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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Blackfire(m): 10:55am On Aug 28, 2017
There is something about been an igbo... Is like your DNA is screaming it out of you...



You are awesome.

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by deepwater(f): 10:56am On Aug 28, 2017
COOL
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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by MrCEO69(m): 10:59am On Aug 28, 2017
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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Viking007(m): 10:59am On Aug 28, 2017
This is so cool. cheesy

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Viking007(m): 11:00am On Aug 28, 2017
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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by beaversticks(m): 11:02am On Aug 28, 2017
This is actually nice ... am a Yoruba dude

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Nobody: 11:03am On Aug 28, 2017
Who will live in the mud house?
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by WorldRichest: 11:08am On Aug 28, 2017
SOLMICHAEL:
To say the truth, Igbo people are creative!!

So building mud huts is creativity!

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by VeniJu: 11:13am On Aug 28, 2017
SOLMICHAEL:
To say the truth, Igbo people are creative!!
Mud house is now a thing of creativity abi?
mention one tribe in Nigeria that has no mud/thatch house even in this modern day world.

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Nobody: 11:14am On Aug 28, 2017
Yeah Aham by Nwaamadi Okerekere mmaduawuchukwu Emmanuel Abu nwafo Igbo an obodo Nnewi do n'ime Anambara stati.
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Getintouch2004(m): 11:19am On Aug 28, 2017
The word "Igbo" appeared 32 times in that writeup
Igbo amaka sha!
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by PearlStreet(m): 11:22am On Aug 28, 2017
Building huts in 2017 is creativity to the Igbos?

A lot of times here on Nairaland, Igbo posters have insulted the Yoruba city of Ibadan for its brown zinc roofs. They forget that as at the time those houses in Ibadan were being built, their own ancestors were still living in trees.

It's a good thing to acknowledge one's history. At least, now we know that as at when Yorubas were living in houses with zinc roofs, Igbos were living in mud houses with thatched roof.

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by mercyville: 11:27am On Aug 28, 2017
Youngadvocate:
Initial topic: Igbos In Diaspora: The 21st Century Most Devoted Promoters Of Igbo Culture And Language

I must confess without reservation that the most current promoters of Igbo culture are those in diaspora, mostly United States of America. How do I mean?

Check their names one after the other, you hardly see them adding their English name. Not that it is bad to have English name, but they have seen that white men take no glory in taking African names. Again, their culture could be lost. Name is culture. Culture is identity. When you mention Ebuka as your name, people think of Igbo; Gbenga goes for Yoruba; Adamu goes for Hausa; Archibong goes for Calabar/Akwa Ibom, etc. But when an Igbo person bears Gentle James, his identity is lost. Only his language could be use to trace his identity. Worst still, if he doesn't know how to speak.

Igbo parents in diaspora endeavors to give their children Igbo names. I applaud that..highly commendable. Even when they have English names, they endeavor to add their native names. All my Igbo-American born and bred in my friend list here are doing great regarding this unlike most Igbo youths in Nigeria who have not cross River Niger like me. The young girls opt for change of name against their parents wish. Nneka Okwueze will now turn to Celine Dion Anderson Kings. Speak Igbo, problem. Speak English, problem. They coil their tongues backward towards their uvular to speak English and end up fooling themselves. If you touch their mouth: "I cannot speak Igbo. There is no need speaking Igbo. Where will Igbo take you". If those ones happen to be writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who despite her world achievements represent her Igbo culture through her name and works, they will change their name to Amanda Wannabe Dick Linda.

Those in diaspora are ever ready to learn. They are humble enough to ask questions. Even those young ones born there are striving to recollect with their language more than those aforementioned "Ndị-ọcha-nna-ha-dị-oji" living in Igbo land who do not know neither good English nor pidgin. I called such ones ụsụ. They neither belong to the flying creature nor earthly animals.

