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To answer your answer question simply and relevantly, Anyanwu is the Sun of god.

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Pendant of a man with ichi marks symbolizing sun rays on his face, Igbo Ukwu, 9th century.

Alj Uche:
sorry is it in igbo culture to wear tie or is it a colonal culture which was brought to igbos

i would like to know your answer brother

Go and find out where Agbada and Boubou is from first and then come and answer your own question.

Omenani:
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Amadioha

Amadioha is wearing a middle class Igbo man's clothing because culture is not stagnant. The lady (always protecting his left) is Ala or Ajala, the most powerful Alusi, the Alusi of earth, fertility and morality. You know, Nne has to wear her own imported shorts as well.

Omenani:
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Igbo Shrine Panel, Nigeria

This is Kalabari.


I know, same thing.

ifyalways:
Thank you.
I've seen and walked past a few okwu arushi's and no matter where or what it stands for,there is always a carved mask amongst other things.
Ogwugwu,Agbala and co are not represented with a carved mask  

Agbala is what Christian call the "Holy Spirit", Anyanwu is "Jesus".

Did I get the others right?

PhysicsMHD:
"Agha s'Edo, Edo ore odion, Edo gha se isi, Edo ore vbe odion"  - when one reaches the Benin country, Benin is the senior, and when the Benin reach other people's country, they still retain their seniority 

I'm guessing Agha means 'if they go', odion means 'it is senior', 'gha' means go, 'Edo gha se isi' is 'If Edo goes to their own'.

PhysicsMHD:
1987   "Mbari and Olokun Compared," Nigeria Magazine, Federal Department of Culture, National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, Vol. 55, No.4, Oct-Dec, pp.32-36.

Another communication form. Aroko (and Olokun) seems to have been used by different ethnic groups like nsibidi, but I don't think Aroko is writing.

MaziUche0:
I am not even talking about all Igbos, because nsibidi was unknown to the Western Igbos. The only Igbo group that used Nsibidi and perfected it, were the Aro Igbo.

You're wrong, Bende, Ebonyi and Ngwa people used it as well.

His name was Marcus Karachi, he changed his name to fit into the diaspora.

macjive01:
Nto Ete (family members)
6. Nka Ekong of N10,000
Iban Nda Usung (Women Vanguard)
EDem Eka

"Igbo"?

Hahahaha

[quote author=tpiah! link=topic=618743.msg7867204#msg7867204 date=1299543527]not another "who is uglier" debate i hope.

must we have an ugliness meter.[/quote]What debate? I was agreeing.

fstranger3:
Very obvious from his ugliness that he is Ibo, he couldnt have been anything else.

Yeah, the Igbo are very ugly.

lovelylady:
How about Mae Jemison?

https://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i9/kiki1978/MaeJemison1.jpg

Hausa and Chinese.

lovelylady:
Angela Bassett

https://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i9/kiki1978/Angela20Bassett-MMA-000024.jpg

She needs to go back to Enugwu.

lovelylady:
Mekhi Phifer

https://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i9/kiki1978/mekhi-phifer.jpg

Him too.

lovelylady:
Omar Epps

https://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i9/kiki1978/omar-epps-picture.jpg

Bonjour Cameroon.

lovelylady:
Gerren Taylor

https://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i9/kiki1978/gerren_taylor_from_baldwin_hills.jpg

E'kabo, Lagosian creole descendant.

lovelylady:
Denzel Washington

https://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i9/kiki1978/denzel.jpg

Son of Emeka and Running Fox.

Alj Uche:
no no no, edwin is one of the most powerful man in ijaw land

orji is one of the most powerful man in igboland although not the most powerful but certainly influential at of present

How does this make them reliable?

jason123:
It was a cheeky remark . . .

Relax

Okay, so you've realised that they're nobody?

jason123:
From Orgi Uzor Kalu to Edwin Clark. . . . Hmmmm, I think these people are secret Awoist.

Who are Orji Kalu and Edwin Clark for you to be getting excited?

Post people speaking Igbo. Please no music.

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Omenani:
Very informative thread. However, I would like to know the cradle of civilization for the Igbo people.

Some people say it's between Nsukka and Okigwe.

