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A kola nut ceremony is briefly described in Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel Things Fall Apart. The eating of kola nuts is referred to at least ten times in the novel, showing the kola nut's significance in pre-colonial 1890s Igbo culture in Nigeria. One of these sayings on kola nut in Things Fall Apart is "He who brings kola brings life."
It is a tree native to the rainforests of tropical West Africa. Common names include kola nut, cola, kola and bitter kola. [1] The seeds contain caffeine and are chewed as a stimulant and used in the manufacture of soft drinks. The nuts and other parts of the tree have many uses of a ceremonial nature and in traditional medicine.
In Yorubaland, it uses palm or kola nuts; in Latin America and the Caribbean it uses four pieces of coconut. Obi divination also interconnected with Ifa and Iwa Pele.
Kola nut: The kola nut was brought from West Africa to North America by way of the slave trade. [79] Africans used it in their Orisha religious practices. Kola nuts were used to make Coca-Cola a carbonated soft drink. [80] Lima beans: Lima beans are native to Central America. [81] Portuguese explorers introduced lima beans into the African ...
The opele consists of a chain of eight half-kola nuts strung together, each associated with one of the eight letters of an odu and a site along the tray's border. After evoking the spirits with the iroke Ifá, the babalowo then throws the opele; each of the eight half-nuts will land concave up or concave down, heads or tails.
Kola nut is used in ceremonies honour Chukwu, chi, Arusi and ancestors and is used as a method of professing innocence when coupled with libations. The Igbo often make clay altars and shrines of their deities which are sometimes anthropomorphic , the most popular example being the wooden statues of Ikenga.
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Garcinia kola (bitter kola, a name sometimes also used for G. afzelii) is a species of flowering plant belonging to the Mangosteen genus Garcinia of the family Clusiaceae (a.k.a. Guttiferae). It is found in Benin , Cameroon , The Gambia , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Ivory Coast , Guinea , Mali , Gabon , Ghana , Liberia , Nigeria ...