Every Igbo knows one way or the other, it is a matter of time before the language goes extinct. The factors that would lead to these are not farfetched. On many occasions we have tried to bring the ...

I hear people say, "Wonders shall never end". I also build on it to add that even if they would seize, they are unlikely to end with 'ignorance'. Any feeling of surprise or bewilderment is wonder. It ...

Make no mistakes about it, the Igbo language is dying and going into oblivion. Many sons and daughters of Igbo origin want to have nothing to do with their mother tongue again. Nobody is left out - ...

Vincent Nwosu is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His research interests include prosody, phonetics, verbal arts, and documentation of endangered African ...

On an ordinary day at a junior secondary school in southeastern Nigeria, an Igbo language teacher walks into a classroom and begins the lesson with a greeting. When the learners greet her in unison ...

Communicating in one’s mother tongue does not indicate that one cannot speak or understand other languages, including the English language. But the interest shown in the deployment of the English ...

An Igbo group, Igbo Woman Assembly, IWA, has raised the alarm that the spoken Igbo language may disappear in the next few years if nothing is done. According to the group, the number of Igbo people, ...