THE MEANING OF THE WORD, "IGBO" by Onyeji Nnaji

Considering the mythical and theosophical position of the Nri Kingdom; the archetypal craft history of the Awka from history immemorial; the historical heart-point if the Okigwe and the spirituality and metaphysical endowment of Nsukka in the Igbo cosmopolitan setting, minds bug in questions about the birthplace of the Igbo race. Unfortunately, these are one family simply because they have a common source; not barely that they have a same parent. It is a mystery people find very hard to believe. One interesting part of their existence is that indebt understanding of their relationship defines their meaning as a people of a common core. The text below will surprise you about the people in the east.

            In digging into the past, the Igbo use Uwa-tu-uwa to refer to antiquity beyond imaginable dating. Uwa-tu-Uwa, when translated means “earth-to-earth. This concept is clearly different from time-to-time which in turn means site na-oge rue na-oge. The Igbo use the term Uwa-tu-Uwa to refer to the time when humanity gained entrance into this ecological earth. And to the Igbo, they existed since time immemorial simply referred to as Uwa-tu-Uwa. As Osita Osadebe would say of Uwa-tu-Uwa, “Chukwu kere anyi gbo gbo (God created us ancient-time from ancient-time). And the inhabitants, referring to originality, always use three terms to show this. The terms are: Nwa-Afor, Nwa Diala and Ama-Ala translated to mean integral child or son-of-the-soil. Invariably, the Igbo tell his story as one who had been in time immemorial or a people representing the set of people who inhabited the planet earth before any other race and a people from whom the rest of the earth population timely emerged. Is this true about the Igbo? Our team of researchers has taken time to articulate sources to answer this question via this book.     

            Originally, the word Igbo is an amalgam of the morphemes Ndi Gbo, translated to mean “people of the ancient-time.” The amalgam resulted from the clipping of the two letters N and D and the combination of the lonely I and the quasi doubly, Gbo. Meanwhile, ordinarily the word Igbo refers to a people beyond the description of time, inhabiting the part of Africa which the ancient historians identified and marked as Biafra and the inhabitants known as the Yebo or Ebo(e). (See the ancient British map of Africa, drafted in 1729 and the biographical history of Olauda Ikwuano).

            The antiquity concept of the people credibly had offered the difficulties encountered in inferring a concrete and rigid explanation of the real ancient father of the Igbo race. Yet, antiquity still stands credible in the exact trace and eminent interpretation of the ancestral origin of the Igbo. And all that antiquity has to tell us is nothing different from Uwa-tu-Uwa which refers to the inhabitants as belonging to the prehistorical age. Ancient books have answers connected to this people. Readable among these ancient books include the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Nag Hammadi, Before the Pyramids, The Seventh Book of Moses, The Sacred Book of the East, Book of Histories by Herodotus, The Lost Book of Enki, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, The Atlantean and many other books of ancient history including the Christian Bible and the Jewish Cabala.         

  

Before the Pyramids became significantly dedicated to the gratification of the enhanced history of the people of the east; the people among whom it is dully established that they peopled the ancient civilization crusade all over the globe, the Ignorant have been completely misconstrued. These people from the east were known for scarifications and indestructible ancient artistic emblems (known as Ichi) which are found as evidence in all the part of the world they civilized. They civilized the ancient Egypt, after which they established their presence in Anatolia Turkey, Europe India etc. Apart from their cuneific writings, they did not leave their civilisers without traces of their language. It was also established, as Petrie dully affirmed in 1893 that these men of cornific writings and Ichi scarifications were the introducers of the pharaonic culture and believed to be the pharaonic race. Invariably, the pharaohs were not original inhabitants of Egypt. It is of evidence that the same people were the owners of the pyramid culture as Canadian Historians affirmed. Egyptian Book of the Dead refers to this people as the people of punt (land of the rising sun; the home of the gods).  

            Plato lamented the absence of the ancient wise men from the east who originally inhabited the ancient city of Atlanta before the island was destroyed at a time history cannot tell. Herodotus referred to them as belonging to the heart of Africa. Nag Hammadi offered almost the most credible information concerning these ancient scribes, historians and myth makers farther than Christopher Okigbo could wittingly represent them in his poem “Mother Idoto”. The aforementioned book excavated in the dip sand of Egypt in the middle of twentieth century explains the people as the kingless society and a people among whom the terms father mother and child formed an axiom and represented by the first letter of each of the words as NNN (such as Nna, Nne and Nwa). No language of the world has this; not even of ancient or of modern, except the Igbo language. And axiomatically, this is the language the world had before the dispersion which the Christian Bible marked as the ordeal of Babel.

            Of course, it may be striking for you to hear for the first time that biblical history of origin is not different from the popular Nri creation myth. The contributions of other ancient books not mentioned above were dully highlighted in the book Aspects of the Ancient African Metaphysics by the same author. This time, the application of the historical incomprehensible detail is what this book offers.