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“Like the Nri, the people of Enugu-Ukwu town were constantly exposed to Abam raids. Their response was to adopt the strategy of the fox and wage a cold war against the Abam by avoiding direct military confrontations with them. The strategy involved dropping poisoned food, water, and wine for the Abam in strategic routes and other places they… Read more

9,485 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

This channel features a number of interesting videos about Igbo language and culture: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ZWt6jGaFVX4vax16RoTpg

9,485 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

From libation pouring to patois infusions; this is how the Igbo people of Nigeria influenced Jamaica

9,485 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

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“Wherever enslaved Igbo found themselves in the Americas, whether on small tobacco farms in marginal colonies like Virginia or on the teeming sugar plantations of Jamaica, they forged cultures of resistance. In fact throughout the Atlantic world Igbo gained a well-deserved reputations as ‘bad slaves.'”
-Douglas B. Chambers, The Igbo Diaspora… Read more

9,485 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

Igwe sichaa ike, n’ụzụ ka a ga-akụjasịrị ya.
“The strongest metal yields to the techniques of the blacksmith”
-Igbo proverb