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Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:11am On Aug 03, 2015
Found these from a blog via Facebook and thought to share. I hope the spam bot doesn't ban me undecided. Mods please take note.


First Pic -

Birds eye view of Onitsha, 1962

Original source of most of these pictures are from the below blog:

http://amightytree.org

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:13am On Aug 03, 2015
New Market Road, 1962.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:16am On Aug 03, 2015
Locally Made lorry en route in Onitsha, 1962.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:19am On Aug 03, 2015
Christ The King College, Onitsha, early 60's.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by donholy28(m): 3:19am On Aug 03, 2015
Before some savages tried to destroy it

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:23am On Aug 03, 2015
Next Picture...VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.



ObI Okosi II of Onitsha, the day of his final Ofala. Taken 1961.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:25am On Aug 03, 2015
Dennis Memorial Grammar School, established 1925.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:29am On Aug 03, 2015
Newspaper clipping from 1961, reporting the arrival of an Nri priest to cleanse an abomination committed in Onitsha.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:33am On Aug 03, 2015
Architect’s Model of Main Market Onitsha, 1952

Background: In 1949 the Onitsha Native Authority began a project of organizing market reconstruction, which met with approval by the Eastern Nigerian Government in 1952. In 1956 actual construction began.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by shugacaneman: 3:36am On Aug 03, 2015
LUX FIAT

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:36am On Aug 03, 2015
Onitsha Lorry Motor Park, 1960s

The lorries themselves, parked en masse, an agglomeration of woodworks and steel machinery reflecting a prime feature of African private enterprise of this time. Onitsha lorry owners — entrepreneurs strongly invested in fixed capital goods — were busily building a local basis for industrialization. Nearly all of the vehicles you see here are finished in Nigeria: local businessmen purchase Mercedes-Benz chassis, for which local African carpenters specialize in manufacturing general-purpose wooden bodies.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:40am On Aug 03, 2015
Locally modeled and assembled bus, 1960s. Nnewi.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:41am On Aug 03, 2015
Town union meetings, as announced in a newspaper clipping, 1961.

Interesting reference to "Anambra" even before its existence as a state.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:42am On Aug 03, 2015
Good ones
Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:47am On Aug 03, 2015
Paul Anber's essay "Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos" published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. See pp 171-172 for excerpt:
" '' A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407." ''... His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965)

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 3:50am On Aug 03, 2015
Onitsha Market Literature:

grin

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by jay2pee(m): 3:50am On Aug 03, 2015
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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by DankemzI(m): 3:52am On Aug 03, 2015
Had it been East were allowed basic necessities, east would've been Nigeria's Commerce strong hold
If not for GeJ East won't have gotten an International Airport

And GeJ was truly building a second Niger bridge,...... But chief propagandist were denying the project

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by IsraeliAIRFORCE: 3:53am On Aug 03, 2015
They were all bombed and purposefully reversed to Stone age.

Their policy? Bomb everything standing and when it seems that couldn't win the war, they decided to commit genocide by bombing everything that moves and applying international embargo on food stuffs while still air raiding and combing the remotest settlements in the region on daily basis.

Eastern Nigeria shall rise again. The days when the FG policy of underdeveloping the region was working has started crumbling.

Sooner than later, busy international maritime activities will abound in the region with many busy functional international Airports.

The days of unmitigated emigration will soon be over.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by GENTLENNAJI(m): 3:58am On Aug 03, 2015
Very peaceful city and calmly lovely souls going about they normal business, unlike lagos old pictures u will see people jumping through the danfo widow fighting on the streets

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by adekzy: 4:08am On Aug 03, 2015
[quote author=Lovesdaisied post=36547533][/quote]

It is of general note that there's always massive migration to more economical viable location; reasons for the massive immigration of Africans into Europe/America *now Asia and Aussies.

Despite all the assertion you've made, the ibos keeps throbbing those region(N&W) as there's also indication of massive immigration from the eastern region to the North and the West in search of what *Supremacy?* or greener pasture from a region that you more advance/educated than.

