₦airaland Forum

Kagawa10:
Adire uses Wax print in order to give it the desired pattern, just like Ankara uses Wax!

That said, the Dutch wax print may have been been brought from overseas but Yoruba were the first to accept it and gave it a name because it looks similar to the local we're have here! Ankara simply means different patterns/colours!

Now, we've incorporated the style into our local ones and has started to produce it!

You're confirming a stereotype...

Wax prints existed all over Nigeria and the process of making batik is much different and more superior to simple indigo on white cotton tie and dye. Please look up Indonesian batik, furthermore ankara is printed.

OPCNAIRALAND:
To pazienza and ezeagu,
In all of colonial England, Manchester and Liverpool were singularly famous for their wool and cotton industries. There is nobody and nowhere in Europe that grows cotton but all over the globe English cotton and wool was a popular and best brand.

Do you know who was the single major supplier of cotton to Liverpool and Manchester? Let's start from this foundation before I give you instruction on the root of ankara and other fabrics connected with Yoruba culture.

Go and read up on the cotton growers of Yorubaland first and get some sense and sober up.

You need to know the footprint of Yoruba antiquity and its contributions and influence on popular culture and fashion around the globe.

I really hope you're not suggesting "Yorubaland" was supplying the bulk of cotton in Liverpool and Manchester and not the slave-holding Southern United States.

What we're talking about here isn't ankara, because we know that that was a result of a failed European mission to copy and destroy the Indonesian batik industry that took a turn and became popular in (west) Africa.

No, what we're talking about here in general is the styling of 'aso ebi' and so on.

Christianabad!

mightyhazel:
if u can't decode the msg am tryn 2 pass across in dat msg of mine,there might not be much I cud do.

I was born and bred outside of igbo land,but b4 my 16th birthday,av read scores of igbo novels like 'isi akwu dara n'ala',..'Omenuko'..,'Juo obinna' and a host of other igbo literatures including religious books. U can now imagine the justice I do to igbo spoken language and parables,..!
Oga one cud be dynamic while not forgetting his roots.
We all cudt hav been born and brought up in igbo land,..wots important is dat u teach ur children and wards our culture,traditions and values.( I have relatives living in the east,but speak v rusty igbo and wit v low igbo values,..I also knw a couplr living in holland,..but their kids dere speak fluent igbo).

Taking up cultures pointlessly or wearing other peoples garments which have no meaning to you, unless you're attending a function themed in the respective culture, does not really say 'dynamic', it just means that a person does not have a strong sense of self, which is why Yoruba and Hausa people do not wear Igbo clothing, whatever that may be in this day and age, who knows. You said Igbo people may even adopt "primitive" aspects of others culture which is what really stood out in the post and that kinda of rubbishes the idea of some kind of beneficial flexibility.

If we're arguing about acculturation anyway then that would mean agbada or babariga would now be considered an Igbo costume, which it is not, therefore nothing has been taken into Igbo culture, it's just a bunch of Igbo people wearing random clothing for no particular reason. A good example of sensible cultural borrowing is the stripy long caps Igbo people wear which was gotten from Ibibio people, now we can say what the hat represents and that it belongs to those communities who had the ekpe mens society, unlike agbada that means nothing in Igbo society.

Jews (using this example with the risk of brining up Jewish 'origin theories') are probably the most 'dynamic' cultural group on earth, but they do not mess with their attires or their customs, Jews wear the costume of their host communities usually, but I have not seen Jews enter a synagogue with a thawb or lederhosen.

BiriboofOpobo:
EZE!!! since when has Jaja( Jubo Jubogha) ever been refered to as EZE. He is Amanyanabo, the one owns the town. Opobo is not igbo, why can't you guy get it into your heads!! Our culture is different, our TRUE language sounds nothing like yours.

You're really ranting for nothing if you pay attention well.

This looks like a child please.

Instead of her to donate them to her former colleagues.

mightyhazel:
igbos are dynamic.we hav no qualms adopting ppls culture (evn the primitive ones),..and modifying it 2 suit purposes.

U will notice dat it's only the igboman dat will dorn hausa and yoruba attires without thinking anytin abt it. But u'd hardly see a yorubaor hausa man puttin on igbo attires (except ofcourse wen dey com beggin 4 votes).
Igbos are dynamic and unrestrained in terms of openheartedness and adventurism.

Dats y u'd always hear (and see for urself) dat 'igbo amaka'

Truth is ours

Igbo people cannot be on the internet shouting "Afonja, Afonja" up and down only to then go and wear agbada and say it's because they are "dynamic". There also isn't much dynamism in Biafra.

There's nothing dynamic about dumping your culture and traditions. That's how Igbo people ended up deserting Igboland to go an be routinely butchered up in Kano.

