Speaking very clear Igbo language. Ndoki igbos of Akwa Ibom state. God bless this young man who's trying so much to unify Igbos. Ndoki igbo is spoken in Opobo,Bonny.Igbani,Ubani are all the same: Ndoki people.
As an Ndoki person. I do not know our history authoritative but what I am certain is that we are Igbos. We are too small to be playing identity politics. This is how people lose their culture. There is no denial of links to Opodo and other Ijaw groups but today we are igbos
He lives amongst the ibibios yet they retained their language culture and traditions. Is Bonny an Ijaw name? Abi na white man accent? Where does the Ijaws come from? Is Ijaw also white man accent abi na them real name. What really happened that igbos are scattered everywhere like orphans with many of them ignorant of their ancestry. The so called documented history is not making sense. How can Ijaw (opobo, Bonny) loose their language and speak Igbo yet claim not to be Igbo. Igbo unity is important but the most is knowing our history. So we know who we are and who we are not. We need to straighten our history so we know when someone is lying and innovating falsehood. What is the relationship with igbos and bini ? None, Zero. Yet there are a lot of similarities between these so called none igbos outside the major five states and igbos within the five states. The more I follow this trend, I see more of a political divide than an ancestral dichotomy. I would love to see igbos united no matter where they reside geographically, but it’s important to know the real history so we can learn from it and keep building.
Opobo we're mainly Igbos with mixture of ijaws who followed their leader Jaja to establish the town. Ibani, had people like oko Jumbo's are Igbos with the ijaws. truthfully,the numerical strength of igbos in these areas are overwhelming because of slave trade, Palm products and middle men approach to transaction in those days
They really want to destroy igbo 😢part of imo to rivers part of abia to akwa ibom part of anambra to delta part of enugu to ekiti this is soo bad!!!! They just wanted to put confusion
@@daniel2377why do some igbos think this way?? They want to destroy you? 😂 there are many Yoruba speaking communities in non Yoruba states but you don’t hear them saying they want to destroy them, you guys are just insecure and always want to claim the victim
@@uchennaegbule1487 no they aren’t. It was the slave trade of Igbo’s exiling and selling fellow Igbo’s and not state creation. Igbo’s who were still in my state when slavery was abolished were told to go back but most of them refused, they said they would be seen as ghosts, they were osu, they had no one and nothing to return back to, they will be recaptured and sold again and so many other excuses so we let them stay. Today you people are ignorantly claiming these people are proof that we ‘the original non Igbo owners of the land’ are Igbo’s. When most of us hear things like these we just laugh at you guys. Go and check history the Igbo people in Delta, Rivers and Akwa ibom were Igbo slaves who were still in the slave barracoons/ slave quarters/ slave storage when slavery was abolished and they were freed. They aren’t original owners or inhabitants of Rivers, Akwa ibom and Delta. That is why they will ALWAYS tell you they aren’t Igbo. If they accept they are Igbo it is like accepting their slave past. And their positions as slaves they are proving loyalty to their new states and tribes by disassociating themselves with the Igbo’s.
The federal government of Nigeria set up Mamman Nadir boundary adjustment in the 70s, the purpose is to carve out as much as possible oil producing parts in old east central state and put them in states with high minority people in other to control oil production
@@godswillmoses4937 you must read to understand else you risk replying as a fool. Most of the Oil producing areas in the East Central state was carved out southwards to create Rivers and Delta state. Akwa Ibom was carved to create Cross River state, today Cross River has no Oil well after it lost sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to the Cameroon.
This is a very educative and classical documentary. Our Tv stations and Radio should be airing these and educating people esp we Igbos. We are the greatest and most populous tribe in West Africa… We must UNITE first then create a homogenous state where we will be a beacon of hope and light to the rest of Africa. ❤
God bless you for this your good work...what i knew is that during olden days you can migrated and settle in different places before getting to the final place that favors you and you will make the place parmenent settlement. All igbo speaking are from one places but as it has been a very long history, you will only knew the last place you migrated from before your final destination
Most comment are laughable due to the lack in understanding of what this young man is doing. He is doing a great job; sparking the heart of a race into questions and deep thinking; of who we were before the colonizers came, before Amalgamation, independence and what happened after the civil war. Never forget, the civil war was fought between Nigeria and one region, With that said: since I have been watching his show/research, Igbo's need to ask themselves certain question and be honest about it, and that question is what happened to our ethnic-social engineering? Igbo's are not known for conquest or forceful taking of peoples Land; our ancestors are merchants, farmers, traders and skill men. They lived in clans and had district heads known as EZE's (which is attained by age, okpara) and it goes round families. You can't have a people speak same language or dialect like you, have same cultural backgrounds and not ask questions. they are not just closer by proximity but by culture and spirituality. We are not looking for stranger's rather trying to connect with our kins men through asking questions (Ajuju). Furthermore, states/countries does not mean anything when it comes to a race. In kogi state there is kaba people, they speak yoruba and do not deny they are yoruba, I dug a bit and I am finding out that my ancestral home is in Imo, but the creation of states puts me in Abia (thats fine). In south Arica you have Zulu's, just like you have in Zimbabwe and Estwasini, yoruba's in togo, benin etc. The marginalization within ourselves must be broken that we rise to our true potential, may God help us all. Nwannem you are doing a great Job that is divine and may God enable you, this is a project and every true son of the soil should support you; you have mine, may God bless us all.
Indigenous Igbo nativities in Anambra, Imo, Enugu , Ebonyi, Abia, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Benue , Cross River states about 11 States of the federation
@@ucheogwe4470I don't see where he argued that fact. He only stated that the man's dialect is much easier to understand to the entire Igbo populace than olu owerri, which is true. I lived in owerri for so many years, I struggled to understand olu owerri initially for some time.
That’s what war did to us. The plan was to decimate Igbos and they managed to do so. Now we are realizing that Igbo is the largest tribe in Nigeria, and we must unite with our people in the other parts of the country.
Most people this guy have interview on this project... They keep on saying my father said my father said.. simply means you don't blame someone whose his father do not know where his coming from... You come from ( A side but you are speaking B side ) how come you know that you're coming from A side... I can't understand that super history, ... Any body can decide who he wants to be and where to follow that's my believe 😍
If you're developed and organize people will identify with you, my concern is to see my imo state development and secure her position as the best developed city in SE and one of the best in the whole of the Southern states. I don't care who bears or deny being Igbo. When you're doing well z you will see people identifying with you progressively. We have Akwa-ibom, river's, Calabar, Cameroonians all in Owerri leaving in peace with us. All we want is what we can do to bring more investments and development in imo state... We don't want buying and selling activities because it doesn't create job opportunities or employment either.
What you are saying does not make any sense because states were divided in a way that different tribes came together. Other tribes also have this issue. For example, there are Yorubas in non-Yoruba speaking states.
But the man's igbo speaking is understandable, whatever that make then think that they're not part of us must be fix. With what you're doing and maybe in future if we can start organising cultural festival that they should also take part, i think it will bring us more closer to each other.
It's IBANI. Not Ubani. Stop lying. U can't tell us our own name. If u Igbos call it Ubani, dat's ur bizness. We also call u Ibo. But is Ibo ur name? No !
@@ucol2068 how is it your leaders? 1976 boundary adjustment committee had no single Igbo person in it so our interest was not protected.. this is the same issue Nnamdi Kanu is doing, if Igbo people do not get involved in politics and protect their interest this same thing will happen again
@@jackdon6926 it’s people like you that are causing things like this.. with your clown of a Nnamdi Kanu that will tell you not to vote on election,, 8 years buhari have completed his tenure and igbos have been relegated.. 2023 if you like don’t vote in people that will protect your interest
@@tochika3598 Please can you go back and listen to his first narrative how Ndoki people got to Akwa Ibom and from where before he digressed. That is what people commenting are trying to point out.
Big bro, pls send some of your video clips to Imo State broadcasting Cooperation and other media houses in the SE i am pretty sure they will telecast some of the clips. Great work you doing, keep it up. Warm love from Graceland
I am not happy that things turn out like this but we igbos must move on and leave this people alone. That man is from Abia state from the igbo dialect he is speaking. We lost the war and we need to build ourselves first.
The funny thing there is that the Ndoki people of Abia state are proudly Igbo's, while these people in Akwaibom and rivers state are still confused and unintelligent to know that they are Igbo's undiluted, just because they are not in Mainland Igbo territories doesn't make them to be confused. It's well
It is not entirely their fault bruh. One thing I've learned about all these identity crisis affecting the Igbo nation is that people tend to lean more towards the political authority in the areas they are than their ethnic identity. Carefully and masterfully executed division of the Igbo is the cause of all these.
They are proud to be Igbo. When you go to Ndoki whether in ABIA, Akwa Ibom or Rivers it is the same Igbo. He is giving you ancient history. The founders of Ndoki came from Opobo many centuries ago before the formation of Nigeria.
In Anambra state there is a village called Anam and there is a clan called Umuoba Anam, the Umuoba people occupy two different lands because they are divided by both Ezichi and Omambala rivers, so because of that we have Umuoba Abegbu under Anambra west while Umuoba Otu (Otuocha) falls under Anambra east. Even Iyiora Anam is divided away from other villages in Anam by Ezichi river. But in all these... They all identify themselves as NDI ANAM, so NDI IGBO SHOULD UNITE AND SEE THEMSELVES AS ONE NOT MINDING THE MAN MADE POLITICAL STATES WHERE THEY FOUND THEMSELVES (MAKA NA GIDI GIDI BU UGWU EZE) UNITED...? WE CONQUER, DIVIDED...? WE ARE DEFEATED. UNITY IS POWER.
@@vickelly5305 hahaha don't mind them, I know the account you are talking about on Facebook but my Facebook account was hack igala people know how we the Anam people are dealing with them so they afraid to come and talk that rubbish in our people face
You may need to find out where the Igbani people who founded Oha Obu originally came from. The man claimed they came from Rivers state, a state that was carved out of the Eastern region of Nigeria. If they are not Igbo how and when did they acquire Igbo language? Calabari people don't speak Igbo and never did. The man's history is not convincing.
