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	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 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.
		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.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Igbo.html (505 words)

	Igbo people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Igbo, sometimes (especially formerly) referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ethnicities in Africa.
		The novel Things Fall Apart by Igbo author Chinua Achebe, is a fictional account of the clash between the new influences of the British and the traditional life of the Igbo.
		In 1966, a failed coup d'état by Nigerian army officers led by an Igbo—Major Kaduna Nzeogwu—resulted in the death of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, a prominent northern Nigerian of the Hausa ethnic group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Igbo_people (1714 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article (Igbo candidate for president of Nigeria in 2003)
		At his death in 1996, the people of Zungeru in the North, his birthplace, asked that his body be interred in their land as a mark of respect for his role as a true giant of Nigerian nationalism.
		The Igbo are blamed today for that singular act of distrust visited upon a democratic people by its military force, especially given the fact that majority of the leaders that were murdered cold blood were mainly non-Igbo.
		The Igbo people gave Nigeria her first military head of state in the person of General Aguiyi-Ironsi, under whose government the currently practiced 'Centralized Government' was introduced -- the infamous 'Decree 34.' He consequently lost his life for the misunderstanding of the edict that is time-tested and still works today.
	nigeriaworld.com /letters/2002/may/211.html (4473 words)

	Igbo People
		Igbo people find their home in a rich and fertile crescent created by the lower Niger River within Nigeria.
		It is believed by many that this area and its people were one of the driving forces in the early development in the Iron Age which has helped mold the world as we know it.
		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)

	Igbo Marriage Custom
		Since the Igbo are a patriarchal people, marriage is deemed an indispensable factor for the continuation of the family line of descent Children occupy the central point in Igbo marriage.
		Also among the Igbos in the past, a prospective wife was set aside in a hut and fed and instructed without much exercise until she was well prepared physically and psychologically to assume the role of house wife and after a short time, that of a mother.
		It does not however mean that the Igbo wife's value is set on bearing children alone, but rather that the Igbo love for children is so deep and extensive that the first wife would want children in that family, even if she herself was not a mother.
	www.nigeriamasterweb.com /igbomarriage.html (7584 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- Igbo politicians: Inept, visionless, or both?
		Igbo politicians are in perpetual confusion about the difference between political philosophy and partisan politics.
		Yet the Igbo people nationwide were being scapegoated and made to pay the ultimate price for belonging to the wrong race at that time.
		He was widely believed among the Igbo to be one of the major architects of the campaign of starvation as a military strategy against the Igbo.
	nigeriaworld.com /columnist/ihenacho/012002.html (4468 words)

	The Renewal of Israelite Identity Among the Igbo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igbo man in his 50’s describe libation as paganistic, only to be shocked when the rabbi pointed out that it is Biblical.
		Igbos are heading back to and which Kulanu and friends have been supporting are spreading among the Igbos.
		Nri people are the descendants of the Levites / Kohanim.
	members.aol.com /moreshetnet/igbo.html (9191 words)

	Igbo Net
		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.africa.upenn.edu /Listserv/igbo_net.html (1364 words)

	News -- Abia: Kalu urges Nigerians to forgive the Igbo people over civil war
		He urged Nigerians to forget the past, adding that it was a mistake on the part of the Igbo, and that they should not be continuously punished for the mistakes of the past.
		Kalu, who said that he and many people in the present generation were not part of the war, queried "why should we continue to suffer for the mistakes of the past".
		He expressed optimism that Kalu as a good leader was capable of leading the Igbo into the political mainstream in the country, pointing out that if the Igbo had five people like Kalu, the complaint of marginalisation in the south-east zone would cease.
	odili.net /news/source/2003/sep/8/138.html (339 words)

	Igbo Net: Ahiajoku Lecture Series:: the 1979 Ahiajoku Lecture, MJC Echeruo @ IgboNet: the Igbo Network
		The Igbo people, because they do not always cultivate ceremony, and are instinctively suspicious of mere decorativeness, are more liable than most other people to the charge of lacking culture and civilization.
		Fyfe describes the Igbo people in Sierra Leone as "less clannish" than the Aku or the Yoruba who he said were "particularly noted for their solidarity." But even in Sierra Leone the Igbo would not compromise their independence.
		The blame is not that of the Ijo people, but of the Igbo people who say Aha m efula, but seem at every turn of their communal history to have made every effort to ensure that that name does not survive.
	ahiajoku.igbonet.com /1979 (8567 words)

