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Igbo Culture

Their Culture

Igbo Government

Igbo culture includes the various customs, practices and traditions of the Igbo people. It comprises archaic practices as well as new concepts added into the Igbo culture either by evolution or by outside influence. These customs and traditions include the Igbo people's visual art, music and dance forms, as well as their attire, cuisine and language dialects. Because of their various subgroups, the variety of their culture is heightened further.

In the Ibo culture the whole tribe is basically ran by the oldest man in the tribe.

He makes all the decisions that go on. Well not exactly ,

it's really a group of old people but the oldest person in that group is who has the last say so.

This man wants the most highest respect of everybody. He basically commands its.

Ichaka

Their Culture : Music

Their Culture : Art

The Igbo People

The Igbo people have a melodic and symphonic musical style, into which they incorporate various percussion instruments: the udu, which is essentially designed from a clay jug; an ekwe, which is formed from a hollowed log; and the ogene, a hand bell designed from forged iron. Other instruments include opi, a wind instrument similar to the flute, igba, and ichaka .

Men and Women : Attire

Igbo Government:

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Igbo art is any body of visual art originating from the people of the Igbo. Igbo Art is generally known for various types of masquerade, masks and outfits symbolising people animals or abstract conceptions. Igbo art is also known for it's bronze castings found in the town of Igbo Ukwu from the 9th century. It is near impossible to describe a general Igbo art style as the Igbo are a heavily fragmented group.

A mans title he earns plays a major part in the Ibo society. There was a hierarchy of ascending titles that were to be taken in order, accompanied by an ascending scale of payments. The system acted as a simple form of social security, in that those who acquired titles paid a particular fee, and then were entitled to share in the payments of those who later acquired titles. Men who were going to acquire a title had to go through intense rituals. This symbolized respect as well as success.

The Igbo people are one of the larger tribes in Africa. They number in the tens of million. Most Igbo live in southeastern Nigeria. Their language is the Igbo language; which includes hundreds of different dialects and Igboid languages.

The River Niger flowing through Igboland makes the home of the Igbo rich and fertile and densely forested. Because of this a majority of the Igbo are farmers. Igboland is also one of the more densely populated areas within all of Africa. Today a vast majority of the Igbo are Christians.

Like In every culture men an women both have certain attire

Igba

Men

Women

Men would wear loin cloths that wrapped round their waist and between their legs to be fastened at their back, the type of clothing appropriate for the intense heat as well as jobs such as farming. Men could also tie a wrapper over their loin cloth .

Women carried their babies on their backs with a strip of clothing binding the two with a knot at her chest. This baby carrying technique was and still is practiced by many people groups across Africa along with the Igbo who still carry their babies this way. This method has been modernized in the form of the child carrier. In most cases Igbo women did not cover their breast areas. Maidens usually wore a short rapper with beads around their waist with other ornaments such as necklaces and beads. Both men and women wore wrappers.

The Colonial Period

The arrival of the British in the 1870s and increased encounters between the Igbo and other Nigerians led to a deepening sense of a distinct Igbo ethnic identity. The Igbo also proved remarkably decisive and enthusiastic in their embrace of Christianity and Western education. Due to the incompatibility of the Igbo decentralized style of government and the centralized system required for British indirect rule, British colonial rulership was marked with few conflicts and much tension. Under British colonial rule, the diversity within each of Nigeria's major ethnic groups slowly decreased and distinctions between the Igbo and other large ethnic groups,

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