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You can not change what God created or given

Look at the igbo names u are calling, even ur name is igbo.... Chaiii... This people are lost tribe

A mature man like you talking trashe . It's a shame. Have some little respect to your self

Oga just lying to yourself and also stop confusing younger people, you are a lost ship, all your stories are lies

@21:01 1. Onicha Olona-Delta 2. Onicha Ugbo-Delta 3. Onicha Ugbo--Delta 4. Onitsha Ado-Anambra 5. Onicha Ezike-Enugu 6. Onicha Igboeze-Ebonyi 7. Onicha Nwe Nkwo-Imo 8. Onicha Uboma-Imo 9. Onicha Ikeduru-Imo 10. Onicha Nzerem-Imo 11. Onicha Ngwa-Abia So all these Onichas are people who came from Bini?

Mr. Professor stop deceiving people. You made a point that Igbos did not colonize Ikwere because Ikwere is part of Igbo. So the way you are saying Igbos as if they are different from Ikwere people. Stop deceiving people by bringing sentiments. There is a saying that: Igbo na su na olu nolu- means in dialects just like Ikwere and other Igbo speaking areas. Go to Igala people the same thing. They speak Igbo in another dialect but if you listen to them and you will understand that they are speaking Igbo dialect. Sir you need to go and do more research about Ikwere as a dialect of Igbo origin.

Did the Igbo people force their gods on you as well? Confused elders

The interview should have been conducted in their mother tongue and language.

So, their father's failed to tell them who they are?? Igbo people were invaded by their neighbors(Bini) and sacked out of their land. Their ancestral land was taken over by the Bini people while they found another land elsewhere and settled. These are Igbo people (Ikwerre)!!

Illiterates trying to make sense.

Confused man

We don't need them let them go to Benin

U are better off sticking to ur kind than being a fragmented slave

Gentleman, please is ikwere a tribe as recognize by the British government or Nigeria government? Who are you as a people in Nigeria? Thanks for your anticipated understanding and response!

The Igbo were not imperialists nor into the business of taking over people's land. This is a trait of the other regions of the nation. Stop the cap and misinformation. I am an Ijaw and Igbo man and can categorically state that Ikwere and many regions of the Riverine region are indigenously igbo. The moment you accept the truth will be the moment that your people will be liberated.

If you claim that Inwhuruhohna otherwise known as Ikwerre came from Bini then you are settling in a land that was never yours in the first place. The resolution is that you people should sojourn back to Bini as you would be welcomed with open arms. Besides, you would relearn the Bini language that evaporated from your heads when you migrated to Igboland.

Go back the Bini where you claim to come from and leave Igboland for good.

Language & dressing similarity does not hold water, dominant tribe always usurped the smaller tribal languages. All Nigeria tribal history are oral documentation, no written history. Irish/English same language but different people, Moroccan’s ,Sudanese & Yemenis, same Arabia language but different ethnicity. So many tribal people all other Africa. Fulani’s & Hausa speak mostly Hausa but hugely different ethnicity. Stop this language and dress similarity BS. IGBO please leave Anioma ppl alone. There’re some part of Benin, where the ppl speak corrupted youruba language. They will fight you if you call them youruba, I know that because my great grandfather came from one of this villages. Benin ppl use to mock them as lost soul. Igbo people are looking for foot soldiers for their Biafra war. Igbo’s are recruiting Cannon fodder for their future Biafra war. Ikwere ppl will be stupid twice. Igbo fight your own battles alone.

This is why they want to capture Yoruba land during civil war, who knows what Yoruba land could have turned to now?

Lagos people claim Benin ancestry, the Yoruba people have no problem with it. Nembe,Epie,Attisa people claim Benin ancestry the ijaws in Bayelsa have no problem with it. But why always Ikwere people become the focal point of attack by overzealous biafrans? Hmm, what a billion dollars question ❓⁉️

The biafran agitators are in desperate need to have access to the sea, therefore capturing Ikwere people and land becomes a necessity. Ikwere people should hold their ground.

You must be speaking Bini by virtue of coming from there but it could be that you lost the language on the wayside. The could be a lost and found posted to find out what happened to your lost language.

