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Igbo mask, not sure of name.

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Some other Igbo shrines and temples.

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Ukara cloth, a product of Arochukwu.

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I'm not sure, but I think this mask is 'Ojiọnụ' a mask that mimics a bird. The masker is holding a rattle.

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More Igbo Ukwu items.

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A chief mourning an Obi of Onicha in the 60's.

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Okonko leopard society displays in Umuahia.

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Actual Afikpo masks.

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Unusual art gallery installation remixing Afikpo masks.

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Nice continuation of Igbo architecture in Enugu, CIDJAP or the Ofu Obi Africa Center.

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Eru-wa-mgbede (Aro quarters, Isiokpo)

The Eru-wa-mgbede mask-character of Aro-Isiokpo offers a rounded personality exhibiting characteristics of omumu beauty that includes qualities of gentleness and strength as earlier discussed. She is a female mask accompanied by both men and women. She displays gentleness in her subtle movement and dance, but strength and vigor are evident in the amazing dashing movements as well as the extraordinary ‘flying feats” regarded as supernatural. Preparation for the part is a big challenge for the male actor who must perfect his portrayal of feminine and masculine actions as well as supernatural feats. Acrobatics hardly pose much problem for actors in the community where the sport is a major pass-time. However, extensive rehearsal and preparation are required for the extraordinary actions that appear supernatural. Preparation includes seclusion, absence from sexual contact, plantain based vegetable diet, chewing of medicinal root called ugbugbo, and spiritual communion. Although I tried to explain his seclusion and concentration on his theatrical goal, abstainance that helped to conserve his energy and the vegetarian diet that kept him agile for female dance, the actor insisted that metaphysics was largely responsible for his actions.

http://www.chiwrite.com/female%20power.html

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Igbo hats and helmets for protecting the head against blows in battle.

If Yoruba, Benin, and Hausa combine in boycotting "nollywood" films, the rest of Africa is still there. People make films about popular stories get over it. Or should the Igbo ask for their hymns and slang's back?

ChinenyeN:
. . . speaking of town names, I'm nearly done with my write-up on Bonny. Anyone interested in reading it once I finish?

Please, post it when you finish.

alex101:
Chei! Ndigbo ana me' kenne unu! Chukwu gozie ri ayi niche' di e' gwu

  At a time like this, I feel we have been massively short changed by not having our own country YET. We Igbo are known to venture where no nigerian will venture- this is what sets us apart from these nigerians,,,,we're light years ahead of these folks in this regard. Anywhere the nigerian factor is not at play, my brothers/sisters of the great Igbo race, I can confidently report to you all that we tower above our adversaries,,,,,INFACT, there is no competition, NONE
  As one whose job takes him places, I can report to you all that I met with our brothers of Igbo extraction in Angola, Gabon, Ivory coast, Kenya, DR-Congo,
Congo-brazzaville, RSA, Namibia, Ecuador, Jamaica et.al. and they are doing what we as a people are known for- carving a niche in business for their respective selves I remember the bed and breakfast lodge I stayed at, in Quito, was/is owned by our Igbo brother and his lovely Igbo wife.
 May this our brother and others like him in china continue to prosper, AMEN! May Igbo businesses in the homeland (Innonso and others) continue to grow against all odds. Finally and most importantly, may the SUN RISE AGAIN IN THE LAND OF THE EAST, AMEN

I've even heard of them prospering as far as the Pacific Ocean. Gini chukwara ha rute ebe ahu?

To your prayer I say Iseeeee!

That's his problem, from his posts you can see he goes "hard" a bit too often. Sexual frustration should be kept to oneself, you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKXBQT5yI0s&hl=en&fs=1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQh3r1FhWiA

[size=14pt]Weaving the world together - The Economist[/size]

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Chike Obidigbo, for example, runs a factory in Enugu, Nigeria, making soap and other household goods. He needs machines to churn palm oil and chemicals into soap, stamp it into bars and package it in plastic. He buys Chinese equipment, he says, because although it is not as good as European stuff, it is much cheaper. But it is difficult for a Nigerian firm to do business in China. Mr Obidigbo does not speak Chinese, and he cannot fly halfway around the world every time he wants to buy a new soap machine. Worse, if something goes wrong neither the Chinese government nor the Nigerian one is likely to be much help.

Yet Mr Obidigbo's firm, Hardis and Dromedas, manages quite well with the help of middlemen in the African diaspora. When he wants to inspect a machine he has seen on the internet, he asks an agent from his tribe, the Igbo, who lives in China to go and look at it. He has met several such people at trade fairs. “When you hear people speaking Igbo outside Nigeria, you must go and greet them,” he laughs.

He trusts them partly because they are his ethnic kin, but mostly because an Igbo middleman in Guangdong needs to maintain a good reputation. If a middleman cheats one Igbo, all the others who buy machinery in Guangdong will soon know about it. News travels fast on the diaspora grapevine.

Thanks in part to Mr Obidigbo's diaspora connections, Hardis and Dromedas is thriving. It employs 300 workers and sells about 300m naira-worth ($2m) of products each year. And it is just one of many African firms that use migrants as their eyes and ears in distant lands. The number of Africans living in China has exploded from hardly any two decades ago to tens of thousands today. One area of Guangzhou is now home to so many African traders that the locals call it Qiao-ke-li Cheng (Chocolate City).

Continued: http://www.economist.com/node/21538700

Can you believe there was a Blackberry advert underneath the story?

Some people seem to be very sexually frustrated.