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Rome was built by Romans. Igbo land must be built by Ndi Igbo. If every human action must have commercial value then we can never make progress. Igbos are by nature business men, entrepreneurs and migrate to all parts of the world in search of wealth. As immigrant you are often anonymous, unappreciated and unrecognised and sometimes hated for your achievements. Where else can you have unrestrained freedom and fulfilment to celebrate your success than in the land of birth? Like Eric Donaldson the reggae legend sang: this is the land of my birth music 🎶💕.
Nigerians especially the Igbo tribe don't joke with their hometown
Tell them. Zikwa wo.
The Igbos doesn't only build mansions in their communities, most of them also build roads, schools, hospitals etc for their communities.
Africa is not a poor continent we're rich but our leaders are the major problem
Those who put tribalism and religion above competency are the problems. The leaders are less than 7 percent but if the people put competency above tribalism and religion when making decisions then we would have a great place to call a country.
If only the problem were just the leaders , if only that were true.
My issue is that in reality people should build multifamily units so they can have income and their children born abroad can continue to collect the rental income down the road. The mansions are great but it is time to think about future income generation.
@@addosolar537 People certainly do that. These are their personal homes, their own corner of the earth. The rich make other investments for their families.
Did your leaders drop from the sky? Always blaming your 'leaders'. Take responsibility. Whatever your leaders are is what YOU are. Because the leaders are from your families and your neighbourhoods. The average Nigerian sees a government appointment as an opportunity to get rich. If your brother was offered a top govt position, what comes to YOUR mind straight away? You're thinking 'I'm gonna be rich now'. 'I'm gonna get some contracts and become a millionaire!'' Until that mentality changes - until you become patriotic in your own homes - you will keep blaming your 'leaders' till the cows come home, and nothing's gonna change. A country gets the leaders it deserves. If a well is contaminated, and you scoop out a bucket of water from the well to 'lead' the well, what happens? You'll have contaminated leadership.
Hi I am a British Caribbean, who discovered I am 54 per cent Igbo. I now understand where I get my work ethic.
I am Igbos tribe living in Europe Germany 🇩🇪. Come to Igboland and receive the blessings of motherland. Contact me and I am ready to assist you thanks God bless you bless you
@@emmanuelmaryezebunwo5183 🥰
come home bro
Nice
I don't know about other African countries, but in Nigeria the Igbos are the number one at heavily investing in their Hometowns.
In terms of buildings, infrastructure, companies and so on.
Other Tribes do the same, but not so much in their hometowns.
I’ve experienced the same or similar in South Africa, majority of our native South Africans are considered migrant workers in the big South African cities, who then would have a home in the homelands or what the apartheid government called Bantustans. So what happens is that these migrant workers would build and renovate their homes in the Homelands to what they desire, usually standard or luxurious depending on their financial stability. The motive though is that the big city is not considered home but a place of work, and want to have a comfortable home to go back to during holidays and when they eventually retire.
We work hard to make our money so where ever we Igbos found ourselves we make it a comfortable home. Also only Igbos in Nigeria develops wherever the go.
@@bulelancanywa4860 Wow. So it's safe to say it's an African concept then.
The LUO tribe of Kenya also build back home.
They have similarities with the Igbo tribe.
Nice one
I noticed that
Most tribes in Kenya have beautiful homes upcountry. They don't believe in retiring in towns. The Mount Kenya tribes, Rift Valley's, Eastern, Western. etc... So it common in Kenya also
It’s true
I’m from the south south but I’m married to an Igbo man ❤ i love my people Igbo kwe nu eee 😂❤
Yaaa 😅
Igbo communities are very rich with big beautiful mansions. I'm from South South part but I love the Igbos.
What’s south south?
Tell us your ethnicity or tribe
Hahaha he is a South Southerna, ain't that funny? Say your ethnicity because Igbos are also among large ethnicity in South South. Also say the native name of your grand father and your town's native name so we can understand who you're better.
All this South South and east east and North North BS Sha...It used to be one before...British people and their marginalization formula...Lord Lugard and Co, e no go better for una
It's an IGBO THING AND CULTURE.
You don't have to understand it but to just appreciate it with us or let it lie.
Igbo's don't JOKE with their homeland.
By Christmas or Easter period, the whole place is lit. Very lit.
