My Brother’s Wedding

After the 10th year what happens?

Congratulations on the recent 'incarceration' of your younger sibling. Congratulation to the newly wedded couple too.

One observation if you dont mind:

1) Your name reads like you are Igbo. Correct me if i'm mistaken. Your attire i.e the traditional ones are definitely from the South westen Nigeria namely Yoruba. My question is, how and when do we propagate the traditional Igbo attire? Why is it so convenient for Igbos to adorn themselves in Northern and Western Nigeria garbs to the utter neglect of traditional Igbo clothes? Is it that we do not have traditional Igbo clothes or that in the so many years of our Westernization and Northernization we have forgotten to develop, enthrone and celebrate that which singles us out from the rest and makes us unique? Igbos should immediately revert to their roots and try to rehabilitate a comatose culture.

Our language and mode of dressing should be seriously addressed. As we all know and as have been previously discussed in the square our kids including those born in Nigeria, in the diaspora and in 'cyberspace' have lost grip and interest with our culture as Igbos. They do not speak our language and perceive fluency in English Hausa and Yoruba as an in thing while their only understanding of our traditional attire is the Hausa dakubiam. How unfortunate!
Gatherings such as the Okonkwos wedding should be a perfect opportunity to parade our culture. The Yorubas never let go of an opportunity to strut their stuff neither do the Hausas. What has happened to us Igbo?

In the future, we should endeavour to do something Igbo no matter how insignificant at any gathering. The questions such acts would generate could precipitate more interest in our culture by our kids.

At the last Nigerian do i attended , I turned out in my 'Ogodo waliwa' and 'Okpu Ozo' with my 'aka onu' and 'Odu enyi' I was the cynosure of all eyes and the butt of all jokes, but I felt so proud to be Igbo! Unfortunately, the 'lowlight' of the occassion was that an Igbo high Chief that came from Nigeria specifically to grace the occassion, turned out in a traditional Yoruba attire-how sad!

Congratulations once again to your sibling. I wish him marital bliss, if there is anything like it....

Congratulations on the recent 'incarceration' of your younger sibling. Congratulation to the newly wedded couple too.

One observation if you dont mind:

1) Your name reads like you are Igbo. Correct me if i'm mistaken. Your attire i.e the traditional ones are definitely from the South westen Nigeria namely Yoruba. My question is, how and when do we propagate the traditional Igbo attire? Why is it so convenient for Igbos to adorn themselves in Northern and Western Nigeria garbs to the utter neglect of traditional Igbo clothes? Is it that we do not have traditional Igbo clothes or that in the so many years of our Westernization and Northernization we have forgotten to develop, enthrone and celebrate that which singles us out from the rest and makes us unique? Igbos should immediately revert to their roots and try to rehabilitate a comatose culture.

Our language and mode of dressing should be seriously addressed. As we all know and as have been previously discussed in the square our kids including those born in Nigeria, in the diaspora and in 'cyberspace' have lost grip and interest with our culture as Igbos. They do not speak our language and perceive fluency in English Hausa and Yoruba as an in thing while their only understanding of our traditional attire is the Hausa dakubiam. How unfortunate!
Gatherings such as the Okonkwos wedding should be a perfect opportunity to parade our culture. The Yorubas never let go of an opportunity to strut their stuff neither do the Hausas. What has happened to us Igbo?

In the future, we should endeavour to do something Igbo no matter how insignificant at any gathering. The questions such acts would generate could precipitate more interest in our culture by our kids.

At the last Nigerian do i attended , I turned out in my 'Ogodo waliwa' and 'Okpu Ozo' with my 'aka onu' and 'Odu enyi' I was the cynosure of all eyes and the butt of all jokes, but I felt so proud to be Igbo! Unfortunately, the 'lowlight' of the occassion was that an Igbo high Chief that came from Nigeria specifically to grace the occassion, turned out in a traditional Yoruba attire-how sad!

Congratulations once again to your sibling. I wish him marital bliss, if there is anything like it....

Please don't jump on Caeser. I also raised the same question. The reason I ask is that in Nigeria, it appears that the Agbada and Babariga have become the 'National Attire'. And since I am not Yoruba or Hausa, I cannot but ask: why do the other ethnic groups (particularly large ones like the Igbos) not seiz every opportunity to wear their own clothes? Haba! I have never seen a Yoruba wedding where the women wear a \"George\" (or is it \"Judge\"), nor have I seen a Hausa gathering where the men wear red hats. Let's be honest here: adopting Agbada, Senegalese, Babariga, etc as part of one's culture is a bit unusual, particularly for an occasion like a wedding!

