Nigeria's lost system of writing - Nsibidi
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2020
- Africa is home to about 2,000 languages. But talking is not the only way people on the continent have interacted. Historically, written signs and symbols - such as Nsibidi - were also used to communicate. The script has also been used in the movie Wakanda. Get to know more about this ancient system of writing in this video and join the debate by telling us what you think about Nsibidi in the comment section below.
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How can we preserve such valuable written signs and symbols like Nsibidi?
What is this young man social handles pls
The Nsibiri Project has been trying to make it usable for writing today.
@@Nsibiri How has this project gone?
Ndebe is another writing system project, they have their own website
Ndebe.com
They also have a RUclips channel
Make resources for people to learn. I want a picture book.
I was shocked when I saw Nsibidi in Black Panther. I felt proud because that is my tribe
which tribe?
@@davu1280igbo
@@MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee
i'm yoruba... 🇳🇬
@@davu1280Nsibidi originated from ejagham tribe of cross river not igbo.
@@Kingsley494The Igbo also used it, so she deserves to be proud.
I am 39 years old. I have been over 10 countries all over the world. I can't believe as a Nigeiran I am just hearing about Nsibidi in 2020. Thank yo for sharing. We must rise.
I heard about it through cuban abakua thats related to ekpe
@@RBB8S yes it’s used by the abakua society in Cuba they also practice the Igbo traditional religion
We should start to revive nsibidi in African mathematical and scientific lexicography
What does that mean?
I'm searching for a good link to share about Nsibidi, only for this video to show up and it turns out that me and the artist in this video share same name Obinna. That's the most winning thing ever happened. It's a good sign.
its on the web & all over youtube!!: 💻 🖥️there is even a font available for your computer: SEARCH 'Wakanda Forever' FONT on RUclips.
@@cinnamonstar808 Wakanda font isn't nsibidi. Go to the Nsibiri Project Blog for the font.
Here's a good link: www.dropbox.com/s/3sx21b7k1jl0ok9/Nsibidi%20Workbook.pdf?dl=0
Subscribe to our channel on the first of May we will start our project of African Writting Systems
Go to the medicine shell on RUclips
Nsibidi is not lost, it will be revived in near future.
This is a proud Igbo brother
How fortuitous that just as I'm researching Nsibidi, I come across this report by a relative of mine I've never met! Chukura/Chukwurah clan for the win!
Nsibidi is not lost. In Akwa Ibom it seems it is the way the Ekpe Secret Society communicate with each other. I need to learn it
Correct
God bless you Obinna my brother. We are going to revive Nsibidi and use it one day.
I’ve been wondering why we never paid attention to the official written form of our languages
Like Yoruba, igbo
We all just seem to agree to use “a b d e f” without any questions
For a better BRAINWAVE DISORIENTATION. What we call BRAINWASHING.
Keep promoting it. We need to learn it.
You should visit University of Nsukka. Fine arts department. The entire department is inspired by nsibidi. Its the core of the art from Nsukka school of arts.
Nsibidi was used by a cult like group which everyone didnt belong to.Thats why many in southeast nigeria today dont know much about it.That society or group is called Expe&Mboko.The Aros,Efiks,Ibibios,Ibomites and some part of southern cameroon uses this sign language.
Nsibidi is for women ... men have another secret class. WRITING IS NOT ABOUT EQUAL ACCESS in Africa. Even in Ethiopia they open it to avoid colonization .. otherwise writing will be for the people in the respective class system.
THE SPIRITUAL CLASS is the original owner of writings; then the military class may have one, then the artist/monarch / engineer class have another such as in Egypt. This is why Egypt hieroglyphics died off with the class. its class specific.
THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN AFRICA NEEDS WORK: to call people using indigenous writing a cult is bizarre.. when THESE SAME Roman text = are clout chasin'. the same way they dont know why 💰 gold is even valuable ? they just know Africans said so.
@@cinnamonstar808 You're getting civilizations confused.. just because some African civilizations worked like that doesn't mean the whole of Africa worked like that. Nsbidi is for anyone in the Ekpe leopard society, man or woman and Nigerians weren't the ones who called it a cult it is the europeans who did and they still are basically cult if you know what they do. They aren't just called a cult because of the writing
Nsibidi was more.akin to hieroglyphics because they were meant to convey meaning like iconograms.
It was used by the Ekpe cult which is a cult in all definitions of the word..it was meant not to.be used by outsiders and wasnt taught generally
@mazi exactly
Kudos. Love it.
The Biafran sun will rise again.
Hell no
@@PresterMike it definitely will
Im a mexican visual artist working on a project about this, how can i contact that guy or anyone who knows more about this? the info i find is seldom 😢
Africans need to start schools and teach nsibidi to their children
This is awesome!
Truth to be told
Not just Nsibidi
The true integration of the Igbos
Is d 'missing puzzle' for Nigeria's development 🌃🛳️🌁
Cool ❤
Powerful
I want to contact Obinna Eze, does anybody know how I could contact him?
