please i want ask were did imo state four father come from,like anambara we knew out root.
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"Traditional Igbo house/room from the Anambra area, Drs. G.W. (Gerrit Willem) Grootenhuis, 1967."

Yep, omambala.

Niiiice.

Nill

This one that look like fraternity house

Beautiful!
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As an architect I must yan ...TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE...... TEAM BADDEST ARCHY

As an architect I must yan ...TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE...... TEAM BADDEST ARCHY

Nice, they look like those ancient houses at Idanre hills

One thing on my mind now is Things Fall Apart (the film ).

Evolution is inevitable

ezeagu:

"Carved pillars in Obu house Abiriba.
Figures carved on the central pillar are: below, a woman with a waterpot on her head; above, an “Egbo runner” (i.e. the agent of the Ekpe [Egbo] secret society, his identity concealed beneath a tight fitting all enveloping costume and believed by the uninitiated to be a forest daemon. The servant of the Ekpe spirit to which the society ministers.)
— G. I. Jones, 1930s"

This is beautiful, i like it.

Amazing.

Reminds me of title men chambers in Umuoji ,early 80s. Most of these houses has been pulled down including one of the first storey building built in Idenmili in the17Th century.

LagosDecides15:
architecture of Yoruba head.

Shame on the woman that gave birth to you! You're cursed!

OdenigboAroli:
Reminds me of title men chambers in Umuoji ,early 80s. Most of these houses has been pulled down including one of the first storey building built in Idenmili in the17Th century.

At least, the tower in Ukpo is still standing.

This copy copy of Western things really finished us.

I'm not Igbo but if I had plenty of money, as an Igbophile, I would build a replica model village showing these various house designs.

My Oh My,

ezeagu, you have a treasure trove here. Dalu oooo.

Cool looking architecture! I'm proud of my Igbo ancestry!
Us Jamaicans have a lot of Igbo ancestry.

BlackKenichi:
Cool looking architecture! I'm proud of my Igbo ancestry!
Us Jamaicans have a lot of Igbo ancestry.

They should build an Igbo village in Jamaica/Barbados like they did in Virginia.

This is a wonderful thread.. Very educational. Do you all have an Igbo museum?

nice

quimicababes:
This is a wonderful thread.. Very educational. Do you all have an Igbo museum?

There's a national museum in Enugu, and some small local museums in places like Igbo Ukwu.

very detailed and interesting topic

The Best Post I have seen on Nairaland so far

I have a collection of a few Igbo traditional houses, looking for more pictures http://amazingviewpoints..com/2015/02/mud-houses-why-did-we-stop-building-them.html

Moved.