21. Africa: Definition And Much More From Answers.com The terms to the indigenous peoples eventually came to describe a persons Roughly 20% of Africans primarily follow indigenous African religions. http://www.answers.com/topic/africa

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Geography WordNet Wikipedia Translations Best of Web Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Africa Dictionary Af·ri·ca ăf rÄ­-kə The second-largest continent, lying south of Europe between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Africa has vast mineral resources, many of which are still undeveloped. var tcdacmd="cc=edu;dt"; Encyclopedia Africa ăf rÄ­kə ) , second largest continent, c.11,677,240 sq mi (30,244,050 sq km) including adjacent islands; 1997 est. pop. 743,000,000. Broad to the north (c.4,600 mi/7,400 km wide), Africa straddles the equator and stretches c.5,000 mi (8,050 km) from Cape Blanc (Tunisia) in the north to Cape Agulhas (South Africa) in the south. It is connected with Asia by the Sinai Peninsula (from which it is separated by the Suez Canal) and is bounded on the N by the Mediterranean Sea, on the W and S by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the E and S by the Indian Ocean. The largest offshore island is Madagascar; other islands include St. Helena and Ascension in the S Atlantic Ocean; S£o Tom©, Pr­ncipe, Annob³n, and Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea; the Cape Verde, Canary, and Madeira islands in the N Atlantic Ocean; and Mauritius, R©union, Zanzibar, Pemba, and the Comoros and Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Geology and Geography The continent's largest rivers are the Nile (the world's longest river), the Congo, the Niger, the Zambezi, the Orange, the Limpopo, and the Senegal. The largest lakes are Victoria (the world's second largest freshwater lake), Tanganyika, Albert, Turkana, and Nyasa (or Malawi), all in E Africa; shallow Lake Chad, the largest in W Africa, shrinks considerably during dry periods. The lakes and major rivers (most of which are navigable in stretches above the escarpment of the plateau) form an important inland transportation system.

22. African Culture - Society On The Internet The web site for her course peoples and Cultures of africa has information onthe Mande, Indilinga african Journal of indigenous Knowledge Systems http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html

Countries Topics Search the Africa Pages Suggest a Site ... Topics: Culture and Society See also: Country Pages Adire African Textiles - Duncan Clarke History, background, and photographs of adire, adinkra, kente, bogolan, Yoruba aso-oke, akwete, ewe, kuba, and nupe textiles. The symbolism of images is often provided. One can purchase textiles as well. Clarke's Ph.D. dissertation (School of Oriental and African Studies) is on Yoruba men's weaving. Based in London. http://www.adire.clara.net Africa e Mediterraneo (Roma : Istituto sindacale per la cooperazione allo sviluppo) In Italian. A quarterly magazine about African culture and society. Has the table of contents. Topics covered: literature and theatre, music and dance, visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography), cinema, immigration. Owned by Lai-momo, a non-profit co-operative. Contact: redazione@africaemediterraneo.it [KF] http://www.africaemediterraneo.it Africa: One Continent. Many Worlds Extensive site for the traveling art exhibit from the Field Museum, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

23. 4th International Conference - International Alliance and indigenous rights of organisations like the Odua peoples Congress, igbo That indigenous peoples rights to land, forest and territories despite http://www.international-alliance.org/international_conf_4.htm

HOME MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION LINKS CONTACT US ... WEBMAIL ABOUT THE ALLIANCE WHO WE ARE [ESP] [FRA] ICC COMMITTEE ... REGIONS OF THE ALLIANCE [ESP] [FRA] ORGANOGRAM INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE CHARTER [ESP] ... INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES [ESP] [FRA] ALLIANCE ACTIVITIES TFRK EXPERT MEETING ... 'SPEAKING OUT' CONFERENCE [ESP] [FR] INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' NETWORK FOR CHANGE [ESP] [FR] BALANCED RELATIONSHIP PROJECT [ESP] [FR] UNFCCC [ESP] [FR] CBD [ESP] [FR] UNFF [ESP] [FR] ... UNPFII [ESP] [FR] 1st CONFERENCE PENANG 1992 2nd CONFERENCE IQUITOS 1993 ... NAIROBI 2002 4th International Conference International Association Centre Brussels, Belgium 16-17 JUNE, 2002 Nairobi Declaration eng.doc eng.pdf fr.doc esp.doc Country Resolution eng.doc eng.pdf The 4th Conference concluded with the 'Nairobi Declaration'. Further documentation will become available soon. The Nairobi Declaration and Country resolutions passed during the 4th Conference are available below in Word and PDF formats. Country Resolutions Resolution on Nigeria Delegates called on the Nigerian Federal government to respect the ethnic and indigenous rights of organisations like the Odua Peoples Congress, Igbo Peoples Organisation, Egbesu, Movement for the Survival Ogoni People Edo Cultural Association and other similar organisations and not to treat them as violent or terrorist organisations.

