Talk:Aro people

message: I've removed the claim that they are descended from the ancient Israelites. This is a tiny, fringe theory, and per the policy laid out at WP:NPOV#Undue weight, it does not belong here. — BrianSmithson 22:32, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: African Jew theory

message: Several writers of acient origins and oral traditionalists are of the incontrovertible opinion that all Igbos derive directly or indirectly from the Aros. 
 Through the principle of AKO BU IJE They [the Aros] wielded so much influence across the entire Igbo landscape influencing the geograghy, culture, religion and traditions of all the peoples. Their influence with  IBINI UKPABI even spread to the sea of the south, the Benin sphere to the west and the boundaries of the Cameroons. 
In recent coments on Igbo history modern writers of non Aro origins find it difficult to accommodate the supremacy of the Aro in the history of their motherlands and villages. But the facts are obvious - scattered Aro settlements testify to the colonisation of all these areas. Perhaps the loss of this vast empire to the British [1901-1902] and the subsequent post war anti-Aro propaganda via the education curriculum raised a new genre of historians who struggle to disconnect from an Aro past.
There was never any such thing as Aro as THE ONLY slave dealers oblivious of the rest of the rest IGBO POPULATIONS or the primitive tribes of the lower Niger. Although the British succeded in destrying the Aro myth and creating a distaste for the Aro as slave dealers, fact is that a robust triumvirate trade existed between ALL the hinterland and the whiteman. The villages sold slaves to the closest dealers at the closest Aro settlements, these in turn sold to itinerant Aro traders who sold to coastal middlemen who understood the pathway through the creeks TO REACH THE WHITE MAN ON THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD. The Aro did not know the way of th creeks and so depended on these coastal middlemen.
Furthermore the irresistible force of the warring Abam-Ohafia-Abriba proved just what the region needed to remain loyal. There was no such thing as the Igbo of the north[Nsukka axes]or anywhere for that matter resisting the Aro untill the Britsh entered the scene and the equation changed. This lead to the new found prejudice on all fronts including historical distortions of varied degrees. 
Nevertheless the Aro remains the unarguably though the ipso facto civilisation several centuries before the coming of the whiteman.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.27.57.69 (talk) 21:20, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aro; The fall to the British 

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