The people may not necessarily migrate from Benin but what happened was that when Benin kingdom was at her peak, the kingdom influenced all the inhabitants of southern Nigeria. There is no group in southern Nigeria that was not influenced by the ancient Benin kingdom
What you understood is Central Igbo my G, If Owerri or Nsuka or even ngwa dialect jam you, your legs will wobble. Ika is a dialect of Igbo Ekperima. Americans and Canadians you mentioned, know that their main origin of migration to that North Americans is England and French, before others joined them now. Ethnicity/Tribe is the most fundamental of every human identity before State or Nationality nomenclature. The Anioma culture is 90% Igbo and 10% borrowed from others due to proximity. Whoever argues that, needs a DNA test, maybe na Aboki breed in mama during the war.
I am 47 years old, and an igbo man. My father waa from Enugu state and my mother is Ika. My father was a hobbyist historian who spent his years researching into the history of the Igbos as well as the peoples of the sub-Sahel, between north-West Cameroon, and Togo. I worked with him and his team of rsearcher friends while he was alive, and after his death, we've continued on his research legacy. He had planned to document it all in a book but he died before he could do it. The findings are quite astonishing though, and I'll leave some of it here. 1. Everybody is Igbo! There was an ethnic tribe that was indigenous to the sub-Sahel territory that spans modern nordern day North-west Cameroon all the way to present day Togo. This includes also all of Nigeria from the north down to the south. They spoke a language that is most closely related to modern-day Igbo. They existed in autonomous non-federating city states and village states, and were republican in nature, which means they were governed by elected elders. They were an agrarian and hunting oeople, and domesticated root crops including Yams, Cassava, Cocoa yam, and the oil palm. They used red coral beads as adornment, and cowries as an early form of value exchange. They wore rafia, but also developed the spindle for weaving a soecial fabrics used for soecial ocasion. Their cosmology centered around a 4-day week, 13 month calendar. They were also a havy masquerade culture and were also into ancestor worship. Their language also included the unique conjoined consonants "gb" and "kp" amongst others. They were also highly developed in the arts with decorated clay ports, clay and figurines. They also mastered metal works with bronze smelting and were the earliest culture in the world to smelt iron over 4000 years ago. Thet were the famous mysterious NOK culture, and they're existed in this land for at least 10,000 years. 5000 and 4000 years ago (circa 3000 to 2000 BC) following the sudden drying up of the lush Saharaa, a huge expanse of land that was home to so many black ethnicities, migrants started yo arrive into this terittory from the north and north east, settling amongst these indigenous peoples, assimilating with them, when the migrants came in small quantities, coopring them when the immigrats arrived in large quantities, and displacing them when the inigtants arrived in whole tribes. This wave of migrations continued for 3 to 4000 years until just about 1000 years ago. This migration created new ethnicities where these people used to live, but it didn't replace the people themselves, it just changed their language and cultures, but a lot of the original culture remained. The Hausa's arrived around 1500 years ago, and displaced the etnic people southwards. Also, around 2000 years ago, a Jewish man named Eri migrating from Egypt, arrived amongst the native peoples in Igala land (they werent Igala people at the time), then migrated further southweds settling amongst the indigenous peoples in present day Arochukwu. Eri and his offspring colonizied the native people (he didnt arrive in a large company(, and over hundreds of years began to organize the native people into teritories known as Iduu. They establishe three territories; Iduu-Ugbo (present day Arochukwo, which contolled all of the present day south east into cameroon), Iduu-Ife (present day benin) which controlled anioma all the way to Togo, and Iduu-Attah, present day Igala land, and controlled Kogi, Benue, Plateu all the way up north (this was bedore the Hausa's arrived a few hundred years later. But time passed and the influence of Eri's dynasty waned Then about 1000 years ago, a new big wave of immigrants arrived with the advent of Oduduwa. Oduduwa arrived from the north east, tgrough present day Kogi state and eventually settled in Ile Ife, where he and his large group of migrants arriving from an area where they were very skilled in warefare and batgle. easily conquered the local population, and coopted them into a new tradition. He then proceeded to do the same to neighboring communities untill his expansion ran into firce guerilla wardare resistance from the other neighboring indigenous people.
It's a long story, but if there's interest on this post, I'll make another post that explains why how it connects the people of Anioma, Ika specifically, with the Benin kingdom, and why they call it Iduu.
