Igbo culture and values is so noble that it made provision for nearly everything you can think about. To ensure harmony, respect, and recognition for the individual members of an Igbo family, the sharing and eating of chicken in a traditional Igbo family is very symbolic as each part is expected to be reserved for a specific persons based on their role, membership and relationship in and with an Igbo family.
History
Great Novels authored by Igbos
Igbo people have been wrongly described by the unformed non-Igbos simply out of ignorance and jealousy of the great success achieved by Igbo sons and daughter all over the world in different fields of endeavours. Before you call an Igbo man or woman ritualist, please find below, the traits that defines an Igbo man:
Igbo language and system of communication existed for years before the advent of the colonial. That indigenous Igbo alphabets and graphically coded means of communication is known as NSIBIDI and was predominantly used in Akwa Ibom, ibibio, Abiriba, Ohafia, Abam and Arochukwu.
The cultural identity of people defines them. However, some full bloodied Igbo people have decided and/or constrained to deny their original identity as Ndigbo, thereby denying their Igboness.
- Christmas and the Igbo home call
- State creation lead to Igbo identity crisis, demographic and cultural displacement- by Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro
- King Jaja of Opopo (1821-1891)- A proud Igbo son from Amaigbo
- The properties of a woman in a traditional Igbo man's house and who inherits them
- Most of the great infrastructures in Igboland were built through communal efforts
- The biblical traditions of Ndigbo before the missionaries came to Africa