Reno I see bitterness in your heart. Igbo remains the strongest in Africa. Goodluck Jonathan your master gives them alot of Respect
@mitchkori
2 ай бұрын
Only a fool resorts to mockery when presented with sound logic. No bitterness there. Thats some Igbos were slaves to other empire, especially the Benin, is not to be ashamed of. But that the Igbo are one of the most intelligent, and one of the richest people in modern world is another thing of pride. Eziokwu bu ndu. Ya gazie
@brunoikenga7760
3 жыл бұрын
Reno Omokri: End of the Dark Age of Igbo Historical Revisionism By Robert Nwokoro (The Ancestor) Ever since Femi Fani Kayode attempted a review of Igbo history and was aborted by the eminent Igbo scholar and historian, Dr Samuel Okafor, there has never been anyone to dream of such thing until our brother Reno Omokri came to try his luck. "The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode” was a rejoinder by Dr Okafor to Kayode's: "The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”. Dr Okafor's erudition was earth-shattering. It not only ended Kayode's revisionist anti-Igbo literature permanenly, it was also a force that transformed Kayode from position of aggressor to being an ally of the Igbo today. I know a lot of us are not aware of this or perhaps have forgotten. But I'm here to remind you. Barely a decade after, another London-groomed intellectual, named Reno Omokri came to try his own luck but met a devastating resistance from a more formidable young Igbo intelligentsia, led by Maazị Ogbonnaya II But I did not blame Reno! His attempted revisionism was inspired by the age-long ritual of selling anti-Igbo narratives to the world. Mind you - the abuse of the Igbo did not start today- it's like a thesis to graduate into the mainstream of relevance in Nigeria- and Reno has come to try his own luck. Perhaps Reno wants to change his political narrative from secular to ethnic discourse since that's the only viable stock in the political market of Nigeria. But for him to succeed in his new found ethnic discourse, he needs to dent the image of Ndi Igbo by churning out narratives that will boost his complex inferiority from that region-thus the slave/servant narrative. It's a tactical move but the slave/servant narrative is a fat bone - too big even for him to swallow. If Reno does not want to toe the line of ethnic politics in the next phase of his career as I believe it to be, how does Igbo/Itsekiri slave history relevant in the discourse of contemporary Nigeria? Again, some of them do this purposely to sustain the false narrative that onye Igbo can spend many years in pursuit of money but cannot tell his own story for one minute. This is a crazy lie! It makes me sick how people will come to believe such nonsense. But why is it that people like Reno cannot attempt to discuss or review history of other ethnic groups despite their over sabi head? Why always Ndi Igbo? Igbo this and Igbo that... Igbo, Igbo, Igbo all the time? Why? But Reno has messed with the wrong generation of Igbo. No pity for him. As a scapegoat, he would be used as ritual sacrifice for the spirit of our resistance. He wants to school us about artificial borders but forgets that Nigeria, his beloved country, is an artificial construct. You think say you dey wise? He wants to school us about slavery but pretends to be free in another man's land. No be juju be that? He thinks Igbo loves slavery so much that they had to wait for Itsekiri to set Igbo free when the Igbo, during the Ekumeku Movement, fought wars with the white man in Anioma for thirty one years (1883-1914) in order to stop the incursion of Royal Niger Company? I would like to ask Reno, during the time of Ekumeku, where were his affluent ancestors from Itsekiri who bought the so called Igbo slaves? For thirty one years the war was fought, what role did Itsekiri play to liberate now "Delta State" from the economic exploitation of Royal Niger Company? Incase Reno does not know, Ekumeku was a defence mechanism to preserve the socio-economic and political freedom of the indigenous Igbo of Anioma. How come people with such level of military intelligence, power and pride were slaves to close neighbours in Itsekiri? I want to believe that Reno has read the great works of Olaude Equiano especially the "Interesting Narratives of the life of Olaude Equiano" (published 1789). The first black history book written by a former black slave. Equiano like