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“Ọnwụ ka mma karịa ịgba ohu.” (Death is better than slavery.) Whether on the battlefields of Igboland, in the holds of slave ships, or on plantations abroad, the Igbo carried an unyielding resolve: dignity was worth more than life itself. Throughout history, the Igbo were not only victims of wars and enslavement but also actors…
“Anụ ọkụ n’ụlọ anaghị amaghị ọkụ dị n’èzí” (The animal that lives in the fire at home does not know the fire outside). This saying captures the shock the Igbo felt when the Atlantic slave trade dragged them from the familiar fires of their hearths into the flames of foreign bondage. Between the 16th and…
“Ụwa bụ ahia; onye zere ahia, zere uwa” (The world is a marketplace; whoever avoids the market avoids the world). This proverb reminds us that no one can escape the interactions that shape destiny. For the Igbo, scattered by the Atlantic slave trade, the world itself became that vast market where their traditions, songs, and…
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