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The Igbo - Online Term Paper

The Igbo

On the western side of the Lower Niger River live some Igbo speaking groups. Their social history can be traced to the fifteen or tenth century AD, when some of their ancestors, whom original homelands in the Anambra valley and the Orlu and Isuama areas, began to respond to the ecological crisis that was afflicting their hometowns. By crossing the Niger River to seek for better farming and hunting grounds. In what was soon to become the western part of culture area. They came in small numbers, bringing with them certain notions of social and political organization, which guided them, as they established their new settlements. In later centuries they were joined by immigrants from wide ...

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were to expected to return home with trophies of human heads after wars that were usually provoked for the purpose of proving they were brave men, deserving of the exalted title of great warriors and has the right to join a club. Those men who could not accomplish this feat were treated as cowards; they were laughed at and denied certain rights and privileges. Headhunting was to prove that they are great warriors.
Igbo people are predominantly Christians. It is estimated that they constitute the largest block of Christians found anywhere on the African continent. Before the advent of Christianity, belief system revolved around one God, "CHI". Because CHI is an omnipotent and omnipresent God, symbols or sanctuaries representing CHI can be found in every home, compound or village square. These sanctuaries are called different names in different parts of Igbo land due to the dialectical wealth of the people. The fact that CHI can be personalized as well as shared by the community may ...

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Added: 8/31/2007 09:25:43 AM
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