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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...program’s success is already apparent. To date, 12 students have requested an opportunity to take Igbo at Harvard, in addition to eight who want to study Twi and five who plan to take Zulu...

Author: By The Harvard Crimson, | Title: Fluid Fluency | 10/8/2003 | See Source »

This year student demand for African languages remains strong. Twelve students have expressed interest in taking Igbo, eight in Twi and five in Zulu, according to Akyeampong...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: African Languages Program Debuts | 9/23/2003 | See Source »

...long list of other languages, including Igbo, Kikuya, Twi, Wolof, Yoruba, Ethiopic and Banama, will be taught by native language speakers in the Boston area through the tutorial program...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: African Languages Program Debuts | 9/23/2003 | See Source »

...miles inland. The Gwari tribe was forced off its land as the government began constructing its new capital here in the middle of the country. They chose the sparsely-populated region because it isn't dominated by any of the three major tribes, the Hausa, the Yoruba, and the Igbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nigeria, Clinton Sees a Work in (Slow) Progress | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...democracy together. You have forged national institutions together," he told the legislators. "All your greatest achievements have come when you have worked together." Its boundaries, drawn by European colonial rulers, encircle some 260 tribes, many of which have been waging war with each other for generations. When the Igbo tribe in the southeast sought independence in 1967 as the state of Biafra, the resulting war, the most deadly in the history of independent West Africa, killed 1 million people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nigeria, Clinton Sees a Work in (Slow) Progress | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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