Welcoming the Igbo New Year with the vibrant Iguaro Nri Festival and the start of planting. Photo - Guardian
The Iguaro or Ògụ́àfọ̀ is a sacred ritual…
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Welcome to the fascinating world of Igbo culture, where animals are more than just creatures—they’re sacred symbols that carry deep spiritual, historical, and cultural meaning. In Igbo land, located…
Alusi with its priest and its ritual iron belled staff, Ösü (Orsu), West Isuama Igbo. Photo by G. I. Jones, 1930s.
The concept of Alusị (also spelled Arusi or Arụsị) in…
Understanding “Ide miri arusi (juju) by which the people take oath,” reads a note written in a photo album by British anthropologist Northcote Thomas, accompanying a photograph taken around 1910–11.…
In the spiritual and cultural landscape of the Igbo people, the azụ anya mmụọ or Anya mmụọ—literally translating to “eyes of the spirits”—holds profound significance. This wooden openwork panel, typically…
Onu Oshuru (lit. Oshuru Bottomless Pit), one of several structures found at the Lejja communal sacred solar plaza, Nsukka. Utu-Udele-Igwe, a solar-tree deity of justice in this locale is said…
