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ihe onye ofụ ọpị fụtara, ya na imi ya.
what a flute-player blows is between him and his nose.
mind your own business / someone’s affairs are their own responsibility.
Tiv
The Tiv migrated into the Benue Valley from the Cameroon highlands several centuries ago, expanding through lineage settlement rather than centralized conquest.
They organize social and political life around patrilineal descent, which determines land access and community obligations, and have historically been subsistence farmers — …
Venda
Numbering approximately 1 million people, the Venda primarily inhabit the northern reaches of South Africa’s Limpopo Province and adjacent areas of southern Zimbabwe.
They speak Tshivenda, a language that reflects their unique heritage and positions them culturally between the Shona of Zimbabwe and the Sotho …
May. 24, 2022
Dedication of the Igbo Landing Memorial in St. Simons Island, Georgia
The Igbo Landing Memorial honors the 1803 mass resistance of enslaved Igbo people who chose death over bondage by walking into Dunbar Creek—a long-suppressed act now formally recognized as a powerful symbol of defiance against slavery.
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