The Igbo in the African Diaspora

[@curlyque1985]

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 ❤❤❤❤

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Yes. Absolutely. There was a significant amount in Virginia from what I read especially.

[@brolickscholar3083]

@@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.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

@@brolickscholar3083 thank you for this rich information

[@mhizummy2091]

Yeeee l am Igbo ❤

[@atohuntley5358]

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.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

That’s so cool. Where are you from if you don’t mind me asking?

[@Cyberchic2]

It’s Enugu and Anambra

[@justicemuo2226]

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 🌎 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@daddysun7558]

Great video bro! I have also found Igbo ancestry via dna testing. Very informative. Keep up the good work!

[@smithobuus5433]

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

[@mhizummy2091]

Because in Igbo culture we believe we can never bow or be slave to anyone ❤

[@peacekeeper5937]

Another GREAT tutorial on African culture!! PLEASE keep them coming!!!

[@EyeSpy-pg5cw]

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.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

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.

[@caniceedward]

There are Igbos in St.Lucia west indies. They even have a fraze for days of old, in the time of machi-calaba.

[@jennychris126]

Bro i heard there's red Ebos in Jamaica,??

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Yes. The so-called slave masters were the ones that gave them that nickname because of their lighter skin.

[@jennychris126]

Can wait to visit there soon,to see my cousins 🙄🙄🙄

[@okekechidi3377]

Bro u look very IGBO yourself. I feel you are IGBO. DAALU nwannem (well done my brother).

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Thank you brother. I had been told that before. That means a lot to me.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

My dad is from Jamaica and my mom is from Grenada which both had a lot of Igbo captives brought there.

[@chrisudoka5420]

@@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405 there's Igbo speaking in Jamaica.

[@AsaruKhem]

This was great. Very informative

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Thank you. 😊

[@bevrlygilchrist751]

Brother that's ALL me, This My first hearing your video, and look at my face book, those are my exact Beliefs, I through DNA,MY SECOND great grandmother, are from Charlotte ST Vincent of the Caribbean Islands Grenadines,as though my sixty two years of life you are speaking about my family or ancestors!

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

❤ excellent. Good luck in your journey of discovery.

[@Foxyroxy-jh1bv]

I am one❤

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Nice 👍

[@windalinnieves8874]

Thank you for posting. Very interesting.

[@windalinnieves8874]

Omg I just saw the chicken attack. Lmao wow.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

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[@OFCnmezi]

Good job, bro. I couln't fault nothing. Your details are apt too. The burying of the umbilical chord was also a sign that wherever you might go, you will sirely return to the land you were born (dead or alive). It was sone sort of birth registration to the land. Part of why people sold into slavery could not take it, edpecially not knowing exactly where they were and how they got there. Till date, it is very important to an Igbo person (majority) that he be buried in his land.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

@@OFCnmezi thank you for the comment. Are you Igbo?

[@___john3934]

Great video bro

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Thanks bro.

[@JayteeMoney7]

You definitely like igbo brother

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

@@JayteeMoney7 thank you. I’ll take that as a compliment.

[@prestongainer799]

Thanks for sharing the knowledge!!!

[@tonyabecker5136]

Great video

[@okekechidi3377]

Your name is an IGBO name. TONYA in IGBO is TOYAH which mean " praise HIM" or "praise GOD".

[@johnsonchikachika2318]

Kudos bros we are Igbos

[@sinatraonyewuchi]

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 -

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Wow. Very interesting. Do you know where I can read more about that?

[@sinatraonyewuchi]

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[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

@@sinatraonyewuchi thank you so much.

[@sinatraonyewuchi]

@@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.

[@taq1238]

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.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Thank you for the comment. That is great to hear. I love hearing about the Africanisms that survived the slave trade.

[@Techinigbo]

Her ancestors are igbos .We seem to be the only tribe that buries our cord in Nigeria at least .

[@martinsibeanusi4317]

You are Igbo

[@taq1238]

@@martinsibeanusi4317 Nice to know.

[@oumarcamara3427]

thank you bro. Egbo means { "they are numberless " in Sosso language in Guinea Conakry

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

@@oumarcamara3427 nice. Thank you for that information.

[@chinaemeremobidimma4243]

You look Igbo

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

I’ve been told that.

[@darrinwright6397]

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

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

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.

[@mlungisiwright]

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.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

@@mlungisiwright Very interesting perspective. I love the analogies.

[@mlungisiwright]

Africa actually largely missed the bronze age and went straight from stone to iron a good example of that is Nok culture.

[@dr.vsrevolutionwillnotbepe405]

Yes. Absolutely. There is so much history that is hidden from us. Good point.