This is the Ojionu-Masquerade in Aguata Igbo land, Biafra, Nigeria, Africa. Nke a bu egwu ojionu nke ndi Ezinifite Aguata nke di na Anambara steti nke obodo Biafra agbata obi Nijiria.
i am a young igbo boy who is watching this video and oji-onu is quite spectacular that it is even on RU-vid!!!! the amount of oji-onu dance moves in modern break dancing is quite funny, maybe they have been watching this too!!
i remember eji onu from when i was a little kid. it was my fav. masquerade. the eji onu dance can be very spectacular and show like. looking at it now i see a man in a costume, but then it was like watching a super natural creature in action.
Chai ! Afromannn kedu ebe ishi wete this Video ? i know this Video the Oji onu (Mgbadike) in 04:53 -- 05:06 and 05:32-- 06: 16 . They are from my Area Amesi Aguata i know them all, some of them are dead now like the man with Oyo in the hand is no more,his is my family relation. Thanks alot for this Video its reminds Home soo much. Very Nice, Wonderful and Creative. This is what igbos can Create. Peace.
somethings big are missing in todays igbo culture. i remember when i was younger there used to be more spectacular, somersaulting masquerades. fascinating fun times. restoration will happen i know. folks would climb iroko trees like crazy, those days
The original mgbadike is from Amesi in Aguata local government area.This is exactly the cop cat of the mgbadike masqurade both its dancing acrobatic even before your American break dance existed in the 80`s.This masqurade has been dancing this way many dacades before I was born in the sixties according to my own village people.Only because internet came of age you can now find some african tradition being posted on you tube.Ezinifite may have copied Amesi people.
@Nnfefe No that's not what i said. im saying that bleaching is becoming very prevalent because of the belief that the lighter the better. Forget about bride price (that really is irrelevant)..everyone is entitled to their opinion, and making generalizations for (ex. bride price is dependent on bleaching is erroneous)..im just saying that, from my perspective, i have lots of friends (old & married & young) doing it because they feel better about themselves with light skin in Nigeria.
@Nnfefe Hello I'm an igbo, and I have to disagree with your comments to an extent. Igbos don't bleach their bodies for just higher bride prices. I know several igbos (already married) that bleach because we have this stigma that light-skinned is better (not just us, lots of colored ppl). I'm a mixed Igbo (half-british) living in Nigeria, and I can tell you that this is a stigma (and I blame the MEN lol) Lots of Nigerian men like fair girls (i hate to say that) but this stigma needs to stop.
Yeah, Igbo masquerade a.k.a mmanwu has gone down hill. When I was growing up as a kid, mmanwu was like the scariest thing on earth. We were taught that it was a spirit or dead person, you had to give it reverence, awe, and respect, but now mmanwu looks like a big joke. Back then women couldn't even stand in the same area where mmanwu was but nowadays you even see women dancing next to mmanwu. And I just can't stand all these Igbos in Europe and USA bringing out mmanwu in those countries!!!
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Udo,Eji -onu ,Izaga,Adamma,Oji-onu,Idu,Agaba,Atiko,Edgugu,Epke,Ajikwu, or Ijele masquerade....... which one is shit, when it comes to performance?By the way, these are the only one's I can come up within my head.The rest... I don't know. #IGBO KWENU!!!!!
