Njenje parade:

Two small boys toward the end of an njenje parade line wearing acali mask, Mgbom village, Afikpo, eastern Igbo area. Photo: Simon Ottenberg, 1959-60. #IgboMasquerade
#Afikpo
#Okumkpo

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OsazuwaAkonedo Audio ~ Police Raids Ebonyi, Arrests 17 For Jungle Justice, Rescues 4 In Imo

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OsazuwaAkonedo BriefRecall ~ Long Thread @2pm 6 1 Police Raids Ebonyi, Arrests 17 For Jungle Justice, Rescues 4 In Imo #Nigeria Police Force #Afikpo #ebonyi #EnohiaItim #Imo #Ohaji #Police #Umuokanne ©January 6th, 2025 ®January 6, 2025 1:32 pm Nigeria Police Force has paraded 17 suspected murderers after its men raided Enohia Itim village in Afikpo local government area of Ebonyi state on the ground that the suspects allegedly resorted to jungle justice and burned to death a man suspected of witchcraft activities, just as its men in Imo State command invaded kidnappers’ hideout and rescued 4 hostages. #OsazuwaAkonedo Biafra Group Warns Against Night Travel, Cultism, Reject Soludo's Amnesty #Issues #Amnesty #Anambra #awka #Biafra #Biafrans #EzuRiver #HeadBridge #Nkpor #Okpoko #Onitsha #Soludo #Tarzan ©January 4th, 2025 ®January 4, 2025 7:55 pm Innocent Orji led Biafra armed group, Biafran Provincial Government, BPG has called on residents in Southeast states to avoid night travel, and also warned secret cult members against cultism related activities in the Southeast geopolitical zone, with additional warnings to its armed men against Anambra State Governor, Charles Chukwuma Soludo Amnesty programme, cautioning its members to always use precision weapons and avoid killing civilians when in contact with Nigeria security operatives. #OsazuwaAkonedo Police Killing, No More - IGP Warns Biafra Groups, In Enugu Ahead Tinubu #Nigeria Police Force #Biafra #Bola #Egbetokun #Enugu #Igp #Kayode #Police #Tinubu ©January 3rd, 2025 ®January 3, 2025 8:50 pm Nigeria Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun has issued a stern warning to Biafra armed groups and other non state actors killing police officers in the Southeast states and other geopolitical zones in the country that the Force will no longer tolerate any act of assault or killing of policemen in the country, stating this on Friday in Enugu State ahead the official visit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the state on Saturday, IGP ordered policemen to respond appropriately to any aggression against men of the Force. #OsazuwaAkonedo 2 Alive, 2 Missing, 177 Dead As Jeju Plane Belly Land In South Korea #Breaking News #Bangkok #Thailand #Choi #Crash #Jeju #Muan #Plane #SouthKorea ©December 29th, 2024 ®December 29, 2024 2:33 pm Two crew members have been rescued alive when rescue team found them at the tail of Jeju Airlines Plane flying from Bangkok that landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday without wheels or landing gears, using its belly to land through, veering off the airport runway and burst into fireball when it slammed into the wall of the airport parameters fence, killing over 177 persons onboard as two occupants in the aircraft are yet to be accounted for. #OsazuwaAkonedo Azerbaijan Plane Crash Not Natural, Russian Pantsir-S Air Device Suspected #Breaking News #Aktau #Azal #Azerbaijan #Baku #Grozny #Kazakhstan #Makhachkala #Rosaviatsiya #Russia ©December 26th, 2024 ®December 26, 2024 6:56 pm There are speculations that the Azerbaijan plane that crashed on Christmas day near Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan, killing 38 persons with 29 survivors may have been shot down by a missile fired apparently from Russian Pantsir-S Air Defence System, with the speculation having some material base that the nearest airport on the Azal plane flight path was Makhachkala but the plane veered off hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea to try to negotiate emergency landing at Aktau. #OsazuwaAkonedo Police Led Team In Anambra Off 19 Bombs In Nimo, Sack Unknown Gunmen #Nigeria Police Force #Anambra #Christmas #Nimo #Njikoka #Police 32 Survivors Recorded In Azerbaijan Plane Crash In Kazakhstan #Breaking News #Aktau #Azal #Azerbaijan #Baku #Gozny #Kazakhstan #Russia Protest In Syria Over Christmas Tree #Issues #alAssad #Bashar #Christmas #Hama #Suqaylabiyah #Syria We Arrest 30,313 People In 2024, Rescue 1,581 Kidnapped Victims - IGP #Nigeria Police Force #FCID #Igp #Police

OsazuwaAkonedo BriefRecall ~ Long Thread @2pm 6 1

Police Raids Ebonyi, Arrests 17 For Jungle Justice, Rescues 4 In Imo #Nigeria Police Force #Afikpo #ebonyi #EnohiaItim #Imo #Ohaji #Police #Umuokanne ©January 6th, 2025 ®January 6, 2025 1:32 pm Nigeria Police Force has paraded 17 suspected…

