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Aro should have handled its neighbors better, then the outcome would have been different.

igbo boy:
anambra is not one, matter of fact onitsha has more in common from history and dialect with those of us across the Niger and less with someone from awka

Haha, he should ask if Umu eze Chima call his "Anambara" people for meetings with the Oncha clan accross the bridge.

By the way, does he even know who Umu eze Chima are?

That's Douglas Chambers. He was key in the creation of this village and he's also the first foreigner to be titled at Nri.

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https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-730776.0.html

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Igbo Village - and beyond - gets a blessing

STAUNTON — The drizzling skies finally cleared when the Eze Nri — the king of Nri in Nigeria — began his blessing at the Frontier Culture Museum's Igbo Farm Village.

Seated on his low, wooden stool, Eze Nri Ènweleána II spoke softly of peace and compassion; of Igbo people seized from their homes and taken into slavery, of his people who had resisted, of their 1,000-year-old culture.

"Today I am here. The spirit of our ancestors are here. The spirits of those who were dragged here by force are here and I am appealing to them to grant us peace," he told a crowd of about 50.

With that, he broke off a small piece of chalk — nzu — he'd carried with him from Nri, crumbled it between his fingers and let it fall gently to the red clay, still damp from the late afternoon rain.

He prayed to those ancestors.

"I am asking them to bless us, to bless this museum, for the sake of history," he explained, before passing the chalk for all to touch.

For the Igbo people, chalk is a connector between the spiritual world and the earth — and sprinkling it on the ground is a powerful invocation, Douglas D. Chambers, a University of Southern Mississippi historian who worked closely with the museum to establish the Igbo village, said after the ceremony.

"It's all about the Earth," he said.

The chalk passed round, then Eze Nri then prayed again.

Seven invocations, seven taps of his staff on the ground.

"Iseh" — amen — the Igbos in the crowd chanted, each time; guests from Staunton soon chimed in as well.

"I am praying for peace, for your families, that you suffer no evil," the Eze Nri explained.

He serves as the high priest of Nri, and as custodian of his people's culture, he said later. It was moving, he said, to see traditional adobe and thatch buildings in Staunton. Back in Nigeria, more and more people build with brick and block.

The village will become a shrine for Igbo in America, he said. But it matters, too, to Igbo back in Nigeria.

"It is bringing the past back for the future," he said.

http://www.newsleader.com/article/20110731/NEWS01/107310335/Igbo-Village-beyond-gets-blessing?odyssey=topicpage

A royal blessing for the Frontier Museum's Igbo Village

STAUNTON, Va. --
Saturday offered a perfect culmination to the labor on the Frontier Culture Museum’s Igbo Farm Village.

Constructing the exhibit took five years and meant crossing continents to replicate a critical 1700s link to the history of blacks in the Shenandoah Valley and in Virginia. The work was finished a year ago.

So it was only fitting that on Saturday evening that the Igbo Farm Village received a sacred blessing from the leader of Nri, part of the Igbo nation in Africa.

His Royal Highness Eze Nri Ènweleána II blessed the year-old exhibit with rituals of his culture.

The Eze Nri offered a white chalk that all participants in the ceremony touched. He blessed the village with a staff of authority made of African mahogany.

He also left reminders of the Igbo culture that will remain at the village.

They include a red hat with eagle feathers that signify a traditional man, and beads that a traditional man wears. Fiber made in Nri was left, too.

The pain of the Igbo nation’s past also was never far away from Saturday’s ceremony.

A large percentage of Virginia’s slaves came to this country from the Igbo nation, according to Douglas Chambers, a University of Southern Mississippi historian who consulted on the Igbo village and helped officiate Saturday.



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The Eze Nri said the wounds that slavery caused his people haven’t fully healed.

“It deprived us of brothers and sisters and population,” he said. “We still mourn it.”

He said modern Igbo housing is characterized by a slight variation from the museum’s village that includes clay and sand buildings with thatched roofs.

“Now people use bricks and blocks,” he said.

