Highly commendable research. There's now a large pool of evidence that indigenous Igbo people are scattered all over Southern Nigeria and the North Central Zone.
Seems d Igbo race and region was balkanised, fragmented to reduce political cohesion. And this was made easy do to d Igbo system of autonomous community lack overall unifying leadership in d ancient days and recent past.
Very interesting, informative and educating seeing that Isobo people still retain their Igbo cultural identities, especially as it concerns new yam celebrations. Thanks to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who made us to understand that we have our Igbo brethren in Cross River, Benue and Kogi states respectively. Thank you Ou Travels for this adventure. This should be considered an award winning!
Ohaneze ndi Igbo leadership should cover their faces in shame. They were in their usual state of stupor till God Sent MNK to unit his peoples and bring them home into one fold, the IPOB family. He is such a great man. Do you know that the founder of my community Akokwa, in present day Ideato North LGA of Imo state of the Zoo, migrated from Cross river according to the History of the Town? But i have continued to wonder why we are Igbos yet our forbearer was a man from Cross river state. Now i can connect the dots. He must have come from one of these Igbo speaking cross river communities you know!! Makes more sense now.
For those who say Igbo didn’t know Lion (Odumodu) should desist from it This is a perfect grass land for a lion to thrive unlike the rainforest in other parts of Igbo land But a Lion can live and thrive around Okigwe down to Ebonyi and Isobo Thanks for the documentary, may Chukwu Okike cover you and may Igboland be united…
OU travel this is a great job brotherly, tracing and finding our Igbo brothers in Cross River. State. They speak the Igbo dialect of Ebonyi people. Igbo is wide and spread out , pray they don't have to face Fulani herdesmen onslaught.
Thank You my brother, I appreciate 🙌🏾.. There is nothing Like Igbo dialect of Ebonyi people, They speak their own Igbo dialect, Igbo dialects are not defined my states... Ehugbo people and Izzi people are both from Ebonyi but don't speak the same way at all... Same with other states.
He said "Ndi ma" This is also in Nsukka dialect, which means "Ndi muo" in other Igbo dialects. Just like Anambra regions have names like MUOMA. In Nsukka dialect it is MaMa. Ma = Muo
This is amazing!! Wait o! Arji festival is celebrated only by the Ogboji clan of Ezza not all the Ezzas in general. A truly piece of info for a wandering mind like mine.
Nice documentary more grace to do more research, Isobo is a great community under cross river State struggling on there own without the help of the government to better there community. Go and verify
Sometime I ask myself what is the work of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo..so the cannot organise all this Igbo Scarttarred all over state...am ashemed of Igbo leaders..
Ou this great. Because of war people like Nwike now became Wike. Thank GOD that this people remained We were all Eastern Nigeria and fought for Biafra together. There was no States, it was only communities I hope other tribes will understand that we are one. Unity is better than divisions
@@akendon7260 Taaaaaaaaaahhh sharrap ! Diezani is an Ijaw woman. Her surname is AGAMA. DIEZANI AGAMA has no bizness with Igbo apart frm bin married 2 an Igbo man. She's not an Igbo decendant at all. Stop lying. Her husband MADUEKE is wot makes her Igbo, nothing else. Simply bcos she married an Igbo man, d whole of her town Yenaka in Atissa is now Igbo ? Tufiakwa !
@@akendon7260 U can lie sha ! Anna EBIERE Banner is Flavor's baby mama. She's not an Igbo girl. Haba ! Must u claim evrybody ? Wot is d meaning of EBIERE in Igbo ? Wot is d meaning of DIEZANI in Igbo ? All diz r pure Ijaw names. I don't know y u r laying claim. Just bcos dis women hv relationship with Igbo men, automatically d whole of their hometown has bcom Igbo? Ah ! Ah !
@@Blink4army7stay8you are really over reacting, why not state your facts and leave it there. Dasani Madueke is not a legend that winning her for Ibos could be a trophy for the Ibos.
am from Cross river State and will have 18 local government and i have not heard of this village before but I know in ikom where i grew up Igbos dominate that loca government very well
Thank you for your great work, even igbo indigenous carved to Cameron...there's a lot of igbo in Cameron, all south south of Nigeria are igbos. Only little are not igbo but they have similar culture with igbo which made us the same people to be in one country
Isobo is Igbo indigenous to cross River state.. they are not the only indigenous Igbos of cross River state.. Osopong ward 2 in Obubra LGA is purely Ibos which includes Izhi, ikwo and isobo... Osopong ward 1 equally has Ibom people which are Izhi, yala LGA equally has Izhi people in southern Ukelle.
