it's like I wrote: the language tool ain't working! Like your comrades-in-biafran-failure nwaro and mrbiafrance keep butchering the english language, you now want to butcher the german language?
___________________ Genesis 5:24 Posts: 18 | From: Somewhere in time | Registered: Nov 2004
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It occurred to me you have repeatedly insulted my humble self and others in this forum despite my civil tone.
Ist Ihre Schwester eine fuckung Dirne? Saugen des spitz der deutschen Völker? Und ihren Arschloch für jeden Mann verbreiten?
Ist er jetzt arbeitend
I dont appreciate your use of foul language in this forum. I will continue to maintain my integrity by communicating in civil english without resort to gutter language!
___________________ YA CAIN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN :) Posts: 1182 | From: TEXAS | Registered: Oct 2001
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It will not surprise me one bit if you happen to be a product of prostitution. You know harlotry is a pastime of the bini folks. Regarding the English language, a language that means nothing to me as a clean and bonafide Igbo, you can shove it up your ass. I have never claimed to be a guru or master at the language. I don't even claim mastery of my language, Igbo so how can I dare lay claim to a language that is foreign to me? Answer me fool. But guess what, the little I dabble is destroying you fools. I can't wait for 2007 for the show to once again go on. Could you tell us when a bini servant would aspire or be president of that country of yours? With all our setbacks and your jealous gangues, we remain light years ahead of the bini folks who are nothing but glorified servants.
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2483 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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I would like to inform you that Metatron/othniel just escaped from a mental home.You don`t have to attempt comprehending his write ups because you cannot.The man has what doctors call thought flight and thought blocking in active mania.Just take note as you communicate.
quote:Originally posted by njiko umuigbo: Honourable Ukaobasi &Mebiafran,
I would like to inform you that Metatron/othniel just escaped from a mental home.
Njiko,
You could'nt be more accurate. I once told Metatron that his fingerprint follows him around exactly because of his schizophernia which compels him to maintain the same style as if caged by his limitations.
I discovered an old german-english dictionary from my old days, with which I've been able to put together a couple of choice words in high German, unrepeatable in english on this forum.
Akunwanta si na: ebe asi si a ko na ogwu, asi si efene aju? (as dem say make we no do medii, dem no talk say make we no fling concussion)
Those who know Izuogu would understand! I merely pounded sanity into Metatrons head using some choice but nasty german words which the board rules might not permit if in English. After I finished with him, he rested (at least till the next convulsion). When a mad man lunges at you in frenzied madness, it may be necessary to get maddd and beat him like a drum. (or like a tinker, the pan).
___________________ YA CAIN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN :) Posts: 1182 | From: TEXAS | Registered: Oct 2001
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quote: Like Dr. Aluko rightly noted, the literal meaning is of little importance when placed side by side with the symbolism of the name.-addy
addy, says who? That's a heavy lot you ask those of us from the Igbo tribe to swallow. Just forget about the literal meaning (whatever it may be), and concentrate on the "symbolism", right? Myself and hundreds of other free-thinking nationals from across the globe, cannot accept such a stand.
There are many problems surrounding the usage of this name (Biafra). First and foremost, let us realize that the link in Mr Aluko's reply does not explain the literal meaning of the word Biafra. It rather complicates the whole issue, for now we are to believe that Biafra was taken from Mafra, a little village in southern Portugal.
So in other word Mafra is the same as Biafra? Who's fooling who here? addy is the same as uddy or iddy? Aluko is the same as Opuko? Come on, be real!
My question to the owners of that website who make this strange claim is this: when did the switch from Mafra to Biafra take place?
All the maps from the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, drawn by Portuguese, Swedish, French, British, German, Norwegian, Russian and Dutch sailors know nothing of "Mafra" - what they do know of is the word "BIAFARA". Biafara (not Biafra), is the original word used by Europeans to describe NOT ONLY the region east of river Niger, but also the most western part of West Africa, around the SeneGambia area. Many of these maps extend the Biafaran area down to Mountain Cameroon. That's a large area.