Igbo land is getting well developed.
A lot of people come home during the holidays or vacation and spend quality time in their homes.
A lot of the rich ones in Igbo land also give back to the SOCIETY through building of schools, hospitals, give scholarships etc.
There re a lot of other tribes who do this too but igbo re top of the list
I'm not Igbo but from the South. My dad built a big house in his village (not a mansion, but still pretty big). It led to other people following suit and building houses too and led to development coming to the village like more stable electricity and better roads.
Love this!
South is not an ethnic group, Igbo is.
So what ethnic group are you?
I'm an Akwa Ibomite. Our village head's son built a mansion, others started building big houses, my father included.
Now the roads have been paved and electricity has been installed in a place that didn't even have pipe borne water just 30 years ago.
@@thatweirdnigerianguy….what’s your ethnicity or tribe in Akwa ibom?
@@dubemellit2932 Annang
My father told me one of the reason or importance of building or owning a home in your hometown was because of how people lost their investment in other part of the country during and after the Nigerian civil war particularly the Igbo people. Whatever you have at home will always be yours and never be taken away from you by the government of other state.
Hello greetings my Caribbean family, my name is chinedu from Igbo tribe in Nigeria I live in Norway, am very happy to comment on you guys reaction today although it has been a long time I subscribed on your channel, so let me clarify you a little I am Igbo man and this is our inheritance from our great grandfather they said if you make money no matter any amount if you didn't start from your home that means you are nobody, for a example I live in Norway I do my legitimate business here I am and also in my home town have my workers paying them massively well and it's gives me joy!
In Igbo land Nigeria we are blessed with so many things to be proper in life.
It's having a VISION. To those who do not have their vision, it will look like a waste.
I think they visualise having large families, and their region having everything, that they go abroad for.
Then of course, non-blacks who are rich, have beach houses, country homes, summer houses, winter houses and so on. How many times a year do we think they circle round their houses?
It is what it is.🎉
I am a proudly Igbo.Igbo Amaka ❤❤❤apart from building houses 🏘️ in Igbo villages 75/80 percent of houses is Abuja and Lagos is owned by the igbos you can go and verify.
Non be that one then they talk about now,where the rest come they build house put just dey talk
Easy brother....do not buy problems for us o! We do not own 70% of Abuja abeg!
For sure
75% of houses 🏘️ in Nigeria is own by igbo ❤
@@elookonkwo9741 what do you know even the former FCT minister once said it and I have been leaving in Abuja almost all my life
My grand parents had there first home in the village, my dad built his first house in the village, before in the city, my uncle came back from South Korea and first built his mansion in the village before in the city, I will be building my first house in the village before in the city.. is in Igbo heritage.
Igbos are hard workers , great achievers,and culturally igbos always come home even in death,irrespective of where they live.
It's mostly for retirement and peace of mind. During the 90s our fathers and Uncles were victims of riots and other vices, most of Dem lost all dey have worked for over the years. Den d civil war u realized what you have in your home town or village is basically what u can actually call yours. Also we igbos grew by self help, wen u build these, u tarr the roads leading to your house, give street light, open water for those around you thereby contributing to your community cause we really don't depend on the govt for these things. That is the major reason why we take our wealth home
Yes, That is the real reason. They did not disclose it in the videos. The Aftermath of Biafra War
Do not be surprised at these mansions. Igbos have a saying " aku lue uno....." " when wealth gets home...." Until an Igbo man's wealth is brought to the homeland he is not fulfilled. The owners of these mansions also bring food, money and clothing to the villages. They offer scholarships and help young people start business. They rest and accomplish a lot in that short time they visit the village.
Igbos are Rich, I'm proudly Ogonis❤❤❤
Let’s be realistic. Some Igbos are rich. Not every Igbo is rich. There are poor and middle class Igbos, just as there are everywhere. We praise our Igbo brethren’s work and enterprise ethic but let’s not get carried away!
