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OPENING THOUGHT:
I MEAN IGEDE CULTURE!!! IF YOU CAN NOT HELP TO BUILD IT, DON’T DESTROY IT. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, DON’T CALL IT OUTDATED. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, DON’T MAKE A BIBLICAL DOCTRINE THAT HAS NO ROOTS IN THE SCRIPTURES ABOUT IT.
Cultural Heritage is an expression of ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation. It includes customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values, either in intangible or tangible forms.
If there is anything that stands the Igede people out is perhaps their fascinating culture. They love and cherish their native heritage. The Igede people managed to preserve many of their ancestral traditions and cultures even with the advent of Western civilization.
IGEDE PROVERBS:
Proverb: IYO ANỊNA A KA NỌỌ ẸPWA BA AWỤLẸ LẸ.
Literal level: Animals with like features dwell together.
Contextual level: People with similar characters, identical values and goals are supposed to be together.
STILLWATERS POEM:
ẸLÁ OCHICHE KA
Ẹla ochiche ka, ọ ka hwọ-ọ hyị eji ka chị ọhaa.
Ẹla ochiche ka, ẹkpẹngbẹ, á ka uhye ka hya-hya, weji ka yile.
Á me ka ụbwọ ụpụruri ka hagu ọyẹ ka ụpụpịla.
Á me ka ụtụrụ ka hagu, ọ yẹ ka álẹnụ pẹẹ-ẹ.
Ọhịhị ọlẹ lala ịlayịlọ, ọdang kele, ọdang warị.
Á yang yịrị ka ẹnụ ka chị, enyi doo la ụka ọkpahịjụ ka.
Ẹla ochiche ka, odehe yabwọ bala angịnyị ịlẹẹpwụ nyamwụ lala ányanya.
Ẹla ochiche ka, odehe kpù egbe lẹ.
Ẹla ochiche ka, odehe yẹ ịkpangkachị kpá lẹ.
Ẹla ochiche ka!
Enyi jaa yụụwụ onwù-ù, ọngọ juwa ụbwọọ ka tụụbwọ wù ịlọmwụ.
Ẹla ochiche ka!
Ma Ohe Oluhye áhị daahị-hile kẹnẹ-kẹnẹ ụka olujwo ọlẹ lẹlẹ.
TREASURE FROM THE BIBLE:
Isaiah 41:10
“Anụ ju uhi ka, m̀ juwa tanụ. Am à ri Ohe Oluhye nyanụ lẹ, ọkịlẹtụ ā kpụnụ enyi ka.
M̀ ka junu ọngịrị, bala ọ-ka danụ ụbwọ, m̀ ka chẹwụ keenu lụbwọ ọngịrị nyam.”
HISTORICAL SNIPPETS:
Igede native cloth was made from cotton wool and mainly white in ancient times. It is popularly called Ogodogodo, weaved in various sizes, and is principally worn by the elderly. It is a prestigious cloth and a celebrated fabric in the culture of Igede people. With time, Dr Agocha Ogaga Amogo designed the modern Igede cloth with three colours popularly called “Igede cloth or Igede culture”. The three colours are: white, black and blue.
The white colour represents the purity, honesty and integrity of Igede people.
The black colour signifies the strength, resilience, elegance, fertility and wealth of Igede people and the land.
The blue colour denotes the wisdom and beauty of Igede people, serene environment, lustre vegetation and topographies.
The three-coloured Igede cloth can be gotten in a hand-woven pattern or factory-made fabric in shops across the 36 States and Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria.
DO YOU KNOW THAT?
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