You guys are just confused and may be mischievous, Ika is Igbo. The language you are speaking is Igbo. It easy for Ika man and Igbo man to communicate and understand themselves, but cannot communicate with Benin. This same thing is apply to Yoruba language. They have the Ijebus, Ife, Ijesa, Egba, Ondo and Ekiti language all with different dialete. If ondo, Ekiti people are speaking their language, Oyo state will not understand all the language and that didn't make them less yoruba. So you guys should stop all this rubbish you are saying. u are Igbo with different dialets
The de facto power block between the 11th and 14 th century was the Benin kingdom. It established towns like eko within the westward Yarbar kingdom now know as Yoruba land and also established other towns eastwards where its dominance stretched such towns as onitsha, onitsha meaning ono chie an occupied area occupied by the then benin oba via one of his princes . The Benin kingdom also established Agbor in the now ika axis , Aboh in ukwuani land and Anioma. Don't confuse the much compressed Benin of today with the Benin power block of centuries back and lets not be egoistic about these things and look at them purely from an objectively historical perspective.
So if Brazilians speak Portuguese and bear Portuguese names does that make them Portuguese? Mexicans speak Spanish and bear Spanish names does that make them Spanish ?
Please let me tell you people everyone needs to go check his or her history, come people have allot of tribe in benin. There is igbo, and Yoruba,isetkiri urobo
You spoke Ika dialect, I'm from aguleri. I speak AGULERI dialect. Shame you for nothing knowing anything you are saying. Aguleri dialect and Owerri dialect are different. You people will never learn
Every ethnic communities have their dialect, I will rather call it vocabulary. Eg , Afikpo man in Ebonyi state cannot understand Ezza language, but the two communities are close and yet, they are Igbos. An Abia or IMO state man can not understand Nsuka dialect and also speak Nsuka.
That's for IDUMUESA people, am from OWA and i love our IGBO brothers and sisters, i don't have anything to do with BENIN people, we called Idu for people who speak BENIN, even city and village their are all Idu, not only BENIN city, ( ndi idu)?
Why people are witch of people's affairs what I see is that when Anioma people said that he or she is igbo many Nigerians will angry why instead looking for what to do make money they keep putting their selves in poverty with they thinking
My friend, all of U people are Benin,U people are not IGBO,when U see an IGBO person U will NO,we and U people are not the same,the different very clear.
How can u say Igbo men don’t understand delta Igbo, seriously?the Benin guy is causing division here, what do u know about original names in rivers that started changing after the biafran war, say what u know, in imo state, same Orlu zone ,we don’t the dialet of ohaji egbema local government, igbos don’t understand nssukka Enugu people,ebonyi, ohafia abia state is the wordt, stop fooling ur selves for west u don’t know, no Igbo man man is begging anyone to be Igbo , we aren’t lazy people
If this anioma is really Benin, why is nobody in that location speaks Benin, did they migrate to Igbo land and forget their language? Why do they observe Igbo traditions and make use of four market days? No just confuse people bro?
Not everybody in Ika lga speak Ika dialect. You have bini speakers call ozara people that are a minority in ika. Ika dialects vary even within Ika lgas too. If you bring an ozara bini speaker, he will claim ozara bini but he is in Ika Igbo kingdom but can claim that Ika is not Igbo like hausa and fulani in kano Emirate. You have ijaws and itsekri in warri, does that mean that the ijaw people there are not ijaws like ijaws in gbaramantu or sagabama? Bini language/dialects is part of edo language. Ika dialects is part of Igbo language. Dialects are not exactly the same in a language. Esan people understand Bini dialect/language and bini understand esan - you can call both dialects Edo but you can not call Bini or esan dialects Igbo? You can borrow a few words/family from another language/ group but the majority words/ group are still from a core.
Ok, many Anioma men are Igbo? Are you deaf as to why it is like that? They speak Igbo because of the closeness to the Igboland, but doesn't make them Igbo!!! If you do not understand these people talking, your mumu don too much ooo!
