From Oral Traditions to Nollywood: The Evolving Platforms of Igbo Historiography
Before ink touched paper, before cameras rolled or scripts were written, the Igbo people were already historians. Their archives were not libraries of stone, but living voices, their pages written in the air through story and song. When the moon rose over red-earth villages, elders gathered children beneath the ụkwa tree for akụkọ ifo (folktales)…