WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IGBOS.
■Igbos are one of the oldest Nation in the world.
■Igbos have a political system that is decentralised since ancient times.
This means,its a well structured system where everyone have an opinion. The system ensured checks and balances and they are the first to practice democracy in the world .
We call it Umunna.
■There is no “absolute monarchy ” in Igboland,there is no emperor, there is no overlord.
It was and it is still well organised.
■The highest title in iIgboland is the Ozo title and this is the oldest title .
Initiation into the aristocratic Nze na Ozo society marks the person as nobility. They sometimes bear the Ichi facial scarifications, described by Olaudah Equiano in 1745 as ” Embrenche ” or mburichi ”
■Igbos received refugees fleeing from two overlaying kingdoms, Benin to the south and igala to the north.
■Because of there early spread,Igbo descendants are found in most parts of southern Nigeria (Rivers,Southern Benue, Edo,isoko,.Anioma, southeast, Part of akwa ibom and cross River.),Also, Eboe town Jamaica, Virginia, equatorial guinea .
■Igboland extended from the confines of Benin (igbanke) on the south,Igala to her northern boundary, to the east the ibibios and ijaw there immediate southern Neighbours.
■As with most ancient tribes, the time Igbos settled or evolved is lost to human mind.
However Uranium studies of archeological tracings have identified human activities in Igboland from a period between 250,000 to 100,000 years.
Ndi Igbo are very industrous,and known to be very hardworking wherever they reside.
You see that grace upon them.
Igbos prosper wherever they are.
Igbos love freedom, justice and onye ahala nwanne ya ( are brother’s keepers).
■Igbos are peace loving people, who value life,and are recalcitrant to oppression and highly driven for success.
■Igbos have the highest female literacy rate in Nigeria.