Onitsha, oguta people claim Benin, ancestry, biafrans are not perturbed because they are been captured and assimilated . Recently, the biafrans have discovered that their lands have been exhausted now they are desperately looking for new lands that's why they looking for other people's land to acquire. As for the Ikwere people, they know it's only option to the sea that's why the urge to quickly capture them by the biafrans.

In the UK, despite the similarities.the the English are English, the Scottish people remain Scottish, the Welsh remain Welsh. The English people have never forced them to become English. In Europe, Germany and Austria speak the same language yet the Germans don't force the Austrians to become Germans. But why in Nigeria the igbo people are forcing those that have linguistics similarities with them to become Igbos? I believe the lands in Igbo land have been exhausted so there's need to conquer others and cunningly take their lands from them. Of the Ikwere people: it's the only option for the Igbo people to have access to the sea. The chimpanzee and gorilla may claim oneness,yet the chimpanzees remain chimpanzee while the gorillas remain gorillas.

The experiences of African diaspora communities and the retention of cultural heritage despite the horrors of slavery is a testament to the resilience of human spirit and cultural identity. As for the Ikwerre people, it’s indeed possible that if they had originated from the Benin Kingdom, some aspects of that heritage would still be evident today. You can only fools some people but not everyone. Your ancestors originated from Benin Kingdom but you’re forced to adapt Igbo culture, languages and names like slaves, right? Igbos are not interested if you accepted your heritage as an Igbo or not because Ikwere population is a drop in the ocean when it comes to Igbo population, so Igbo don’t need Ikwere to achieve anything life.

Me as an Igboman get very angry with my Igbo brothers and sisters who are trying to force or convince people who have told you and still saying it that they are not Igbos , how hard is it to let them be. I grew up in Ikwerre land, I understand their perspective perfectly, most Igbos trying to say they are not accepting being part of Igboland on purpose don't understand their perspective. Try to learn their history, listen to them and try understanding from their angle, don't just say because they bear Igbo names and there is semblance of culture and traditions that automatically it makes them Igbos, no. People have the right to choose who and how they want to be identified or identified with. It's time to accept them for who they want to be accepted as and stop trying to force a narrative. Igbos are the most unique ethnic group on the planet we are already complete, there's nothing missing, so let's stop trying to convince anyone against his own conviction. Ikwerre is Ikwerre, Igbos are Igbos. There's enough space for co-existance.

Nonsense making mouth and dead research Israel have 12tribes, please go and find something else to do

Bro your lies to people of lkwerre please you must stop all this your lie lie bro am from lkwerre so am lgbo man so stop this your fake new please give your number to call you just see the name of people you call the all is lgbo name and your name also is lgbo name so why your lies bro please stop all this lie lie fake new

Bro this is fake new your give people they lkwerre is not lgbo bro your big lies lkwerre is one of big lgbo in lgbo land please stop all this lie lie

Please bro i we like you to call me for all this so please stop your fake new and your lies lkwerre is lgbo and am from there so bro stop lies.

Bro stop all this your lie lie new please bro lkwerre is lgbo people so bro stop all fake new

Lies. Lies and lies. Delta Igbo reject your news false theories and identify themselves as proud Igbo.

You better drop your Igbo language and go and speak Bini language. You said you voted from ignorance. Why is it that you don't even have a single Bini word in your Igbo language which I as Igbo hear and understand you. Even Bini people don't agree with you and they don't even trust you people. Better protect the abandoned property. We Igbo are proud to be Igbo.

The issue is : you do not tell people where they come from or try to force them that they're from a particular place And whether they have been acculturated and now bear Igbo names doesn't mean you can tell them where they come from. It's wrong. A change in demography happens everywhere. Kwara State used to be purely for the Yorubas, but the coming of the Fulanis changed that after the several tribal wars fought in that region in those days. Lebanon as we know it today was originally a Christian country. But today the case is different. Intermarriages can happen and change the demographic order of a particular place. Period. So, let's stop this childish way of thinking.

