Igbo nma nma nu, this thread is meant to showcase igbo culture, achievements, personalities all over the world and to discuss further progress of alaigbo.

Biko nu, unu bia nu ebea ka anyi ti yen aka bunie alaigbo Enu.

Igbo Amaka.

Igbo kwenu.....
nna keep the money coming

Proudly anioma, repping osadebey

Igbo amaka

Igbo amaka!!!!!!!

Reps Afikpo

Ofala festival, check out the colours.

Onitsha Market
Onitsha Market is one of the largest markets in
West Africa.[1] It is governed by one of the most
revered traders associations in Nigeria, the Onitsha
Market Traders Association (OMATA). Most of the
major import merchants from Eastern Nigeria
have their head offices within the market. The
average traders in the area are known to bring in
at least six consignments of 40 tonnes (40-feet
containers) of goods annually. Some of the major
importers do more than 20 consignments of 40
tonnes of goods per year. These include jewelry,
clothing, household, industrial and office
equipment.


It is bounded by the River Niger to the West and
Fegge through Osumaru Road from the East. The
market is secured by the Onitsha Main Market
Vigilante Services working under the auspices of
the Nigeria Police Force. The market can rightfully
be described as the commercial power house of
West Africa. It is massively patronized by
merchants in the ECOWAS sub-region including
Accra, Abidjan, Douala, Niamey and Cotonou to
mention a few.







IGBO AMAKA

Famous Scientist Dr. Emeagwali Hails from Igbo Land


In this day and age when Japanese, Chinese or anyone remotely resembling Asian descent is automatically presumed to hold superior mathematical and technological aptitude, Dr. Emeagwali poses a refreshing reminder (1) to the world that intellectual gifts come in all races, creeds and colors; and (2) to Igbos that when we strive for excellence, there is no limit to what we can achieve ... so strive for excellence!


Dr. Philip Emeagwali
World Renowned Computer Scientist.
So who is Philip Emeagwali, and what has he done that has made him so famous? Emeagwali first entered the international limelight in 1989 when he received the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for performing the world's fastest calculation at 3.1 billion calculations per second. This calculation was remarkable not only because it was twice as fast as the previous world record, but also because of the method used to achieve this phenomenal task. Rather than use a multimillion dollar supercomputer, Emeagwali used the Internet to access 65,536 small computers simultaneously (called massively parallel computers).


Connection Machine programmed by Emeagwali to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Unity is indeed strength as demonstrated by Emeagwali's approach. This technology is revolutionizing the oil industry as it is used to help simulate how to recover oil from oilfields, thus helping oil producing nations to efficiently extract more oil and increase their oil revenues. It is also applicable to the field of meteorology as it can be used to help predict weather patterns for the next 100 years forecast.

Since this invention, Emeagwali has made numerous other achievements and received dozens of honors and awards across the globe in the field of mathematics, science and computers.

Isn't it just like an Igbo, to use existing resources and push them to their fullest potential to achieve unsurpassed results that would revolutionize several major industries at once. Remember Emmanuel Egbujo, inventor of the solar powered car or Damien Anyanwu who invented Radio Mbaise from Igbo traditional methods? Remember during the Nigeria Biafra War when Emeagwali was a mere refugee, his kinsfolk developed the "Ogbunigwe" bomb (popularly called the Ojukwu bucket) which dazzled the world of super powers. They also developed a self-sufficient petroleum refining method which Nigeria is yet to discover.

Ndi Igbo lay claim to Emeagwali's achievements not to subtract from their magnanimity, but to remind our Igbo brothers and sisters that we have a tradition of competitiveness and excellence. However, like many of Nigeria's untapped resources this type of genius lies grossly underdeveloped in millions of Nigerian children and even in ourselves.

Some of Emeagwali's inventions are so complex, that only the most sophisticated computer scientist and mathematicians can understand them. However, the creation of Emeagwali himself is a simple story. Emeagwali was born to Onitsha parents, his father being a nurse and mother a housewife. As a child, his father focused on the development of his son's mathematical skills and required him on a daily basis to solve 100 math problems in one hour. This method helped to develop Emeagwali into a mathematical wizard as his abilities soon surpassed his father's. Although showing great promise, Emeagwali's education threatened to derail when he was forced to drop out of school at the age 14 because his father was unable to pay his school fees. However, Emeagwali continued to study and eventually received a scholarship to Oregon State University in the USA where he earned a B.S. Subsequently, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, two Masters Degrees from George Washington University and a third Masters Degree from the University of Maryland. Isn't it just like an Igbo to overcome such odds only to excel and excel and excel?

And to top it all off, Emeagwali is married to an accompl

ok...proudly Igbo...