*Imp, It should be other way around*



My question now is what went wrong with the Alaigbo/Ndigbo Nation? Why the wandering spirit and neglect of it intellect people and advance hospitality region?

Kindly please educate us.

Thank you.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by adekzy: 4:10am On Aug 03, 2015
DankemzI:
Had it been East were allowed basic necessities, east would've been Nigeria's Commerce strong hold
If not for GeJ East won't have gotten an International Airport


It is of general note that there's always massive migration to more economical viable location; reasons for the massive immigration of Africans into Europe/America *now Asia and Aussies.

Despite all the assertion you've made, the ibos keeps throbbing those region(N&W) as there's also indication of massive immigration from the eastern region to the North and the West in search of what *Supremacy?* or greener pasture from a region that you more advance/educated than.

*Imp, It should be other way around*



My question now is what went wrong with the Alaigbo/Ndigbo Nation? Why the wandering spirit and neglect of it intellect people and advance hospitality region?

Kindly please educate us.

Thank you.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 4:19am On Aug 03, 2015
Okedibia Chinwuba Onumba Orah of Aguleri. The last of the Ojenammuo dibias of Igboland. Supposedly the first to obtain a "dibias license" during the colonial administration.

Date unknown.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by LoveMachine(m): 4:46am On Aug 03, 2015
Wonderful pics. Kwenu. We will soon eclipse our past accomplishments. Naija is on the rise.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by hereiam: 4:47am On Aug 03, 2015
adekzy:



It is of general note that there's always
migration to more economical viable location; reasons for the massive immigration of Africans into Europe/America *now Asia and Aussies.

Despite all the assertion you've made, the ibos keeps throbbing those region(N&W) as there's also indication of massive immigration from the eastern region to the North and the West in search of what *Supremacy?* or greener pasture from a region that you more advance/educated than.

*Imp, It should be other way around*



My question now is what went wrong with the Alaigbo/Ndigbo Nation? Why the wandering spirit and neglect of it intellect people and advance hospitality region?

Kindly please educate us.

Thank you.


@adekzy: i understand your argument and i also reason same way with you but some stroke my mind. the resources of a region might not be enoff to develop the entire region hence some will have to migrate to regions to acquire more resources. i.e i tot about the jews of old, they were everywhere b4 the Nazi maffian fulfilled the prophesy now see the chinese despite being the highest growing economy, they cant do with out africa. and so on.
i the problem was disunity in.the land, no similarities in culture among the 3 major ethnic groups.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by kliq(m): 4:53am On Aug 03, 2015
Before Biafra








tongue


One Nigeria!

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Emenandez4lyf(m): 5:03am On Aug 03, 2015
Nothing more, it's just part of history.
Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 5:08am On Aug 03, 2015
adekzy:


It is of general note that there's always massive migration to more economical viable location; reasons for the massive immigration of Africans into Europe/America *now Asia and Aussies.

Despite all the assertion you've made, the ibos keeps throbbing those region(N&W) as there's also indication of massive immigration from the eastern region to the North and the West in search of what *Supremacy?* or greener pasture from a region that you more advance/educated than.

*Imp, It should be other way around*



My question now is what went wrong with the Alaigbo/Ndigbo Nation? Why the wandering spirit and neglect of it intellect people and advance hospitality region?

Kindly please educate us.

Thank you.


1966-1970.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by AnambraDota: 5:22am On Aug 03, 2015

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by Nobody: 5:24am On Aug 03, 2015
AnambraDota:

No need for this please. Let's keep this thread as clean as possible.

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Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by M4gunners: 5:28am On Aug 03, 2015
Good jo op.
Re: Vintage Pictures Of Onitsha and Anambra (before The Civil War) by tpiander: 5:30am On Aug 03, 2015
AnambraDota:
. . . . . . .

he's married.

maybe you can look for an unmarried relative of his?

you fit jam luck, you never know.

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