other Igbo slaves in the Caribbean were all led by the same Igbo resistance spirit to call for the abolition of slavery. If I were Reno, by now I would have known that the Igbo has a universal language, which is the ability to live freely according to one's terms. This is why Equiano set the pace by purchasing his own freedom so he could live under his own terms. This same language was spoken in the Caribbean against the French. The aggressive nature of onye Igbo made the white man hate him. How much more an Itsekiri? The Great people of Arochukwu did not waste time in registering the same feeling against the British. At first, they showed the British hell and evicted them from Aro Kingdom. The British reinforced and the war lasted for three years before they could assert control over Aro Kingdom. It is because of the Igbo resistance to slavery that 73 Igbo slaves conspired to attack the slave merchants in a ship en route to Georgia. They did attack the merchants and drowned themselves in the process instead of giving themselves out to slavery. But with Reno's narrative, one would think there was a time the Itsekiri had the Igbo as slaves the same way as the white man. And Reno in his London dream thought this would happen without any record or resistance by the Igbo? Reno should have humbled himself by telling us he was looking for a way to elevate the position of his people than to arrogate to himself the status of Lord over the dexterous Igbo. How sad is it that Reno who should be the custodian of history is setting the archives ablaze in order to fry his nuggets? Reno should know days are gone when people dance music because it is played in London. Before now, people like Reno were taught that the Igbo does not have history of its own. Some of them swallowed the narrative like intoxicant and spewed trash in the name of intellectual erudition. I could remember Sam Omatseye as a columnist with The Nation Newspaper around 2008 or 2009. He was writing almost on daily basis to sell the narrative that Ojukwu was a coward who took to his heels at the climax of the war. He was appealing to the Igbo to stop seeing Ojukwu as a hero but as one who brought disaster upon them. At that time Omatseye was not challenged partly because, the corporate media in Nigeria needed the narrative to sell their stocks, and any rejoinder would mean 'bad market'. I know of someone who wrote and forwarded a rejoinder to Nation Newspaper but was turned down. The article was later published on Sun Newspaper but not later than Omatseye had fed the nation with his cooked lies. Those were the dark ages when few individuals controlled the narratives. Social media at that time had not gained popularity as stories were strictly dished through licensed newspapers, TV and radio stations. It was a dark age when people were controlled by poisonous narratives. But now we are in the age of information and ignorance is merely a choice. In conclusion: I am glad this generation is responding to Reno appropriately: many thanks to Social Media. Now we can tell our own stories, with facts. I must appreciate Maazị Ogbonaya for putting a good defence against Reno's malicious falsehood. The dark age has ended.
@alozienjoku6543
2 жыл бұрын
@Mr Rapan Pass how very unintelligent you are What is the connection with getting Biafra and what this piece is about? Poor educationnand dark native collective emotion galore. I am sure just like nReno your elders have fed you their prejudice and their ignorance. Are you so daft not to have witnessed the igbo man's nature and understand under no circumstances would he have been a slave of a poor african rribe that didnt have the ammunitions, the organisation the wealth the civilisation to escape the igbo agression and wrath. You cant engage with such argument except to vent your prejudice your low IQ and your ignorance. Please mention the event in history upon which you and Reno based your false narrative
@willyboy4248
11 ай бұрын
@officialmrrapanpass when I heard any body from south south speaking against Biafra what I see is only ignorance.
@bobbybayo5755
10 ай бұрын
Na copy an piece you don frist anioma is not igbo u bring ur igbo is here all this ur long copy no one igbo history here
@officialmail3564
7 ай бұрын
@@bobbybayo5755 beacause there is no history. They make it up as they go along.
@edoeugene8749
Жыл бұрын
You are a Benin Man. So long, you are from the Royal family in Warri.