My dear, IBANI dialect is almost lik Kalabari. Okrika, Kalabari, Ibani r all IJAWS. They created Rivers State frm Eastern Region doesn't mean d whole eastern region is Igbo. Efik, Ibibio, Annang, Ogoni, Ijaws - all were part of Eastern Region. So don't use Eastern Region as basis 4 anytin. Tribes existed naturally. Country, region, State, etc r just creations of government
This man is totally confused. Answer simple question and he is going round and round. I Think this man is one of those that benefitted from abandoned property of his brothers and sisters. Now he is ashamed of himself. wow what an identity crisis!!!
Nnaa mehn you should understand these people. 1. Igbos came from one source, Jews that did not go to the promised land with mosis. They moved from upper Egypt to lower Egypt to sudan to the present igbo land. These igbos including Igala people. They began to spread to other places with their culture, deities and gods. The first settler becomes the founder of the place, they will give a name to the place. So these igbo o tribes are fragraments of igbo race that moved to settle in various places separating from each other to build settlement. Igbo is one with various diabetes.
The town they are calling Okoloma (youth knows)is usually called Okolomakari I.e. youthfulness is better. But how can one be speaking same Local language, keeping one culture with his brothers & @ d same time be detaching himself from his brothers. Dt they are not same. Complete dementation. May God help Igbos.
This is interesting. One of your videos you did on Opobo, the people said they have root with Ndoki, but this Ndoki man is saying it's the other way round. Very interesting
Didn't anyone notice he said at the beginning that Ndoki people are in Abia, Rivers and Akwa Ibom. And before the separation they were part of Imo State in east central, then later carved into Cross River and finally Akwa Ibom now he suddenly changed his story and said they migrated from Rivers.
Divine Pete, but d man no lie na. They r 2day in different locations/States but they originally migrated frm Rivers State. Back den there was no Rivers State, we had only clans & kingdoms. In Ibani (Bonny & Opobo), we hv a history of how Ndoki migrated. We hv a common history sort of. D name Ndoki is actually AMINADOKIARI meaning "I'M SEARCHING 4MY BROTHERS/MY BLOOD".... Dat's bcos wen d founders of Bonny left Ijaw in present Bayelsa State, on their way 2founding Bonny, som members of d group got lost somewhere around d Ndoki axis so d Bonny group called d place AMINADOKIARI. They continued d journey & went on 2establish Bonny. Years later, they eventually came across d ppl dat had gotten lost but diz ppl had mixed up with Igbos who r d occupants of d Ndoki axis. Thus they got assimilated by d Igbos. Dat's d story we hv about NDOKI/AMINADOKIARI. So d man in dis video isn't wrong, he's right
The man is correct. Remember Abia used to be in IMO state. He said Ndoki used to be in Imo, east central state but due to more state creation, some carved in Abia, Rivers and Akwa Ibom
This people should be left with their confusion, who will their Igbo identification help? Wether they came from ijaw or Ikwere how is it my problem. I think we should let them be, also respect whoever they want to identify with that makes them happy
Thank you for this video Fun fact: Akwaete cloth is a highly prized type of Igbo cloth from Ndoki Ndoki is an ancient Igbo group whose ancestors migrated from riverine areas about 500 years ago. At that time Ndoki was called Ndokay. The Ndoki speak the Ndoki dialect of Igbo and Are closely associated with the NGWA people as well as the ASA people. Ndoki territory stretch from the outskirts of ABA all the way to ObiIgbo Port Harcourt and into Akwa Ibom in the east. Okazi soup, ugba and egusi balls are delicacies enjoyed by the Ndoki people
What you would have asked him is why did the Ndoki of Abia state identify as an Igbo and he is claiming that they are not Igbos because they are in Akwa Ibom
I do not believe that Ndoki is from Rivers State. Let me tell you something, I am from Nguru Umuaro in Ngor Okpala former headquarter of Owerri LGA, now ngor okpala is carved out to be a LGA of it's own for political benefit. Now, that we're having nguru umuaro as our name meaning nguru is d son of umuaro. Also, note that umuaro means we are 4rm Arochukwu and umuaro means the children of 'ARO'. It's good to know that in those days Arochukwu were itenerant business people going places establishing & developing such areas as they conquer or as they deem fit. 'ARO' has many wives & children and was wealthy. He(Aro) expanded throughout d former southeast which encompasses d entire south south. This ARO, by the facts of language, dressing, culture/tradition in terms of market names & days, food, gods of d land, marriage rites etc shows that this ARO traversed within & without the entire former south east and beyond. Back to why I mentioned my place of origin, if my home town had found itself in the present day Bayelsa or River States most probably I would be contending with anyone that says am from Igbo. Do you get what am trying to infer? And you know that Arochukwu traversed more in Rivers & Bayelsa and influenced more establishment of his children & development. How did portharcourt get it's original name-- IGWEOCHA? a native name which is original to all intents & purposes and was changed later. The person's first name is his origin. One day I got to know d native name of my workmate who is from Ogoni to be Igbo name(Letam) which is short form of chiletam, so when I asked him why he's denying his connection to Igbo he ran away. My kits & kin in southsouth it's not good for you to hate your brother 'cos of what you think u can get 4rm Nigeria or 'cos of fear of Igbo or oil. Now that d north is in charge how do you enjoy the oil, it's proceeds, development arising 4rm d profit of oil money. Are they protecting you, are they helping u more than they're doing for themselves? Think twice when it is still day. Thanks.
These are boundaries people and the federal government did a very bad job of separation. I have a friend that speaks like delta Igbo but they are under Edo state. This makes them a major internal minority in their own state. May God help us.
The politics I am not Igbo where played to save life and property according to them, but they never know that it were played to silent them for ever.... And master planners as colonial strong men never believe that it will expire so soon as this time, because they believe by giving Igbo £20 will make it more worse .... They never believe that igbo will bounce back very quickly😂
The man is reversing history. Bonny didn't establish Ndoki... all history from Baikie has it that Ndoki established Bonny. Ndoki is way way older than Bonny.
So wen Baikie arrived, Bonny was not in existence. Baikie knows d history of Bonny more dan my great great grandfather & forebears. Baikie is d one 2tell me who I am. Bonny dat xisted b4 Europeans arrived, suddenly they r in a better position 2know how Bonny was founded. D same Europeans created Nigeria & put Igbos in d situation Igbos r in Nigeria. Europeans kò, Baikie ni. Ntòòr 😛🤪
@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Your write-up is hardly coherent... When Barbot arrived Bonny in the 1600s, it was just about newly established. Europeans have been writing about Bonny for ages. Baikie is just an example.
@@eeke7438 Europeans met Bonny in xistence. It's Opobo dat was founded after d arrival of Europeans. Europeans can't know our history more dan us. As 4my write up bin coherent, I guess u shud check ur brain, u probably hv issues with comprehension
@@eeke7438 Ur so called Barbot knows wot my forefathers told him about Bonny. Barbot or Baikie & d likes don't know d history of Bonny & Opobo more dan my ancestors who founded Bonny so I wud rather take history frm my fathers dan listen 2som European. Period
The man knows their history to some extent but, their relationship with the Ibani (Ubani) people is what is confusing him, so,it takes logical intelligence to fully get the real picture of what he is actually saying.. According to him, some Ibani (Ubani) people came to Ohaobu through the creeks and discovered it for the Bonny (Ibani, Ubani)kingdom. When they arrived, they met the indigenes (people who had already established and are living there). These indigenes are Igbo (Ndoki) people. The Bonny kingdom fostered an(business) alliance between Ohaobu and in extention other Ndoki communities. Ibani(Ubani, Bonny) people would come there for business they themselves would go there for business. This alliance brought many Igbo (Ndoki) people into Bonny, hence making Igbo language the common language in Bonny,and according the man,his grandfather came to Ohaobu from Bonny. So,it could be that his grandfather was an Igbo man who went to Bonny and later returned after many years, or that his grandfather was simply an Ibani merchant who came to Ndoki and never returned. Where he got it wrong was when he said that the rest of Ndoki people came from Ohaobu. Ndoki is an offshoot of Ngwa and as their dialect indicates,it has a mixture of ohuhu people. So their ancestral homeland is somewhere in Abịa State.
Is like majority of you people here doesn't understand the conversation before commenting. When asked if Ndoki is igbo? He didn't answer straight but Said Ndoki was founded by Borokiri in Bony river's state, that means they're not claiming Igbos. Who will like to identify with tribes that has internal issues with each other, igboman from Anambra fighting Another in Ebonyi, imo and Enugu. We from Imo trace our origin in Arochukwu, Anambra man trace his origins from Obu-Gad, the son of Eri Jewish people.. We're not the same people and we should respect that. Let us learn to leave others to whatever they believe and identify with. What we need is development in imo state and other people will identify with you without going to their villages asking why they're denying their origin or not.. Nobody wants to identify with failed people.
The question to the man could hv been... What language he is speaking and d one you, Nnaa Mehn is speaking. If he says it's not Igbo, then hw come u understood each other
DNA test will put their denial of their Igbo blood to rest. Are these people not ashamed of themselves? Your wedding tradition is same with someone from Owerri and you're still talking rubbish, but if you go abroad you Identify as Igbo. Nwanne you're trying o, you're very patient.
Yes a friend of mine told me about this people that they are igbos but live akwaibom, they speak Igbo as their native language, Omo divide and rule from Fulani really dealt with igbos but nothing spoil,onye chukwu goziri ogoziwoya
Language is used to track the settlement and the migration of people. By the virtue of the Igbo spoken they are Igbos. But there are those who never spoke the language of the people the claim to come from, such as the Bini language. Tracking by language is hard science not a figment of imagination. That is Linguistic Anthropology.
Madman Nasir boundary adjustment, a Northern Judge that is why there is forever boundary fights between Abia and Akwaibom, Abia and Rivers and Imo and Rivers. Know this and know peace
Many Kalabari Families are originally of the Arochukwu-Bende Origin; there were retro-migration that led to the Establishment of some of these Communities.
I've said it before that our friend here is trying to be nice to these people. Now can they tell us one thing that relates them with the Kalabari people or with Bini people?👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾😯😯 FOOLS!
It's unfortunate, you can not get the accurate information on the origin of the igbos from the man, his parents were all missing igbos that wondered into that area of the country called Nigeria.
Ndoki people were originally ijaw but decided to adopt Igbo language and customs. It's simply a choice of how people decide to identify themselves due to intermarriage or acculturation. There are Igbos in Anambra state that have some igala roots. Also other ethnic groups have some Igbo roots but have lost their Igbo culture, for instance there are some isoko people who migrated from awka in Anambra state but they are now isoko. It's just like the USA which is made up of English, German, Dutch, french, Spanish etc but they now identify as Americans. There is no point in trying to force anyone to agree that they are Igbo if as a group their identity has changed.
