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Moderators, please can one of you delete this thread.
A thread to mock our first lady, this is not right.

Igba Nkwu Nwanyi.
The kindred plays an active part in Igbo trad marriage. When you are marrying an Igbo lady, the items in the list collected before the d-day is shared between the kindred. An aspect of Igbo culture.

Here, the father blesses the couple.

ifyalways:
I am a sucker for traditional weddings! Love it. Yet to understand the rhyme or reason a couple would need to wear white and go swear oaths before men and . . . Funny thing is that the white wedding ish have no biblical history or roots.

Anyways, dede Andrew ole nke bu umu ashebi?is that an igbo word or culture?ndi enyi bride should be appropriate.

Ifymgbeobula, thanks for bringing this issue up. Ashebi is not an Igbo word probably Yoruba, but has been copied into Igbo language, like I said earlier, Igbo culture is not stagnant.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-834409.0.html
Mods, please can you post the above thread on the front page.

Relax101:
Hahaha, some people go bring wahala about those beads wey the girl wear.
Andre uweh, You go home for christmas?

Nwannemmadu, no wahala, Igbo culture is not static. Our neighbours have borrowed from us and we have borrowed from them as well.

The bride is often accompanied by her colleagues who are not yet married-Umu ASHEBI.

One fundamental principle in Igbo marriage is reflected in the saying ''anaghi alusi nwanyi alusi'', and that literally translated means, that the worth of a woman cannot be quantified in material terms.
As such, one does not in practice pay the full bride and whatever that is done with regard to the bride price, is symbolic.

Bride and groom at Igba Nkwu ceremony.

Igba Nkwu Nwanyi displays Igbo culture and meanings to the fullest. There are so many aspects of it. How about that special pot for pouring libation, to pray for good things that the newly married couple wish themselves; to pray for good luck, fruits of of the womb (children), long life, happy married life and prosperity. This aspect is usually done by the father of the bride or any elder from the bride's family or kindred. My most favourite.
The traditional Igbo religion believes in re-incarnation, it also believes that the dead are alive in the spirit world. That is why the Fathers and Elders invoke them to intercede in their supplication to God almighty.
If you attend an Igba Nkwu, and you have not witnessed this aspect, do not go yet. There are other interesting aspects. Ndigbo, show to the world.

Bride displaying at her Igba Nkwu.

The day is full of merriment. At different places and various times, the son-in-law provides all the drinks-pots of palm wine, carton's of beer, crates of soft drinks, bottles of hot drinks, tobacco etc. The father-in-law provides the food.

Igba Nkwu Nwanyi (wine carrying), Ibu Nkwu Nwanyi or Ihe Nrisa is the climax of marriage in Igbo culture. It is the traditional wedding ceremony. That day, kindreds (Ikwu na ibe) of both families, friends, well-wishers, would officially know that the girl has been given out in marriage; that day, people officially know the husband of the girl. It is on that day that the young is officially handed over to her husband, It is on that day that the two become husband and wife traditionally. That day, her colleagues who are yet to get married, would assemble with their music to entertain and to send her off.

Ndigbo, come and show to the world the rich cultural heritage of our people through Igba Nkwu Nwanyi.

@Tpia@
You asked a very important question about moving from Kano state to Niger state.
Anyway, Mandala where the accident happened might have been in Niger state but very close to Abuja. A lot of people who work in Abuja reside in towns very close to Abuja and that includes Mandala, Suleja, Zuba etc all in Niger state. All this areas are thickly peopled by the Igbo. Most people who reside in this areas see themselves as people in in Abuja and not Niger state.

For God's sake, Ekiti, Ijebu, Ijesha are Yoruba dialects. Also, Enuani, Ika and Ikwerre are Igbo dialects.
Be reasonable guys.

Swaginton:
Hi guys, am uche frm umutu,ukwuani lg, i waz born and bred in nz bt evr since i came back home last september,av bn yearnin 2 learn and speak ukuwani, i felt lik a stranger durin d 'aja' day even after survivin racists back in nz(am nt sayin my pple discriminate), anyway,i wud b very grateful if any1 shows mi d best,easiest an d fastest way 2 learn it, pretti pls

Hi Swangiton, nice you are interested in learning your dialect. Do you mind learning the general Igbo as you are unable to get help for Ukwuani dialect. General Igbo when learnt will afford you with the opportunity of communicating with your 40 million Igbo people worldwide. Some tips on Igbo language
parts of the body:
Aka-hand.
Isi-head.
Anya-eye
Nti-ear
Onu-mouth
Imi-nose
More to follow.

