igbo, even O. Equiano noted this in his 1789 journal. Many of them in America were concentrated in Virginia & N. Carolina, but they were taken elsewhere too. I think the Atlantic researches say around 1/5 of the slaves in the US were probably Igbo, there's even an 'Ebo landing' in S. Carolina.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
I dont understand how some people sold "their own people" hundreds of years ago and now they are proud to claim them as their own, referring to DNA testing. It has been scientifically reported that a sing Black (American) dated back in the 1800s had a family comprising about 4o DIFFERENT AFRICAN TRIBES !!!. If y'all wanna claim the celebrities as your people, go ahead and make yourselves feel good. ha ha.
demybliss1 1 year ago
@demybliss1 Who told you that anyone featured in this video is not claiming their Igbo ancestry? Show me one person in here that you think that has not claimed their Igbo ancestry please or your comment will be a waste of your time.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@demybliss1 africa used serfdom notslavery stop with this shit, and they didnt sell there own people, they saw them sselfs as different, like the vikings selling the slavakians and scandinavians same race different people, or the white americans who came to america were originally slaves to brites
IntellegentNGR 1 year ago 2
these are our people they come in all tones like us in america despite what most people think, we dont have to mix to come in different tones. look at dude at 1:31 he looks just like martin luther king
FLpolo 1 year ago
@FLpolo Africans of all tribes come in different tones.
ureallysuckglobes 6 months ago
this proves that we are the same people. they look just like us here in america and scattered throughout the world by the slave trade. we are israelites. people say we are hametic but we look NOTHING like these hametic tribes and no its not because of mixig, we still have our dna strongly intact. we look like these people we are israelites
FLpolo 1 year ago
@FLpolo Oh look, another self hating "Israelite" clown.
ureallysuckglobes 6 months ago
people mistake so many things when they say we are one nigeria no no we are not they is noting like nigeria ontil the british brings 3 kinds of people together in 1914 we are living on our own before the year 1914 i want many people to understand that if some one said we live in one nations now why did all african did not live as one nation since we did not have any ocean the share us that biafran want they freedom is not cramie cos many have taking they freedom long live biafran
1benjara 1 year ago
yes
ithobenke 1 year ago
ibo girls usually look carribean, we're the hottest in africa, sorry but it's true
bellacinderellakk 1 year ago 13
@bellacinderellakk stop that girly man
TheAgboha58 1 year ago
@bellacinderellakk Ta! mechi onu gi there! keep quiet! you better stop using same poison the caucasians employ in destroying blacks ok! Ine kwu du umuazi!
aquerius23 1 year ago
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@bellacinderellakk yep you should see your sexy cuzins over here in america, haiti, jamaica, brazil, cuba, puerto rico, and everywhere else we were scattered. my beautiful diverse people.
FLpolo 1 year ago
@bellacinderellakk What a foolish comment. Igbos look like Igbos , some carribeans look like us. Get rid of your complex, people all over Africa are beautiful.
BTW I am half Igbo and love Igbo people, but your comment shows a lack of self esteem.
EgbesuJuju2010 1 year ago 2
@bellacinderellakk igbo boys they die for yoruba girlls..i know many of them
Mofola1 1 year ago
@bellacinderellakk lol i've been saying this for a while. Igbo people are the only Africans that looks similar to African-Americans and other new world blacks. We tend not to have a harsh look :-)
IgboBiafran 10 months ago 2
@IgboBiafran all black people are beautiful imo. I don't see the need to down others in our own race to be honest.
fmcneillii 10 months ago
@fmcneillii
lol please. enough of this "black is beautiful" bullshit. who cares, there are bigger issues to address
KillahB89 7 months ago
@KillahB89 What the hell are you talking about? I was just replying to someone stuck on some tribal bullshit about beauty and responded accordingly.
fmcneillii 7 months ago
@bellacinderellakk lol its more of the fact that carribeans look like you/us...they come from us. I love nigerian girls becuse in nigeria you lot have a tendency to look so different, with so many different shades of brown and textures of hair. You lot are beautiful. South africans as well.