Our name is IBANI We r not Ignani or Ubani. Diz r names u Igbos call us. It doesn't mean it's our name. It's lik Ijaws calling u ppl Ibo or Ikputu. It doesn't mean dat's ur name. Ijaws call u Igbos, Ikputu, which means Stone. Bcos Igbos don't know how 2 swim. Anytin water, Igbos can't get close 2it. So 2d Ijaw ppl, u r lik stone 🪨. But is dat ur name ? NO ! IGBANI or Ubani has a totally different meaning in our IBANI dialect/language. Ibani dialect is very similar 2 Kalabari, Okrika,Nkoro. All diz r IJAW. IBANI is not Igbo at all. Just as Hausa language is spoken in Kaduna, Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi etc, dat's how Igbo language is spoken generally in parts of River State but we r originally Ijaw ppl. Etche, Ekpeye, Ikwerre, etc r Igbos. But Okrika,Kalabari, Ibani r pure Ijaws. In Kaduna, Plateau, Benue,Abuja etc they speak Hausa all over but they still hv their various indegenous languages lik Gwari, Igala, Bwari, Idoma, Gbagyi, Nupe,Jukun, Birom, etc Igbos shud stop forcing demselves on oda ppl. Dis old man in d video knows his history. He's not lying. Ndoki is Igbo 2day, but they hv Ijaw links & roots.
Nnaa Mehn Tv: have you found out or verified that King Jaja of Opobo and the Jumbo ruling family of Bonny were igbos? King Jaja from Nkwerre and Oko Jumbo, of the Jumbo family of Bonny, also from Igbo land also.
Since, according to the man, Ndoki came from Kalabari/Opobo to establish Obuoha in Akwa Ibom state and have no connection to the Igbos, how did the same Igbos from the interior, come so completely to take over their language & culture till date?
I don’t think he said they have no connection with the Igbos, I believe he proudly identifies as an Igbo person but believes his people migrated from Bonny, that being said, Bonny has Igbo ancestry too
Bonny people are Igbos. Obuoha people are Igbos. Kalabari are their neighbors and some kalabari may have integrated into their community over time and vice versa. Igbo is Igbo no matter where they are located I don't understand what connection you are talking about
Those ppl are brainwashed Igbos; the divide-and-rule policy of Nigeria has carved out our brothers from us for a while now but we haven't forgotten our brothers and must unify them. All those divide-and-rule policies must stop, we are up for that.
Everything he mentioned are all Igbo culture; Ekpe, etc they’re Igbos, but the want to maintain their claim in their current position. His narrative started from slave trade; which impacted them. There is a missing link; we need to know about pre-slave trade era. Slave trade and the civil war messed up their history and cultural heritage as extend Igbo race. He mentioned ubani, a typical Igbo name
Hmmm! Which history is he talking about, Son of the Soil? What has Ndoki got to do with Kalabari? The first ancestor of Ndoki people is Eze and Mgbeke. One oral tradition says that they migrated from bini kingdom while the other one says that they migrated from Oru lower Niger Riverine Igbos (Abohs, Ndonis, Oguta, Onya, Osekwenike, Ogba Egbema etc) and ijaws. Eze begot Oko_Obo( Okobo) Okobo had two Sons, named the first one Okwele _Eze in honour of his father, he named the second one Agbai Egbe. Eze established Ihu Ali(Mother Earth Goddess shrine) and Obu Ochie. Okwele_Eze was a Palm wine tapper while Agbai was a hunter. Okobo's personal Chi was represented by an Egbu tree. Agbai Egbe begot Chief Ji_Ite(Jite). Migration from Oru, Central Delta or Bini kingdom doesn't mean you're an Ijaw or Bini. Igbos had settled in these places hundreds or thousands of years before now. The question are. Do ethnic ijaws Worship the Mother Earth Goddess known as Ali, Ala, Ani, Ana or Eli? Do they established Obu, Obiri, Obi or Ovu? Do they worship personal Chi? Even if you loose your language you still can't loose your ancient landmarks Traditional things in the possession of your first ancestors) Ekpeya elders between 1930-1931 told the British colonial masters that the Ndokis migrated from a place North of their own ancestral homeland.
The elder who was interviewed never denied that he was Igbo. He said that Ndoki is Igbo. He mentioned that they observe all Igbo customs He said ( Union igbo) which is central Igbo that is used in the Bible and in schools to help all igbo people communicate because of our dialects differences. Their traditional ruler is an Eze. I am reading comments. It seem that some people are just on the attack without even trying to listen and understand. He is given the history of his villiage and how it was created. Because he said they came from river state , people are on the attack. He pointed out those Ndoki in Abia migrated from their settlement. There were many Igbo settlements outside of where we today consider the main igbo territory. Not all Igbo tribes lived in one area. Look up the Arochukwu and all their settlements My people before they settled in Nibo. Anambra over 400 years ago where on the move until they conquered the locals who lived in that area. Christianity has killed our ethnic religion because not too many practice.
This is insane. How can Igbo people keeps on denying their identity. Is it because of money or marginalization? My beloved brother, you’re really a good man with so much patience .
Vivian: It is important to be open minded when looking at issues, because Fact remains fact, no matter what. As somebody from Ndoki, this man is narrating the fact to a great extent. The situation is that currently in Ndokiland, the people have really mixed-up primarily as a result of slave trade and later oil-river trade which the area played a very important role. Hence, the people that make-up Ndokiland today are both igbani and igbo people. If you're in doubt of this account, you may want to know the origin of the word "Ndoki". According to our elders, "Ndoki" is the shortened form of "Aminadokiari" which means "Am looking for my brother". May I conclude by saying that, we're not averse to identifying as Ibo because we're now greatly mixed-up to the extent it does no longer matter. But for anyone to want us to forget our root is certainly overreaching. Hope this little piece provides you with a better understanding and perspective.
The man never said Ndoki is not Igbo, it's just that his speech is not comprehensive. It's now left for you to logically bring his words together and get the full meaning of what he is actually saying. (Read my comment on the comment section)
@@gonuk are you from Ndoki bruhs,coz am from there,Egberu to be precise,am a pure igbo Man and my granddad explain to me clearly he is an igbo through and through,in Ndoki which I grew up and still my land we dont have debates of whom we are,on Paper,we're in River state but our ethnicity we're unadulterated igbos.
@@jacobd2102 Ndoki is an ancient Igbo tribe whose progenitor is Eze and Mgbeke. This man established Ihu Ali (Mother Earth Goddess altar or shrine) and Obu Ochie. They begot Eze, Eze begot Okwele_Eze and Agbai Egbe. Agbai Egbe personal Chi was represented by an Egbu tree. Agbai Egbe begot Chief Ji_Ite(Jite) Agbai Egbe. As a hunter whose grandfather migrated from Oru (Riverine Igbos) he discover Bonny island. Ijaws don't worship The Mother Earth Goddess known as Ali, Ala, Ani, Ana or Eli. They don't have Obu, Obiri, Obi or Ovu. They don't worship personal Chi. Ask ijaws what Oha _Obu is?. Ali, Ala, Ani, Ana or Eli is the god and mother of all Igbos and this's why the founders of every Igbo community or tribe dedicates an ancient altar to her.
My Brother you are doing an excellent job but I know how disheartening it is for you especially when you ask them if the identify as "Igbo" and they reject the identification. Please, can you or your contacts look for high ranking officials of "Ohanaeze Ndigbo" to forward all this documentary videos to, so they know the enormous task they have in hand. If for instance Officials of Ohanaeze to visit the various Royal fathers' in these areas (especially Delta, Rivers and now Akwa Ibom maybe other state might be identified later) and if the visit is accepted and the Royal fathers' accept or reject the identity of bring "Igbo" they are able to classify those Communities as "Igboid" as against "Igbo". Igboid meaning that yes we have close relationship but don't identify as Igbo just like the Germans and Austrians. The Austrian speak German but don't identify as German. Why am saying this imho is that if they are denying you (us) now during relatively "Peace time" is it when their is conflict that they will accept you that is why Ohanaeze need to visit these communities and have a comprehensive list of them that accept the "Igbo" identity. Everyone (people) has a right to choose their own part at least Spain used to be one country until Portugal decided to go on their own.
@@charlesduru5838Bro, we can't force them to accept us. Being Igbo is not just an Identity, it is a nation of tens of million people and has an ideology behind it so we don't need to beg people to accept us. In fact it should the other way round.
@@Southernview3k what the FG created are artificial borders which is even disturbing that a Ndoki man from Akwa Ibom sees himself has different from another Ndoki man from Abia. The ultimate goal for Ohanaeze which should be a Social economic group rather than Political, is to unite these groups that agree they are Igbos regardless of the borders that separate them.
@@obumonwubuya7138 Then what is Ohanaezes doing to unite this people with Igbos? I seem not to understand their importance as Ohanaezes as the name suggest
Ndoki is actually Adokiyari which means I am looking for my brother in ibani dialect of Ijaw language. They are Bonny people. The real name of Bonny is Okolo-ama/Okoloma (the land of curlew). Opubo (Opobo) migrated from Bonny at the civil war of 1869. Bonny migrated from central ijaw village called Okoloba in the present day Bayelsa state. If you understand ibani, you will understand kalabari, okirika, and several other ijaw dialects. The ibo language spoken in Bonny and Opobo is mixed up with Ibani dialect. Some compounds in Opobo town and Bonny villages still speak Ibani. Bonny and Opobo are in Rivers State.
How and when do you start speaking Igbo? When did you start practising Igbo cultures and traditions? Explain clearly. If you are truthful in your explanations it will flow and everyone will understand. Ijaw and Kalabari are not Igbos unless historically. If Opobo, Bonny, Ibani and Ndoki are Ijaws as you claim why are they not practising Ijaw cultures and traditions. Or is it like once Obigbo town now changed to Oyibo in my eyes hence your children will start referencing it. History is very important but can be very misleading especially if made up. It seems to me that my Deltans brothers and sisters have formed one unified lie.