24. African History Like the art of all peoples, the art of africans expresses values, but ratheras the indigenous achievement of western, eastern and southern africa. http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinhistory.html

Issues in African History Professor James Giblin, Department of History, The University of Iowa Like the art of all peoples, the art of Africans expresses values, attitudes, and thought which are the products of their past experience. For that reason, the study of their art provides a way of learning about their history. Through the study of African art we can study the questions which have long preoccupied historians of Africa. This essay written by a historian who studies the African past presents an introduction to these questions. Its purpose is to encourage students to use their knowledge of African art to think about issues in African history. As students of African art begin to consider the African past, they must also consider how Western conceptions of "race" and "racial" difference have influenced our notions of the African past. These ideas, which have usually contrasted the presumed inferiority of black peoples with the superiority of whites, arose in Western societies as Europeans sought to justify their enslavement of Africans and the subsequent colonization of Africa. Historians now recognize that ideas of racial inferiority have inspired the belief that in the past African peoples lived in a state of primitive barbarism. At the same time, they have realized that many of the European writings which they use to reconstruct the African past such as accounts by nineteenth-century missionaries and travelers, for example are themselves tainted by these same notions of African inferiority.

25. Talking About "Tribe" For most people in Western countries, africa immediately calls up the word It is applied to Nigeria s igbo and other peoples who organized orderly http://www.africaaction.org/bp/ethall.htm

Top: Africa Policy Home Page Up: Table of Contents Talking about "Tribe" Moving from Stereotypes to Analysis Background Paper Published November, 1997 Last updated November, 1997 For most people in Western countries, Africa immediately calls up the word "tribe." The idea of tribe is ingrained, powerful, and expected. Few readers question a news story describing an African individual as a tribesman or tribeswoman, or the depiction of an African's motives as tribal. Many Africans themselves use the word "tribe" when speaking or writing in English about community, ethnicity or identity in African states. Yet today most scholars who study African states and societiesboth African and non-Africanagree that the idea of tribe promotes misleading stereotypes. The term "tribe" has no consistent meaning. It carries misleading historical and cultural assumptions. It blocks accurate views of African realities. At best, any interpretation of African events that relies on the idea of tribe contributes no understanding of specific issues in specific countries. At worst, it perpetuates the idea that African identities and conflicts are in some way more "primitive" than those in other parts of the world. Such misunderstanding may lead to disastrously inappropriate policies. In this paper we argue that anyone concerned with truth and accuracy should avoid the term "tribe" in characterizing African ethnic groups or cultures. This is not a matter of political correctness. Nor is it an attempt to deny that cultural identities throughout Africa are powerful, significant and sometimes linked to deadly conflicts. It is simply to say that using the term "tribe" does not contribute to understanding these identities or the conflicts sometimes tied to them. There are, moreover, many less loaded and more helpful alternative words to use. Depending on context, people, ethnic group, nationality, community, village, chiefdom, or kin-group might be appropriate. Whatever the term one uses, it is essential to understand that identities in Africa are as diverse, ambiguous, complex, modern, and changing as anywhere else in the world.