	United Igbo & Friends celebrate Iwaji ( Nigeria, Africa & World News)
		The United Igbo and Friends in the West Midlands are finalising preparations to stage the largest African event in the Midlands.
		United Igbo & Friends in the Midlands is a social and welfare voluntary organisation dedicated to the strengthening of the Igbo community in the West Midlands and the demonstration of Igbo culture to the people of the West Midlands and indeed the UK.
		Igbo people come from the eastern part of Nigeria (West Africa) and are one of the main Nigerian ethnic groups.
	www.africamasterweb.com /AdSense/UnitedIgboFriendsCelebrateIwaji.html (423 words)

	News4
		Rather, I like a government where people can say their mind but not trying to use force against the government because the government retaliates, it can be calamitous to the people who initiated the force.
		And in keeping with Ohanaeze stand that we must not come in conflict with the people we elected to be chief executives in the Igbo states, once a governor said he has the mandate of his people, we as the chieftains of Ohanaeze cannot go in conflict.
		There, the Igbo leaders,who had initially gathered at a government guest house regrouped at the banquet hall of the Government House, provided by Kalu, where they not only opposed the attitude of the federal government to use the police to harass Igbo people, but vowed never to give in to the intimidation.
	www.igbofocus.co.uk /html/news4.html (5795 words)

	Igbo Presidency for Who? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fundamental issues of lack of cohesion and lack of ‘Igbo understanding’ among the different localities and peoples of Igbo origin mean that Igbo presidency at this stage will only benefit the individual in question and his village which would witness special presidential attention.
		Enlightened Igbo elders and leaders must not be ashamed to appreciate the fact that despite the excellence of our individuals in various fields of endeavours both at home and abroad, that the Igbos as a group are politically uncivilised.
		Some Igbo people would definitely be right in the light of their many unsavoury experiences in the hands of their fellow Igbos to believe that they would be better of under a Hausa or Yoruba president than an Igbo president who does not come from their own village.
	www.dawodu.com /iteshi1.htm (1362 words)

	Igbo: The correct representation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The use of any other spelling purporting to refer to the Igbo people and their language is an unacceptable corruption of the word ‘IGBO.’ The letters ‘g’ and ‘b’ together form one consonant.
		There is no Nigerian language that forms plurals with the letter ‘s.’ It is therefore advisable to use ‘IGBO’ for the people and for the language in both singular or plural contexts.
		The use of ‘Igbos’ is as grammatically incorrect as the use of ‘Englishes’ would be.
	www.kwenu.com /enyimba/correct_igbo.htm (295 words)

	BNW Magazine: Biafra Nigeria World :: Building a Just Democratic Nigeria:Restoring the Rights of the Igbo People:: ...
		This lopsidedness is seen as a calculated attempt to drastically limit Igbo access to political power that accounts for the inequity they suffer in matters of representation at the Federal level and in getting their fair share of national resources.
		The political exclusion of the Igbo people from key administrative positions is complemented by a systematic deprivation of the Igbo people of their life's savings after the Nigerian civil war and by continued blocking of access to economic opportunities at the Federal level.
		The economic neglect and deprivation of the Igbo people have had very visible effects on their quality of life leading to brain drain in Igboland and to an increase in social vices.
	magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com /ajvobinna/2004feb09.html (1061 words)

	Vanguard - Arts: The Igbo novel dates back to 1857â”Emenyonu
		But my response to people that accuse the young generation that their works are not critically engaging is that those people havenât read them.
		Yes, there are millions of Igbo people in Nigeria today and they form a reasonable audience and readership for the Igbo writer.
		The only way that the Igbo literature can survive and make a point in the literary history of Nigeria, in Africa and in the world is for Igbo people to begin to read their own literature in their own language.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/arts/at104062006.html (2475 words)

	History Of Oraifite Community Town - Igbo People
		The people worshipped a multiplicity of gods in various quarters, families and households.
		The people enjoy many social activities but some of these activities were associated with worship of these gods.
		Traditionally, Igbo societies have been democratic and therefore, democracy can neither be alien to the Igbos, nor can it be considered a Western phenomenon.
	www.oraifite.com /history-of-oraifite (2013 words)

	MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: PEOPLES (by Boomie O.)
		I have seen an estimate of 101 million people from the ABC Country Book, 114 million from the World Bank, 127 million from the United Nations estimate, all for the year 1995.
		In terms of healthcare, though western medicine was brought into the country and is practiced, there is no doubt that there are still traditional forms of healing that have been beneficial, and now a mixture of the two are used.
		The Virtual Igbo Homesite with a section on who they are.
	www.motherlandnigeria.com /people.html (1047 words)