@@Itajala this is why you need to start studying history rather than going by rumors. As I have stated earlier, the version of ibo spoken in Bonny and Opobo are mixed with ibani (Ijaw) dialect and it started as a result of trading between the ijaws of the river-line areas and the Ibos of the hinterlands. The ibos sold their relatives, war captives and other criminals to the ijaws similar to what they are still doing today in Nigeria, the Mediterranean and several other parts of the world. These slaves were acculturated into the ibani society and the honest and useful ones were integrated into the ibani culture while the greedy and criminal minded ones were resold. The indigenous language of the people which is ibani were reserved for the natives so that the unwanted slaves will not know when they will be gotten rid of, hence, ibo became the trading language. Eventually, ibani language became unpopular as it was reserved only for the natives However, ibani is still been spoken in Bonny villages till now and in some compounds in Opobo Town. What happened to ibani dialect is not different from what is happening to ibo, Yoruba and several other Nigerian languages today. Not all ibo children born to ibo parents can speak ibo even though ibo and Yoruba are being taught in schools in the south eastern and south western schools. Ibani is not been taught in schools so those that speak ibani learn it from home if the mother is a native speaker. Opobo and Bonny do not practice ibo culture. They practice ibani (Ijaw) culture. You need to watch their owu masquerades, dances and songs. Go to UA-cam and watch their cultural plays you may learn one or more things. Eremina ogbo of Opobo and Otobo masquerade of Bonny are good starts. Listen to the sounds of their ancient musical instruments which you can never find in any ibo culture. It is the ibos that are copying the Ijaw culture. Ndoki is located in the hinterland sharing boundaries with the ibos, the ibibio, the Ogonis etc so their cultures will more than likely be mixed up with those of their neighbors after all, culture is not stagnant; it changes with time depending on the circumstance at a particular point in time.
And where did you get these lies from? Alagoa, right?? Eze and Mgbeke are the progenitor of Ndoki people. One has it that they migrated from the bini kingdom while the other said that they migrated from Oru (Riverine Igbos Abohs, Ndonis, Oguta, Onya, Osekwenike, Ogba, Egbema, Ogba_Oru(Ogbaru) etc. Igbos also refer to ijaws as Oru/Olu. Eze and Mgbeke begot Oko_Obo(Okobo), Okobo begot Okwele_Eze and Agbai Egbe. Eze settled down, and established the ancient altar or shrine of the Mother Earth Goddess known as Ihu Ali, and Obu Ochie. Okobo's personal Chi was represented by an Egbu tree. Ijaws don't worship the Mother Earth Goddess known as Ali/Ala/Ani/Ana or Eli. They don't know what Obu Obiri Obi or Ovu is. They don't know what Chi is. You can't talk about people without talking about their ancient landmarks (Traditionally things in possession of the founders) Alagoa doesn't know Bonny more than King Peppel and the elders who were interviewed btw 1895-1906. Even if you loose your language, you don't loose your ancient landmarks.
@@ahkramokaa4508 The early history of the Niger delta edited by EJ Alagoa, FN Anozie and Nwanna Nzewunwa in association with the University of Port Harcourt is not a history book. It is an archeological and anthropological research findings detailing the linguistic evidence for the prehistory of the Niger delta. It is a research findings from some of the world most renowned experts in their respective professions from several universities including; Ibadan, Yale, Cambridge, Lagos, Nsukka, Bordeaux, London, Wisconsin etc. The research work covers several ethnic linguistic group including; the igbos, ijaws, Yorubas, Edo, Orobo, effik, ogoni, ibibio etc. The researchers are from some of the above tribes also. It is a must read and we should, at this stage of our lives, focus on great works from people of these status and if we disagree with them, We are free to perform our own research and write our own book. At this day and age, we should desist from rumors and focus on evidence based research findings.
@@edidyable Does Alagoa know Bonny more than early white slave traders who had started communicating with Bonny since 17th century? Does he know Bonny more than the Major Arthur Gleyn Leonard( Lower Niger and her tribes, 1906). He doesn't know Bonny more than Talbot (Tribes of Niger Delta) You can't talk about people's history without talking about their ancient landmarks, ok?? They settled first where they established Ihu Ala, and Obu Ochie. Eze and Mgbeke founded Ndoki, and the name Ndoki came as a result of quarrel between the two groups. Okobo begot Okwele_Eze and Agbai Egbe who led a group to Bonny. Ebani, Ubani or Ibani came from the Ogoni who refer to them as foreigners. The founders of Nembe came from Bini kingdom. A Bini war commander led deserters, and founded Nembe. The Kalabaris were originally Ibibios/Andonis. Alagoa who was born in 1933 doesn't know more than his own forefathers who were interviewed by white men.
Mr. Interviewer, can you speak entirely in Igbo Language, without mixing it with English ......... Don't be a "Hypocrite" ........ and you claim to be Unifying Igbo People !!! Keep Up The Good Work that you are doing!!!
My people, the point here is no body can tell or confuse you where you are coming from, with you language and Names is ok for you to identify your origin simple as ABC.... if your father told you that you people came from calabari ... But he is not speaking calabari... The how come you speak Igbo,... Well all that is politics that came after Biafra civil war .... And all this people that speaking igbo at the same time tell us they're not igbo... I think they're the real enemies we should be more careful about them before they bought out side enemies from the North and West...😂
Someone is speaking igbo fluently and dressed with igbo regalia but still have the courage to deny his roots. He is claiming river state an idea created right in his lifetime. I'm sure there was no river state 50years and from the look of things he is clearly over 50yrs. It is saddening when age which is supposed to represent wisdom is displaying ignorance. Amadioha have mercy
I don't think this man is denying his igboness but the fact he is making is that Ndoki was founded by the Ijaws but maybe overtime and through slave population the Igbo population took over making it have an Igbo identity. Igbos should not be emotionally when people give their history. You cannot be more smarter than their own ancestors.
@@chimzulumezigboh3652 Is only defeated people who claim everybody that deny them. The man never said he was not Igbo, he only gave history of our the town was found.
@@kennybrown3302believe me my brother Igbo people always fight does who don't agree with their fake history Speaking or similar language do not make you an igbo Let the people tell you about their history because you can't tell me that almost all the interviews that this how brother grant and the people are all telling lies In all there may be truth
Its very unfortunate the we Igbos found ourslves in this mess ( Nigeria) how could a man whose endeginous language is Igbo be denying hid identity. The story in my Place Alayi is the we migrated from potopo some where between Akwa Ibom and today's Rivers state, the was an exedous of about 5 or 4 hundred years or even more ago. Some of our people here In Bende L gA still bear the name Ubani . Rember that upon the arrival of the white men in the shores of Africa, some the endeginous people were afraid and evacuated from there inhabitant then. What am i trying to say, we all are the same people that migrated of the same place ,only to dispatch to deferent place within the river rine areas o todays south south and south east. Other wise how could be speaking same language , bearing same names and having same culture?
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This is a complete Igbo man!
Speaking very clear Igbo language. Ndoki igbos of Akwa Ibom state.
God bless this young man who's trying so much to unify Igbos.
Ndoki igbo is spoken in Opobo,Bonny.Igbani,Ubani are all the same: Ndoki people.
As an Ndoki person. I do not know our history authoritative but what I am certain is that we are Igbos. We are too small to be playing identity politics. This is how people lose their culture. There is no denial of links to Opodo and other Ijaw groups but today we are igbos
Of course Ndoki is Igbo. Also related to riverine areas. Akwaete cloth from Ndoki is one of the most prized Igbo cloth
Simple. U r related 2 Ijaw, u hv Ijaw links but u r Igbo 2day.
Bonny, Opobo is IJAW.
Simple.
He lives amongst the ibibios yet they retained their language culture and traditions. Is Bonny an Ijaw name? Abi na white man accent? Where does the Ijaws come from? Is Ijaw also white man accent abi na them real name. What really happened that igbos are scattered everywhere like orphans with many of them ignorant of their ancestry. The so called documented history is not making sense. How can Ijaw (opobo, Bonny) loose their language and speak Igbo yet claim not to be Igbo. Igbo unity is important but the most is knowing our history. So we know who we are and who we are not. We need to straighten our history so we know when someone is lying and innovating falsehood. What is the relationship with igbos and bini ? None, Zero. Yet there are a lot of similarities between these so called none igbos outside the major five states and igbos within the five states. The more I follow this trend, I see more of a political divide than an ancestral dichotomy. I would love to see igbos united no matter where they reside geographically, but it’s important to know the real history so we can learn from it and keep building.
Opobo we're mainly Igbos with mixture of ijaws who followed their leader Jaja to establish the town. Ibani, had people like oko Jumbo's are Igbos with the ijaws. truthfully,the numerical strength of igbos in these areas are overwhelming because of slave trade, Palm products and middle men approach to transaction in those days
Wow igbos of akwa ibom ! He never denied his Igbo root but only said they migrated from River. 🤔 Thx for representing Igbo attire
The Igbo man has never forgotten his root.
You are doing a great job, my brother. This a job that falls on ohaneze ndigbo, but you have taken it upon yourself, and I'm most grateful to you.
Union Igbo? 😂 smh 🤦♂️ the civil war really dealt a heavy blow on us
He's old. Union Igbo is what was used to write Bible Nso. Then it transformed into Izgube.
This is serious. Igbo were really battered and besieged
They really want to destroy igbo 😢part of imo to rivers part of abia to akwa ibom part of anambra to delta part of enugu to ekiti this is soo bad!!!! They just wanted to put confusion
Part of ebonyi to benue
The aim was to totally destroy the Igbo race and turn us into a minority in the scheme of things in their one Nigeria.
@@daniel2377why do some igbos think this way?? They want to destroy you? 😂 there are many Yoruba speaking communities in non Yoruba states but you don’t hear them saying they want to destroy them, you guys are just insecure and always want to claim the victim
@@daniel2377 Does Enugu share boundary with Ekiti or Kogi?
See how they have pieces one family into almost three parts! God will surely help us to bring us together again
Which one family 😂
@@Biobele you are asking which family,? they are in Abia,rivers and Akwa ibom state.
@@uchennaegbule1487 no they aren’t. It was the slave trade of Igbo’s exiling and selling fellow Igbo’s and not state creation.
Igbo’s who were still in my state when slavery was abolished were told to go back but most of them refused, they said they would be seen as ghosts, they were osu, they had no one and nothing to return back to, they will be recaptured and sold again and so many other excuses so we let them stay.
