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Culture and the Nkalaha World - Onyeji Nnaji

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Culture and tradition are two concepts which had been dully misconstrued by many religious fanatics in the community, especially in the aftermath of the religious crisis in the year 2002. Although the terms are related, they possess, each, features which may critically be defended to be the base of their differences. Culture, according to a social scientist; Simmel (1971: 6), is referred to as the “Cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history.” Now, the objectification of the agency of external form of the people’s history and the cultivation of this history into the individuals in the community are two ways channel culture passes to be credible. Culture is inbuilt but tradition is acquired. Agencies of external objects form the layman’s definition of culture as people’s way of life. Nkalaha has many external forms objectified and cultivated into the inhabitants. Nkalaha has a set of behaviour, mode of conduct, dre...

Fact Checked: IGBO UKWU WERE NRI SLAVE; Origin and History of Igbo Ukwu - Onyeji Nnaji

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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...

The Historical Origin of Abakaliki - Onyeji Nnaji

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Copied from the,  Accounts of Igbo Origins and History  from Beginning to Present   by  Onyeji Nnaji Details are in the book mentioned above. Not much has been discussed about the population that formed the Nodo of the later days. The reason for this may be blamed on two varying factors. One, it appeared as though the population went into extinct during the flood, thereby concealing their name from the reach of historians. But this was not true. They too survived the flood, but not in their very abode. The second reason is that the population showed themselves relatively unsearchable following the heavy restrictive features of their languages. I have discussed the negative effects of this condition in my other book when I noted that, “The reason why some important historical movements and local evolutions go unnoticed or remain doubtful is because the unit on which the transmission is calculated is geographically too restrictive.” The geographical location of Nodo is...

Origin of the Word, 'AFRICA' - Onyeji Nnaji

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So many false history have been given about Africa and her composite societal populations for years. We have taken these false narratives because Africans hardly find adequate time to deeply research and unravel the deception propagated by Western historians. Many source on the internet, mostly of African sources, have it that Leo Africanus was the one who gave Africa her name or that the word, Africa was derived from Africanus. But there is no iota of truth in it. As baseless ass Adam laying the foundation of humanity on earth is the same way the claim that Africa was derived from Africanus is so irreparably empty and vacuous. One thing we will learn from this work is that the name Friday had been there before the days of Africanus. Again, that it was Africanus who derived his name from the already existing Africa. The deepest truth was that Africa was not circumscribed this. The reason is very simple. All the nations in Africa; call it Igbo, Yoruba, Benin, Dogon Timbuktu Egypt etc. A...

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Reconciling Asadu and the Nsukka History of Origin - Onyeji Nnaji

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S ometimes I find it very difficult to understand what could be the reason behind certain characters found among scholars, especially scholars of history in Africa. Every history scholar who had written in the 1980s and yonder had this character of repudiating every view that suggests that his language and cultural group could originate from among another African settlement. That is why a Yoruba man, after listening to his oral tradition , would still say they originated from one unknown place in the middle east. The same thing applies to the Benin who knew that it was Eze Nri who used to coronate Oba of Benin, yet they claim Egypt origin and elsewhere different from Igboland. In this essay I shall lead our readers through different hidden information about Ndigbo and then clarify issue concerning Asadu and the Nsukka Origin. One thing I found in my study of prehistory is an unexplainable disdainful consideration of the Igbo race by both the Igbo themselves and the race of people arou...