@@ifunanyaobodozie5368 by brother that is the kind of country we find ourselves, we so cliam we love each other but that love is far from some of us. But one day all this will be over.
This people may have relationship with my people of Enugu state. I mean around Udi local Govt. Area and Ezeagu Local Govt. Area, especially as they call colourant 'Uhie' , call 'Odo' as golden colour. call spirit 'Ndima ' , the king's palace is called "Obueze" and to cap it all, they celebrate "Aju festival"
My people everywhere. If i have the means i will open bore hole water system for a clean water use instead of dirty swamp water. Am from Imo state i want you all to know we are one regardless of where you found yourself in Nigeria. I love you all❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@outravelandtour Thanks. I want to post only the TH-cam link if possible, so that all the view credits will go to you alone. Please, maybe you could also consider watermarking your videos so that your original uploads will be credited even when people pirate or post without your consent.
Wow thanks for the research information 👍.I never knew indigenous Igbo's are in Cross river state. But do they have borders with the Ebonyi state please, just curious to know how they migrate or borders with the mainland Igbo? Thanks
They were zoned to cross river state when that state were created after the civil war. They were formally part of the main land igbo with strong ebonyi culture.
Remember that the states in Nigeria as we know them today were mere creation on political grounds; nothing to do with cultural or historical linkage. Where you meet them is where they have always been - there homeland.
Ibo,Ibibio somewhere they went there way and the language changed. Saxons in Germany where the present English people came from called Anglo Saxons are one and today they speak slightly different. Germans and English people were one before. As and Mbaise man I'll recommend that we look our kindred up to teach us omenala Igbo. Kpomkwem!
These people belong to a major ethnic group in Nigeria. What is ohanaeze and other bodies promoting Igbo ethnic group doing to make these our brothers have a sense of belonging? Is the language being taught in schools over there? Is it used in radio and television broadcasts?
This are ikwo people, of abakiliki carved to cross river, we who close to them knows that they are igbo and blood, the same dielet culture and everything,
Where was Ibo leadership when Ibo land was so Balkanized? They didn’t say anything because they were intimidated by the Fulani and they were afraid of losing their crumbs. Self people. They need to get out of the way so new age Ibo leadership can take over and lead the people.
Small time those igbos will claim that land as their home because they have already dominate everywhere in that area, please is there any of this community indigenous who from cross river state
What makes them Igbo.. Please? Is it language, Culture, Food etc... or Just association... They sound more to me like southern Cameroon or Northern Cross river which they are. They narrator speaks a different language from the other natives.
Typical Ijaw man. His nightmare is the Igbo nation. Calm down. These guys share boundary with Ebonyi state, and yes, I can understand the language at the background, as someone from Ebonyi.
They speak ebonyi state dialect but part of igbo language. They culture is the same with the main land igbo and they still have igbo 4 market days which is orie, afor, nkwo and eke.
But the guy talking about their custom speaks Igbo, which other Igbo do u want him to speak? Let's stop discrimination bc Igbos have different dialects even Anambra Igbo can't understand Abakaliki sb when he speaks, the same applies to Nsukka
He speak Igbo very fluently! By the way who told you Igbo land must be same ! Wake man ! If I speak my language I bet u u won't understand me despite am nwa afor same applies to Enugu nsukka abakiliki mbise agbor etc !same happen in yourba land ! Yoruba language differ but same yourba wit slight diff
Isobo is Igbo indigenous to cross River state.. they are not the only indigenous Igbos of cross River state.. Osopong ward 2 in Obubra LGA is purely Ibos which includes Izhi, ikwo and isobo... Osopong ward 1 equally has Ibom people which are Izhi, yala LGA equally has Izhi people in southern Ukelle.
I listened to them, and noted that the language they speak is Igbo. Igbo has numerous dialects, which is evident even among the Igbo people in the South East.
I'm from Benue and they speak same language with us we're All igbo
Where in Benue are you from?
What is the name of your village?
You are welcome Nwannem ❤❤❤❤
Don't worry all those colonial artificial boundaries will all be erased very soon, and we will all unite our brothers and sisters
Highly commendable research. There's now a large pool of evidence that indigenous Igbo people are scattered all over Southern Nigeria and the North Central Zone.
It was never a secret
It has been hidden
❤❤❤❤❤
Seems d Igbo race and region was balkanised, fragmented to reduce political cohesion. And this was made easy do to d Igbo system of autonomous community lack overall unifying leadership in d ancient days and recent past.