The young Igbos in diaspora have created a lot of groups amounting to 25k members, 14k, etc for connection of Ndị Igbo wherever they are to discuss not politics but language, people and culture. Such groups include: Umu Igbo United (UIU), Igbo People Connect (IPC), etc. Igbo youths are participating fully and contributing quotas to the sustainability of Igbo language and preservation of culture. I admire this young ones.

The Igbos in diaspora saw the need to preserve their culture for posterity, they bought lands in Virginia, USA and build an Igbo Museum. It was not done by a single person, but collectively. There is unity and all hands on the deck in preservation of our culture and self-consciousness for the generations unborn. If you ask why didn't they build it in Igboland as you are used to questioning every action, what have you done by yourself to restore and preserve the Igbo culture? Oh stopping your kids from speaking Igbo?

Have you seen that those in diaspora took along with them their family members, all participated in pudding of sands and other works. The participants came from different States in America to ensure this work is done. From the pictures below, I am spotting the mighty friends of mine on Facebook and others: Prof Emeritus Ichie Akuma-Kalu Njoku (Ọhamadike Ndiigbo), Aghadi Vic Nwọra, one of the greatest journalists, Africa ever produced; Prof. Chimah Korieh, Dr. Kanayo K.Odeluga, Dr. Chinyere Ogeluga, Nneka Obasi, Dr. Ejike Obasi, Dr. Amara Enyia and her twin, Dr. Onyinye Enyia- Daniels, Nnabuenyi Chukwuemeka Chinemelu Anigbogu, Uju Ezenwa (Uju Bekee) and Dr. Nkuzi nnam.They worked tirelessly to ensure that this dream came to reality.

Each year, Festivals are held here. Masquerade will run. Children, adults, neighbours, blacks and whites attend to watch Igbo culture in display. Drums are beaten, dancers, Igbo young ladies appear in display, wriggling their beautiful waists to the rhythm of the drumbeats. Children are made to participate in Igbo reading. Now tell me, where in Igboland is this taking shape presently?

I am highly commending Igbos in diaspora for their keen supports for the advancement of Igbo language and preservation of our culture. It is because of encouragements I am getting from Igbos abroad that wired in me more zeal to be creative in preservation of our identity through writing. If I should mention their names here, my battery will go flat.

Igbos in diaspora, I love and appreciate your self-sacrificing spirits. Keep the good work. I am really working on things to nurture and make you and your offsprings feel at home wherever you are. We are together. One-day-one-day, I go sail through River Niger come join the Igbo Festival Event in Virginia. Ọ bụrụ ma ọ ga-eme, ọ ga-eme.

http://igbobia.com/?q=see-how-igbos-and-whites-in-diaspora-built-mud-houses-to-celebrate-igbo-culture.html

Lasticlala, Mynd44

Cool..
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by suzypark(f): 11:29am On Aug 28, 2017
I don't understand how mud house is symbol of culture. The savagery life we had before the whites brought creativity isn't culture! We are thinking of how to catch up with the whites in latest developments and even surpass them but some people are determined to take us back to the savage times all in the name of culture? Mud house wasn't and isn't a culture, it was the only way we knew how to create shelter then, better ways came and we abandoned them. How is it culture? mud houses, walking on bare feet, killing of twins, wearing plantain leaves, are not things to be preserved! Living things evolve from time to time, from language evolution to DNA, survival techniques and way of live. We have evolved from mud housing to concrete housing just like the rest of the world! Why take us back in the name of culture when there are other cultural stuffs worth preserving. When they talk of culture, Africans will come out with plantain leave clothings and mud houses. We have a current culture that is better and worth preserving, let's leave the age of illiteracy, slavery and savagery behind. Those are history not culture.

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by colossus91(m): 11:30am On Aug 28, 2017
why igbo men belle dey like big sef.....lol evidence of goodliving.........EascoastRocks!!
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by uzogoodx: 11:42am On Aug 28, 2017
nice one
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by comrChris(m): 12:12pm On Aug 28, 2017
PearlStreet:
Building huts in 2017 is creativity to the Igbos?

