Manillas

Manillas Manillas are money payments that were used in West Africa but mainly Nigeria, in the north ( were Ibo’s live.) Manillas are durable and are made out of stone or metal. West African’s started using these payments in 1948 and continued but is not current today. The Ibo’s had a local name for it and it’s called Macuta and it means in English Copper Rings. They were most famous in the 15th Century around the time the Portuguese came to colonized some of West Africa. Such as Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Angola, Benin, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Liberia.

by Jola

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