Clothing worn before colonialism became "traditional" and worn on cultural occasions. Modern Igbo traditional attire, for men, is generally made up of the Isiagu top, which resembles the Dashiki worn by other African groups.

Igbo culture (Igbo: Ọmenala ndị Igbo [1]) are the customs, practices and traditions of the Igbo people [2] of southeastern [3] Nigeria. It consists of ancient practices as well as new concepts added into the Igbo culture either by cultural evolution or by outside influence.

Igbo, people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria who speak Igbo, a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Igbo may be grouped into the following main cultural divisions: northern, southern, western, eastern or Cross River, and northeastern.

Nov 23, 2021 · PDF | This article theorizes the modernization dynamics of the Igbo world, using the Habermasian framework. Drawing on Habermas, it argues that Igbo... | Find, read and cite all the research...

Jul 2, 2023 · The Igbo people of modern-day Nigeria use the Igbo calendar as their traditional calendar. The calendar has a year of 13 months, 7 weeks, 4 Traditional market days per week, and an additional day in the last month of the year.

Oct 25, 2024 · According to the esteemed historian Prof. Tekena Tamuno, “The Igbos are the makers of modern Nigeria. When they abandoned their project, Nigeria collapsed.” These truths must be consistently conveyed, particularly to Igbo youth, to balance the narrative, as Chinua Achebe famously argued for “a balance of stories.”

The Igbo community has always been patriarchal but still, in pre-colonial times, despite what the media is displaying now, the women had more rights, and autonomy than the present Igbo woman.

Jan 1, 2021 · This paper x-rays some aspects of Igbo cultural life, the way they were, as well as how modernity has affected their practices both negatively and positively.

Dec 21, 2024 · but in recent times, these marriage rites seem to be fading slowly due to modernization, external influence, and social dynamic changes, this post explains the traditional marriage rites of the Igbo people, their importance, and the challenges they face in …

Ńdébé is a modern writing system for the Ìgbò language. Invented by Lotanna Igwe-Odunze in 2009, then refined and perfected over a decade, the Ńdébé script combines ancient Ìgbò designs with modern practicality in the first truly usable, truly writeable, truly readable, and truly indigenous written form of Ìgbò.