26. FAF - Preamble Much of the wealth in indigenous africa was of the social type; that is, Among the igbo, the attainment of wealth meant the attainment of prestige and http://freeafrica.org/concept_of_wealth.html

Home Indigenous Africa The Concept Of Wealth In Traditional Africa George B.N. Ayittey Most lineages in traditional Africa have a "family pot," a general welfare fund managed by the head of the extended family. Income-earning members are obligated to make contributions to this fund. Obligations vary from family to family and tribe to tribe. The contributor in some cases may make a minimum regular payment. In other cases, the contribution may be irregular and based upon financial ability. In some families, contributions may be entirely voluntary for those who no longer live in the village. However, failure to contribute is often interpreted as an abandonment of one's family, which is considered a serious transgression. The offender may be ostracized or caused to forfeit his inheritance rights. However, atonement can often be made with one "large" contribution to cover past arrears. Across Africa, the family pot, called the agbadoho among the Ewe seine fishermen of Ghana, is used for a variety of purposes: to provide the initial start-up capital for a business or trade; to finance the education, hospitalization and the foreign trip of a member of the extended family; to cover funeral expenses; to finance improvement costs to the family land; or to construct new dwellings. The African family pot, not well understood, has also been the source of much confusion and myth. The erroneous corollary was the assumption that there were neither poverty nor rich peasants in pre-colonial Africa. Even the United Nations Regional Department on Social Welfare Policy and Training of the Economic Commission for Africa, succumbed to this myth in 1972:

27. History Now. The Historians Perspective Africans declined as the indigenous African American population increased . igbo peoples constituted the majority of African slaves in Virginia and http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/historian3.html

Why Immigration Matters by Thomas Kessner Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity by Phillip Lopate African Immigration to Colonial America by Ira Berlin African Immigration to Colonial America by Ira Berlin Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland American Colonization Society membership certificate, 1833 (The American Colonization Society resettled freed black slaves in Liberia). (GLC04675.02) But if patterns of African settlement can be discerned, they never created regional homogeneity. The general thrust of the slave trade was toward heterogeneity, throwing different people together in ways that undermined the transfer of any single culture. Mainland North American became a jumble of African nationalities. Their interactionnot their homogeneitycreated new African American cultures. No matter what their sex, age, and nationality, Africans shipped to the New World endured the trauma of enslavement. Captured deep in the African interior, Africans faced a long, deadly march to the coast. Traveling sometimes for months, they were passed from group to group, as many different African nations participated in the slave trade. But whoever drove the captives to their unwanted destiny, the circumstances of their travel were extraordinarily taxing. In some places, some forty percent of the slaves died between their initial capture in the interior and their arrival on the coast.

28. Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL) Zaslavsky describes the mathematical practices of the indigenous peoples ofAmerica and africa that are suitable for inclusion in middle and primary grades. http://www.ethnomath.org/search/browseResources.asp?type=cultural&id=84

29. PEOPLES OF AFRICA Paper Topic 5Igbo Gender in West africa Male Daughters Female Husbands Paper Topic 16 indigenous Agriculture the Best System for africa http://www.stpt.usf.edu/arthurj/Peoples_of_Africa.htm

PEOPLES Of AFRICA ANT 4930 (section 601) Lecture: Tuesday , FCT 118N Semester: Spring 2005 Instructor: Dr. John W. Arthur Link to John’s CV and Research Email: mailto:arthurj@stpt.usf.edu Phone: (727)553-4960 Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9:00 – 10:00 am DAVIS HALL 270 Webpage Textbooks Course Objective Policies ... line Links Africa News WEBPAGE http://www.stpt.usf.edu/arthurj/ Brief outlines for each lecture and questions for film days should be printed out before class. These will be available by 11 PM on the evening before the lecture by clicking on the LECTURE TOPIC for the day. I will not give out my lecture notes nor will the film be available on another day. If you are ill, you should obtain the notes for films and lectures from a classmate. Required Texts Readings should be completed before class on the day assigned on the syllabus below. Understanding Contemporary Africa , Edited by April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon, 3 rd Edition. Course Description and Objectives This course draws upon works in anthropology and related fields to dispel myths and stereotypes of Africa by addressing issues facing that continent today. The course will incorporate lectures, readings, and discussions focused on themes such as gender relations, the debate over the nature of indigenous cultures, health issues such AIDS and malaria, debt relief to countries, refugees and current conflicts that affect food acquisition and security, and a discussion on the multiple types of religion practiced in

30. AFRICAN BY NATURE® Presents Open Our Eyes: African People Are Incapable Of M (B) These are Black indigenous African people. That is, can we accept theassertion that igbo peoples, past and present, were (or are) not able to http://www.africanbynature.com/eyes/openeyes_migration.html

