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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 ...
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.
The International Gay Bowling Organization (IGBO) represents over 5000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members from Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. The organization was established in 1980 to provide a collaborative sporting group within the LGBT community.
The aim of the organization was the improvement and advancement (such as in education) of the Igbo and their indigenous land and included an Igbo "national anthem" with a plan for an Igbo bank. [ 205 ] [ 206 ]
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 ...
This organization was later banned by the Nigerian military dictatorship, from fears that the existence of the organization would promote Igbo separatism. In 1976, the Igbo Forum was undauntedly formed with Dr. Francis Akanu Ibiam as chairman, Justice Daddy Onyeama as Vice Chairman, Chief Jerome Oputa Udoji as Secretary General and Mr. Jacob ...
Igbo compound spatial organizations are organized in ways that reflect the cultural, social, and architectural traditions of the Igbo people. The compounds are often arranged in a way that allows for communal living which fosters family bonds and support.
The Isu people are the largest group of the Igbo people of Nigeria. [1] Isuama, in which the purest Igbo is said to be spoken, is to be found the heart of the Igbo nationality; consequently it is quite reasonable to look among its people for the original fountain-head from which all the other clans have sprung.