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Origins and identity of the Igbo
Over 35 million people, one language family of closely related dialects, and a shared identity that crystallized only in the modern era.
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Start here. Three short pages answer the first questions: who are the Igbo, where do they come from, and how did they come to see themselves as one people?
In this chapter
01Who are the Igbo?
Where they live, how they speak, and why “Igbo” means more than one story.
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02Theories of origin
Migrants, locals, or both? What researchers think and where they disagree.
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03A pan-Igbo identity in the making
How hundreds of villages came to feel like one people.
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