For the first house; the man's wife is Lucky to have such a husband, she looked happy ❤
Igbos are so rich but don’t want people to know. But go to their villages, you will be surprised 😅
I appreciate your reaction in this video. The point I take from this is giving back to the community, that's important
Well some of our brothers from other tribes in Nigeria thought Igbos only build in the city and never remember home which we always tell them not to believe everything they see on social media
Well I believe this is an eye opener
My first building was in my village before other places in igbos land , and I have long decided never to invest outside- Asaba-Enugu-awka-imo-Abia-porthharcourt - igbo Kwenu ❤
I have slept in my mansion in Anambra just once in 9 years
You should atleast travel once a year 😮
Wow... Try come home small o please
@@JoyfulMoses The air in our region is polluted by the bad odour of kidnappers and criminals.
@@oyi-1of-oyiofforle Ouch... I understand but then still come around but very discreet and coded. Before they will even say jack, you are on a flight going back to base ehnn Nna biko zia nu... Toru Ugo lota
@@JoyfulMoses if the home base criminals can attack the convoy of senator Ifeanyi Ubah and killed lots of his security men, who am I? They criminals will just pick me up with ease.
Am proud igbo
Igbo get mens
I suggest that you learn about the igbos and how they were treated by Nigeria after the civil war. It will help you understand why they feel the need to flaunt their wealth like this
It's not just about flaunting wealth. After the war, many Igbos lost their homes to other Nigerian tribes, especially in the West and Northern Nigeria, and were forced to run back to the village to escape slaughter.
But they quickly realized their mistake.... cos they hadn't built any house back at home. Family houses became crowded and quarrels were common.
That's how Igbos decided 'Never again', now everyone tries to build their own homes according to their status.
@@okwunnaolive-okafor1981very good point, those that forgot the war were reminded during oso Abiola in when the presidential election was annulled.
Igbos will tell you that a tenant does not plant Flowers on another man's land, on the land he/ she is renting, the Igbos will also tell you that ours is ours but mine is mine because in Igbo culture, your children and your house is your identity, people will see a child and ask, whose child is that, and the response will be, Mr Obi or madam Ada's child and people will see a house and they will ask whose house is that and the response will be Mr. Obi or Madam Ada's house. Igbos believe in showing their cultural identity, what made them belong in a society.
@@Neddie2kYeah, an Igbo man annulled the election.
@@MissTslo Okay 👌
Not Nigerians per say, it’s the IGBO tribe of Nigeria.
It’s a tradition to build mansions in the villages once you come of age. That’s why it’s that way.
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Yes, mansions do affect the general property prices upward
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This is normal in the igbo culture....as for me my Dad built a 10 bedroom duplex in my village which is empty at the moment
You’re welcome to Nigeria 🇳🇬 anytime bro
Their is nothing like home Tax in Nigeria
I heard there's property tax in Lagos ooo that people pay annually
@@oluwaseyidada7641 Started by Tinubu.
We igbos are smart, when you work with us please be smart.
Here in Nigeria if you buy a land it's become yours ever no payment of tax, and mansion doesn't affect any house in the village.
From my tribe in western Uganda it's the same not only mansions but everyone one gets to build what they can afford depending on their income but you have to own a home in your home town as a man
I love this reaction
Yes property development in new areas increase property value especially land in those areas.
Just give the Igbos their country and they will be way ahead of any other African country.
See what pounds and dollars can do in Afruca
Exactly
The igbos are gradually drifting towards making their home town a wholesome home indeed ....there are investment as well as other sociocultural development plans ongoing too....and before long ...building mansions like this wont be only for the festive seasons but for an all time living experience.
A lot of Jamaicans build mansions that they only live in for a week or two, just like Africa. The thing is, you build the mansion, and then you don't have the recurring income to take care of yourself while living in your native country.
We don't build a house we can live for a week or two in Nigeria, we build for yet unborn generation. This is ancestral house for the family. And for you to have money to build such an edifice means you have money to take care of yourself. You must have established business to keep the family and yourself together in old age.
Those houses were built with cash money. Nigerian banks won't give you a penny for village houses.
@@nmg1909 Besides, all these homes are built with cash. No loans. So, when the house is done it's done and built to last for generations.
In Africa, building a home 🏡 is freedom you own everything to yourself without any disturbances. A million dollars 💸 apartment house in America 🇺🇸 or Europe 🇪🇺 same amount of money will gets you a mansions like this. Even with 70 to 80000 dollars will gets you a beautiful home. In the Eastern part of Ghana 🇬🇭 which is Kwahu where the most Ghana 🇬🇭 rich peoples comes from do the same thing. Not necessarily mansions but expensive homes as well.