Chambers said Nri is a place symbolized by peace and compassion.

And the Eze Nri spoke of how “we do not kill people, we do not go to war.”

He also said Igbos depend heavily on the production of yams.

Frontier Culture Museum Director John Avoli thanked the Eze Nri for the visit and the blessing he offered.

He seemed overwhelmed by the day’s events when asked for his reaction.

“This is fantastic,” he said. “What an experience.”

Avoli has said before that the Igbo Farm Village is vital to the museum. He said a West African farm was needed because the museum already had paid tribute to the heritage of other Shenandoah Valley settlers, including the Germans, the Scots-Irish and the British.

http://www2.newsvirginian.com/news/2011/jul/31/royal-blessing-frontier-museums-igbo-village-ar-1208282/

*Okwu na okà-free thread, biko.

Andre Uweh:
Nwannemadu, kedu ka unu si na ede ihe na abugi Igbo. Me ka ha mara na o bu Igbo.

You see how Dr. Doo Little could communicate with elephants and chimpanzees, he had to speak their own language. So me as well, I want to enlighten the ozodimgba's, so I have to communicate in Ozodimgba language. Slowly, slowly they'll learn.

Ape-dom is not their fault now.

Most people are beating their chest about having the most ethnocentric region, [size=18pt]while Enugu's first mayor was 'Northern'.[/size]

Just breathe in, breathe out, and let it goooooo.

It's not that serious.

If you have confidence in your people's power over their own land, then maybe one day your region won't be a tribal enclave.

Heebows don't want Lagos, Heebows want your soul!

Oh my, some people are really paranoid.

"Genocide of Igbo people." You people are ridiculous.

Awori, repeat after me "Let my people go!"

Um, I'm pretty sure the people marginalising them is Yoruba people.

pleep:
Who cares, we all live in 3rd wold countries.

That's really just it.

Would you understand? The only thing you understand is Fashola building Awolowo libraries.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=729479.msg8877523#msg8877523 date=1312775036]North and West do have better standards and opportunities, your population in these regions attest to that.

The progenitor is the standard bearer for the character and the bearing of the child.

Blind a child to that knowleddge and he becomes a wandered lost in the wilderness of human race. Never able to get his bearings right.[/quote]Igbo people are everywhere. Every where is opportunity for money, nothing really special about these place.

I can name several successful nations without one progenitor, it's really not needed for anything, especially when the story is a myth of a man from space.

Awori should not let themselves become the new Ogoni. Pushback the invading force!

It's the new term for "Awesome group dominating your economy everything".

Hee Hee Hee Hee.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=729479.msg8877335#msg8877335 date=1312769358]If they did there will not be deniers backing away from the idenitity.[/quote]https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-729430.0.html

*sigh*

These Awori people should go and ask Ikwerre people for guidance, those would be the Heebows of Port Harcourt.

All this talk would be relevant if North and South Western Nigeria had better living standards than the South East, unfortunately belief in a paramount progenitor does little more than empower the elites.

Every Igbo community knows who they are and don't need fairytales to tell them that.

The progenitor myth is a cheap propaganda used by royal families all over the world. "My ancestor fell from the sky, worship me". I'm glad the Igbo kept their individualistic attitudes because we can all see what that has led to. All Igbo communities know who they are, no second guessing whether their progenitor with another Igbo community is from Benin or not.

By the way, is Oduduwa from Mecca, Katsina, Benin, Ekiti or Heaven?

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=729479.msg8876224#msg8876224 date=1312751131]I've discussed the topic with people far knolwedgable than you on Ibo culture and they all agree you don't have any one hereditary.

Yorubas have Oduduwa. Hausas have Bayajjida. Ibos have none!  The Nri you all claim is a subordinate to Aro confederacy, which itsel no one knows where its roots lie. Is it indigenus or settler, no one can tell.


Everything point to a bunch of different peoples forced away from their roots and  conglomerated under a language.

