I am excited to share the beginning of another incredible journey.
This spring, I will be the Igbo language instructor in the African Languages Program (ALP), in the Department of African and African American Studies,
@Harvard
University.
The Harvard’s ALP is one of the largest
Learn the Igbo Alphabets to learn how to spell igbo words. The alphabets (Mkpụrụedemede or Abidii) are 36letters
A B CH D E F G GB GH GW H I Ị J K KP KW L M N Ñ NW NY O Ọ P R S SH T U Ụ V W Y Z
28 consonants (mgbochiume) & 8 vowels (ụdaume)
Let me bring all ndị Igbo a good tidings of great joy.
Ihe ọma.
Something every Igbo person should have.
A NEW EDUCATIONAL APP FOR ASỤSỤ IGBO.
The 1st of The Mmuta Igbo Series
"MMỤTA IGBO 1"
If you have an android gadget, go now and download and thank me later.
Learning Igbo... 🥰
Yes... You can teach your children.
This is a progress report from my baby after just few lessons.
Asụsụ Igbo ga-adị.
Our children will speak our language. 🥰
Grateful for the opportunity to share the richness of Igbo culture at Harvard today!
Although a part of the Harvard Community currently as an Igbo Language Instructor, I had the honor of being a guest lecturer and performing artist in the African literary and cultural studies
Igbo Kwenu!
Igbo Kwenu!
Igbo Kwezuonu oo!
Ee... Ụmụ akwụkwọ m ji Igbo eme ọnụ.
Ụmụ akwụkwọ mmụta asụsụ Igbo dị mma.
Excited to celebrate the incredible journey of my Igbo language students at Harvard! 🎉
Ụmụ akwụkwọ mbụ m. Their dedication, passion, and
"She is timid, mgbeke" some voices echoed when I started. Even when most did not even know what timid meant. I can be anything but never timid... Except on interpersonal encounters. 😍.
"Please do not waste your intelligence on this Igbo thing?" some 'caring' voices cried.
Let me shock you...
This is a Pot stand.
from 9th/10th century.
even an 'ordinary' pot stand was casted in leaded bronze.
This is from Igbo Ukwu.
ndị Igbo were never "anyhow" people. Everything was carefully thought out. Look at the complexity of the patterns made for
Ndị ọma m...
Today, another onye ọma Igbo came by.
Polycarp Uche Ori, an Ebonyi State born and bred.
He is a graduate student of Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. He is also an exam proctor at Faculty of Art and School, Harvard University.
Odogwu Nnaukwu
Our own Legend
Laa n'udo ezigbo Nna.
You did so so well in your time.
Our dear Prof. Anezi Okoro goes to eternal rest at 94. He would have been 95 in May.
My journey into Igbo language sustainability would not be complete without him. He once gifted me the 2nd
Ancient Igbo Indigenous Names
Most Igbo names are abbridged Proverbs. It is in shortening them that it is made to look evil or bad or meaningless. It is pertinent that we know the full meaning of a name before we rush to call it evil or the source of the presumed "generational
So had realized that anytime I make a post about Museums I had visited in SouthEast, especially my visits to the National Museum, Enugwu, most people always act surprised and ask if we have museums in the east.
Here, I took time to compile the list of some Museums and Galleries
Revisiting and Resharing BỊAFỤRỤ
#B
ỊAFỤRỤ
#InMemoryofallLostintheBiafraWar
A poetic documentary I produced as a reflection of the the war, voices of the old, and soul poetry. It is of our story and of our survival. That my children, and children children and generations
Biko ndị Okorobịa ala Igbo, why do most of you marry with Hausa or Yoruba traditional attire on your traditional marriage day?
I am not understanding 🙄 ọ bụ confuse ka ọ bụ nzuzu? 🙄🙄🙄
Have you visited the War Museum and Ojukwu bunker at Ụmụahịa? Visit and see the wonders our people created even in war. The bunker was built in 90 days.