Today you people are ignorantly claiming these people are proof that we ‘the original non Igbo owners of the land’ are Igbo’s.
When most of us hear things like these we just laugh at you guys.
Go and check history the Igbo people in Delta, Rivers and Akwa ibom were Igbo slaves who were still in the slave barracoons/ slave quarters/ slave storage when slavery was abolished and they were freed. They aren’t original owners or inhabitants of Rivers, Akwa ibom and Delta.
That is why they will ALWAYS tell you they aren’t Igbo.
If they accept they are Igbo it is like accepting their slave past. And their positions as slaves they are proving loyalty to their new states and tribes by disassociating themselves with the Igbo’s.
The federal government of Nigeria set up Mamman Nadir boundary adjustment in the 70s, the purpose is to carve out as much as possible oil producing parts in old east central state and put them in states with high minority people in other to control oil production
So Akwa ibom is minority abi. Oga which oils wells and companies are in Ukanafun LGA?
Ode which oil der u kana fun LGA oloniburuku
@@godswillmoses4937 you must read to understand else you risk replying as a fool. Most of the Oil producing areas in the East Central state was carved out southwards to create Rivers and Delta state.
Akwa Ibom was carved to create Cross River state, today Cross River has no Oil well after it lost sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to the Cameroon.
@@anachronistic8246 he was sounding as if Ndoki was an oil producing town and Akwa ibom was benefiting from her
Tribe is not state.
The Yorubas in Sierra Leone are the same with the Yoruba in Ibadan.
Igbo is an ethnic group,.
This is a very educative and classical documentary. Our Tv stations and Radio should be airing these and educating people esp we Igbos. We are the greatest and most populous tribe in West Africa… We must UNITE first then create a homogenous state where we will be a beacon of hope and light to the rest of Africa. ❤
So painful to watch!
A people so totally mentally decimated, and turned into some weird identity quagmire.
So sad to watch.
God bless you for this your good work...what i knew is that during olden days you can migrated and settle in different places before getting to the final place that favors you and you will make the place parmenent settlement. All igbo speaking are from one places but as it has been a very long history, you will only knew the last place you migrated from before your final destination
Most comment are laughable due to the lack in understanding of what this young man is doing. He is doing a great job; sparking the heart of a race into questions and deep thinking; of who we were before the colonizers came, before Amalgamation, independence and what happened after the civil war. Never forget, the civil war was fought between Nigeria and one region, With that said: since I have been watching his show/research, Igbo's need to ask themselves certain question and be honest about it, and that question is what happened to our ethnic-social engineering? Igbo's are not known for conquest or forceful taking of peoples Land; our ancestors are merchants, farmers, traders and skill men. They lived in clans and had district heads known as EZE's (which is attained by age, okpara) and it goes round families. You can't have a people speak same language or dialect like you, have same cultural backgrounds and not ask questions. they are not just closer by proximity but by culture and spirituality. We are not looking for stranger's rather trying to connect with our kins men through asking questions (Ajuju).
Furthermore, states/countries does not mean anything when it comes to a race. In kogi state there is kaba people, they speak yoruba and do not deny they are yoruba, I dug a bit and I am finding out that my ancestral home is in Imo, but the creation of states puts me in Abia (thats fine). In south Arica you have Zulu's, just like you have in Zimbabwe and Estwasini, yoruba's in togo, benin etc.
The marginalization within ourselves must be broken that we rise to our true potential, may God help us all. Nwannem you are doing a great Job that is divine and may God enable you, this is a project and every true son of the soil should support you; you have mine, may God bless us all.
Learned you
Nigeria government really deal with us
You are doing good job bro Keep it up
Indigenous Igbo nativities in Anambra, Imo, Enugu , Ebonyi, Abia, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Benue , Cross River states about 11 States of the federation
Plus Kogi and Cross River
You excluded Kogi!
You forgot kogi
Bini, igbanke
Their Igbo dialect is easier to understand than some Imo dialects, no shades to my Imo people o!
Igbo is a languance. Imo state has different dialects which under Igbo language. Igbo language has many dialects. Use your dictory.
@@ucheogwe4470I don't see where he argued that fact. He only stated that the man's dialect is much easier to understand to the entire Igbo populace than olu owerri, which is true. I lived in owerri for so many years, I struggled to understand olu owerri initially for some time.
That’s what war did to us. The plan was to decimate Igbos and they managed to do so. Now we are realizing that Igbo is the largest tribe in Nigeria, and we must unite with our people in the other parts of the country.
Most people this guy have interview on this project... They keep on saying my father said my father said.. simply means you don't blame someone whose his father do not know where his coming from... You come from ( A side but you are speaking B side ) how come you know that you're coming from A side... I can't understand that super history, ... Any body can decide who he wants to be and where to follow that's my believe 😍
@@law285 this is not nigeria name
If you're developed and organize people will identify with you, my concern is to see my imo state development and secure her position as the best developed city in SE and one of the best in the whole of the Southern states. I don't care who bears or deny being Igbo. When you're doing well z you will see people identifying with you progressively. We have Akwa-ibom, river's, Calabar, Cameroonians all in Owerri leaving in peace with us. All we want is what we can do to bring more investments and development in imo state... We don't want buying and selling activities because it doesn't create job opportunities or employment either.
What you are saying does not make any sense because states were divided in a way that different tribes came together. Other tribes also have this issue. For example, there are Yorubas in non-Yoruba speaking states.
He is making sense let come together and develop imo state coz is well positioned and when we succeed our brothers will come and identify with us
But the man's igbo speaking is understandable, whatever that make then think that they're not part of us must be fix. With what you're doing and maybe in future if we can start organising cultural festival that they should also take part, i think it will bring us more closer to each other.
The original Name of Bonny is Ubani: the European pronounced Ubani as Bonny.
It's IBANI.
Not Ubani.
Stop lying.
U can't tell us our own name.
If u Igbos call it Ubani, dat's ur bizness. We also call u Ibo. But is Ibo ur name? No !
It is ibani…stop twisting history yo
In many old maps. It's written Ubani
Nawa...Fed govt did a number on us Igbos
Our leaders caused it not federal government
@@ucol2068 how
@@ucol2068 how is it your leaders? 1976 boundary adjustment committee had no single Igbo person in it so our interest was not protected.. this is the same issue Nnamdi Kanu is doing, if Igbo people do not get involved in politics and protect their interest this same thing will happen again
@@jackdon6926 it’s people like you that are causing things like this.. with your clown of a Nnamdi Kanu that will tell you not to vote on election,, 8 years buhari have completed his tenure and igbos have been relegated.. 2023 if you like don’t vote in people that will protect your interest
Chukwu Emeka thank you I love the work you are doing
Nigeria really dealt with the Igbo nation
...but if you meet this man outside Nigeria he will identify as Igbo in his bid to seek help and support from Igbos in diaspora
The man never denied he is not Igbo he only said it they migrated from River Rd that all.
@@tochika3598 Please can you go back and listen to his first narrative how Ndoki people got to Akwa Ibom and from where before he digressed. That is what people commenting are trying to point out.
Hahaha 🤣 I have seen many of them in US,you know exactly what you are saying,but anyway I don’t have time to pleased to anyone to be Igbo
Big bro, pls send some of your video clips to Imo State broadcasting Cooperation and other media houses in the SE i am pretty sure they will telecast some of the clips. Great work you doing, keep it up. Warm love from Graceland
I am not happy that things turn out like this but we igbos must move on and leave this people alone. That man is from Abia state from the igbo dialect he is speaking. We lost the war and we need to build ourselves first.
Beautiful history. Igbo people pls know from here that Ndoki were Ijaw
Well done Brotherly. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
Salute HRH Ben Onuoha Eze onye new Ali Ohaobu and Akirika
The funny thing there is that the Ndoki people of Abia state are proudly Igbo's, while these people in Akwaibom and rivers state are still confused and unintelligent to know that they are Igbo's undiluted, just because they are not in Mainland Igbo territories doesn't make them to be confused. It's well
It is not entirely their fault bruh. One thing I've learned about all these identity crisis affecting the Igbo nation is that people tend to lean more towards the political authority in the areas they are than their ethnic identity. Carefully and masterfully executed division of the Igbo is the cause of all these.
They are proud to be Igbo. When you go to Ndoki whether in ABIA, Akwa Ibom or Rivers it is the same Igbo.
He is giving you ancient history. The founders of Ndoki came from Opobo many centuries ago before the formation of Nigeria.
In Anambra state there is a village called Anam and there is a clan called Umuoba Anam, the Umuoba people occupy two different lands because they are divided by both Ezichi and Omambala rivers, so because of that we have Umuoba Abegbu under Anambra west while Umuoba Otu (Otuocha) falls under Anambra east. Even Iyiora Anam is divided away from other villages in Anam by Ezichi river. But in all these... They all identify themselves as NDI ANAM, so NDI IGBO SHOULD UNITE AND SEE THEMSELVES AS ONE NOT MINDING THE MAN MADE POLITICAL STATES WHERE THEY FOUND THEMSELVES (MAKA NA GIDI GIDI BU UGWU EZE) UNITED...? WE CONQUER, DIVIDED...? WE ARE DEFEATED. UNITY IS POWER.
That's my community Anam
@@johnbro5937 wow... That means I have found my brother on here (nwannem kero ki meli? )
See my brother
@@johnbro5937some Igala people on Facebook don claim unaoooo... Dem talk say Anam migrated from Igala
@@vickelly5305 hahaha don't mind them, I know the account you are talking about on Facebook but my Facebook account was hack igala people know how we the Anam people are dealing with them so they afraid to come and talk that rubbish in our people face
I love what you're doing nwannem...
Good job nna mehn tv 👍
Nice one
Good job brother ❤
All these Ndoki have their Roots and Origin in Arochukwu -Bende Axis.
Nna mee please bro try visit their eze of the Ndoki there in Akwa Ibom, thanks
You may need to find out where the Igbani people who founded Oha Obu originally came from. The man claimed they came from Rivers state, a state that was carved out of the Eastern region of Nigeria. If they are not Igbo how and when did they acquire Igbo language? Calabari people don't speak Igbo and never did. The man's history is not convincing.
My dear, IBANI dialect is almost lik Kalabari.
Okrika, Kalabari, Ibani r all IJAWS.
They created Rivers State frm Eastern Region doesn't mean d whole eastern region is Igbo.