@TheSpringlord
3 жыл бұрын
I just listened to a 4min video where Reno spent more than 1/2 of d time trying to introduce his argument and then a narrator assumed/believed (in less than 10 seconds of d video) dt d pix of a man with facial marks is dt of an Igbo man. This to a supposed scholar (Reno) is enough documentary & factual evidence to present to d public as d basis for his claim. To say d least, I’m disappointed. I actually think dt U need to start reading, like really reading before writing and talking too much on social media.
@ugocity1
3 жыл бұрын
I was hoping to see something substantial, only to be vested with some carvings with facial marks which actually looks more Yoruba than Igbo.
@noneyourbiz
3 жыл бұрын
Why are you disappointed in a half-soaked law graduate from a low-ranking, third-rate university? Have you read his SELF-PUBLISHED piece? Riddled with grammatical errors, conjectures and exhausting opinions, Omokri insists it as a bestseller. That is particularly amusing because he cannot see he is bullshitter. Now, Omokri wanders about supporting his ridiculous story about Igbo history, with the colonial lens. It would be insulting if the weak attempt at inferiorising an entire race were at all intelligent. Is Omokri not to be pitied?
@ugocity1
3 жыл бұрын
I use to think that this #Reno of a man is an intellectual as he claims. How does this so-called video prove anything from what you introduced. FYI... the southern coast was the transit port during slavery and all the tribes in the south were affected including Binis, Isekiri, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Urohobo, etc... Most slaves taken from Igbo land were transferred through the eastern coast so it's ridiculous to claim that Isekiri or Binis used and sold Igbos. That you might have had cases whereby some Igbo people were kidnapped in their farms ( just as the Fulanis are doing today) and sold via this transit doesn't in anyway support your claims and I really pity anyone who buys the garbage you sell as books.
@chukwumaolisehemekaouwarre3236
2 жыл бұрын
BiNI Origin kzitem.info/news/bejne/uYGO1GmEinRziHo
@cryptofxalgorithms
Жыл бұрын
Its always these Igbos. The Narcissism and ethnic bigotry amongst some of them is most worrisome. They keep advancing these theories about their superior ethnicity , claim to own all the other relative heritages etc. The Ikas, ikwerres etc clearly mixed heritages with mixed dialects fused with iduoid/edoid and igboid vocabularies keep being stalked and harassed to subscribe to being ethnic igbos. How as custodians of an heritage can you expect them to tell false or half stories of their true heritage or origins on the basis of a relative association. Its high time for this reason all heritages especially in the iduoid/edoid delta axis begin a thorough documentation of their histories. Emasculations easily proceed from these uncivilized tendencies.
@AnyanwuS
Жыл бұрын
Igbo people people were part of the Binin kingdom just like urhobo, itsekiri, Ijaw and others. Itsekiri is a yoruba tribe and don't have borders with. Igbo share borders with uhrobo and Isoko. Stop lying to the world, you can't prove what you are saying, Anioma people were part of Binin kingdom. Your hatred for Peter Obi have turned you to something else
@jjjttggg
Жыл бұрын
Itsekiri was never part of Benin, we only have our monarchy from Benin. The people of Iwere existed 100's of years before the arrival of the Benin prince.
@DavidOrgust
8 ай бұрын
There was nothing like Itsekiri kingdom before the arrival of the Edos. Just as there was nothing like the term "YORUBA" before 1850s. It was a couple of hamlets without centralized authority. No matter how you guys try to brush it up, your kingdom is an offshoot of the Edos. Una ego and unnecessary pride dey make una get issues with una neighbours so. See people wey we try support make dem nor annihilate still wan dey buga. Iranu abasha!
@osaspromise6913
Ай бұрын
@@DavidOrgustBro what's ur TikTok name? From Benin
@gospelaffairs7141
3 жыл бұрын
Repeating history of 1983 got well
@rotimikayode1072
Жыл бұрын
The Itsekiri were originally Yoruba people who were conquered and annexed by the Oba of Benin during the many wars of conquests and territorial expansion by the Benin Empire. That was how a Benin prince came to become a king there. They adopted the culture of Benin people and lost their Yoruba identity but still managed to preserve their Yoruba dialect which is intelligible to Yoruba speaking people. Today, the Itsekiri no longer see themselves as Yoruba but as a distinct ethnic group.
