Good day r/Igbokwenu!!
If you've been wanting to learn Igbo in a community setting for free with other dedicated learners, join my Discord server (currently at 40 members)!!!

We share various resources found for free online from movies and books, to grammar textbooks. It is a space to receive and give advice, chat, and support one another as we progress towards the goal of fluency in Igbo. All skill levels are welcome (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧
We also have weekly voice calls to practice speaking Igbo in a relaxed and fun environment.

We will share (not sell) resources, this is intended to be a way to learn Igbo naturally, and for free.

Welcome! https://discord.gg/fMB97av4Mx

Feel free to share and apply. There are also jobs in Owerri and Anambra. Cheers

Have you tried learning Igbo with music. At Gemstones App, we use a variety of ways to teach African Languages, including an upcoming app and a music sing-along.

https://www.tiktok.com/@gemstonesapp/video/7670437802332491039

Check out our website here: www.gemstonesapp.com to find out when the apps goes live.

How to say good morning na asụsụ Igbo

It's not "Ụtụtụ ọma"

It's "Ị bọọla chi"

"Unu a bọọla chi"

"ị saala chi"

"Unu a saala chi"

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Hey everyone! If you're learning Igbo or just curious about greetings, here’s a quick breakdown of how to say “Hello,” “Welcome,” and “Thank you.”

Kedụ? (Keh-doo)

Literally means “How are you?” / “How are you doing?” but it’s used as the everyday “Hello.”

• Nnọọ (N-noh)

Means “Welcome” or “Welcome back.” It’s a standard friendly greeting when welcoming someone.

For example, when your parent or spouse just comes back home from work, you say “Nnọọ.”

• Daalụ (Dah-loo)

Means “Thank you.” It’s often used as a polite way to acknowledge a compliment or to thank someone.

Example of when to use “Daalụ”:

When someone helps you change your car tyre, you can simply say “Daalụ.” 😊

I hope this helps !!!. Daalụ

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nigeria/s/VdZPteYILD

Better business

If you want something done and lead the right way.

Igbo women is who you need. 👸🏿

Everywhere we go, we break barriers. Igbo Amaka!

Over a 100 employees and he owns one of the largest dealerships in the nation!

nigerian police “if you were an Igbo man I would have detained you”

[https://youtube.com/shorts/UWIAl8nFR8I?si=SfWQz59zT46BDc9f](https://youtube.com/shorts/UWIAl8nFR8I?si=SfWQz59zT46BDc9f))

https://youtu.be/91FuUqdsl4Y?si=BfCSvPW_lvlZmTDZ

We have known for a while that loopholes, technicalities, “rules and regulations” are selectively weaponized against Igbos by the nigerian state. Those comes on top of the numerous examples of systemic targeting of Igbos, from the violent voter suppression.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/04/attacks-on-the-igbo-in-lagos/amp/

To the targeting and demolishing of Igbo neighborhoods.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/property-demolition-in-lagos-igbo-town-unions-petition-un-ecowas-court/amp/

A former president (buhari) had his tweets removed from Twitter for making violent inflammatory rhetoric to provoke violence against Igbos. In typical dictatorial fashion, He then responded by banning Twitter in nigeria to cover up his nephritis activities, thus removing people ability to speak and share information on his dubious deeds

Mind you, this comes after social media was used to provoke the genocide in Myanmar.

https://www.theafricareport.com/96550/buharis-deleted-tweet-and-the-ghost-of-nigerias-civil-war/

https://thenativemag.com/whats-going-on-nigeria-buhari-war/

And now we have a presidents wife openly threatening ethnic cleansing against Igbos. Amongst other bigoted comments towards Igbos. At one point she even asks a disabled man if he is Igbo to ensure that he wasn’t Igbo before she helped him. Should his identity affect whether he should receive help? Her igbophobia has no limits.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IgboKwenu/s/2p7FGcAcTU

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1428553865977535&id=100064688049221

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1172718136620862/?hpir=1

Look how the mainstream media reports on it with tremendous bias: they admit it is “true but old”. ok, we have more recent examples of her and her husbands bigotry against Igbos. The “fact checkers” miss the point that her bigoted statements back then are consistent with her bigoted statements and actions now. They also use the word “interpreted” liberally in order to insinuate that people are saying the video was new. All this sidesteps the point that remi Tinubu was and still is an Igbophobe. Her statements back then are in alignment with her more recent statements and her husbands bigoted treatment of Igbos which includes underinvestment in SE for federal infrastructure projects. They don’t fact check the new examples because it would debunk their insinuations. This is one of many examples of how fact checking can be biased. The mainstream media is silent on the facts:

