Word: igbo
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Over 20 million people worldwide speak Igbo...
...push to increase African studies offerings at Harvard, a group of students have started a weekly class in Igbo, the language and culture of southeast Nigeria...
...Onyinye I. Iweala '02 said she believes gaining official recognition for the Igbo class would be an important step towards a larger project--the establishment of more African language and study classes at Harvard...
...study group has been meeting consistently since last fall, due to the efforts of Iweala, who sought faculty support for Igbo studies...
...links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north, the Muslim Hausa-Fulani elite who run the military. The Yoruba and the southeastern Igbo people are bitterly resentful that successive military governments have plundered the wealth derived from the rich oil fields of the impoverished south...