USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE TO NIGERIANS

Salimonu Kadiri,

                          

                              Congratulations for bringing to our knowledge your field of expertise, "TRUE HISTORY" (whatever that means). What you have written and continue to write is nothing but ethnic supremacy driven fiction as I will show below:

                              If you are not an ethnic supremacy fiction writer, you should have told us where " ÒRÀNMIYÀN, the grandson of ODÙDÚWÀ, and invaded the IGODOMIIGODO territory and subjugated the people." and your source.

If you are not an ethnic supremacy fiction writer, you should have told us you should have told us

how an Oranmiyan who couldn't move beyond the precinct the Benin Chiefs gave him how much more rule  "changed the name IGODOMIIGODO to ILÈ-ÌBINU."

                      If you are not an ethnic supremacy fiction writer, you should have been able to tell us  how the so-called Yoruba name ILE -IBINU resembles or correlates to the Portuguese name BENIN, what happened to the  "U" unless you want to tell us that the Portuguese cannot pronounce the letter "U" or they substitute the letter "U" with the letter "I".  (For the benefit of those with open minds about the history of Benin and its name, one of the indigenous names of Benin was UBINI and that is also what their neighbouring Itsekiri cousins call Benin and they told the first Portuguese explorers who called the town BININ, BENY, BENI etc) that has since been spelt as BENIN).

                             If you are not an ethnic supremacy fiction writer, you should have known by now that the fiction "Every dead Benin King from 1240 AD up to the 36th King, EWÉKÁ II, who died in 1933, had their head severed and burried in Ile Ife." was discredited by archaeological excavations in 1977 and there were no skulls found and the materials found at the site predate 1200 the supposed year of Oranmiyan's arrival in Benin.

                            I would have continued with my silent treatment of your ethnic supremacist writings, but since your cheerleader Olayinka A. Agbetuyi has chosen to amplify and parrot your fiction to "oue international readeeship" (whatever that means), I decided to respond to show that you are peddling fiction and not history and your readers are better off reading Amos Tutuola for their entertainment rather than your "TRUE HISTORY."

Silence again.  

Uyilawa

 

 

 

   

 

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sv: INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE TO NIGERIANS

 

​Uyilawa Usuanlele!

​It is a true history that ÒRÀNMIYÀN, the son of ÀKÀNBÍ, was the grandson of ODUDUWA. It is a true history too that EWÉKÁ was the son of ÒRÀNMIYÀN who became the King (Oba) of IGODOMIIGODO PEOPLE in 1200 AD.

​It is real history that EWÉKÁ was on the throne for forty years before he died and his son UWAKHUAHEN succeeded him as a KING in 1240 AD. When EWÉKÁ died in 1240 AD, his head was severed and buried in IFE in keeping with the Yoruba adage that ORÍ ADÉ KII SÚNTA, meaning King's head shall never lay outside. Every dead Benin King from 1240 AD up to the 36th King, EWÉKÁ II, who died in 1933, had their head severed and burried in Ile Ife. Thereafter, that tradition stopped but the burrial site of the head of Benin Kings from 1240 AD up to 1933 are still well kept in Ile -Ife up till today. It is not a fiction that the people now known as Benin were before 1200 AD known as IGODOMIIGODO people and their leadership was known as OGISO and not OBA.

​Analogically, when we narrate how Nigerians came to be either Christians or Muslims from historical perspectives, it is not because we believe in the racial superiority of the Hebrews and Arabs over us. History in many cases is not pleasant to read but we cannot for that sake ignore it.

S. Kadiri

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Ethnic supremacy induced fiction writing. Silence.

Uyilawa

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - INDEPENDENCE MESSAGE TO NIGERIANS

 

​I am fascinated by Patrick Obahiagbon's independence message to Nigerians not because of his bombastic English but because of the historical significance of his adopted name (alias) IGODOMIIGODO. Not many Nigerians are aware that before 1200 AD, the people that were thereafter referred to as Benin were known as IGODOMIIGODO people and their local leader was titled OGISO. Then came ÒRÀNMIYÀN, the grandson of ODÙDÚWÀ, and invaded the IGODOMIIGODO territory and subjugated the people. When ÒRÀNMIYÀN subsequently left IGODOMIIGODO in anger, he installed his son, EWÉKÁ as the King and changed the name IGODOMIIGODO to ILÈ-ÌBINU. Thenceforth, the King was referred to as OMO N'OBA N'EDO which in Yoruba means Omo Oba Ni Edo, practically implying the son of King ÒRÀMIYÀN IN EDO. The word 'EDO' in Yoruba means a base or a settlement. A new town settlement in Yoruba land is called, TE-ÌLU-DÓ eg. ÈPETÈDÓ.

​When the Portuguese came in the second half of the fifteenth century, they corrupted ILÈ-ÌBÍNU to BENIN which the British colonialist continued to recognize as the true name of the city. Benin people say the word Oba means to shine but in Yoruba, Oba means ascending (landing) on the throne. Follow this link to read Patrick Obahiagbon's fantastic independence message to Nigerians:- ​https://www.tori.ng/news/131484/read-patrick-obahiagbons-independence-message-to-nigerians.html 

Read Patrick Obahiagbon's Independence Message to Nigerians Patrick Obahiagbon, a former Nigerian lawmaker has wished Nigerians a happy birthday on the country's 59th independence. www.tori.ng

​S. Kadiri

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