The Igbo people and their descendants in the African Diaspora
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The Igbo people and their descendants in the African Diaspora 4 years ago · The Guide on Igbo Culture and Language: https://www.igboguide.org/
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The Igbo people and their descendants in the African Diaspora 4 years ago · “For the United States, one may also estimate that today something like 60 percent of all black Americans (who number some 40 million people) have at least one genealogical ancestor who was in fact Igbo.”
-Douglas B. Chambers, The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade -
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The Igbo people and their descendants in the African Diaspora 4 years ago · “In Cuba enslaved Carabalí reinvented or re-developed the men’s masquerade (leopard) societies of their home communities (Ejagham ngbe, Efik ekpe, Igbo egbo and okonko) into Afro-Cuban Abakuá, including the drums and dances and masques and the secret writing-system called in Efik nsibidi and in Cuba anaforuana.”
-Douglas B. Chambers, The Igbo… Read more -
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The Igbo people and their descendants in the African Diaspora 4 years ago · “In any case, the historical connection was with the ancient Nri civilization, for whom the shedding of human blood in anger was the greatest abomination and priestly peace-making the sacred responsibility of titled Nri men.”
-Douglas B. Chambers, The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade -
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