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THE IGBO PEOPLE OF NIGERIA 🇳🇬

The Igbos, indigenous to the southeastern part of Nigeria are an ethnic group well-known for their enterprising, independent and adventurous nature. Natively referred to as Ndi Igbo, the tribe is popular for its variety of food, dance, music, musical instruments, festival and culture. With Igbo being their principal native language, the society boasts about 45 million speakers and over 20 dialects. Igbo people are creative and talented as shown in both traditional and modern music. Enjoy, as we share interesting facts about the Igbo people.

The Igbo tribe could be described as one of the most intelligent tribes in Africa. With a population of about 40 million people worldwide, Igbo people’s achievements in academic performance in top American and European universities have been described as exceptional. The majority of Nigerian award-winning scientists and professors are of the Igbo tribe.
Also, it has been studied that Igbo people have been successful in entrepreneurship as the majority of top entrepreneurs in Nigeria and some other African countries like South Africa, Kenya and Ghana are from this tribe.

Igbos not Ibos
I’m sure most of you have heard that the alternative form of “Igbo” is “Ibo”, but that’s incorrect. In the Igbo alphabet, “gb” is a labiovelar voiced plosive. The voiced labial–velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a [ɡ] and [b] pronounced simultaneously.

The colonial masters lacked the phonological and phonetic representation for the sound “gb, so they opted to use “b” in the place of “gb”.”Igbo” is both the ethnicity and the language, not “Ibo”.
The Igbo people have peculiar greetings, in a gathering, they say “Igbo kwenu!” They tell you “Dalụ” or “Jisie ịke” if you’re working and “Ndewo” is used as a general greeting.

Igbo is the third largest group in Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
What’s that look on your face? I’m sure you are shocked by this revelation, but I’ll explain further. Most of their descendants moved from Arochukwu, Abia state.
They still speak the Igbo language today. They emigrated to Bioko during the Spanish exploitation in the 19th century and settled there forever. Ndigbo call the country “Panya”.

Igbo Apprenticeship System (Ịgba boy/Ịmụ ahịa)
This is an informal system, whereby a business owner takes a boy with him for ịmụ ahịa (to learn marketing). The business owner known as the ‘oga’ takes the apprentice known as the ‘boy’ to teach him his line of business. The business owner takes the boy with the knowledge of the boy’s parents and the presence of some elders.
The man promises to take care of the boy, while the boy’s parents admonish him to be of good behaviour. The apprenticeship is usually unpaid, but the oga takes care of the boy’s shelter, feeding and clothing.
The duration of the apprenticeship is normally six-eight years, and the oga settles the boy with a huge amount of money to start up his own business upon graduation. The Igbo apprenticeship system is one of the reasons for the successful commercialisation of Igboland.
This system alone has made a lot of young Igbo men millionaires and successful businessmen. A lot of young men go through the process of Imụ ahịa before they finally become financially independent. However, the Ịgbo apprenticeship system has passed the first phase of editorial work at Harvard. It’s such great news.

The Igbo man is industrious
There is a saying that anywhere you go in the world and you do not see an Igbo man; you should quickly take to your heels. This goes a long way to explain how hardworking and resilient they are. Igbos are scattered everywhere in the universe, achieving feats in different careers and building empires.

There’s this tinge of pride and self-confidence the Igbo people wield because they can always make and remake money legally out of anything. They are naturally endowed with a hustling and domineering spirit that they take over any place they go to. The Igbo people are never intimidated, because of their hard work and they churn out billionaires every year.
No doubt, they say the Igbo man is like a cockroach, no matter how you try to flush him down the drain, he always devises a means to find his way out. The average Igbo man is business-oriented; he’s always thinking of a problem to solve through his business, and he is innovative and smart.
Some of the best African writers are Igbos. We have the likes of Chinua Achebe, Flora Nwapa, and Chimamanda Adichie, just to mention a few.

. The Igbo landing story
In an act of mass resistance against slavery, a group of Igbo slaves revolted, took control of their slave ship, grounded it on an island and rather than submit to slavery, proceeded to march into the water and drown.
The water spirit brought us, the water spirit will take us home (Mmụọ mmiri du anyị bịa, mmụọ mmiri ga edu anyị laa)”. They sang in unison before drowning.
Igbo Landing is a historic site at Dunbar, Greek, on St. Simons Island, Glynn County Georgia. This story goes a long way to pinpoint the resilient spirit of the Igbo people who chose death over slavery.
They’re our ancestors and very brave, the Igbo man would do anything to gain his freedom, even if it meant choosing de#th and in this case, de@th by drowning.

Igbo people of Jamaica
Igbo people were taken to Jamaica as slaves, and there’s some Igbo language in the Jamaican Patois language. The “Red Eboe” was used to refer to the Igbo slaves in Jamaica, because of their light skin.
During this period, the culture and language of the Igbos were diffused into Jamaican culture. Some of these words are; Unu = You people, soso(Jamaican) = only (Sọsọ – Igbo).

Onitsha main market is the West
African commercial power
Onitsha main market is situated in Anambra state. The market is one of the biggest and largest markets in West Africa based on geographical size and volume of goods.
The market is also the busiest in Nigeria and West Africa at large. The market offers a variety of goods and you can find arguably every product you need there.

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