![]() ![]() Igboland stretches from Port Harcourt to Agbor. It is both arrogant, thoughtless and insensitive for anybody to regard others as marginal.Īnswer: Not at all. Question: Why do some Igbo refer to themselves as “core Igbo?”*Īnswer: That is clearly arrant nonsense. The correct answer to your question is “the Igbo come from Southern Nigeria.” They are no less Igbo than those who live in the eastern part of Nigeria. are all from the western part of Nigeria. The best known Igbo anthropologist Professor Mike Onwuejeogwu is from the western part of Nigeria, Chukwuma Nzeogwu, Dennis Osadebe, Okonkwo Adibe (the famous musician), Sony Odogwu, etc. ![]() However, by saying that the Igbo are easterners, the implication is that the Igbo in western Nigeria, numbering about 2.5 million (Agbor, Ogwashi Ukwu, Ibuzo, Okpanam, Asaba, Orimili, Ndokwa, Anioma, etc) are not Igbos. It may be correct to say that the Igbo are found predominantly in eastern Nigeria. Igbo people come from Southern Nigeria and not Eastern Nigeria. Question: Why were we taught in school that Igbo people are easterners?*Īnswer: It is both an unfortunate parroting by teachers and careless adoption by Igbo educated class. Igboland covers the whole of Southeast, parts of Rivers, Delta, Edo, Cross river, Benue, Kogi and Akwa Ibom states. Southeast is only about 3/5th of Igboland. Question: Is Southeast and Igboland the same thing?Īnswer: Not at all. ![]()
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