Thank you very much sir, my almighty Jehovah continue to bless and protect you. Let them call, text and threaten you, nothing negative shall before you. God bless!
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.
Igbos established iduu kingdom before the oba and his soldiers from ile Ife captured the throne and disposed our ogiso, that’s why most of the igbos left to the hinterland, that’s the truth
@@janerama-nq6rw There was nothing like Igbo before 18 century. Igbo language was created and promoted by the British in the 18 centuries. Igbos language is less than 400 years old. The Benin language is more than 2000 years old. How did they establish Idu ? Do you even know what is Idu ? A Benin word. What u are saying is the now Igbos are actually children/migrated from Benin/Edo/Igodomigodo. THAT IS THE TRUTH.
The Igbos that can't trace their history beyond 1600 BC created Edo kingdom?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Nothing one cannot hear, read or see in the internet. Hmm, lmao 🤣🤣🤣.
@@godsanointed3397 Nor mind them. They have fabricated so much histories. Now, they say Eri Kingdom by one unknown archaeology with nothing to prove. That they're the original Idu. I know knew this people are so dumb...but often claim smart. I am advising everyone to stop given them information online because they're master of copy cat and twister 🌀 of history. Lairs...
@@janerama-nq6rw U that doesn't know the meaning of Ogiso except the ones I read online. It's hear talking. Ur Biafra will never come with all these lies.
@@LifeplexTV History has shown that Empires spread their languages to their colonies just like Britain did to all her colonies, Nigeria being one of them. For Bini it was zero, why?
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 ❓⁉️
Why do the Igbos observe onwa asa, the seventh and also the first month? Where did they get it? Am not aware of any other ethnic group in Nigeria that observes it. What about the Aros amongst the Igbos who tell us they are descendants of Aaron. How come the Sacred Stone of the Aros is inscribed with the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH? Go to Arochukwu and see it for yourself. The fact that you are a historian does not mean you know all histories. Certainly, you are no expert on the Jewish and biblical history, history of modern Israel or ancient Near East.
Bro, This whole thing is absurd. They often claim that Ikwerre groups like Ahoada and Ogba have primary links with the Bini. But they refuse to read even the quite recent memoir of Solomon Akenzua, the Oba (Erediuwa) of Benin, a descendant of Eweka 1, who was a district officer in Ahoada from 1954-1957. What he had to say about Ahoada and the Igbo and how that fits into their Ikwerre narrative. And because, Akenzua's account fundamentally contradicts their claims, they avoid it and continue with their ahistorical bla bla bla hoping that by repeating the same false narrative several times it will become the truth. Most Igbo do not listen to the clap-trap and for those who do, it is like another comedy show i.e. a low budget version of Chief Zebrudaya & Ovuloria of the New Masquerade, utterly hilarious.
@chikesilasokonkwo2543 The have self indicted themselves by claiming to come from Bini which makes many to think that they have been occupying Igboland from the Igbos they also stole their language. Igbos are now in the driver's seat to tell them to go back to Bini.
As an elder and a historian as you claimed, with over 30mins of talking you failed to address the IMPORTANT ISSUES 1 how come about your claimed lkwere language are 99% similar to Igbo language. 2 why are your claimed Ikwere names are 100% similar to Igbo names and same meanings. 3 Did Ikwere migrated from Benin ? If not where did they migrate from?
Lastly, there are hundreds of Igbo words which are similar to Hebrew. I will give two examples: anya(eye) = anyin; bia(come) = bo. Time and space will not permit to go on. I was taught Hebrew by Hebrew scholars in America. I have also been to Israel on two separate occasions. Some of my classmates were Israeli Jews like Meno and Hezie of blessed memory. An Igbo man or an Ikwerre man who reads the OT immediately knows there is a link between Igbos and the Jews. Saying do Igbos speak Hebrew is no argument at all after thousands of years of migration and separation. Every spoken language is living and changes with time even when the people have not migrated.