SotaStreetFSociety 10 months ago
@bellacinderellakk
pathetic cunt. Youre an embarrassment to Africans..
KillahB89 7 months ago
Nwaafor till d day dat i die
mitchidis 1 year ago
This video is so cool - thank you for making it and posting it.
Although there are speculations about our origins, it seems we've pretty much been in south eastern Nigeria for as long as it's possible: apparently they've found pottery dating back thousands (ie >2) of years (need to get some papers to back me up though!).
Sapphonouveau 1 year ago
@Sapphonouveau The pottery found in the town of Nsukka dates back to 4500 BC, so that's 6500 years ago! I agree with you, thanks for commenting.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@OftheSoil which pottery? Where can i find the vedio on this abeg?..
aquerius23 1 year ago
@aquerius23 There's no video, but I can tell you that the pottery was rediscovered by Thurstan Shaw in Nsukka, the same man that uncovered Igbo-Ukwu, and it proved that there was a community in present day Nsukka since 5000 BC. You can search for books with this subject, but not much has been explained although there are a few books that mention the pottery.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@OftheSoil This is wonderful!! Imagine!! Well before the BUY-BULL was cooked!! danm! what an awesome history lost!!
aquerius23 1 year ago
@aquerius23 - 'BUY-BULL" LOL I like that. May I borrow this term? ;-)
GingerBronze 2 months ago
i loveee this video! as a 15 yr old igbo livin in the UK, its easy to be uneducated abowt ur roots and jst by watchin this video i learnt soo mch and its made me 10 times more patriotic than i was in the 1st place! thanks!
cutechickzoe 1 year ago
@cutechickzoe
all u get from these clips are mere information. . .knowledge comes from experience. Go back home and see!
fayahsoul 1 year ago
@fayahsoul yh i do go back like every 2 yrs and i think it's amazin bt these r the sort of things i wud never have thought abowt askin my parents simply because it wouldnt have crossed my mind... i jst think its great that theres a video like this on youtube with a brief summary of igbo history
cutechickzoe 1 year ago
so interesting. thank you OftheSoil
bakisi50 1 year ago
i speak igbo
azubikeu 1 year ago
My people look dignified, royal & simply amazing!
KemetMysticYAYA 1 year ago
beautiful !
dovelov 1 year ago
Good video...nicely done
kcoldkchill 1 year ago
uche's mum is in this video.Damn i need to share this wit her
nonye49ers 1 year ago
Great video!
candi2082 1 year ago
Jesus Christ is Lord and His walk on earth and the power, influence and teachings associated with His name today are sufficient evidence and undisputable, irrefutable testimony and proof of His superlative divinity. John 1: 1-14, Psalm 34:8.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
@Biafrans7
you are lost. you have deified your oppressor. christianized igbo land today is much worse in all respects compared to traditional igboland of yesteryears. why? think!
fayahsoul 1 year ago
@fayahsoul My brother, we have repeatedly heard this. All humanity came from an African man and woman. Cultures and general knowledge have been exchanged amongst the world's peoples for centuries and centuries. People accept what they think is beneficial to them and drop the contrary. Everything one's ancestors did are not correct just as everything we are doing now is not. It also may help some to note that Christianity is not of European origination. Jesus Christ was and is not caucasian.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
@Biafrans7
well you haven't answered the question.A tree is known by its fruit so if the fruits of christianized igboland is worse than the fruits of traditional igboland what does that tell you?Yes the story of jesus is a corrupted version of the osirian myth of ancient black egypt.That your buy-bull, i mean bible, is the fabricated product of a bunch of white devils at the nicene council in 325AD.Omenani ga adigide.Omenani ka ndi ichie ji nwe luzie obodo.Rapu ihe ndiocha n'eme, ogbasaro gi.
fayahsoul 1 year ago
@fayahsoul Ezigbo nwanne m. Oburu na m nye gi adresi ozi-ikuku (e.mail) ma obu tel no nke m, I ga akpo m? Echere m na ozighi ezi anyi ikpa okwu nke a na ama saiba(cyber space). Mee ka mmara ihe I chere. O buru na asisa gi bu n'ezia, a gam ezigara gi ya na inbox gi. Biko hichapurum ya ma I detukwa ya. Ndewo!
