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OTỊMKPU- The Town Crier
My Root series
Sketch 17
"Otımkpụ" - The Town Crier
The TOWN CRIER: ⏰️ WAKE up oooo, today is SUNDAY 🥳💥🖐✊️✊️✊️👊👊👊👐🙌
I mean stop sleeping, go to church or worship online. Just make sure join the Christians today to worship God o 🙏 🙌 ❤️
😃 😊 🙂 😀 😄...yeah dat message was very important
BACK TO TODAY'S POST
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
"Otımkpụ" is a name the Igbos call TOWN CRIER.
As the name implies, "Otị"- The One who shouts/cries, "mkpụ" - loud. Therefore, "Otımkpụ" means "The one who shouts loud" / "The Town Crier"
Among the Igbo in the Southeast of Nigeria, the town crier is known as "Onye Ogene"(ogene is a musical instruments commonly used amongs Igbos), he is known as Mai Shela among the Hausa and is usually selected by the Sarki or the village head.
There was no other means of communication at that time so the town crier was the only means of passing information to the villagers in the community
The town crier was expected to possess some level of oratory skill and broad knowledge of the community norms, values and heritage
He goes to central places, especially the village square, there he beats his ogene and makes his announcements and moves to another central point probably a market square or a nuclear settlement and repeats the same process again.
In a situation where the ogene is not available, the town crier can use "Ekwe"- A wooden gong with two rectangular shaped holes on the body.
People on hearing the sound, rushes down to the direction of the sound to hear what message the "Igwe"(king) has for the villagers. Are there still town criers today in our villages or do they have WhatsApp groups? 😆 🤣 😂
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ONCE UPON A TIME
In 1968, a Nigerian volunteer, was seen using the sound of a drum to announce to refugees within a Biafran war relief camp that food is ready for distribution.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has served the international community as a technical resource in international public health and epidemiology for many years and has supplied short-term consultations to international relief organizations working in emergencies since the Biafran civil war in the late 1960s. During the Nigerian-Biafran civil war, the CDC participated in refugee support for two years by providing disease control and nutrition assistance. During this effort, the CDC treated 500,000 children who were among the Kwashiorkor epidemic.
#Ekwe #ogeneigbo #igboculture #igbolanguage Igbo #tradition #Culture #illustration #contemporaryart #history #story
© Chidera Uzoma
Sketch 17
"Otımkpụ" - The Town Crier
The TOWN CRIER: ⏰️ WAKE up oooo, today is SUNDAY 🥳💥🖐✊️✊️✊️👊👊👊👐🙌
I mean stop sleeping, go to church or worship online. Just make sure join the Christians today to worship God o 🙏 🙌 ❤️
😃 😊 🙂 😀 😄...yeah dat message was very important
BACK TO TODAY'S POST
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
"Otımkpụ" is a name the Igbos call TOWN CRIER.
As the name implies, "Otị"- The One who shouts/cries, "mkpụ" - loud. Therefore, "Otımkpụ" means "The one who shouts loud" / "The Town Crier"
Among the Igbo in the Southeast of Nigeria, the town crier is known as "Onye Ogene"(ogene is a musical instruments commonly used amongs Igbos), he is known as Mai Shela among the Hausa and is usually selected by the Sarki or the village head.
There was no other means of communication at that time so the town crier was the only means of passing information to the villagers in the community
The town crier was expected to possess some level of oratory skill and broad knowledge of the community norms, values and heritage
He goes to central places, especially the village square, there he beats his ogene and makes his announcements and moves to another central point probably a market square or a nuclear settlement and repeats the same process again.
In a situation where the ogene is not available, the town crier can use "Ekwe"- A wooden gong with two rectangular shaped holes on the body.
People on hearing the sound, rushes down to the direction of the sound to hear what message the "Igwe"(king) has for the villagers. Are there still town criers today in our villages or do they have WhatsApp groups? 😆 🤣 😂
--------------------------------------------------------------
ONCE UPON A TIME
In 1968, a Nigerian volunteer, was seen using the sound of a drum to announce to refugees within a Biafran war relief camp that food is ready for distribution.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has served the international community as a technical resource in international public health and epidemiology for many years and has supplied short-term consultations to international relief organizations working in emergencies since the Biafran civil war in the late 1960s. During the Nigerian-Biafran civil war, the CDC participated in refugee support for two years by providing disease control and nutrition assistance. During this effort, the CDC treated 500,000 children who were among the Kwashiorkor epidemic.
#Ekwe #ogeneigbo #igboculture #igbolanguage Igbo #tradition #Culture #illustration #contemporaryart #history #story
© Chidera Uzoma
