Johnson Okùnadé Welcome to My Woven Words and today on the food menu, we are going to be learning how to prepare crispy fried chicken. For those of you that knew about the trade fair that took place in Bowen University, Organized by Mass Communication students on 27th November, 2017, and you were opportune to taste crispy … Read more
EFFIONG Edem was a native of Cobham Town. He had a very fine daughter, whose name was Afiong. All the young men in the country wanted to marry her on account of her beauty; but she refused all offers of marriage in spite of repeated entreaties from her parents, as she was very vain, and … Read more
The history of the Dala community and Kano cannot be told without including the significance and importance of the magnificent Dala hill also known as ‘Dutsen Dala’ in Hausa language. The mystery-filled Dala hill majestically stands 534 meters high and covers a land mass of 289,892 metres in the Dala Local Government Area of Kano city, Kano State. The hill has a beautiful outlook that … Read more
It is fair to say that many young people first became aware of the Rwandan genocide from the movie ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ The film was a heroic depiction of one man going against the wishes of his tribe to save a handful of people. By the end of the Rwandan genocide that started from the first … Read more
During the olden days in Igbo land, Ibini Ukpabi, a deity popularly called the ‘Long Juju‘, was used to settle disputes in the community and punish perpetrators of crimes. The Long Juju shrine served as a supreme court for the people of Arochukwu kingdom in modern day Abia State. The decision of the oracle was final and no one … Read more
Forget the ring, meet a tribe who cut fingers to engage their spouse Showing commitment to the one you love can be done in many harmless ways; like wearing a wedding ring. The Khoikhoi tribe of South Africa have an unusual way of doing this. They cut off the fingers of engaged couples as a … Read more
It is an annual festival peculiar to the village of Torajan in the highlands of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. The harvest ritual involves exhuming corpses of their loved ones before parading them around the village. The people in the village are said to have a very close relationship with the dead, and sometimes they keep … Read more
The Yoruba tribe were believed to have emerged from Oduduwa (one of the servants of Olodumare- the Supreme Being) who was sent down to the world to create the earth. It was believed that he descended with a long chain from heaven and carried a calabash full of sand and also brought a five- toed … Read more
In the 1960s, according to history Ibadan was known to be the largest city in Africa after Cairo (Egypt) and Johannesburg in South Africa.
Ibadan, which was formally called Eba Odan at the point of its creation.
A very long time ago, there was a village where many of the women were barren. They desperately wanted children and decided to ask the spirit that lived inside the big Iroko tree for help. One by one, they went to visit the Iroko tree to beg the Iroko tree spirit for help. The Iroko … Read more
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