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	Axel Harneit-Sievers: Igbo 'Traditional Rulers' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Igbo intellectuals who used to take for granted the 'democratic' character of Igbo tradition, in recent years find themselves engaged in debates about the 'republican' vs. the 'monarchical' principle in Igbo culture and society.
		Igbo migrants, like migrants from of other ethnic groups, have begun to create own chieftaincy institutions 'abroad' in order to forward their interests at the places where they live and work.
		Igbo Traditional Rulers are usually firmly based in private business or in the civil service; they have received formal school or even university education and are adherents of the Christian religion.
	www2.hu-berlin.de /orient/igbo/igbochef.htm (9459 words)

	FSI Igbo Basic Course
		The FSI Igbo Basic Course is based on the speech of two members of the Ezinehite group of Igbos in Central Owerri Province between the towns of Owerri and Umuahia, Eastern Nigeria; their speech is representative the dialect called "Central Igbo".
		Igbo has been less studied by trained linguists than some other African languages, so this course presents basic research into the structure of the language.
		Because of a considerable variation in Igbo spelling in various printed materials available to the writers, the personal practice of the Igbo members of the team producing these units was generally followed.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /fsi-igbo.html (1274 words)

	AllRefer.com - Igbo (Peoples (except New World)) - Encyclopedia
		Originally settled in many autonomous villages, the Igbo nevertheless had a sense of cultural unity and the ability to unite for political action.
		During the political conflict in 1966, thousands of Igbo immigrants were killed in the northern region, home of the Muslim Hausa and Fulani.
		Many Igbo fled to their eastern homeland, which seceded from Nigeria in 1967, calling itself the Republic of Biafra.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/Igbo.html (283 words)

	Igbo People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Igbo people find their home in a rich and fertile crescent created by the lower Niger River within Nigeria.
		Within all of Africa, the Igbo homelands are probably one of the most densely populated regions.
		Igbo people usually have very extended families; it is a part of them as a people.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/igbo.html (602 words)

	Vanguard - Columns : The Igbo and 2007
		In 1998, at the death of Abacha, the Igbo once again met in Enugu, and issued their famous four-point agenda, and every body thought something would come out of the articulation of this Igbo agenda, but once again, the Igbo political leaders lost momentum, and the result is even more glaring today.
		In 1998, Igbo politicians in the ruling party were unable to secure guarantees for Igbo political and economic life; Igbo governors, mostly like fish out of water, became captives of a political machinery in which they have no real political stakes.
		Igbo political leadership is weak, obtuse, distracted, servile, and does not work with Igbo organic intellectuals who must theorize and clarify the basis of Igbo political action.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/orbit/ob16102005.html (1196 words)

	Igbo Webpage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, women in Igbo land at present are confirmed with the title of chieftaincy, not for administrative purposes but for the roles they play in the community and in the market.
		The Igbo society is patterned on that of egalitarian society in which almost everyone is equal.
		The feudal system that is present in northern Nigeria and Yoruba State could not exist in Igbo land because of the level of the Igbo society, and also the separation of tribal religion from the titular headship within the clan.
	www.umunna.org /politicalsystems.htm (1388 words)

	Igbo Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Traditionally, the Igbos have emphasized individual enterprise (without loosing the sense of community), which has sometimes been used as an explanation for their "success" and mobility.
		"I[g]bo culture can thus be characterized by its emphasis on individual achievement and initiative, alternative prestige goals and paths of action, a tendency toward equalitarian leadership, considerable incorporation of other peoples and cultures, a great deal of settlement and resettlement of individuals and small groups, and considerable cultural variation".
		The Igbo have remained 'Igbo' in their attitude to and style of life; that is, while changing they were able to preserve their 'ethnic essence' because they were astute enough to use in their own way, the new institutions and values introduced by colonialism"
	www.sas.upenn.edu /African_Studies/Listserv/igbo_net.html (1364 words)

	ianalysis.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Igbo is a Kwa language of the Niger-Con go group, spoken in Nigeria.
		Igbo names are grammatical constructions; that is, they constitute a complete expression, often a proverb (traditional Igbo society highly values proverbs, and even the linguistic literature from the area includes them to emphasize points).
		Igbo syllables are of the following types: V, CV, CVN, and N (the syllabic nasal).
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~pathall/ipaper.html (1630 words)

	Igbo People
		Due to the diversity of the Igbo people, it is impossible to generalize about a pure Igbo art style, which has characteristically been representative of numerous geographical regions.
		It could be said, though, that most Igbo do carve and use masks, but the function of these masks vary from village to village.
		It is believed that the Igbo originated in an area about 100 miles north of their current location at the confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers.
	www.uiowa.edu /%7Eafricart/toc/people/Igbo.html (505 words)

