They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, and former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, have called on Ndigbo not to allow Igbo language to go extinct.

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed grave concern over what it called the gradual erosion of Igbo language, culture and values. The organisation therefore called on ...

The recent statement by Nigeria’s Imo State government making it compulsory to study the Igbo language at all levels of education in the state is one in a string of similar pronouncements since ...

It has become a common phenomenon that many parents now raise children who are deficient in their mother tongues. Though the ...

Igbo women, under the umbrella of the Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), have raised the alarm over the declining use of the Igbo language among younger generations, warning that the language risks extinction ...

A Non-Governmental Organisation committed to promoting Igbo language, Igbo Efula, has decried the “ugly trend” where private schools in the South-East, particularly Enugu State, use English language ...

Chibuzor Nelson Azubuike, a Nigerian indigenous rapper better known as Phyno, has explained why he raps in his native Igbo dialect. He stated that he began his career rapping in English but ...

I must commend our author, Loolo Florence Chinyere Duru, for her deep interest in the Igbo language and its proverbs. Proverbs are the wisdom of a people in a nutshell. Complex stories and situations ...

From the late 19th Century to the early 20th, the world witnessed the “Partition of Africa’ by European powers. The motives for the partition are well-known; and many of the contradictions that ...

Originating primarily from the Bight of Biafra in West Africa, Igbo people were taken in relatively high numbers to Jamaica as slaves, between 1790 and 1809 during the transatlantic slave trade.