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Ikenga, Nimo – Nri-Awka IgboAmong the Igbo, Ikenga represents personal power, accomplishment, and the spiritual force of...
22/07/2025

Ikenga, Nimo – Nri-Awka Igbo

Among the Igbo, Ikenga represents personal power, accomplishment, and the spiritual force of the right hand. Such figures were often commissioned by titled men or individuals who had achieved success in trade, farming, or warfare.

Photograph by G. I. Jones

Ikenga, Nimo – Nri-Awka Igbo (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1938.15.43)This particular Ikenga was taken in 1938 and is now...
22/07/2025

Ikenga, Nimo – Nri-Awka Igbo (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 1938.15.43)

This particular Ikenga was taken in 1938 and is now held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, under the catalogue number 1938.15.43.

Ikenga from Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo region – Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (Object No. 1938.15.43)This Ikenga figure originates...
22/07/2025

Ikenga from Nimo, Nri-Awka Igbo region – Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (Object No. 1938.15.43)

This Ikenga figure originates from Nimo, a town within the cultural sphere of the Nri-Awka Igbo in southeastern Nigeria.

250yrs ago, colonial newspapers upheld slavery by publishing notices like this from the Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon...
22/07/2025

250yrs ago, colonial newspapers upheld slavery by publishing notices like this from the Virginia Gazette (Purdie & Dixon), dated 3 September 1772:

“Committed to James City Prison … a Negro Fellow who says he is the Property of Colonel Cary … his Name is JOE, is an Ibo Negro.”

Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN away … two new Negro Men, of the Ibo Country, named CHARLES and FRANK, who have bee...
22/07/2025

Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN away … two new Negro Men, of the Ibo Country, named CHARLES and FRANK, who have been in the Province about twelve Months.” (Virginia Gazette [Purdie & Dixon], 10/7/1773).

A clear example of how colonial newspapers upheld slavery.

Dugout canoes at the marketplace in Onitsha, along the River Niger. At this location, the river spans approximately 2 mi...
22/07/2025

Dugout canoes at the marketplace in Onitsha, along the River Niger.

At this location, the river spans approximately 2 miles in width, as recorded by Robert McWhirter, who captured this photo between 1905 and 1911.

The Onitsha marketplace between 1905 and 1911. On the left, a closer view reveals market women alongside some of their g...
22/07/2025

The Onitsha marketplace between 1905 and 1911. On the left, a closer view reveals market women alongside some of their goods.

Their attire suggests they were likely Ndi-Onicha women, or possibly Ndi-Olu.

Photographed by Robert McWhirter.

McWhirter cryptically refers to it as “Bank of Nigeria. Onitsha”, without providing a construction date. The photo appea...
16/07/2025

McWhirter cryptically refers to it as “Bank of Nigeria. Onitsha”, without providing a construction date. The photo appears to have been taken in 1932.

Suspension bridge over N’Kissi Creek, Onitsha—measuring 120 feet in length and 10 feet in width. Robert McWhirter record...
16/07/2025

Suspension bridge over N’Kissi Creek, Onitsha—measuring 120 feet in length and 10 feet in width. Robert McWhirter recorded, “I helped to build this bridge.”

Public Works Department workshops and brickyard, Onitsha, near the River Niger. The complex included a sawmill, joiners’...
16/07/2025

Public Works Department workshops and brickyard, Onitsha, near the River Niger. The complex included a sawmill, joiners’ shop, furniture factory, engineers’ workshop, concrete block-making facility, & an ice-making plant.

Credit: R.C. McWhirter, around 1905-1911.

View from the Akpaka uplands looking toward “Igbo-Adegbe,” also known as Olu. Photographed by Robert McWhirter in the ea...
16/07/2025

View from the Akpaka uplands looking toward “Igbo-Adegbe,” also known as Olu.

Photographed by Robert McWhirter in the early 1900s.

The Ekpe (Leopard Society) clubhouse in Bende, present-day Abia State, Nigeria. Photographed by Percy Amaury Talbot in t...
15/07/2025

The Ekpe (Leopard Society) clubhouse in Bende, present-day Abia State, Nigeria.

Photographed by Percy Amaury Talbot in the 1910s.

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