AFA.       -    UTU AFA 1. Anaga      -Ogbu Oru.        2.Amogu      -Olokikpo. 3.Kalu         -Ekpo/Kamalu Igirigiri. …

By Lucas  Our forebears were far more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Everything they did had a purpose…

*Chief Uduma Ọlugu.*   *Culture and Tradition* *Enthusiast.*  " *Onye mụrụ nwoke gbere arọ* , *mgbe anya gara na*…

By Uduma Kalu  1. I don't know about owan meaning a strong person.  2. Based on my little finding, that phrase, owa…

Reviving Nsibidi today isn’t just about fashion — it’s about reclaiming ancestral knowledge, honoring African intellect…

Macgregor presents Nsibidi as an indigenous, precolonial symbolic writing tradition of southeastern Nigeria, utilized s…

By Uduma Kalu My spirit wants to do good. My irreducible is eternal. My spirit is not canal. It's tomorrow. Endless…

By Uduma Kalu  it's Iri Ji, New Yam Festivals in Igboland, and Ohafia, the land of mights and mighty me…

Nsibidi, an ancient Igbo writing system thousands of years old, has been discovered in various antiquity locations, inc…

In 1903, Agụlụ warmly welcomed European Christian evangelizers to their quarter in the hope that the Europeans would ai…

The immediate event that triggered the war happened far away in Ijawland, in a little town called Agberi (or Agbela, as…

The first European thought to have visited Awka was Alfred Jones, a missionary based in Yorubaland, in 1894. The people…

Awka sent a message to the Aro warlord Okoli Ijọma to come and make reparations for her son murdered by his mercenary s…

One of the major trade routes used by the Arọ slave traders from about the middle of the 18th century – the Bende-Okigw…

Oshishiama  – ‘the hitter’ or the anvil, which basically consisted of a wooden block fixed into the ground into which w…

An Awka boy would start very early to learn the art of smithing – at about the age of seven or eight. He would come und…

Guilds and exclusive societies often had ‘trade secrets’ and confidential information which they tried to keep away fro…

Culture of Itinerancy and the Awka Guild System: So, from about the 16th century, or a little earlier, Awka craftsmen b…

So, from about the 16th century, or a little earlier, Awka craftsmen became noted itinerants or travellers. They travel…

The first of two migrations that changed the course of Awka history occurred in about the 15th century. Our chronicler,…