Said to be one of the oldest photographs taken in Barbados of a Bajan, this image captures Nancy Daniels. The picture is believed to have been taken in the 1850s, either at a studio in Bridgetown by the photographer Campion or at the house where she worked as a domestic servant.

Nancy was born either in 1751 or 1755 in West Africa, believed to be modern day Nigeria as it was thought she was of Igbo ethnicity. Her real name is unknown and it is believed she came to Barbados in her teens or as a young woman. Even though Nancy would have grown up in West Africa, survived the Middle Passage and being sold into slavery, the devastating Bridgetown Fire of 1766, the destructive hurricane of 1780, the Bussa revolt of 1816 as well as Emancipation and Apprenticeship, little is known of her life.

She is known to have lived in Bridgetown at Synagogue Lane and worked for the Daniels family as a domestic servant, for whom she worked for many years, first as an enslaved women and later as a domestic servant after Emancipation. At her death her age is officially recorded as 116 years, dying and buried on September 24th, 1871, but oral sources from the family put her age at 120 years old. She is one of the oldest people to have lived in Barbados, achieving super centenarian status.

From #bazodeemag

#history #oldbarbados #historical #historicphoto #historicphotography #nancydaniels #igbo #igbokwenu #igbohistory #igbowomen #nigeria #bridgetown

There we go. While descendants of slaves here in America, my ancient grandmother descended from the #Igbo people in Africa #Ibo #Nigeria #Ancestry #AfricanAncestry #geneology #FamilyTree #KnowYourRoots #BlackMastodon #blacktwitter #blackfedi #BlackFediverse

lo-fi igbo shenanigans to smash and belong to

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yQimEZeMNNU — Speaking Igbo Language #polyglot #language #igbo (0:16)

The Yoruba-Igbo conflict in Nigeria is concerning and deserves more attention. #Yoruba #Igbo #Nigeria #ethnicdiscrimination https://www.GPTrending.com/#/?date=2023-03-19&topic=Yoruba

The hashtag #Igbo is trending online due to concerns over violence, harassment and discrimination towards the Igbo people in Lagos, Nigeria. Outraged citizens call for action and attention on this issue. #ethnicviolence #Nigeria #boycottLagos https://www.GPTrending.com/#/?date=2023-03-19&topic=Igbo

Hm, surprisingly smooth!

Both #MacOS and #Windows got #Igbo keyboard layouts. Both require AltGr+ combinations or even dead-keys. I thought it's kinda acceptible slow down.

But this one, almost as fast as English alphabet. Barely used it 10 minutes, and reaching out to type ụmụ almost without looking.

Tip: for #African keyboards on #Chromebook — install this extension.

Specifically for #Igbo, it places these characters instead:

Ṅ for X
Ị for Q
Ọ for [
Ụ for ;

I haven't figured the tone marks yet, but at least I get all the letters.

https://github.com/hickford/xkb-keyboard-layouts-for-chrome-os

#AkwaekeEmezi :

I’m also interested in how writing spiritfirst in an industry that doesn’t really reckon with spirit places my work, but I know eye will always place it where it belongs, centered in spirit. My job is to hold that center, and as Morrison said, wait for the world to move over.

#BlackLiterature #AfricanLiterature #Igbo #ogbanje

𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘱𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯.

Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi.

#BlackFriday book about life broken into pieces and held together by strong string and weak glue.

A cold needle threading the story through jealousy, love, sex and possession, attachment and choice.

This is a book about #Igbo notion of #ogbanje. You will understand it.

#Lagos, charming yet disorienting, bubbled with uncontainable life.

God's Children Are Little Broken Things, by Arinze Ifeakandu.

#AfricanLiterature #Igbo #Nigeria #LGBT

God's Children Are Broken Little Things, by #ArinzeIfeakandu

A very good book. A set of stories, centering #gay folks in #Nigeria, living in troubled reality, tragic and heavy.

It's a book heavy with love too. Love that smashes against loss.

#AfricanLiterature #Igbo

@Jaden2 things you said the other day. You may like this book. It sorts some things in the right order.

@Birgitomo

#Igbo lady behind a curtain in our room. Her husband came to care for her for few hours, she had pneumonia like my mum, prob. like me even. Just worse.

Her spirit was down, she was laying quietly, but after a day I think she's done better. Asking relatives for Eforiro.

@rasmansa

I'm learning #Igbo, and soon as I can read, I'll just drown any doubt with books and TV series.

You consume critical mass of content then no one can take it from you.

Vic Wonder's Sister Gets Married: https://youtu.be/N0vK5NGQGT4
#wedding #Igbo #africa

Part 2 of the #language quiz! True of false:

5. In #CANTONESE, the word for "yes" becomes a vulgar expletive if you say it in a higher voice.

6. In #ARABIC, there are more than 100 ways to make a word plural.

7. In the African language of #IGBO, you say a word backward to make it plural.

Cont'd...

#linguistics #writing #writingcommunity @linguistics @languagelovers

I am currently reading An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma, but I'm struggling to get through it.

The thing is, there's enough good that I *want* to like it. I'm really enjoying the Igbo cosmology and the narrative voice of the Chi. I like the naivete of Nonso and Ndali and how things just happen to them without them seeming to have much agency (or do they?), but in trying to follow the storyline of the Odyssey, it loses something. At times it becomes a checklist of how someone's life can go wrong and as such feels like the misery lit that was popular in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

It also could have done with another edit too: parts of it are too wordy and repetitive. Instead of finishing the last 30 pages, I'm procrastinating a lot, hence this toot.

It's a pity as I enjoyed The Fisherman and feel Orchestra of Minorities has the essence of a great novel.

#BookReview #Literature #NigerianLiterature #Igbo #Reading

@schrodingers_cat

There's an academic named Uju Anya who got scolded by King Bezos for not being nicer about it all even though it was her family that took so much of the brunt of all that shit. Certainly not his. There's an open letter supporting her if you have google and want to sign it:

https://tinyurl.com/jxyjwsdd

It's a good read regardless. (Some of those links will really turn your stomach.)

#igbo #queenelizabeth

#Americanah #liburua-ren filma ikusi nahiko nuke!

#ChimamandaNgoziAdichie

#Nigeria #Londres #AEB #herrimina #emigrazioa #maitasuna

#igbo #hausa #joruba

https://labur.eus/wCiO0