Biafrans7 1 year ago
@fayahsoul That is ehh!! Am telling you Nwanne, this BUY-BULL is a virus that is destroying the very existence and culture of nde biafra! i thought i was the only one with eye o!
aquerius23 1 year ago
@fayahsoul My brother, you just hit the fucking nail on the head!! That counsel of nicea with a bunch of mutated-negroids with the most depraved mind is the very virus, behind the HIV that has sofar, weakened the culture of nde biafar and all afrikans in general!..
aquerius23 1 year ago
Israel in deviation of devine instructions worshipped foreign gods at various historical periods in the wilderness(Exodus 32) and era of the kings(Judges 2:10 -15, 3:7, 1Samuel 7: 2-6,1Kings 12: 28 - 31). This violations of the sacred covenant elicited grave penalties such as: foreign conquest, enslavement, oppression of heathen nations and exile from the Promised Land.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
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TheNomercy12 1 year ago
@TheNomercy12, You have made statements that has no clarity. There are arguments everywhere on Youtube and it takes more than one to argue. Why pick on mine? Are they all arguements?. Some see it as commentaries and simple expressions of views. I did not request your support for Biafra even if I cherish it, so I cannot restrict your withdrawal of such, whatever that means. Why not comment on issues rather than sounding intolerant on people voicing unacceptable opinions to you?
Biafrans7 1 year ago
OftheSoil, I want to use this opportunity to let you know your Uploaded post on Igbo People is quite impressive, if that means anything to you.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
@Biafrans7 Thank you.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@Biafrans7 bro, i see that you can throw a light on a particular issue.. i just like to no if you have any light to throwv about some africa countries that has bia b4 or after,, eg biafra, bambia, zambia, nubia, namibia etc you have any link to explain the relationship among them?
cumbi4real 1 year ago
Nri Kingdom is the first in Nigeria from 9th century A.D. Imperialism which is nothing but stealing, Killing and destroying - devil's attributes, is criminal and evil hence its Igbo rejection. With God's enablement, the Igbo have ever fought oppression since they first encountered one - King Jaja, Haitian and Bolivarian revolutions, Pan-Africanism, Slavery abolition movement and Nigeria's political freedom had the Igbo playing pioneer roles. Glory! Alleluia!!!
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Who was that that new the world was round before the means and how did he? Explain yourself. Am glad am addressing your real problems. Why quote Matthew that talked about Christ if you are anti Christ and believe the Bible is all false? You have not explained what you claim to have explained. You are a liar too. Of course, those who deny Christ's existence while knowing in their hearts the truth but rejecting it are liars. Why is it easier to believe in God whom you have not seen? Explain now!
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Look who is quoting a Verse from a Book that talks about Christ! What utter hypocrisy!
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, The stereotyping of believers in Christ as gentle, longsuffering, kind and forgiving is not an excuse to attack them. You may just get what you do not expect. Yes they may emulate Christ but Christ was angry too in the temple and with Pharisees. Christ also delivers justice. Don't forget that. That anti-Christ spirit in you will be resisted with all certainty. The Bible remains forever true and you are mad cause it speaks against your sins. Yes, it does, so you rave and rant.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, if man believed the aerth was flat, did your information state that "man" was Christians and nobody else? Your little newly found history gets you exuberant and speaking before you think. How did man know the world was round until he had examined it? Why shift the blame of prior ignorance to just Christians? You are sick and it is not name-calling. Your statements afirm your believe in God. I ask: Why do you believe in God if you've not seen Him? The Church fought not the faith.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Your challenge has been all disproved with facts and rationality and you are mad for it. My statements will judge you as the truth will. You are entitled to your opinion but not to your facts. A fool who believes there is God whom he has not seen but disputes Christ whose evidence of walking on earth abound. Take your sick head to the doctor for proper psychological examination. You may have long been in dire need of that. Things have to be real because psychopaths like you say so. Get help now!
