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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 6:21am On Sep 07, 2013
kwame tut: @Frances
FOR NOW U FAILED TO BRING INFO, OTHER THAN BRINGIN IMMOTIONAL CR@P. Defending your USELESS KIN. cheesy grin grin grin
h0rny S.a bantu odiferous riff raff with zig zag head,i'm following u huh? Watching ur single post grin i've been bored lately because somalia11 isn't here no more to entertain his "mister" (adams) u will fill his space my S.a slave from that shit hole filled with derange starving monkeys grin grin


yon yah mister (adams) will make u take his place,be ready to recieve some lectures u one wheel barrow inheriting slave grin grin

btw ain't u this same nigga that was spotted at the entrance of one of his 9ja mister shop,patiently waiting for give aways grin

seriously under the influence of drugs grin

crack da broken ribs grin grin ban-tu !

Ugly moda'fvcker!

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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 6:22am On Sep 07, 2013
Adamskuty: pig u gotta chilex a lil bit when u are dealing with some of mah country men from the eastern side (even though i'm not igbo and thank God i'm not igbo) .

But watch the way u post in here grab,nigga? (kwame) grin y'all S.a got funny weird names thou,what's kwame? grin grin shocked


What's that supposed to mean?
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 6:28am On Sep 07, 2013
bigfrancis21:

What's that supposed to mean?
nothing actually,but it's just the fact that u niggas from the eastern side have giving nigeria a lil bad name because of ur drugs activities and so,but still all is well wink

meanwhile i will be busy with that red neck,one eye mushie eating black ape that loves raping frog from S.a jungle (the land of aids) those monkeys bang anyhow,under the bridge,in the gutter,on the road grin no wonder the govt. (their cluelss useless govt) decided to put condoms on the street of that laterine.... Lmfaoo! What a zoo grin

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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 6:31am On Sep 07, 2013
Ahaha! YOn YAh mister Adams is following kwame tut
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Nobody: 6:48am On Sep 07, 2013
Adamskuty: h0rny S.a bantu odiferous riff raff with zig zag head,i'm following u huh? Watching ur single post grin i've been bored lately because somalia11 isn't here no more to entertain his "mister" (adams) u will fill his space my S.a slave from that shit hole filled with derange starving monkeys grin grin


yon yah mister (adams) will make u take his place,be ready to recieve some lectures u one wheel barrow inheriting slave grin grin

btw ain't u this same nigga that was spotted at the entrance of one of his 9ja mister shop,patiently waiting for give aways grin

seriously under the influence of drugs grin

crack da broken ribs grin grin ban-tu !

Ugly moda'fvcker!
it's like u hav been mad before : undecided undecided





SmH
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 7:04am On Sep 07, 2013
nadia_SA: it's like u hav been mad before : undecided undecided





SmH
naaah! Ur jungle emit and breed more mad people every second than our entire galaxy emits in just a year grin

and why da'fuq are u following me up and down with this ur "smh" stuff??

are u high on weed or cow dung? u need to go back to the psychiatric hospital.ASAP! Hypocrite

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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Nobody: 7:20am On Sep 07, 2013
Adamskuty: naaah! Ur jungle emit and breed more mad people every second than our entire galaxy emits in just a year grin

and why da'fuq are u following me up and down with this ur "smh" stuff??

are u high on weed or cow dung? u need to go back to the psychiatric hospital.ASAP! Hypocrite


Smh I don't have time to pass words with u..
U just a sad soul who finds pleasure in bashing other countries as if urs is better lol..

C ur life!!!
Onye araa..

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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 7:29am On Sep 07, 2013
nadia_SA:


Smh I don't have time to pass words with u..
U just a sad soul who finds pleasure in bashing other countries as if urs is better lol..

C ur life!!!
Onye araa..
loool! The girls is getting all emotional now grin

u and this "C ur life" lmaoo! Don't be a hypocrite swrry grin go through kwame.tut post and see for urself,well! Mine is a hundred times better,naaah! undecided no need for arguement! Lol! grin

onye aaraa how's ur 9ja husband?

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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 7:40am On Sep 07, 2013
nadia swrrry come give me a big hug grin ur country men are one big annoying people though!
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Nobody: 7:42am On Sep 07, 2013
Adamskuty: loool! The girls is getting all emotional now grin

u and this "C ur life" lmaoo! Don't be a hypocrite swrry grin go through kwame.tut post and see for urself,well! Mine is a hundred times better,naaah! undecided no need for arguement! Lol! grin

onye aaraa how's ur 9ja husband?
angry angry u talk shit bout my country nd expect me to smile... Cheiiii!

