intro

The Ibo live in the southern region of Nigeria known as Iboland, Igboland, Biafra, and The East. It touches the Atlantic Ocean and is surrounded by rivers. They were the last to succumb to British control, after the Fulani, Hausa, and Yoruba peoples.

then

• Optimal for British colonization in the eyes of the British due to its cheap labor, land, gold, copper, zinc, pepper, and palm oil
• Run by a democratic system of government, reinforced with familial relations
• Free from British rule until around 1950
• Had a calendar week of four days, a calendar month of seven weeks, and a calendar month of thirteen months
• Judicial matters taken care of by taking an oath to a god
• Possibly lived in Nigeria for tens of thousands of years

now

• Nigeria, where the Ibo live, is now very ethnically diverse, containing about three hundred ethnic groups due to colonial boundaries
• Country under stress, with eight attempts at secession from 1914 to 1977 and a civil war (also known as the Biafran War) waging from July 6, 1967 to January 15, 1970
• Iboland restored after being destroyed by the civil war, with an economy reborn in the Niger Delta petroleum industry
• Ibo sometimes face racial discimination from other Nigerians
• Iboland towns lack proper resources/infrastructure for the people
• Many Ibo have emigrated from Iboland into other Nigerian cities, like Lagos, Benin City, Abuja, Togo, Ghana, Canada, America, the U.K., and so on
• Ibo now have an international presence