Mobolaji E. Aluko: In Praise Of âZik Of Africaâ On His 100th Birthday City indigenous Group % of Ibos in nonindigenous population Although the Ibopeoples constitute no more than 17 percent of the total population of http://www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com/Articles/mobolaji_aluko/2004/11/in-praise-o
Extractions: Posthumous birthday felicitations to him! So I use the occasion to rise to toast Zik and once again reflect on him â on his contribution to Nigeria, but particularly to the Igbos, right from when Zik allegedly stowed away to the United States in 1925, returned to Africa in 1934 and to Nigeria in 1937, and became Nigeriaâs first indigenous Governor-General in 1960, and its first (non-executive) President in 1963. I fully assert that next to God Almighty himself, Zik gave the Igbos the self-esteem that they rightly have today, for without Zik's personal assertiveness and inspiration in education, I fear that the Igbos would not be where they were today! God may have raised some body else up for the Igbos, but He chose to raise Zik up, and Zik did a darn good job of it. I will begin by "cutting and pasting" a little. While reading, please recall that Zik was born in 1904 and Obafemi Awolowo in 1909, to give context to the chronological and cultural milieu into which they were both born: they are both inextricably tied up with each other in the context of Nigeriaâs history.
ArtWorld AFRICA - Nigeria predominantly by the Ibo, an ethnically and linguistically related group ofpeoples. An indigenous culture developed at an early date in Nigeria. http://artworld.uea.ac.uk/teaching_modules/africa/cultural_groups_by_country/nig
Extractions: One of the largest and wealthiest territories in Africa with a population of 80 million. Though oil is now the principle export, the economy is mainly an agricultural one with groundnuts grown in the north and cocoa and oil palm products in the more southern and coastal areas. The country is trisected by the Niger River and its tributary, the Benue. The north, mainly dry savannah country, is predominantly Islam. The Hausa and Fulani tribes, organised into emirates, populate it. The south-west region has a high rainfall and much of its forest or lately forest is occupied by the Yoruba. The south-west where much of the coastal belt consists of mangrove swamps with river channels, is inhabited predominantly by the Ibo, an ethnically and linguistically related group of peoples. An indigenous culture developed at an early date in Nigeria. Terracottas discovered at Nok have been dated to the 5th century BC. Bronzes from Igbo Ukwu date from the 9th century CE. The city life in Yoruba territory is known to have existed in 800 CE. From the 11th to the 14th centuries it was producing naturalistic figures in bronze of a quality often compared with naturalistic traditions of the classical Mediterranean. It was from Ife that the court of Benin learned the art of
Extractions: Courtesy World Bank (Josef Hadad) In general, the southern groups of peoples have a fragmented quality. In 1990 the two most important groupings were the Igbo and the Yorubaboth linguistic communities rather than single ethnic units. History, language, and membership in the modern nation-state, however, had led to their identity as ethnic groups. In addition, although not as clearly differentiated, two subunits had strong traditions of ethnic separateness. These were the peoples of the Niger River delta area and those on the border between the Igbo and Yoruba. The Yoruba kingdoms were essentially unstable, even when defended by Portuguese guns and later by cavalry (in Ilorin and Kabba), because the central government had insufficient power constitutionally or militarily to stabilize the subordinate chiefs in the outlying centers. This fissiparous tendency has governed Yoruba contemporary history and has weakened traditional rulers and strengthened the hands of local chiefs and elected councils. Ilorin, like Nupe to the north, was an exception, an extension of Fulani imperial expansion; in 1990 it was ethnically Yoruba, yet more closely allied through its traditional rulers to the Islamic societies to the north. It thus formed a bridge between north and south. Migration of Fulani people in northern Nigeria
Intamas Part 2 In order to understand the peoples of the Eastern Provinces, The chapter onEthnology includes, interesting paragraphs on indigenous religion, http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/orient/nae/intamas2.htm
