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Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo. Credit: Alchetron
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Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo: The Historian Who Gave Igbo History Its Memory

In the annals of African scholarship, some names echo not just through academic corridors but also through the living soul of a people. One such name is Professor Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, the soft-spoken yet intellectually unyielding historian who gave Igbo history its structure, its scholarship, and its soul. Professor Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo — the historian who…
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Album cover of Gentleman Mike Ejeagha standing in a natural outdoor setting, wearing a patterned sleeveless top, beside the text “Akuko Na Egwu Vol. 1.”
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Gentleman Mike Ejeagha: The Sage Who Sang Igbo Proverbs to the World

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 educate but in the dusty streets of Enugu, a man once sang songs that remembered. His name was Gentleman Mike Ejeagha, and through his guitar…
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Cultural Heritage Historical Studies

From Oral Traditions to Nollywood: The Evolving Platforms of Igbo Historiography

Eze Nri Obalike sounding his bell, Thomas Northcote 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…
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Archival black-and-white photo of Igbo youths dancing in a village clearing.”
Anthropology and Ethnography Cultural Heritage Folklores Historical Studies

Egwu Onwa: Moonlight, Music, and the Spirit of Igbo Youth

Photo: Guinea fowl dancers probably from Nri. (Egwu Ụkpọ): G. T. Basden (1921). "Among the Ibos of Nigeria". p. 132. Internet Archive. Onwa gburu anyị anyị anyị e na-agba egwu( When the moon shines, we dance). Joy follows, illumination and the community thrives when the night is bright. On clear tropical nights, when the full moon (Onwa…
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