OsazuwaAkonedo BriefRecall ~ Brief Recall @2pm 6 1 Police Raids Ebonyi, Arrests 17 For Jungle Justice, Rescues 4 In Imo #Nigeria Police Force #Afikpo #ebonyi #EnohiaItim #Imo #Ohaji #Police #Umuokanne ©January 6th, 2025 ®January 6, 2025 1:32 pm Nigeria Police Force has paraded 17 suspected murderers after its men raided Enohia Itim village in Afikpo local government area of Ebonyi state on the ground that the suspects allegedly resorted to jungle justice and burned to death a man suspected of witchcraft activities, just as its men in Imo State command invaded kidnappers’ hideout and rescued 4 hostages. #OsazuwaAkonedo Biafra Group Warns Against Night Travel, Cultism, Reject Soludo's Amnesty #Issues #Amnesty #Anambra #awka #Biafra #Biafrans #EzuRiver #HeadBridge #Nkpor #Okpoko #Onitsha #Soludo #Tarzan ©January 4th, 2025 ®January 4, 2025 7:55 pm Innocent Orji led Biafra armed group, Biafran Provincial Government, BPG has called on residents in Southeast states to avoid night travel, and also warned secret cult members against cultism related activities in the Southeast geopolitical zone, with additional warnings to its armed men against Anambra State Governor, Charles Chukwuma Soludo Amnesty programme, cautioning its members to always use precision weapons and avoid killing civilians when in contact with Nigeria security operatives. #OsazuwaAkonedo Police Killing, No More - IGP Warns Biafra Groups, In Enugu Ahead Tinubu #Nigeria Police Force #Biafra #Bola #Egbetokun #Enugu #Igp #Kayode #Police #Tinubu ©January 3rd, 2025 ®January 3, 2025 8:50 pm Nigeria Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun has issued a stern warning to Biafra armed groups and other non state actors killing police officers in the Southeast states and other geopolitical zones in the country that the Force will no longer tolerate any act of assault or killing of policemen in the country, stating this on Friday in Enugu State ahead the official visit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the state on Saturday, IGP ordered policemen to respond appropriately to any aggression against men of the Force. #OsazuwaAkonedo

OsazuwaAkonedo BriefRecall ~ Brief Recall @2pm 6 1

Police Raids Ebonyi, Arrests 17 For Jungle Justice, Rescues 4 In Imo #Nigeria Police Force #Afikpo #ebonyi #EnohiaItim #Imo #Ohaji #Police #Umuokanne ©January 6th, 2025 ®January 6, 2025 1:32 pm Nigeria Police Force has paraded 17 suspected…

Nkamalo (Kamalu) shrine located within the Ezi Akputa compound in Mgbom village, part of the Afikpo Village-Group, Nigeria.
— Simon Ottenberg, 1951–1953.
#kamalu #eziakputa #mgbom #afikpo #ebonyistate #nigeira

Ibini Ukpabi shrine in front of the Nsi omomo shrine, in Ezi Akputa compound, Mgbom village, Afikpo Village-Group, Nigeria.
Photo by Simon Ottenberg, 1951-1953.
#ibiniukpabi #eziakputa #mgbom #afikpo #ebonyistate

Double-bowled pipe, made of terracotta and measuring 18.5cm. Housed in Vancouver Museum, B.C., Canada. Collected in Afikpo by Capt. Dyer in 1902. #afikpo #bowl #igbomade #ebonyistate

An industrious Igbo man from Afikpo crafting a canoe at Ndibe Beach along the Cross River, Nigeria. Photo by Simon Ottenberg, circa 1951–1953. #canoemaking #igbo #afikpo #ndibebeach #Nigeria

Igbo people at a busy market in Amaseri Village-Group, Edda, Cross River Igbo. Photo by Simon Ottenberg, 1951–1953.

#amaseri #edda #afikpo #igbo

Interior of a compound in Afikpo Village-Group, now Ebonyi State. Photo by Simon Ottenberg, 1959-60. Smithsonian.
#afikpo #ebonyistate #igbo #igbocompound #igboarchitecture

sacrificed to. The Mma Obu, also called Obiogo (Obu Ogo), serves as a sacred space in Mgbom and nearby villages, traditionally used for storing men’s society masks and ritual paraphernalia.

#afikpo #nne #nna #mgbom #nnenkwo #nnadenkwo #obu #obi

A brass bracelet from Afikpo featuring parallel leaf motifs, collected between 1902 and 1909 by Captain James Harold Dyer during the colonial conquest of Arochukwu and the region now known as southeastern Nigeria. Museum of Vancouver, Canada.
#brass #bracelet #afikpo #arochukwu

Youthful Igbo maskers performing in the Ifogu Nkporo masquerade, Afikpo. Photographed by G. I. Jones, 1930s. #igbomasquerade #ifogu #nkporo #afikpo #masquerade

Igbo women, likely from Uwana in the Afikpo region, paddling canoes along the Cross River at Ndibe Beach. Photographed by Simon Ottenberg in the early 1950s. #uwana #crossriver #igbowomen #afikpo #ndibebeach

An Igbo woman from Afikpo, photographed by Northcote Thomas around 1912-1913. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.
#igbowoman #afikpo #igbo

Okumkpa masquerade performance, Amorie village, Afikpo Village-Group, Southeast Nigeria, 1950s.
#okumkpa #masquerade #afikpo

Okumkpa masquerade performance, Amuro village, Afikpo Village Group, Nigeria.

Photograph by Simon Ottenberg, early 1950s.
#okumkpa #afikpo #amuro

Blade and sheath from Afikpo, early 20th century. #afikpo #blade

Afikpo Igbo mma ji (‘yam knife’) masks, commonly used in okumkpa performances in Afikpo, Eastern Igboland. #mmaji #okumkpa #afikpo #igbo

Northern (1, 2) and southern (3) views of one of the 22 villages that make up the Afikpo village group in the eastern Igbo cultural area of Southern Nigeria, 1951–1953.

Photograph by Simon Ottenberg.
#afikpo #easternigbo #southernnigeria