Hs fine!
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Nobody: 7:44am On Sep 07, 2013
Adamskuty: nadia swrrry come give me a big hug grin ur country men are one big annoying people though!

Wat did they do to u undecided
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 7:55am On Sep 07, 2013
Nadia go to page 6 and see all what ur brother "kwame.tut" posted... Just read through the whole post in that page,lol
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 7:57am On Sep 07, 2013
nadia_SA:

Wat did they do to u undecided
go to page 6,naa! I don't know why i can't quote the nigga post undecided
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Nobody: 8:03am On Sep 07, 2013
Adamskuty: go to page 6,naa! I don't know why i can't quote the nigga post undecided
Choiiiii shocked
This man I'm fighting for hates igbos!! Na wa 4 him..

But adam vex with him not my country abeggi

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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 8:05am On Sep 07, 2013
Here's another Jamaican native of Igbo ancestry. Below is an excerpt from his website.

I am a native speaker of Jamaican Creole and according to my grandfather, a descendant of the Igbos. I am a Creolist and Sociolinguist by trade and the main thrust of my research is the prosody of Caribbean Creoles varieties.

http://www.pitt.edu/~sgooden/
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 8:14am On Sep 07, 2013
Did I forget to mention the striking similarity between Jamaica's 'Hap afa mi' and Igbo's 'Hapu m aka' which both mean 'Leave me alone'?
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by bigfrancis21: 8:15am On Sep 07, 2013
THE JANKUNU FESTIVAL

Did I forget to mention that the popular Jankunu(Jokonnu) festival practiced in the Caribbean is said to be derived etymologically from the Igbo 'Njoku Ji' festival?

The event has its roots in in Africa
and Belize’s experience with slavery from its
days as a British colony. So on the day after
Boxing Day, I set out to see this event first
hand.

My research shows that the Jankunu has its roots in male secret societies of West Africa, Poro and Egungun, source of the bulk of slaves uprooted by the British and forcibly transported to British Honduras to fuel their exploitation of the country’s vast natural resources. The name itself is believed to derive from ‘Njoku Ji’, the name of a yam Alusi (deity) of the Igbo people, of which Okonko, an Igbo secret society parade wearing masks bearing striking resemblance to the Jankunu masquerades.

http://www.belize.com/the-john-canoe-festival
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Jayvarley(m): 9:23am On Sep 07, 2013
*Kails*:
And when,it comes to brazil I am very apprehensive about claiming territories as being "igbo" seeing as how these are the same ppl who went around claiming Ibotirama in Bahia, Brazil was an Igbo founded town simply because the word IBO is in there lol (and they STILL try to pass it off as fact) when IN FACT it was the native indian brazilians who not only founded the town but gave it that name lol.


Also I find it a bit peculiar how most of these Igbo "facts" are on igbo centric blogs/sites.

But anyway all african groups sent to the new world as slaves influenced us equally. Thats the bottom line.



In Brazil, it is probably the Yoruba, but linguistically, there are more IGBO BASED words within the Jamaican Diaspora, Remember my post on IGBO PROVERBS still used in Jamaica

There are several Igbo words in Jamaican Patois that stem from the Igbo slaves that were on the island. Many of these words were added to Jamaican Patois when slaves were restricted from speaking their own languages. Many of these Igbo words still exist in Jamaican vernacular including words such as 'unu' meaning 'you (plural)',[14] 'di' which is 'to be (in state of)' which became 'de', and 'okra' a vegetable.[32]

Proverbs[edit source]