@@omobanedo9602Mumu , Why are the Yoruba's not speaking french as they are close to Cotonou ??? Why are the Akwa iboms not speaking Igbo as they are close to Abia State.??? Why are the poeple of Anambra not speaking Abakaliki dialect or even hearing even as 1 Igbo ??? Mumu brain watched poeple, "My mama tell me say"
How do you understand things. You have a wrong way of looking at things. Does kingdom or people of a kingdom exist after the name given to it?. The kingdom has existed before they had contact with the Portuguese. The name Benin was from the word ubini which the Portuguese could not pronounce correctly because they are not indigenous people of the land. The people of the land has been in existence before the Portuguese came. The name has change from time to time. From idu land, to Efa and Emehi land, to igodomigodo, to ubini(a name also given by efa and emehi) and finally corrupted by the Portuguese to Benin. So the people of the land has alway exist before the name. Igbo called edo people as idu. yoruba called the edo people as Ado. Itsekiri knew them as Ubini for it was the Itsekiris who told the white men (Portuguese) of the powerful overlord living in Igodomigodo and the name of the tribe of this powerful king was UBINI- a term which White man (the Portuguese) corruptly wrote down as Benin when they began trade relations with Oba Ewuare
The people may not necessarily migrate from Benin but what happened was that when Benin kingdom was at her peak, the kingdom influenced all the inhabitants of southern Nigeria. There is no group in southern Nigeria that was not influenced by the ancient Benin kingdom
You know what happened over 5 centuries ago?You want to force your identity on another people
What you understood is Central Igbo my G, If Owerri or Nsuka or even ngwa dialect jam you, your legs will wobble. Ika is a dialect of Igbo Ekperima. Americans and Canadians you mentioned, know that their main origin of migration to that North Americans is England and French, before others joined them now. Ethnicity/Tribe is the most fundamental of every human identity before State or Nationality nomenclature. The Anioma culture is 90% Igbo and 10% borrowed from others due to proximity. Whoever argues that, needs a DNA test, maybe na Aboki breed in mama during the war.
Remove Ngwa please. Ngwa is not Igbo but a sister tribe.
@@imembacrystal4954u be idiot how is ngwa not igbo
@ofonwannabugwu3763 bro can't you see that the guy too is a bini man trying so hard to divide us ,
I am 47 years old, and an igbo man. My father waa from Enugu state and my mother is Ika. My father was a hobbyist historian who spent his years researching into the history of the Igbos as well as the peoples of the sub-Sahel, between north-West Cameroon, and Togo. I worked with him and his team of rsearcher friends while he was alive, and after his death, we've continued on his research legacy. He had planned to document it all in a book but he died before he could do it. The findings are quite astonishing though, and I'll leave some of it here.
1. Everybody is Igbo!
There was an ethnic tribe that was indigenous to the sub-Sahel territory that spans modern nordern day North-west Cameroon all the way to present day Togo. This includes also all of Nigeria from the north down to the south. They spoke a language that is most closely related to modern-day Igbo.
They existed in autonomous non-federating city states and village states, and were republican in nature, which means they were governed by elected elders. They were an agrarian and hunting oeople, and domesticated root crops including Yams, Cassava, Cocoa yam, and the oil palm.
They used red coral beads as adornment, and cowries as an early form of value exchange.
They wore rafia, but also developed the spindle for weaving a soecial fabrics used for soecial ocasion.
Their cosmology centered around a 4-day week, 13 month calendar. They were also a havy masquerade culture and were also into ancestor worship. Their language also included the unique conjoined consonants "gb" and "kp" amongst others.
They were also highly developed in the arts with decorated clay ports, clay and figurines. They also mastered metal works with bronze smelting and were the earliest culture in the world to smelt iron over 4000 years ago.
Thet were the famous mysterious NOK culture, and they're existed in this land for at least 10,000 years.
5000 and 4000 years ago (circa 3000 to 2000 BC) following the sudden drying up of the lush Saharaa, a huge expanse of land that was home to so many black ethnicities, migrants started yo arrive into this terittory from the north and north east, settling amongst these indigenous peoples, assimilating with them, when the migrants came in small quantities, coopring them when the immigrats arrived in large quantities, and displacing them when the inigtants arrived in whole tribes. This wave of migrations continued for 3 to 4000 years until just about 1000 years ago. This migration created new ethnicities where these people used to live, but it didn't replace the people themselves, it just changed their language and cultures, but a lot of the original culture remained.
The Hausa's arrived around 1500 years ago, and displaced the etnic people southwards. Also, around 2000 years ago, a Jewish man named Eri migrating from Egypt, arrived amongst the native peoples in Igala land (they werent Igala people at the time), then migrated further southweds settling amongst the indigenous peoples in present day Arochukwu.
Eri and his offspring colonizied the native people (he didnt arrive in a large company(, and over hundreds of years began to organize the native people into teritories known as Iduu.
They establishe three territories; Iduu-Ugbo (present day Arochukwo, which contolled all of the present day south east into cameroon), Iduu-Ife (present day benin) which controlled anioma all the way to Togo, and Iduu-Attah, present day Igala land, and controlled Kogi, Benue, Plateu all the way up north (this was bedore the Hausa's arrived a few hundred years later.
