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 Igbo. from Western Africa

The igbo culture is from west Africa.  They are horticulturalists that occupy the present day Nigeria. 

 They are similar to Hinduism because they also have a caste system or a system of rank or class.  They do not believe that life ends at the point of death, they believe in reincarnation. According to  Chinwe Achebe"everyone goes  home’ from whence he came when his shopping is done, to begin afresh his continuous cycle of birth, death, reincarnation on a similar, higher or lower level of existence depending on how he had lived his previous life" Igbo homes are built of woods and stakes that are driven into the ground.  Since the Igbo are very close with each other in their region, neighbors often provide help in assisting the building of homes.  One thing that has been known to destroy Igbo houses in Africa are white ants.

Falola, Toyin, and Raphael Chijioke Njoku, eds. Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Indiana University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt2005rxf.

Achebe, Chinwe. 1986. The World of the Ogbanje. Enugu, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension Publishers. https://ehrafworldcultures-yale-edu.northernkentuckyuniversity.idm.oclc.org/document?id=ff26-037.

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I chose to do the Tiv culture and if and how milk is viewed in their culture.  Milk is viewed as being disgusting to the Tiv culture and is used only to nurse their young other than that there is no use for milk in their culture.  The Tiv are located in the country of Nigeria, they live on both side of Benue River.  In the Journal of the International African Institute states that the Tiv people  would not be interested in getting married if they did not have to maintain their family name.  Another interesting fact is if a python enters a home, this act is considered a sign of evil, the homeowner must then destroy that home and must go into exile and live the rest of his life with his wife's parents or relatives.  The Tiv are  horticulturalists or people that use tools to garden and grow foods.  However horticulturalists are not as intense at gardening as agriculturalists.  In the picture above the black and white robes and headwear is worn to remember zebras, the early Tiv population hunted zebras to survive,  which is why these black and white robes are the main clothes worn.

Bohannan, Paul. “Concepts of Time among the Tiv of Nigeria.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 9, no. 3 (1953): 251–62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3628696.

Akiga, B. Sai. 1954. “The ‘Descent’ of the Tiv from Ibenda Hill.” Africa Vol. 24 (no. 4): 295–310. https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=ff57-025.