Come back home 🏡 be part of building Africa 🌍 🙏 make history for your great grandchildren. ( Akwaaba = welcome 🙏
@@karine-elaThe poster mentioned Ghana.
Your husband looks igbo
He looks like Iwobi
@@danielchukwu4212
Very correct 💯
Very correct
Solid concrete houses not wood
Is ethnicity the hindrance development in Africa? Is southeast not enough? Balkanization? Bon Marley sang about tribalism in Africa but nothing has changed.
The mere fact those mansions are in ancestral land means that are not "empty" Every African understands that. And watch out for the the day the whole world will envy the Igboland for all the wealth they've accumulated over the decades.
To your question, yes these mansions shoot up the value properties in that area. Just like one of the interviewer's said, the prices of land in those areas are so expensive because of the kind of properties and the social and financial status of the owners.
Igbo represent
The richest man might not be Elon musk, the richest people on the face of the earth are all hiding in Nigeria. Fr
The house is stone house too makes a big difference too
That village house matters more to igbo people than whatever they have anywhere
Exactly.
Proudly Igbo from Anambra State and my State capital is Awka.
It doesn't because of ownership.. do devaluing nearby homes does not matter. Most people just follow up , and upgrade.
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Giving back to the community is a Norm in igbo culture....
We Igbos has great taste. We work hard for their money and deserves to enjoy and our villages are too special to us because it is our root. If we can build such mansions in Lagos and other cities and in most cases the government of those cities destroys the ones in the city but for our village mansions nothing is gonna destroy it.
There's the need for every one of us to work towards the creation of a brand new political system, brand new socio-political intangibles.
The entire framework surrounding the history and make-up of all our socio-political intangibles are completely flawed, and, as such, these all remain unfit for our purposes.
I love you both. Great videos, always.
The houses are not for rent, jut incase you're thinking.. those amounts they're mentioning is fir the whole property, if you pay, you own it
They will & do definitely move back: so many of those home owners are actually young: something bout the Igbo's is that they *start out in life very early (at very young age) to venture into businesses, all sorts of trade -so, lots of those mansions are actually owned by young Igbo businesses men & of course women*
The homes in the village are not for sale, So, it does not really matter. Usually, in the village all the homes around you are owned by your relatives. That's why you see or have the homes built that close to each other.
In our land is our pride as an Igbo man to come back home and build at home it's our tradition to be known as a real Igbo man we are the best .❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Yeah.
The MANSION affects and makes the surrounding properties to appreciate tremendously.
The houses add value to all the surrounding areas.
SUCCESS begets success.
Owerri, imo state is a very beautiful city with big classic mansions.
Please let them allow the nysc community, to use the empty mansions.
This is cultural for the igbos,
It’s the rich igbos. Y’all be doing too much.
As we should @@esosaiyamu2581
Come to Uganda.. it out beats nigerians in mansions
Nice video
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉for that is our pride Igbo to the world.
The Kwahu's in the eastern part of Ghana does same.
Hmm calm down 😂
@@paakojofynn Igbos are everywhere.
Nice review People! Btw, Im from Same Imo State & what You see is 100 percent real! We travel Overseas to work hard & We make sure We build these type of houses in the localities or municipalities where We come from for future purposes. The igbo culture makes us understand that, When wealth is made and taken back home, You can truly say You're a Son of the Land or in other terms, You're termed as an Achiever. This can also be likened to investments you make back home etc. My advice to You is to do an Ancestry DNA to ascertain where In africa You're from! You two look like Igbos 😅. When You've ascertained when you're from in Africa, make efforts to buy a property there cos real soon, Africa will become the most sought-after & If you have a property there, You'd thank God You made that choice! Overall, Keep up the Good work & I wish You Too Blessings always.
Most families have land passed down from our great grand parents, some more Dan some , some not at all or they squandered there's thru the years.. in all villages in Nigeria, lands are endless.. there so much land not in use
Welcome to Igbo land Most of them who stick their nose everywhere good Luck to them and also their fathers Land okay but is beautiful house.
The estate is like building in a downtown. Smaller land but very expensive
The Kwahus in Ghana also have a similar culture where they build mansions in their hometowns.