A lot of times here on Nairaland, Igbo posters have insulted the Yoruba city of Ibadan for its brown zinc roofs. They forget that as at the time those houses in Ibadan were being built, their own ancestors were still living in trees.

It's a good thing to acknowledge one's history. At least, now we know that as at when Yorubas were living in houses with zinc roofs, Igbos were living in mud houses with thatched roof.
they have come up to replace that mud thatched houses with standard house while you still leave your mud rusty zinc house standing in 2017..tell me,what message does that send to you? Who is moving forward and who is stagnant

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by successincentiv(m): 12:16pm On Aug 28, 2017
Verry funny.
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by 1metre: 12:26pm On Aug 28, 2017
suzypark:
I don't understand how mud house is symbol of culture. The savagery life we had before the whites brought creativity isn't culture! We are thinking of how to catch up with the whites in latest developments and even surpass them but some people are determined to take us back to the savage times all in the name of culture? Mud house wasn't and isn't a culture, it was the only way we knew how to create shelter then, better ways came and we abandoned them. How is it culture? mud houses, walking on bare feet, killing of twins, wearing plantain leaves, are not things to be preserved! Living things evolve from time to time, from language evolution to DNA, survival techniques and way of live. We have evolved from mud housing to concrete housing just like the rest of the world! Why take us back in the name of culture when there are other cultural stuffs worth preserving. When they talk of culture, Africans will come out with plantain leave clothings and mud houses. We have a current culture that is better and worth preserving, let's leave the age of illiteracy, slavery and savagery behind. Those are history not culture.
is like your understanding of history and culture is contaminated by western education. In a succinct manner define culture without reference to history.

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by chiochio1(m): 12:27pm On Aug 28, 2017
I lost contact long ago from my friend that has the same name with you Mmadubuchkwu Okereke, from Nnewi South Ukpor precisely...ARE you the one


EMMAUGOH:
Yeah Aham by Nwaamadi Okerekere mmaduawuchukwu Emmanuel Abu nwafo Igbo an obodo Nnewi do n'ime Anambara stati.
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Benjor: 1:10pm On Aug 28, 2017
A good one.
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by johncallidon(m): 1:28pm On Aug 28, 2017
I love this...
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by NairalandSARS: 2:12pm On Aug 28, 2017
Falling hands
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by heo88(m): 2:30pm On Aug 28, 2017
Youngadvocate:
Initial topic: Igbos In Diaspora: The 21st Century Most Devoted Promoters Of Igbo Culture And Language

I must confess without reservation that the most current promoters of Igbo culture are those in diaspora, mostly United States of America. How do I mean?

Check their names one after the other, you hardly see them adding their English name. Not that it is bad to have English name, but they have seen that white men take no glory in taking African names. Again, their culture could be lost. Name is culture. Culture is identity. When you mention Ebuka as your name, people think of Igbo; Gbenga goes for Yoruba; Adamu goes for Hausa; Archibong goes for Calabar/Akwa Ibom, etc. But when an Igbo person bears Gentle James, his identity is lost. Only his language could be use to trace his identity. Worst still, if he doesn't know how to speak.

Igbo parents in diaspora endeavors to give their children Igbo names. I applaud that..highly commendable. Even when they have English names, they endeavor to add their native names. All my Igbo-American born and bred in my friend list here are doing great regarding this unlike most Igbo youths in Nigeria who have not cross River Niger like me. The young girls opt for change of name against their parents wish. Nneka Okwueze will now turn to Celine Dion Anderson Kings. Speak Igbo, problem. Speak English, problem. They coil their tongues backward towards their uvular to speak English and end up fooling themselves. If you touch their mouth: "I cannot speak Igbo. There is no need speaking Igbo. Where will Igbo take you". If those ones happen to be writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who despite her world achievements represent her Igbo culture through her name and works, they will change their name to Amanda Wannabe Dick Linda.

Those in diaspora are ever ready to learn. They are humble enough to ask questions. Even those young ones born there are striving to recollect with their language more than those aforementioned "Ndị-ọcha-nna-ha-dị-oji" living in Igbo land who do not know neither good English nor pidgin. I called such ones ụsụ. They neither belong to the flying creature nor earthly animals.