My dad is from Enugu state, and my mom is Ika from Delta state, part of what is known as Delta Igbo. These lines of thinking by the gentleman who made this video isnt new to me. From my mothers side of the family, I have some family members who would insist that they arent igbo. But rather that they originate from the Benin kingdom. And just like this man, they'll say the names they bear and the language they speak, arent igbo but instead Ika. When you ask them how come neither their names nor language have any correlation with Edo, the language of the binis, its crickets. They'll simply insist that you accept that their languages aren't igbo simply because they say so, despite the 100% correlation with igbo in terms of names and meanings, and the greater than 90% correlation in terms of language. The Ikwere people are exactly in the same situation. The Irony is that ikwere dialect of igbo has a higher correlation to central igbo that several igbo dialects from igbo states like Enugu, Abia, and Ebonyi. No matter what you say about your names, titles, and language not being igbo but Ikwere instead, in an intellectual setting with serious minded people, you would look foolish trying to explain how they aren't igbo with which they have 100% correlation, but are edo with which they have 0% correlation. Just because a bunch of Ikwere chieftains came together in 1957 to declare that Ikwere people arent igbo doest change the heritage of ikwere people. Its locked-in and sealed in your names, titles,language,customs &traditions, proximity of your homeland with the igbo homeland, and dna. All the proclamations of those chieftains ammounts to, is politics. If you doubt me. Speak to any anthropologist in the world worth his salt.
@@chineduamadi5958 Hence you seems to know a lot and concluded by language correlation. How come you're not an English man hence you speak English language fluently? What it means, is language alone it's not enough to identify an ethnic groups. U also failed to realised that the Igbo language was created by the British, promoted around the Eastern and Southern environ to populated that region to Eastern in other to balance the it's power with North and Western of latter colonized Nigeria. Go back and find how the Igbo language was created. Go back and get the first Africa maps. Igbos have suddenly discovered that their only blockage is the Benin, a well documented ancient kingdom. So, they have gone far and near to fabrication stores in order to recognized other tribes to their interests. Majority of Igbos speaking individuals known that they are not Igbos by blood but by similarly language.
Oga with all due respect, no body is trying to remove your ikwereness in you rather we want you to understand that as you are ikwere man ,so also that other people like Ngwa people Nssuka people, Awka people,ika people, Ukwuani people Mbaise people,Abriba people and so on and so forth. Igbo is just the language that all this people speak..The fulanis from all over Africa, have their respect Dialects eg The Fula, the Bororo, the wori, the mandigo, the nigeria Fulanis and so on but because of political numerical strenght they come together under one umbrella as Fulanis from allover africa .They have different Dialects like us but because of the political advantage they have in their unity, they stick together. But you want to continue to keep your ikwere down political by going it alone. This is the singular reason why the British were able to conquer our forefathers because they were fighting colonialism not as a unified force rather by dividing themselves into different Clans and negotiating seperately. In this 21st century we should learn to be wiser. We speak the same language in our different dialects,we have the same culture and tradition, we answer the same names, I mean this is enough reason to show that we are the same people. Your progenitors like Akalaka, and Eze chima who migrated from Benin are all igbo names which have igbo meanings. That alone shows that they are igbos who surgeoned in Benin at the peak of Benin kingdom reign but later relocated back to their original home when their stay in Benin kingdom is no longer favourable simple. Please Oga this is twenty first century, we must understand that their no gain in diving ourselves in bits rather we stand to gain more by making ourselves bigger for political and economical purposes.
The very word "Ikwerre" is an Igbo word meaning "Do you agree". It was the question the Igbo interpreter asked the Inwhuruhohna indigene of what the white man had asked. The white man could not pronounce Inwhuruhohna so he chose Ikwerre and the name stuck. When people migrate, they carry their language in their heads which cannot be lost. Anthropologists have shown that the Malays of Malagasy speak a close language related to the people of Indonesia , 1,500 miles of waters away where they immigrated from. Why has the Bini language been absent in the Ikwerre language? There are 496 Igbo dialects and Ikwerre is one of them.
why the British in your name, are you are SOOO proud that you had to put it there. Does that give you validity like the way Nigerian politicians run to Britain to do their thinking and meetings. Just curious cause this is something I can't conceive doing in my wildest dreams then again, we come from different generation.
The man must be utterly frustrated that after all that hand waving he managed to get 125 views, many being unsolicited auto play repeats. That shows that nobody is interested in Ikwerre and their rigged history anymore. Not even the usually vibrant Ibos except those seeking entertainment. The guy should change career because Ikwerre this, Ibo that diatribe doesn't sell anymore.
