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Showing posts with label Europeans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europeans. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Bridge over Imo River

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Bridge over Imo River. Published 1920. Internet Archive. A temporary wooden bridge over the Imo River for the Eastern Division railway li...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Ọ̀kọ̀nkọ̀ Tolls

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An Ekpe masquerader in Uzuakoli, present-day Abia State. Photographed by G. I. Jones, 1930s. MAA Cambridge. Ọ̀kọ̀nkọ̀ members controlled ...

"A Famous Were-Leopard"

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"A Famous Were-Leopard". Percy Amaury Talbot. Internet Archive. The power of metamorphosis is generally termed Uworraw-Ukponn, ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Prince Chukwuma of Àbọ, William Baikie

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"Prince Tshúkuma [Chukwuma]" of Abö, illustration from an 1854 voyage by William Baikie. Internet Archive. [At Abö] we learnt t...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Palm Oil

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A palm oil factory photographed by Jonathan Adagogo Green likely in either Opobo or Bonny, c. late 19th century. British Museum. The palm ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Igbo Compound Tower

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"An [Igbo] chief’s compound, with war-tower and inner wall; natives listening to phonograph; Azia, Onitsha district." A. E. Kits...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Women's War: 1930 British Report Map

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A map from an official 1930 British colonial government report on the Women's War of the Calabar and Owerri Provinces (1929-1930). The...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Colonial Home, Enugwu

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Home of a member of the British colonial establishment, Enugu. Staged photo, 1930s(?). The people standing are named, from left: Adebayo, K...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Onye Ọcha

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Onye Ọcha mask, Igbo parody of a white man during the colonial era from Amobia, part of a larger play. Apart from more serious ritual masks...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Ụ̀kwà

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"At the Akquete [Akwete] Market" by Jonathan Adagogo Green, an Ibani (Bonny) photographer, 1895-1905. British Museum. The Ndoki ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

18th c. Ụ̀banị̀ Ìgbò vocabulary

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Ụ̀banị̀ Ìgbò, the Igbo spoken on Bonny Island in today's Rivers State, recorded by the slave trader Captain Hugh Crow from the late ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Jịọjị

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Photo: Sinhalese people and an Ikwere Igbo boy photographed during a Rumuji Owu play by G. I. Jones, c. 1930s, MAA Cambridge. Have you hea...

Europe

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The first description of the Igbo area written in Europe was made by the Portuguese explorer and sea captain Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 146...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Thomas Thistlewood’s diary

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An entry in Thomas Thistlewood’s diary, a British plantation overseer in Jamaica who eventually became a landowner and owner of enslaved pe...
Friday, March 8, 2019

"In Nigeria It Is The Women Who Propound Laws"

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By CAROLINE ISAACSON One of the most precious gifts a kindly providence can bestow upon one, W. L. George, a popular writer in the early...
Monday, March 4, 2019

The Agbor Rising

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Photo: "Mud figures of Chief and Attendants and Commissioner of Police. North Ika" – G. I. Jones, 1930s. On 9 June 1906 the Eku...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

The Twenty Years War

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"Aro natives making road for us by order outside Bendi [Bende] Cutting bush with matchets" during the 'Aro Punitive Expediti...

Nsibidi Bende

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208. On left breast of Essem, a Bende [Igbo] man (a man offered two rods to a woman, but she refused them and turned her back upon him). ...

Onicha Titled Elder

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"A chief of Onicha [Onitsha] wearing a schako [hat] of the Royal Guard of England in which he has fixed bird feathers." Via the ...

Nsibidi Writing

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Photo: Ikpe case from Enyong in nsibidi recorded by Macgregor (1909). In a class I was teaching, a pupil deeply resented the statement t...