Efik, Ibibio, Annang, Ogoni, Ijaws - all were part of Eastern Region.
So don't use Eastern Region as basis 4 anytin.
Tribes existed naturally.
Country, region, State, etc r just creations of government
This man is totally confused. Answer simple question and he is going round and round. I Think this man is one of those that benefitted from abandoned property of his brothers and sisters. Now he is ashamed of himself. wow what an identity crisis!!!
Na lie ! 😂
D man is saying d truth.
Ibani, Okrika, Kalabari r all IJAWS.
Stop crying 😂
D man knows d truth
Nice one before
Incredible, unprecedented, historical....
Out curriculum should be torn up
Nnaa mehn you should understand these people.
1. Igbos came from one source, Jews that did not go to the promised land with mosis. They moved from upper Egypt to lower Egypt to sudan to the present igbo land. These igbos including Igala people. They began to spread to other places with their culture, deities and gods. The first settler becomes the founder of the place, they will give a name to the place. So these igbo o tribes are fragraments of igbo race that moved to settle in various places separating from each other to build settlement. Igbo is one with various diabetes.
The town they are calling Okoloma (youth knows)is usually called Okolomakari I.e. youthfulness is better. But how can one be speaking same Local language, keeping one culture with his brothers & @ d same time be detaching himself from his brothers. Dt they are not same. Complete dementation. May God help Igbos.
This is interesting. One of your videos you did on Opobo, the people said they have root with Ndoki, but this Ndoki man is saying it's the other way round.
Very interesting
we need build igbo Nation
Exactly! Build Alaigbo and invest in Alaigbo
We need Ndoki state
God bless ur movement bro 🙏 ❤ 🙌
Didn't anyone notice he said at the beginning that Ndoki people are in Abia, Rivers and Akwa Ibom. And before the separation they were part of Imo State in east central, then later carved into Cross River and finally Akwa Ibom now he suddenly changed his story and said they migrated from Rivers.
You're absolutely correct. Pray for the man and Ndoki people
Divine Pete, but d man no lie na. They r 2day in different locations/States but they originally migrated frm Rivers State. Back den there was no Rivers State, we had only clans & kingdoms.
In Ibani (Bonny & Opobo), we hv a history of how Ndoki migrated. We hv a common history sort of. D name Ndoki is actually AMINADOKIARI meaning "I'M SEARCHING 4MY BROTHERS/MY BLOOD"....
Dat's bcos wen d founders of Bonny left Ijaw in present Bayelsa State, on their way 2founding Bonny, som members of d group got lost somewhere around d Ndoki axis so d Bonny group called d place AMINADOKIARI. They continued d journey & went on 2establish Bonny. Years later, they eventually came across d ppl dat had gotten lost but diz ppl had mixed up with Igbos who r d occupants of d Ndoki axis. Thus they got assimilated by d Igbos. Dat's d story we hv about NDOKI/AMINADOKIARI. So d man in dis video isn't wrong, he's right
The man is correct. Remember Abia used to be in IMO state. He said Ndoki used to be in Imo, east central state but due to more state creation, some carved in Abia, Rivers and Akwa Ibom
@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 comprehension is a problem
This people should be left with their confusion, who will their Igbo identification help? Wether they came from ijaw or Ikwere how is it my problem. I think we should let them be, also respect whoever they want to identify with that makes them happy
Thank you for this video
Fun fact: Akwaete cloth is a highly prized type of Igbo cloth from Ndoki
Ndoki is an ancient Igbo group whose ancestors migrated from riverine areas about 500 years ago. At that time Ndoki was called Ndokay.
The Ndoki speak the Ndoki dialect of Igbo and Are closely associated with the NGWA people as well as the ASA people.
Ndoki territory stretch from the outskirts of ABA all the way to ObiIgbo Port Harcourt and into Akwa Ibom in the east.
Okazi soup, ugba and egusi balls are delicacies enjoyed by the Ndoki people
What you would have asked him is why did the Ndoki of Abia state identify as an Igbo and he is claiming that they are not Igbos because they are in Akwa Ibom
He did not say he doesn’t identify as Igbo!
He identify as Igbo. There was no where in the discussion that he did not say he is not igbo. What are you watching?
Bro read my comment on the comment section, the man did not say Ndoki is not Igbo,its just that his narrations is not comprehensive.
Ji sia nu ike nwa nnem oo
I do not believe that Ndoki is from Rivers State. Let me tell you something, I am from Nguru Umuaro in Ngor Okpala former headquarter of Owerri LGA, now ngor okpala is carved out to be a LGA of it's own for political benefit. Now, that we're having nguru umuaro as our name meaning nguru is d son of umuaro. Also, note that umuaro means we are 4rm Arochukwu and umuaro means the children of 'ARO'. It's good to know that in those days Arochukwu were itenerant business people going places establishing & developing such areas as they conquer or as they deem fit. 'ARO' has many wives & children and was wealthy. He(Aro) expanded throughout d former southeast which encompasses d entire south south. This ARO, by the facts of language, dressing, culture/tradition in terms of market names & days, food, gods of d land, marriage rites etc shows that this ARO traversed within & without the entire former south east and beyond. Back to why I mentioned my place of origin, if my home town had found itself in the present day Bayelsa or River States most probably I would be contending with anyone that says am from Igbo. Do you get what am trying to infer? And you know that Arochukwu traversed more in Rivers & Bayelsa and influenced more establishment of his children & development. How did portharcourt get it's original name-- IGWEOCHA? a native name which is original to all intents & purposes and was changed later. The person's first name is his origin. One day I got to know d native name of my workmate who is from Ogoni to be Igbo name(Letam) which is short form of chiletam, so when I asked him why he's denying his connection to Igbo he ran away. My kits & kin in southsouth it's not good for you to hate your brother 'cos of what you think u can get 4rm Nigeria or 'cos of fear of Igbo or oil. Now that d north is in charge how do you enjoy the oil, it's proceeds, development arising 4rm d profit of oil money. Are they protecting you, are they helping u more than they're doing for themselves? Think twice when it is still day. Thanks.
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These are boundaries people and the federal government did a very bad job of separation. I have a friend that speaks like delta Igbo but they are under Edo state. This makes them a major internal minority in their own state. May God help us.
Ask him about language, what is the language of his people?
The politics I am not Igbo where played to save life and property according to them, but they never know that it were played to silent them for ever.... And master planners as colonial strong men never believe that it will expire so soon as this time, because they believe by giving Igbo £20 will make it more worse .... They never believe that igbo will bounce back very quickly😂
The man is reversing history. Bonny didn't establish Ndoki... all history from Baikie has it that Ndoki established Bonny. Ndoki is way way older than Bonny.
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So wen Baikie arrived, Bonny was not in existence. Baikie knows d history of Bonny more dan my great great grandfather & forebears. Baikie is d one 2tell me who I am. Bonny dat xisted b4 Europeans arrived, suddenly they r in a better position 2know how Bonny was founded.
D same Europeans created Nigeria & put Igbos in d situation Igbos r in Nigeria. Europeans kò, Baikie ni. Ntòòr 😛🤪
@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Your write-up is hardly coherent... When Barbot arrived Bonny in the 1600s, it was just about newly established. Europeans have been writing about Bonny for ages. Baikie is just an example.
@@eeke7438 Europeans met Bonny in xistence. It's Opobo dat was founded after d arrival of Europeans. Europeans can't know our history more dan us. As 4my write up bin coherent, I guess u shud check ur brain, u probably hv issues with comprehension
@@eeke7438 Ur so called Barbot knows wot my forefathers told him about Bonny. Barbot or Baikie & d likes don't know d history of Bonny & Opobo more dan my ancestors who founded Bonny so I wud rather take history frm my fathers dan listen 2som European. Period
The man said it all(Union Igbo).
Union Igbo here simply means Igbo Izugbe. That's the Central Igbo as against many different dialects of the Igbo language.
The man knows their history to some extent but, their relationship with the Ibani (Ubani) people is what is confusing him, so,it takes logical intelligence to fully get the real picture of what he is actually saying..
According to him, some Ibani (Ubani) people came to Ohaobu through the creeks and discovered it for the Bonny (Ibani, Ubani)kingdom.
When they arrived, they met the indigenes (people who had already established and are living there). These indigenes are Igbo (Ndoki) people.
The Bonny kingdom fostered an(business) alliance between Ohaobu and in extention other Ndoki communities.
Ibani(Ubani, Bonny) people would come there for business they themselves would go there for business.
This alliance brought many Igbo (Ndoki) people into Bonny, hence making Igbo language the common language in Bonny,and according the man,his grandfather came to Ohaobu from Bonny.
So,it could be that his grandfather was an Igbo man who went to Bonny and later returned after many years, or that his grandfather was simply an Ibani merchant who came to Ndoki and never returned.
Where he got it wrong was when he said that the rest of Ndoki people came from Ohaobu. Ndoki is an offshoot of Ngwa and as their dialect indicates,it has a mixture of ohuhu people.
So their ancestral homeland is somewhere in Abịa State.
You’re right when you acknowledged Bonny has Igbo ancestry too
No. Ndoki and Ngwa don't have the same origin even though they're now neighbors. Ndokis were originally Oru (Riverine Igbos)
Pure marketing, boundary people speak both language I'm from akwa ibom state. And l can speak both language.
Is like majority of you people here doesn't understand the conversation before commenting. When asked if Ndoki is igbo? He didn't answer straight but Said Ndoki was founded by Borokiri in Bony river's state, that means they're not claiming Igbos. Who will like to identify with tribes that has internal issues with each other, igboman from Anambra fighting Another in Ebonyi, imo and Enugu. We from Imo trace our origin in Arochukwu, Anambra man trace his origins from Obu-Gad, the son of Eri Jewish people.. We're not the same people and we should respect that. Let us learn to leave others to whatever they believe and identify with. What we need is development in imo state and other people will identify with you without going to their villages asking why they're denying their origin or not.. Nobody wants to identify with failed people.
The question to the man could hv been... What language he is speaking and d one you, Nnaa Mehn is speaking. If he says it's not Igbo, then hw come u understood each other
Ndoki people are spread across several States. They have common tradition. So far, no one has attempted to unite them.
Show us the indigenous Igala people in Anambra state and afam people in Abia state
We Ngwa people do Ikoro dance in January.
