Mmụọ na mmadụ na-ebi ọnụ n’ụwa a—Spirits and humans coexist in this world. This proverb reminds the Igbo that the visible and invisible share one space and nature is not…
Uli painting on the walls of the Ogwugwu shrine, Nibo, present-day Anambra State, Nigeria. Photographed by one of Northcote Thomas’s assistants in 1911. Photo: Re-Entanglements.
Ogwugwu is a special ancestral spirit…