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    Final African Papers of Simon Ottenberg
    Final African Papers of Simon Ottenberg
    Final African Papers of Simon Ottenberg
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    Final African Papers of Simon Ottenberg

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    Release dateApr 13, 2023
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      Final African Papers of Simon Ottenberg - Simon Ottenberg

      Copyright © 2023 by Simon Ottenberg. 840164

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Xlibris

      844-714-8691

      www.Xlibris.com

      ISBN: 978-1-6698-7143-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-6698-7144-6 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-6698-7142-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2023905232

      Rev. date: 04/10/2023

      Contents

      Random Thoughts on Afikpo and Igbo Culture and Society

      History

      Boys in Training

      Achievement

      Igbo Qualities

      The Afikpo Town Welfare Association

      Girls and Women

      Withdrawal

      Hegemony

      Religion

      Igbo National Unity

      Christianity

      Corruption

      Igbo Language and Tradition

      The Igbo War and the Possibilities of Igbo Revival

      Dibia

      Gabriel Anigo Agwo

      Book Review

      From Anthropology to Contemporary Art

      References

      Interview

      Random Thoughts on Afikpo

      and Igbo Culture and Society

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      I carried out research with an eastern Igbo group, the Afikpo, in 1952–1953 and 1959–1960 with shorter trips up through 2010, and although I have attempted to follow Igbo events since then, my comments here largely grow out of my two extensive research periods among the Igbos. I have deliberately omitted my footnotes; this is my knowledge and experience.

      History

      The earliest Igbo settlement was in the Awka-Nri region hundreds of years ago when, later on, a small Igbo state arose for a short time. Before these events, there was an immense expansion of the Igbos to the west, across the Niger River; to the east, to the western borders of Cross River; to the north, to the Nsukka region; and they moved to just north of the later emerging coastal slave-trading towns with whom the Igbos traded in slaves that were obtained by slave-raiding groups in the interior.

      Igbo expansion wiped out, absorbed, or pushed aside small hunting and agricultural groups that had existed in the conquered region. The Igbos came with superior technologies and greater numbers.

      A similar movement east of the Igbo, of a considerable number of technologically superior people, left the Cameroon ridge and moved westward to the east side of the Cross River while also overcoming peoples with elemental technologies and agriculture. The movement involved numerous different linguistic and ethnic groups that were non-Igbo.

      These movements, those of the Igbo and those from the Cameroons, and the growth of the coastal towns essentially shaped the culture and the political economy of southeastern Nigeria together with a few other smaller ethnic groups in the region, such as the Ibibio and the Ogoni.

      Boys in Training

      Early childhood training may have been a factor in Igbo culture, as the emphasis was placed both on boys’ independence and group cooperation. Boys stopped living with their mothers at about the age of five and began residing in a special house in the compound, forming or, more likely, joining an independent boy’s group. If a boy saw little of his mother he saw less of his father, father, who lived in his own house and may have had other wives to attend to, at this time. Each compound, and there might be ten or more compounds in a village, had such a boy’s house. These boys played competitive games that were passed down from generation to generation and created new ones. They engaged in all varieties of sexual acts on themselves and other boys. They lived this way until they were initiated in their teens into the village men’s secret society. In some Afikpo villages, boys had to previously perform a test alone in front of the village secret society members. This act was, at times, rehearsed with the father. This form of childhood training might have led to high achievement.

      Achievement

      The Igbos have a reputation for being high achievers in southeastern Nigeria. They have been considered by some other Nigerians as being extremely aggressive in whatever activity they are engaged in, whether it be in business, politics, sports, modern fiction, music, or poetry. This assertiveness in life is believed to have characterized both Igbo individuals and the groups of the Igbo. They are thought by others to be preoccupied with success. The Igbos believe this to be

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