	Igbo residence patterns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However the Igbo utilize the additional principle of polygyny to substantially extend the capacity of their domestic unit.
		The structure of polygyny and sibling unity in traditional Igbo society create households that are quite different in size, organization, and dynamics than the Turkish patrilocal pattern.
		The contrast between Igbo and Turkish patrilocal patterns are representative of general differences between the African and Eurasian social orders.
	www.umanitoba.ca /anthropology/tutor/case_studies/igbo/residence.html (901 words)

	Igbo People
		The first Igbo in the region may have moved onto the Awka-Orlu plateau between four and five thousand years ago, before the emergence of sedentary agricultural practices.
		The earliest surviving Igbo art forms are from the 10th century (Igbo Ukwu), and the fine quality of those copper alloy castings suggest that Igbo society had already achieved a level of technology rivaling contemporary Europeans.
		As a result of regional and political fragmentation, which is mirrored in the several distinct languages traditionally spoken by the hundreds of different village groups, it would be reductionist to attempt to illustrate the traditional religious practices of the Igbo as a whole.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Igbo.html (505 words)

	Igbo Translation - Translate Igbo Language Translator
		Igbo is a language spoken in Nigeria by about 18 million speakers (the Ibo), especially in the southeastern region once identified as Biafra.
		The NCNC (National Convention of Nigerian Citizens), was Igbo and Christian dominated, ruling in the Eastern Region, and the AG (Action Group) was a left-leaning party that controlled the Yoruba west.
		Emeka Ojukwu, the military governor of the eastern region, who emerged as the leader of increasing Igbo secessionist sentiment, declared the independence of the eastern region as the "Republic of Biafra." The ensuing Nigerian Civil War was bitter and bloody, ending in the defeat of Biafra in 1970.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/igbo.shtml (4578 words)

	Emmanuel Onwubiko, Igbo Losses Counted at Oputa Panel
		Ohanaeze said the 1966 coup was an expression of the anti-Igbo sentiment, explaining that the Igbo drew the ire of their persecutors because of their enterprise in all spheres human endeavour which led them to all areas of Nigeria.
		It is necessary to emphasise the fundamental difference between Ndi Igbo's case of disempowerment and the new noisy national orchestra of marginalisation slogans most of which are raised to mock and trivialise our case.
		Ohaneze described marginalisation of the Igbo to mean the denial of right to life, right to means of livelihood, right to human dignity, right to freedom of movement, right to freedom from discrimination, right to acquire and own immovable property anywhere in Nigeria and other rights enshrined in the Constitution.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/34a/051.html (2612 words)

	Vanguard - Columns : Dallas and Igbo revitalization
		Once his opening remarks went in the Igbo language on Friday, May 6, 2005, it was impossible to reenact at the Marriot Quorum Hotel in downtown Texas another meeting of Ndigbo in which an alien language buried a people’s essence.
		It is only when Igbo resumes its rightful place as the medium of communication in the formal affairs of Ndigbo that its integrative tentacles will inexorably creep back into the informality of ordinary life.
		Igbo opinion leaders and political elite must not undermine this expectation by canvassing support for outside competitors.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/perspective/cp17052005.html (1410 words)

	African Languages - Igbo, Ganda, Mende, Bandi, Loki (ASC)(MSU)
		Igbo represents a dialect continuum, belonging to the Igbo Group of Kwa.
		Igbo is spoken in most of Anambra State, northern Rivers State, and also in Midwestern State, all in the lower Niger River Basin area of Nigeria.
		Igbo is a national language, also widely used in primary schools as a medium of instruction.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/language3.htm (345 words)

	Igbo -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In Igbo society there is strong social pressure toward individual distinction, and men...
		Of particular interest is the source of the copper and lead used to make the bronzes, which may have been Tadmekka in the Sahara, and of the coloured glass beads, which may have come...
		In the early years of the 20th century an attempt to develop an artificial form of Igbo called Union-Igbo, based on four Igbo dialects, was not successful.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9042055?tocId=9042055&query=ibo (910 words)

	The Igbo People – Origins and History
		Analysis of the sources that are available (fragmentary oral traditions and correlation of cultural traits) have led to the belief that there exists a core area of Igboland, and that waves of immigrant communities from the north and west planted themselves on the border of this core area as early as the ninth century.
		The rumours that the Igbo women were being assessed for taxation, sparked off the 1929 Aba Riots, a massive revolt of women never encountered before in Igbo history.
		This project was completed under the direction of Dr Leon Litvack as a requirement for the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies in the School of English at the Queen's University of Belfast.
	www.qub.ac.uk /english/imperial/nigeria/origins.htm (795 words)

	Echoes of an Igbo President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE demand for an elected Igbo president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria recently assumed the stridency of a clarion call, especially with the count down to the 2003 general elections.
		And that is what we Igbos should do: vote against every Igbo governor supporting Obasanjo,"he said, his eyes flashing as he stared from one passenger to the other as if seeking for their support to his expressed wish.
		It’s not enough for us to say we want an Igbo president, we must also be able to produce somebody who is competent to hold that position, not somebody who will go there to disgrace us," he said, even as he was rudely interrupted by Okwudiri.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /earticles/echoes_of_an_igbo_president.htm (972 words)

