{"id":15819,"date":"2024-08-25T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/?p=15819"},"modified":"2024-08-25T04:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T04:57:12","slug":"i-am-an-igboman-buju-banton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/i-am-an-igboman-buju-banton\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am an Igboman.\u201d Buju Banton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='epvc-post-count'><span class='epvc-eye'><\/span>  <span class=\"epvc-count\"> 282<\/span><span class='epvc-label'> Views<\/span><\/div><p>High profile Jamaican singer, Mark Anthony Myrie (born 15 July 1973) stage named Buju Banton has openly declared that he is an Igboman. The reggae artiste who made this claim was reacting to questions during a recent session of Drinking Champs podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, high profile celebrities in different occasions traced their roots to the Igbo speaking ethnic group in Nigeria. A couple of months ago, Jennifer Lopez adopted an Igbo name, \u201cIfunanya\u201d as a part of her name.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor T.G Jakes over 5 years ago, disclosed to the world that he was successful in tracing his roots to Igbo people in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Buju Banton\u2019s claim also attracted some comments. A commentator who reacted to the claim disclosed that Buju is the short form of an Igbo name, \u201cChibuju\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As time goes on, more celebrities are expected to \u201cdeclare\u201d their Igboness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>282 ViewsHigh profile Jamaican singer, Mark Anthony Myrie (born 15 July 1973) stage named Buju&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[359],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cI am an Igboman.\u201d Buju Banton -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/i-am-an-igboman-buju-banton\/\" \/>\n<meta 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