0:07 Intro
1:05 Migration History
1:25 Igbo Genetics
2:00 Nsibidi Writing
2:35 Material Culture
2:50 Eri Genealogies
4:00 Nri rituals
7:35 Igbo Months

⁣Reduplication is one of the most sophisticated linguistic tools in human language and Jamaicans have been doing it for centuries.
Linguists at Cambridge, UC Berkeley, and Oxford have studied this phenomenon across hundreds of languages. What they found? Repeating a word to intensify, extend, or deepen its meaning is a grammatically structured, cognitively grounded system — and it is especially alive and well in West and Central African languages like Akan, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and Gbe.
When enslaved Africans were brought to Jamaica in the 17th century, they came from dozens of different language groups — but reduplication was a thread common across all of them. It survived the Middle Passage. It survived colonialism. It survived centuries of being told our language was "broken."
It didn't survive by accident. It survived because it works.
Saying something twice feels like doing it twice. Feeling it twice. Meaning it more. Linguists call this iconicity — when the form of a word mirrors its meaning. It's one of the most natural things a human being can do with language, documented even in how babies first learn to speak.
So the next time someone tells you Patois isn't a real language — tell them wi no chat so by accident.
Wi carry Africa ina wi mout!

This 2-part conversation of OJO World’s “Tribute to Traditional” features Poet/Playwright/ Cultural Activist, Dr. Eintou Pearl Springer.

Hosted by Abeo Jackson.


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⁣Atebi Narh on the Heru Sculpture

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Oyolima

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⁣Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon's PALI Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Leadership Award Presentation and Acceptance Speech ft. Hon. Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of Nana Kwame Nkrumah

In much of the world, national borders have shifted over time to reflect ethnic, linguistic, and sometimes religious divisions. Spain's borders generally enclose the Spanish-speakers of Europe; Italy and Croatia roughly encompass ethnic Italians and Croats. Thailand is exactly what its name suggests, the land of the Thai. Africa is different, its nations largely defined not by its peoples heritage but by European colonialism.

But as the continent becomes more democratic and Africans assert desires for national self-determination, the continent's decision to maintain colonial era borders is a subject of intense debate.

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⁣THE LEGACY OF COLONIZATION by Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao

Lesson 7 Yoruba Profile Questions

⁣Swearing in of Nsawamhene and Akuapem Traditional Council Part 3

Prenant exemple sur le massacre des communards en août et septembre 1944 en France, Sékou Touré, se croit libre de châtier ceux que sa justice révolutionnaire qualifiaient de traître. Un épisode douloureux dans l’histoire de la Guinée, sujette de nombreux complots ourdis par les grandes puissances en intelligence avec ses opposants locaux.

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