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IGBO FOOD CUSTOMS LOL
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Today
- Igbo foods come in a wide variety of soups including Bitterleaf soup (similar to spinach) Ora and Ogri soup, a vegetable based soup, commonly eaten in villages.
Egusi soup, yellowish soup based on melon seeds. The most exclusive of them all is Vegetable soup, and that is because of its ingredients.
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Dessert: Desserts in Nigeria consist of Nigerian pancakes, Nigerian cake, Nigerian meat pie, Nigerian Mango and Banana Ice cream sundae.
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- In this day in time Igbo food prep is completely different from what it once was. I will go into detail about it in my next slide
looks nasty right!
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Using Forks
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Are You Eatin
Using Forks and Knifes after the colonists swooped through made it a little more sanitary for the Igbo.
The Ibo community saw yams as a source of power and wealth, but the common rice came to dominate the yam as their main starch.
"He had many barns full of yams. Okonkwo was a powerful man"
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TURN UP
this is Ray Rice
The Ibo community originally used palm wine as their main source
of social drinking, but after colonists had arrived other forms of brewry came into play.
During Colonization
Thanks to the British colonizing in Nigeria the Igbo people were less dependent on the yams as the main cash crop and began to farm a larger varity of crops such as cavassa, which was introduced by the British.
IGBO FOOD CUSTOMS
During Colonization
"Ekwefi still had some cavassa left on her farm from the previous year"(Achebe 163).
During Colonization
When the british came in to the Igbo community in the 1870s they introduced many different food styles to the Igbo community.
pre-colonialism
The women of the village would prepare their husbands meals. The people would eat with their hands as they did not have utensils.
Before the British colonized Nigeria, the natives relied very heavily on their crops for substance. The main crop among these was the yam, considered to be a man's crop.
A yam cut open
"(Okonkwo's) mother and sisters worked hard enough,
but they grew women's crops, like coco-yams, beans and cassava. Yam, the king of crops,
was a man's crop"(Achebe, 23).
pre-colonialism
It was also custom to break a kola nut and share with any guests you may have at the time.
"The kola nut tradition is used for a variety of events, but principally to welcome guests to a village or house"(iboguide.org)
An Assortment of Kola