Wyniki wyszukiwania:

This book authoritatively supplies the missing chapter in Igbo, African and world history. The Igbo went into the world's 4 quadrants, not to conquer, subjugate and exploit but to open up and settle in virgin lands or civilize peoples of other climes. It is like no other book - revealing Igbo origin from meta-historical perspectives; shows they flew extensively by Ekili earning appellations of shining ones/moons and Tuata nde danana/drops-in who landed on ground. Igbo civilization marched from: Matriarchy to Patriarchy, Monarchy to Democracy, and rural mud cities to individual compound cities...

The volume begins with Igbo Afa language, a universal and mother of all languages now known to few Dibias, artists, high priests/priestesses. Igbo Ugili Divination,mother of literacy and post-literacy, accesses records in Aka Ose with it, a feat which defies modern science. Demotic Igbo comes from Afa. How world languages, particularly English borrowed from Igbo will surprise readers. Igbo counting and numerology, helping Igbos produce topmost Dibias like Afadu,Taliesen,Ogma, Pioneer smiths/technologists, mathematicians,astrologers, pyramid writing, mystical spin-offs like Kalacakra, Okwu and...

The Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival is one which surrounds fish capture by a very large community. Given the importance of fish in the augmentation of the rural protein intake for Nigerians the fishing festival assumes a dual prominence among a people (Nigerians), who constitutes the largest concentration of black race anywhere in the world. In spite of its growing prominence, only very little empirical literature exists on the socio-economic and socio-cultural implications of the festival. This is the major Fishing Festival along the West African Coast, and any attempt to...