I don’t understand how Jake keeps creating animations that are better each week but he’s done it again. This weeks theme is village, my photo is twelve years old and poor quality but it’s taken in my ancestral village in Igboland so I love it.
For some more interpretations and to join in go to http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/sunday-post-village/
Lucid Gypsy 
Your village post are great Gilly ,thanks for sharing it after 12 years 🙂
Thanks Jake, you are so kind 🙂
I love your village. It shows a simple place yet people are real and genuinely happy. Thanks for sharing a piece of your beautiful history and memory.
You’re welcome, thanks so much for visiting 🙂
Your photo had me searching for info on Igboland, Gilly. It has a very interesting history. Thanks for showing us your village. The people look like a great, close community.
Oh i’m so glad I prompted you to do that, its good to learn something new isn’t it? thanks for taking the time 🙂
Must have been a fascinating journey in search of your roots Gilly! Would love to hear it in your inimitable words when you are ready to tell it 🙂
It was a long, complicated journey but I got there in the end! Thanks Madhu 🙂 I may write it one day.
It is a beautiful picture Gilly. No wonder you treasure it.
I really do Isobel, my sister is there in the blue trousers 🙂
Wonderful!
Thanks Julia it was huge adventure and journey of discovery!
how wonderful to have an ancestral village …. i was born in the middle of a big city …. but i did spend childhood years with my grandparents in a country town … maybe i could call that a village 🙂 your people look so sturdy, strong, confident, love the woman dashing to get out of the picture in her bright orange outfit 🙂 yes I would like to hear more of this story too!
Its very complex and I will write it one day. I was born right here in Exeter though and also spent my childhood with my grandparents 🙂
Your ancestral village is lovely Gilly. I never made it to Nigeria…and have always been sorry for it. The borders were closed at the time, but i wish I had seen it.
Its an incredible difficult place to visit sadly, I don’t know if I will ever be able to go again.
I am sorry to hear that Gilly…it’s hard sometimes. Not being able to visit places that are special to you.
😦
It looks like a happy village, no wonder you love it! Thanks for sharing the joy, Gilly 🙂
It’s wonderful and I would love to go back!
Thanks for sharing. The village is unfamiliar to me and learned a lot.
Thank you that’s lovely!
It’s good to acknowledge our roots, Gilly. Thanks for sharing this lovely picture with us.
I’m so glad you like it 🙂 thank you.
Gilly, I had no idea you had roots in Nigeria. Did you live in the village yourself as a child, or was it another generation who actually came from there? I think that region has some interesting history in the fight for women’s rights — which I always find fascinating in countries that are originally of an Eastern culture mindset rather than Western European. I guess I’m always encouraged to know that no matter where people live, there are some who will always recognize the basic, God-given inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And who will be willing to fight for it.
My father was Nigerian but I never lived there. It’s a country with very strong women, happy women who strive for better lives and at last they are succeeding! Thanks Sandra, I’m very pleased to know you.
Hi,
A lovely photo, and I love all the smiles on the people as well, very nice. 🙂
Thanks Mags!
My goodness! What a lovely surprise… where was this taken? I love those village shots and they are so accurate with the gathering of people who want to be included. Beautiful!!! 🙂
It’s in Okohia Elizabeth! Thanks, I’m glad you like it, it so atmospheric – but maybe that’s just to me 🙂
I hope that some day you will write the story that goes with the photo, a great adventure, obviously. Did you always know your sister? Maybe you went on the trip together with her? It’s a tantalizing photo, actually.
A truly amazing adventure! No, I didn’t know her until a few months before that photo was taken, thanks for commenting!
Wow…how wonderful to see your ancestral home. Thanks for sharing a piece of you 🙂
Thanks for visiting 🙂
loved the vintage feel 🙂
Thanks Joshi, it looks like Instagram doesn’t it?
Wow! reminds me of a typical village in Ghana.
Oh I know because when I was in Ghana it reminded me so much of Nigeria!
That’s awesome after 12years.:) Thanks for sharing.:)
Yen2x
Thank you for visiting 🙂
I love the village image of Igboland. It doesn’t mater how old it is. What matters is that the photo hold a soft spot in your heart for a land that is part of your heritage. I agree with others, you should wrte a little on it. I’m sure it would be an interesting read. Well done, Gilly.
You photo has created blog conversation which I always love.
Namaste …
One day Issy I will be free to write it, but it isn’t time yet. Thank you for your sweetness 🙂
Everything in do time – in do time.
xoxoxo