9 Interesting facts to know about Igbo People
Igbo people are great, innovative, interesting and enterprising.
The Igbo people are well known for their innate enterprising spirit and their diverse industrial creativity embedded in a great pursuit for better commercialization. Located in the south east geopolitical zone, the Igbo people in rural part of Nigeria, work mostly as traders, craftsmen, and farmers and on the other hand, those in urban regions might be found among the big industrial giants.
The Igbos are also highly blessed with some of the biggest metropolitan areas, cities and towns in Nigeria like Onitsha, Enugu, Umuahia, Agbor Nsukka, Afikpo Aba, Owerri, Orlu, Okigwe, Asaba, Umuahia, Agbor Nsukka, Afikpo Awka, Nnewi, Abakaliki, Arochukwu.
It is interesting to also note that the Igbo “Ïbo people” ( as they are popularly called) are more focused on creating wealth for the nation via several business activities they keep engaging in, but that is not all there is to know about the southeasterners.
See below 9 Interesting facts to know about the Igbo people.
- Enterprising
An average Igbo man is hardly complete without a trace of an entrepreneurial spirit in him or her. Trust me, an average Igbo man often will emerge great in business due to their great passion for business and creative mind for wealth.
- Igbos are the most Travelled tribe in Nigeria
When you talk about business creation and meeting customer demand in this part of the world, The Igbos takes the front role, making some good profit from it, hence the reason why they do a lot of traveling when there is a demand to meet. An Igbo man can be seen anywhere in the world but majorly out of every ten, eight would have traveled outside their home country to somewhere else for business.
- Igbos are Predominantly Christians
Most Igbos are Christian, with Christian taking a major part of the population
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- The Igbos and Red Cap
The Igbo chieftaincy cap colour is Red. It is mostly worn by the “Ozos” or the palace chiefs and sometimes the Igbo elders. mostly identified with their red cap which signifies
- An Igbo man respect you more for your Financial/spending ability
Money matters to a typical Igbo personality. An Igbo man will listen to you more when he gets to know your financial ability.
You don’t need further explanation on this, it is very obvious the next Igbo man reading this is already ‘smiling’.
- An average Igbo man is a Socialite
It is arguable but crystal clear that an average Igbo man wants to be known and most especially belongs to a viable association or institution where he can be well recognized, respected and able to express himself. Yes, they love titles and like to command respect everywhere they step their feet.
- The Igbos are very Religious
Just like you will observe in any typical Nigerian, the Igbos are very religious and will observe all manner of religious rites at functions such as child naming, burial, initiation, marriage and any other important occasion in a man’s life.
- Igbo has some Notable successful people you never knew were Igbos
It doesn’t just stop at being enterprising for the Igbos, but the Igbo tribe had produced so many great people highly referenced in the world. In 2003, America’s Public Broadcasting Service aired a program, African American lives where popular American pastor, Bishop T.D Jakes was said to have had his DNA analysis which traced his Y chromosome to Igbo ancestry. Others with Igbo ancestry are; American actors Blair Underwood Forest Whitaker, British born Chiwetel Ejiofor, Caroline Chikezie, and many others.
- Marriage issue amongst the Igbo is not for the Nuclear family alone
Amongst the Igbos, marriage matters is not a matter for just the immediate parents of intending couples alone, kinsmen must also be involved in any marriage to hold as they have been the strong force who often will advise on the kind of family to marry from.
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