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Reformed spellings for Igbo Settlements
Abakaliki is Abakaleke; Afikpo is Ehugbo; Asaba is Ahaba; Awgu is Ogu; Awka is Oka; Bonny is Ubani; Enugu is Enugwu; Ibusa is Igbuzor; Igrita is Igwuruta; Oguta is Ugwuta; Onitsha is Onicha; Owerri is Owerre; Oyigbo is Obigbo; Port Harcourt is Diobu; Ogwashi-Uku is Ogwa Nshi Ukwu... any more will be added.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Igbo policeman mask


Unfinished [Igbo] mask of Policeman.
— G. I. Jones

Location: ?Unknown? | Date: 1930s | Credit: G. I. Jones
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Igbo notables and Ozo staff, 1900-1915.

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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Women of Arochukwu, 1903

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Onitsha people, 1905-11



People of Onitsha shot by Robert Mcwhirter, 1905-11.
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Igbo woman wearing a wig


Young married woman from Achalla Awka wearing a wig, north-central Igbo area, Nigeria. Photo: K. C. Murray, 1939.

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Igbo people taken to Jamaica

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Boy from Umuahia

A boy with chalk patterns on his body, Umuahia, Eastern Nigeria, ca. 1925. Shot by Emily Godfrey. USC Digital Library.

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