Ụ́kpụ́rụ́

Ụ́kpụ́rụ́ which means footprints in igbo language, is a blog that was founded in 2010 by Chiadikobi Nwaubani.
It contains a catalogue of thoroughly researched and colourised imagery of the pre-1940s, history, indigenous culture, and heritage of the Igbo and their neighbours in surrounding areas.

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An elder of Obomkpa in the western Igbo area of today’s Delta State. Photographed by Northcote Thomas, c. 1912-13. RAI.
Colourised from black and white, Ụ́kpụ́rụ́ 2020

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