You will the true meaning of
#Igweb
ụike
#BiafraRemembranceMonth
Just my 4th class and some of my Igbo language students, who found out about my birthday just yesterday, got me cake in class today.
I am already receiving love from my new community so soon.
Aka Chukwu dị ya.
I am loved beyond any making of mine. I recognize it and I am
The team of Peter Obi and Yusuf Datti may not have the Magic wand to fix all of Nigeria's problems, but currrently, this is the only team that sounds like the process of Healing. As we all know, the country is more than sick now. This seems the only hope we have..
25th Feb.
It was my first day of classes and ezignbo nwaanyị ọma,
@Uchenna
Onwuamaegbu Ugwu , came visiting. She had to kindly wait a while as I was taking a class. She spent some beautiful time with me afterwards. I do not take such gesture for granted.
Daalụ Ọmarịcha nwaanyị
I don't want to believe this is true that my Ọmụ is gone to join the ancestors.
Mbanụ!😢😭
This outstanding intellectual institution of cultural renaissance. The symbol of our true cultural heritage.
Nne ọha, who will engage so humbly with us online. So accessible.
The
"People stay in abusive marriages because of Igbo Culture"
No! It is not Igbo culture my dear, it is your personal family culture.
There is no accommodation for abuse in the Igbo culture i know. In fact, ha ga-akụgodi nwoke ahụ 'my god eeew Chim'
Ask. Research this
#igboamaka
The month of May is a very symbolic month for ndị Igbo. Not only because of Biafra but also for the bravery of the Igbo landing. It was in May 1803 that ndị Igbo on the slave ship called the Wandarer chose death over slavery. With pride, they walked into the marshy waters of
Nsibidi na IgboUkwu bronze roped pot of 9th Century.
Intentionally priding in our identity as a means of promotion and projection.
Nsibidi is an ancient ideogramic or ideographic system of writing known to ancient people of southeastern part of Nigeria with origin from the
Today... I celebrate Agbarakata Odogwu Di m
Ncheta ọmụmụ Ọmarịcha Di m.
Ikem
Obim
Nkem
Happy birthday Ike Ikorodo nke m
Agụ Ugwuọwọ m
🖤🖤🖤
Let your new age bring every good thing with it.
Odogwu na-ari elu?
An Igbo folk for encouragement. Curated in one of the music tracks by Gentleman Mike Ejeagha, the legendary folklorist.
It is a folk about one who wanted to end his life due to life's challenges but found a person in worst condition that was begging to live.
Ịzụ Eke
The Ịzụ Eke ceremony or Ịzụ Afịa Ọzọ is the final rites of passage for a new ọzọ title member. It is also referred to as "Ije n'ezi Mụọlokwu".
The fresh ọzọ man would call on Chukwu Okike and the ancestors and introduce his three ọzọ title names to
Igbo Children abroad...
💥"What is your name?"
Them.." Sọpụlụchi, Obiajụlụ, Ikenna, Jidenna etc.
____
Children at home.
💥"What is your name"?
Them- "Chelsea, Angel, Best, Queen, Special, Salvation, Spicy.?
____
Ọ dị mma. Nne na Nna Igbo, Jisienu ike 🙌🙌🙌. Up
And the Speech you have all been waiting for...
Amarachi's speech at the Graduate Hooding Ceremony of VPA - Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.
@SyracuseU
#igboglobalambasador
📷 SU VPA
Full video
Nkwalite na ngosi asụsụ Igbo.
In the heart of the African night, they took the stage,
Embracing Igbo's graceful flow, with passion unconfined.
Their journey, step by step, true dedication spark,
Each syllable, each word... Forming sentences
Making paragraphs, creating
I'm humbled and honored to be a guest artist /lecturer this Friday at the College of Liberal Art, Rochester Institute of Technology. New York.