Go down African history and study how great peoples acrrue power.  If colonization had not happened you would by now be a tributary of Bini empire. Whiteman saved you from an inevitable wipeout.[/quote]Another efulefu learning about Nigeria through nairaland. How can Odudwa be the progenitor of a race of people he lived amongst as friends and colleagues? Every ancient community has tales of a divine progenitor, it's only an idiot who takes tales of a man falling from the sky and Ile Ife being the center of the world as facts.

OP please edit the title, Igbo people are not a faded empire. Thanks.

[size=14pt]Enemy More Highly Trained Now[/size]

During the Aro campaign in 1901-2, at the fight of Okoroji’s Farm, the most elaborate series of beautifully made and concealed trenches was discovered. For about half a mile before the trenches were encountered the country was fairly open, being covered with tufts of grass a few feet high, and stunted bushes. On entering this open country the leading company had reinforced the scouts, and advanced in extended order, followed by the leading maxims and a 75 millimetre gun, ready for action. The flankers were well thrown out. The advance was continued in this formation. When the extended company arrived at a point about 300 yards from where the path and the enemy’s trench met (see plan), an exceedingly heavy fire was opened by the enemy. They were well armed, and the Snider bullets began to hum over the heads of the troops, sounding like a swarm of bees. The puffs of smoke of the guns appeared along such a regular line in the bush that trenches and a prepared position were suggested at once. This being so, a halt was made, and, with the object of occupying his attention, the guns opened a heavy fire, directed at the white puffs immediately in front. Parties were then sent right and left to outflank the trenches. The left hand party found none, but seriously interfered with one line of retreat which the enemy had prepared for himself. The right hand party was taken in flank while advancing, and had to turn right hand and charge the enfilading trench, which it did with great dash ; then working on, it successively took the remaining trenches, and got on to the enemy’s other line of retreat. The guns in the centre then ceased fire, and the trenches in front were taken by assault, thus co-operating with the flanking parties. The enemy fled headlong, and suffered severely. Prisoners afterwards reported that these trenches were manned by 2,500 Aros, and 5,000 more were in the town half 5 a mile off, with swords and matchets, ready to aid in cutting up the column as soon as it had been thrown into confusion. The section and finish of these trenches were admirable, and their well-planned position made it difficult to believe that they were not the work of some highly trained men. It call be seen that this position would not have been taken if the troops had remained on the path and been content to fire volleys at the smoke of the enemy’s guns.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL W. C. G. HENEKER, D.S.O.

Bloemfontein, August 22, 1906.

Bush warfare
http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/DLCD-DCSFT/pubs/bushwarfare/BushWarFare.pdf

Anambra is nothing more than a Nigeria state that wasn't even in its present form until 20 years ago. The name itself is a corruption of Omambara. Stop this nonsense. Anambra is not a clan or cultural group.

Google must be down.

Eko Ile:
These incompetent olodo and their sily excuses and finger pointing, this is not about me or fashola, this is about zik the ibo man that ibo people like you neglected, every past nigerian leaders has a repectable grave, only incompetent and lazy ibo people are are still crying for theb federal government to ties their shoes for them.

I'm really glad you brought up Fashola, Fashola remains what your leaders wanna, but will never be, it too FAshola less thant 2 years to build a museum, a library and lerning center for Awolowo, but 16 years after you lazy people dumped ziks body inside rubbish and after the same incompetent federal government promised to help you lazy people, zik is still inside the same dump.

Shameless people with no sense of pride.

I like the south east being the least impoverished, rather than the region with the most libraries named after Nnamdi Azikiwe. The Fashola praising shows how much lack of leadership Nigeria has, I mean what has he really done, oh, except, maybe his job.

Deifying living humans is not to the likings of the south east. The other regions have that covered.

What have you achieved in life except to post Fashola pics all day? What postion have you gotten where you can tell who is lazy and who isn't lazy. You're fond of talking about the federal status of roads in Lagos, yet ordinary citizens are supposed to take care of a national monument where the leader isn't even buried?

I don't understand people who identify so strongly with states. Somebody from Oka is not the same as a person from Onicha, and will be told this.