@jjjttggg
Жыл бұрын
Oga you know nothing about itsekiri history. Even the Benin's will not tell you they conquered the Itsekiri's and annexed the Iwere people. Go and read up before putting up bullshit
@DavidOrgust
8 ай бұрын
Weldone sir. You tried but you were a bit biased. First of all, the Benins never coerced any Yoruba tribe to adopt its' culture. If you knew the history properly, you wouldn't have typed this. 70 sons of 70 Benin lords and the crown prince left Benin City to found a new home. They were first accommodated by the ijaws, of which the prince married one of them. During their course of migration, they met ilajes who willingly in their large numbers integrated with the Edos and Ijaws. Then were joined later by some Urhobos. This is why the ilaje language became dominant. If you understand the Itsekiri language, you'll notice it is mostly an admixture of ilaje, Edo with a tinge of Ijaw, Urhobo and later Portuguese. But the culture and traditions are Edoid. Nobody coerced anyone into adopting their traditions. You can impose language but not culture.
@officialmail3564
7 ай бұрын
@@DavidOrgustthanks for your contribution. People do not even know the fact that the North-western boundry of the Benin empire ended at Otun-Ekiti. So majority of Ondo and Ekiti people are mixed Edoid people. The truth is bitter but they hate to hear it.
@ehidonyechukwuebukadarling1729
3 жыл бұрын
Oga Reno, I advise you to read and study history instead of spewing half lies. It would have been almost impossible for any tribe to have conquered Igbo people due to see reasons: Igbo people live autonomously and they don't have a general King and that is their strength. It was easier for the White to colonise the North and South West because those people have a central source of authority, once you conquer the king, the rest would fall in place. As for Igbo people, it was hard because you needed to conquer the various autonomous communities in Igbo land before you could conquer Igbo people as a whole. That was why FULANI didn't conquer us and White people had a difficult time colonizing Igbo People.
@henryukwuoma7137
3 жыл бұрын
Its not false. Its actually fact from an angle.
@ugocity1
3 жыл бұрын
@@henryukwuoma7137 Which angle ... 30⁰, 60⁰ abi 90⁰ ?
@henryukwuoma7137
3 жыл бұрын
@@ugocity1 from the angle of slavery instead of business. Igbo slaves were sold by Igbo marchants
@ugocity1
3 жыл бұрын
@@henryukwuoma7137 You probably didn’t know that palm oil was traded at those times
@henryukwuoma7137
3 жыл бұрын
@@ugocity1 I actually do.
@samuelpraisenwokoye
3 ай бұрын
Reno didn't answer why his ancestors name sounds like igbo name
@bigiiyke2640
3 ай бұрын
Great Benin
@theumarfam4162
3 жыл бұрын
Reno, although I agree with your historical view, just a point of correction: the documentary you kept referring to, was not DAVID ATTENBOROUGH documentary, DA specialty is nature and wildlife. It was by made by world renowned historian, anthropologist and archeologist BASIL DONALDSON in one of his ' Separate but Equal' documentary series on Africa history. It remained till date, the most objective history on Africa ever to be made by an European. It was BASIL in one of this series, that showed archeological proof that the Ancient Egyptian Civilization was indeed a black African civilization. BASIL passed away not long ago.
@RenosMasterClass
3 жыл бұрын
Dear Tijani, Thank you for your comments. The documentary was done by David Attenborough. He may have featured the gentleman you are referring to. The title of the documentary is Tribal Eye: Kingdom of Bronze. It was first broadcast in 1975. In that documentary, David Attenborough visited Benin, met with the Oba, and made use of documents from the British Museum. Although he studied Zoology at Cambridge, David Attenborough is a historian. That is his core strength. However, after the success of his natural history documentary series, his employer, the BBC, pushed him towards natural history purely for ratings purposes. The documentary Tribal Eye: Kingdom of Bronze is also available on KZitem. Thank you and may God bless you.