African People Are Incapable Of Migration by Keith W. Jones African people are incapable of migration. That is an idea that many scholars would still like to have us people of African descent believe. I find it disappointing that even today, as we transition to a new millennium, this concept is still being pushed, taught, and written about. The static African concept, as I call it, is implied in our literature, newspapers, and cinema, and is disseminated during television broadcasts. One possible result of this concept is that, being incapable of movement might be linked to being incapable of accomplishment. That is, if one cannot think well enough to move from one location to a better location, even though all of his or her muscles are fully functional, then how can one possibly think well enough to develop technology, which will make life easier for himself or herself. I believe that what is most psychologically damaging, though, for people of African descent, are the Eurocentric and ethnocentric falsehoods still disseminated in most of the textbooks used in schools today, by our children and young adults. Put another way, when African American children and young adults go to school, they still are taught and they still read about untruths regarding the lack of scientific, intellectual, and technological accomplishments made by people of African descent. These untruths are in addition to what these young people are learning about the so-called mental and intellectual inferiority of African peoples to other ethnic groups. However, I am getting ahead of myself.

31. The Nigerian Embassy, Moscow, Russian Federation: Nigeria: Culture The highest population densities are in the igbo heartland in In the south,indigenous peoples produced their own art long before Europeans arrived. http://www.nigerianembassy.ru/Nigeria/culture.htm

Welcome Address The Ambassador The Staff The Foreign Ministry ... Other sites Site Navigator Embassy Consular Affairs Business Forum Nigeria ... Links Quick Navigator Nigeria Profile Geography History Government ... Sports Culture Tourism Nigeria: Culture Introduction In 2001 Nigeria's estimated population was 126,635,626, yielding an average density of 137 persons per sq km (355 per sq mi). At the last census, in 1991, the population was pegged at 88.5 million. With a birth rate of 39.7 per 1,000 and a death rate of 13.9 per 1,000, Nigeria's population is growing at an average of 3 percent annually. The average Nigerian woman gives birth six times in her lifetime, although among more educated women the rate is somewhat lower. Nearly half of Nigerians are younger than 15 years. By 2025 the population is projected to grow to 204 million, nearly double the current size. The highest population densities are in the Igbo heartland in southeastern Nigeria, despite poor soils and heavy emigration. The intensively farmed zones around and including several major Hausa cities especially Kano, Sokoto, and Zaria in the north are also packed with people. Other areas of high density include Yorubaland in the southwest, the central Jos Plateau, and the Tiv homeland in Benue State in the south central region. Densities are relatively low in the dry northeast and in most parts of the middle belt. Ecological factors, including the prevalence of diseases such as sleeping sickness, carried by the tse-tse fly, and historical factors, especially the legacy of pre-colonial slave raiding, help explain these low densities.

32. Nigeria Government ie, the governance of indigenous peoples through their own institutions and Nnamdi Azikiwe, an igbo, who had the greatest potential for becoming a http://www.country-studies.com/nigeria/government.html

Government THE STORY OF NIGERIA during the postcolonial era has been one of a search for the constitutional and political arrangement that, while allowing for the self-expression of its socially and culturally diverse peoples, would not hinder the construction of a nation out of this mosaic. In this search, the country has experienced cycles of military and civilian rule, civil war, and peaceful reconstruction. If any nation typified political scientist Richard Sklar's characterization of the African continent as a "workshop of democracy," it would certainly be Nigeria. The country has experimented with different federal, state, and local government systems, learning more about its needs, resources, and constraints with each experiment. Despite the predominance of military regimes during the three postcolonial decades, Nigerian society has retained many of the fundamental building blocks of a democratic polity: vigorous entrepreneurial classes, a broad intelligentsia and numerous centers of higher education, a dynamic legal community and judiciary, diverse and often outspoken media, and, increasingly, courageous human rights organizations. Despite the differences in character and composition of the successive governments, it is still possible to identify the major threads of Nigeria's institutional evolution. As the nation finds itself once more on the threshold of transition from military to civilian rule, promised for 1992, examination of these threads is essential for understanding the Nigeria that will become the Third Republic.