Chyz*:
These people don't want to associate with Igbo at all. Some of them, upon all the mistreatment by the Edo gov, want to continue staying in Edo state. They the want to stay are asking that they get their own separate LGA. They now want to drop their Igbanke identity completely and take up the name ika. They have identity crisis. Can you believe that they had a conference abt a week and a half ago in lagos and was asking their people whether they should take up the identity of Bini or Ika?!!! What a shame. I don't know whether to feel sorry for them or laugh at them. Wow! it translates that they would rather be called somehting that they are obviously not(bini) than to fully claim Igbo. If we allow them into Anioma and they take the ika name, they will cause disuntiy among the ika and Anioma as a whole. Majority of Ika already claim Igbo but the Igbanke will spoil all of that. Its better they stay out of Anioma.

I also followed the events at that conference in Lagos. Most of them who spoke reiterated the need to join Anioma. I have copies of the speeches delivered.

Chyz*:
@PhysicsQED, do you think its best that the Igbanke and Oza nogogo work with each other in such a way that the Oza Nogogo people will be ceded to Edo state and the Igbanke to Delta(basically swap place)?


Although, because of recent interactions with these people(the igbankes) i dont really want them in Anioma State, but that is besides the point.

Why do you not want them to be with their kits and kins in Igbo areas or states?.

Musiwa, for Christ sake, count Delta out. What is wrong with you?.

mikeansy:
Mr Yakassai the Igbos are no longer your problem.

Power may come to the North after Jonathan but it will stop in middle belt.

It will not come to muslim North!

Word.

Let's hope Chelsea wins her first EPL dearby this season.
Chelsea 3:1 Fulham.

lalaboi:
Merry Christmas Chelseans

Same to you, victory is ours.

igbo boy:
for your mind u be MOD


I agree with you on this one, not all delta north is igbo area, Ika for one are not igbos, (they dont even know who they are, lost souls), and I know that some parts of delta north/anioma region that border urhobo/isoko areas are not exclusively igbo,


I know for sure though that Oshimili is 100% igbo cant speak for other Delta North areas though.

Please do not regard Ika people as non Igbo because of agbontaen. That will be an insult to Ogbuefi and other proud Igbo people of Ika. Agbontaen is fighting a lost battle.
Ekeresimesi oma nwannemadu.

ChinenyeN:
I don't even have time to argue so much about Igbo that I don't even speak. So I'll just say this.
**and make some corrections as well, to certain things I stated earlier**

1. I did make a mistake in one of the things I wrote, confusing Church Missionary Society (CMS) for Roman Catholic Missionary (RCM). The Onitsha Bible was RCM. CMS was Union. RCM's Onitsha Bible only existed because RCM didn't want to use CMS's Union.

2. The first Igbo Bible (Onitsha) was produced during the Union Igbo era. Before then, there was no Bible-producing/writing, but there were Bible translations, which had since been ongoing in both Onitsha and Bonny.

3. Owerri shows up in the SPILC Izugbe (said to be Umuahia and Owerri); the now 'Standard Igbo'.

4. Isuama never had a Bible produced, but they had extensive word-lists and dictionaries.

O.K, is it Efik, Ibibio, Yoruba, Hausa, Nupe, Urhobo that you speak in relation to the bolded part?.

aribisala0:
when we all remain silent no one knows who is foolish. It is only when we speak that all doubt is removed

Then let Ndikwerre speak. Not you.

aribisala0:
Jonathan is on Facebook why not ask him

That promiscous bigot -Kay Williams was hired before GEJ's adm, so no point asking him. Most things discussed here also happened before GEJ's adm.
Your aim here is to preach division among Igbo groups.

Why did the fed govt hire Kay Williams to class Igbo dialects and no Yoruba dialects. Does the later have no dialects?.

Why didn't the silly woman class Mbaise or my own Isinweke?.

very good.

The last time I attended a Church in near P.H (in Ikwerreland), the service was in English with an Igbo translator. This sort of thing is not done outside Igboland. I remember some churches in Yorubaland do the same for example sermon in Yoruba with an English translator.
It is so shameful that a non Ikwerre Aribisala0) is hear wasting his time in an attempt to divide Ndigbo.