Extractions: Go to Part 1 Intamas Page Start Page AN INDEX TO INTELLIGENCE REPORTS, ANTHROPOLOGICAL REPORTS, ASSESSMENT REPORTS AND RE-ORGANISATION REPORTS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, ENUGU BY U. O. A. ESSE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, ENUGU 1992 PART TWO Contents ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL REPORTS ASSESSMENT AND REASSESSMENT REPORTS ORGANISATION AND REORGANISATION REPORTS ANTHROPOLOGICA L AND ETHNOLOGICAL REPORTS In order to understand the peoples of the Eastern Provinces, Their origin, social and political organisation with a view to reorganising the whole system, the colonial Administration in Nigeria engaged the services of British Anthropologist to collect and collate data on some communities in the Eastern Provinces. The information contained in these reports are veritable source material for the study of the early history of these communities. Also of importance is the information on ethnological Report of the people which is closely related to the Anthropological Reports. This part is divided into two sections. Section one deals with the Anthropological Reports while section two deals with the Ethnological Reports. FILE NO.56
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | What Is An African Dress Code? People who think that agbadas or Madiba shirts are authentic African outfits I wear whatever speaks to me as an idoma, born and educated in Nigeria that http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3492932.stm
Extractions: Mandela's 'madiba' shirts are famous around the world Shortly after taking the oath of office as South Africa's first democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela stormed the uptight fashion world of statesmen and dignitaries with the most unprecedented suit of all. Mandela introduced the "Madiba shirt". Flowery and loose-fitting, it gave the new South African president a relaxed - and some would say less formal - appearance. Meanwhile in Kenya, the speaker of the national assembly presides over a parliament with one of the most rigid dressing codes in Africa. A suit and tie is compulsory for male Members of Parliament in Kenya, and anything less would cause an MP to be thrown out of the house. But some Kenyan parliamentarians have tried to defy the strict dressing code, which they term "colonial and un-African." Some have dared to disobey the speaker, turning up in Parliament with flowing Nigerian "agbada" robes - and of course getting thrown out for it.
Cultural Survival is the most populous and diverse country in africa. been politically fragmented,but more people claim Igbo in the west; Tiv, Igala, idoma, Nupe, Igbirra in http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq_article.cfm?id=0000013E-000
Cultural Survival REGIONS. . africa. Arctic. Asia. home publications weekly indigenousnews ip in the news. NIGERIA idoma people call for more equal http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/news/news/news_article.cfm?id=0B171
THESIS - Chapter I Introduction This may be explained by the impact on indigenous African cultures of the two by the Ibibio people, in the north by the Igalla, idoma and Ogoja people, http://www.ub.uib.no/elpub/1996/h/506001/korieh/chima-Chapter.html
Extractions: The study of women as a vital and autonomous social force, as well as the treatment of their weal and woes as an intrinsic part of overall social dynamics, is a child of very recent birth indeed (Afigbo 1989:7). M. I. Finley (1968:129) drew in the, 'The Silent Women of Rome ', attention to the fact that The Roman World was not the only one in history in which women remained in the background in politics and business'. The women of mid-Victorian England were equally without rights, equally victims of double standards of sexual morality. Equally, they were exposed to risk and ruin when they stepped outside the home and the church. C. Obbo (1980:1) referred to the invisibility of African women in any serious study of history and society; in spite of the fact that anthropology has not been an exclusive male preserve. If the state of African women's studies is as bad as these and other authorities suggest, it is not surprising that even now when the world appears to be waking to its responsibility in this regard, there are still segments of the field which continue to be in a state of some neglect. While topics such as marriage and family, the economic role and political rights of women have received a fair measure of attention, a subject like widowhood practices remains largely neglected. Many of such books have no entry whatever under the term 'widowhood' in their indexes. For the most part what passing references made to the institution are made under such subjects as 'burial' or 'funeral rites' and 'death'.
