The Igbo in the African Diaspora
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- The Africans from the Bight of Biafra, who were predominantly Igbo, comprised of roughly 12 percent of those brought across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa into the Americas. They filled up British plantations throughout North America and the Caribbean. The ethos that the Igbo lived by contributed to resistant nature in dealing with their enemies in the Americas. They ran away and formed maroon communities, committed mass suicide, and rebelled against their masters. Before Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" there was the Igbo philosophy of the transmigration of the soul that encouraged them to either live free or die trying.
A lot of Igbos also went to Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. I have family from all those states and found out I have Igbo ancestry...Igbo Kwenu ❤❤❤❤
Yes. Absolutely. There was a significant amount in Virginia from what I read especially.
@@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405Yes… Virginia and Maryland. And New Bern North, Carolina. (Freetown) After the tobacco industry failed in Virginia they had too many slaves and shipped them to Natchez, Mississippi, New Orleans. Western Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee and Ohio. The slaveholders liked to rap* Igbo women and sold them as “fancy girls” see Franklin and Armfield company in Virginia. The ban on African imports also ushered in the Slave Breeding farms so all of us got mixed together. Igbo were the dominant African culture ,though , as Igbos tended to dominate everywhere they went. Lots of documents on Igbo runaways and insurrectionists.
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Great video bro! I have also found Igbo ancestry via dna testing. Very informative. Keep up the good work!
I did my ancestry DNA test and ran it through Gedmatch , Igbo is my top tribe. I love learning about the ancestors. I've found Igbo cousins in Engu & Ambara states. I'm looking forward to visiting Igbo Land.
That’s so cool. Where are you from if you don’t mind me asking?
It’s Enugu and Anambra
Igbos are the original inhabitants of the Earth and almost 80% of enslaved west Africans during the Atlantic slave raids are Igbos, we are the most populous tribe in the world 🌎 ❤❤❤❤❤
Ikenga is the mark of your accomplishment. The expression of your strenght. Everyone has an equal chance in Igboland to make out their life path
Because in Igbo culture we believe we can never bow or be slave to anyone ❤
Another GREAT tutorial on African culture!! PLEASE keep them coming!!!
In less than half an hour, you brought into the fore of our knowledge an exploratory, captivating, and insightful picture of the Igbos. These accounts were some of the events we either heard by the grapevine or through parental recounts. Now, you have brought those imaginations of what my mum told me. God bless her soul.
Sir, I appreciate these wealth of knowledge that you have thoughtfully researched and disseminated for the benefit of every Igbo person (living and yet to be born). I pray that 'Chukwu okike Abiama' will shower you with his blessings.
Thank you so much for the kind words. The Igbo traditions are the truth to me. The most fascinating African ethnic group to me personally.
There are Igbos in St.Lucia west indies. They even have a fraze for days of old, in the time of machi-calaba.
Bro u look very IGBO yourself. I feel you are IGBO. DAALU nwannem (well done my brother).
Thank you brother. I had been told that before. That means a lot to me.
My dad is from Jamaica and my mom is from Grenada which both had a lot of Igbo captives brought there.
@@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405 there's Igbo speaking in Jamaica.
Bro i heard there's red Ebos in Jamaica,??
Yes. The so-called slave masters were the ones that gave them that nickname because of their lighter skin.
Can wait to visit there soon,to see my cousins 🙄🙄🙄
Thanks for sharing the knowledge!!!
This was great. Very informative
Thank you. 😊
Thank you for posting. Very interesting.
Omg I just saw the chicken attack. Lmao wow.
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Great video bro
Thanks bro.
Great video
Your name is an IGBO name. TONYA in IGBO is TOYAH which mean " praise HIM" or "praise GOD".
The suicide accounts stemmed from a specific Chieftain who told the Ndi’Igbo who were sold off by Arochukwu priests that if they were captured to take their own lives. We have documentation of this from the son of the first Igbo Anthropologist is Igboland. The west doesn’t talk about this information because they don’t have most of it and they also (the British) wish to keep Igbos oppressed due to the power they witnessed Igbos in having in their own High Power -
Wow. Very interesting. Do you know where I can read more about that?
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@@sinatraonyewuchi thank you so much.
@@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405 No, thank You! You are doing great work with this type of research and videos as many in the Diaspora ignorantly have a sort of hate for the very people most of them(us) come from, the Igbo, the Ancient People.
Good information. How do you explain the OSU caste system among Igbo? Where you were born into caste for life. Thanks for your feedback in advance
Thank you for you comment. I really appreciate it. I wish I would have addressed this in the video. According to F.U. Okafor in his book "Igbo Philosophy of Law" he states that Osu system "stands as the greatest contradiction to the Igbo egalitarianism and seriously challenges the role of Ofoism in the protection and promotion of human rights." After he explains the iniquities of Osu he later goes on to say that it actually "does not contradict the Igbo egalitarian ideology or philosophy of equal rights, nor the role of ofoism in the area of human rights. The Osu caste must be seen as an isolated social reality which found rationalisation in Igbo religious belief. The Osu caste thrived within a specific epoch of Igbo religious era."
I think the very decentralized nature of Igbo society did not allow for a one size fits all philosophy either. For example, when the polities of Nri or Onitsha were becoming more centralized many Igbo sought to escape and create smaller, but more autonomous societies. In other words, if Osu was being practiced amongst various Igbo clans, according to, Okafor, these practices may have been more isolated than ubiquitous.
I've read different things about Osu. Some info I came across said it originally was like a part of the priesthood. But then you had people who fled from punishment or from potentially being sold into the Atlantic "slave" trade. If you remember tag as a kid. Or at least I do if you got to a certain designated area called "base" or sometimes "glue" you would not be "it". Another game I remember as a child was "the fart touch". If you farted especially loudly where of course you were known to be the culprit. In order to escape the embarrassment you could touch another kid and call out "contact you got the fart touch!". At which point any teasing or stigma would be placed on that person unless they said "t-bone" and crossed their fingers. So this idea of Osu being something you could pass on just by association seems similar just more serious.
@@mlungisiwright912 Very interesting perspective. I love the analogies.
Burying the umbilical cord was practiced in Jamaica. I'm more than happy to know the origins of the tradition. My mother did it to follow tradition. II'm not sure if she ever knew how we came by the tradition and what it signified. Sadly, she is no longer here for me to ask her.
Thank you for the comment. That is great to hear. I love hearing about the Africanisms that survived the slave trade.
Her ancestors are igbos .We seem to be the only tribe that buries our cord in Nigeria at least .
You are Igbo
@@martinsibeanusi4317 Nice to know.
Africa actually largely missed the bronze age and went straight from stone to iron a good example of that is Nok culture.
Yes. Absolutely. There is so much history that is hidden from us. Good point.
You look Igbo
I’ve been told that.
I am one❤
Nice 👍