Igbo Tribe Before And After Colonization

Before European Colonization the Igbo speaking people weren't united as single people.They lived in small dispersed compounds in the rain forest. The compounds were built up of clusters of huts belonging to same people.The largest political unit was the village group averaging almost five thousand people who shared a common market, meeting place, common beliefs, and cults. The village groups were ruled by the elder people, influential wealthy men. The arrival of the British in the 1870s and increased encounters between the Igbo people and other Nigerians. They led a deepening sense of a district identity. The Igbo also proved decisive in their embrace of Christianity and Western Education. The Hausa and the Yoruba became sharer. The diversity within each of Nigeria's major ethnic groups slowly decreased and distinctions between the Igbo and other large groups. So they are a little different from each other but they changed a lot.