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Igbo people prior to the American Civil War were brought to the United States by force from their hinterland homes on the Bight of Biafra and shipped by Europeans to North America between the 17th and 19th centuries. Identified Igbo slaves were often described by the ethnonyms Ibo and Ebo(e), a colonial American rendering of Igbo. Some Igbo ...
World Igbo Congress (WIC) is a Houston-based sociopolitical organization that promotes the Igbo people's interests in Nigeria. [1] It focuses its support on economic and legal aid to the Igbo population, the victims of ethnic cleansing before and after the Nigerian Civil War, as well as the rehabilitation of Biafran War veterans.
NNAUSA is an organization for the Ngwa Diaspora in America [66] Nigerian American associations representing the interests of determined groups include: The Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas [67] (ANPA) Igbo Studies Association Inc., USA; Nigerian Nurses Association of USA, Inc. [68]
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The World Igbo Summit Group is an umbrella body that brings all the Igbo people and its relevant bodies like Indigenous People of Biafra, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, World Igbo Congress, Igbo Leadership Development Foundation and including present/past political office holders, Royal kings, professionals, businessmen, Civil society activists, gender advocates and other experts of Igbo extraction residing ...
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The Igbo of Igboland (in present-day Nigeria) became one of the principal ethnic groups to be enslaved during the Atlantic slave trade. An estimated 14.6% of all enslaved people were taken from the Bight of Biafra , a bay of the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the Nun outlet of the Niger River (Nigeria) to Limbe ( Cameroon ) to Cape Lopez ...
Igbo Americans are citizens of the United States who were born in Igboland or who are of Igbo descent. Pages in category "Igbo-American history" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.