Item people have ikoro
DNA test will put their denial of their Igbo blood to rest. Are these people not ashamed of themselves? Your wedding tradition is same with someone from Owerri and you're still talking rubbish, but if you go abroad you Identify as Igbo. Nwanne you're trying o, you're very patient.
A confused elder.
Yes a friend of mine told me about this people that they are igbos but live akwaibom, they speak Igbo as their native language, Omo divide and rule from Fulani really dealt with igbos but nothing spoil,onye chukwu goziri ogoziwoya
Well done bro 👍
But please mind the colours you fly, it could get into into trouble since you travel around.
What do you really mean bro, or what are you talking
Please explain about the colours?
Language is used to track the settlement and the migration of people. By the virtue of the Igbo spoken they are Igbos. But there are those who never spoke the language of the people the claim to come from, such as the Bini language. Tracking by language is hard science not a figment of imagination. That is Linguistic Anthropology.
Igbos even have their own community in Kano and Sokoto because Igbos once lived there
We're talking of indigenous Igbo who have been there since creation of the world.
Madman Nasir boundary adjustment, a Northern Judge that is why there is forever boundary fights between Abia and Akwaibom, Abia and Rivers and Imo and Rivers. Know this and know peace
It stays in the family.
Many Kalabari Families are originally of the Arochukwu-Bende Origin; there were retro-migration that led to the Establishment of some of these Communities.
Please also know that they speak annang too and a little of okrika. Okoloma
I've said it before that our friend here is trying to be nice to these people.
Now can they tell us one thing that relates them with the Kalabari people or with Bini people?👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾😯😯 FOOLS!
Ubani is an Arochukwu Deity; Ala-Ubani is the land or Community dedicated to the Ubani Deity.
It's unfortunate, you can not get the accurate information on the origin of the igbos from the man, his parents were all missing igbos that wondered into that area of the country called Nigeria.
See my people. .ljuat shattered utes a cross states
Ndoki people were originally ijaw but decided to adopt Igbo language and customs. It's simply a choice of how people decide to identify themselves due to intermarriage or acculturation. There are Igbos in Anambra state that have some igala roots. Also other ethnic groups have some Igbo roots but have lost their Igbo culture, for instance there are some isoko people who migrated from awka in Anambra state but they are now isoko. It's just like the USA which is made up of English, German, Dutch, french, Spanish etc but they now identify as Americans. There is no point in trying to force anyone to agree that they are Igbo if as a group their identity has changed.
Guy no ndoki people are from ijaw, they are originally igbos abeg, then how come we have them in the east.
Nnaa Mehn Tv: Ubani, Ibani and Igbani are the same thing.
Our name is IBANI
We r not Ignani or Ubani. Diz r names u Igbos call us. It doesn't mean it's our name.
It's lik Ijaws calling u ppl Ibo or Ikputu. It doesn't mean dat's ur name.
Ijaws call u Igbos, Ikputu, which means Stone. Bcos Igbos don't know how 2 swim. Anytin water, Igbos can't get close 2it. So 2d Ijaw ppl, u r lik stone 🪨.
But is dat ur name ? NO !
IGBANI or Ubani has a totally different meaning in our IBANI dialect/language.
Ibani dialect is very similar 2 Kalabari, Okrika,Nkoro. All diz r IJAW.
IBANI is not Igbo at all.
Just as Hausa language is spoken in Kaduna, Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi etc, dat's how Igbo language is spoken generally in parts of River State but we r originally Ijaw ppl. Etche, Ekpeye, Ikwerre, etc r Igbos. But Okrika,Kalabari, Ibani r pure Ijaws.
In Kaduna, Plateau, Benue,Abuja etc they speak Hausa all over but they still hv their various indegenous languages lik Gwari, Igala, Bwari, Idoma, Gbagyi, Nupe,Jukun, Birom, etc
Igbos shud stop forcing demselves on oda ppl.
Dis old man in d video knows his history. He's not lying.
Ndoki is Igbo 2day, but they hv Ijaw links & roots.
Nnaa Mehn Tv: have you found out or verified that King Jaja of Opobo and the Jumbo ruling family of Bonny were igbos? King Jaja from Nkwerre and Oko Jumbo, of the Jumbo family of Bonny, also from Igbo land also.
This history they managed hide from us made most people to deny their routes 🤦 he speaks igbo fluently yet he said he from rivers state 🤔
THIS MAN IS AVOIDING IDENTIFYING AS IGBO, WHAT IS HE AFRAID OF?
😂 why e dey pain you
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They r crying
Since, according to the man, Ndoki came from Kalabari/Opobo to establish Obuoha in Akwa Ibom state and have no connection to the Igbos, how did the same Igbos from the interior, come so completely to take over their language & culture till date?
I don’t think he said they have no connection with the Igbos, I believe he proudly identifies as an Igbo person but believes his people migrated from Bonny, that being said, Bonny has Igbo ancestry too
Bonny people are Igbos. Obuoha people are Igbos. Kalabari are their neighbors and some kalabari may have integrated into their community over time and vice versa. Igbo is Igbo no matter where they are located I don't understand what connection you are talking about
Those ppl are brainwashed Igbos; the divide-and-rule policy of Nigeria has carved out our brothers from us for a while now but we haven't forgotten our brothers and must unify them. All those divide-and-rule policies must stop, we are up for that.
tomorrow or next I will explain it on my channel I will explain everything for you so come over and learn
Don't blame them too much, they are all fighting for belonging to the OIL! 😁
The man never denied he is Igbo but maybe he is giving wrong history
Everything he mentioned are all Igbo culture; Ekpe, etc they’re Igbos, but the want to maintain their claim in their current position. His narrative started from slave trade; which impacted them. There is a missing link; we need to know about pre-slave trade era. Slave trade and the civil war messed up their history and cultural heritage as extend Igbo race. He mentioned ubani, a typical Igbo name
Hmmm! Which history is he talking about, Son of the Soil? What has Ndoki got to do with Kalabari? The first ancestor of Ndoki people is Eze and Mgbeke. One oral tradition says that they migrated from bini kingdom while the other one says that they migrated from Oru lower Niger Riverine Igbos (Abohs, Ndonis, Oguta, Onya, Osekwenike, Ogba Egbema etc) and ijaws. Eze begot Oko_Obo( Okobo) Okobo had two Sons, named the first one Okwele _Eze in honour of his father, he named the second one Agbai Egbe. Eze established Ihu Ali(Mother Earth Goddess shrine) and Obu Ochie. Okwele_Eze was a Palm wine tapper while Agbai was a hunter. Okobo's personal Chi was represented by an Egbu tree. Agbai Egbe begot Chief Ji_Ite(Jite). Migration from Oru, Central Delta or Bini kingdom doesn't mean you're an Ijaw or Bini. Igbos had settled in these places hundreds or thousands of years before now. The question are. Do ethnic ijaws Worship the Mother Earth Goddess known as Ali, Ala, Ani, Ana or Eli? Do they established Obu, Obiri, Obi or Ovu? Do they worship personal Chi? Even if you loose your language you still can't loose your ancient landmarks Traditional things in the possession of your first ancestors)
Ekpeya elders between 1930-1931 told the British colonial masters that the Ndokis migrated from a place North of their own ancestral homeland.
We need this Biafra to bring our brothers and sisters back this is why Nnamdi kalu is fighting for but people don’t understand 😢😢❤
Biafra is Dead, biko stop causing trouble for us. Focus on holding out leaders accountable. Invest in Alaigbo.
All na deliberate attempt to weaken a people...
The elder who was interviewed never denied that he was Igbo. He said that Ndoki is Igbo. He mentioned that they observe all Igbo customs
He said ( Union igbo) which is central Igbo that is used in the Bible and in schools to help all igbo people communicate because of our dialects differences.
Their traditional ruler is an Eze. I am reading comments. It seem that some people are just on the attack without even trying to listen and understand.
He is given the history of his villiage and how it was created. Because he said they came from river state , people are on the attack. He pointed out those Ndoki in Abia migrated from their settlement.
There were many Igbo settlements outside of where we today consider the main igbo territory. Not all Igbo tribes lived in one area. Look up the Arochukwu and all their settlements
My people before they settled in Nibo. Anambra over 400 years ago where on the move until they conquered the locals who lived in that area.
Christianity has killed our ethnic religion because not too many practice.
This is insane. How can Igbo people keeps on denying their identity. Is it because of money or marginalization? My beloved brother, you’re really a good man with so much patience .
He never denied his identity am so proud of the elder man honestly.
Vivian: It is important to be open minded when looking at issues, because Fact remains fact, no matter what. As somebody from Ndoki, this man is narrating the fact to a great extent. The situation is that currently in Ndokiland, the people have really mixed-up primarily as a result of slave trade and later oil-river trade which the area played a very important role. Hence, the people that make-up Ndokiland today are both igbani and igbo people. If you're in doubt of this account, you may want to know the origin of the word "Ndoki". According to our elders, "Ndoki" is the shortened form of "Aminadokiari" which means "Am looking for my brother". May I conclude by saying that, we're not averse to identifying as Ibo because we're now greatly mixed-up to the extent it does no longer matter. But for anyone to want us to forget our root is certainly overreaching. Hope this little piece provides you with a better understanding and perspective.
The man never said Ndoki is not Igbo, it's just that his speech is not comprehensive.
It's now left for you to logically bring his words together and get the full meaning of what he is actually saying.
(Read my comment on the comment section)
@@gonuk are you from Ndoki bruhs,coz am from there,Egberu to be precise,am a pure igbo Man and my granddad explain to me clearly he is an igbo through and through,in Ndoki which I grew up and still my land we dont have debates of whom we are,on Paper,we're in River state but our ethnicity we're unadulterated igbos.
@@jacobd2102 Ndoki is an ancient Igbo tribe whose progenitor is Eze and Mgbeke. This man established Ihu Ali (Mother Earth Goddess altar or shrine) and Obu Ochie. They begot Eze, Eze begot Okwele_Eze and Agbai Egbe. Agbai Egbe personal Chi was represented by an Egbu tree. Agbai Egbe begot Chief Ji_Ite(Jite) Agbai Egbe. As a hunter whose grandfather migrated from Oru (Riverine Igbos) he discover Bonny island. Ijaws don't worship The Mother Earth Goddess known as Ali, Ala, Ani, Ana or Eli. They don't have Obu, Obiri, Obi or Ovu. They don't worship personal Chi. Ask ijaws what Oha _Obu is?.