For the proper story, read Philip A. Igabfe (1971) Western Ibo Society and Its Resistance to British Rule: The Ekumeku Movement 1898-1911, and this should be in culture.

jason123:
LOL!
Keep provoking the yorubas on their land . . . . . . . . . . . . .

And what will happen?

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=617568.msg7852950#msg7852950 date=1299361341]Well it is seen as an abomination. And he was probably disowned by his father. His life would be in jeopardy in Nigeria, especially in Igboland.[/quote]The most people will do is laugh at him. I don't know about abomination.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=617568.msg7854017#msg7854017 date=1299373897]No tribalism here, but SEasterners (esp Igbomen/women) tend to be more homosexual.[/quote]You are so stupıd that it cannot be explained enough with language.

amazonia:
Edo did have types of written communications. One of them is called AROKO.
It still used today mainly among the priestly groups. It is based on BINARY elements.

Are Aroko (from the Yoruba) objects that represent meaning?

PhysicsMHD:
Please provide more information on this. This is the first I'm hearing about this.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1771712.pdf

PhysicsMHD:
The only written symbols of the Edo that I'm familiar with are the Olokun symbols, which are strictly religious and not for daily communication.

That is how Chinese writing started.

rasputinn:
Onitsha is NEVER spelt as Onicha by ANYBODY.

Are you sure?

The box hat is interesting. It looks powerful. Did Edo have any type of writing they communicated with (like to generals and the queen mother and all, giving them signs or a word)?

owobokiri:
I was told that all you need to do to have your Ikwerre name is to simply add the letter "R" to any Igbo name and you have an Ikwerre name. EG; Obinna = Robinna. (maybe this is how we got "Robinho). Emeka = Remeka. Okoro = Rokoro. .

O wu nani Robinho? Ronaldinho kwanu?

PhysicsMHD:
You might be right, although I have never heard the Scottish people denouncing the UK monarchy as not also theirs, so until you provide some evidence for this . . .it's seems like speculation on your part. Obviously there are some Scots that want an independent Scotland, but that's kind of another matter entirely.

My comment was referring to the fact that it was actually a Scottish king (James I of "England" that unified the monarchies of Scotland and England, and not the other way around. So they've been involved since the 1600s.

If you saw that movie, The Queen (I saw it on an airplane; I wouldn't have paid to see it), you would have noticed all those royals, including the Queen and her husband, wearing Scottish kilts. Assuming the depiction was reasonably accurate, it would be pretty weird behavior for them to engage in, if they weren't acknowledging their Scottish ancestry.

You don't need to rely on nairaland, just as a British person how well Scottish and English people get on. They were with the monarchy from the beginning, but the Germans came too, the French people came too. . . . I'm not saying every Scottish person dislikes the monarchy, but the Queen is seen more of an English queen.

It wasn't an English or Scottish man who first carved up the whole of England for his people. The royal family wear kilt, but at the same time their prince is the prince of Wales and the welsh dragon is everywhere, including here:

http://welshrugbyblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/welsh-pound.jpg

But we know these other people don't see these people as their king.

PhysicsMHD:
The Scots are involved in the UK Monarchy.


As for the other two, I agree.

The whole of Western Europe is involved in the UK monarchy. The Scottish people don't recognise the UK monarchy as their own.

Beaf:
The Prime Minister is not subordinate to the Queen in any way. The Queen is titular head of state, which is a ceremonial position. No one asks her opinion before policy is hammered out and actioned, she just reads one or two speeches and does as she is directed.

The royal house represents a beautiful piece of British English history (its got worms as well) and the Brits Anglos who some accuse of lacking culture and tradition, choose to keep their royalty alive as supreme proof of culture and an icon of history.

An edit of a Welsh, Scottish and Irish man.

ROSSIKE:
Beaf said:

For me, the first mistake they made was forming an ''African Union'' with Arabs and north ''Africans''.

These African leaders need to read The Destruction of Black Civilization by the late Dr Chancellor Williams.

Dr Williams, an Oxford trained African-American historian and anthropologist, spent nearly 20 years of his life travelling throughout Africa, researching that book, which has been called ''The Black Man's Bible''.

Anyone who reads that book will know that it makes no sense at all, that it is in fact COMICAL, for Africans to be in any sort of ''union'' with Arabs.

Did he visit Onicha?