He is a HERO and. Great MAN
True education is history because history is wisdom a tree is dead without the its roots so is a people with out their history
Great video!
May I please feature a section of this into my own video for educational video for use at my primary school please?
This is lovely
Biafrans got talent
@Kingsley Unogu Ozirigbo Many thanks for your comment. Can you please let us know what else can Biafran do?
@@DWThe77Percent Biafrans have the best gun powder in the world, it's my job
@@kingsleyunoguozirigbo5997 is that to be proud of?
@@kingsleyunoguozirigbo5997 Even if it were true why be proud of something like that?
@@DWThe77Percent lol gun powder is also a product to market.
Math is a skill reading is a skill science is a skill history is education its uour elders giving wisdom wise up learn from the pass
Biafra's lost system of writing. How old is Nigeria that Nsibidi will get lost in it?
I have come across Nsibidi through a person of Nigerian origin in S Africa. There are about 1000 signs in Nsibidi and I understand that it was used in communication. I also learned that it was not really a language or a writing system, but rather a set of symbols with an indicative quality. One cannot write a paragraph using these symbols.
So in that case hieroglyphs and Chinese characters are not a writing system?
@@SelenaBESTT Yes , they are. Because the Chinese can translate the following sentence into Chinese: "I like cats but cannot have one because I developed an allergy towards them".
@@MrBoazhorribilis Nsibidi is still a writing system but not a complete one. You can still communicate with it.
Even if it's not a writing system, it can still be adapted into one. That's how hieroglyphics and Chinese writing started.
The way we keep it is by. Africans in africa connect with african in america. That is how black people keep africa safe.
How?
@@DWThe77Percent We were smart people we will figure it out.
Who am I speaking with on this broadcast are you black?.
so I guess you didn't hear me. Are you a black men/women so answer it.
Thank you Lord the african youth is waking up! Cheikh Anta Diop did not die in vain!
🔥🔥
As I understand nsibidi is from the cross rivers area of nigeria ekpe to be exact
How can I get in touch with Obina
Please write an email to 77tv@dw.com
Send me a direct message on Instagram @igbobinna_nsb
Brother please make a book of nsibidi even translate it for us thanks
Michael strong fast
Nwanne Jisieike!
Daalu nna m
Nwanne jide nke iji, Chi-ukwu gbaa gi ume
Lost or thrown away!
Period
Naibidi originated from The Ejagham People ( Cross River State ) we are all one
But if not for the military system of state creation
CrossRivereans ll b known & addressing themselves as Igbos today!!
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Bonyo😂😂
The mystery of Nsibidi is being unveiled, soon the secret code of Nsibidi, the mathematical and Seincetific symbols and formula shall be used to cut the journey to Mars short.
May I shock you to say that the original name of Nsibidi is Nsibidi.
Book for my upcoming book Adanma the warrior sub titled African women in bondage
The book will help you understand the mysteries ,magic and power of Nsibidi as revealed in the dream by 0ur ancestors.
It is not a language is a group of simbols ...this singn was always through Africa .. indicates so of interest.
How’s it not a language
I've checked. Nsibidi are pictographs. The same as traffic signs.
Please it's not Nigeria way of writing it's the Biafran way of writing, take note
Relax, if somehow Nsibidi gains recognition, even the yorubas, the Edos and the middle belt people will want to learn it
If you accept Nsibidi, you also have to accept Vinca-Script as writing! Thus the history of writing does not start 3500BC in Sumer, but 5000BC in the Balkans. In Europe.
~~I feel like Ndebe would be a much more practical writing system, making it more likely to represent not only the igbo language but also othe related languages like ibibio, Efik and Yoruba~~
nvm i like neonsibidi more
Yea..... Daalu
@@linkso7166 I was wrong! Nsibidi is much better and is way more practical
He was defeated
Seriously?
So what happened to No Victor, no vanquished?
How can you call it Nigeria writing. There is nothing Nigeria. Nigeria has no common culture, customs and traditions in Nigeria.
Fighting and traffic seems like common culture. Corruption too
Although very fascinating we need to be honest here. It is not a form of writing as the modern world understands it. It is much simpler. It's a system of conveying very rudimentary communication only. There is no punctuation for example.
Yeah agreed..it was also deliberately made so others cant understand it was confined to a sceret group
But it's still a system of writing. Just because it's not the same as modern writing systems doesn't disqualify it. Writing is putting ideas down with symbols, communicating messages. So, nsibidi is a writing system. You can say that it's simple, or that it's an early form of writing, but it's still writing.
@@jemts5586 Definitely. People can’t discredit something just because it doesn’t fit their ideology.This is a writing system. Plain and simple.
Lol of course the white man says that
Its simple because modern day writing and numbering came from it. Please do your research and relate it to current Asian writings.