Peter
I am not in the business of fabrication, unlike some of your ilk. The Edo people are not illiterates. Our history is very well documented. It was being written and documented when others were barely wearing leaves.
The subject matter has been the result of several PhD theses (and books) by serious people who dedicated their lives to truthful research. There are thousands of books about Edo civilization. Along with Oyo, Benin was one of only two internationally recognized
forest empires in what is now southern Nigeria.
One can understand the envy. But writing abject nonsense on the internet will not cut it. It generates pity, not intellectual excitement.
Get a hold of yourself.
NAO
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Date: Friday, December 9, 2011, 8:57 PM
Let Nowamgbe the "historian" give us his version. That is all we should ask. He could have any member of his family, elder of course to read Obi and rebut. That'd be fantastic. How does he expect us to go simply by his claim of "falsification". Obi has to be
something beyond the wizard I have established him to be to fabricate the nice, coherent, logical treatise he laid out below. Ike, forget about any "fulling" of himself or herself. This is a terrain of the discerning, some of us, though that may be. We gat
hawk eye for fabrication and falsification. Obi's ain't such by no stretch whatsoever. And I am not saying that because Obi is of my neck. Over to contras.
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Date: Friday, December 9, 2011, 8:37 PM
"I am sorry to say that your penchant for falsifying and fabricating history is at the level of a pathologic delusion of grandeur. A sickness to say the least." Nowa
Sometimes I think Nowa is so full of himself by believing that the Bini “history” was written by either Abraham or even Jacob and could be found in the old testament or the Quaran; any authentic history to him then becomes heresy…
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Obi
I am sorry to say that your penchant for falsifying and fabricating history is at the level of a pathologic delusion of grandeur. A sickness to say the least.
NAO
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There were five original clans of the Igbo: Agbaja, Isu, Oru, Nri na Idu. The Benin are the Idu, and were the last of the clan. There was no monarchy in Idu (Benin) until the return of Oramaiya (spelt today as "Oraminyan") who was sent by his father, Ihmanoduduwa
("I have lost nothing of my inheritance") from Uwhe back to his ancestral homeland after the Ekhaladeren interegenum, being too old and settled to return. Oramaiya came from Oyo, married an Idu woman, and could no longer tolerate the bitter and rancorous nature
of his homeland. He left and returned to Oyo, and called Idu "Ile-ibinu" - the land of angry people - and thus the corruption, "Benin" today - straight out of the language of the Olukunmi (Yoruba). He left behind a son who became Eweka I, who began the current
Eweka dynasty, thus ending the Ogiso dynasty - 38 of them. From Benin dynastic records, the Eweka has from then on produced 35 successors, almost as long as the Ogiso.
But it was this rupture in Benin history that reshaped Benin tradition and history, for up till the last Ogiso, none became "Ogiso" until he recieves the "Ofo na Alo" from Eze Nri. Onwuejiogwu proved this, and also proved that the "Oba" was an Ozo title. Benin
Kings also took Eze and Obi (Ovbi) titles. Olua and his son Ozo Olua, for instance, who fought the Civil wars, that drove the Igbo, led by their leader Eze Chima, from Benin back to their homeland, Eastwards wore Ozo anklets. Eze Chima and his group had led
an attempt to reform Idu, from the monarchy to a republican society, and called for more public involvelment in the affairs of Idu, thus setting the stage of the public revolt that led to the civil war. Ozo Olua resisted the attempt to whittle his power;
thus did the war commence. Among those who left Benin include the Abam warriors, who had always been inheritor's of Kamalu's (Amadioha's) war mandate. You could still see the path of
their return from Idu through Ukwuani (Kwale), Ndi Onu-iyi ( Ndoni in current Rivers State) to Abam/Abriba/ Ohafia. You hear a Kwale or Ndoni person speak today, it still sounds like the Ohafia language. You hear an Agbor or Afikpo or Mbaise man speak today,
and you hear the same inflection. You trace the footprints of the Ubulu-ukwu/Ubulu/Uhuru/Uvuru Mbaise, and you hear the same tradition. And so on.
