How the words “ABOKI” and “YAMIRI” started !!
[A Thread]

A lot of things have been said about the origin of these words but this is what we found out. And we are ready to be corrected

Yamiri

From our research, Yamiri is actually no Hausa or Fulani word like most people will think, neither does it have any meaning in any of these languages.
The word Yamiri originated as a mockery to the Igbo captives during the civil war.

This captives were usually starved or poorly fed. Most of them who can only speak the Igbo language will request for water from their captors and would “say nye m mmiri” which means 'give me water' when translated to english language.

Nye m mmiri was what the Hausa/Fulani soldiers pronounced as “Yamiri“. which later became a mockery name for the Igbos. This name has been able to stick around till date

ABOKI

This is a hausa word which means friend. overtime random people started calling hausa/Fulani people “aboki” in which they thing its a kind of supplementary name for the hausas/Fulani. But over time it has now been used wrongly by non Hausa as an insult to the Hausa people