Ilu in Igbo means proverbs,[33] a part of language that is very important to the Igbo. Igbo proverbs did not fail to cross the Atlantic along with the masses of enslaved Igbo people. Till today several transliterated Igbo proverbs survive in Jamaica today because of the Igbo ancestors. Some of these include:
Igbo: "He who will swallow udala seeds must consider the size of his anus"
Jamaican: "Cow must know 'ow 'im bottom stay before 'im swallow abbe [Twi 'palm nut'] seed"; "Jonkro must know what 'im a do before 'im swallow abbe seed"Igbo: "Where are the young suckers that will grow when the old banana tree dies?"
Jamaican "When plantain wan' dead, it shoot [sends out new suckers]"Igbo: "A man who makes trouble for other is also making one for himself"
Jamaican: "When you dig a hole/ditch for one, dig two"Igbo: "The fly who has no one to advise it follows the corpse into the ground"
Jamaican: "Sweet-mout' fly follow coffin go a hole"; "Idle donkey follow cane-bump [the cart with cane cuttings] go a [animal] pound"; "Idle donkey follow crap-crap [food scraps] till dem go a pound [waste dump]"Igbo: "The sleep that lasts for one market day to another has become death"
Jamaican: "Take sleep mark death [Sleep is foreshadowing of death]""When cow tail cut off, God Almighty brush fly"; "God fan fly fi 'tumpa tail [stump-tailed] cow"
"Dog sweat, but long hair cover it"[34]

SOURCE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_people_in_Jamaica

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Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:10am On Sep 07, 2013
@Radiollo,BigFrances,Crayola1

I SAID I CAN HANDLE ALL OF U ALONE. grin grin grin grin grin

DR K. ROBERTS
AFRICAN SLAVES IMPORTED INTO LOUISIANA BROKEN DOWN REGION BY REGION. grin grin grin READ MR IBU.


http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2003/robertskd036/robertskd036.pdf
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:10am On Sep 07, 2013
@Frances
GET ONE THING ABOUT ME I ALWAYS BOUNCE BACK. grin grin grin
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:13am On Sep 07, 2013
@Frances
ONE OF YOUR LAPDOGS CLAIMED "BLAIR UNDERWOOD WAS ibo".

BLAIR UNDERWOOD VISIT TO CAMEROON AND PROUD OF HIS BANTU ROOTS.
grin grin grin grin

http://www.google.co.za/imgres?imgurl=http://bantudaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Blair20.jpg&imgrefurl=http://bantudaily.com/archives/6011&usg=__BnjM37ckslq9VqVBnlBKEThdWJI=&h=540&w=720&sz=99&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&tbnid=NZ5_tMIDCNSB_M:&tbnh=105&tbnw=140&ei=K-4qUoGlDsqd0AXSy4CADg&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBlair%2Bunderwood%2Bcameroon%2Bpics%26sa%3DX%26hl%3Den-ZA%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&sa=X&ved=0CC0QrQMwAQ

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:22am On Sep 07, 2013
@Adammoffy
Ha ha I laughed when one YORUBA of friend told me THEY ARE DEPORTING IGBOS FROM LAGOS TO THEIR SLUMS LIKE ONITSHA,ENUGU,ABIA ETC..
grin grin grin

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:28am On Sep 07, 2013
@Adamsky
AM GLAD THEYR CHASING ALL igbos TO THEIR HELL HOLE BIAFRA. cheesy cheesy cheesy grin grin grin
Where 419,PROSTITUTION(90% Igbo women have been prostitutes like Beverly Osu who was bleeped LIVE ON BBA by a SOUTH AFRICAN),CHILD SLAVERS etc..

IGBOLAND SLUMS PART 1

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:29am On Sep 07, 2013
Igboland slums EXPOSED grin grin grin

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:31am On Sep 07, 2013
@Adanskuty
YOUR SISTERS ARE WHORES WHO SELL PUSSY IN SOUTH AFRICA,SPAIN,UK,INDIA ETC.. TO FEED U.

I WILL SEND PICS OF IGBO PROSTITUTES IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
grin grin grin grin

YOUNG GIRL BEGGING FOR MONEY AM SURE WHEN SHE GROWS UP SHE WIL BE A "HARDENED IGBO PROSTITUTE". grin grin

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:32am On Sep 07, 2013
Adamskuty
BIAFRA cheesy cheesy cheesy grin grin grin grin grin

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:35am On Sep 07, 2013
IGBOLAND DEVELOPMENT=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

All u can bragg about is YORUBALAND(Abuja,Lagos) grin grin grin
SHIT HOLE NNEWI HABITABLE FOR THESE "SUB HUMANS". cheesy grin grin grin

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:39am On Sep 07, 2013
Igboland Japan cheesy cheesy grin grin

DOG EATERS MOVE UP AND DOWN IN THIS SHIT HOLE.

