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“Does the white(caucasian) man understand our custom about land?”

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As you look through this blog you will see many activities in which can be shown through the eyes of a teenager. The views of their culture and this book. To show the ideas of the past which should continue to be held a high standards

Overview

Receiving in the detail the intake of the similarity and contrast within the book Things Fall Apart and the cultural background of the Ibo culture. We can say that this book shows a lot of the cultural details seen before colonization of Nigeria began and how it affected a character Okonwo as he sought to find a way out of strangers taking away what he worked so hard for. This classic tale compared to a culture of today which is still rich and should be preserved

Biography

Pimp my hut

Eulogy

Newspaper of Okonwo death

Traditional wedding

At this stage, a date has been agreed for the ‘Igba Nkwu’ to hold at the paternal home of the bride to be. The intending groom would have been handed a list of items to present at the engagement. The list usually is communicated after the introduction and is an obligatory part of completing the Igba Nkwu, which could either be a close family event or a big event including the whole “village”. The items on the lists are usually symbolic and cover different sections of the ceremony.

http://www.namywedding.com/articles/8-the-igbo-traditional-wedding

Igbo Mask

"Igbo culture embraces the idea of a wide variety of gods, rather than being exclusive to one or several gods. This spiritual diversity promotes a great richness and dynamism in their ceremonies and worship. In the artwork surrounding their worship, there is a great emphasis on process rather than product, because the Igbo view the former as motion whereas the latter implies rest. This love of motion is evident in their masquerades in which the audience follows and often dances and shadows the dancersÕ movements. This particular mask belongs to the mmwo men's secret society of Nigeria, representing dead young wives. The face is whitened with kaolin; white is the symbolic color of death. The dancers did not merely represent, but were believed to be, the spirit of the dead. During a ceremony, they disguise their voices, aiming, to induce the dead man's spirit world (ebe mno) so to avoid any harm to the survivors."

http://www.spelman.edu/bush-hewlett/African_Art/igbomask.html

Suicide of Okonwo

The Great Kola Nut