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbed, keep feeling sorry please. You are blind and lost, even to commonsense that you had the obnoxious, repugnant and obscure guts to challenge the existence of Christ. Be gone! You are a less than a blip in the radar of contention. Find out your problems and face them since no reasonable person can read without pitying you. I am a sinner saved by His grace, but I won't take any nonsense from fools who make stupid statements. I wish all those who believe won't. God has love and anger too
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadic, I believe I have given you facts and logic that has unfortunately dislodged your trash. Live and die opposing Christ Okay. I cannot make you a believer in him but I can disprove the nonsense you rant. Has anything changed because of your unbelief. Nothing. Lnock yourself out and keep displaying your air-head in opposing of a faith that has spread over 2000 years. HIS walk on earth even changed the world so much that that time is marked by that - 2010 A.D. "Tedious" means right, I guess.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Here you talk about West's "Super-hero." If there is an idiot here, is it not clearly you? Your emptyheadedness is a burden to you. If you believe in God, why so? What proof do you have there is God then? Have you seen him? Why have you not answered my question on your faith. What do you believe in? Stop hurting yourself and being an ignorant moronic psychopath, idiot! You see, I can give you a dose of your trash. You will get more if you can't talk like someone who has been to school. Have you?
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, Don't think Christians do not lambast foolhardy people. I asked if you believe Mohammed exists, never said you did. And please scroll back and show yourself where I talked of hearing voices. Your name-calling shows you have no point, hence your base resorts. You will be very well ignored if this continues.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, if you can't help yourself, how can you help others? Virtually 6 billion people in the world talk to their supposed or actual "Gods" and its called "prayer," but you ignore that and attack the Christian for talking to his. Are you not sick? Do you believe in God or are you an atheist? Speak up on this if you possess the courage and forthrightness. Ranting and raving against the Gospel is an infinitesimal effort that can only undermine your malicious intent. You can't talk sensibly.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, You are not a 100% sure Mohammed existed but you are a 100% sure Christ did not? Listen to yourself if you can. Am somehow amused at your rants and raves which do not intelligently address the issues raised. You are actually exposing your ignorant frustrations which is caused by your unstable beliefs. If you have not read the Bible, do not be mad at those who have. Books are read all over the world for knowledge of their content.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Did Mohammed exist? Please give me an answer on that. Why do people admit God has the infinite power to do all things but they deny Him the power to have A SON,(John 3: 16) or HOLY SPIRIT or ANGELS. The faith is there as others all over the world. You chose it or refuse it. In no name on earth are people raised from the dead, healed of myriad sicknesses - cripples walk, blind see, Aids healed, Cancer, Leukemia, etc. Those who worship Him must believe that He is. Ask Him to show you that He is.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Yes there are God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - Quotes - Matthew 28: 19; John 1: 1 - 10, 6: 46, 8: 19, 14: 5 - 14, 26, 15: 26,. The New Testament describes how God as Man ministered in Israel as Jesus of Nazareth. Thus in Jesus thus in Jesus tthere is further revelation of God, particularly as having the nature of Holy Love. (1 John 1: 5). If God the father sends a part of Him as His Son to earth, why should that be impossible to comprehend? No man has raised the dead before to live.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
