Gentleman Mike Ejeagha, the storyteller who sang wisdom with strings. Image from the African Music Library: “Mike Ejeagha (Gentleman Mike Ejeagha).
There are songs that entertain, and there are songs that…
Mmụọ na mmadụ na-ebi ọnụ n’ụwa a—Spirits and humans coexist in this world. This proverb reminds the Igbo that the visible and invisible share one space and nature is not…
This Igbo proverb, Ọ bụghị egwu ọ bụla ka ana-agba chiri ụtaba na aka (Not every dance is performed with tobacco/snuff in hand), carries a deep lesson about adaptability and…