Afikpo mask decorated with beads and cowries

Nwanne kedi ife na' eme ebea

NRI NDI IGBO"

You will find an extensive list of Igbo recipes below. These are Nigerian Foods that are indigenous to the Igbo (Ibo) tribe. Feel free to email us your favorites Igbo.
Nke a bu "abacha"
[img]http://www.icogermany.de/media/african_salad_abacha-ugba_nigerian-food_recipes.jpg[/img]
Ofe "okro"
[img]http://www.icogermany.de/media/okra_soup_with_ogbono.jpg[/img]

"Afia Onitsha"
Onitsha bridge

"River naija"

Onitsha cathedral
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Afia Onitsha

Igbo culture

Igbo culture (Igbo: Ọmenala ndị Igbo) are the customs, practices and traditions of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. It comprises archaic practices as well as new concepts added into the Igbo culture either by cultural evolution or by outside influence. These customs and traditions include the Igbo people's visual art, music and dance forms, as well as their attire, cuisine and language dialects. Because of their various subgroups, the variety of their culture is heightened further.


Music

The Igbo people have a melodic and symphonic musical style, which they designed from forged iron. Other instruments include opi, a wind instrument similar to the flute, igba, and ichaka. [1] Another popular musical form among Igbo people is highlife, which is a fusion of jazz and traditional music and widely popular in West Africa. The modern Igbo highlife is seen in the works of Prince Nico Mbarga Dr Sir Warrior, Oliver De Coque, Bright Chimezie, and Chief Osita Osadebe, who are the some of the greatest Igbo highlife musicians of the twentieth century. There are also other notable Igbo highlife artists, like the Mike Ejeagha, Paulson Kalu, Ali Chukwuma, Ozoemena Nwa Nsugbe.

Art

Igbo Art is known for various types of masquerade, masks and outfits symbolising people animals or abstract conceptions. Igbo art is also known for its bronze castings found in the town of Igbo Ukwu from the 9th century.[4] Igbo art is any body of visual art originating from the people of the Igbo. Igbo culture is a visual art and culture[5]

Am so impressed with the topic,please let's use it to promote our culture and values.

Mythology
While today many Igbo people are Christian, the traditional ancient Igbo religion is known as Odinani. In the Igbo mythology, which is part of their ancient religion, the supreme God is called Chukwu ("great spirit"; Chukwu created the world and everything in it and is associated with all things on Earth. Chukwu is also a solar deity. To the ancient Igbo, the Cosmo is divided into four complex parts:[6]
Okike (Creation)
Alusi (Supernatural Forces or Deities)
Mmuo (Spirit)
Uwa (World)





alusi
Alusi, also known as Arusi or Arushi, are minor deities that are worshiped and served in Igbo mythology. There are a list of many different Alusi and each has its own purpose. When there is no longer need for the deity it is discarded.[7

Igbo nwere aka oru.

Eze uzu Awka n'akpu uzu igwe

Dike ndigbo ji eje mba.

Yam The yam is very important to the Igbo as it is their staple crop. There are celebrations such as the New yam festival (Igbo: Iri Ji) which are held for the harvesting of the yam.[8] The New Yam festival (Igbo: Iri ji) is celebrated annually to secure a good harvest of the staple crop. The festival is practiced primarily in Nigeria and other countries in West Africa.[9]


Traditional attire Traditionally the attire of the Igbo generally consisted of little clothing as the purpose of clothing then was to conceal private parts, although elders were fully clothed.[10] Children were usually nude from birth till their adolescence (the time when they were considered to have something to hide) but sometimes ornaments such as beads were worn around the waist for medical reasons. Uli body art was also used to decorate both men and women in the form of lines forming patterns and shapes on the body.

First Nigerian vice chancellor is igbo

Prof. Kenneth dike

Prof Alexander animalu, pioneer of solar energy in Nigeria is an igbo.

Igbo amaka

The Indigeneous Igbo people in United states, Cuba, Jamaica, Barbadoes and Haiti.
The Igbo in the Atlantic slave trade became one of the main ethnic groups enslaved in the era lasting between the 16th and late 19th century.
Located near indigenous Igbo territory, the Bight of Biafra (also known as the Bight of Bonny ), became the principal area in obtaining Igbo slaves.
The Bights major slave trading ports were located in Bonny and Calabar; a large number of these slaves were Igbo. Slaves, kidnapped or bought from fellow Africans, were taken to Europe and the Americas by European slave traders.
An estimated 14.6% of slaves were taken from the Bight of Biafra between 1650 and 1900, the third greatest percentage in the era of the trans-atlantic slave trade. Ethnic groups were fairly saturated in certain parts of the Americas because of planters preferences in certain African peoples.
The Igbo where dispersed to colonies such as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbados, United States, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago among others. Elements of Igbo culture can still be found in these places. In the United States the Igbo were found common in the state of Maryland and Virginia.

