Adorable photo of 120-year-old Nigerian twin grannies
This beautiful photo of these Nigerian twin grannies
aged 120 was shared by a Facebook user, Nnamdi Avinadav Offorbuike,
with the caption:
'If Igbo's really killed
twins.....how come we have these beautiful grannies here still alive
today and are 120 years old.....(if calculated well) I never believed
the story of Igbos killing twins.'
Don't be ignorant...That some parts of igboland did doesn't mean every part did it..so maybe they were not born in the part they were killing ..simple ..but yes they did kill in some parts also in calabar area but not all areas
I don't think it is in doubt for any serious student of history that most of Igboland killed twins. Apart from Chinua Achebe writing about it, many other sources reveal it. I doubt the age of those twins shown. Their births were not documented. People make claims about age which intelligent and discerning minds should not believe. This is especially true of people in rural communities.
Enter your comment... Probably you were taught by illiterate teachers or weren't paying attention when being taught. Haba Igbo killing Twins which Century. ?
Igbo kill twins,my great great grand father was twins,they take my great grand father to evil forest while they keep the senior but after two days that one died and went back were they keep my great great grand father fortunately he was still life but temite have eating part of his face.as he grow up that created problems bw him and his father and walk away from his father compound till he die.it was in 2008 we the new generation make peace with other.
Please, twins were definitely killed in much, if not all of Igboland. And it did not end in the 19th century. It was continued well into the 20th century. I knew an Igbo man (now dead) born in about 1915. He said his twin was killed, and his mother had to seek refuge in a mission establishment to save his life. Read Flora Nwapa's 'Idu.' Some Igbo communities killed twins until the 1930s at least. Of course Chinua Achebe wrote about it in Things Fall Apart. Twin-murder was not confined to Efikland and Ibibioland. About the two ladies, I congratulate them, but I don't believe they are 120 years old. You might find they are not even up to 90. There are no documents and people in rural areas make fantastic claims about age.
Twins were definitely killef in Igbo. I am from Anambra, my grandma of blessed memory told of how the first twins were spared because their mum ran away with them to the missionaries. One of the twins is still living, very old.
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Don't be ignorant...That some parts of igboland did doesn't mean every part did it..so maybe they were not born in the part they were killing ..simple ..but yes they did kill in some parts also in calabar area but not all areas
It was in Calabar that twins were killed. Who ever said it was Igbos? Fuck!
I don't think it is in doubt for any serious student of history that most of Igboland killed twins. Apart from Chinua Achebe writing about it, many other sources reveal it. I doubt the age of those twins shown. Their births were not documented. People make claims about age which intelligent and discerning minds should not believe. This is especially true of people in rural communities.
God just kept them alive.God kept them some how.
Hmmm
... Merited happiness
Where is guiness world record?
If na white people they will rush and say oldest living twins
Enter your comment... Probably you were taught by illiterate teachers or weren't paying attention when being taught. Haba Igbo killing Twins which Century. ?
120years with no birth certificate.
Passport appplication and visa age eh?
Don't be delusional. Igbos never twins, it was in calabar. Go n read ur history
wooow
Hmmm...pretty Linda kk,dont forget, God said I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,and i will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
They DID kill twins in igbo land, maybe not all parts, but definitely happened in my part of igbo land.
Igbo kill twins,my great great grand father was twins,they take my great grand father to evil forest while they keep the senior but after two days that one died and went back were they keep my great great grand father fortunately he was still life but temite have eating part of his face.as he grow up that created problems bw him and his father and walk away from his father compound till he die.it was in 2008 we the new generation make peace with other.
Igbo do kill twins but in every part.
i tap into this great blessing for myself my siblings and my baby. God bless you mama
Please, twins were definitely killed in much, if not all of Igboland. And it did not end in the 19th century. It was continued well into the 20th century. I knew an Igbo man (now dead) born in about 1915. He said his twin was killed, and his mother had to seek refuge in a mission establishment to save his life. Read Flora Nwapa's 'Idu.' Some Igbo communities killed twins until the 1930s at least. Of course Chinua Achebe wrote about it in Things Fall Apart. Twin-murder was not confined to Efikland and Ibibioland. About the two ladies, I congratulate them, but I don't believe they are 120 years old. You might find they are not even up to 90. There are no documents and people in rural areas make fantastic claims about age.
Twins were definitely killef in Igbo. I am from Anambra, my grandma of blessed memory told of how the first twins were spared because their mum ran away with them to the missionaries. One of the twins is still living, very old.
i tap into this blessing for my mum and her twin
this is wonderful. i tap my blessings from the mama's. God bless me
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