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 ...

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 ...

Abia State government has said that it will make Igbo language a compulsory subject in its curriculum, to promote the ...

Igbo-speaking people from seven states of the country will converge in Owerri, Imo State capital, later this month for the annual Ahiajoku Lecture festival. Instituted in 1979 by the first civilian ...

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 ...