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indeed, a very rich and beautiful presentation - Seki dance! great and quality art - thanks for preserving these and keeping them alive again - indeed a priceless heritage

BEAUTIFUL UMU IGBO IGBANI OPOBO BIAFRANS . IT BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE WE ARE ENJOYING.

Nice one up river state beautiful people

Culture is LOVE ❤❤❤❤❤

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The Ibanis (Bonny and Opobo) should promote her culture and Language. Very beautiful and sweet dialect.

Nice one

I fmor obohia ndoki

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Is this ijaw culture: 1. Bini head gear. 2. Clown dress with kente ghana skirt. 3. Ankle beads use by Igbo dancers? 4. Not even sure if the music too?

If the vast majority are of people of bonny opobi etc are of Igbo ndoki origin, why should they not practice their own culture like nwatam? 1. The music instrument in those videos are Igbo. 2. The clothing is european, igbo, ibibio, etc are not Ijaw as ijaws never produced cloth. 3. Canoes in bonny opobo are not ijaw? 4. Kalabari dealth in slaves too but the majority do not speak Igbo within kalabari, so slavery could not change non Igbo to Igbo speakers in kalabari or bonny? Languages are very difficult to die. Any one can migrate and settle if the community accepts, so ijaws migrated into area controlled by Igbo Ndoki in bonny and obolo speakers. Ijaw rights advocates came about because the are minorities in the areas of bonny, opobo and andoni

You are not factual on this matter of languages of Bonny or Opobo and surrounding areas: 1. Captain Crow from 1800 to 1820s a British Captain operating in bonny recorded a words list for bonny and almost all the world list were Igbo words. 2. Opobo came from Bonny. 3. Captain Hugh Crow that operated in bonny untill 1820s noted: A. The vast majority spoke Igbo language according to Captain hugh Crow-ndoki Igbo. A minority ijaw language was spoken by in some out laying fishing camps which later became villages around Bonny and Ijaw fishing Bonny river. 4. Igbo was and is the original language of vast majority of Bonny/Opobo people. In bayelsa state ogbi lga has Ijaws, Ogbia, etissa, etc speakers in one local government areas as in Kano Hausa is the majority language and fulani, kanuri, etc is spoken by minorities. On the culture of this dance. This dance for example now, some ijaw part but mixed with Igbo. Fattening rooms is used in Igboland and Ibibio lands and may not be ijaw? The most fattening ceremony process were recorded in Efik ibibio land. The clothes by ladies are not ijaw but recent created items from Igbo ibibio cultures. Wrappers are generally worn by most southern Nigerians and not ijaws only but as ijaw did not make cloth the origin is likely Igbo akwette bini and yoruba. Ijaw minority line/compounds are a very small minority and these ijaw compounds are not culturally ijaw any more - the instrument in this dance are Igbo for example. Recent ijaw immigrants since 1970s are the people trying to introduce a language from bayelsa that was once minority as the majority language. Are their people in Bonny Opobo etc with some ijaw blood, of course yes as there are black Americans with European blood etc? The question is who are these people trying to introduce a minority language as a majority language and why?

You, my Opobo people, are making those of us in the USA proud!!! Keep it up. jtsdrd

Ibanise

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Ama egerema ani belem

My culture my pride ❣️❣️

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Although I am not Ibani or Ijaw, I love Eastern Ijaw Cultures particularly Bonny/Opobo

Hi good evening my friend

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I am glad there’s a program like this to teach our language. Make the program popular for everyone and get the people EXCITED about benefits!!! jtsdrd

Opobo TV: well done. Keep Bonny and Opobo coming together and promoting our IBANI culture forward!!! I support you very well. jtsdrd

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Warisenibo Tamuno igbe, I dowu basima. O kele kele wa toruku muari. Tamuno barausa wa piri bem.

Bonny, Okoloba, or Ibani-Ijaw people, as they are called, are Ijaw people in Rivers State. They speak the Ibani language which is a form of the Kalabari-Ijaw language. They were ruled by king Pere-Kule, and have lineage from alagbariya. During the Bonny civil war, King Abii Amachree (Amakiri) the fourth of Kalabari and the British government were those that brokered the perpetual treaty of peace that led to three war canoe houses leaving Bonny and finally settling at their present location, called Opubo-ama, which has been christened to Opobo. All the three houses that left Bonny to form Opubo-ama (Opobo) are Ijaw houses. Some Opobo people could use the Igbo language to trade, just for the singular reason of trading with the Ibos, and nothing more. Some Kalabari-Ijaws could use the Igbo language for trading with the Ibos, but the Kalabari-Ijaws quickly stopped the practice, after the Kalabari-Ijaws saw the effect of that practice in Opubo-ama (Opobo).

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Very sound Ibani-Ijaw language. God bless you

Opobo to the world ❤🙌🙌🙌🙌

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OPOBO THE HOME OF PEACE❤

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhnnn IZON 🙌🏾

i hear u ❤ amazing🎵🎵🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️👑❤

Why does the Nwatom Masquerade gets pushed on the roof like that 😂😂😂

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Nice 😅

Nice 😅

A very nice documentary 👌

Everyone endeavor to watch till the end…dive into the rich culture of the Opobo people ❤️ Good job @Opobotv✅

Very beautiful dance steps❤

This is why Nigeria is the greatest! No other African country can say they have such a beautiful, heart-wrenching display like this regatta! As I watch, my heart is pounding with fear seeing the many people on a boat, how shallow to the water, how big the ocean all around! Jesu, these people have hearts! No other country can compete, that is why the ever greatness of Nigeria that the entire world talks about!

Why don’t the IBANI people shake their buttocks??? When I was growing up, shaking of the buttocks were a skill by itself. It was praised by the people. It was a technical and skillful!!! We, IBANI people must bring it back. We cannot continue to let things that set us apart relentlessly slip bye, such like our IBANI language!!! IBANI PEOPLE, I ❤ ❤ ❤ you with all my heart. May God bless and keep you in Christ Jesus Name, I pray. jtsdrd, USA

Who says Igbos don't have access to the Atlantic ocean?

Great work of tradition

Opobo Nwanotam: the arrangements are very well. The morning events: the dancing of the different groups. The evening events and the Nwanotam displaying all sorts moves. And the concluding event of the Nwanotam climbing the roof!!! jtsdrd, USA

Nice cultural display

I didn’t see ugele mkpa

Uke is here to stay.❤

Proudly opobo culture soprinye ibulu from cockeye brown

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