33. JJSProgramme The dynamics of creativity in igbo language literature from Pita Nwana to Tonie The beginning of literacy among the indigenous people of South africa http://www.jahn-bibliothek.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/JJSProgramm.html

8TH JJS PICTURES NEW! PROGRAMME HOME DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF MAINZ Creative Writing in African Languages: Production, Mediation, Reception Programme Wednesday, 17 th November 2004 Registration Welcoming addresses Keynote lecture Alain Ricard (Paris) Creative writing in African languages: production, mediation, reception Opening reception Dinner Thursday, 18 th November 2004 Panel I: Origins and history of individual literatures in African languages (examples from West and Central Africa) Ernest E. Emenyonu (Flint/Michigan, USA) The dynamics of creativity in Igbo language literature: from Pita Nwana to Tonie Ubesie Erika Eichholzer (Hannover, Germany) The first novel in Twi/Akan Crispin Maalu-Bungi (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Kongo) Written literature in Congolese languages: genesis and principal genres Coffee break Panel I (continued): Origins and history of individual literatures in African languages (examples from southern Africa) Philemon Buti Skhosana (Pretoria, South Africa) Thematic survey of isiNdebele short story writing Daniel Kunene (Madison/Wisconsin, USA)

34. Nigeria - Chapter 4. Government And Politics ie, the governance of indigenous peoples through their own institutions andrulers. By contrast, in noncentralized systems such as those of the igbo and http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-9429.html

Country Listing Nigeria Table of Contents Nigeria Chapter 4. Government and Politics Brass statue of an oni, an Ife king of the early fourteenth or fifteenth century THE STORY OF NIGERIA during the postcolonial era has been one of a search for the constitutional and political arrangement that, while allowing for the self-expression of its socially and culturally diverse peoples, would not hinder the construction of a nation out of this mosaic. In this search, the country has experienced cycles of military and civilian rule, civil war, and peaceful reconstruction. If any nation typified political scientist Richard Sklar's characterization of the African continent as a "workshop of democracy," it would certainly be Nigeria. The country has experimented with different federal, state, and local government systems, learning more about its needs, resources, and constraints with each experiment. Despite the predominance of military regimes during the three postcolonial decades, Nigerian society has retained many of the fundamental building blocks of a democratic polity: vigorous entrepreneurial classes, a broad intelligentsia and numerous centers of higher education, a dynamic legal community and judiciary, diverse and often outspoken media, and, increasingly, courageous human rights organizations. Despite the differences in character and composition of the successive governments, it is still possible to identify the major threads of Nigeria's institutional evolution. As the nation finds itself once more on the threshold of transition from military to civilian rule, promised for 1992, examination of these threads is essential for understanding the Nigeria that will become the Third Republic.

35. Workingpapers Human Agency in InterState Relations in 19th-century Southern africa 4 (2002) Terence Ranger, Christianity and indigenous peoples A Personal Overview http://www.baslerafrika.ch/workp_.html

BAB WORKING PAPERS ISSN: 1422-8769) bab@bluewin.ch 2005 Working Papers No. 1 (2005): Martin Eberhardt, "...sind eigentlich seit der Besetzung des Landes National-Sozialisten reinsten Wassers." No. 2 (2005): No. 3 (2005): Birthe Kundrus 2004 Working Papers No. 1 (2004): Mattia Fumanti, Elites, Sport and the State: the Ministry of Basic Education, Sport and Culture and the Building of Public Life in Post-apartheid Rundu, 27p. 2003 Working Papers No. 1 (2003): Jean Comaroff, The End of History, Again? Pursuing the Past in the Postcolony No. 2 (2003): Patrik Germann, Imperial Communications. Human Agency in Inter-State Relations in 19th-century Southern Africa 2002 Working Papers No. 1 (2002): Saul Dubow, Earth history, natural history and prehistory at the Cape, 1860-75 No. 2 (2002): Conflict, Congregations and Community. African Christianity and the Idea of Chieftaincy in the Nineteenth-Century Eastern and Northern Transvaal No. 3 (2002): Veit Arlt, Tradition as a Resource. Changing Forms of Political Legitimacy in the Krobo States (Southeastern Ghana) No. 4 (2002):

36. MOST Ethno-Net Publication Africa At Crossroads an indigenous security outfit organized by igbos, which has succeeded in ‘Ndigbo (igbo People) went to war in defense and reaction to genocide committed http://www.ethnonet-africa.org/pubs/crossroadsonu.htm