Africa Mozambique, Flag of Mozambique, Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects note Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in http://www.ethiotrans.com/africa.htm
Extractions: Ruwanda County Flag Language Support Algeria Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Yes Angola Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages Yes Benin French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) Yes Botswana English (official), Setswana Yes Burkina Faso French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population Yes Burundi Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area) Yes Cameroon 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official) Yes Central African Republic French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), Arabic, Hunsa, Swahili Yes Chad French (official), Arabic (official), Sara and Sango (in south), more than 100 different languages and dialects Yes Congo, Democratic Republic of the
African Proverbs, Stories And Sayings - Bibliography Indeed, its fascinating to know how other african indigenous communities use In different parts of africa the local people s traditional concept of the http://www.afriprov.org/resources/bibliogr.htm
Extractions: Content Analysis of 86 "African Proverbs of the Month" on the African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories Website (http://www.afriprov.org) - June, 1998 to September, 2005 Date Contributor - Country of Origin Contributor - Country of Residence Language Country June, 1998 USA Tanzania Sukuma Tanzania July, 1998
Why Try Britannica Online? as Yoruba, Edo, Ijo, Igbo, Igala, idoma, Nupe, and but also on the Igala and otherpeoples around the Many indigenous polities emerged in Nigeria before the http://www.britannica.com/eb/print?tocId=55307&fullArticle=true
In Praise Of Zik Of Africa Although the Ibo peoples constitute no more than 17 percent of the total So on this his 100th birthday, let us all rise to toast Zik of africa, http://www.dawodu.com/aluko101.htm
Extractions: DAWODU.COM Dedicated to Nigeria's socio-political issues In Praise of Zik of Africa On His 100 th Birthday (Posthumously) By Mobolaji E. Aluko alukome@comcast.net November 16, 2004 INTRODUCTION If Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe had been alive today, he would have turned 100 on this blessed day of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Posthumous birthday felicitations to him! So I use the occasion to rise to toast Zik and once again reflect on him on his contribution to Nigeria, but particularly to the Igbos, right from when Zik allegedly stowed away to the United States in 1925, returned to Africa in 1934 and to Nigeria in 1937, and became Nigerias first indigenous Governor-General in 1960, and its first (non-executive) President in 1963. I fully assert that next to God Almighty himself, Zik gave the Igbos the self-esteem that they rightly have today, for without Zik's personal assertiveness and inspiration in education, I fear that the Igbos would not be where they were today! God may have raised some body else up for the Igbos, but He chose to raise Zik up, and Zik did a darn good job of it. THE EARLY YEARS I will begin by "cutting and pasting" a little. While reading, please recall that Zik was born in 1904 and Obafemi Awolowo in 1909, to give context to the chronological and cultural milieu into which they were both born: they are both inextricably tied up with each other in the context of Nigerias history.
African Art Bibliography, By Subject Architectures of Nigeria Architectures of the Hausa and Yoruba peoples and ofthe Many Kasfir, SL Art in History, History in Art The idoma Ancestral http://peregrin.jmu.edu/~delancmd/AfricanArtBibSubject.html
Extractions: Archaeology Allen, James de Vere. "The Peopling of the Lamu-Southern Benadir Hinterland in the 14th-17th Centuries,"in the Proceedings of the First International Congress of Somali Studies edited by Hussein M. Adam and Charles L. Geshekter, pp. 3-24. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1992. Anfrey, F. "Une campagne de fouilles à Yeha." Annales d'Ethiopie (Paris) 5 (1963): pp. . Anfrey, F. "Notre connaissance du passé éthiopien d'après les travaux archéologiques récents." (Manchester) Journal of Semitic Studies 9 (1964): pp. . Anfrey, F. "Première campagne de fouilles à Matara." Annales d'Ethiopie (Paris) 5 (1963): pp. . Anfrey, F. and G. Annequin. "Matara (Deuxième, troisième et quatrième campagnes de fouilles)." Annales d'Ethiopie (Paris) 6 (1965): pp. . Anquandah, James. Ethnoarchaeological Clues to Ghana's Great Past and a Greater Future?: A Public Lecture Delivered on January 24, 1985 . Monographs and Papers in African Archaeology 2. Legon: Dept. of Archaeology, University of Ghana, 1985. Anquandah, James.
