Desola: Muhehehe...excuse me laugh abeg. You wan cause katakata with this yua kweshon o.

ilugunboy: Nothing much.

pre-colonial Igboland aren't that organized.

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dayokanu: Walking around naked

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[size=18pt]The "Cannibalism" Mode[/size]

But there is another side to the meaning of "Igbo" as defined by Onitsha people, a counterpart to Onitsha self-identification and human sacrificers, which might be called a "culture of cannibalism". One reason Onitsha people historically held Ndi-Igbo in contempt arose from their shared traditional claim that Ndi Igbo avidly consumed human flesh (a practice that Onitsha people regarded with strong repugnance). Moreover, in several contexts third parties claimed to us that young Igbo men had boasted to them of personal commitment to this custom, even describing means of preserving the cooked meat by baking it in clay. This "cultural tradition" thus also took the form of a potential threat uttered by some Igbo people toward others.

That a historical culture of cannibalism existed in Igboland east and southeast of Onitsha (but excluding Onitsha itself) was asserted both in diverse missionary accounts of the 19th century and in ethnographic surveys undertaken during the colonial era. See, for example, Crowther 1873 (C.M Record 1873 pp. 217 18), Leonard 1906, pp. 161 2, 181, Thomas 1913 (vol.1), pp. 83 5, Talbot 1926 (vol. III), 826 38, Basden 1938, pp. 126-7. Basden draws a sharp contrast between Ndi-Onicha and their Western relatives versus those of the "eastern interior", stating that among the latter "The general practice was to eat all captives taken in war" and that, with widespread "meat hunger" in this region, people believed that a diet including human flesh was very significantly tonic.

dayokanu: of the "eastern interior", stating
that among the latter "The general practice was to
eat all captives taken in war" and that, with
widespread "meat hunger" in this region, people
believed that a diet including human flesh was
very significantly tonic .

dayokanu: The "Cannibalism" Mode

But there is another side to the meaning of "Igbo" as defined by Onitsha people, a counterpart to Onitsha self-identification and human sacrificers, which might be called a "culture of cannibalism". One reason Onitsha people historically held Ndi-Igbo in contempt arose from their shared traditional claim that Ndi Igbo avidly consumed human flesh (a practice that Onitsha people regarded with strong repugnance). Moreover, in several contexts third parties claimed to us that young Igbo men had boasted to them of personal commitment to this custom, even describing means of preserving the cooked meat by baking it in clay. This "cultural tradition" thus also took the form of a potential threat uttered by some Igbo people toward others.

That a historical culture of cannibalism existed in Igboland east and southeast of Onitsha (but excluding Onitsha itself) was asserted both in diverse missionary accounts of the 19th century and in ethnographic surveys undertaken during the colonial era. See, for example, Crowther 1873 (C.M Record 1873 pp. 217 18), Leonard 1906, pp. 161 2, 181, Thomas 1913 (vol.1), pp. 83 5, Talbot 1926 (vol. III), 826 38, Basden 1938, pp. 126-7. Basden draws a sharp contrast between Ndi-Onicha and their Western relatives versus those of the "eastern interior", stating that among the latter "The general practice was to eat all captives taken in war" and that, with widespread "meat hunger" in this region, people believed that a diet including human flesh was very significantly tonic.
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isacolukay: Fellow Nairalanders, I need y'all to help me with the above stated topic. I have tried google and I Couldnt get a headway. My assignment says I should "list the precolonial activities that happened in Eastern Nigeria". Thank you as you help me out.

Awka was famous for metal working and its blacksmiths before the 20th century were prized throughout the region for making farming implements, guns and tools. The Awka area in earlier times was the site of the Nri Civilization that produced the earliest documented bronze works in Sub-Saharan Africa around 800 AD.

isacolukay:

Nah, I dont mean anything untowardly. I need it strictly for for academic purposes

dayokanu: Walking around naked

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dozzybaba: it is a documented fact that almost all africans practised cannibalism..many have since abolished it,but as i speak to you it is still legitimate for yoruba obas to eat humans during oro festivals, coronations. Has anyone ever wondered why they enjoy eating internal organs during meals(isan,bokoto etc) than other group in nigeria, why is the sale of human parts more lucrative in yorubaland than in every other part of nigeria? google is free.

Obiagelli: This thread should be for educational purposes only, pls do not derail it. I have tried to lay my hands on any book that has got detailed information about this topic but I can't seem to find any. only things fall apart (fiction) gave something close.
We can do our tribal insults on other threads, please let's keep this one clean.

Anyone with reference books should pls provide the and i hope oga Naptu2 can be of help.

Abagworo:

A Study of the Slave and Palm Produce Trade amongst the Ngwa-Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria. 
J. N. Oriji

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cea_0008-0055_1983_num_23_91_2249

Among the Igbos of Nigeria 1912

http://books.google.co.uk/books?

id=qKNOfk4pmmMC&pg=PT92&lpg=PT92&dq=nsude+pyramids+of+agbaja&source=bl&ots=JBLRvYasOk&sig=CVR-sn-psHcImY8c3HzogtKbkwo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pKi8UYWbDdH0sgas1oGAAQ&redir_esc=y

Ola Johnson:
You think we forget quikly, Clifford Orji that killed, roasted, ate and sold human meat in Lagos was an Igboman from the SE. He pretended to be mad in the day and at night he would capture and kill. The flat headed f00l died in prison recently. Otokoto nko?

Lagos - A Nigerian man has been arrested after he killed a woman and ate her stewed intestines in a bid to cure an abnormally persistent erection, police said on Wednesday. A spokesperson for Osun state police said 50-year-old Folorunso Olukotun had led officers to his victim's disembowelled body in the bush near his home village in south-west Nigeria. "According to the man's story, his private organ always has an erection and it doesn't go down," Oluwole Ayodeji said. "Someone advised him to kill a woman and eat her intestines." Olukotun ambushed his victim, a woman in her forties unknown to her attacker, on a path near her village. He attacked her with a machete, killed her, and took her intestines home, Ayodeji said. "He cooked them like a sort of stew and ate them with pounded yam," he said. "When the police arrived he was very open, we have his whole confession on tape and he has been remanded in custody." The spokesperson said that police believe that someone had jokingly suggested cannibalism as a cure for Olukotun's problem, in the belief that he would never carry out such a killing. "He seems to have believed them," he said. Police could not say whether the erection has now subsided. - Sapa-AFP