MOST ETHNO-NET AFRICA PUBLICATIONS Africa at Crossroads: Complex Political Emergencies in the 21st Century, UNESCO / ENA, 2001 Ethnicity and Conflict Management: A Case Study of MASSOB Movement in Nigeria Godwin Onu Department of Political Science Nnamdi Azikiwe Universtiy P.M.B. 5025, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. E-mail: gomach@infoweb.abs.net Abstract Existing Scholarship on the theory of state in Africa has emphasized as an enduring legacy, the nature of state bequeathed to the continent upon the departure of the European Colonial Masters. These range from the dominant or slightly modified Euro- State structures, social formations, and dependent economic and weak political institutions. These factors have had impacts on inbuilt mechanisms and legal framework for conflict management and resolution, good governance and sustainable development. The fall out form these have been poverty, generic conflicts, separatism and instability. Background Nigeria became an independent Sovereign state in the year 1960. Prior to independence, she was colonized and governed by Great Britain. As a former colonial territory, she partook in sharing with other historical captives all the disasters and abiding benefits associated with colonialism. There is little doubt that the civilizing mission which came on the throes of economic ambition left behind some levels of literacy in the art of 3rs- Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, however the abiding concern blended with the anvil of ‘economic gendarmes’ was too obvious to be negated in any explicatory attempt at underdevelopment.

37. Legitimizing Spiritually-centred Wisdoms Within The Academy Therefore, indigenous learners and scholars in africa and around the globe are truth of african people and other indigenous peoples Kunnie (1998 8). http://www.kk.ecu.edu.au/sub/schoola/research/confs/aiec/papers/igoduka04.htm

Welcome Papers African/indigenous philosophies: Legitimizing Spiritually-centred wisdoms within the academy Ivy Goduka, Central Michigan University Back Up Conclusion As I conclude this journey, I would like to emphasize two major points. First, I caution the reader to appreciate the limitations of writing such an important piece of work. Alas! Only some of the many facets of indigenous philosophies can be discussed in such a short space of time and place without compromising the rich and varied body of spiritually-centred wisdom thriving in indigenous thought. Therefore, indigenous learners and scholars in Africa and around the globe are challenged to engage in extensive research and writing to legitimize indigenous epistemologies in the library, classroom, and wherever other knowledges, sciences and technologies are in existence. Such cultures and experiences have been devalued and denigrated in the academy; even worse, they have been treated as if they never existed. As we enter the next millennium, there is growing anger among indigenes and a desire to engage in what Amadiume (1997) terms

38. African Studies: Nigeria African Language Research Project Electronic Lexicon (igboEnglish). (Permanent); Images of Power and Identity Yoruba peoples (Permanent) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/NRhist.html

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39. Igbohistory allafrica literary contest in indigenous african languages organized by the Clark recommended that he produce books in igbo to convince people that http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/igbo/igbohistory.html

A History of the Igbo Language compiled by Frances W. Pritchett Sources: Louis Nnamdi Oraka, The Foundations of Igbo Studies (Onitsha: University Publishing Company, 1983), and personal research. The Oraka book is excellent, and I strongly recommend reading the whole of it (64 pages plus bibliography). THE ISUAMA IGBO STUDIES (1766-1900) THE UNION IGBO STUDIES (1900-1929) THE GREAT ORTHOGRAPHY CONTROVERSY (1929-1961) THE EMERGENCE OF THE SPILC (1948-1972) ... THE STANDARD IGBO PERIOD (1972-) pre-1500s A form of writing called nsibidi , using formalized pictograms, existed among the Igbo and neighboring groups. It died out, probably because it was popular among secret societies whose members did not want to discuss it publicly. In 1904, T. D. Maxwell, Acting District Commissioner in Calabar, was the first European to learn about the existence of nsibidi . Apart from nsibidi writing, the Igbo acculturated themselves effectively by informal methods (Oraka pp. 13,17). THE ISUAMA IGBO STUDIES (1766-1900) == Inhuman slave trade forced Africans to North America and West Indies. Isuama Igbo studies period. Isuama Igbo: type of dialect used in Igbo studies as a standard dialect by emancipated slaves of Igbo origin settled in Sierra Leone and Fernando Po (now part of Equatorial Guinea) in the 1800s (Oraka p. 20).

40. Welcome To UCLA Fowler Museum Of Cultural History of the value the indigenous peoples of the Southwest place on their children . igbo Arts Community and Cosmos African Islam Community and Cosmos http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/?content=cm&cm=past&im_sort=desc&im_order=e

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