	:: Chiamaka - Igbo:: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Igbo People: Igbo Culture and Socialization collated by Uzoma Onyemaechi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
		Isu oji - Omenala Ndi Igbo by Theresa Okewuihe
		Hypocoristics in Igbo or Chu Be or Not Chu Be Chi http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~pathall/ipaper.html
	lib.lbcc.edu /chiamaka/igbo.htm (579 words)

	Center for World Indigenous Studies
		What is now rapidly unfolding in Southeastern Nigeria is the intentional and widespread murder of Igbo people, both men and women, that mimics the early stages of ethnic cleansings in Rwanda, Burundi, Congo and the Darfur in Sudan.
		I call on the leadership of various Igbo Diaspora organizations, especially, WIC to rise to the occasion by way of Press Release in total, absolute and unequivocal condemnation of the current wave of genocide against unarmed and defenseless Igbo youths by the Nigerian Police Force.
		Igbo kwenu, I hereby want to state some brutal and bullings/killings of my productive tribe called Ibo which we ve been facing in that damn countryside called backstabbers NIGERIA.A country we aint meant to stay a fag country left with nothing but only the mistake of our late leader called Zik.
	www.cwis.org /news/index.php?newsdate=biafra1 (2121 words)

	Resources on the Igbo
		Hausa is widely spoken in the north, Igbo in the southeast and Yoruba in...
		The Igbo or Ibo are a people living in Nigeria, where they constitute an estimated 15% of the population.
		Before the arrival of Europeans, the sense of a distinct cultural identity among the Igbo was much more diffuse: the Igbo did not have a centralized system of government, and lived in small, democratically organized autonomous communities.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/african/Igbo.html (696 words)

	Igbo Tribal Mask art history and culture
		The Igbo people are a large but widely spread population that inhabits both sides of the Niger river.
		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 (378 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)

	:: Chiamaka Igbo Name :: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Igbo land, as in other parts of Nigeria, naming a baby is a very important event.
		The name-giving ceremony is a formal occasion to which family members and friends are invited.
		In the Igbo language, a week is known as an "izu." There are four market days in Igbo tradition, Nkwo, Eke, Orie (or Oye) and Afo.
	lib.lbcc.edu /chiamaka/igbonames.htm (781 words)

	Igbo Nations
		IGBO EDUCATION: Establishment of IGBO schools in every city where there are Ndi Igbo, with a strong emphasis in speaking, reading and writing IGBO language.
		IGBO LEADERSHIP: Re-establishment of the True and Time Tested Collective Leadership models with the Elder-statesman/stateswoman as the highest achievable position, a position that can only be attained through a life long service to Ndi IGBO.
		IGBO NATION: Establishment of the Republic of Biafara based on Igbo culture, tradition and philosophy.
	www.ekwenche.org /aboutus.htm (763 words)

	IGBO: A linguistic legacy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Probably because of the republican nature of the Igbo people, the “degree of difference of varieties of Igbo language spoken today” is extensive.
		There are probably as many Igbo dialects as there are the so-called “autonomous communities.” The many dialects have not helped the desired emergence of a single spoken or written Igbo.
		It is advisable to use “IGBO” for the people and for the language in both singular and plural contexts.
	www.kwenu.com /moe/2005/igbo_linguistic_legacy.htm (1524 words)

	Teach Yourself Igbo Language, Learn to Speak Ibo: Traditions &Cultures, Marriages &Funeral Ceremonies & ...
		You see, many Igbo children, especially those living abroad, or more specifically; children whose parents are of the Igbo stock, cannot speak the language.
		When discussing the problem, I found that majority of the people were of the view that "they've failed their children due to plain laziness, 'as a result, they feel guilty and shame".
		You see, many Igbo sons and daughters fail to gain admission into the university because of their inability to pass the English language, even after scoring high marks in other subjects.
	www.teachyourselfigbo.com (2564 words)

	Igbo Net: Igbo Language Center, Igbo Language Forum, and Igbo Language Lab @ IgboNet
		If you are an Ìgbo, it is important that you learn to speak, read, and write Ìgbo because the language of a people is their most important heritage on which the survival of their culture and their continued existence on earth as a people largely depend.
		In fact, it will enable you to understand why the Igbos are unique in Africa, why they are hated and admired by their erstwhile colonial masters and detractors, and, above all, why they are wanted and unwanted in the Nigeria they call their country.
		Igbo Language Forum and the Language Laboratory also at the Igbo Language Forum to participate in discussions about these lessons and other issues related to the Igbo Language.
	ilc.igbonet.com (259 words)

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