The young Igbos in diaspora have created a lot of groups amounting to 25k members, 14k, etc for connection of Ndị Igbo wherever they are to discuss not politics but language, people and culture. Such groups include: Umu Igbo United (UIU), Igbo People Connect (IPC), etc. Igbo youths are participating fully and contributing quotas to the sustainability of Igbo language and preservation of culture. I admire this young ones.

The Igbos in diaspora saw the need to preserve their culture for posterity, they bought lands in Virginia, USA and build an Igbo Museum. It was not done by a single person, but collectively. There is unity and all hands on the deck in preservation of our culture and self-consciousness for the generations unborn. If you ask why didn't they build it in Igboland as you are used to questioning every action, what have you done by yourself to restore and preserve the Igbo culture? Oh stopping your kids from speaking Igbo?

Have you seen that those in diaspora took along with them their family members, all participated in pudding of sands and other works. The participants came from different States in America to ensure this work is done. From the pictures below, I am spotting the mighty friends of mine on Facebook and others: Prof Emeritus Ichie Akuma-Kalu Njoku (Ọhamadike Ndiigbo), Aghadi Vic Nwọra, one of the greatest journalists, Africa ever produced; Prof. Chimah Korieh, Dr. Kanayo K.Odeluga, Dr. Chinyere Ogeluga, Nneka Obasi, Dr. Ejike Obasi, Dr. Amara Enyia and her twin, Dr. Onyinye Enyia- Daniels, Nnabuenyi Chukwuemeka Chinemelu Anigbogu, Uju Ezenwa (Uju Bekee) and Dr. Nkuzi nnam.They worked tirelessly to ensure that this dream came to reality.

Each year, Festivals are held here. Masquerade will run. Children, adults, neighbours, blacks and whites attend to watch Igbo culture in display. Drums are beaten, dancers, Igbo young ladies appear in display, wriggling their beautiful waists to the rhythm of the drumbeats. Children are made to participate in Igbo reading. Now tell me, where in Igboland is this taking shape presently?

I am highly commending Igbos in diaspora for their keen supports for the advancement of Igbo language and preservation of our culture. It is because of encouragements I am getting from Igbos abroad that wired in me more zeal to be creative in preservation of our identity through writing. If I should mention their names here, my battery will go flat.

Igbos in diaspora, I love and appreciate your self-sacrificing spirits. Keep the good work. I am really working on things to nurture and make you and your offsprings feel at home wherever you are. We are together. One-day-one-day, I go sail through River Niger come join the Igbo Festival Event in Virginia. Ọ bụrụ ma ọ ga-eme, ọ ga-eme.

http://igbobia.com/?q=see-how-igbos-and-whites-in-diaspora-built-mud-houses-to-celebrate-igbo-culture.html

Lasticlala, Mynd44


Nice write-up; pretty insightful but there's things I'd like to share if you'd permit me.

First and foremost, I think we can agree that your write-up is largely based on personal experiences which I respect.

However, and in the nicest way possible, the name issue you cited is not nailed on fact; there are a great many Igbos in the diaspora with 'foreign/english names'. To fully appreciate this point, there is a need to delineate what is meant as 'diaspora'.

I'm not going to go into the myriad diaspora theories, but by consensus, diaspora can be applied to Igbos that recently moved to the likes of the UK/US/Canada/Republic of Ireland etc., those that are third generation Igbos from the aforementioned group, those who are the descendants of enslaved Igbos who moved to Port Harcourt, Owerri, Arochukwu etc. in the late 1800s, as well as Igbos in Brazil, Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, and Barbados among others who still practice their own Igbo sub-culture.

Anyone can feel free to disagree with the above, but based on my own worldview, I will aggressively assert that all of my sisters and brothers in the groups above, have as much a claim to Igbo heritage as anyone else, including the Nigerian-based colonisers of Igbo culture.

