Lovely thread

Advertisement for eatery place, called "hotel" in those days. Niger Hotel, 1961.

Interesting commentary on prostitutes who lived in Onitsha and solicited customers from "hotels" then, as documented by a foreign tourist:

Helen and I scarcely ever visited an Onitsha Hotel, but we went to a celebration once at a very large one in Fegge, the Central Hotel, where large numbers of local people danced and partied to an Orchestra performing on the upstairs floor of the building. Later, we arranged for Helen to interview some of the prostitutes who worked and resided there, in their small crib-stalls downstairs. Since Helen then could not drive, I escorted her to the hotel one Friday noon in our Motor-Matches and then returned to retrieve her in the late afternoon.

I had forgotten it was a weekend day, and when I arrived the lower-level part of the building (a cavernous, somewhat labyrinthine place it seemed to me), and crowded full of young men milling about with nervous intensity. I became anxious, not having any idea where I might find her and feeling very uncomfortable, so when I saw a man there I recognized, I blurted out to him in the midst of the crowd, “Have you seen my wife?” I will never forget the complex flow of movements than played across his face as he tried to control his response.

(Helen made some interesting findings about the women. All were non-Igbo-speaking in origin, mostly from the Northern Region, and were carefully saving their earnings to support education of their family members at home. They were also well-organized as an interest group within the Central Hotel, and could proudly tell of cases where members joined to beat up and throw out men who mistreated any one of them. Helen used the research in her later work, but the material as a corpus was never published.)

All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha, side view. Circa 1960.

Young men at the football field, Dennis Memorial Grammar School, 1962.

Inland Onitsha, residents gathering for a communal event.

Obi of Awka-Etiti announces his forthcoming Ofala.

History repeats itself. As it was for the Obi of Onitsha, so it is for the Ooni of Ife today.

Street view, Onitsha 1961.

Ozo titled men gathering for a meeting, 1961.

Keep it coming,please. And there are no more pics of Onitsha,post those of other places.

Nwafor Orizu, then prince of Nnewi and future Senate President. Picture profiled for Time Magazine issue released in 1945.

Beremx:
at 5.30am,you're already shouting front page? Iji kwa ahu? Lalasticlala is not a robot but a human who sleeps like you too.


@OP, nice thread I must confess! Please keep the pictures rolling biko oh?

God bless Igbo land!

lalasticlala:


Pls include link to the source

See my first post.

lalasticlala:

you replied some nairlanders at least reply me na, u be mod no do partiality

jaybee3:

This thread was meant to celebrate una rich heritage but you can't just hold yourself back but to do what you know how to do best

How do you celebrate what is no more?


Talk about what happened to it and why it's no more in existence.

It is your type that suppressed the lessons of Nigeria civil war that would've bounded us together as one united country.

DankemzI:
Had it been East were allowed basic necessities, east would've been Nigeria's Commerce strong hold
If not for GeJ East won't have gotten an International Airport

Which international airpprt? You call that old ramshackle building in Enugu an International Airport? GEJ scammed us abeg!

Chief Janet Mokelu (left) pictured alongside Chief Margaret Ekpo.

Mokelu, a native of Oraifite, Anambra State, alongside Margaret Ekpo made history as two of the first women to be elected in a regional parliament in Nigeria. Both were elected into the Eastern Nigeria House of Assembly in 1961.

Nice one

shugacaneman:
LUX FIAT

show the light my brother

proudly onicha (onitsha) ado n'idu indigen

proudly dengramite

lalasticlala:

Na wa for you o. No front page for me?

I love this thread

A motor road through Awka, 1960.

Two women dressed for August meeting in Awka, 1960s.

Anambra (Awka) village girl, 1957.

Demigods:


you replied some nairlanders at least reply me na, u be mod no do partiality

Which of your post?

Nigerian Soldiers and civilians mingle as they cross the Niger Bridge at Onitsha following its re-opening. The bridge was destroyed during the Civil War. (1970).

Nwokoye Nnonyeli (also known as Nwokoye Idah) of Umubele. A prominent and wealthy Awka "travelling" Blacksmith.

Date of picture unknown.

janus05:
Nigerian Soldiers and civilians mingle as they cross the Niger Bridge at Onitsha following its re-opening. The bridge was destroyed during the Civil War. (1970).

this thread is for before civil war not during or after