The more the Writer tries to deny the inclusion of the people that identify themselves today as Igbos is the more it shows intellectual dishonesty.
The more the Writer tries to deny the inclusion of the people that identify themselves today as Igbos is the more it shows intellectual dishonesty.
The Benue-Confluence is enough evidence as the aboriginals of Idoma are of the Igbo Stock and it’s quite obvious that even the progenitor of the Igalas who is revered generally in many oral accounts “Onoja Oboli” was born at Umuekete in ancient Iduu-Eri settlement present day Anambra state.
Should I also talk about the Olukumi people whose ancestors are of the Igbo stock? If you deny that the Olukumi whom were the Igbos who migrated to Ife to labor to form what is now Yoruboid(ignore the derogatory) is actually so dishonest of the Writer.
If you are still doubting, the oldest market at Igala still bears the name of the Igbo woman who was the founder before the Kwararafa invasion from Taraba but you chose to be Intellectually dishonest by not including the fact that what is now Igbo must have birthed what is now Yoruba or may have been an identical ancestry; but due to politics, you chose to ignore the fundamental determinants which is language; culture, food and spiritual system.
For your information, below is for your perusal of a contrast between Igbo and Yoruba versus the English counterpart:
Goat/Ewu/Ewure
Elephant/Enyi/Eyin
Fight/Ogu/Ogun
Twenty/Ogu/Ogun
Bag/Akpa/Apo
Nose/Imi/imu
Jaw/Agba/Agbo
Ear/Nti/Eti
Should I continue to show you linguistics similarities of why Olukumi of the Igbo Stock birthed Yoruba?
As for Spirituality:
Divination/Afa in Igbo /Ifa in Yoruba
The 16 corpuses of Ukpa Afa is same as the 16 corpuses of Odu Ifa.
Do not ever allow political sentiments to influence your obvious intellectual investigation as the Ile-Igbo house at Ife in Osun is enough attestation to my claims(if that be assumed to be one).
Historical evidences showcased Obatala who was obviously of the igboid stock came to Ife alongside his younger one “Odudunwa” (The last born). And the most intriguing of them all is that before none would recount the orishas without recognizing Obatala who introduced the Aje festival.
Even the deity Osa-gongon is another attestation as if you ask any Ifa priest of the origin of the pantheon, the answer becomes glaring obvious.
May we not loose ourselves in search of ourselves.
