ègbènu ōba

Dialect & variants

No other variants have been documented for this word.

Examples

Ndi (òtu) ègbènu ōba

— society of warriors. They are not necessarily warriors who go to battle. But their society is a warrior-like one. Members dress like warriors with helmet- like hats stuck full of long feathers, with cutlasses in their hands. They are usually invited to grand traditional ceremonies, funerals of great men and of course to funerals of their dead members. They greet each other by knocking the blades of each other’s swords together