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:41am On Sep 07, 2013
IGBOS HATED ALL OVER THE WORLD EVEN IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. grin grin shocked shocked

Igbo deportee from Lagos dies, five others in critical health condition

on August 03, 2013 / in Crime Guard 2:22 am / Comments

By OKONKWO EZE

Residents of Onitsha, Anambra State, were greeted with the sight of 67 persons later discovered to have been deported from Lagos, Wednesday, July 24.

The deportees, majority of whom were of Igbo extraction were dumped like helpless refugees at the popular Upper Iweka area of the commercial city.

On enquiry, they disclosed that they were arrested by officials of Lagos State Kick Against Indiscipline,KAI from various parts of Lagos. They further stated that they were detained in different prison custody for a period of six months to two years before they were brought into Onitcha at about 3.20am.

From their looks, it was discovered that majority of them were not beggars after all.Some of them were discovered to be hawkers whose goods were reportedly seized by KIA officials.But owing to the trauma, they looked pale, malnurished and sick.

When news of the deportation spread across the state, officials of the Nigerian Red Cross Society led by its South East zonal chairman, Dr. Peter Emeka Katcy, arrived the scene at about 6am,where they began a section of interview with the deportees apparently to ascertain their claims.
*Sranded persons numbering about 70 allegedly dumped at the upper axis of Onitsha, Anambra State at about 3:20 a.m. by unknown persons, yesterday. PHOTO: NAN. lSee story on page 14.

*File Photot: Sranded persons numbering about 70 allegedly dumped at the upper axis of Onitsha, Anambra State at about 3:20 a.m. by unknown persons. PHOTO: NAN

By noon, relatives of the some of the deportees surged Onitsha, where a total of 41 of them were taken to their different family houses while the Red Cross team whisked the remaining 18 to Onitsha South Local government township Stadium, where they were given first aid treatment and food.

At the stadium, more relatives of the remaining deportees arrived on daily basis, from outside the state, identified their own and took them home. Some of them who were certified medically fit and could find their ways home, were given transport fare .

We were treated like criminals in our own country—deportees

Speaking with Crime Guard, the deportees expressed regrets that a thing like this was happening in a country they were citizens. They accused KIA officials of carrying out indiscriminate arrests of non-indigenes of Lagos, adding that majority of those detained in various local government cells in Lagos State were Igbos.

According to one of the deportees who gave her name as Rosemary Nathaniel, a native of Ubakala in Umuahia, Abia State, “I was neither a beggar nor a hawker for the past five years I lived in Lagos. I was working at a T-shirt weaving centre at Mile 2, Lagos and I lived with my sister. But in January this year, KAI officials and some policemen arrested me and my friend while we were standing and discussing on the road. We were dragged into their waiting vehicle and taken to a prison at Alausa area of Lagos.

We saw other people who were also arrested . They took us round the area, made other arrests before taking us all to the prison.

The painful aspect of it was that they never bothered to ask any of us where we lived or what were doing for a living. As I speak, my sister whom I live with does not know anything about my whereabouts. It is so sad that this is happening in one’s own country.

Another deportee who identified himself as Osondu Mbuto, a trader from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State said he was arrested by KAI officials while on his way to his shop on December 18, 2012.

He lamented that since his arrest, he was left incommunicado for eight months in a cell around Ikorodu area of Lagos before he was brought to Onitsha.

“I am a Lagos-based petty trader. I packed my goods somewhere and went to eat. As I was going, three persons approached me . Thinking they were miscreants on a mission to dispossess me of my goods, I decided to give them some money. Then, all of a sudden, I saw an armed policeman pointing his gun at me. he ordered me to follow the KAI officials. Out of fear, I joined them as they marched me into a waiting vehicle and drove away”.

“My initial suspicion was that they were taking us to Alausa police station, where they used to detain people unlawfully only to release them later after parting with some money. But no! they took me to another place in Ikorodu,close to Ijebu-Ode. After taking my statement, they pushed me inside the cell where I was, for eight months.

Two days before we were deported, a man whom they called boss came with a paper and a biro and said those of us interested in going to our home town should put down our names. Some did while others did not for fear that they were going to be killed. That was how we were sandwiched inside a truck and brought here at the wee hours”

One dead, others unconscious

As at Monday, this week, only five of them were left in the one-room apartment at the stadium. Their identities were given as:Friday Ndukwe from Ohafia in Abia State; Grace Igbochi who claimed to be a Lagosian, Ugulari Tutua from Warri, Delta State; Chinyere Nocholas from Awomamma,Imo State and Rosemary Nathaniel from Ubakala Umuahia,Abia State.