The next problem which surrounds the name Biafra is the fact that names as such are very important because they are powerful. With a name a certain destiny or fate is given. In the case of the Republic of Biafra Ndi'Igbo received a negative destiny and fate and Ndi'Igbo and their surrounding neighbouring tribes paid a bloody price for it.
Let us not repeat the mistakes of yesterday. Let us find out the original true meaning of the word "Biafra". After all, if the people of Congo can throw away a word like Zaire, which was given to them by their colonial masters, why not Ndi'Igbo? I say: throw away the word Biafra - let's get a better name for the great Igbo tribe.
All the same: what is the literal meaning of the word Biafra?
___________________ Two minutes to midnight! Posts: 112 | Registered: May 2004
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Friends now that this Ojukwu rat has been busted, I believe we can now take a fresh look at this question which Brother Othniel asked about a year ago! This "Biafra" which greedy-boy Ojukwu dared to call Igbo land, what does it really literally mean? Why were the demons of destruction let loose over this "Biafra"? Could the answer lie in the meaning of that name?
___________________ Always be kind to one another Posts: 29 | From: UK | Registered: Dec 2004
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Folks, if you read the writings of the Ukaobasi handle, one gets the impression that the person behind that handle is on a top intellectual level. It is therefore very suspicious, that this handle has nothing to offer in answering this simple question other than mocking and insulting the one asking the question with lewd and foul language.
___________________ Always be kind to one another Posts: 29 | From: UK | Registered: Dec 2004
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What is the literal meaning of the word Biafra?
How come biafran people are satisfied with ignorance of their own heritage?
Isn't is embarrassingly poor when all your knowledge about Biafra begins in 1967 with Ojukwu seceding from Nigeria?
Are you not aware that already in the 16th century the name "Biafara" was already in existence, and that the word "Biafra" was constructed sometime in the 19th century?
What is the literal meaning of Biafara / Biafra?
Where is Ukaobasi now? Where are his lengthy well-formated postings now?
Ukaobasi, alles nur heisse Luft?
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___________________ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves... Posts: 660 | From: Valle del Sol | Registered: Nov 2004
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quote: and that the word "Biafra" was constructed sometime in the 19th century?
Leinto, the above information you posted is uterlly false. The word Biafra existed long before the 19th centrury and appears in old Portugueese maps of the 15th century. It is also obvious that the name was not given by the portuguese as it has no roots in that language. It was rather adopted by them from the natives living on the island of fernando po which was discoverd and settled by the portuguese as a trade station in the 15th century and which lies in the bight of biafra. This name Biafra is what the natives of equatorial guinea used to describe the mainland and its people, mainly the Igbos. You will find all other areas on the west african coast which was discovered by the portuguese and which where named by them bearing typical spanish names and names with spanish roots like fernando po, lagos, rio d`oro, cote d`azur, cape verde, canary islands, sao tome, etc. The word Biafra however was adopted from the aborigenies as it has no roots in portuguese. The word is made up of Bia- the Igbo word for come, and fra which is from the Fang/Bubi languages( who occupied the islands of equitorial guinea), shortened and bastardised by the portuguese which means as much as man or people. The name as recorded by the portuguese means as much as the people who say Bia or Biafrans. The fact that the real meaning of Biafra is obscure in antiquity points to the age of this name down in the annals of time. After all who can tell us the meaning of Rome or italy? What is the meaning of London?What of Berlin? Mosscow Nko? or Nigeria for that matter. No one has ever asked these people to explain the meaning of the names of their cities or towns, because doing so is an effort in futility as it proves or disproves nothing. The fact is that indegenes of the south of Nigeria have their identities in their various tribes and choose to come together under one common umbrella and call it Biafra. They can call it what ever they like that is entirely up to them, and their choice of name needs no approval from any body. we are already sure of our identities and history as Igbos, Ibibios,Efiks, Kalabari, Ogoni, Itsekiri, Ijaw, etc, and we have a common history as Biafra, forged together by the hatred and oppresion of the entity called Nigeria .
___________________ Biafra is inevitable.Illegitimis nil carborundum. Posts: 760 | From: europe | Registered: Jan 2005
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