@productogb350
3 жыл бұрын
The documentary is still not factual but speculative. As you may know, no Igbo group had or has the type of Tribal marks shown in the video and Igbo never fought many wars with Bini. I am still waiting for anybody who makes such claim to give at least 5 factual examples of wars Bini fought with Igbo, when and with which Igbo group and no one has been able to answer. As black people we do not need whites to teach us about our own different tribal marks, we should know better. Therefore, what Reno calls factual evidence is rather misleading and false.
@alozienjoku6543
2 жыл бұрын
@@RenosMasterClass I am not sure you did a proper LLM but one of those human rigfhts course that has little materials of any intellectual rigour hence you are unable to see the disconnect in this documentary and the argument you are labouring to make There is absolutely nothing of London in your education
@alozienjoku6543
2 жыл бұрын
could you please flesh out what historical view that Reno has made that you agree with .....or can it not be said that you are equally afflicted by the same intellectual laziness and lousy mind
@productogb350
2 жыл бұрын
@Mr Rapan Pass it's not true please. Why don't you present prove. Do your research and you'll see the various Igbo tribal marks of old, no one were that multiple and long. I debate with facts. Morever, Reno exposed his ignorance and senseless revisionism by claiming that words the start with Iken, Oba , Iweka entered Igbo lexicon through Bini in the 1800 due to his imaginary slavery. Just do a little research on oldest kingdoms in Nigeria, you'll figure that Nri(Igbo) is the oldest kingdom in this territory now known as Nigeria. In Nri for me not to go too far because Igbo (Ndi gboo)(meaning -Ancient People) have been living in this territory for of thousands of years before Bini empire ever existed. In Nri before Igodomigo ever existed they had and still have Oba ji (yam barn- in Igbo), Ikenga(one of the oldest deities in Nigeria,older than Bini . Why would you believe someone who doesn't know when these Igbo words started? What Reno calls his evidence is so ridiculously shameful. Imagine that Ikenga ,Oba ji, Iweka(name in Igbo meaning anger supersedes) only started existing in Igbo in 1800s. Ikenga (alusi ndi Igbo) , Oba ji(yam barn-(s) in Igbo land have been in existence long before Igodomigo let alone Bini. Biko, stop taking Reno Mockery seriously 😄😃
@alozienjoku6543
3 жыл бұрын
Stop pedding much ignorance
@causinsmith3315
3 жыл бұрын
When are you coming back to Nigeria
@catchphrase3008
3 жыл бұрын
Igbos don't have tribal marks though Nd I haven't heard of Igbo-benin war at all Y don't Igbos bear Itserkiri names too 🤷🏻♀️
@raymondmordi7937
3 жыл бұрын
Those are likely Ichi marks
@DaveOzoalor
3 жыл бұрын
@@raymondmordi7937 Ichi marks are very small and short.
@raymondmordi7937
3 жыл бұрын
@@DaveOzoalor Look up the Igbo Ukwu figurine to confirm my point
@@raymondmordi7937 great point Raymond, though that's still not the same nature of tribal marks on the face of the sculpture in the Reno video.
@bigiiyke2640
3 ай бұрын
Igbo is an ethnic term as a creation of the colonial administration.it started with the union Igbo by the church missionary society under Archbishop Dennis who infused words from each of the tribes to found union Igbo
@kingslogisticsturkey9449
3 жыл бұрын
History is not pleasant agreed. But Igbos do not have tribal marks. And even if we did,the one in the clip is not applicable to us.The man behind the camera cannot ascertain the tribe it was but not Igbo.
@Cenachim
3 жыл бұрын
Igbos and Hausas have such marks
@kingslogisticsturkey9449
3 жыл бұрын
@@Cenachim Show me your tribal mark.
@ugocity1
3 жыл бұрын
@@kingslogisticsturkey9449 lol... Let him even show any Igbo person he knows, whether family, relatives, friends, associates or even a random Igbo person that he has ever known or met that would have such tribal marks.
