The Medicine Shell: Igbo Spirituality Explained

Youtube video essays on Igbo spirituality and culture.
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[The Medicine Shell: Igbo Spirituality Explained @ShellMedicine]

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[The Medicine Shell: Igbo Spirituality Explained @ShellMedicine]

In the east, middle belt and south south as well. Every single time we know who stands up and who runs. take note

[Obasanjo @cent_haysmall]

The traditional worshipers you all are demonizing, insulting, castigating even beating on their way of worship are still the same people trying to save us all from these Islamic terrorists.

[Ken ★ @Kenjerry0]

This was a great moment! 😂 A man who stole a motorcycle ended up returning it after being attacked by bees.

It seems the people of Mbale have found a unique solution to crime! 🐝 😂

Sunday igboho | Ancelotti | Vybz kartel & Wizkid | Zack orji | #saynotofakenew | BNXN

[Treazy @treazyblaq]

An Igbo brother @Comrade_Kamara is building an app called Afamdi to preserve traditional Igbo names and their meanings before they disappear.

Not every Igbo name begins with Chi or Chukwu. Our ancestors had thousands of beautiful names rooted in Igbo spirituality, philosophy, history, and worldview.

Drop unique Igbo names below and share their meanings if you know them.

Repost so it reaches more people and helps grow the archive. Let’s preserve a piece of our heritage, one name at a time.

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

Orie nwetara anyị ahịa ọma na ahụike 🤲🏽

[୨ৎ @filmlcves]

wunmi mosaku for glamour uk, 2026. 🌞✨

[Vivian Ifeoma @VivianIfeomaOj]

Nobody promotes Igbo culture more than Igbos in America.

They are very intentional about it, and I love it.

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

Ikenga Nwanyị

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

I got married today 🌹

[Phillcollins @Phillcollins02]

@IgboHistoFacts @ShellMedicine @BBCBreaking is evil 😈

[IGBO History & Facts @IgboHistoFacts]

Boycott BBC's Biafran documentary!

[Chidimma @assumptakalu]

Ojukwu acted on the wishes of his people. Thank you for debunking the lies of propaganda machines with evidences.

[𝐄𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂__ @Edocentric_]

Ohen patience Obazelu, a priestess of Olokun and Mammy-wata at her shrine to these divinities in Benin city,ca.1991.

She's been a priestess since her secondary school days, and she holds a harmonica, which she uses in her olókun and Mammy-wata practice. On the floor are chalk Iconographs of different meanings or symbolism: the two-headed snake and the fish, which are associated with her worship of the water.

At first she suffered deep paralysis that twisted her head to the back and those who wish to speak to her, had to do it from the back, this was until she was initiated into esago worship, and before the paralysis she couldn't even walk which necessitated her first ever olokun initiation. At this time, rumors of Mammy-wata sighting in the area by school children were prevalent in the area.

Two years later, she fell into a coma where she couldn't hear human voices but could hear that of birds and the wind, and anyone who touched her received "Oriri" a shock like those of an electric fish, until she was initiated into the Mammy wata worship, note she had earlier done initiation into Obanje worship. Her life, according to her interview with norma rosen, has since smoothed out ever since she became a Mammy-wata devotee.

Her choice of Mammy-wata imagery is very creative and foreign influenced, as she regards the Indian snake charmer chromolith as very important as it delineate the Mammy-wata altar rom the Olokun's altar, the former she believes is a woman with fish-tail as leg.

She was 22 when the interview and photos of her were taken by Norman Rosen in 1990/91.

[Treazy @treazyblaq]

Same people. 56 years later. Sometimes I wonder if, in the middle of the bombings, the starvation, the fear, and the endless funerals, they ever imagined a future like this for us. Where we smile and shine

[AFRICAMUSTBEFREE!!!!!!! @engrICO2015]

In Igbo land , anytime we see those that fought in the war between 1967 to 1970 , we respect them straight from the heart for their good job 👍 unadulterated respect with love !

This happened in ABA

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

One of Ben Enwonwu's masterpieces, titled Anyanwu.

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

Afọ gara gi nke ọma 🤲🏽

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

Agbogidi🌹
He stood and stared at my artworks, then looked at my face, looked at my work again, took some pictures of them, and looked at me and asked, “Where are you from? How did you make these works?” It was a great experience meeting him.

[astor @grandpabbychuck]

A movie based on the Blackberry already exists.

[Chude @Chude_ND1]

I am Igbo. There's a reason we have a strong sense of identity, family-oriented, and carry our heritage with pride.

Our surnames are sacred and distinct, tracing back to our ancestral roots. It is not something you casually change with every generation.

This is why when one family member is soiling the name of the family or is in trouble, it concerns the extended family or everyone in the family, because we have a name to protect.

A tree does not make a forest.