Can You Guess the Celebrity in this Image?
Two young, attractive girls are shown in a 1990s snapshot; one of them is a well-known veteran actress. Which actress is it that you can guess?
Irigwe People: Ancient Practice of Polyandry in the Bantu Tribe of Nigeria
The Irigwe people, who speak Bantu rigwe and are part of the wider Benue-Congo ethnolinguistic group, are an ancient, hospitable and pleasant people who live in the Plateau State’s Bassa and Barakin Ladi Local Government Areas as well as Kaduna State’s Saminaka Local Government Area. The Irigwe are primarily residents of Bassa LGA in Plateau State’s Miango, Jos, and Bukuru village. Anthropologists were well-known for these people’s customary ceremonial dance and polyandry. The Mango Rest House, tall hills, waterfalls, and other tourist attractions abound in the Mango Village. There are around 90,000 or so Irigwe people residing in Nigeria. Most Irigwes no longer practice polyandry as a result of Christianity and anthropologists labeling the Irigwe tribe as “primitive” and “pagan” civilization for engaging in polyandry, as well as the British government killing many of its indigenous people because they posed a threat to them. Image 1: Irigwe Men, Jos Plateau. 1959. Image 2: Irigwe Women, Jos Plateau. 1959
Establishment of Shell Service Station in Nigeria, 1955.
Shell Service Station, Hughes Avenue, Yaba, Lagos; presently known as Alagomeji in 1955. In 1938, Shell commenced operations in Nigeria under the name “Shell D’Arcy” after receiving an exploration license. Oil exports began in 1958 when Shell Nigeria identified the Niger Delta’s first commercial oil field in Oloibiri in 1956. Like many other African nations, Nigeria’s economy was heavily dependent on agricultural exports to foreign nations prior to the discovery of oil. Many people in Nigeria believed that the developers were trying to find palm oil.
Meet Haruna Ishola Bello, First Record Label owner in Africa
Born in 1919 in Ijebu, Igbo, Haruna Ishola Bello was one of the most well-known musicians of his era, specializing in the Apala genre. He passed away on July 23, 1983. Beginning his musical career at a young age, Haruna Ishola is recognized as the founder of Apala music in Nigeria. He performed with a variety of instruments, including lamellophone, claves, agogo bells, and akuba. Although Ishola’s 1948 debut album, Late Oba Adeboye (The Orimolusi of Ijebu Igbo), recorded under His Masters Voice (HMV), receives little attention, his constant touring made him the most sought-after performer at parties among the affluent Nigerian elite. Once Oba Adeboye died in an aircraft accident aboard the BOAC-operated Argonaut G-ALHL in 1955, a rerecorded version of his 1948 album was made available. This new release quickly increased his notoriety. About 1955, Haruna Ishola started recording apala songs. She quickly rose to prominence as the genre’s most well-liked performer and was regarded as one of Nigeria’s most esteemed praise singers. Ishola adopted and adhered to a staunch traditionalist stance, incorporating no Western musical instruments into his lineup and quoting Yoruba proverbs and Koranic verses in his compositions. He included shekere into his music before the end of the 1950s, and in 1960 he recorded the song “Punctuality is the Soul of Business” for Decca Records. Decca Records, who also signed Lijadu Sisters, Fela Kuti’s cousins. During her performances, Ishola would be seated with a group of singers, a lamellaphone, shakers, agogo bells, akuba, and claves, as well as two talking drummers.The agidigbo, a hollow lamellophone (thumb piano) that was simultaneously plucked and struck to produce a mesmerizing ostinato at the center of the apala sound, was another essential component of his sound. Ishola founded STAR Records Ltd. in 1969 with the help of jùjú musician I.K. Dairo. Owned by its artists, this was the first record label in Africa. Oroki Social Club, his best-selling album to date, was released on Decca Records in 1971 and sold over five million copies. The album’s lead song paid tribute to Osogbo’s esteemed and well-liked nightclub, where Ishola and his group frequently played sold-out shows that lasted anywhere from four to ten hours. He was among the first musicians from Nigeria to go on international tours, including stops in Benin, the UK, Sweden, France, West Germany, and Italy. Ishola…