Tag: Igbo people

Apart from the language, the traditions and culture are also some other endangered heritage of the Igbo peoples. One of the branches of this culture that is fast ebbing away is the mmanwu culture, the masquerade culture. Mmanwu is a traditional masquerade of the Igbos, to whom it used to be a major form of...

There have been cases among the Igbos of titled men of great standing. In most cases, however, such a conversion deserves to be described as a miracle of grace because it meant dismissing extra wives, thus breaking up normal home life and surrendering much of one’s social standing, and denying oneself of many of the...