24/09/2024
There's a viral video of the ooni of ife repeatedly saying that Igbos are the most ancient people in southern Nigeria , you have also heard the present Oba of Benin on a video narrating how the son of Oduduwa (Oranmiyan) invaded the land of Igodomigodo, a land coexisted by Igbos and Esan people before the invasion in 1170AD, and this is why until date you have the Igbos of Edo state (Igbo-akiri) and Esan living side by side to each other.
With all this proves it's unfortunate to hear some tribes that got their root from Igbo trying to denigrate Igbo by saying " Igbo have no history"
When we talk about history, small small tribes that were formed yesterday will tell you to "Use this energy to Trace Igbo history" or say things like: "IGBOs should tell us their history first"
Nobody could completely gather Igbo history because it predates human documentations and writings, all this tribes in the South have their roots in Igbo and have evolved with time in their languages and dialects.
The only ancient people of Africa whose history couldn't be ascertained, captured or written by the whites, it's the only race that have existed before men thought of counting. White anthropologist and archeologist couldn't phantom the very time the Igbos settled.
The White's were able to document tribes like the benin's and yariba history because they're recent dwellers and not ancient as the Igbos who's times of settlement cannot be asertained.
As with some ancient tribes, the time Igbos settled is completely lost to human minds before the knowledge of documentation began, this was because they all lived peacefully without a central directorate even before the idea of kings and rulers was introduced.
However, uranium studies of archeological traces have identified certain human activities in Igbo land from a period between 220,000BC. A time when the population of the entire world was presumably less than 30,000 people and no human existence before 'Ndi Gboo' in Africa.
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