“Long John” by Eleven Eleven 11-11. His songs are full of interesting stories with moral lessons, based on pre-colonial Igbo oral & folk music traditions.Honourable 11-11, igbo music Legend!
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Look at this mugu saying that a very pertinent question asked by a journalist is an insult. Men like him are the reason why Nigeria is stagnant. They’re used to sycophancy. I’m so happy that Nigerians are now sensible enough to support journalists who ask pertinent fact based questions. Once such journalists starts trending, others will copy and the outcome will be that Nigerian politicians will go and hire foreign propagandists to train them on how to dribble and lie during interviews without being caught.
From the movie adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s acclaimed book “Half of a Yellow Sun”.
Mmanwu Ijele (Ijele Masquerade) was inscribed in 2009 (4.COM) on the Representative List of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
According to UNESCO, in many communities in Anambra State, south-eastern Nigeria, celebrations, burial ceremonies and other special occasions during the dry season to evoke fertility and a bountiful harvest feature the performance of the Ijele masquerade.
The mask is about four metres tall – so large that it takes a hundred men six months of work to prepare the costume and build an outdoor house to hold it before a performance. Divided into upper and lower segments by a large python at the centre, the ijele is constructed of colourful fabric on a skeleton of bamboo sticks and decorated with figurines and depictions of every aspect of life. The towering masked figure dances at the culmination of a series of other masquerades, protected by six ‘police’ and carrying a mirror with the power to draw in and punish evildoers. Ijele mask carriers, chosen by ballot, seclude themselves for three months, during which they live on a special diet to acquire the strength necessary to don the mask.
The masquerade plays a number of important roles in the community: spiritually, it marks both festive and solemn occasions; politically, it provides an opportunity to reaffirm loyalty to a chief or king; and culturally it provides a popular entertainment as young boys and girls sing and dance to the tunes of Akunechenyi music.
