The crested hairstyle ojongo was popular until the mid-20th century, it is a distinctive feature of Igbo arts depicting women. Women used ...

Internal trading, that is, trading among Africans, may also have brought about the distribution of [textiles]. [...] Photo: Akwete (top)...

John Moray Stuart-Young (1881–1939) was an English 'Uranian' poet, memoirist, novelist and merchant trader who was born into pover...

“Paquito de Cabo Verdo Portuguese Slave Brig captured by the Boats of HMS Scout on the 11th Jany 1837 in the Bonny River. She had mounted ...

River gods and goddesses are found wherever a significant river or waterbody is found in Igboland, some of the more powerful cults cover...

Creole Boy with a Moth , 1835, by Julien Hudson (American, 1811–1844); oil on canvas; 29 x 23 inches. ‘Red Bone’, referring to an ethnic...

Charles Partridge, Assistant District Commissioner in Southern Nigeria, photographed by an interpreter at Ndiya, present day Akwa Ibom, Fe...

Farmers from "Unkwele" (Nkwere?). Catholic Mission of the Lower Niger. Early 20th century. […] The colonial educational system...

Image: "Burning Arochuku" Charles Partridge, 1902. During the year 1902 the Protectorate was freed for ever from the evils of ...

As a largely acephalous people*, the British colonial government found it difficult to incorporate Igbo communities into the imperialist s...

A blacksmith, ọkpụ ụzụ, and his nwa ụzụ, an apprentice blacksmith. The first job given to a young Igbo blacksmith was to attend to the eko...

Burial rites and hand washing, food offering at an Igbo funeral in Isele Azagba. Photo by Northcote Thomas, 1900s, coloured by Ụ́kpụ́rụ́ 2...