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Okwu ID: Voices from the Igbo Diaspora ✧ Engaging the community, sharing stories & documenting culture.
London, England
Joined June 2017
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• Ndi Igbo independently entered the iron age. • Ndi Igbo created indigenous glass making techniques. • Eastern Nigerians independently created a writing system. • An enslaved West African taught innoculation to the western world, this paved the way for vaccines.
What has ever been invented in West Africa?
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This October, Okwu ID spotlights three young female Igbo authors redefining contemporary African storytelling through themes of identity, power, and memory! •Akwaeke Emezi •Adorah Nworah •Ifesinachi Okonkwo
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“how do you know I’m Igbo”
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BREAKING NEWS: Rio Chima Ngumoha comes off the bench to score a late winner for Liverpool against Newcastle! 🔥 At just 16 years old, Rio Ngumoha becomes only the second 16-year-old and the fourth youngest scorer in Premier League history. He hails from Abia State.
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Mmanwu To Masquerade: The Igbo Connection To Carnival In this Infographic we explore some of the interconnected history between Ndi Igbo and Caribbean carnival culture. From Music to Politics. (1/2)
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In Igbo horsetails are typically called "nza". Do you know any alternate names or significance for it?
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Caribbean carnivals are a direct descendant of Igbo masquerades. These are our people, who survived through some of the most violent inhumanity in recorded history. And still maintained their Africanity. Who taught you that anything that looks "too African" is demonic? 👀
WTF are you saying? There’s nothing I have to ask about A man painted in all black kissing a wig headed skeleton. This is demonic/satanic.
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African-American Igbos After finding out their Igbo ancestry they are welcomed with Igbo names This is so beautiful! 💛🖤It's so important that our culture and language lives on so we can share it with future generations and with those that had it taken away from them. Ndeewo!
Bishop TD Jakes is Igbo.🙌🏿 He gives me strong Igbo elder vibes. You them uncles with the deep voices that always sit at the high table and if you don't greet them it's long.😆
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There are so many Igbo disapora groups offering everything from religious groups to language classes to sports clubs. It's honestly inspirational. A sense of community is a key trait for any culture that wishes to survive the 21st century.
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