history of the Igbo novel

Professor Ernest Nneji Emenyonu: The Voice That Traced Igbo Literature Back to 1857

“Okwu bụ ndụ.” (Words are life). The old proverb could well summarise Emenyonu’s life’s work. To him, literature was not simply art;  it was history, language, and identity woven together like the intricate threads of akwete cloth. From Umuahia to the World Born in Umuahia, Abia State, in the heart of Igboland, Ernest Nneji Emenyonu grew…