@pinnaryokubo3563
2 жыл бұрын
Mumuity
@ndumetu564
9 ай бұрын
Well i think i am satisfied with most responses given to Mr Reno Omokri ( i believe it means little goat) open for correction please 🙏 Reno has shown himself to be delusional again & again with a complex problem
@solomonodjegba6652
3 жыл бұрын
Are Itsekiri no longer from yoruba????
@immaculate2197
2 жыл бұрын
@Sir must yoruba drag people to themselves , they are not related to you . Reno is a learn itshekiri man .
@immaculate2197
2 жыл бұрын
@Sir am not even edo but how does itshekiri look yoruba wen yoruba are dark like charcoal 🤣🤣🤣 go to Warri and mention that or go tell Reno monkri and see what they will do to you . Unity beg her after u will be laughing igbos . Yorubas are related to nupe .
@immaculate2197
2 жыл бұрын
@Sir yoruba only look like Hausa or nupe . No southern resemble yoruba expecially Ibadan and osun . Even ondo and Lagos are not yoruba .
@immaculate2197
2 жыл бұрын
@Sir oga ondo and lagos are not yoruba , you can’t deceived anybody . Yoruba can easily detected looking facially with their look even their dark look different from other southern black . Go check people from south south and south east they mostly look alike but only yoruba look different . Ondo look like people from south south and south east . Unlike Ibadan and other Osun. Kwarra look like Fulani . Yorubas look like Hausa and nupe
@immaculate2197
2 жыл бұрын
@Sir is burna boy is ph . Oga forget language ondo and Lagos are not yoruba . Everybody knows the history of Lagos and those who found Lagos . Yoruba look like nupe and Hausa people . Ask me why ondo don’t agree or even marry other yoruba . Am don’t talking you can hide fact but you can’t hide genetic . Same way yoruba was claiming sowore now is clear to everybody he is apoi and ijaw people . Go to Warri and see itshekiri and see if they look yoruba n don’t even try mention it to their ear coz u will have problem .
@chinedumemeh
3 жыл бұрын
Just beating about the bush. What's the name of the language the Igbo slaves spoke? What about the Igbo slaves that decided to remain in Itsekiri land? This is intellectual dishonesty at its peak and I suggest you stick to politics, and to ridiculing of leaders in the opposition party.
@UzuegbunamEmmanuel-cf5ez
10 ай бұрын
Pls where did the bini originated from.
@Johnnybiaig
8 ай бұрын
They don't know . However, it is recorded that proofs do exist that Igbos were there before current inhabitants.
@officialmail3564
7 ай бұрын
@@Johnnybiaigplease what are the proofs?
@alozienjoku6543
3 жыл бұрын
See the idiocy that runs amongst some ethnic nigerians . A nigerian without good education and sound thinking, opines that the igbos who never had inter tribal and intra tribal war, has the most slaves. This idiocy doesnt know that its was war that provided the most slaves and those places that had much wars had the most slaves But the Nigerian ethnic other spreading his idiocy, feels that the igbos are the most igbos when the igbos had no intratribal wars
@alozienjoku6543
2 жыл бұрын
@Mr Rapan Pass I am not sure you know what you are talking about You seem to struggle with some ignorant suggetion here that igbo language may have been ariticially created if you are correct its not a tribe
@chukwumaolisehemekaouwarre3236
2 жыл бұрын
Bini origin kzitem.info/news/bejne/uYGO1GmEinRziHo
@sammyyoung8051
Жыл бұрын
even before hearing from you.i know you would not be fair to the igbos... you hate them with passion
@ochioguharrison8843
3 жыл бұрын
Stop this your lies. Iweka is pure Igbo word meaning anger supercedes. Try and ask owners of the language the meaning.
