{"id":106,"date":"2011-05-14T20:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mysolutioncenter.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2011-08-20T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T20:21:33","slug":"obosi-traditions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/?page_id=106","title":{"rendered":"Obosi Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Obosi Traditional Council<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Obosi \u2013 like most Igbo communities in Eastern Nigeria is governed by a traditional<br \/>\ncouncil , \u2018Igwe in Council\u2019. This is made up of the Igwe (Eze Obosi) and the red<br \/>\ncap chiefs, \u201cNdichie \u2013na- Abumadu\u201d.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/?page_id=109\"> More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>OBOSI ITO-OGBO CEREMONY<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIto-ogbo\u201d is a unique Obosi tradition in which members of an age grade celebrating their<br \/>\n80th-82nd birthday are honored by the citizens of the whole town and this is<br \/>\ndone every three years. The history of ito-ogbo festival in Obosi dates as far<br \/>\nback as 400AD. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/?page_id=113\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>TRADITIONAL SALUTATION FOR OBOSI WOMEN<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Obosi\u00a0 tradition holds its female members in high esteem. This respect is not only reflected in the almost undisputable acceptance given to whatever \u2018Umuada\u2019\u00a0 married women from each family says, but also, every Obosi woman has a salutation name. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/?page_id=116\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>IWA OJI<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Iwa oji (breaking of kola nut) is a wide spread tradition in Ibo land, including<br \/>\nObosi. Kola nut is an edible fruit\/nut from from a tropical tree indigenous to<br \/>\nWest Africa. Offering of kola nut to a guest (or apologizing if none is<br \/>\navailable) is the very first thing done by a host at Obosi after welcoming a<br \/>\nguest to their home. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/?page_id=119\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obosi Traditional Council Obosi \u2013 like most Igbo communities in Eastern Nigeria is governed by a traditional council , \u2018Igwe in Council\u2019. This is made up of the Igwe (Eze Obosi) and the red cap chiefs, \u201cNdichie \u2013na- Abumadu\u201d. More &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/?page_id=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opaatlanta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}