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Sayings of the ỌkọŊkọ Society of the Igbo-Speaking People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

M.M. Green
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In a previous article I quoted two or three sayings of the ỌkọŊkọ society of the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria and very briefly outlined some of the main features of the cultural setting of Igbo unwritten literature. I also suggested that we needed not so much odd specimens of this literature as considerable collections of the various genres in their social environment.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1958 , pp. 157 - 173
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1958

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page 157 note 1 ‘The unwritten literature of the Igbo-speaking people of south-eastern Nigeria’, BSOAS, XII, 3–4, 1948, 838.Google Scholar

page 157 note 2 See Forde, Daryll and Jones, G.I., The Ibo and Ibibio-speaking peoples of south-eastern Nigeria, O.U.P., 1950, 42.Google Scholar

page 157 note 3 ibid., p. 20. ‘Among some Cross River groups and the Ohuhu-Ngwa (Southern Ibo) are found “secret societies” or men's associations of the more usual type, which are widely distributed on both sides of the lower Cross River, among the Ibibio, the Yakö, the Ekoi and other peoples. Variously known among the Ibo as Ekpe, Akang, Obon, and Okonkon, they similarly secured authority and privilege for the wealthy who could pay the admission fees, but also elaimed to control supernatural sanctions through a secret ritual’.

page 159 note 1 Igbo has an eight vowel system but no one set of symbols has yet been accepted. The diagram below gives the set used here and, in brackets, the parallel set of the so-called ‘revised orthography’.

page 167 note 1 See Green, M.M., Ibo village affairs, London, 1947, 13.Google Scholar

page 168 note 1 ibid., 7.

page 172 note 1 i.e. the cultivation of yam, coco-yam, cassava, and the vegetables used as relishes.

page 173 note 1 cf. the song in Green, , ‘The unwritten literature of the Igbo-speaking people’, BSOAS XII, 3–4, 1948, 843.Google Scholar