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 ...
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 ...
Communicating in one’s mother tongue does not indicate that one cannot speak or understand other languages, including the English language. But the interest shown in the deployment of the English ...
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, ...
One of the biggest ethnic groupings in Africa is the Igbo, often known as the Ibo. The majority of Igbo speakers reside in southeast Nigeria, where they account for over 17% of the population. They ...
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 ...
A UK-based creative technologist has developed an AI-powered speech learning platform designed specifically for African languages, aiming to help second-generation Africans in the diaspora reconnect ...
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 ...
A group of people in traditional Igbo attire during the 2024 Igbo Day festival. This year's festival is happening on Saturday, Aug. 9, at Belcher Park in Randolph. Twenty-six years ago, Ejike Eze ...