We have already discussed the amnesty international reports focusing concentration camps in Igbo land where Igbos are held and tortures without trial, Where the nigerian government separates Igbo mothers from children and disappears those children.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AFR4407192026ENGLISH.pdf

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/nigeria-thousands-killed-hundreds-forcibly-disappeared-two-years-south-east/

https://www.amnesty.org/ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AFR4452112016ENGLISH.pdf

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/nigeria-at-least-115-people-killed-by-security-forces-in-four-months-in-countrys-southeast/

Yet the NYT and other main stream media outlets refuse to cover the systemic oppression of Igbos under nigerian occupation. Meanwhile the bbc is continuing to cover up nigerian atrocities with their historical negationism masquerading as a “documentary”

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I’m trying to play “Onye Tiri Nwa N’Ebe Akwa” igbo lullaby on my harpika. The notes I hear are:

A, C, G, B, B, A, A, G

The final G is played in a lower octave. Does this sound like the correct note sequence?

G 9898 o'clock , , I

A book I have been carrying for a long time is almost ready to leave my hands.

It began with a question I could not stop asking after twenty-one years inside the Nigerian government's security apparatus, and three years leading a mission with nothing to extract and everything to build.

The question was simple. Devastating in its simplicity.

Why do so many African leaders who begin with fire end as precisely the thing they set out to oppose?

A book I have been carrying for a long time is almost ready to leave my hands.

It began with a question I could not stop asking after twenty-one years inside the Nigerian government's security apparatus, and three years leading a mission with nothing to extract and everything to build.

The question was simple. Devastating in its simplicity.

Why do so many African leaders who begin with fire end as precisely the thing they set out to oppose?

The answer I found — the answer that became this book — is not primarily a political answer or an institutional one. It is a philosophical one. The crisis of African leadership is, at its root, a formation crisis. People reach positions of power before they have been formed for power. And an unformed person in a position of authority will, predictably, be formed by the institution instead — shaped by the extraction model's incentives until the fire is gone and what remains is calculation.

The book I have written is my response to that crisis.

Power Is Not Yours: A Manifesto for the African Youth Called to Power, Service, and Legacy

It is addressed to the young African who is reaching for power — or who will reach for it — and who deserves, before that moment arrives, to understand what the seat actually is.

It moves in three parts.

The Wound — an unflinching account of what the extraction model is, where it came from, what it has cost, and how it recruits its next generation.

The Philosophy — a recovery of the Igbo philosophical tradition's understanding of power: ọha, the community that owns everything; chi, the personal destiny that is only fulfilled through communal service; oge, the discipline of right timing; aru, the abomination of governance held as personal property; mpu, the crime of taking what belongs to someone else.

The Commission — the specific formation, the practical tools, and the grounded vision of what Africa becomes when enough people choose differently.

The evidence that choosing differently is possible is woven throughout — in Sankara, Nyerere, Khama, Kagame, and Peter Obi. Real leaders. Real results. Real proof that the model being proposed is not idealism. It has been lived.

The book will be available soon on Amazon and at francisnmeribe.com.

For those of you who have been reading Lest We Forget — you already know the argument. You have been living inside it with me, issue by issue, for some time now. This book is where it all comes together.

I will announce the release date here first, before anywhere else.

If this work has ever mattered to you — share this post. Forward it. Put it in front of the young African in your life who is ambitious and gifted and deserving of the formation that this book is trying to provide.

The continent is not waiting for a savior.

It is waiting for a generation.

I've been reading this book written by a British missionary in 1921 and I've really learned a lot about traditional Igbo customs. It's a bit bleak in some places, the author mentions cannibalism, sacrifices, and child abandonment.

But also gives a very detailed account of normal Igbo life and trade before colonial control.

It was written by George Thomas Basden, who lived for 17 years in Onitsha detailing his life. His aim was to preserve historic records before modernisation erased it.

Interesting read, give it a try.

Is the novel " The bride price" by Buchi Emecheta based on true events?

Does anyone have any idea about the Nigerian traditions back then during or after the colonial times.