Igbo culture and values is so noble that it made provision for nearly everything you can think about. To ensure harmony, respect, and recognition for the individual members of an Igbo family, the sharing and eating of chicken in a traditional Igbo family is very symbolic as each part is expected to be reserved for a specific persons based on their role, membership and relationship in and with an Igbo family.
History
Great Novels authored by Igbos
Igbo people have been wrongly described by the unformed non-Igbos simply out of ignorance and jealousy of the great success achieved by Igbo sons and daughter all over the world in different fields of endeavours. Before you call an Igbo man or woman ritualist, please find below, the traits that defines an Igbo man:
Igbo language and system of communication existed for years before the advent of the colonial. That indigenous Igbo alphabets and graphically coded means of communication is known as NSIBIDI and was predominantly used in Akwa Ibom, ibibio, Abiriba, Ohafia, Abam and Arochukwu.
The cultural identity of people defines them. However, some full bloodied Igbo people have decided and/or constrained to deny their original identity as Ndigbo, thereby denying their Igboness.
It is longer news that most Igbo people across the globe are known for heading home to their heritage annually during the Christmas festive period. The gist is that most people of non Igbo origin can’t seem to understand why and how important this herds like movement for Ndigbo
“Let me usher this discourse by first clearing the air that the Igbo presently in Kogi are not migrants”. The places they are settled had been their ancestral lands and never Ịgala land as erroneously portrayed over the years. The Ịgala are the ones who migrated from Wukari in Taraba State and settled at a place called Amagede before they moved to the Idah area.
King Jaja of Opobo was the wealthiest and one of the most powerful monarchs in the Niger Delta and the founder of Opobo Kingdom. He was a native of Umuduruoha, Amaigbo, in the present day Imo State. His name at birth was Mbanaso Okwaraozurumbaa, but he was captured and sold as a slave at the age of 12 into captivity in Bonny (the present day River state) where he earned his freedom from slavery having adopted the Ijaw-Ibani culture.
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