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A King in South Tel Aviv

Dozens of families on the grass, Noa Kirel playing in the background,
barbecue smoke blowing through the air, and in a minute a new king will

be announced here. The south Tel Aviv Park, holiday noon, Nemadi, the

President of the Ibbo community is already wearing (his) best traditional
clothes, two hours remain to the coronation ceremony. About two hundred

members are a part of the Ibbo tribe, a community that came to Israel from

south Nigeria twenty years ago. Members of the community believe that
they’re the descendants of the Gad tribe, one of the ten lost tribes of

Israelites. That vast majority of them still live in Nigeria, where they keep
the customs of the Jewish tradition. Ibboians, some of whom are asylum

seekers, the others defined as refugees, claim they came here out of love

for Zion, but very quickly became another community from Africa with
difficulties with the authorities and financial plights, which brought them

to the old tradition from Nigeria – monarchy. His Highness Higamba

Hojaku has arrived, and members of the community are paving the king’s
road in south Tel Aviv. Now the Ibbo tribe has an experienced king in

matters of life and death and community customs on the one hand, and on

the other in Israeli bureaucracy as well, which could come to their aid.

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