CULTURE AND IT'S PEOPLE..!

A people's culture is the totality of who they are, what they believe in, how they socialize within themselves and with others, it robs off on how they see others and themselves. Also how they see the world at large, this includes their interactions with other people generally. How they get married, the kind of food they eat, their dance steps, attires and their dressings, the language or the kind of dialect they speak. Their artifacts, what they worship and believe in.

Therefore, a culture oriented set of people, do remind others about that, from time to time. This is typical of the Abriba and Ohafia people in the same Neighborhood in the South Eastern State of Abia State, Nigeria.

I don't know him...ooo, but he looks fascinating in his traditional style..😂, that's why I captured him

This Is The Abriba Cultural Heritage.
A set of wealthy ancient kingdom, in the Ohafia neighborhood. Abriba is in Ohafia local government area in the South Eastern State of Abia State, Nigeria.

They are predominantly for commerce and industries and other larger businesses of importation of different types of goods and services but majority is about importation of fabrics and the accessories, including many other businesses, like clothing materials and the already made clothes.
They are mostly found residing in Aba, the capital business hub in Abia State, Nigeria.

The Abriba people culturally grow rich and wealthy through the means of Apprenticeships. This is the act of a younger person serving a wealthy kinsman, a brother or any other indigenous person who is already an established trader in his field of buying and selling of a particular brand of goods for some numbers of years and after which the master will settle the young man with cash, shop filled with that same line of trade he learned under him and then allows the young individual to be on his own and be properly and proudly establishing his own line of trade to prosper. This is how they grow and help one another to become masters of their own in life.

Here, the indigenous people of Abriba were showcasing their rich Cultural Heritage in their land of residence, Aba, in Abia State, Nigeria

This is the cultural heritage of the Abriba people and their land. They appeared like this culturally on a certain day, to celebrate their culture and what they believed in, to also interpret to everyone about their land and their origin. Abriba people is a tribe in the Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia state.

I'm not from there, I'm from the same local government areas with them. Almost all tribes, languages and the cultural heritage and background of people from this ethnic group is regarded as the same thing. Only us that are original born of this heritage know the differences in our languages because the differences are very little likewise our beliefs, food, dressing, types of marriages, thinking, behaviors and thoughts. All these look alike, but are not.

To every outsiders, we are the same people but we the owners of the land know that there are huge differences in our languages and the culture....Nooo, there are deep differences and we know it when someone from Abriba speaks compared with when another one from Ohafia speaks his or her language.

These pictures represent how men from Abriba living in Aba, Abia State of Nigeria appeared on a certain day they were celebrating one of their cultural heroes and heritage. Aba in Abia State is a different city entirely from their original land of birth, Abriba.

But to show that this people have a united force in their culture, they closed down their shops, stores, warehouses and came out enmass to celebrate their land, and the people of Abriba, with this dressing or this particular attire, the food and the little god they believe is behind this huge celebration.

You can see how every male son or child of Abriba dressed, this is a way of teaching their children, their younger generations their culture and their beliefs of their ancestry and their ancestral homeland, Abriba. Though in a far away from their own ancestral home land. This is how cultures are transferred from generations to other generations. The new generation is learning to carry on the tradition of their people.

Even people from this ancestral home living in diaspora joined celebrating the cultural tie of and from their ancestors and their ancestral home land, Abriba

It gives joy and a kind of home coming, when you are celebrating the cultural view point of your own heritage, the land of your birth, where God has originally brought you from. But the fetish lifestyle of the ancient people had spoilt the sincerity and the free spirit it supposed to possess towards God Almighty, the original God and the Creator of heaven and earth. They changed it, to worship a lesser god.

Their ancestors were worshipping lesser gods or so to say, what they made with their own hands and regarded it as the original God. It's an error, very wrong because God is not happy with such practices and such a people. God will never want to be compared with hand made gods, or any lesser god.
God is always outstanding and the greatest of them all.

That particular one day of their homeland original attire attracted me capturing them that day

They looked gorgeous, and their women and children were not left out. Every one of them were inclusively beautiful and it made it a colorful day to remember, I decided to share the sights with all of us here.

This is the part 2 of my series, "Culture and it's people". Yet both the third and fourth series are coming on this same topic, stay tuned!

Thank you for your time to read through my blog post. I appreciate you immensely.

These pictures are mine, captured with my Tecno spark 8 phone.

@ijebest.