@productogb350
3 жыл бұрын
😁😀 the man is a clown. According to him, Igbo did not call our Yam Barn, Oba ji and did not bear names like Ezeoba, Ikenna and Oba befor the coming of the Portuguese. Reno Omokri has turned himself to Reno Mockery 😄😅😃🤣
@nwokekaelequaci4338
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha...This reno guy is a funny character. What do you take us for? You think we'll fall for an old british man's concocted documentary of what he does not know shit about? Imagine you... itsekiri-bini having Igbos as slaves. I'm happy you've been checked properly and this your lies crushed to dust.
@chukwumaolisehemekaouwarre3236
2 жыл бұрын
Bini origin kzitem.info/news/bejne/uYGO1GmEinRziHo
@cryptofxalgorithms
Жыл бұрын
As was explained, history is not always pleasant . A lot of slave descendants in far away America have traced their origins to ethnic Igbos. This is because the iduoid/edoid groups took advantage of first contact with the European arrivals got their weapons and sold igbos as slaves. The actual issue is the narcissists amongst you guys. A lot of you have not learnt like the Yorubas to celebrate the itsekiri or olukunmi as cousins or sister heritages enjoying the beauty of diversity despite dialectic similarities or even similar names due to situations shaped by the events of history. To a lot of you igbos any heritage whose dialect are fused with igboid vocabulary or names with igboid origins you think you own by right. To you igbos often the subject of heritage is then mostly a matter of rancor and harsh exchange of words. That is not how to celebrate the beauty of diversity. Events of history has delineated us all into relative and connected groups. Rather than rancor learn like the British, American and Australian who will sit with each other and entertain themselves with their similarities and distinctions without the British being egoistic about the whole affair.
@berbie_presh
2 жыл бұрын
You are sick..which tribal mark
@chukwumaolisehemekaouwarre3236
2 жыл бұрын
Bini origin kzitem.info/news/bejne/uYGO1GmEinRziHo
@brunoikenga7760
3 жыл бұрын
Reno Omokri: End of the Dark Age of Igbo Historical Revisionism By Robert Nwokoro (The Ancestor) Ever since Femi Fani Kayode attempted a review of Igbo history and was aborted by the eminent Igbo scholar and historian, Dr Samuel Okafor, there has never been anyone to dream of such thing until our brother Reno Omokri came to try his luck. "The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode” was a rejoinder by Dr Okafor to Kayode's: "The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”. Dr Okafor's erudition was earth-shattering. It not only ended Kayode's revisionist anti-Igbo literature permanenly, it was also a force that transformed Kayode from position of aggressor to being an ally of the Igbo today. I know a lot of us are not aware of this or perhaps have forgotten. But I'm here to remind you. Barely a decade after, another London-groomed intellectual, named Reno Omokri came to try his own luck but met a devastating resistance from a more formidable young Igbo intelligentsia, led by Maazị Ogbonnaya II But I did not blame Reno! His attempted revisionism was inspired by the age-long ritual of selling anti-Igbo narratives to the world. Mind you - the abuse of the Igbo did not start today- it's like a thesis to graduate into the mainstream of relevance in Nigeria- and Reno has come to try his own luck. Perhaps Reno wants to change his political narrative from secular to ethnic discourse since that's the only viable stock in the political market of Nigeria. But for him to succeed in his new found ethnic discourse, he needs to dent the image of Ndi Igbo by churning out narratives that will boost his complex inferiority from that region-thus the slave/servant narrative. It's a tactical move but the slave/servant narrative is a fat bone - too big even for him to swallow. If Reno does not want to toe the line of ethnic politics in the next phase of his career as I believe it to be, how does Igbo/Itsekiri slave history relevant in the discourse of contemporary Nigeria? Again, some of them do this purposely to sustain the false narrative that onye Igbo can spend many years in pursuit of money but cannot tell his own story for one minute. This is a crazy lie! It makes me sick how people will come to believe such nonsense. But why is it that people like Reno cannot attempt to discuss or review history of other ethnic groups despite their over sabi head? Why always Ndi Igbo? Igbo this and Igbo that... Igbo, Igbo, Igbo all the time? Why? But Reno has messed with the wrong generation of Igbo. No pity for him. As