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Effects It is estimated that a total of 1.4 million Igbo people were transported (via European ships) across the Atlantic in the era of Atlantic slave trade.
Most of these ships were British. Dispersal Some recorded populations of people of African descent on Caribbean islands recorded 2,863 Igbo on Trinidad and Tobago in an 1813 census; 894 in Saint Lucia in an 1815 census; 440 on Saint Kitts and Nevis in an 1817 census; and 111 in Guayana in an 1819 census.

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Barbados: Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped and first taken to Barbados The Igbo were dispersed to Barbados in large numbers. Olaudah Equiano, a famous Igbo author, abolitionist and ex-slave, was dropped off there after being kidnapped from his hometown near the Bight of Biafra. After arriving in Barbados he was promptly shipped to Virginia. At his time, 44 percent of the 90,000 Africans disembarking on the island (between 1751 and 1775) were from the bight. These Africans were therefore mainly of Igbo origin. The links between Barbados and the Bight of Biafra had begun in the mid-seventeenth century, with half of the African captives arriving on the island originating from there.

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Haiti: Some slaves arriving in Haiti included Igbo people who were considered suicidal and therefore unwanted by plantation owners. According to Adiele Afigbo there is still the Creole saying of Ibos pend'cor'a yo (the slaves hang themselves). Aspects of Haitian culture that exhibit this can be seen in the Ibo loa , a Haitian loa (or deity) created by the Igbo in the Vodun religion.

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Jamaica: Igbo people in Jamaica... Bonny and Calabar emerged as major embarkation points of enslaved West Africans destined for Jamaica's slave markets in the 18th century. Dominated by Bristol and Liverpool slave ships, these ports were used primarily for the supply of slaves to British colonies in the Americas. In Jamaica, the bulk of Igbo slaves arrived relatively later than the rest of other arrivals of Africans on the Island in the period after the 1750s. There was a general rise in the amount of enslaved people arriving to the Americas, particularly British Colonies, from the Bight of Biafra in the 18th century; the heaviest of these forced migrations occurred between 1790 and 1807. The result of such slaving patterns made Jamaica, after Virginia , the second most common destination for slaves arriving from the Bight of Biafra; as the Igbo formed the majority from the bight, they became largely represented in Jamaica in the 18th and 19th century.

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United States:
the Igbo slaves were known for being rebellious. In some states such as Georgia, the Igbo had a high suicide rate.
Igbo slaves were most numerous in the states of Maryland and Virginia, In the 19th century the state of Virginia received around 37,000 slaves from Calabar of which 30,000 were Igbo according to Douglas B. Chambers. The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia estimates around 38% of captives taken to Virginia were from the Bight of Biafra. Igbo peoples constituted the majority of enslaved Africans in Maryland. Chambers has been quoted saying that, "research suggests that perhaps 60 percent of black Americans have at least one Igbo ancestor and their Igboness element can still be traced till today. ...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_people_in_the_Atlantic_slave_trade

IGBO PEOPLE. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

Video documentary of
the inauguration of
Igbo Village, Virginia,
United States
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qmi_Uz7DMA028:26

IGBOS. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

An Africa-American wrote this on a foreign forum.

-Just Call Me Jari-
I've discovered that I
have ancestry Via DNA
from Nigeria according to my doctor, probably
the Igbo people because they seem to have been the main people to be enslaved from that area...

source:
http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=008692;p=1

1. CHUKA UMUNNA- Member, British Parliament.
2. Chief EMEKA ANYAOKU- First Black Secretary General Of The Common Wealth
3. ARUNMA OTEH- Treasurer, World Bank
4. NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA- Vice President, World Bank.

thread
I love this expression, "Ïgbo a maka"
to pieces...

And oo eziokwu, o maka, ofuma ofuma

IGBO-the envy of all tribes. IGBO kwenu.

Igbo, umu chineke. The best house of the lord can be be seen in igbo land.

Ndi Igbo umu chukwu!

St Patrick's Cathedral Awka

Let it be known on this day, the 2nd of November 2015 that this thread, which is a clone and copycat to the original Yoruba thread was created.

Here is the original www.nairaland.com/2684014/thread-yoruba-south-west-development-success

Chai ndigbo and piracy are siamese twins

WETINUSABI:
Let it be known on this day, the 2nd of November 2015 that this thread, which is a clone and copycat to the original Yoruba thread was created.

Here is the original www.nairaland.com/2684014/thread-yoruba-south-west-development-success

Chai ndigbo and piracy are siamese twins

get out of this thread..
No One gives a damn.