African Art Bibliography, By Nation peoples of Cote d Ivoire. Kasfir, SL Art inHistory, History in Art The idoma Ancestral Masquerade as Historical Evidence http://peregrin.jmu.edu/~delancmd/AfricanArtBibNation.html
Extractions: Algeria Ali-Khodja, Ali. Ali-Khodja: oeuvres récentes: Galerie M'Hamed Issiakhem du 14 septembre au 14 octobre 1986. Algiers: Office Riadh El-Feth, 1986. Aquarelles de Khadda: Galerie M'Hamed Issiakhem du 6 juin au 4 juillet 1986 . Algiers: Office Riadh El-Feth, 1986. Bertagnin, Mauro. "Apprendre du chantier: le Bastion 23 et la Citadelle de la casbah." Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (Rome) 12 (1992): pp. 80-7. Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Berber House." In Rules and Meanings , edited by Mary Douglas. New York: Penguin, 1973: 98-110. Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Kabyle House or the World Reversed." In Algeria, 1960 by Pierre Bourdieu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bourouiba, Rachid. Apports de l'Algérie à l'architecture religieuse arabo-islamique . Algiers: Office des publications universitaires, 1986. Bourouiba, Rachid. L'architecture d'Algérie Médiévale . Algiers: Office des publications universitaires, 1983. Bourouiba, Rachid.
The Nigerian Village Square - Indigenise To Lead The Information Age! the efforts of a disenfranchised people in diaspora are Nupe, Igala, Igbirra, Urhoboand possibly idoma. really be fourteen major indigenous Nigerian national http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/board/printthread.php?t=1347&pp=40
The Rosetta Project: The 1000 Language Archive the evolution of a local and indigenous church emerging 1955) in Daryll Forde (ed.),The People of the also relevant to these languages idoma, Nupe, Igbirra http://rosettaproject.org/live/search/addresourceform?ethnocode=IGL&langname=Iga
Nigeria's Identifiable Ethnic Groups - OnlineNigeria.com Yet, peoples in the precolonial geographical region now occupied by Nigeria and her Good examples of these are indigenous enclaves in the urban areas, http://www.onlinenigeria.com/tribes/tribes.asp
Extractions: O. Otitie Introduction The Past Contemporary Diversity Emerging National Culture ... Tribes In Nigeria INTRODUCTION Nigeria's social boundaries are often described as artificial. This characterisation is generally acceptable in the sense that certain ethnic groups and governmental societies were split and located within the colonial state territories of different European powers, following the 1884 Berlin Conference and the subsequent legal instruments. Thus, although Nigeria formally became one entity in 1914 after the amalgamation of the then northern and southern protectorates along with Lagos, many members of different social groups found their kinsmen and friendly neighbours just outside Nigeria's political boundaries. Yet, peoples in the pre-colonial geographical region now occupied by Nigeria and her neighbours such as the Cameroun, Chad, Niger and Benin Republics, were not only linked by blood or descent but also by trade and commerce, as well as by relations of friendship and conflict.
Analysis Nigeria s peoples are probably descended from quite small Stone Age According tothis view, there are the original, autochtonous, indigenous, http://www.ceddert.com/analysis-02-01-03-6.htm
Musées Afrique Sotho, Nguni, Shona, Lovedu Exposition Ulwazi Lwemvelo IndigenousKnowledge in South africa Aquarelles de Joy Adamson peoples of Kenya http://www2.unil.ch/gybn/Arts_Peuples/Ex_Africa/ex_Af_musaf.html
Extractions: Cape Town South African National Gallery Government Avenue ma-di 10-17 Arts de la perle / Expositions temporaires Cape Town Gold of Africa Museum . Martin Melck House 96 Strand Street Bijoux d'or d'Afrique de l'Ouest (coll Barbier-Mueller); objets d'or des civilisations d'Afrique australe Cape Town - Gardens South African Museum 25 Queen Victoria Street lu-di 10-17 terres cuites de Lydenburg San (peintures rupestres), Zimb abwe Tsonga , Khoikhoi, Sotho, Nguni, Shona, Lovedu... Exposition " Ulwazi Lwemvelo - Indigenous Knowledge in South Africa Cape Town - Rosebank University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum Cecil Road ma-sa 10-17 Arts de Zanzibar et du Congo: Lega, Luba Durban Art Gallery City Hall lu-sa 8.30-16; di 11-16 Durban Local History Museum Aliwal Street East London East London Museum lu-ve 9.30-17; sa 9.30-12
