Seeing double in Nigeria's 'twins capital of the world'

Igbo Ora, Nigeria: On a normal day a visitor might pass Igbo Ora with little more than a double take, wondering why so many pairs of residents wear ma...

Igbo-Ora, Nigeria: On a normal day a visitor might pass Igbo-Ora with little more than a double take, wondering why so many pairs of residents wear matching clothes.

But this weekend left nobody doubting what makes the town in southwest Nigeria special.

With fanfare, pageantry, talent shows and even a royal visit, hundreds of people gathered in the self-proclaimed "twins capital of the world" to celebrate its unusually high rate of multiple births.

"There's hardly a family here in Igbo-Ora that doesn't have a twin," said visiting Yoruba king Oba Kehinde Gbadewole Olugbenle, himself a twin.

Yoruba culture reveres twins and their first names are traditionally fixed -- Taiwo meaning 'one that tastes the world' for the eldest child, and Kehinde meaning 'one that came after' for the second-born.