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🔺 🪶 Needed this energy Indigenous Ndi Igbo Purity is Within US NZU ( White Chalk ) Ise Blood ... Big Ikechukwu Chief Mg...
15/04/2021

🔺 🪶 Needed this energy Indigenous Ndi Igbo Purity is Within US NZU ( White Chalk ) Ise Blood ... Big Ikechukwu

Chief Mgbeze’ of Okpanam, photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1912 after his title-taking ceremony. He holds a pair of alo staffs and wears the eriri ukwu on his ankles, visual markers of his new status. Mgbeze is painted with chalk to symbolize purity and communion with the ancestors. We were told that this photograph was taken at the Udo shrine. Nigeria (NWT 4093, MAA P.3210)

Credit- Haki kweli Shakur.

The Igbo Ukwu Bronze.Thurstan Shaw was invited to excavate Igbo Ukwu (Nri) and found bronze artwork dating back to 850AD...
15/04/2021

The Igbo Ukwu Bronze.

Thurstan Shaw was invited to excavate Igbo Ukwu (Nri) and found bronze artwork dating back to 850AD that was the most complex bronze art of its time even amongst Europe and the Arab world.

Historians agree it’s the oldest bronze in West Africa.

Material used in the artwork stretches all the way to Egypt.

Igbo Ikenga n.d.© National Museums Scotland A.1906.54[Among the Ibos of Nigeria; Basden 1931] We turn now to the private...
14/04/2021

Igbo Ikenga n.d.

© National Museums Scotland A.1906.54
[Among the Ibos of Nigeria; Basden 1931]

We turn now to the private and family gods — those which are kept within the house and compound and which have a much closer connection with the individual than those which are public and general.
It must be again emphasised that no object in itself is worshipped by the Ibos ; it is sacred only as the habitation of a spirit. It has only that relative sanctity to which it is entitled as the shrine or home of a certain spirit. Very seldom are the objects themselves called upon by name ; the petitions are invariably addressed to the igaw-maw(?ajo mmuo) i.e. the spirits. Occasionally the god Ikenga is invoked under the title of Ikenga Oweawfa, i.e. " he who splits the shield (of the enemy), hence the strongest one : the bravest one."
Each house contains many sacred objects, but they have not all equal significance, for among the " gods many and lords many " there are higher and lower degrees of importance. The most universal of these household gods, and that which is given first rank, is the Ikenga, and no house may be without one. It is the first god sought by a young man at the beginning of his career, and it is the one to which he looks for good luck in all his enterprises.
The Ikenga is always carved from a solid block of uroko-wood. The height varies from one foot upwards. It represents a man seated upon a stool ; two long horns, curling backwards, are the symbol of strength and power. Many examples have a long-stemmed pipe in the mouth, the bowl of the pipe resting on the knees. The right hand of the larger Ikengas grasps a sword, point upwards, whilst the left holds the head of the conquered enemy — this again denoting strength.
Occasionally the horns project from a headless trunk and no limbs are provided. Such are simply of cheaper design. For religious purposes all figures of Ikenga stand equal. As a rule only the head of the household may offer sacrifice to them ; should he be prevented for any reason the awkpala (next of kin, male) officiates in his stead.

Omenala is to the IGBO what Sharia is to the Fulani, a complete way of life!
13/04/2021

Omenala is to the IGBO what Sharia is to the Fulani, a complete way of life!

ANNUAL IKEJI FESTIVAL:This is one of the Major festivals in Igbo land carried out by the Arondizuogu people of Imo State...
13/04/2021

ANNUAL IKEJI FESTIVAL:

This is one of the Major festivals in Igbo land carried out by the Arondizuogu people of Imo State annually in March or April. During this celebration there is a massive return of people to the community from around the world.

The 2021 edition started on the 8th of April and ended 3 days later on the 11th. It's a 4 day celebration of Igbo culture marked with Traditional Igbo Thanksgiving, peace offerings and colourful display by assorted masquerades to entertain the teeming crowd of returnees to the community.

Usually scheduled every year to span through the 4 Igbo market days of Eke, Orie, Afo and Nkwo. The main goal is to mark the Harvest of New yams, the chief food crop BUT is also an avenue for the People to UNITE and plan community development projects. Caroline Rozentvaig

CELIBACY NOT an option:In the Igbo community, celibacy is NOT an option. EVERYONE is EXPECTED/ENCOURAGED to marry. Befor...
12/04/2021

CELIBACY NOT an option:

In the Igbo community, celibacy is NOT an option. EVERYONE is EXPECTED/ENCOURAGED to marry. Before the intrusion of Western ways, it was considered unusual NOT to be married at the age of 25 for both males and females. Men who STUBBORNLY refuse to marry were considered derisively as 'ofeke'. In this artistic depiction, a young Igbo man is being asked by elders of his family to explain why he is yet to marry! My late father (A man who maintained his Igboness unapologetically) before he died was already 'scanning' the neighbouring villages for a wife for my FIRST son (His first grandson). It is usual for igbo parents to find wives for their sons though there would be no marriage if the TWO do NOT agree.

–Francis Duru

Music Legend Emeka Morocco Maduka Laid To Rest In His Hometown, Ukwulu |
07/04/2021

Music Legend Emeka Morocco Maduka Laid To Rest In His Hometown, Ukwulu |

Before the Nigerian genocidal war on Biafra (1967—1970), the Christianised Ìgbòland was dominated and populated by the R...
07/04/2021

Before the Nigerian genocidal war on Biafra (1967—1970), the Christianised Ìgbòland was dominated and populated by the Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations. Few years after that war, the wildfire of pentecostalism began to engulf Ìgbòland, especially with the Ben Idahosa neo-evangelism that filtered in from across the Niger. Foremost Ìgbò professor of religion, late Prof. Ogbu Kalu documented the rise of pentecostalism in Ìgbòland filtering in from the two major river borders of River Niger and Cross River.

But....the ground for this maddening rise of pentecostalism was set long before the war in May 1960 when Billy Graham first visited the Eastern Nigeria and held his prayer/convention in Enugwu drawing a crowd of about 40,000. It's also possible that little inroads had begun before this convention. I do not know any other American pentecostalist pastor or preacher who set his foot on the Ìgbò soil before Billy. If there's none, then, it can be said that Billy Graham's visit to Enugwu set the stage for pentecostal Christianity in Ìgbòland.

Inset pics: Billy's prayer meeting in Enugwu and Billy with M. I. Ọkpara and Adamma Ọkpara.

— Chijioke Ngobili, 2021

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