@realcode;

I am happy to read what you wrote here, because in Pat Utomi's article on ethnic chauvinism you claimed the Igbo are clannish. Perhaps you wrote those comments without any genuine reflections. The reality as you can see from the attires in this wedding is that the Igbo are the most open minded, adaptable and integrated Nigerians, who can make any part of Nigeria their home, invest there, build his houses there, pay his taxes there, wear the local attires and speak the local language.

I remember when Shina peters music Ace was reigning, even in the East in core Igboland people were dancing to that music.

As you observed here, other tribes would never wear an attire from other Nigerian cultures, and would rarely ever invest in regions outside their areas.

In the end mr realcode, you would be surprised to know that both you and your tribe are actually the real clannish groups we have in Nigeria.

Next time think before you write, or you will end up looking stupid as this article and your comments here have further revealed your flipflopping hypocrisy.

Tony, deliberate and self-inflicted cultural genocide in the name of \"open mindedness\" must be exposed for what it truly is.

As for being the most \"open minded\" tribe in Nigeria, perhaps you want to explore places like Kwara State, where Yoruba and Hausa mix and even develp their own 'Hausaoruba' pidgin, or perhaps the Yorubas who once incorporated 'Senegalese' into their attire, or Northern leaders who proudly strut around in Agbadas. Yet despite these, when it comes to an issue as sacred and important as marriage, they understand that it is a once-in-a-lifetime event, a unique chance to showcase your culture. The Hausas return to their traditional wear, as do the Yorubas, and I am sure, most of the Igbos. It is out of place for people from another ethnic group to wear the clothes of other tribes on their wedding day, all in the name of \"One Nigeria\" or \"Common Humanity\". And the bizarre affair is the reason another person has brought it up on this thread as well.

\"Open mindedness\" is not the same as \"Cultural Genocide\", which is the category this slavish display of \"Yorubaness\" by a non-Yoruba duo falls under. When you find your first examples of Yorubas or Hausas adopting Igbo clothing, or perhaps Yorubas artists singing entire songs in Igbo as has happened in the other direction, perhaps we can talk of a two-way cultural dynamism.

Until then, all I see are a people happy to kick out their own culture in place of another ethnic groups'.

Congratulations on the recent 'incarceration' of your younger sibling. Congratulation to the newly wedded couple too.

One observation if you dont mind:

1) Your name reads like you are Igbo. Correct me if i'm mistaken. Your attire i.e the traditional ones are definitely from the South westen Nigeria namely Yoruba. My question is, how and when do we propagate the traditional Igbo attire? Why is it so convenient for Igbos to adorn themselves in Northern and Western Nigeria garbs to the utter neglect of traditional Igbo clothes? Is it that we do not have traditional Igbo clothes or that in the so many years of our Westernization and Northernization we have forgotten to develop, enthrone and celebrate that which singles us out from the rest and makes us unique? Igbos should immediately revert to their roots and try to rehabilitate a comatose culture.

Our language and mode of dressing should be seriously addressed. As we all know and as have been previously discussed in the square our kids including those born in Nigeria, in the diaspora and in 'cyberspace' have lost grip and interest with our culture as Igbos. They do not speak our language and perceive fluency in English Hausa and Yoruba as an in thing while their only understanding of our traditional attire is the Hausa dakubiam. How unfortunate!
Gatherings such as the Okonkwos wedding should be a perfect opportunity to parade our culture. The Yorubas never let go of an opportunity to strut their stuff neither do the Hausas. What has happened to us Igbo?

In the future, we should endeavour to do something Igbo no matter how insignificant at any gathering. The questions such acts would generate could precipitate more interest in our culture by our kids.

At the last Nigerian do i attended , I turned out in my 'Ogodo waliwa' and 'Okpu Ozo' with my 'aka onu' and 'Odu enyi' I was the cynosure of all eyes and the butt of all jokes, but I felt so proud to be Igbo! Unfortunately, the 'lowlight' of the occassion was that an Igbo high Chief that came from Nigeria specifically to grace the occassion, turned out in a traditional Yoruba attire-how sad!

Congratulations once again to your sibling. I wish him marital bliss, if there is anything like it....