a scapegoat, he would be used as ritual sacrifice for the spirit of our resistance. He wants to school us about artificial borders but forgets that Nigeria, his beloved country, is an artificial construct. You think say you dey wise? He wants to school us about slavery but pretends to be free in another man's land. No be juju be that? He thinks Igbo loves slavery so much that they had to wait for Itsekiri to set Igbo free when the Igbo, during the Ekumeku Movement, fought wars with the white man in Anioma for thirty one years (1883-1914) in order to stop the incursion of Royal Niger Company? I would like to ask Reno, during the time of Ekumeku, where were his affluent ancestors from Itsekiri who bought the so called Igbo slaves? For thirty one years the war was fought, what role did Itsekiri play to liberate now "Delta State" from the economic exploitation of Royal Niger Company? Incase Reno does not know, Ekumeku was a defence mechanism to preserve the socio-economic and political freedom of the indigenous Igbo of Anioma. How come people with such level of military intelligence, power and pride were slaves to close neighbours in Itsekiri? I want to believe that Reno has read the great works of Olaude Equiano especially the "Interesting Narratives of the life of Olaude Equiano" (published 1789). The first black history book written by a former black slave. Equiano like other Igbo slaves in the Caribbean were all led by the same Igbo resistance spirit to call for the abolition of slavery. If I were Reno, by now I would have known that the Igbo has a universal language, which is the ability to live freely according to one's terms. This is why Equiano set the pace by purchasing his own freedom so he could live under his own terms. This same language was spoken in the Caribbean against the French. The aggressive nature of onye Igbo made the white man hate him. How much more an Itsekiri? The Great people of Arochukwu did not waste time in registering the same feeling against the British. At first, they showed the British hell and evicted them from Aro Kingdom. The British reinforced and the war lasted for three years before they could assert control over Aro Kingdom. It is because of the Igbo resistance to slavery that 73 Igbo slaves conspired to attack the slave merchants in a ship en route to Georgia. They did attack the merchants and drowned themselves in the process instead of giving themselves out to slavery. But with Reno's narrative, one would think there was a time the Itsekiri had the Igbo as slaves the same way as the white man. And Reno in his London dream thought this would happen without any record or resistance by the Igbo? Reno should have humbled himself by telling us he was looking for a way to elevate the position of his people than to arrogate to himself the status of Lord over the dexterous Igbo. How sad is it that Reno who should be the custodian of history is setting the archives ablaze in order to fry his nuggets? Reno should know days are gone when people dance music because it is played in London. Before now, people like Reno were taught that the Igbo does not have history of its own. Some of them swallowed the narrative like intoxicant and spewed trash in the name of intellectual erudition. I could remember Sam Omatseye as a columnist with The Nation Newspaper around 2008 or 2009. He was writing almost on daily basis to sell the narrative that Ojukwu was a coward who took to his heels at the climax of the war. He was appealing to the Igbo to stop seeing Ojukwu as a hero but as one who brought disaster upon them. At that time Omatseye was not challenged partly because, the corporate media in Nigeria needed the narrative to sell their stocks, and any rejoinder would mean 'bad market'. I know of someone who wrote and forwarded a rejoinder to Nation Newspaper but was turned down. The article was later published on Sun Newspaper but not later than Omatseye had fed the nation with his cooked lies. Those were the dark ages when few individuals controlled the narratives. Social media at that time had not gained popularity as stories were strictly dished through licensed newspapers, TV and radio stations. It was a dark age when people were controlled by poisonous narratives. But now we are in the age of information and ignorance is merely a choice. In conclusion: I am glad this generation is responding to Reno appropriately: many thanks to Social Media. Now we can tell our own stories, with facts. I must appreciate Maazị Ogbonaya for putting a good defence against Reno's malicious falsehood. The dark age has ended.
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