THE OGIRISI SYMBOL AND THE IGBO NATIVES
GISTERNEWS The ogirisi tree is very essential, tree in the cultural and the traditional life of an lgbo man. Its importants cannot not be over emphasized in the cultural and the spiritual rite’s of the lgbo man, also in the medicinal and health wise of any traditional native lgbo man. Ogirisi is an essential symbolic tree, known as the ‘Akoko’, in the Yoruba’s native language of Nigeria west Africa, and ‘Aduruku’, in Hausa language, as well as ‘Abot’, in Efik and lkhimi in Bini language of the same Nigeria speaking native’s. The ogirisi is a short tree, sometimes with few branches, is not tall like the ‘Uzi’, or the lroko tree (osisi oji) it is a flowering plant, with a palatable neckter, food for man and insects and butterfly’s alike. The ogirisi is called the Newbouda tree in English, it is an essential, substantial and a necessary tree, that is over all symbolic in the traditional lgbo nat...