Invited by Professor Samaya Nasr, a lecturer in the Museum Studies program, for an immersive exploration into the rich tapestry of Igbo
Amarachi performs at the Africa Initiative's Black Arts and Culture Night at the Community Folk Art Center (CFAC),Syracuse New York.
This was the first public presentation of her poem titled "Immortality," which was previously published in the Harvard African Policy Journal.
This is actually an Mgbedike masquerade mask & not Ekwensu as some have been made to see it. I see someone already arguing under my post that this mask is used to represent devil all over the world & so, it is devil.
Chai.
The mask is not even of a diety but masquerade🤣.
So far...
Our use of his beautiful ideogram.
It is the chosen ancient symbol of our union.
It is the intersection of two lines representing the harmony of masculine and feminine dualism which inherently exists in Igbo concept of being and living
Udo na Ịhụnanya
Nsibidi
Congratulations to Ezema Chikoba for these beautiful healthy harvests.
This is from my village oo. My own home.
EDEM Nsukka.
I am proud to see this 🥰🥰🥰.
Let's keep encouraging farmers who are breaking the status quo.
#Farmers
#farmharvests
Let us learn about IKENGA
#Mm
ụta
Gịnị bụ IKENGA?
Ikenga is the Igbo symbol of strength & success. It is a significant carving for success willpower. A artifact associated with achievement & the awakening of the inner strength, it is believed to represent a ones personal chi
Asụsụ bụ ejirimara ndị.
Ọ bụ ụtọ omenala ndị.
Asụsụ bụ ihe ndị ji akpọkọrịta.
Echiche ndị, amamihe ndị, nkwenye ndị, na akọ ndị zoro n'asụsụ ha.
Asụsụ ndị so na mma ha.
________
🌀🦅🖤
#IgboGlobalAmbasador
#HarvardAfricanLanguageProgram
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Today is the International Mother Language Day.
The theme for this year is "Multilingual education – a pillar of learning and intergenerational learning."
Mother language Day was declared by UNESCO in 1999, in honor of the Mother language movement of Bangladeshis.
According
#ÌGBÒ
Another very rare one arrives.
I can now proudly say I am one of the people who own some great collections of Igbo rare books.
For those still saying they are no materials.
This 512 pages book here was originally published in 1962, and published by Jeffrey Norton Pub
To the Writers, Producers and Directors of Áfàméfùnà: An Nwa Boi Story, THANK YOU for telling for showing the story so beautifully and calmly piercingly.
#Netflix
#Movie
Ụmụnnem
So we have organized many digital Igbo language competitions on different topics.
Some of such topic are:
.Igbo Alphabets
. Akụkọ Ifo
. Okwu ntabi ire
. Egwu Ọnwa
. Ịwa Ọjị
This help in curation of the language and creating digital language bank.
Thinking
Aka Chukwu dị ya.
I had to pause at the airport last night, to be grateful for life's journey, wishes and achievements/ dreams and realizations.
To think it was once a quiet wish I nurtured deep in my heart in the past... To be able to travel around. Ka m jiri Igbo gagharịa.
In my four-months fellowship with the British Royal National Theatre, London UK, I performed a total of 208 live presentations in 52 shows and for about 42,000 audiences in total
In the THREE SISTERS play directed by Nadia Falls
All my performances were in Igbo Language
📸 NT
E ji Igbo eje Ebee?
_____
Ọjaadịlị
~Ọdunke Artists.
Oxford University Press - 1977
New York
Toronto
Melbourne
Wellington
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Jakarta
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Delhi
Karachi
Nairobi
Calcutta
Madras
Cape Town
University Press Limited- 1979
Chai...
Ihe ọma na anya bụ nwanne.
Leenụ ọmarịcha onyinye si 'aka
@EkweNdiIgbo
Beautiful beautiful gifts.
Deeme oooo
This should attract design contract biko. Anyị nwere ndị nwere nkà dị egwu oo.
Igbo Amaka
🌀🦅🖤
#IgboGlobalAmbasador