A member of the NRCS and Education Officer attached to the Onitsha South Local Government Education Authority,Mrs. Nneoma Judith Nwora, disclosed that one of the deportees died Friday from a protracted illness, adding that the five remaining deportees comprised two males and three females.

Three of them according to her, were unconscious at the moment, adding that some Rev. Sisters from nearby Madonna Mercy Convent had indicated interest to come and pick them for feeding and medical treatment until they recovered and were fit to go home.

Reactions trail deportation

Reacting to the development, the South East Zonal Red Cross boss, Katchy, described the action of the Lagos State Government as condemnable, adding, “it is very despicable and disheartening that a state in the Federal Republic of Nigeria will bundle people who are in that state, who are not indigenes of Anambra State, and dumped them under the fly-over bridge at Upper Iweka in Onitsha and left them to their fate.
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by Adamskuty(m): 10:45am On Sep 07, 2013
lmaoooo! The sypillis infested cumward is high on weed,i ain't igbo, u loud mouthed pernicious pugnacious stroppy bellergerant basenjo,injudiciously showing how dementia has crippled his coconut brain ,arOused garruluoused punk,the last time i checked ur women are know to have the highest amount of prostitues in the world,be in uk,france,ghana and even nigeria,but most times we are scared of doing them because of the deadly virus,bruised beast,d agitated blue old buffon ama kill u niggeeer grin are u sure u are ready for this grin grin

loooook at ur ladies,they look like men,ladies bicycle riders grin grin

no where in ur land can be compared with the new dubai of africa,eko-atlantic... Looool!

Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:46am On Sep 07, 2013
@Adamskuty
THIS WEEKEND IGBO WOMEN WILL BE LAID FOR CHEAP MONEY OR FREE. grin grin grin

[b]UNBELIEVABLE!
Prostitution Ring in South Africa
…Nigerian grads’ secret haven exposed

BY PUNNEL KEFILA, Correspondent/Pretoria

The image of Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa blessed with both human and material resources has once again attract knocks from members of the international community, particularly the government of South Africa due to the cartel of Nigerian prostitutes in Madiba’s country.

Nigerian prostitutes’ secret haven
On the spot visit by Nigeria Standard to an adjoining street in Esselex, longest street in Pretoria, several Nigerian girls dressed in see-through attire, revealing their anatomies and cleavages to attract the attention of locals and foreigners, who are desperate to satisfy their lusts by 8pm daily. When these girls see the ‘clients’ of their choice they advise the clients not to waste time as they are ready to ‘do-it’ behind the kiosk for just 10Rand (short time) and 20 Rand till-day break in a near-by shop.
Investigation by Nigeria Standard confirmed that these girls are no longer afraid of raid by men of South African Police Service (SAPS), since they allegedly get bails from police cells by giving their bodies for sex, in exchange for freedom.

How Nigerian girls source for clients
Whenever it is 8am, these Nigerian girls walk through the length of the town by positioning themselves in different fast foods like Mac Donalds, Ken Turkey and rest. By the time they come across wealthy men they like, they easily walk-up and request to sit on the next table closest to their ‘victims.’
Innocently, some of these men with high-libido and lust for women easily fall victim.

Ifeoma recounts ordeal as a prostitute & fake job opportunities
Ifeoma (surname with held), a graduate of University of Nigeria, Nsuka, narrated her chilling experience to Nigeria Standard, when she confirmed that truly several Nigerian girls are into prostitution in South Africa. Her words: “There is hardly a Nigerian prostitute you will encounter either in Pretoria or Johannesburg that is not a graduate. We were deceived by phony green pastures here. Many of us came out of the university back home with a- 2.1 or 2.2 at worst. [/b]
Re: Nigerian (igbo) & African American by kwametut: 10:48am On Sep 07, 2013
Cross Rivers has the Highest Number of Prostitutes in Nigeria
shybellmedia..com/.../cross-rivers-has-highest-number-of.html - Cached
15 Apr 2013 ... Cross Rivers has the Highest Number of Prostitutes in Nigeria [PICTURE] ...
Beverly is one the Nigeria's representative at the Big Brother Africa:
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