The returnees always knew where they were going. They were returning home from a place still called "Udo" today in Benin - the ancient Igbo settlement in Idu. Till tomorrow, you still hear people bear Igbo names like "Echiejile" in Benin. Till next year, the
Idu market days remain Afo, Nkwo, Eke, Oye. To know a people, look at their markets: it is an ancient secret. By the way, the Egwugwu (Igbo warriors) whose secrets Moremi discovered in Ife did not fly accross Benin to terrorize Ife. It is also not for nothing
that the river goddess to which she appealed for knowledge and strenght is called "Esimiri" (Osimiri). The Igbo always, have operated in that theatre of history. And the history of that connurbation - Benin-Igala- Idu-ama(Idoma)-Igbo- have always been a pendulum: back
and forth, back and forth - from immemorial time. The material culture is proof. Anybody who wants to know should listen closely to Igbo parables and
folklore. The Igbo always had a tradition of "Eje-Alo" - the right of return. If an Igbo feels threatened in his new habitation, he runs homewards to Igbo land - the only place he is protected by the sacred kinship of the "Umunna." Eze Chima and his party,
including the protective party of warriors who left Idu, were returning to their homelands. Some made it, some, like Eze Chima died of old age before he could return. His party/descendants became those Igbo we call "Umu Eze Chima" to this very day. And you
still see the same pattern to date wherever the Igbo are threatened, they move Eastwards.
Obi Nwakanma
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Subject: Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Ika, Igbanke and other Delta Igbos from Benin (History)] Re: Edo_Global. Phillip Obazee educate yourself...further on Igbo-Akiri.. Re: "....but for Midwest, there would have been no Nigeria."
Inferiority complex is a complex disease my people.
If Chima was born of Benin royalty and all his followers were benin why do they have Igbo names and speak Igbo? Shouldn't they have only Benin names and speak only Benin?
Folks there is a trick here and I am not getting it. If there is quid to be made by this claim I can understand but Benin, a dead and forgotten city state should not elicit this much uproar. What do this people want? If I were the Benin I will watch them like
a hawk because I see nothing but ill mannered men trying to steal something. Any man named Okafor who claims Benin ancestry is a thief. I say to the Benin watch these interlopers with hawk-eye because they have design on something. What that thing I still
don't know but it is there.
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from OTEDO.
The Ika, Igbanke and other Delta Igbos from Benin (History)
Extract form "Abolish Edoid Group of Race for One Edo Nation or Edoid Nation!"
"Today, Amongst group of dialects and clans of the Edoid (Ancient Benin ) race mostly seen in present Edo-Delta, Rivers and part of Ondo State are the Afemais known as Ivbiosakon by those living in and around Benin City to the north of Ishan/Esan clan, Akoko-Edos
based in Igarra, Ibillo and its environs to the north of Afemais, The Owans-Oras occupying Eme, Sabogida-Ora, Afuze, etc. Uhobe and Ifon in Ondo State, Ekas-to East of Benin. A sizeable chunk of the Edo speaking people flow across River Niger and ending at
Onitsha, Ika, Igbanke, Isoko, Urhobo, Itsekiris and about 70% percent of western Izon (Ijaws) in Ndegeni and its environs, A sizeable chunk of the Edos is found in River States and Balyesa States e.g. aduge in kwara state, Degema, lga, Atala, Usokun, Ediro,
Inedua, Ogua in rivers state, Ivhimion, Emai, Iuleha, Epie, Atissa, Eruwa, Erohwa, Erakwa, Arokwa, Ekpon, Ghotuo, Ikpeshi, Ndokwa, Ivbie, Okpela, Arhe, Iyayu called Idoani, Okpamheri, Okpe,
Ososo, Sasaru-Enwan, Uhami, Ukue-ehuen, Uneme, Urhobo, Uvbie, Yekhee, Auchi, Uzairue, south Ibie, Uwepa-uwano (weppa wano), Avianwu (fugar), Aviele, Ivhiadaobi, Izon, Western Ijaws. In Ogba land, Diobu, Port Harcourt and a sizeable now Yorubanised in Ondo,
Ekiti, Lagos and Ogun States. There are many Edos in Ekiti land, Idoani, Idanre etc going through life in Nigeria with Yoruba names. Acculturation taking place. You are either a Yoruba man or you go nowhere, according to Prof. Iyi Eweka
Before I continue, will like to use Chris Okafor' quote on his article “The Origin of Ogwashi-Uku, Anioma, and The rest of Delta Ibos:
“What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?’ This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table. ‘What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain
it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out
a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve learned something about it yourself.’ - Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Agency Detector ”.
