The Igbo are a diverse group with many different traditions, ceremonies, celebrations, rituals, and artwork. Their unique culture separates themselves from all the other tribes in Nigeria. This is the Igbo culture.
Birth, marriage, and burial are the three most important ceremonies in the Igbo culture. In the Igbo culture, engagement and marriage is a long and tedious process, but with a great reward at the end. To start off this process, the man will propose. If the woman says “Yes.”, the new groom and his father will visit his bride and her father at their home. At the house, they will discuss what is happening. Both the father of the bride and the father of the groom debate about the price of the bride, which the groom will pay for in yams, goats, chickens, kola nuts, and other crops. Before the marriage ceremony, the groom and bride play a friendly game of hide and seek. The bride will hide, and the groom must go looking for the supposed love of his life. During the wedding, money is thrown at the bride. Funerals in the Igbo culture are known as the passing from the existing world into the spiritual one, although the person is not fully engulfed into the spiritual world until the second burial. In the time between the first and
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It is not widely accepted, but in the Ojoo Ofia tribe, they left one of the twins to die in the wild. Mary Slessor (1848-1915) was a Scots missionary in Calabar, Nigeria. Mary surprised many missionaries by living with the people she was working with, learning there dialect, and taking their customs instead of using her higher ranking living opportunities. Her biggest accomplishment was stopping the twin killing. The region of Nigeria that Mary lived in believed that twins were cursed, that the mother of the twins had been visited by an evil spirit or slept with two males, which was considered a