I take it that you are not acquainted with Christian history, but you should not be assertive of things you are not well informed about. The scrolls of the epistles are still there today and John was with Christ and wrote about him and that was not thousands of years after Christ but within a century of His physical departure. Please get your facts right.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, you know, just making unfounded baseless statements as Christ not existing will be easily ignored by the serious. Make serious statements if you are to be taken seriously. Yes religion has caused lots of problem but I speak of a relationship with Christ which is ultimately personal, not religion. Truth has also caused problems for the lie; the good for the bad, light for darkness, justice for injustice, righteousness for wickedness and so on. Africa is not exempt from that.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, Those that dispute Christ existence mention evidences of a piece of cloth; historical writings and records. Should evidence not then count? Pilgrimage of millions of people to myriad sites in Israel also should be ignored? Jesus came to ask us to worship God but also Him. He said: "I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life." - John 14: 6. Just mentioning a verse that inspires Christian Faith. Contents of a belief- system should be discussed to better understand the faith expressed.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
nomadicbede, no-one is compelling you to believe in Christ. The choice is yours as anyone's. The hypocrisy here is that people have never seen God yet you advocate belief in Him but Christ who was physically on earth you reject His existence. Why? So Christ blasphemed for saying He is the Son of God? If we humans ascribe "sons of God" to our identity, why not Christ? Yes, Jews believe Christ was a prophet,(his existence) not the Son of God. But is all they believe right? This is no nonsense.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
@nomadicbede, The Bible is a historical account and also a spiritual message. Yes question, question all things! Question Christianity and question your faith also. It is through questioning and seeking that we find the truth. Like other continents, Africa has never been a land of cultural, religious or linguistic homogeneity. There has been, always, multifarious religions in Africa, as much as its linguistic plurality. Why are my statements considered "bashing" but yours exonerated? May I know?
Biafrans7 1 year ago
@nomadicbede, Are you disputing Christ because of his unparalleled influence in the world; in true search of the truth or simply to dissuade people from embracing what you may have adjudged wrong since its "foreign?" Its no racial bait that the "middle-east" was in Africa and inhabited by people of color. How are people "Bible-bashed," "bullied" and "harangued"with simple statements. Its not my "stories about a son" but written by witnesses as other historical accounts. It destroys Africa? How?
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Im of Yoruba and Kongo descent.
NoThumbsUp4UBeeyotch 1 year ago
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LaLa613 1 year ago
"In tracing the sources of many Ibo customs, the investigator cannot help being struck with the similitude between them and some of the ideas and practices of the levitical code." --- Notes on the Ibo Country and the Ibo People, Southern Nigeria by the Reverend George T. Basden (MA). The Geographical Journal. Vol. XXXlX No 3. March, 1912.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
good to know
naijamandy 1 year ago
also it was the igbo people who developed the NSIBIDI system of writing in WEst africa. Yes we did have WRITING in west africa although 99.999% of black people in the west are oblivious to that FACT. Go ahead and google it: NSIBIDI writing west africa. It was an ideographic style of writing developed by initiates into the secret societies. ITs similar to hieroglyphs in that the writing system is comprised of SYMBOLS. These same people built the 10 pyramids of west africa
TheBlackRite 1 year ago
@TheBlackRite Nsibidi is in my video about the Igbo influence in the Caribbean. Many Igbo people do get mistaken for Americans or Caribbeans and vise versa. One day all will find their root.. Thanks for watching and commenting.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
dman i didnt know that osiyumeniora was an igbo! I didnt even know the brother was from west africa! Thx for the information
TheBlackRite 1 year ago
@TheBlackRite Lol, where did you think the name 'umenyiora' came from?