	Religion and the Igbo People
		The funeral ceremonies and burials of the Igbo people are extremely complex, the most elaborate of all being the funeral of a chief.
		The Igbo expected in their prayers and sacrifices, blessings such as long, healthy, and prosperous lives, and especially children, who were considered the greatest blessing of all.
		The Igbo believe that a big river has a spiritual aspect; it is forbidden to fish in such deified rivers.
	www.qub.ac.uk /english/imperial/nigeria/religion.htm (853 words)

	Igbo -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Before European colonization the Igbo lived in autonomous local communities, but by the mid 20th century they had developed a strong sense of ethnic identity.
		During conflicts in 1966 many Igbo in northern Nigeria were killed or forced into their traditional homelands in the east.
		In 1967 the Eastern region tried to secede from Nigeria as the independent nation of Biafra; hundreds of thousands of Igbo were killed or died of starvation.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9367785 (920 words)

	Nigeria Igbo Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Nigeria Igbo congress(NIC) was formed to provide a forum for social interaction between the Igbos in Bonn, Germany and its environs and also to provide a formal medium through which aid could be channeled to the needy and assistance rendered to the members in difficulty.
		The ideals of the Nigeria Igbo Congress as a social organization are to promote and encourage access to the Igbo cultural heritage and hospitality.
		Membership is open to people of Igbo origin and or their spouses resident in Bonn and its environment.
	www.nigeriaigbocongress.org /html/FAQ.HTM (446 words)

	Igbo Tribal Mask art history and culture
		In the North we have the Igbo Mmo society that represents the spirits of deceased maidens and their mothers with masks symbolizing beauty.
		The wide variety of cultural influences from regional tribes creates rich cultural diversity and Igbo worship, this is clearly depicted in the ceremonial rituals, artistic creations, music, and song and dance.
		A variety of decorative wooden objects are made by the Igbo people, namely, musical instruments, doors, stools, mirror frames, trays for offering kola nuts to guests, fertility dolls, and small figures used in divination.
	www.rebirth.co.za /Igbo_tribal_art_history_and_culture.htm (375 words)

	Igbo Judas'
		He preached to Ndi Igbo that Biafra is a thing of the past and that Ndi Igbo must look to the future and never think about Biafra again.
		This is what Kalu, the Igbo leader, the man who is being promised the vice-presidency of Nigeria by the Evil Empire has told Ndi Igbo to forget.
		This is why Obasanjo had the guts to throw shit in Governor Mbadinuju’s face during their recent trip to Russia and to treat Nwabueze like a dull-eyed fool when he begged for Chairmanship appointment.
	www.biafraland.com /kaluudenwa1.htm (1629 words)

	IGBO KWENU: Frontpage
		A statement on the purported exclusion of Igbo as a national language in Nigeria
		Noting the relegation of the Igbo language as a national language, the position paper exclusively obtained by Vanguard reads: "In a curious and rather inexplicable manner, section 60 (equivalent to section 55 of 1999), the draft proposes for the dropping of Igbo as one of the languages which may be spoken in the National Assembly.
		The above provision is in contrast to section 55 which specifically mentions Igbo as one of the national languages that may be used for conducting the business of the National Assembly.
	www.kwenu.com /igbo/frontpage.htm (221 words)

	Igbo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Otsa Festival of the Ekperi: Igbo age-grade masquerades on the west bank of the Niger?
		THE BELIEF IN REINCARNATION AMONG THE IGBO OF NIGERIA.
		A 16-foot high Igbo Ijele mask, said to incarnate the spirits of the Igbo ancestors, adorns Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge in Orlando, Florida.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/i/igbo.asp (517 words)

	IGBO Tournaments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		IGBO itself only operates two tournaments each year: the Annual tournament, and the Mid-Year tournament.
		In addition to the tournament, IGBO conducts several days of Board Meetings, and it's General Membership Meeting during the Annual and/or Mid-Year event.
		Currently, IGBO has over 50 member tournaments, with events taking place throughout the United States and Canada.
	igbo.org /Tournaments/Tournaments.asp (302 words)

	World Igbo Congress Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This rationalized version of the constitution shall be retained by the congress as a vital reference for deciphering the original intent of the drafters of this constitution and shall be consulted in the event of ambiguities.
		Igbo people (Ndiigbo), as they are collectively referred to (erroneously called Ibos by those who cannot pronounce “gb”), are among the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria- a country with over 240 distinct ethnic groups and over 240 languages and 400 dialects!
		Igbo ethnic group of Nigeria number well over 30 million the world over.
	www.worldigbocongress.org (133 words)

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