Ali, Ala, Ani, Ana or Eli is the god and mother of all Igbos and this's why the founders of every Igbo community or tribe dedicates an ancient altar to her.
My Brother you are doing an excellent job but I know how disheartening it is for you especially when you ask them if the identify as "Igbo" and they reject the identification.
Please, can you or your contacts look for high ranking officials of "Ohanaeze Ndigbo" to forward all this documentary videos to, so they know the enormous task they have in hand.
If for instance Officials of Ohanaeze to visit the various Royal fathers' in these areas (especially Delta, Rivers and now Akwa Ibom maybe other state might be identified later) and if the visit is accepted and the Royal fathers' accept or reject the identity of bring "Igbo" they are able to classify those Communities as "Igboid" as against "Igbo".
Igboid meaning that yes we have close relationship but don't identify as Igbo just like the Germans and Austrians. The Austrian speak German but don't identify as German.
Why am saying this imho is that if they are denying you (us) now during relatively "Peace time" is it when their is conflict that they will accept you that is why Ohanaeze need to visit these communities and have a comprehensive list of them that accept the "Igbo" identity. Everyone (people) has a right to choose their own part at least Spain used to be one country until Portugal decided to go on their own.
Then , why have the Igbo market days and names?
@@charlesduru5838Bro, we can't force them to accept us. Being Igbo is not just an Identity, it is a nation of tens of million people and has an ideology behind it so we don't need to beg people to accept us. In fact it should the other way round.
What is the use of gathering of ohanaezes if they cannot unite Igbos that the federal government carve out?
@@Southernview3k what the FG created are artificial borders which is even disturbing that a Ndoki man from Akwa Ibom sees himself has different from another Ndoki man from Abia. The ultimate goal for Ohanaeze which should be a Social economic group rather than Political, is to unite these groups that agree they are Igbos regardless of the borders that separate them.
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Then what is Ohanaezes doing to unite this people with Igbos?
I seem not to understand their importance as Ohanaezes as the name suggest
Ndoki is actually Adokiyari which means I am looking for my brother in ibani dialect of Ijaw language. They are Bonny people. The real name of Bonny is Okolo-ama/Okoloma (the land of curlew). Opubo (Opobo) migrated from Bonny at the civil war of 1869. Bonny migrated from central ijaw village called Okoloba in the present day Bayelsa state. If you understand ibani, you will understand kalabari, okirika, and several other ijaw dialects. The ibo language spoken in Bonny and Opobo is mixed up with Ibani dialect. Some compounds in Opobo town and Bonny villages still speak Ibani. Bonny and Opobo are in Rivers State.
How and when do you start speaking Igbo? When did you start practising Igbo cultures and traditions? Explain clearly. If you are truthful in your explanations it will flow and everyone will understand. Ijaw and Kalabari are not Igbos unless historically. If Opobo, Bonny, Ibani and Ndoki are Ijaws as you claim why are they not practising Ijaw cultures and traditions. Or is it like once Obigbo town now changed to Oyibo in my eyes hence your children will start referencing it. History is very important but can be very misleading especially if made up. It seems to me that my Deltans brothers and sisters have formed one unified lie.
@@Itajala this is why you need to start studying history rather than going by rumors. As I have stated earlier, the version of ibo spoken in Bonny and Opobo are mixed with ibani (Ijaw) dialect and it started as a result of trading between the ijaws of the river-line areas and the Ibos of the hinterlands. The ibos sold their relatives, war captives and other criminals to the ijaws similar to what they are still doing today in Nigeria, the Mediterranean and several other parts of the world. These slaves were acculturated into the ibani society and the honest and useful ones were integrated into the ibani culture while the greedy and criminal minded ones were resold. The indigenous language of the people which is ibani were reserved for the natives so that the unwanted slaves will not know when they will be gotten rid of, hence, ibo became the trading language. Eventually, ibani language became unpopular as it was reserved only for the natives However, ibani is still been spoken in Bonny villages till now and in some compounds in Opobo Town. What happened to ibani dialect is not different from what is happening to ibo, Yoruba and several other Nigerian languages today. Not all ibo children born to ibo parents can speak ibo even though ibo and Yoruba are being taught in schools in the south eastern and south western schools. Ibani is not been taught in schools so those that speak ibani learn it from home if the mother is a native speaker. Opobo and Bonny do not practice ibo culture. They practice ibani (Ijaw) culture. You need to watch their owu masquerades, dances and songs. Go to UA-cam and watch their cultural plays you may learn one or more things. Eremina ogbo of Opobo and Otobo masquerade of Bonny are good starts. Listen to the sounds of their ancient musical instruments which you can never find in any ibo culture. It is the ibos that are copying the Ijaw culture. Ndoki is located in the hinterland sharing boundaries with the ibos, the ibibio, the Ogonis etc so their cultures will more than likely be mixed up with those of their neighbors after all, culture is not stagnant; it changes with time depending on the circumstance at a particular point in time.
And where did you get these lies from? Alagoa, right?? Eze and Mgbeke are the progenitor of Ndoki people. One has it that they migrated from the bini kingdom while the other said that they migrated from Oru (Riverine Igbos Abohs, Ndonis, Oguta, Onya, Osekwenike, Ogba, Egbema, Ogba_Oru(Ogbaru) etc. Igbos also refer to ijaws as Oru/Olu. Eze and Mgbeke begot Oko_Obo(Okobo), Okobo begot Okwele_Eze and Agbai Egbe. Eze settled down, and established the ancient altar or shrine of the Mother Earth Goddess known as Ihu Ali, and Obu Ochie. Okobo's personal Chi was represented by an Egbu tree. Ijaws don't worship the Mother Earth Goddess known as Ali/Ala/Ani/Ana or Eli. They don't know what Obu Obiri Obi or Ovu is. They don't know what Chi is. You can't talk about people without talking about their ancient landmarks (Traditionally things in possession of the founders) Alagoa doesn't know Bonny more than King Peppel and the elders who were interviewed btw 1895-1906. Even if you loose your language, you don't loose your ancient landmarks.
@@ahkramokaa4508 The early history of the Niger delta edited by EJ Alagoa, FN Anozie and Nwanna Nzewunwa in association with the University of Port Harcourt is not a history book. It is an archeological and anthropological research findings detailing the linguistic evidence for the prehistory of the Niger delta. It is a research findings from some of the world most renowned experts in their respective professions from several universities including; Ibadan, Yale, Cambridge, Lagos, Nsukka, Bordeaux, London, Wisconsin etc. The research work covers several ethnic linguistic group including; the igbos, ijaws, Yorubas, Edo, Orobo, effik, ogoni, ibibio etc. The researchers are from some of the above tribes also. It is a must read and we should, at this stage of our lives, focus on great works from people of these status and if we disagree with them, We are free to perform our own research and write our own book. At this day and age, we should desist from rumors and focus on evidence based research findings.
@@edidyable Does Alagoa know Bonny more than early white slave traders who had started communicating with Bonny since 17th century? Does he know Bonny more than the Major Arthur Gleyn Leonard( Lower Niger and her tribes, 1906). He doesn't know Bonny more than Talbot (Tribes of Niger Delta) You can't talk about people's history without talking about their ancient landmarks, ok?? They settled first where they established Ihu Ala, and Obu Ochie. Eze and Mgbeke founded Ndoki, and the name Ndoki came as a result of quarrel between the two groups. Okobo begot Okwele_Eze and Agbai Egbe who led a group to Bonny. Ebani, Ubani or Ibani came from the Ogoni who refer to them as foreigners. The founders of Nembe came from Bini kingdom. A Bini war commander led deserters, and founded Nembe. The Kalabaris were originally Ibibios/Andonis. Alagoa who was born in 1933 doesn't know more than his own forefathers who were interviewed by white men.
Mr. Interviewer, can you speak entirely in Igbo Language, without mixing it with
English ......... Don't be a "Hypocrite" ........ and you claim to be Unifying Igbo
People !!! Keep Up The Good Work that you are doing!!!
My people, the point here is no body can tell or confuse you where you are coming from, with you language and Names is ok for you to identify your origin simple as ABC.... if your father told you that you people came from calabari ... But he is not speaking calabari... The how come you speak Igbo,... Well all that is politics that came after Biafra civil war .... And all this people that speaking igbo at the same time tell us they're not igbo... I think they're the real enemies we should be more careful about them before they bought out side enemies from the North and West...😂
This identity crisis is real ooo!
Silly man.
Someone is speaking igbo fluently and dressed with igbo regalia but still have the courage to deny his roots.
He is claiming river state an idea created right in his lifetime. I'm sure there was no river state 50years and from the look of things he is clearly over 50yrs. It is saddening when age which is supposed to represent wisdom is displaying ignorance. Amadioha have mercy
The same Ndoki in Abịa State are saying that they are Igbos.
Rivers is just a creation not a people
He’s not denying Igbo. He’s explaining the migration and connections of the Ndoki with Opobo and other riverine areas.
I don't think this man is denying his igboness but the fact he is making is that Ndoki was founded by the Ijaws but maybe overtime and through slave population the Igbo population took over making it have an Igbo identity. Igbos should not be emotionally when people give their history. You cannot be more smarter than their own ancestors.
You sound defeated
Rem old people are foolish too ! Follow facts figures ok
@@chimzulumezigboh3652 Is only defeated people who claim everybody that deny them. The man never said he was not Igbo, he only gave history of our the town was found.
@@kennybrown3302believe me my brother Igbo people always fight does who don't agree with their fake history
Speaking or similar language do not make you an igbo
Let the people tell you about their history because you can't tell me that almost all the interviews that this how brother grant and the people are all telling lies
In all there may be truth
Its very unfortunate the we Igbos found ourslves in this mess ( Nigeria) how could a man whose endeginous language is Igbo be denying hid identity. The story in my Place Alayi is the we migrated from potopo some where between Akwa Ibom and today's Rivers state, the was an exedous of about 5 or 4 hundred years or even more ago. Some of our people here In Bende L gA still bear the name Ubani . Rember that upon the arrival of the white men in the shores of Africa, some the endeginous people were afraid and evacuated from there inhabitant then. What am i trying to say, we all are the same people that migrated of the same place ,only to dispatch to deferent place within the river rine areas o todays south south and south east. Other wise how could be speaking same language , bearing same names and having same culture?