I’m the youngest (28F) of my siblings and the only daughter. My mom always tells me that in Igbo culture the daughter(s) in the family are supposed to gather her siblings to plan out how to help their parents out (I assume financially) especially as the parents get older. Is this true in Igbo culture or is my mom just making this up?
What sites or news sources do you guys use to keep up on current events in Igbo land?
Was debating creating an open source project to aggregate all data related to news relating to Igbo states and Igbo affairs.
I only learnt about the igbo as a slang term for weed based off the Burna Boy song, so excuse my ignorance, but curious where that came from and how igbos in Nigeria feel about it? Do you guys use it too?
Greetings! I am working on a project to calculate and document all of the world's calendars from the past and present. It is called the Library of Time: https://libraryoftime.xyz/
There is a calendar used by the Igbo people, referred to as the Igbo calendar. I have calculated it on my site (you can find it under Solar Calendars, or look for Nigeria on the map). However, there are a few questions that I have before I am confident in its accuracy.
When does the day typically start? In the West, it is at midnight. In other cultures it is at other times, like sunrise or sunset. From my understanding, it might not be specifically defined in the Igbo calendar, but is there any cultural reason or feeling that it might be one way or the other?
The Wikipedia article mentions the following:
> The first month starts from the third week of February making it the Igbo new year. The Nri-Igbo calendar year corresponding to the Gregorian year of 2012 was initially slated to begin with the annual year-counting festival known as Igu Aro on 18 February (an Nkwọ day on the third week of February). The Igu Aro festival which was held in March marked the lunar year as the 1013th recorded year of the Nri calendar.[8]
From my understanding, the Igbo calendar is a solar calendar that counts 365 days, not a lunar calendar. To be a lunar calendar, it would have to roughly count either 355 or 385 days per year (lunar cycles are about 29.5 days each, 12 or 13 can fit in a solar year). Is there a lunar calendar system that is associated with the Igbo calendar? Also, that wikipedia article mentions the 1013th year of the Nri calendar, but I was unable to find any other source that mentions year counting. Is this something that is part of the Igbo calendar? Is there also a Nri calendar?
Assuming 1967 Biafran borders, so including Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross River and Akwa Ibom