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Ufie drum, Southern Ikwerri

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Small ikoro drum, Ohafia

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Female carving at other end
of large ikoro drum, Ohafia

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Male carving at one end of
large ikoro drum, Ohafia

[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/ikoro1.JPG[/img]

Igbo Idoma Wooden Dance Mask

https://ancientafricanmasks.com/for%20web/1238.jpg

Uli is an expression of the people’s capacity for creative design, which is firmly rooted in their myths and their experience of life in the past, present and future. At its best, it is an expression of their synthetic present, the epic of their search for a new order in the contemporary world. It is my traditional art style, which I have fallen in love with all over again and it is a privilege to share uli with you in my works. It has been shown that the knowledge of uli motifs and symbols and their application enables one to identify the traditional Igbo artifacts, giving validity to the people’s aesthetic intelligence and judgment. This culture is one of the first known cultures of the world in the recorded archeologically facts to have done bronze casting. (Igboukwu bronze).


Uli symbols may be said to show graphically how the organic forms grow outwards from the core of those elements to point, line, triangle, square and circle that are universal to the concentric circle at the periphery, which contains reflections of everyday world as seen by the artists. Just as the inner circle reflects the uncommon reality or ritual reality of the cultural existence, so the outer circle is in contact with the human and ecological reality, which it expresses. Artistic activities at Enugu formed part of the early post-1960 independence developments in the country. There was the growing local and international popularity of Nigerian novelists, dramatists, poets, literary critics, architects, artists, and musicians, and scholars. Interesting collaborations took place among those in the literary performing, and visual arts, particularly in southern Nigeria. The efforts and artistic lives of these minds sowed a flourishing seed for an uncommon global harvest. I give thanks to God for these great minds, your outstanding contributions will not be forgotten.

Uli creations relied heavily on drawing skills whose content is based largely on Igbo culture, particularly female body and wall painting called uli and on Igbo tales, ceremonies, and beliefs. The revival of interest in uli through contemporary art had begun with Uche Okeke in the 1960s, when Nigeria's independence produced a growing sense of freedom from colonial restraints on cultural tradition. It fully developed among teachers and students in the 1970s at the University in Nsukka and was linked to renewed interest in Igbo culture after the destructive Biafran War.





Traditional uli motifs, now rarely painted on human bodies or walls, have a strong linear, often curvilinear, quality. The art makes use of contrasts between positive and negative space, its images at times appearing as sky constellations. Uli’s lyrical qualities express harmony and brevity. It is art style that has often been created in freedom and spontaneity. “Uli is a pride heritage".

Uli motifs generally refer to images of everyday Igbo life, farm and cooking tools, pots, plants, birds, animals, the sun, the moon, and the kola nut, though some are pure design. For ceremonial occasions and important events, skilled Igbo female artists painted uli to add beauty to the human body and the walls of buildings and compounds. Uli has made her way in modern social settings; on sculptural surfaces and on paper, board, and canvas, framed and hung on walls in homes, institutions, and galleries of the world. Magic of Uli Lines, which is an extended dot or a moving point, has very many possibilities, particularly, the quickly drawn one. My drawing explores the evocative and lyrical possibilities of line and derives from Uli. The Uli artist works spontaneously whether on the human body or the wall.



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Ojionu

https://www.remnantsofritual.com/photos/049_Msk-Igbo.jpg

Igbo-Ukwu Culture Bronze Bowl, ca. 9th or 10th century A.D.

https://culture.chiamaka.com/images/igbo-ukwu22.jpg

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Eko Ile:
LMAO.

Dude is a dirty old man, his world and existence is about ghayyyy and h.omose.xual, fantasies.

Say good morning to that adofuro and he'll come back with ghayyy and other ghayyy fantasies and lingos.

I know the clown is happy to be out of the closet, but damn, slow down and quit chasing and sniffing people's a.s.s on NL.

What kind of fhaggoott names himself a.s.snifer? LMAO. Adofuro oshi buruku.

LOL Happy saturday o chai!!!!

Fstranger is a cool dude a bit sick though but good guy, you people just need to know him more

auwal87:
I was actually thinking its closer to 400 million now.

LOL, for where

2006 = 150 million
5 years later 2011= 200 million

50 million people have been added to Nigeria within 5 years thus 10 million every year population of Kano every year.

Na lie, Nigeria can not be 200 million. Big lie

Afam and co

You people made me digress to Lagos issues abi

Lets use Rivers state as an example next time

Why can't Igbos, Yoruba and Hausa be called indigenes why only Ikwerre, Ijaws Ogoni etc are the Indigenes ?

Reason for this is because I am yet to see a Kanuri man rule and be treated as a PH man

or an Ijaw rule and be treated as an indigene of Enugu state.

kasiem:
Never expect almajiri-harem appreciate anything igbo. The guy is trying to make me turn back to tribalism, but, the nascent characters of ileke, rhino, etc is just pacifying me.

Dude if you want to be a tribalist then fine, I am not holding you.

did you even read my post at all

What do you mean I see nothing good in Igbo ? Maybe you need to be reading my post more often if u are that interested

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=782580.msg9347883#msg9347883 date=1318719331]I said so because he is a philanthropist which is a plus and not a visionary leader but the media make him appear like a visionary leader.[/quote]

afam4eva:
@ Alh_harem
This your talk of behaving like a lagosian to become a lagosian is very porous. Ask yourself this question "How do lagosians behave". I thought every human being was unique.

Yes every Human is unique but human population, we have pockets of connections that gives us a sense of identity

Jukun have there culture in adamawa, Idoma have there culture in beune , Lagos has his own culture and the indigenes value that like every other person/ Human being.

asha 80:
ask a lagosian

Better still sorry, I should rephrase my statement

How did Orji know those Igbos from Abia and those from Imo and other SE states ?

asha 80:
hausas are more likely pointed out in lagos than igbos so stop all these nonsense talks

Yes igbos as well, sorry for the omission. Moreover how can a Lagosian Point out a non-indigene ?

tampa1871:
This is the major problem besetting Nigeria, imagine someone conceived, born, raised, went to school, work and speaks Lagos language being referred to as non-indigene simply because his/her parents are not Lagosians, until we do away with this primitive definition of State of origin in our constitution, this nation can never be truly united. For me, if you live in a place for 2 years continuously, you are a resident of that place.

And you think that without state of origin, the nation would be truly united ?

Why are beroms killing Hausas since Jos is a no man's land as well as lagos and abuja

If you speak Lagos language, know and act like a lagosian then YOU ARE A LAGOSIAN AND NO ONE CAN SAY OTHERWISE unless you do not behave or speak Lagos then you can easily be seen for who you are as a non-indigene.

People from Ogun and even edo, hausa and Itsekiris can pass because you can not tell the difference. That is the whole point of migrating to a region, You blend in with the indigenes even the point that they can not point you out.

Chikena

phantom:
smooth criminals

mbatuku1:
Why do you say so? I'm yet to read anything to suggest he makes false claims.

I said so because he is a philanthropist which is a plus and not a visionary leader but the media make him appear like a visionary leader.

Unlike fashola who is not a philianthropist but a visionary leader ie a planner

Katz and stranger LOL dying of laughter LOL

philanthropist, President

Lies Propaganda

Using Fashola

Lagos Money