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Igbo Age Grade System: How Leadership Was Shared Before Chiefs
The Igbo age grade system ran roads, markets and defence without kings. See how it worked and why colonial chiefs broke it.
The Igbo age grade system ran roads, markets and defence without kings. See how it worked and why colonial chiefs broke it.
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New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Several masking traditions in this book represent a single ancestor or a single spiritual authority. The Ngbaka, spread across the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo and into the Central African Republic, carved theirs…
New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Many masking traditions documented in this book have drifted, over time, from a role rooted in real fear or real danger toward one closer to entertainment. Few make that drift as explicit as the…
New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Several traditions documented in this book are known by the name of the people who still practice them. Ife is known instead by the name of a place, a ritual center in southwestern Nigeria…
New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Several royal traditions documented in this book concentrate artistic power entirely in the hands of the throne. The Zande, 750,000 people spread across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and…