freeDR:
One thing about the Igbos is that royalty is alien to the culture. Ancient Igbo tradition does not provide for a perpetual ruler in form of Obas and Emirs as obtained among the Yorubas and Hausas.

It was the colonialists who introduced what is a replica of traditional institutions in other parts of Nigeria for easy administration.

However, you still cannot force the Igbo man to pay obeisance to someone elected Igwe. It's not part of his culture.

Forget about the lies in Nollywood movies where the Igwe reigns supreme. No where in Igboland has the Igwe ever sent for someone else's head. Never.

My understanding is that there is Eze and there is Igwe, while Eze is by heritage and family line like the Obas and Emirs, Igwe is selected by election. The Ezes are the royal kings.

freeDR:
One thing about the Igbos is that royalty is alien to the culture. Ancient Igbo tradition does not provide for a perpetual ruler in form of Obas and Emirs as obtained among the Yorubas and Hausas.

It was the colonialists who introduced what is a replica of traditional institutions in other parts of Nigeria for easy administration.

However, you still cannot force the Igbo man to pay obeisance to someone elected Igwe. It's not part of his culture.

Forget about the lies in Nollywood movies where the Igwe reigns supreme. No where in Igboland has the Igwe ever sent for someone else's head. Never.

It means you don't know the Igbo culture. Before the coming of the Europeans, Igbos do have kingdoms and perpetual royalty, Nri and Aro as a case study.

Igbos also practice rotational royalty in so many towns even up till date, there are conditions attached to being an Igwe in some towns, like in mine, both your paternal and maternal ancestry must be from the town and your village must be the next in line for the throne.

As for the Emirs and Obas, Igbos are republicans in nature, our culture detest absolute monarchy. Igbos have been practicing democracy before the coming of the Europeans, we have the Igwe or Obi (President) Ndi Ichie(Senators) Ndi nze na ozo ( House of Representatives) Arusi (judiciary) due to the fact that the traditional religion was the official religion then.
That is why it was easy for the British to apply direct rule in Igboland because the system that they met are similar to theirs.

And uptill today an Igwe and the community can agree and banish someone from their communities and that will stand even in law court.

freeDR:
One thing about the Igbos is that royalty is alien to the culture. Ancient Igbo tradition does not provide for a perpetual ruler in form of Obas and Emirs as obtained among the Yorubas and Hausas.

It was the colonialists who introduced what is a replica of traditional institutions in other parts of Nigeria for easy administration.

However, you still cannot force the Igbo man to pay obeisance to someone elected Igwe. It's not part of his culture.

Forget about the lies in Nollywood movies where the Igwe reigns supreme. No where in Igboland has the Igwe ever sent for someone else's head. Never.

it's called acephalous

MurderX:

My understanding is that there is Eze and there is Igwe, while Eze is by heritage and family line like the Obas and Emirs, Igwe is selected by election. The Ezes are the royal kings.

Not true biko. Some Igbo towns address them as Igwe while some use Eze or Obi. We have Igwe of Nnewi and the reverred stool is not by selection but through heritage.

Wahala be like Trump..

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This is what happens when they don't beat recalcitrant igwe once in a while.

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freeDR:
One thing about the Igbos is that royalty is alien to the culture. Ancient Igbo tradition does not provide for a perpetual ruler in form of Obas and Emirs as obtained among the Yorubas and Hausas.

It was the colonialists who introduced what is a replica of traditional institutions in other parts of Nigeria for easy administration.

However, you still cannot force the Igbo man to pay obeisance to someone elected Igwe. It's not part of his culture.

Forget about the lies in Nollywood movies where the Igwe reigns supreme. No where in Igboland has the Igwe ever sent for someone else's head. Never.

What of Obi of Onitsha?

Evidence he does not have any serious issue to attend to

NwekeUG:


https://igberetvnews.com/1379761/anambra-traditional-ruler-drags-subject-court-refusing-address-igwe/

Lalasticlala

na by force??

