On an ordinary day at a junior secondary school in southeastern Nigeria, an Igbo language teacher walks into a classroom and begins the lesson with a greeting. When the learners greet her in unison ...

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.

Top musicians known for indigenous-laden songs in the Igbo language, Phyno and Flavour, have struck gold once again with Uzo ...

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 prediction by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that the Igbo Language will go into extinction by 2050 is not based on any empirical evidence, a ...

Abia State government has said that it will make Igbo language a compulsory subject in its curriculum, to promote the language and save it from extinction. This was made known by the Deputy Governor, ...

Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

The Centre for Igbo Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, CIS-UNN, has declared that no effort will be spared in preventing Igbo language from joining its ancestors. The Center, which blamed parents ...

Igbo people were taken in relatively high numbers to Jamaica as slaves, so it's no surprise that there's some Igbo language in the Jamaican Patois language. Originating primarily from the Bight of ...