@@user-zx9vk4ks6z the fact that you spelled Igbo with ibo means you are not Igbo and maybe you are the guy trying to draw more comments anyhow I will not subscribe and after this comment I will forget about this vid and yeah a thumbed down. Go with your ikwerre
As Nigeria inches closer to a return to the regional system of governance, anecdotal evidence suggests that the vast majority of Igbo people would TOTALLY REJECT any inclusion of Ikwerres in the Igbo region in any shape or form. Ya wu: make everyone de answer him papa name. Sad for the vast majority of Ikwerre masses being led astray by a greedy and compromised minority who have commodified "history" and made a cash-and-carry dog dinner of it all. Ibos are better off dissociating themselves from this "peculiar mess" (apologies to late Adegoke Adelabu).
No need to talk about all this sheet everytime, Be what you want, simple Igbo people should forget about Ikwere people. Benin people came originally from Igbo. ,they don't want to tell about that. This man should ban from his fake history he claimed he knew. Because with this fake teachings,in the future it will give more negative impact. I think you should stop 🛑
I was nearly taken in by this "professor" title until this man started talking. So "empathic history" consists in you waving your arms uncontrollably and repeating tired tropes? I thought a professor would present triangulated evidence from multiple sources - archaeology, linguistics, cultural, biological- to arrive at a weighty, coherent conclusion about his chosen subject, but what do I know? What a gross waste of time and space.
Sorry brother. It is an opinion. I hardly respond to such umbrages. I made an important point by asking people to make their own studies. Endeavor to excavate the substance of this matter and see if you can satiate your mind. It is just history. Where do you come from as an Igbo person? See if you can state it coherently using biology and other parameters. Maybe we are all embroided in the same confusion. Your studies will prove you right or wrong. Meka
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.
Thank you so much for this historical facts
Thank you very much sir, my almighty Jehovah continue to bless and protect you. Let them call, text and threaten you, nothing negative shall before you. God bless!
You are 💯
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.
Eka, Ogba, Orghachukuw, Ogunta, Onitsha, etc all from old Benin Empire.
Igbos established iduu kingdom before the oba and his soldiers from ile Ife captured the throne and disposed our ogiso, that’s why most of the igbos left to the hinterland, that’s the truth
@@janerama-nq6rw There was nothing like Igbo before 18 century. Igbo language was created and promoted by the British in the 18 centuries. Igbos language is less than 400 years old. The Benin language is more than 2000 years old. How did they establish Idu ? Do you even know what is Idu ? A Benin word. What u are saying is the now Igbos are actually children/migrated from Benin/Edo/Igodomigodo. THAT IS THE TRUTH.
The Igbos that can't trace their history beyond 1600 BC created Edo kingdom?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Nothing one cannot hear, read or see in the internet. Hmm, lmao 🤣🤣🤣.
@@godsanointed3397 Nor mind them. They have fabricated so much histories. Now, they say Eri Kingdom by one unknown archaeology with nothing to prove. That they're the original Idu. I know knew this people are so dumb...but often claim smart. I am advising everyone to stop given them information online because they're master of copy cat and twister 🌀 of history. Lairs...
@@janerama-nq6rw U that doesn't know the meaning of Ogiso except the ones I read online. It's hear talking. Ur Biafra will never come with all these lies.
Igbo is a language not an ethnic group because it was created and promoted by the British.
Britain created Igbo hmmm
@@valentineanthony5615 Yes, do Ur research and don't be bias about it.
@@LifeplexTV try use ur upper
@@valentineanthony5615 Use yours!
@@LifeplexTV History has shown that Empires spread their languages to their colonies just like Britain did to all her colonies, Nigeria being one of them. For Bini it was zero, why?
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 ❓⁉️
Why do the Igbos observe onwa asa, the seventh and also the first month? Where did they get it? Am not aware of any other ethnic group in Nigeria that observes it. What about the Aros amongst the Igbos who tell us they are descendants of Aaron. How come the Sacred Stone of the Aros is inscribed with the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH? Go to Arochukwu and see it for yourself.
The fact that you are a historian does not mean you know all histories. Certainly, you are no expert on the Jewish and biblical history, history of modern Israel or ancient Near East.