Very arrogant Igwe. The community too is small. He battled to get there. If not for arrogance how would he say “a mere Chief”? When he was a Chief did he look at himself as a mere chief?

Jagbajantis intete!

Aswear i can feel the pain of this man being from a royal home the way wey some idiots dey talk to me formy mind i go be like come se dis man know se i be d son of Eze Uzoamaka. the thing deypain small sha oga Eze freestyle no be every body go like you

and hope you are not a broke ass eze bcus if you are and you are looking for who should reverence you

you go wait till 600yrs ooo

I'm sure they're best friends, small power don enter e hand, he's dragging him to court

Salewa97:
[b]These guys are not royal.[/v]

Most of their fake Igwe are just warrant chiefs that the British promoted to king status based on Quota system.

Igwe ko, Rigwe ni!

And so, what about it? How has the presence of an Oba, Ooni, Deji or Soun changed the Yoruba land?
Even the traditional rulers you have you still disrespect them like the Deji of Lagos, and the Soun of Ogbomosho so, what is the point in having them?

freeDR:
One thing about the Igbos is that royalty is alien to the culture. Ancient Igbo tradition does not provide for a perpetual ruler in form of Obas and Emirs as obtained among the Yorubas and Hausas.

It was the colonialists who introduced what is a replica of traditional institutions in other parts of Nigeria for easy administration.

However, you still cannot force the Igbo man to pay obeisance to someone elected Igwe. It's not part of his culture.

Forget about the lies in Nollywood movies where the Igwe reigns supreme. No where in Igboland has the Igwe ever sent for someone else's head. Never.

Hence the popular saying..Igo enweghi eze...The igbos had an ancient,well preserved Republican system of Government..While the skull miners and herdsmen were running around groveling before their Obas and their Emirs who in turn were groveling before their Portuguese,British,French paymasters.

foolish police. someone petitioned you that someone certificate is forged and u went to the arrest the man. just like that. stupid police.

IgboWarlord:


Hence the popular saying..Igo enweghi eze...The igbos had an ancient,well preserved Republican system of Government..While the skull miners and herdsmen were running around groveling before their Obas and their Emirs who in turn were groveling before their Portuguese,British,French paymasters.

You're a hopeless fool for making this into an ethnic war. I'm a Yoruba man, and my comment was made out of facts and it was devoid of ethnic bias. But here you are. Reasonable Igbos have replied my comment without any ethnic slurs until you limped in with your head full of shit. Oloriburuku.

freeDR:


You're a hopeless fool for making this into an ethic war. I'm a Yoruba man, and my comment was made out of facts and it was devoid of ethnic bias. But here you are. Reasonable Igbos have replied my comment without any ethnic slurs until you limped in with your head full of shit. Oloriburuku.

...Sorry,that was my tribalistic soul talking..I am sorry to offend you..No harm intended..

Hahaha

Wiseandtrue:

Mago mago king (even leaders) is not revered anywhere!!!

Take the Oba of Lagos for example

Nnannapat:
It means you don't know the Igbo culture. Before the coming of the Europeans, Igbos do have kingdoms and perpetual royalty, Nri and Aro as a case study.

Igbos also practice rotational royalty in so many towns even up till date, there are conditions attached to being an Igwe in some towns, like in mine, both your paternal and maternal ancestry must be from the town and your village must be the next in line for the throne.

As for the Emirs and Obas, Igbos are republicans in nature, our culture detest absolute monarchy. Igbos have been practicing democracy before the coming of the Europeans, we have the Igwe or Obi (President) Ndi Ichie(Senators) Ndi nze na ozo ( House of Representatives) Arusi (judiciary) due to the fact that the traditional religion was the official religion then.
That is why it was easy for the British to apply direct rule in Igboland because the system that they met are similar to theirs.

And uptill today an Igwe and the community can agree and banish someone from their communities and that will stand even in law court.

only few towns in Igboland were kingdoms before colonists came. The average Igbo society was governed by kindred. NRI itself although is the oldest in west Africa was more of theocracy than an actual monarchy.

He is a RULER and not a leader, so he deserves no respect