On the subject of the 'Igbo' identity, please keep in mind that our group, in the context of modern history (circa 300 years) is very, very new. Prior to British influence and their super-imposition of identity politics (a curse which is every present today), we had many, many subgroups such as:

- Anioma
- Agbo
- Aro
- Edda
- Ekpeye
- Etche
- Ezza
- Ika
- Ikwerre
- Ikwo
- Ishielu
- Izzi
- Mbaise
- Mgbo
- Ngwa
- Nkalu
- Nri-Igbo
- Ogba
- Ohafia
- Ohuhu
- Omuma
- Onitsha
- Oratta
- Ubani
- Ukwani

And a few others.

To fully appreciate the above, the amalgamation of 'subgroups' into the contemporary three major ethnic groups, is greatly influenced by Frederick Lugard and his colleagues in their quest to subjugate the people we now refer to as Nigerians. For further vivid examples, we have the Ijeshas, Oyos, Ijebus, Egbas, Aworis etc., that became the monolith that we now know as the Yoruba ethnic group. Furthermore, the 'hausas' also had their own groups such as the bazazzage (modern day Kano) and bakatsine (present day Katsina) to name two of many, and these people spent time killing themselves despite being Muslims, before the colonisers came in and forced them to become one 'Northern Nigeria', foreshadowing a programme of 'Northernisation', which included converting many non-Muslims in the North and middlebelt, to Islam in fairly recent times (circa last 60 years).

Things get even more messier when you consider the Muslim Igbos in the Kano during the 1953/54 slaughters, and again in 1966, many of these men took hausa wives, raised their children as hausa, and even adopted variegated names like: 'Mallam Abdullahi Chucks', 'Muhammad Anyanwu' etc, and even assumed a hausa identity. They did not live in the sabon Gari quarters, but in the Kano old town and were accepted as Hausas, thus avoiding slaughter and theft of their personal effects/assets.

I as an igbo in the diaspora (UK first generation), often have my identity called into question by many other 'insecure' igbos with a deep discontentment with their identity (and joblessness), trying to put me down as a means of feeling better about themselves, albeit momentarily. Ironically, as you can see from the above, I know more about the roots of the Igbo group than many of them, but for the sake of expediency, I keep schtum; after all if their partial ignorance helps them to sleep better at night then so be it.

Please forgive the long write-up, but I felt compelled to contribute.

Ps. Adamu, is not exclusively a hausa name. You have Yorubas, Igbo muslims, and other middle belters (both Christians and Muslims) that bear this name.

CC. Zehner

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Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Jsucre(m): 3:52pm On Aug 28, 2017
chai y we cant do anything without oyinbo .
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Nobody: 3:55pm On Aug 28, 2017
If they like let them build Amadioha shrine in America it will never be the same like in Africa. when winter comes the whole thing will crumble.

Are they also going to plant palm trees, Udara, egusi, ogbono and bitterleaf trees?
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by SOLMICHAEL(m): 3:56pm On Aug 28, 2017
VeniJu:

Mud house is now a thing of creativity abi?
mention one tribe in Nigeria that has no mud/thatch house even in this modern day world.

First tell me what you understand by creativity?
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by uchbaba(m): 4:31pm On Aug 28, 2017
plz if u guys need more hand who can help match the earth or red sand together, I can be of help, or even excavate, u don't need all those machineries. I can live inside the mud house u don't need to worry abt my feeding n accommodation plz, just let me help u guys build more... eagerly waiting 4 una response
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by NameCheckers: 5:00pm On Aug 28, 2017
burkingx:
grin
lol my Afonja friend. How u dey na cheesy
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by Robinhood477: 5:00pm On Aug 28, 2017
SOLMICHAEL:
To say the truth, Igbo people are creative!!
what is creative here pls mumu post
Re: Igbos In Diaspora Build Mud Houses With Whites To Exhibit Culture by SOLMICHAEL(m): 5:06pm On Aug 28, 2017
Robinhood477:
what is creative here pls mumu post

Mumu post and u reacted to it Issokay!!

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