Chris Okafor continued that the chronological history of early settlements in Ogwashi-Uku can authoritatively portray the following facts that the Ikelike people from the Bini kingdom were the first to settle in Ogwashi-Uku (see Ben Nwabua, Ogwash-uku Kingdom,
1000 Years of Traditional Democracy and Cultural Life, 950-1914). Both traditional and empirical sources gives credence that Ikelike people were the first set of immigrants to settle in the present Ogwashi-Uku as against the notion that Adaigbo who purportedly
came from Nri in present Anambra State today is the founder of Ogwashi-Uku. So far, no counter claim has been made on this. According to Ogwashi-Uku intelligence report by Mr. J.E Hull, the then Assistant District Officer dated on the 9th of April 1936, the
Ikelike people from all indications migrated from Benin to settle where they are found themselves today, because of a reign of wanton persecution of subjects by the then Benin Monarch,
Oba Eweka 11. The story further goes that at the head was Odigie Ikelike with his younger brother Ado who later founded Adonta, a relatively small village close to Azungwu in Ogwashi-uku today. The Ikelike migrants were said to be politically averse and could
not, therefore evolve an orderly method of governance even though there were small in number. Jull`s report further went on to point out that because of such indisposition towards an effective means of governing themselves, it cost them the political leadership
they were first to settle in. Rather, Adaigbo, the prince from Nri later came, controlled the situation and imposed leadership based on Igbo customs and tradition on them and what later became Ogwshi-Uku kingdom. Adaigbo’s imposed of republican system, however,
later gave way to the hereditary system of the Benins .
Oba Ewuare and Ozolua is traditionally regarded as the gladiators, ancestral fathers and founder of most towns and villages in the midwestern region of Nigeria during their reign as Oba. They fought these wars as mater plan of re-uniting the great Edo people
and families who were dispatched and scatered away from the kingdom with many emigrations during ogiso period and the reign of the previous political leaders who were in one way or the other making strict policies and strong laws. Most of these emigrations
were due to family problems, communial disagreements, political, economic and marital factors.
The Benin Empire was one country or nation in diversities. Prof Iyi Eweka's narrated that most of the the chieftancy groups that was responsible for the Oba's well being at a time, dominated by Ishan/Esan descendants.
The Ivbiosakon (Afemais) were the dental surgeon of the palace. That is the origin of the name Ivbiosakon. Oba Esigie assigned that function to them in the c1500's.The Owan/Ora people were the propitiators of the physical earth for the Oba of Benin. It was
their responsibility to prevent things like earthquake, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes and anything associated with geological disturbance to occur in Benin. In short, they were the geologists and weathermen of their day, forecasting and preventing physical
calamities. Those we call Benins today, were the traditional bureaucratic administrators and military generals. The Izons (Ijaws) were the " Ozigue" -Sailors. The Ekas were farmers. They were in charge of the royal farms. The Ibos across the Niger call the
Edos, Idu, the name of the progenitor of Edo race, the Yorubas call us Ado, which is a corruption of the word Edo. However, the Itsekiris, another sub group in the Edo clans call us Ubini.