OftheSoil 1 year ago
well ya know some blacks here in the amerikkka change their slave names to African names. I dint know osi from africa. I thought he was born in the u.s and changed his name like some blacks do. thats all
TheBlackRite 1 year ago
thes eigbos resemble us here in amerikkka as far as their looks
TheBlackRite 1 year ago
sexy as black women at 0:29 lol1 Notice the genetic diversity?Light skinned, dark skinned, in between. Proof positive that our genetic diversity here in amerikkka is NOT solely due to amalgamation. We are the ORIGINAL BLACK MAN AND WOMAN and the other races are MUTATED from us. But most people- blacks included- claim that lighter skinned blacks in amerikkka were diluted through miscegenation. BUt the color diversit of these west africans who have NOT mixed with crackers prove them wrong
TheBlackRite 1 year ago
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MegaBlueman, the Akans were a a diverse of tribes. Ashantis were successful & militaristically. Such peoples are seldom slaves. The British took slaves from everywhere & Cormante (Akan) slave were very expensive -£50 ahead- & no planter cld hv so many slaves from the Cromante: bc of simple reason of rebellion. Many types of slaves were in Jamiaca- igbo were cheapest & British had more or less a monopoly of the trade in the Bight.
24Cenac 2 years ago
@24Cenac:well, son i wonder who invented ur own history books...most ibo slaves were kidnapped by english paid sea ppl or sold by communities who found them after rigorous scrutiny n judgement to hv committed serious unpardonable taboos(chief priests, community chiefs n d republican parliament decided).any private slave dealer was treated with disdain no matter hw highly placed(go check the records)...then come n tel us why "RED HEEBOE, EBOE, RED BONE cost highest. u ignoramus, i'll school u
MultiFlexxi 2 months ago
@MultiFlexxi Sir, thank you for your comment. I never wrote the history, but two of the most leading American scholars on Igbo and slavery (Douglas Chambers & David Eltis) did. They argue as experts igbo were plentiful n cheap. The women were popular for night time activities. Maybe bc they were lighter...( 24Cenac)
MrResearcher122 2 months ago
@MrResearcher122 Igbo were cheap because they were rebellious.
OftheSoil 2 months ago
well i don't care because people label us igbos as evil people, which we are not...Igbo has a rich and belle culture..people talk ignorantly but don't ask for question first...I love Haitians because the are the few countries that recognized Biafra very well during the war with Nigeria
fdm03chick 2 years ago
Were not these Africans a branch of one of the tribes of Israel, not English , but Hebrew, before their identity was hidden from them ?
truthhitmanisback 2 years ago
Some of the drums at 2:16 is what is used in Abakua drumming in Cuba
derbeno 2 years ago
Beautiful I love this I love this...
nkem4ever 2 years ago
oh because people wus saying that it some devil stuff the Haitians be doing
fdm03chick 2 years ago
devil stuff?
VioletSable 2 years ago
please I'm igbo and im not trying to insult my native tongue,but someone told me that ibo lele is what the haitian used to call the devil,back in the day when they did all that voodoo stuff
fdm03chick 2 years ago
my dear, haitian vodou has no devil. vodou is simply a new world version of vodu from nigeria, the ancient 5,000+ year old animistic religion that existed long before the white man foisted christianity and islam on the west africans. vodou is still practiced by many haitians and even foreigners today; it is a beautiful religion of great power and healing. the ibo nation is a nation of spirits in vodou, from their igbo roots. blessings to you, sister.
VioletSable 2 years ago
@VioletSable. The error in religions have been in all cultures of the world prior to the advent of Christianity which standards are clearly superior to all. Nevertheless, it has many abusers as a lot of engagements associated with man. Voodoo, while an erroneous practice and mainly deserted in modern times by former cultural and ancestral adherents,(eg.Haiti) Christianity is not a European religion. They borrowed it, learnt from it and were remarkably abusive of it in relation to other cultures.
Biafrans7 2 years ago
I never said it was a European religion... where did you get that? In fact I didn't say anything that warranted you trying to give me a (false) history lesson. Take your Christian supremacy on where it's appreciated... by the way, there are a good number of people in the world who still practice Vodou/Vodu/Voodoo... where did you get the "mainly deserted" statement? I really hate it when people try to teach me something, and only expose that they are more ignorant than myself... sigh.
