nedu2000:
*in tears* so my tribe weren't savages afterall,we had a written language.
E no go better for those colonialists oh.

1toRtoiSe1:
it was bishop samuel ajayi crowther that taught the ibos the current ibo alphabets which they now use in spelling their names. Before that, there was no way they could write their names.

psucc:
OP the word 'Nsibidi' is term in Efik that once mentioned in the presence of the elderlies, eyebrows are raised.

1toRtoiSe1:
it was bishop samuel ajayi crowther that taught the ibos the current ibo alphabets which they now use in spelling their names. Before that, there was no way they could write their names.

1toRtoiSe1:
it was bishop samuel ajayi crowther that taught the ibos the current ibo alphabets which they now use in spelling their names. Before that, there was no way they could write their names.

Radoillo:


Bishop Crowther worked with a team of literate Igbo missionaries/translators (including J. C. Taylor, who went on to finish his own Igbo translation of the New Testament) to produce the first Igbo primer. And they used an orthography that has since become obsolete.

If this is what you are understand as 'crowther taught the ibos the current ibo alphabets which they now use in spelling their names', then I fear you may be incapable of passing a verbal reasoning test.

lawani:
THE IDEA OF A WRITTEN SCRIPT WITH WHICH PEOPLE SPEAKING DIFFERENT LANGUGES CAN COMMUNICATE IS VERY GOOD. IT IS USED IN CHINA. IT IS CALLED AROKO IN YORUBA BUT NOT DEVELOPED LIKE NSIBIDI. SUCH A SCRIPT SHOULD BE TAUGHT GLOBALLY. THEN THE BRITISH REALLY HELPED IGBOS! IF NOT FOR THE BRITISH WHERE WILL IGBOS BE TODAY? IGBOS ARE THE MAJOR AFRICAN GROUP OPENED UP BY EUROPEAN COLONISATION AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF LOCKING IN THEMSELVES WITH THE PHILOSOPHY 'IGBO ENWEGHI EZE'. IGBOS NEED TO BE GRATEFUL TO THE BRITISH MORE THAN OTHERS. YORUBA, HAUSA, ETC WERE ALREADY MODERN EARTH NATIONS WITH HUGE CITIES BEFORE COLONISATION BUT NOT SO FOR THE MAJORITY OF IGBOS SAVE AROCHUKWU. THAT IS WHY IN AFRICA, IGBOS ARE THE BIGGEST GROUP TO BE OPENED UP OR UPGRADED BY EUROPEANS

he didn't work with a team, he headed the team.

Bishop Ajayi Crowther taught ibos how to spell their names and write in igbo language. #FACT!

Emperormartin:
I doubt, seriously I doubt those nsibidi igbo names you mentioned there...

Some igbo names with CHI as a prefix or suffix e.g onyekachi, Chidimma are post colonial names. I mean people started answering the name after Christianity was introduced in this region.

But you claim nsibidi was before Christian era...

The origin of nsibidi is most commonly attributed to the Ejagham people of the northern Cross River region, mostly because colonial administrators found the largest and most diverse nsibidi among them. Nsibidi spread throughout the region over time and mixed with other cultures and art forms such as the Igbo uri or uli graphic design.

it was bishop samuel ajayi crowther that taught the ibos the current ibo alphabets which they now use in spelling their names. Before that, there was no way they could write their names.

googi:
If the op is a scholar, I could have called his lie intellectual dishonesty.

Isibidi is NOT ANCIENT IGBO ALPHABET

Compare the heading to the body in the text.