But time passed and the influence of Eri's dynasty waned
Then about 1000 years ago, a new big wave of immigrants arrived with the advent of Oduduwa.
Oduduwa arrived from the north east, tgrough present day Kogi state and eventually settled in Ile Ife, where he and his large group of migrants arriving from an area where they were very skilled in warefare and batgle. easily conquered the local population, and coopted them into a new tradition. He then proceeded to do the same to neighboring communities untill his expansion ran into firce guerilla wardare resistance from the other neighboring indigenous people.
It's a long story, but if there's interest on this post, I'll make another post that explains why how it connects the people of Anioma, Ika specifically, with the Benin kingdom, and why they call it Iduu.
There is different between language and dialect. The countries that you are referring to have historical relations.
When we said Nigeria is a scam u think we are joking when you say Nigeria has 500 languages this is what they means
When a child speaks you will know his age
You guys are just confused and may be mischievous, Ika is Igbo. The language you are speaking is Igbo. It easy for Ika man and Igbo man to communicate and understand themselves, but cannot communicate with Benin. This same thing is apply to Yoruba language. They have the Ijebus, Ife, Ijesa, Egba, Ondo and Ekiti language all with different dialete. If ondo, Ekiti people are speaking their language, Oyo state will not understand all the language and that didn't make them less yoruba. So you guys should stop all this rubbish you are saying. u are Igbo with different dialets
Language, cultural traditions, religion(omenala), and four market days are the same as Ndi Igbo.
Pls tell me what you have in common with Benin???
Another important point is spirituality what is the name of your gods and deities ?
IDIGUN, MKPITIME, OLOKUN.
The de facto power block between the 11th and 14 th century was the Benin kingdom. It established towns like eko within the westward Yarbar kingdom now know as Yoruba land and also established other towns eastwards where its dominance stretched such towns as onitsha, onitsha meaning ono chie an occupied area occupied by the then benin oba via one of his princes . The Benin kingdom also established Agbor in the now ika axis , Aboh in ukwuani land and Anioma. Don't confuse the much compressed Benin of today with the Benin power block of centuries back and lets not be egoistic about these things and look at them purely from an objectively historical perspective.
So if Brazilians speak Portuguese and bear Portuguese names does that make them Portuguese? Mexicans speak Spanish and bear Spanish names does that make them Spanish ?
Mexico and Brazil was colonised bei Spanish and Portuguese, was anioma also colonised by the igbos? Just think about it
Who do you resemble? Chinese? . Language?. Benin kingdom was established by Portuguese. Ika is older than the name Benin.
Please let me tell you people everyone needs to go check his or her history, come people have allot of tribe in benin. There is igbo, and Yoruba,isetkiri urobo
You spoke Ika dialect, I'm from aguleri. I speak AGULERI dialect. Shame you for nothing knowing anything you are saying.
Aguleri dialect and Owerri dialect are different. You people will never learn
Every ethnic communities have their dialect, I will rather call it vocabulary. Eg , Afikpo man in Ebonyi state cannot understand Ezza language, but the two communities are close and yet, they are Igbos. An Abia or IMO state man can not understand Nsuka dialect and also speak Nsuka.
That's for IDUMUESA people, am from OWA and i love our IGBO brothers and sisters, i don't have anything to do with BENIN people, we called Idu for people who speak BENIN, even city and village their are all Idu, not only BENIN city, ( ndi idu)?
Osu You are deceiving yourself with your fake profile.You are not ika but from across the river
@@nosaidubor9499u are an efulefu
Why people are witch of people's affairs what I see is that when Anioma people said that he or she is igbo many Nigerians will angry why instead looking for what to do make money they keep putting their selves in poverty with they thinking
My friend, all of U people are Benin,U people are not IGBO,when U see an IGBO person U will NO,we and U people are not the same,the different very clear.
It is not just about language but the culture food , clothing , market days 😮
Oga idumuesah is different how do you expect them to submit
Thanks 4 you kind inside
How can u say Igbo men don’t understand delta Igbo, seriously?the Benin guy is causing division here, what do u know about original names in rivers that started changing after the biafran war, say what u know, in imo state, same Orlu zone ,we don’t the dialet of ohaji egbema local government, igbos don’t understand nssukka Enugu people,ebonyi, ohafia abia state is the wordt, stop fooling ur selves for west u don’t know, no Igbo man man is begging anyone to be Igbo , we aren’t lazy people
Ukwuani nko
ANIOMA SPEAK IGBO .EDO ONLY INFLUENCE THEM BY WAR
Anioma is not igbo.Go check their culture there is nothing igbo about them
Anioma is not Igbo
In ika benin is called idu i confirm from ute okpu kingdom
Be whatever you want to be.After all, children deny their families!!!