Igbo is a language with different dailects even me the part of Enugu state where i come from we have our own dailect which can be strange to an anambra man but we use igbo nzugbe (general Igbo dailect) to communicate and understand each other. Anambra people has very much presence in our Enugu markets, we Enugu people in return has hug presence too in Anambra markets. Any body can go anywere, reside and do business. I know an ikwerre man who is a serious importer in Onitsha market, we regard him as our Igbo brother. Please professor allow your brother to mingle with their brothers in south east as it will not take any thing away from ikwerre people.

Brother you are very close to the truth but you will be there fully in due time.

These people are impossible, please change all your Igbo names to Benin name to end this confusion

Truth has no obstructions. Look at how u are struggling to narrate your history. Full of fallacies.

Since Ikwerres have now confirmed that are sojourners who migrated from Bini to Igboland and acquired the language of Igbos, then it now crystal clear for them to go back and met their ancestors in Bini and leave Igboland to Igbos. This is an excellent solution.

Mr chinedu,you're not a historian but just a story teller.Your story is like "Tale from the moonlight "lt is a sort of stroy to cover the atrocities lkwerre people meted on the lgbos after the civil war in the name of abandoned property .You said your people migrated from Benin but have no empirical evidence of your Benin ancestry in terms of language,names or culture. No trace of Benin names attached to any lkwerre person. lt is a misinformation to claim that aniocha,lka and other Anioma people are denying their lgbo nationality. The people that matter In Anioma like,Ned Nwoko,Elumelus,lfeanyi Okowa and many others have recently told the world that they are lgbos.Let me remind you that the advantages you had for denying your ancestry after the civil war is gone and gone. forever.Rotimi Amaechi claim of being an lgboman is not politically motivated and has not changed his stand till date.

Yeye man. Agbo, and all the places you mentioned are all Igbo land. It does not matter if they in the so called south south or middle belt. We do not need this crap you are vomiting here.

You are talking nonsense. The Ikwere land as we know it today is an Igbo land. Those of you who might have been chased out from Bini and found your self in Ikwere land should count yourself lucky. That is if there's any Bini connection at all. Because it is impossible for you to come from Bini, throw away your Bini language and start speaking Igbo. It's either you are Igbos that came back from Bini or you there are some visitors that came and start speaking the language of your host. However, this is a false historical information. You are simply damaging the true identity of Ikwere people, and rendering them bastards. If like come from Fulani. Ikwere is part of Igbo land.

Akalaka was Igbo , sold as slave to Benin with his brother and revolted , left and came back to Coastal Igbo to establish

Oga you're okoko professor. Who's Igbo and who is Ikwere

Oga you said your name is Chinedu, is that Ikwere name or Igbo? Lemme ask you, sir, please what is the meaning of the word Ikwere? Each time I heard Ikwere say they're not Igbos they behave as though Igbo people want to take over the oil in their land. They forget that all the Igbo state has oil. They denied their identity cuz of oil meanwhile Fulani/Hausa in the North controls the oil in the Niger Delta. Is it not foolishness? Nobody is begging Ikwere to accept their Igbo identity.

Why silence the voice of others while you let some speak? Are you trying to hide the majority opinions that don't support your falsehood with the loud background music as well? You came from Benin but AKALAKA which means ( DESTINY) in Igbo is your PROGINATOR! Tell us what the name AKALAKA mean in Benin language?????

Thank you so much for this historical facts

Even if the BENIN was a war Land in those days that course our firefighters to flee to ADO EKITI, but that doesn't change our origin, WE ARE STILL FROM BENIN, this is how our fathers put on ground as our own heritage, we have our own dialect different from Yoruba, but we speak Yoruba as a language, the truth we know it deeply in our mind, group migrated from BENIN SPACE to far way west Africa, BENIN Republic also came to take permission from the palace of BENIN, but the Benins will not talk about it because they don't need you. We know where we origin from is BENIN.

So why didn't igbo not dominate ibibo and anag and efik and izon

Thank you Prof. I would have expected that if there are three versions on the origin and migration of the Ikwerre, you might have concentrated on the things or similarities that links you to Bini origin. Ofcourse there is nothing in Ikwerre culture or traditions that show anything linked to Bini that we know. Not the language, way of dressing or way of doing things. The Ikwerre language looks more likely to originate from the Igboid group of languages. You have not said anything that convinces us of your 'historical hypothesis' of Bini ancestry.