The Idoma Igbo Ancestry Debate Kontinues

I have been reading the debate on another platform about the allegations made by Nnamdi Kanu about the origins or ancestry of idoma and claims of copulation to save the race after a jihadist defeat, the camps are:

1) The idoma Nationalist: I don’t care who you are, they first reaction of any of them them is to slap or abuse you for such an outrage against the indignigity (mimicking zebrudayah) against the tribe, followed by where is my slippers or cutlass.

2) the Centrist or libra (borrowing from adeyinka grandson) who would give the claims they benefit of doubt or concede or acknowledge that some of these claims may have an iota of truth based on linguist and cultural similarities on ground, but they will quickly tell you that nevertheless the idoma have their own identity.

3) The idoma Igbo: a very small, I repeat very small minority who will tell you Igbo are idoma or idoma are Igbo. 

Terhemba Osuji’s observation from monitoring the discussion is that:

1) they idoma have been categorized as belonging to a different linqua family and the mass of idoma migrated from the kwararafa kingdom.

2) within idoma land there is a very strong and latent even virulent strain of pure idoma ness untouched by intermarriage or inter tribal mixing, especially in the center far from otukpo in the hinterlands, these are hard core original idoma aborigines and their dialect is untouched by Igbo, the have original idoma words for everything.

3) then there Idoma border towns ringing Igbo villages. These are the idoma identified in (3) who have intermingled and intermarried and inter fornicated to such an extent that a lot of Igbo has been infused into the idoma language. It is so strong they share market days, and many cultural conventions, the debate is whether they are one people or whether their association blurred the lines.

@terhemba Osuji loves the hard core nationalists if the don’t reach for their cutlass at any discussion to understand the history and as a tribal nationalist I love other nationalists. 

In my heart I want to hear of some history were amalgamated Igbo and idoma forces unified under some confederacy to thwart an invading power. 

I would love to hear that after a successful campaign the igbos Ezes and idoma chiefs both exchanged women as a tribute to some shared victory.

The history of warfare is replete with confederate warriors getting entranced by strange foreign women, the strangeness leads to curiosity and arousal, the dance and the new food can be alluring, if I were a visiting soldier I would seek to carry one back to my village to join my harem. 

The amorous idoma men I know would do the same.

The debate continues

By Terhemba Osuji

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