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This is an Igbo issue, some non-Igbo might not understand what we are talking about or how we feel about them.
Secondly freedom is a two-way process: you being free to take any name you like, give any reason for the act but others are also free to say what they think about your attitude.
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quote:Originally posted by Sylva: This is an Igbo issue, some non-Igbo might not understand what we are talking about or how we feel about them.
Secondly freedom is a two-way process: you being free to take any name you like, give any reason for the act but others are also free to say what they think about your attitude.
Sylva:
If this is really an Igbo issue, why don't you take it to Igbo Forum? I saw the link above.
In the future, could you learn to identify the person you are addressing in your post? Some times, it looks like you are talking to yourself, or you are afraid to address your post to a specific person. To whom were you addressing the second paragraph of your post?
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Yinka, By Igbo issues, I do not mean that non-Igbo should not participate, but that they might not understand what we are talking about. This could be noticed in some postings here.
I have just noticed that you registered on this board in 2001 and you have just exceeded 60 submissions. I looked it up because I thought you were a new member who has just read the last post of the thread before submitting his.
In fact, if you have gone through the previous postings before mine, you would have noticed that there is no ambiguity as to what and who my post was referring. But I will give you a second chance, in which case I will pinpoint the particular post to you if you fail to identify it.
I use peoples' names or quote the particular passage when it is not evident. It was not the case here.
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You carry Oyingbo name like Sylva. You dey speak Oyingbo man language like kingdom come. Abeg make you carry your confusion commot. Hahaha!
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The signature has to be asociated with the person who said it. It is linked with goal, achievement or invention. In the context of becoming an Igbo(goal or aspiration), it is a matter of asking for Igbo citizenship(real).
Bamidele, I do not understand well your problems:
quote:Originally posted by Bamidele, You carry Oyingbo name like Sylva.
The names we use here are called usernames, you can put anything there. But if my parents made a mistake by giving me an Oyibo name, I can change it and at the same time make sure that my children bear Igbo names.
Do you know why some Africans answer Oyibo names? It is simply because Oyibo tell them that if they want to become christians(be recognized by God), then they have to answer Oyibo names. And some believed the Oyibo.
The same thing applies when African becomes converted to Islam, they have to answer Arab names, the only ones recognized by Allah.
So if black people want to keep there names as well as their tradtions, they have to worship their own creator(Chukwu or Chineke in the case of Ndigbo).
quote:Originally posted by Bamidele, You dey speak Oyingbo man language like kingdom come.
I do not see why that should deter me from speaking or developing my mother-tongue.
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