EBIRA CULTURE AND TRADITION
The Ebira (also spelt Igbira or Igbirra) are an ethno-linguistic group of Nigeria. Many Ebira people are from Kogi State,
Okene is said to be the administrative centre of the Ebira-speaking people in Kogi state, not far from the Niger-Benue confluence. Traditional Marriage in Ebira(Igbirra) Land Ebira people, mostly living along the River Benue plain down and beyond the River Niger, are a tribe found in Kogi state in Okene, Okehi, Adavi and Ajaokuta local government areas and in some parts of Nassarawa and Edo states.
The word Ebira means behavior when translated literally with ethics and hospitality as compliments. The unique features of the Ebira culture with its ethnic aestheticism are appreciated most in the event of traditional marriages.
EBIRA CULTURAL/TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE
When a man sees a lady he intends to marry, he discusses his intentions with her, who, if interested, tells him to bring his people to express his intentions to her parents.
In respect to the Ebira tradition, the man does not walk to the parents of the woman to disclose his intentions; his parents or elders mostly the women do this by going to the lady’s parents to introduce themselves and also to inform them of their reason for coming to the house.
After this is done, the parents of the lady then conduct a thorough investigation on the upbringing, background, family history and so on, of the intending groom to unravel any history of madness, terminal diseases or criminality in the man’s family. This is with a view to deciding whether or not to give their daughter’s hand in marriage to a family with a tainted reputation in the society....
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