This is my home town God bless you for this documentary
Di u see urself as igboman
Very interesting, informative and educating seeing that Isobo people still retain their Igbo cultural identities, especially as it concerns new yam celebrations. Thanks to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who made us to understand that we have our Igbo brethren in Cross River, Benue and Kogi states respectively. Thank you Ou Travels for this adventure. This should be considered an award winning!
My community my pride
Beautiful ❤️ sister much love from Benue state
Ohaneze ndi Igbo leadership should cover their faces in shame. They were in their usual state of stupor till God Sent MNK to unit his peoples and bring them home into one fold, the IPOB family. He is such a great man.
Do you know that the founder of my community Akokwa, in present day Ideato North LGA of Imo state of the Zoo, migrated from Cross river according to the History of the Town? But i have continued to wonder why we are Igbos yet our forbearer was a man from Cross river state. Now i can connect the dots. He must have come from one of these Igbo speaking cross river communities you know!! Makes more sense now.
Nice place! All it needs is development. We grow a lot of yam in Jamaica.🇯🇲
Even without government presence this communities are Well developed.
Am happy to see this
Igbo Amaka mma! 👌👍
Good ethnographic study. Igbo bu otu. Chukwu gozie gi 👍💕
For those who say Igbo didn’t know Lion (Odumodu) should desist from it
This is a perfect grass land for a lion to thrive unlike the rainforest in other parts of Igbo land
But a Lion can live and thrive around Okigwe down to Ebonyi and Isobo
Thanks for the documentary, may Chukwu Okike cover you and may Igboland be united…
pls bro try to trace & locate our igbo Brothers in benue & kogi state.. thanks for the great job keep it up.
OU travel this is a great job brotherly, tracing and finding our Igbo brothers in Cross River. State. They speak the Igbo dialect of Ebonyi people. Igbo is wide and spread out , pray they don't have to face Fulani herdesmen onslaught.
Thank You my brother, I appreciate 🙌🏾.. There is nothing Like Igbo dialect of Ebonyi people, They speak their own Igbo dialect, Igbo dialects are not defined my states... Ehugbo people and Izzi people are both from Ebonyi but don't speak the same way at all... Same with other states.
He said "Ndi ma" This is also in Nsukka dialect, which means "Ndi muo" in other Igbo dialects.
Just like Anambra regions have names like MUOMA. In Nsukka dialect it is MaMa. Ma = Muo
This is great piece of documentary.keep it up.❤
Thank you!
Biafra must come by God's grace, we will not lose any of our people
Igbo to the world❤❤❤❤❤
🙌🏾🙌🏾
Ome na ala amaka
CHECKING IN FROM ATL GA, THANKS FOR A GREAT VIDEO BRO. KEEP IT COMING
Igbo people are very large.
Nigeria government has used divide and rule tactics to divide us from our brothers.
We are wiser now
You are doing great brother, keep it up
Thanks brother 🙌🏾
LOVE you guys, love the o di nani traditional song. Greetings from Anambra State. #Referendum. Udo di.
🙌🏾🙌🏾
@@outravelandtour
Are you from this Igbo community?
Nice work dear
Highly enlightening!! Great documentary
Thank You Ma 🙌🏾🙌🏾
This is amazing!! Wait o! Arji festival is celebrated only by the Ogboji clan of Ezza not all the Ezzas in general. A truly piece of info for a wandering mind like mine.
Daalu! Thank you so much for for this anthropological lecture.
Nice documentary more grace to do more research, Isobo is a great community under cross river State struggling on there own without the help of the government to better there community. Go and verify
Well said my brother
Sometime I ask myself what is the work of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo..so the cannot organise all this Igbo Scarttarred all over state...am ashemed of Igbo leaders..
I will be shocked that ohaneze knows that these people exist. That's how bad it is.
Fact.. They are just there for their stomach
you can't be more correct...ohaneze ndi oshi na ndi ama
Ohanaze is a group full of political criminals
Ou this great. Because of war people like Nwike now became Wike. Thank GOD that this people remained
We were all Eastern Nigeria and fought for Biafra together. There was no States, it was only communities
I hope other tribes will understand that we are one. Unity is better than divisions
Keep it on Bro, You are doing a great job. I'm from Natively from Enugu, Greetings from Switzerland, Hope to see you soon
Thank You Nwanne 🙌🏾
Great work, I like what am seeing.
These folks build houses like we down here in Ebonyi.
Nnamdi Kanu was right. Outside of SE, Delta & Rivers State, our people were carved into Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Edo, Kogi and Benue States
Even in Bayelsa, Diezani Madueke is from an Igboid clan. Even Flavour's girlfriend is also Igboid from Bayelsa.