Bro from Benin u honestly saying what u don’t know ,
Nothing is clear with this conversation, Confused youths
This man an mad man, ask ur sister in-law what uche means in ika, why u no come finish the talk
If this anioma is really Benin, why is nobody in that location speaks Benin, did they migrate to Igbo land and forget their language? Why do they observe Igbo traditions and make use of four market days? No just confuse people bro?
Not everybody in Ika lga speak Ika dialect. You have bini speakers call ozara people that are a minority in ika. Ika dialects vary even within Ika
lgas too. If you bring an ozara bini speaker, he will claim ozara bini but he is in Ika Igbo kingdom but can claim that Ika is not Igbo like hausa and fulani in kano Emirate. You have ijaws and itsekri in warri, does that mean that the ijaw people there are not ijaws like ijaws in gbaramantu or sagabama?
Bini language/dialects is part of edo language.
Ika dialects is part of Igbo language.
Dialects are not exactly the same in a language.
Esan people understand Bini dialect/language and bini understand esan - you can call both dialects Edo but you can not call Bini or esan dialects Igbo?
You can borrow a few words/family from another language/ group but the majority words/ group are still from a core.
You just wasted my data…. Go take an ancestry test. Stop all these rantings!
Ika language is Igbo language but Igbos speak dialects
You are confusing yourselves , the language is Igbo what you are referring to is dialects not language 😮
Which one is pure igbo
Ika is Igbo
Benin settled on Ika
Ika is older than Benin
Afonso gave Ibinu for Benin. Ile Ibinu
Ile ibinu does n0t exist. Ile Ibinu na Ndigb0 night..mare foreva.
Benin way no like Esan people na Ika don go like 😅😅 mumu people
Agbor is igbo
Benin people your lie have been destroyed,
Dialect of a people is not a mark of a single tribe like ijaw tribe and yoruba tribe
Guys, stop fooling yourselves. Uche means the same thing in igbo language and in the so called Ika language.
But there met people there oga, I'm Ute okpu
Benin mind you business leave us a lone
Ika is not Igbo we are ika people not Igbo we only share some similar things with Igbo's in language and culture, same with Benins and Esan
We don't even need ibeside like you, to be Igbo
Another dingbats
This man perspective of language is wrong for me
Why is it bothering you?this is our culture,I don't have the same dialect with the next village
Oga you are ika man many anioma man is igbo
Ok, many Anioma men are Igbo? Are you deaf as to why it is like that? They speak Igbo because of the closeness to the Igboland, but doesn't make them Igbo!!! If you do not understand these people talking, your mumu don too much ooo!
@@omobanedo9602Mumu , Why are the Yoruba's not speaking french as they are close to Cotonou ???
Why are the Akwa iboms not speaking Igbo as they are close to Abia State.???
Why are the poeple of Anambra not speaking Abakaliki dialect or even hearing even as 1 Igbo ???
Mumu brain watched poeple,
"My mama tell me say"
Stop marketing your backwardnes and that of your own tribe you know nothing @@omobanedo9602
Mumu
Bros,you don't know anything about history
This is fake new from this man please delta lgbo is lgbo people not from Edo state
Shame on you for not knowing who you are
You don't no
Confused fools,
You don't understand true history.
Who do you resemble? Chinese? . Language?. Benin kingdom was established by Portuguese. Ika is older than the name Benin.
How do you understand things. You have a wrong way of looking at things. Does kingdom or people of a kingdom exist after the name given to it?. The kingdom has existed before they had contact with the Portuguese. The name Benin was from the word ubini which the Portuguese could not pronounce correctly because they are not indigenous people of the land. The people of the land has been in existence before the Portuguese came. The name has change from time to time. From idu land, to Efa and Emehi land, to igodomigodo, to ubini(a name also given by efa and emehi) and finally corrupted by the Portuguese to Benin. So the people of the land has alway exist before the name. Igbo called edo people as idu. yoruba called the edo people as Ado. Itsekiri knew them as Ubini for it was the Itsekiris who told the white men (Portuguese) of the powerful overlord living in Igodomigodo and the name of the tribe of this powerful king was UBINI- a term which White man (the Portuguese) corruptly wrote down as Benin when they began trade relations with Oba Ewuare
OgA come to abia State u will know that will not hear each other