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Bkayyy:
Women inherit their mothers exclusively but still inherit their fathers.

A woman can acquire as much land as she likes with her fathers inheritance in her husbands place.

Women do not
marry from their Umunna so they have no rights to land therein

stop lying

Bkayyy:
This is the culture of the wealthy Ndigbo.

in a so called egalitarian society?

There is culture of the wealthy?

aribisala0:
in a so called egalitarian society?

There is culture of the wealthy?

Poverty never existed in Igboland.

Had it been that your people had a marriage system. Had it been that Yoruba people had a marriage system, that their women don't stay at home and give birth, you won't be asking all these questions you are doing here.

Yoy will never see a Bini, Ibibio, Efik, Hausa or Nupe ask these questions you are doing here because their people have a marriage system. They understand what marriage means and what law of inheritance is.

Bkayyy:
Poverty never existed in Igboland.

Had it been that your people had a marriage system. Had it been that Yoruba people had a marriage system, that their women don't stay at home and give birth, you won't be asking all these questions you are doing here.

Yoy will never see a Bini, Ibibio, Efik, Hausa or Nupe ask these questions you are doing here because their people have a marriage system. They understand what marriage means and what law of inheritance is.

Usual delusional narcissistic nonsense.

Poverty never existed OK
That is a reality known only to Eboes ALL your neigbours and those they sold millions of you to for centuries know different

What about Osuism do you recommend that to others as a legacy of Eboe civilization?

aribisala0:
Usual delusional narcissistic nonsense.

Poverty never existed OK
That is a reality known only to Eboes ALL your neigbours and those they sold millions of you to for centuries know different

What about Osuism do you recommend that to others as a legacy of Eboe civilization?

troll

Is it not funny that on a thread of how you lived you cannot talk about what you worshipped or how?

Why?

You don't know
You have forgotten

What do you know about of ancestor worship compared to Christianity
Which practice is closer to being a real Eboe
You are derailed
You do not have a capacity for genuine self knowledge and compensate with childish fantasies

aribisala0:
Is it not funny that on a thread of how you lived you cannot talk about what you worshipped or how?

Why?

You don't know
You have forgotten

What do you know about of ancestor worship compared to Christianity
Which practice is closer to being a real Eboe
You are derailed
You do not have a capacity for genuine self knowledge and compensate with childish fantasies

troll

thebosstrevor1:
Nsibidi isnt a writing language but a pictogram or syllabograms.

If Nsibidi was actually a writing language then it would have been developed, look at the English language, the old king james version english developed to the present English language.

Why are the igbos not writing in Nsibidi?

You claim the igbos were not walking about naked but in skimpy clothes but there are lot of pictorial evidence that showed otherwise they were barely covered.

An hunter gathering society is the first stage of civilization, so how can they be more intelligent than an agricultural or pastoral tribes.

Unfortunately, many African tribes haven't passed the hunter gathering, agricultural and pastoral stages of civilization.

Btw, most pastoral tribes are known as the warrior tribes and elite tribes, small in number but love to be the ruling class, this trace have been found in the tutsi tribe, maasai ,fulani etc.

Don't stylishly smuggle Fulani supremacists agenda into the conversation.
The Fulani were the weeping boys under Songhai and Mali empire, they were marginalized, tossed around and ridiculed by the more powerful Bambaras and other Malian ethnic groups that were in charge.

The Fulani control only started when they were taught the art of nation building by the Songhai, only in the 18th century. And even with that, they were mostly a savage tribe.

That doesn't excuse the propaganda being pushed by the Igbos.

Shiver99:
First of all, the history of Igbo civilisation stretches to as far back as at least around 3000bc.

Even with extremely limited resources; archaeological digs by enterprising Igbo sons and daughters have yielded sites that hold some of the oldest iron-smelting areas on earth dating to around 2000bc.