It's surprising it took Nnamdi Kanu to reveal this, I thought this was common knowledge
@@akendon7260
Taaaaaaaaaahhh sharrap !
Diezani is an Ijaw woman. Her surname is AGAMA.
DIEZANI AGAMA has no bizness with Igbo apart frm bin married 2 an Igbo man. She's not an Igbo decendant at all. Stop lying.
Her husband MADUEKE is wot makes her Igbo, nothing else.
Simply bcos she married an Igbo man, d whole of her town Yenaka in Atissa is now Igbo ?
Tufiakwa !
@@akendon7260
U can lie sha !
Anna EBIERE Banner is Flavor's baby mama.
She's not an Igbo girl. Haba ! Must u claim evrybody ?
Wot is d meaning of EBIERE in Igbo ?
Wot is d meaning of DIEZANI in Igbo ?
All diz r pure Ijaw names.
I don't know y u r laying claim. Just bcos dis women hv relationship with Igbo men, automatically d whole of their hometown has bcom Igbo?
Ah ! Ah !
@@Blink4army7stay8you are really over reacting, why not state your facts and leave it there. Dasani Madueke is not a legend that winning her for Ibos could be a trophy for the Ibos.
NNAA MEHN you are really doing a great job. Please I urge you not to quit this nice did Sir.
Thank You 🙌🏾
Without MNK, who would have inspired all these facts.
A true hero.
❤❤❤❤
am from Cross river State and will have 18 local government and i have not heard of this village before but I know in ikom where i grew up Igbos dominate that loca government very well
Where in cross river are you from ?
Same with my village in Abia State. The month,the method ,the laws guiding it are just same with slightly minimal differences.
What's the name of the community?
@@outravelandtour By his name you can tell that he comes from Abriba, in Ohafia LGA of Abia State.
Please respond to @Ou Travel and Tour
@@kyrianuwandu1162 gbam!
Exactly, same goes ours(Ohafia). Just minor differences.
I love my community so so much
i yala local govt cross river state we speak kukelle language thats in ukelle community and some part of effium in ebonyi state speak our language too
Thank you for your great work, even igbo indigenous carved to Cameron...there's a lot of igbo in Cameron, all south south of Nigeria are igbos. Only little are not igbo but they have similar culture with igbo which made us the same people to be in one country
Nice
Thanks 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Isobo is Igbo indigenous to cross River state.. they are not the only indigenous Igbos of cross River state.. Osopong ward 2 in Obubra LGA is purely Ibos which includes Izhi, ikwo and isobo... Osopong ward 1 equally has Ibom people which are Izhi, yala LGA equally has Izhi people in southern Ukelle.
Cross River is Igbo too.
@@conceptinstinct3287 oga, igbos are there does not mean the whole state is igbo. Wake and don't me uninformed
you are right north ukelle has Igbos too Izzi
This language of isobo is almost the same with my language in ebonyi state ikwo local government
Yellow is also ODO in Imo state.
The background music says it all.
This place looks like it has lots of food. I can see yam mounds all over the place
Why did they cross river government abandon them. This is so sad
Because they see them as Igbo people
@@victornnakwu703 so sad 😭!! I wonder when peace and love will exist among human beings
@@ifunanyaobodozie5368 by brother that is the kind of country we find ourselves, we so cliam we love each other but that love is far from some of us. But one day all this will be over.
dont think cross river state govt abandoned them because they are indigens
This people may have relationship with my people of Enugu state. I mean around Udi local Govt. Area and Ezeagu Local Govt. Area, especially as they call colourant 'Uhie' , call 'Odo' as golden colour. call spirit 'Ndima ' , the king's palace is called "Obueze" and to cap it all, they celebrate "Aju festival"
We call spirit Ndima too in Ebonyi. Yellow is Odo odo, red is uvie. Igbos is one
Same with my people from Abia state, oguduasaa to be precise,we call spirit "ndima" too
My people everywhere. If i have the means i will open bore hole water system for a clean water use instead of dirty swamp water. Am from Imo state i want you all to know we are one regardless of where you found yourself in Nigeria. I love you all❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A great tradition, but the historian or the interpreter spoil the video for not stopping looking at his phone!
Hi, I will like to post and promote this video on a large Facebook group.
Sure you can.... It will also be nice if you add my channel link to it.
@@outravelandtour Thanks. I want to post only the TH-cam link if possible, so that all the view credits will go to you alone. Please, maybe you could also consider watermarking your videos so that your original uploads will be credited even when people pirate or post without your consent.
