21/09/2024
Igbo is NOT a “tribe”. As far back at the 9th century, some Igbo clan(s) were already creating intricate bronze works that is now considered to be the oldest bronze artefact in Nigeria. Centuries before the emergence of other bronze centres such as Bini and Ife (go and do your research before coming to argue with me or you’ll be demolished with facts).
Apart from these sophisticated bronze works, the Igbo’s also had a cosmology, a leadership system, a spiritual system, a trading system, land laws and so on.
The correct term is ETHNICITY OR ETHNIC NATIONALITY.
The Yoruba and Hausa and others are also not tribes, they too, had great achievements in the past.
Tribes are hunter gatherers who are small in number and survive in the forests by hunting and gathering. They don’t create bronze works, they don’t engage in Agriculture and so on. Oyibo called us tribe to belittle us and for some reason some still use such colonial terms. How can a group that has Eze, Emir or Oba be considered mere tribes? If we are tribes then the English and their king are also tribes!
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