History & Knowledge
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History & Knowledge
@Ifecentric
reporting historical research based on written records
Ife, Nigeria Katılım Şubat 2025
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Learn the difference now
Gele Ichafu(handkerchief)
Noni Edozie@Hibana122
Learn the difference now Gele (Handkerchief) Ichafu
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How Some Men from Accra, Sobo, Lagos, and Itsekiri, Sent to Collect Rubber in Benin, Were Captured as Prisoners, 1897.
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How the Badly Shaped Head of an Itsekiri Carrier Saved Him from Sacrifice, 1897.
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How the Badly Shaped Head of an Itsekiri Carrier Saved Him from Sacrifice, 1897.
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@Dakosta_Majesty @kinsun231 Oduduwa met 13 aboriginal communities when he arrived in Ife. Yoruba is a linguistic and cultural group, not an ancestral group. Olukumi, Anago, Aku, and others were foreign terms used to describe people from the Slave Coast.
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@Ifecentric @kinsun231 Forget the name concentrate on the topic. Don't change course like Ibos do when defeated
Yoruba/Olukumi/Anago/Aku/Oku/Alata/Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire/Eyagi/Ayagi/Iyaji etc. These are various names we have been called in the past.
"Yoruba" was mostly associated with Oyo empire
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African Headpiece Origin
•Isicholo (Zulu)
•Gele (Yoruba)
•Okuku(Edo)
•Netela (Ethiopia & Eritrea)
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Cowrie shells were also in use, I believe?
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The money used in Southern Nigeria was called “Igho” Manilla and came about during Benin contact with Europeans. Manillas were abolished through a combination of legal bans, economic pressure, and forced exchange programs, ending completely by 1948 under British colonial rule.
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@kinsun231 @Dakosta_Majesty Did Odu Ifa ever mentioned Yoruba?
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@Ifecentric @Dakosta_Majesty Ifecentric kpain you there.
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@nzemmili The picture you used as Igbo staff is from Edo. Thats why I asked you how come same picture is also found in Igbo land?
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@Dakosta_Majesty @kinsun231 Whats the origin of the word Yoruba?
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@Ifecentric @kinsun231 That's not true. Please answer this questions. If you sincerely do I will drop my arguement about this.
✓IS BENIN ROYALTY YORUBA?
✓Who introduce beads to the Edo people?
✓The "Ada and ebebe came to Benin from where?
✓Have the Benin royalty ever denied their Yoruba ancestry?
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@igbowomenontop @Hhonor_ There are various types of Okuku. You should do your research, and beads were introduced to Igbo land through Benin.
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@Ifecentric @Hhonor_ So my point still stands that okuku is a bead less hair do because these 2 pictures are not the same thing.
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Here is the benin attire, go be a culture vulture somewhere else
Oghosa@Tves500
@Hhonor_ The second attire is Benin. Iboes,be proud of ur indigenous attires,stop stealing other people's own.. Na why people dislike una so. Thieves.
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@nzemmili @ObiOnyeEze1 No it’s peculiar to a group not southern Nigeria. Northcote did a research work on the staff.
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What is this particular staff called ?
Nze@nzemmili
First is Igbo version of this staff, second is Edo version of this staff, while the third is the Yoruba version. We still do not know where it started as its similarities are found even in Benin Republic, Cameroon, and other neighbouring countries.
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@nzemmili @ObiOnyeEze1 The first frame picture is from Edo not Anioma. Do you have any of the staff in Eastern Nigeria
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Why is Oranmiyan often referred to as the son of two fathers (Oduduwa and Ogun) and as having two skin colours (white and black)?
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@igbowomenontop @Hhonor_ The late Oba in your picture, these are his father and mother. You can see the Okuku hairstyle his mother is wearing.
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@nzemmili Which part of Igbo and Yoruba land is the picture from?
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@Ifecentric I do know what it means in Igbo and Edo, and it represents an ancestral father too.
What does it mean in Yoruba?
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The Kingdom of Benin adopted the Manilla as an official currency in 15th century, systematically incorporating it into its existing trade infrastructure. The royal court of Benin exercised significant oversight over commercial activities, thereby ensuring that Manillas (Igho) circulated predominantly through the empire’s established economic networks.
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The money used in Southern Nigeria was called “Igho” Manilla and came about during Benin contact with Europeans. Manillas were abolished through a combination of legal bans, economic pressure, and forced exchange programs, ending completely by 1948 under British colonial rule.
Daughter of Zik and Ojukwu@blackgoldIfy
Nollywood writers were lazy I tell ya.... Didn't even bother with historical accuracy at all. Igbo ancestors didn't use coweries for money. They actually created their own currency (First Image). Date: 1926 Location: Akwa. We did use coweries (Second Image). I'm just not sure what it was meant for. For the coweries Date: Early 1930s Location: Arochukwu
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@udenshi_Aliba @olufisayooo @avogroovy NBM borrowed words from Edo language and has origin to Benin.
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@olufisayooo @avogroovy It is derived from NBM term for treasurer (Ihaza). It was mostly used by members, especially those in Benin. Davido’s music made it mainstream.
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How did ‘aza’ come to replace bank account in our everyday colloquial language? What is the etymology?
ᜰ@socetyhatesjay
i go like go SA but i sabi how much dey my aza. na why i go abuja
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