Bro,
This whole thing is absurd. They often claim that Ikwerre groups like Ahoada and Ogba have primary
links with the Bini. But they refuse to read even the quite recent memoir of Solomon Akenzua, the Oba (Erediuwa) of Benin, a descendant of Eweka 1, who was a district officer in Ahoada from 1954-1957. What he had to say about Ahoada and the Igbo and how that fits into their Ikwerre narrative. And because, Akenzua's account fundamentally contradicts their claims, they avoid it and continue with their ahistorical bla bla bla hoping that by repeating the same false narrative several times it will become the truth. Most Igbo do not listen to the clap-trap and for those who do, it is like another comedy show i.e. a low budget version of Chief Zebrudaya & Ovuloria of the New Masquerade, utterly hilarious.
Prof, your progenitors and descendants are ashamed of you for denying your ancestry.
Oga so you guys are not from Bini now The IGBO people comes from ikwere
Identity crisis is a bad thing
The bigger group is from the smaller group
Pecuniary needs makes people foolish
@chikesilasokonkwo2543
The have self indicted themselves by claiming to come from Bini which makes many to think that they have been occupying Igboland from the Igbos they also stole their language. Igbos are now in the driver's seat to tell them to go back to Bini.
As an elder and a historian as you claimed, with over 30mins of talking you failed to address the IMPORTANT ISSUES
1 how come about your claimed lkwere language are 99% similar to Igbo language.
2 why are your claimed Ikwere names are 100% similar to Igbo names and same meanings.
3 Did Ikwere migrated from Benin ? If not where did they migrate from?
He just told you where they migrated from that is from the old Benin Empire. The name Ikwere wasn't even their original name.
He told you that Igbo migrated from Ikwere. Which means Igbos are even from the old Benin Empire.
@@LifeplexTVyarriba idiot after ranting come and take the land na
He spoke alot with his hands waving like a robot but not much said. Just as confused as his TH-cam name.
Lastly, there are hundreds of Igbo words which are similar to Hebrew. I will give two examples: anya(eye) = anyin; bia(come) = bo. Time and space will not permit to go on. I was taught Hebrew by Hebrew scholars in America. I have also been to Israel on two separate occasions. Some of my classmates were Israeli Jews like Meno and Hezie of blessed memory. An Igbo man or an Ikwerre man who reads the OT immediately knows there is a link between Igbos and the Jews. Saying do Igbos speak Hebrew is no argument at all after thousands of years of migration and separation. Every spoken language is living and changes with time even when the people have not migrated.
My dad is from Enugu state, and my mom is Ika from Delta state, part of what is known as Delta Igbo.
These lines of thinking by the gentleman who made this video isnt new to me. From my mothers side of the family, I have some family members who would insist that they arent igbo. But rather that they originate from the Benin kingdom.
And just like this man, they'll say the names they bear and the language they speak, arent igbo but instead Ika.
When you ask them how come neither their names nor language have any correlation with Edo, the language of the binis, its crickets. They'll simply insist that you accept that their languages aren't igbo simply because they say so, despite the 100% correlation with igbo in terms of names and meanings, and the greater than 90% correlation in terms of language.
The Ikwere people are exactly in the same situation. The Irony is that ikwere dialect of igbo has a higher correlation to central igbo that several igbo dialects from igbo states like Enugu, Abia, and Ebonyi.
No matter what you say about your names, titles, and language not being igbo but Ikwere instead, in an intellectual setting with serious minded people, you would look foolish trying to explain how they aren't igbo with which they have 100% correlation, but are edo with which they have 0% correlation.
Just because a bunch of Ikwere chieftains came together in 1957 to declare that Ikwere people arent igbo doest change the heritage of ikwere people. Its locked-in and sealed in your names, titles,language,customs &traditions, proximity of your homeland with the igbo homeland, and dna. All the proclamations of those chieftains ammounts to, is politics. If you doubt me. Speak to any anthropologist in the world worth his salt.
@@chineduamadi5958 Hence you seems to know a lot and concluded by language correlation. How come you're not an English man hence you speak English language fluently? What it means, is language alone it's not enough to identify an ethnic groups. U also failed to realised that the Igbo language was created by the British, promoted around the Eastern and Southern environ to populated that region to Eastern in other to balance the it's power with North and Western of latter colonized Nigeria. Go back and find how the Igbo language was created. Go back and get the first Africa maps. Igbos have suddenly discovered that their only blockage is the Benin, a well documented ancient kingdom. So, they have gone far and near to fabrication stores in order to recognized other tribes to their interests. Majority of Igbos speaking individuals known that they are not Igbos by blood but by similarly language.
