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 ...

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 ...

Igbo and Yoruba are two of Nigeria's major languages, with an estimated total of 44 million speakers in Africa combined. Here are some words that have similar interpretations in both languages.

AWKA — Igbo women, traditional rulers, and community leaders have called for urgent legislation to protect and promote the Igbo language, warning that decades of neglect could push it toward ...

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Thursday, appointed four professors under its Professorial Endowment Chair initiative to prevent the extinction of the Igbo language. The appointed scholars include ...

Nwifuru, Egwu, others seek revival of Igbo culture, language By Jeff Agbodo Governor Francis Nwifuru, former governor of Ebonyi State, Sam Egwu, and the Vice Chancellor of Ebonyi State University, ...

Concerned by the threat of extinction of the Igbo language, some Igbo women under the aegis of the Igbo Women Assembly (IWA) have designed a programme to help save the Igbo language from going into ...

Nigeria is arguably one of the many countries in the world with more than a hundred different languages and ethnicities. Nigeria is home to many cultures, with diversity in food, language, customs, ...

This is a short narrative about the Igbo ethic group of Nigeria. The Igbo ethnic group speak the language also known as Igbo. Their ancestral home is in the southeast of Nigeria, West Africa. They are ...

Vincent Nwosu is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His research interests include prosody, phonetics, verbal arts, and documentation of endangered African ...

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 ...