Fact Checked: IGBO UKWU WERE NRI SLAVE; Origin and History of Igbo Ukwu - Onyeji Nnaji
Copied from the, Accounts of Igbo Origins and History from Beginning to Present by Onyeji Nnaji T.C. Shaw’s archaeological finds dominated historians’ writings about Igbo Ukwu in the manner that almost none gave attention to issues bothering on the history of Igbo Ukwu. The inhabitants also, overtaken by the conviviality that the finds brought, seized the opportunity to conceal their history. It was though a thing of surprise to historians and archaeologists, witnessing the finds that upturned the hierarchy already bestowed on the Ife and Benin over their Igbo neighbour. It did not only upturn the hierarchy, it forced history to resume a rewriting stage with Igbo at the top. It all begun with the stupefied discovery made by Isaiah Anozie within his compound. He was digging a well when he accidentally stumbled on some bronze ornaments. The ornaments looked strange to him, but little did he know that he was dwelling in a compound with bronze library underneath. Concentratin...