VioletSable 2 years ago
Ah... no. In fact, many Haitians still practice Vodou (that's the correct spelling) which is different from Voodoo (which is the New Orleans branch of the religion). Vodou doesn't have a devil, because we aren't caught up in concepts of eternal damnation for mistakes made in life.
VioletSable 2 years ago
VioletSable, willy-nilly facts are facts. The influence of foreign religions in Africa has caused a significant desertion of theirs. Voodoo is a religion from Benin, brought by slaves from that region to the Western Hemisphere. There is nothing fundamentally of the Almighty God of the Judeo-Christian religion in it. It is considered evil and remains so in our eyes. They are not caught up with the concepts of eternal damnation for "mistakes"(actually pre-meditated sin and evil) in this life.
Biafrans7 2 years ago
Remains evil in who's eyes?
OftheSoil 2 years ago
Are things right or wrong simply because of how they look in our eyes? Conscience is the well-spring of "the law," conceived, constructed and instituted to govern societies. Human laws are imperfect but the conscience seeks truth, yet can be ignored or suppressed. As cultures evolve in time and place, so has religion. We must have standards to measure righteousness. The highest of that is Christ. "sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons not to God" - 1Cor. 10:20. Yes, some seek God in things.
Biafrans7 2 years ago
You sound like a 13th century Western European crusader. Leave people to their beliefs. I'm not convinced that your culture "evolved" and produced Christ, I'm sure someone planted him there for their own gain/satisfaction. Not everyone thinks Jesus is their savior.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@OftheSoil How I sound to you should not form your judgment basis over my words. I am not holding anyone against his/her beliefs. Religion is a central formative phenomenon of culture and that is just a fact not an opinion. Why would someone had "planted" Christ's existence and message, I believe you mean, for their gain but not your own belief or deities for similar purpose? Just a thought. Innumerable things are thought by people, but there being Right or Wrong is indisputable reality.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Biafrans7, How has the Africans situation changed for the better since their introduction to Christianity. If Christ was brought for their gain could you explain to me why their nations are the worst on earth, including Nigeria? Did we not have people in Akwa Ibom drilling nails and pouring acid on their children because of Christianity. Why do you think the early 20th century converts had their Igbo names removed for Cyril, David and Silvanus instead?
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@OftheSoil The West may have introduced Christianity for cultural colonialism but killing twins, ritual killings etc, for example (adopted by most cultures of the world including Europeans) stopped as cultural practice. Check, my brother, the values the Bible has set a righteous standard for many, even forming the basis of "Canon Law", "Common Law" and "Civil Law". Its not the faith that's wrong but the practitioners. Similar violations as in Akwa-Ibom were, in the past, practiced as culture.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
@OftheSoil Africa has improved greatly judging from when the Europeans who plundered and ravaged the land and its peoples for 500 years left in the 1960s - a recent past. Slavery and colonisation were obtructionist factors to African development but its effects, still obtainable, are no doubt waning. Akwa-Ibom violations were not Christianity. Its not in the Bible which condemns such practice(sorcery and divinations). Change of names were the bad effects of colonialism. Igbo are reverting back.
Biafrans7 1 year ago
Biafrans7, It is not my intent to bash Christianity, neither am I going to allow it to be revered as a religion introduced for the spiritual and intellectual development of Africans. I have been fortunate to research out of the things we are made to believe as Africans. I have seen evidence that points back the origin of Christianity all the way back to the root of African religions. Please do your own research before you condemn the source of sustenance of your ancestors.
OftheSoil 1 year ago
@OftheSoil Man, since his sojourn on earth has constantly reinvented and remodeled his belief and relationship to his maker - a prove of religious evolution. We learn always since we do not know everything of anything. Africans are today mainly Christians and were not forced to accept the faith, at least within the continent. They observed its evident virtuous principles. I respect my ancestors but I too will become an ancestor. Should all things done in this generation be good for posterity?
Biafrans7 1 year ago