Oga with all due respect, no body is trying to remove your ikwereness in you rather we want you to understand that as you are ikwere man ,so also that other people like Ngwa people Nssuka people, Awka people,ika people, Ukwuani people Mbaise people,Abriba people and so on and so forth. Igbo is just the language that all this people speak..The fulanis from all over Africa, have their respect Dialects eg The Fula, the Bororo, the wori, the mandigo, the nigeria Fulanis and so on but because of political numerical strenght they come together under one umbrella as Fulanis from allover africa .They have different Dialects like us but because of the political advantage they have in their unity, they stick together. But you want to continue to keep your ikwere down political by going it alone. This is the singular reason why the British were able to conquer our forefathers because they were fighting colonialism not as a unified force rather by dividing themselves into different Clans and negotiating seperately. In this 21st century we should learn to be wiser. We speak the same language in our different dialects,we have the same culture and tradition, we answer the same names, I mean this is enough reason to show that we are the same people. Your progenitors like Akalaka, and Eze chima who migrated from Benin are all igbo names which have igbo meanings. That alone shows that they are igbos who surgeoned in Benin at the peak of Benin kingdom reign but later relocated back to their original home when their stay in Benin kingdom is no longer favourable simple. Please Oga this is twenty first century, we must understand that their no gain in diving ourselves in bits rather we stand to gain more by making ourselves bigger for political and economical purposes.
The very word "Ikwerre" is an Igbo word meaning "Do you agree". It was the question the Igbo interpreter asked the Inwhuruhohna indigene of what the white man had asked. The white man could not pronounce Inwhuruhohna so he chose Ikwerre and the name stuck. When people migrate, they carry their language in their heads which cannot be lost. Anthropologists have shown that the Malays of Malagasy speak a close language related to the people of Indonesia , 1,500 miles of waters away where they immigrated from. Why has the Bini language been absent in the Ikwerre language? There are 496 Igbo dialects and Ikwerre is one of them.
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
why the British in your name, are you are SOOO proud that you had to put it there. Does that give you validity like the way Nigerian politicians run to Britain to do their thinking and meetings. Just curious cause this is something I can't conceive doing in my wildest dreams then again, we come from different generation.
The man must be utterly frustrated that after all that hand waving he managed to get 125 views, many being unsolicited auto play repeats.
That shows that nobody is interested in Ikwerre and their rigged history anymore. Not even the usually vibrant Ibos except those seeking
entertainment. The guy should change career because Ikwerre this, Ibo that diatribe doesn't sell anymore.
@@user-zx9vk4ks6z the fact that you spelled Igbo with ibo means you are not Igbo and maybe you are the guy trying to draw more comments anyhow I will not subscribe and after this comment I will forget about this vid and yeah a thumbed down. Go with your ikwerre
Haaaaa haaaaa dear brother meka ooooo. You know we cannot do without the white people in so many ways. It is just a name and nothing else
As Nigeria inches closer to a return to the regional system of governance, anecdotal evidence suggests that
the vast majority of Igbo people would TOTALLY REJECT any inclusion of Ikwerres in the Igbo region in any shape or form.
Ya wu: make everyone de answer him papa name. Sad for the vast majority of Ikwerre masses being led astray by a greedy
and compromised minority who have commodified "history" and made a cash-and-carry dog dinner of it all. Ibos are better off
dissociating themselves from this "peculiar mess" (apologies to late Adegoke Adelabu).
No need to talk about all this sheet everytime,
Be what you want, simple
Igbo people should forget about Ikwere people.
Benin people came originally from Igbo.
,they don't want to tell about that.
This man should ban from his fake history he claimed he knew. Because with this fake teachings,in the future it will give more negative impact.
I think you should stop 🛑
I was nearly taken in by this "professor" title until this man started talking. So "empathic history" consists in you waving your arms uncontrollably and repeating tired tropes? I thought a professor would present triangulated evidence from multiple sources - archaeology, linguistics, cultural, biological- to arrive at a weighty, coherent conclusion about his chosen subject, but what do I know? What a gross waste of time and space.
Sorry brother. It is an opinion. I hardly respond to such umbrages. I made an important point by asking people to make their own studies. Endeavor to excavate the substance of this matter and see if you can satiate your mind. It is just history. Where do you come from as an Igbo person? See if you can state it coherently using biology and other parameters. Maybe we are all embroided in the same confusion. Your studies will prove you right or wrong. Meka
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.