The Igbo people celebrate their New Yam Festival every year in early August, towards the conclusion of the rainy season (Orureshi in the Idoma region, Iwa ji, Iri ji, or Ike ji, depending on dialect). The Iri ji festival,...
Gongonema latifolium, commonly known as Utazi, is a Heart-shaped leaf with a sharp, bittersweet taste. Utazi leaves are widely known in traditional medicine and used to treat various ailments. The leaves, which can be chewed, infused, or used for cooking,...
Media personality, Noble Igwe has dropped his two cents on Igbo women and the Igbo man in general. According to the 41-year-old Abia state born blogger, "the Igbo women are lazy, they do not like to work and all they...
It's quite noticeable in African traditions that the female gender had a prominent place in myth and indigenous religious and cultural concepts — the supernatural, a goddess, is female. For every cultural or traditional belief, there's a female god making...
The Igbo cosmology is divided into four parts, and one of the four of them is Alusi. The Igbos are one of the three major ethnic groups of Nigeria, in west Africa. Alusi, know by some as Arusi and...
To the modern-day Igbo person, Ekwensu is believed to be the Christian Satan, but in the Igbo cosmology, it's not so and was never so. The Igbos, natively called NDI IGBO, are the ethnic group that occupies the present-day...
By Anozie Awambu Abstract In this essay, I use “Akwa isiagụ” as a metaphor to illustrate that Igbos have not done exactly well to preserve their language and culture. I posit they have abandoned their unique cultural symbol. That they...
The Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia, USA. It is the site of one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people in history. Historians say Igbo captives from modern-day...
