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Ohafia women with long braids fashionable in Ohafia at the time. Photographed by Rev. William T. Weir. From The Women's Missionary Magazine of the United Free Church of Scotland, 1904.

A thread for innovations from the Igbo area, focusing on indigenous social structure as it relates to technology, arts and architecture. If the iron slag at Leja actually dates to

Ụ̀banị̀ Ìgbò, the Igbo spoken on Bonny Island in today's Rivers State, recorded by the slave trader Captain Hugh Crow from the late 18th century, from "Memoirs of the late

"[It'd] appear [...] Igbo refer primarily to chi na (and) eke, which connotes two inseparable and complementary deities rather than the single overriding God of Christian belief. The [...] meaning

From the 1930s, the Igbo west of the Niger, the Enuani, Ika, Ukwuani, Ndi Osimili in the Asaba and Aboh divisions of the Western Region looked towards creating an administrative

"10 Aug. 1905. Edet market, Ndiya. An Inokun (Aro [Igbo]) man." Charles Partridge. British Museum."Before the Europeans came, the Arọs […] main interest in their trade was the purchase of