As well as evidence of organised economic centres dating back several millennia. This is amazing especially noting the adverse affect of tropical climates on archaeological sites as well as the durability of iron artefacts over long periods of time.

so as other cultures,soo wat....??

you igbos suffer hubris....

Bkayyy:
Women inherit their mothers exclusively but still inherit their fathers.

A woman can acquire as much land as she likes with the inheritance she got from her fathers at her husbands place.

And for the last time, she marries to live with her husband not like you people that remain and breed in their fathers house.

See that guy is always looking for something negative about Igbo, left to me, I will not pay him attention but since this is an opportunity to put more information out there, I will send an account where MACGREGOR LAIRD AND R. A. K. OLDFIELD in 1837 met an Eboe woman who had possession and inheritance

aribisala0:
Usual delusional narcissistic nonsense.

Poverty never existed OK
That is a reality known only to Eboes ALL your neigbours and those they sold millions of you to for centuries know different

What about Osuism do you recommend that to others as a legacy of Eboe civilization?

Don#t you have other pressing issues to attend to? I heard the graves are your new gold fields. Go dig away and let us glory in our narcissism. Oh! it is impossible, you will kill yourself to be Igbo, so you cannot stay away.

Bkayyy:
The more we go deep into this the more you will understand why the whites called Igbo political system the perfect democracy.

The more you see the huge gap our ancestors gave your primitive savages.

You are very correct. Even in the 1920s. This was well documented. The democracy and what Igbo women did was quite remarkable.
Nwanne, you know I come supporting with facts.

Ekealterego:
Don#t you have other pressing issues to attend to? I heard the graves are your new gold fields. Go dig away and let us glory in our narcissism. Oh! it is impossible, you will kill yourself to be Igbo, so you cannot stay away.

Dry

aribisala0:
Dry

troll

Igboid:
There is this precolonial picture of Igboland I once stumbled somewhere, where the people created a layered (stratified) viewing/sitting stands in the community Ilo/ama, where spectators sat to watch the local wrestling tournaments or even during community gathering for meetings.

I have been searching for that picture with no success for days now.
I was proud our ancestors thought of such innovation.

Is this what you are talking about?

An area described as a school {public place of learning} by colonists.

Although, I am unsure of whether this was induced by colonists or not.

Sofa-like furniture, common in some Igbo homes. This was likely supposed to be covered in matting.

Meeting houses

IGBOSON1:
You know what they used for fuel, and how they lit fires back then?

Igbos used various sources of light. ie lamps, torches, etc.

For the lamps, it would have been palm oil and a wick, likely.

For torches, it would have been likely mostly firewood.

Igbos loved smoked fish. The type sourced and cooked from local rivers and the coasts was of higher demand to the populace than the dried fish that Europeans exported.

An Igbo oven below, used for baking or smoking fish.

More war-like scenes...


Igbo men wearing armor

The last picture is of Igbo war caps/helmets

IGBOSON1:
I wish there had been a widespread use of more durable building materials back then. That way, those pyramids might still be standing till today...like the ones in Egypt built more than 3,000 years ago!

You know the specific purpose of the Nsude pyramids?

You'll have to think about climate as well.

Earthern structures created in the desert will stand for a longer time than buildings made of more durable plastered clay (like Igbos used) in the middle of a humid rainforest.

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The first two are an igbo chief's house, (interior and exterior)

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obaaderemi:
I thought some of you said you were Jews.

Very confused set of people.... People wey dey tie leaf for body, dey chop demself that time.

Anyways,

Floor plans for Igbo buildings

More floor plans of Igbo buildings,

This is actually a drawing of an efik compound. But the academic paper that I sourced it from used Igbo compound building plans as a point of reference to describe this style, because of it's great similarity to common Igbo architecture. A key difference, would be that Igbo compound walls are much thicker and larger.

Sourced from: { 2017, Zones of Entanglement: Nigeria's Real and Imagined Compounds
Joseph Godlewski
Syracuse University }