You do not take credit away and usurp it fom other people. Stop this nonsense. it the written language of Ekoi

tochukwuifeduba:
History Of Nsibidi the Ancient Igbo Alphabet; Britain Destroyed Igbo Civilization

Nsibidi (also known as nsibiri, nchibiddi or nchibiddy) is a system of symbols indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria that is apparently an ideographic script, though there have been suggestions that it includeslogographic elements.The symbols are at least several centuries old: Early forms appeared on excavated pottery as well as what are most likely ceramic stools and headrests from the Calabar region, with a range of dates from 400 to 1400 CE.
There are thousands of nsibidi symbols, of which over 500 have been recorded. They were once taught in a school to children.Many of the signs deal with love affairs; those that deal with warfare and the sacred are kept secret.Nsibidi is used on wall designs, calabashes, metals (such as bronze), leaves, swords, and tattoos. It is primarily used by the Ekpe leopard secret society (also known as Ngbe or Egbo), which is found across Cross River among the Ekoi, Efik, Igbo people, and other nearby peoples.
Outside knowledge of nsibidi came in 1904 when T.D. Maxwell noticed the symbols. Before the British colonisation of the area, nsibidi was divided into a sacred version and a public, more decorative version which could be used by women.Aspects of colonisation such as Western education and Christian doctrine drastically reduced the number of nsibidi-literate people, leaving the secret society members as some of the last literate in the symbols. Nsibidi was and is still a means of transmitting Ekpe symbolism. Nsibidi was transported to Cuba and Haiti via the Atlantic slave trade, where it developed into the anaforuana and veve symbols.
The origin of nsibidi is most commonly attributed to the Ejagham people of the northern Cross River region, mostly because colonial administrators found the largest and most diverse nsibidi among them. Nsibidi spread throughout the region over time and mixed with other cultures and art forms such as the Igbo uri or uli graphic design. In 1909 J. K. Macgregor who collected nsibidi symbols claimed that nsibidi was traditionally said to have come from the Uguakima, Ebe or Uyanga tribes of the Igbo people, which legend says were taught the script by baboons, although one writer believes Macgregor had been misled by his informants
Nsibidi has a wide vocabulary of signs usually imprinted on calabashes, brass ware, textiles, wood sculptures, masquerade costumes, buildings and on human skin. Nsibidi has been described as a "fluid system" of communication consisting of hundreds of abstract and pictographic signs. Nsibidi was described in the colonial era by P.A. Talbot as "a kind of primitive secret writing", Talbot explained that nsibidi was used for messages "cut or painted on split palm stems". J.K. Macgregor's view was that "The use of nsibidi is that of ordinary writing. I have in my possession a copy of the record of a court case from a town of Enion [Enyong] taken down in it, and every detail ... is most graphically described". Nsibidi crossed ethnic lines and was a uniting factor among ethnic groups in the Cross River region

http://ifedubatochukwu..co.ke/2015/08/history-of-nsibidi-ancient-igbo.html

ImperialYoruba:


Yanminri civilization is to hunt humans for feast and go nayked. Britain put cloth on you and taught you to hunt animal instead of fellow humans.

Nsibidi belonged to a different people, not Ibo owned. Stop this nonsense.

Emperormartin:
I doubt, seriously I doubt those nsibidi igbo names you mentioned there...

Some igbo names with CHI as a prefix or suffix e.g onyekachi, Chidimma are post colonial names. I mean people started answering the name after Christianity was introduced in this region.

But you claim nsibidi was before Christian era...

superlightning:


Nsibidi is trans ethnic (ekoi, Igbo, Ibibio, efik), because more scripts were found in ekoi region was the reason why anthropologists said it MAY have originated from there.

Don't let jealousy kill you biko.

ImperialYoruba:


This info must be included for readers awareness when you post anything Nsibidi.

Wetin i wan jealous? Watch yourself.

Mmtcccheew.

superlightning:


Well, agree or not, nsibidi was part of Igbo civilization. That's the point.

ImperialYoruba:


We have understudied Igbo and we know by now how you frame history to portray false greatness. When you are caught then instead of admitting you will begin to attack others. We know this.

All those ethnicities you listed dare not say nsibidi is their ancestral custom. They dare not say it out in public...not in the age of internet and online archives anyway. It is only ibo that make claims shamelessly hoping it will pass test time and the falsehood will become a truth. We didnt know you before...but we do now in age of instant verification and access.

Nsibidi does not belong to ekoi or ibibio or igbo or efik or any of these people you listed.