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Literature, language and music: the Igbo renaissance

Writers, linguists and musicians who reclaimed the Igbo story from colonial narrative.

Books, lectures, guitars and a standard written language: the Igbo cultural scene is lively and global. Meet the voices that carried it.

In this chapter

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Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart

The novel that taught the world how to hear an African voice.

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Ogbalu, SPILC and Standard Igbo

Writing one language when there are many dialects.

1 min read 03

The Ahiajoku Lecture Series

A yearly gathering where thinkers talk Igbo ideas.

1 min read 04

Igbo highlife

Guitars, horns and proverbs: the sound of celebration.

1 min read

Further reading

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