Tradition asserts that it is derived from Ile-ibinu, which is descriptive of the exasperation and frustration encountered in Benin City, by Prince Oranmiyan of Ile-ife. A further research may prove that, it was the Itsekiris who gave that name, to the people
living in and around Benin City. The Itsekiris told the white man of the powerful overlord living in Igodomigodo. It was the Itsekiris who told the Whiteman that the name of the tribe of this powerful king was Ubini a term which Whiteman corruptly wrote down
as Benin. For example, the name of the eldest daughter of Oba Osewende, the mother of the Osulas and the Aiwerioghene is today known as Aghayubini. A closer examination of that name would reveal that the name is an Itsekhiri phrase-" The Ubini Lady or woman
" i.e. the woman from Benin. Aghayubini was a very wealthy trader among the Itsekiris, from whence she got the money she used, is getting the throne for her brother, who became Oba Adolo. An
Itsekhiri descriptive phrase has simply over powered her original Edo name, to the extent that nobody knows anything about it now. The ancient Edo/Benin Empire covered the whole of Bendel, parts of Bayelsa State. The second son of the Enogie of Brass, popularly
known as “Iyase ne ohenmwen” became the Iyase of Benin under Oba Osewende. Iyase Ohenmwen is the ancestor of the Otokitis, the Okeaya-Inneh and the Aiwerioghenes of Benin today. He went further to explain that The Edoid race covers the Igbo-speaking areas
of Delta State stretching to Onitsha. That the actual title of the Obi of Onitsha is Aigboghidi. The historical Chief Agho Obaseki of Oba Ovoranmwen era and later the Iyase of Benin under Oba Eweka II, was a descendant of the second son of Enogie of Nsukwa
now in Delta State. It extended to the whole of Ondo State, parts of Ekiti and Ogun State and the whole of Lagos State including Badagry. It stretched to southern Dahomey (Republic of
Benin) and on to the coast of Togo and Ghana.
By theodore Anani on Afemai People of Nigeria, Oba ozolua´s reign marked what one might called a migration plaque. During his reign mass migration of different tribes and at different times were recorded. The Edos speaking people of north-east of Benin city
migrated to their present home lands in groups in Ozolua´s reign. Some had left to escape pains, conscription and for refusal to bring to the Oba leopard skins as the custom dictated. The migration of the Etsako peoples- the Ibies, Uzairues, the Avhianwus,
the Weppa Wanos, the Auchis, the Agbedes, the Okpellas, the Avhieles, the Jagbes and the Anwains- had been associated with these movements. Azama, who later become the great Ancestral Father and the Foster father of the peoples who today form two thirds of
Etsakor, was a Bini by birth. Azama married his first wife called Ughiosomhe for whom he had four sons. They were Imekeyo, Ikphemhi, Anwu and Omoazekpe. Azama married another woman Etso for
whom he had two sons. Eppa and Ano. The marriage with Azama has been Etso´s second. Her first son, Uneme, was from her first marriage. Etso married for the third time after Azama´s death and had her fourth son, Ekperi. All sons and parent lived happily together
in Bini.
The Itsekhiris by J.O.S Ayomike states that a party from the Benin Royal family about the end of the 15th century set up a monarchy which constituted erstwhile autonomous mini-communities into a nationality that exist till today. Prof. P. C Lloyd says that
"in the English literature they are known as Warri or Jekri, though in the 19th century they were often referred to as Benin since contacts with them were first made on the banks of the Benin River". Here was a Kingdom founded by the royal party from Benin,
but by the early sixteenth century through th e seventeenth, it had done so much overseas trade to match or exceed that of the mother - kingdom; the reason being its advantageous position within the empire on the rim of the Atlantic. The Itsekiri speak Yoruba
dialect also whose vocabulary has been widened by the infusion of a large number of Portuguese, Bini and English words.As an introduction of the influence of the Bini culture in Itsekiri land,
it is pertinent to recall part of the address presented to Prince Solomon I.A Akenzua, then Edaiken of Uselu (now His majesty the Oba of Benin by the Itsekiri community in Benin) by the Itsekiri community in Benin on the occasion of his retirement from public
service and return home in 1973.
