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Ita-Ini Oguntoro Egbira Opete; Our Heritage! Our Identity

For quite a while now, less than a year, after the ascension of HRM, Alhaji Dr Ahmed Tijani Muhammed Anaje, Ohinoyi Egbira, to the throne, many natives are witnessing a sudden trend and usage of native apparels especially the traditional woven clothes popularly known and called Ita-Inochi amongst the Egbira Opetes.  Authoritative historical documents and oral narrations have it that Egbira men were known as warlords, herbal medicine practitioners, farming, hunting, carvings, fishing and even black smithing chores were a dominant Republicans in the old Kwararafa kingdom.  The women folks of Egbiras are well known for domestic schedules, cooking, harvest duties in the farms, child bearing  and the most pronounced earlier recorded history of Egbira women vocation and trade is cloth weaving, starting from sowing of cotton seeds, harvesting cotton wool, spurning the wool to fine threads and eventually in an intrinsic manner wove clothings from locally constructed o...