This meant that, while certain Igbo may have lived under different formal administration, all followers of the Igbo religion had to abide by the rules of the faith and obey its representative on earth, the Eze Nri.

The culture depicted, that of the Igbo people, is similar to that of Achebe's birthplace of Ogidi, where Igbo-speaking people lived together in groups of independent villages ruled by titled elders.

Prior to British colonization, the Igbo people as depicted in Things Fall Apart lived in a patriarchal collective political system.

The Igbo in the southeast, in contrast to the two other groups, lived mostly in mostly autonomous, democratically organised communities although there were monarchs in many of these ancient cities such as the Kingdom of Nri, which in its zenith controlled most of Igbo land, including influence on the Anioma people, Arochukwu which controlled slavery in Igbo land and Onitsha.

Abakuá members derive their belief systems and traditional practices from the Igbo, Efik, Efut, Ibibio, spirits that lived in the deity forest.

As war broke out between Biafra and Nigeria ( 1967 — 1970 ), thousands of Igbo migrants in the northern and western parts of Nigeria fled to their native east and Enugu became a destination for these returnees.

Obi ( Eze-Onunekwulu-Igbo Na Okemili Nnewi ) ; UAC's first African Produce Manager east of the Niger, President of the Igbo State Union & appointed Senator.

One other paper deals with a phonologic problem: Vowel Harmony In Igbo, by J. Carnochan.

Eri, the god-like founder of Nri, is believed to have settled the region around 948 with other related Igbo cultures following after in the 13th century.

Ikenga, an alusi of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria requires consecration before religious use with offerings which include the sacrificial blood of a rooster or ram for the spirit.

The Igbo of Nigeria have a traditional calendar with a four-day week.

Following independence, Nigeria was divided primarily along ethnic lines with Hausa and Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the south-west, Ijaws in the south-south and Igbo in the south-east.

Along with Igbo there were a variety of other different languages, including Efik and Ibibio.

These terms, as used here in the Igbo language, are synonymous with the traditional Igbo " religious system " which was not considered separate from the social norms of ancient or traditional Igbo societies.

M. O Ene ( 2000 ) presented Igbo culture as: " a dynamic phenomenon that deals with the artifacts and mores by which Ndiigbo of Africa distinguish themselves from other racial / ethnic groups.

Ekwensu is an Igbo deity with a convoluted modern identity.

The Igbo enter into pacts with these forces to take into their benevolence.

The ancient Igbo descriptions of Ekwensu could be seen as a deity with a convoluted modern identity.

The Igbo often make clay altars and shrines of their deities, usually with figures being featured in them.

An Igbo variation exists with only one large tuned key for each player.

The Gullah language is based on English, with strong influences from West and Central African languages such as Mandinka, Wolof, Bambara, Fula, Mende, Vai, Akan, Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kongo, Umbundu and Kimbundu.

Starting in 1974, a group of black Bahians called Ilê Aiyê became prominent, identifying with the Yoruba people and Igbo people of West Africa.

The remnants of the Action Group fought the National election of 1965 in alliance with the largely Igbo, and south-eastern NCNC.

There is a problem with the Igbo language.

This influence was explicitly referenced by Achebe in Things Fall Apart: " Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Nike in the Igbo language means " with strength or power.

Population pressure in the Igbo homeland combined with aspirations for monetary wages drove thousands of Igbo to other parts of Nigeria in search of work.

By the 1960s Igbo political culture was more unified and the region relatively prosperous, with tradesmen and literate elites active not just in the traditionally Igbo South, but throughout Nigeria.

The weakness of a popular theory that Igbos were stateless rests on the paucity of historical evidence of pre-colonial Igbo society.

Benin exercised considerable influence on the western Igbo who adopted many of the political structures familiar to the Yoruba-Benin region, but Asaba and its immediate neighbors, such as Ibusa, Ogwashi-Ukwu, Okpanam, Issele-Azagba and Issele-Ukwu were much closer to the Kingdom of Nri.

* These Women Are Brave – A project on Igbo women's experiences during the Biafran war.

Africans were brought to Charleston on the Middle Passage, first as servants, then as slaves, especially Wolof, Yoruba, Fulani, Igbo, Malinke, and other peoples of the Windward Coast.

Like all religions, Odinani is the vehicle used by its practitioners to understand their World ( called " Uwa "), or more specifically, the part of the World that affects them — which is to say the dry Land on which the Igbo live and gather sustenance — and it is from this that the belief acquires its names: " Ọ di " () + n '( na-) + " Ani " ( or the Earth goddess ) in the Northern Igbo dialects and also " O me " () + n '( na-) + " Ala " ( or the physical manifestation of the Earth goddess as dry land ) as used primarily in the Southern Igbo dialects.

The term ‘ ọdịnala ’ also pronounced ‘ ọdịnani ’ ( depending on dialect ) is derived from three Igbo words ‘ ọdị ’ – meaning ‘ it is ’; ‘ na ’ – meaning ‘ on / within ’ and ‘ ala ’ – meaning ‘ the Land or the Earth ’.

The top four Alusi of the Igbo pantheon are Ala, Igwe, Anyanwu, and Amadioha ( or Kamalu ); other less important Alusi exist after these, some depending on the community.

Mohammed opposed the regime of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi which took power after a coup d ' etat on January 15, 1966 carried out mainly by Christian Igbo from the south, in which several northern Nigerian leaders had been killed under gruesome circumstances.

* In Igbo, an underdot can be used on i, o, and u to make ị, ọ, and ụ.

It focuses on his family and personal history, the customs and society of the Igbo, and the influence of British colonialism and Christian missionaries on the Igbo community during the late nineteenth century.

Much of the critical discussion about Things Fall Apart concentrates on the socio-political aspects of the novel, including the friction between the members of Igbo society as confront the intrusive and overpowering presence of Western government and beliefs.

Lineages were recognized and the groups organized themselves into clans based on old family origins known as Iman, a similar structure extends into the land of their northern neighbors, the Igbo.

( Florence Onye ) Buchi Emecheta was born on 21 July 1944, in Lagos to Igbo parents, Alice ( Okwuekwuhe ) Emecheta and Jeremy Nwabudinke.

Hundreds of Eastern officers were murdered during the revolt, and in the North, as commanding officers either lost their control of their troops or actively egged them on to violence against Igbo civilians, it did not take long for Northerners from all walks of life to participate.

One controversial aspect of this move was Gowon's annexing of Port Harcourt, a large city in the Niger Delta, in the South of Nigeria ( the Ikwerres ), sitting on some of Nigeria's largest reserves, into the new Rivers State, emasculating the migrant Igbo population of traders there.