@@eeke7438 alright... Thank You..
@@eeke7438 Daalu Nwanne
Wow thanks for the research information 👍.I never knew indigenous Igbo's are in Cross river state. But do they have borders with the Ebonyi state please, just curious to know how they migrate or borders with the mainland Igbo? Thanks
I stated the Communities they share border with.. and yes, they share border with Ebonyi State.
They were zoned to cross river state when that state were created after the civil war. They were formally part of the main land igbo with strong ebonyi culture.
Remember that the states in Nigeria as we know them today were mere creation on political grounds; nothing to do with cultural or historical linkage. Where you meet them is where they have always been - there homeland.
Ibo,Ibibio somewhere they went there way and the language changed. Saxons in Germany where the present English people came from called Anglo Saxons are one and today they speak slightly different. Germans and English people were one before.
As and Mbaise man I'll recommend that we look our kindred up to teach us omenala Igbo. Kpomkwem!
They are igbos
These people belong to a major ethnic group in Nigeria.
What is ohanaeze and other bodies promoting Igbo ethnic group doing to make these our brothers have a sense of belonging?
Is the language being taught in schools over there? Is it used in radio and television broadcasts?
This are ikwo people, of abakiliki carved to cross river, we who close to them knows that they are igbo and blood, the same dielet culture and everything,
It is no telling how many people in this community that have died from water borne diseases since past 20 yrs.
Where was Ibo leadership when Ibo land was so Balkanized? They didn’t say anything because they were intimidated by the Fulani and they were afraid of losing their crumbs. Self people. They need to get out of the way so new age Ibo leadership can take over and lead the people.
How many local government areas did they cover in Cross River State?
Do you mean the Isobo people or all the Igbo communities in Cross River?
@@outravelandtour All the Igbo communities in Cross River plz?
@@edwardstanley3446 You can find Igbo communities in Abi, Obubra, Yakurr and Yala.
@@outravelandtour Are these places you mentioned, local government areas in Cross River State?
@@outravelandtour I'm sure there are more places where you can find them, if you dig in more.
Why is this Igbo community are not speaking out and uniting with other fellow Igbo down South East?
Small time those igbos will claim that land as their home because they have already dominate everywhere in that area, please is there any of this community indigenous who from cross river state
It Is Igboland, they're Indigenous to that place, that land was cut into Cross River.
But will they agree that they are igbos
God bless you. Good question
Not as bad Igbos dominate Igbo the question of who is Igbo.
Î notice something
They have ibibio word in their dialecte
What makes them Igbo.. Please? Is it language, Culture, Food etc... or Just association... They sound more to me like southern Cameroon or Northern Cross river which they are. They narrator speaks a different language from the other natives.
Typical Ijaw man. His nightmare is the Igbo nation. Calm down. These guys share boundary with Ebonyi state, and yes, I can understand the language at the background, as someone from Ebonyi.
@@isaacchukwuemeka9183 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Didn't you hear the guy speaking the central igbo? Abi u ar deaf
They speak ebonyi state dialect but part of igbo language. They culture is the same with the main land igbo and they still have igbo 4 market days which is orie, afor, nkwo and eke.
Na them😂😂
God will punish the so called Nigeria government All the evil done to our people, this is ikwo people of Igbo land
The military created all these stupid state without proper consultations and our elders have not done anything about it. It's really anoying
The music at the background ruined what would have been a wonderful documentary .
Are they igbo? Did they accept to be called igbo? The language they're speaking isn't igbo.
But the guy talking about their custom speaks Igbo, which other Igbo do u want him to speak? Let's stop discrimination bc Igbos have different dialects even Anambra Igbo can't understand Abakaliki sb when he speaks, the same applies to Nsukka
He speak Igbo very fluently! By the way who told you Igbo land must be same ! Wake man ! If I speak my language I bet u u won't understand me despite am nwa afor same applies to Enugu nsukka abakiliki mbise agbor etc !same happen in yourba land ! Yoruba language differ but same yourba wit slight diff
Don't be a dump
Isobo is Igbo indigenous to cross River state.. they are not the only indigenous Igbos of cross River state.. Osopong ward 2 in Obubra LGA is purely Ibos which includes Izhi, ikwo and isobo... Osopong ward 1 equally has Ibom people which are Izhi, yala LGA equally has Izhi people in southern Ukelle.
I listened to them, and noted that the language they speak is Igbo. Igbo has numerous dialects, which is evident even among the Igbo people in the South East.
This is great piece of documentary.keep it up.❤
Thank you