Nonsense. Call a spade a spade, there is a lost core ideal for Igbo culture which is why Igbo children speak their language less than other major ethnic groups, or is that one "dynamism" as well?

thesicilian:
One word: Tourism. People troop in to see the statue from all over the word, and these people spend millions of dollars yearly in the process of buying food, staying in hotels, transport, etc. Not to talk of the aspect of exposure to other peoples cultures and ideas, which is a fast track to economic and infrastructural development.

Don't wanna step on any toe, but I don't think anyone is going to 'troop' into the state just to see this statue. I don't think many people understand Nigeria's main selling points or in general African and other countries points and attractions they use in selling tourism. Nigeria's should be original culture and nature and wildlife, this isn't it.

Still it's better than that nonsense white Jesus statue they built in the east somewhere.

RedCapChief:
Please I'd be grateful if you could share the meaning of these names.




@ezeagu, I was reading a paper online and I came across another meaning of the name "Onuora". It meant someone who overcame a multitude i.e Onuo ora.
I thought it meant 'Mouth of the people.'

What do you think?

In general people go with 'leader or representative', and if someone were using the other meaning the pronunciation at least would be very different I think, plus in dialects that use lu instead of nu, Onuora is Onuoha, so.

Progressive01:
Not just Dangote brother. I'm also suspicious of our big big General Overseers like Oyedepo, et al. Have a strong feeling politicians launder monies through their churches and enterprises.

My pastor just buy brand new Range Sport and a 2017 Camry. I don dey take corner eye dey look the man sef.

Your pastor is buying big big cars and you're still going to the same church?

What concerns airforce with land?

The officers should be permanently grounded.

None of these people in power in Nigeria can ever be down to earth.

Whole world over, unfortunately.

CioAngels:
So disappointed, i thought kalu is a man with intergrity, defecting to apc confirms he is a big time thief. I thought he will come out clean with Efcc, but no. All the thieves are now in apc to avoid probe. Pa obasanjo was right about kalu who used abia state money to fund slok airline. Bloody thief you are kalu. Dubious man, anyway, am not surprised, kalu got degree certificate in 6month. How dubious can one be. Thief.

I don't really understand people who support this guy just because he wasn't in APC. You guys know he's a thief but still hail him because he's Igbo and not in the so-called ruling part.

A shame, not surprising, but a shame nonetheless.

ianSweet:
What u are saying is exactly what am saying. I support we Africans promoting and reforming our progreesive cultures to make it look fascinating and appealing to others but i can never support a spiritual ritual festival like above which involves deities. God forbid.
We have to drop all regressive practices like idolatory or all practices involving gods and godesses.

What the fuck is "idolatory"? Mehn, read a book.

Who would travel to see these basic buildings, there's nothing special about them apart from the fact that they're in Nigeria where everything is dilapidated by standard.

victorvezx:
Ipob just continue to make the Igbo tribe a laughing stalk in Nigeria.

Laughing stalk indeed.

This was a promising thread.

Was.

Question: would an average New Yorker or Londoner of descent from Nigeria uproot themselves and move to Anambra or Lagos because they have become comfortable places to live?

Answer: NO.

'Vitalis Temple Madu', the names Igbo people give their children are indeed wonderful.

The problem is you animals are not actually comparing who has the strongest economy, or who's competing, but who is the lesser impoverished and who has less people dying.

Fucking backwards African monkeys who use their nyash to reason.

Backwards Africans can't step up to the mandate so they use all this nonsense waiyo 'religion' to make people feel like they're doing something.

The way you guys waste time on comparing states you'd think you were comparing Singapore with Hong Kong.

Bunch of unserious jokesters.

Okay, but Nigeria remains a third world shit-hole which is why you guys never compare yourselves to other countries.

vickylala239:
Meaning it shuld Hv affect both....so is not...

Did you watch the documentary? Did you see where the people show the victim a piece of paper and then drug them?

unclezuma:


That Nigga was knocked out cold by Chloroform...

No be juju and stop lose-guarding inside public vehicles...

It might be a drug called scopolamine, which from just slight inhalation can be used to control someone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8PWYnu04

OP your post is actually a case in point in the reason Africans haven't advanced to the take a seat at the league of nations, when other countries and nations see they are lagging about they don't sit down and sulk and feel sorry for themselves choosing to believe their mates are somehow superior to them, instead they strategise and even an individual can bring great change among them to catch up with others.

Look at Taiwan and South Korea in the 50s, and you will know what this means.

PassingShot:
Democracy is not suitable for Africa. It has made things worse, much worse.

There are many countries doing very great without democracy. Why must we practice what is alien to us? See what the most expensive form of government has done to our dear nation! Corruption, division, hatred, bigotry, deceit, killing and maiming all because of political positions.

Na God go punish the colonial masters. Dem for leave us to our varous traditional monarchical systems. We will have found our ways to greatness naturally.

Monarchial system back then was running on slave economy and invading others. Parts of the country had what was similar to democracy back then. There are no excuses for corruption apart from a poor system of checks and balances.