Islam has a small presence in Nigeria’s Igbo region: what a new Quran translation offers: Muslims preparing for prayer in a mosque. Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images A new translation of the Quran into the Igbo language was launched on 1 July 2022 at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque in Abuja, Nigeria. According to the translator, Muhammed …
Lessons from Igbo trans-generational entrepreneurship: why it matters: Computer village, Lagos, is one of those places where Igbo entrepreneurship is practiced and passed on to the next generation. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images The Igbos are one of Nigeria’s three main ethnic groups in a country of about 200 million. Based in …
How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule: Leaders of the Aba women's protest against a tyranical warrant chief in Nigeria in 1929. National Museum of Unity, Nigeria Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British officials between 1892 and 1960 shed fresh light on how women navigated male-dominated …
Ancient village arenas remain a central force in Igbo life. Here’s why: A group of men proceeds to an Otobo in an Igbo village. John Kelechi Ugwuanyi People and places are inextricably linked. Your knowledge about life and how you move through the world is based on the environment where you were raised. A good …
Lecture, The Astonishing Richness of Igbo Art: Beauties, Beasts, and Others – a Beauty interest event taking place on 2017-01-26 00:00:00 in United States Igbo arts, made by the Igbo people of West Africa in more than 200 village groups that were never centralized, are enormously diverse in style and type. In this lecture, Herbert …