Trust me from my research, two third of Igbo land is like that.
Nice one brother
Hi femilly 🖐️🙏
Couches Igbos are best tribe in Africa. And you are part of Igbo tribe. We Igbos are proud and explorers. We build in village to bring wealth home. Please I am inviting you to Igboland to build your own home. ❤❤❤❤
Which one is best tribe?
Today, March 3, 2024, the exchange rate was $1.00 (1 United States Dollar) will give 1,578.00 Naira (Nigerian Currency). Please also consider land, construction and labor costs as compared to United States prices. What industries or jobs are in those villages? I imagine that I am thinking with a Western mindset.
Yes, you are thinking with a Western mind! We build in our hometowns for security and posterity in Nigeria. In the village, most people are subsistence farmers and traders. If you have a home forever, already paid off, you have a farm to give you food, and you have a trade to give you spending money, aren’t you set? My grandfather built such a mansion for himself and his 4 wives and children. That was 4 generations ago. Four generations have lived there. We own plenty of land, including farmland, rubber plantations, oil palms and a fishpond. It never mattered whether there were ‘White man jobs’ nearby (that’s what Western-style jobs are called). We have our traditional work and resources for sustenance. And now that there is the internet and globalisation, some people live in the village and work/trade online.
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Because they do not pay any property tax, they can afford to build extravagant houses as bragging rights. The competition to build such houses has exploded exponentially.
So by your explanation, once no property tax is paid, then automatically BIG MANSIONS ARE BUILT.
My friend it has nothing to do with property tax. It is an Igbo thing and culture.
No property tax is paid in almost 99% of rural areas and villages in Nigeria. The question now is why don't they have MANSIONS like IGBO VILLAGES.
like I said earlier, it is mainly, mainly but not exclusively an Igbo thing and culture.
I come in peace.
This is the product of the ill effects of slavery still plaguing you.
I am not IGBO but I am Nigerian. Sweethearts we don’t have EMPTY MANSIONS so start by having the HEADING CHANGED cause it is misleading
That mansion is nice.... but if you go to Abuja... then you will see mega mansions like never before..
Yes I was in Abuja 2014 , that city have beautiful houses
How you want compare Abuja with a village
Igbos own a lot of those Abuja mansions.
Nice! I'm not spending much on a house i get to sleep in for one month in a year. Thats a liability
Not if you’re thinking long term and with a collectivist mindset. And not if your people have had everything taken from them and had to start over, knowing that their safest investments are back home. Also, not if your home serves your extended family in your absence. Some people spend similar sums in their lifetimes traveling the world, only visiting one place once. They don’t consider their travel habits a liability.
Thats great.
Close to each other, but the people are hardly there.
If you understand the history behind the igbos you’d understand why they choose to build BIG like that.
In all ramifications, the most prized logic behind these behaviors is that the federal government is non existent in the infrastructural development of the South East- which is where the igbos are predominantly.
Therefore, there’re nodes of individual contributions to the physical development of communities across the Igbo states.
Most people that have big houses don’t just want the houses big, but need them efficient, which means to bask in comfort they need power to brighten up the village and a road to get to their homes… that alone propels them to either take on the challenge of providing a mini power grid (transformer) or building a very important road network personally OR be an influential factor that works closely with the local government to achieve the feat.
It’s like a ripple effects that spreads. And again we know villages are like social media, everyone hears what you are doing and they are either inspired or appalled by your actions- and who doesn’t want to be the reason their community stands out?
They still have property taxes here but not as crazy as the American' thing
Why are you lying? Who pay property tax
Nobody pays property tax in the villages bro
For now, nobody pays properly tax in the villages in Igbo land.
Maybe next week, next year or next century.
But not right now.
Not in village bro
@@EmekaOkeke-u9o You're an illiterate, if not you'd know that y'all are capping rubbish upon nonsensical nonsense, igbo land is not Nigeria and does not have local governments? chai umu boy...
My Village in Ghana the same.
you are a liar
Yes they do this in Ghana too
Lies
Even if they do so in Ghana, it is not on this scale or magnitude.
You need to tour Igbo land and villages to see the mega scale of some of these houses.
They are heavy and loaded.
Igbo Villages are LIT EVERY CHRISTMAS PERIOD AND EASTER PERIOD.
you are a liar