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8 results for “Igbo”
Peter C. Odo, Mary-Jane Ezike
Translators of the Bible into Igbo have had to choose words for God, spirit and sin from a religious vocabulary with its own history. This study compares key terms across three Igbo Bible translations and shows how each choice negotiates between indigenous rel…
Philosophy, Ethics and ReligionChiamaka R. Obi
Akwete cloth, woven by women in south-eastern Nigeria, recurs in modern Igbo poetry as an image of memory, labour and continuity. This review traces the motif through the work of several poets writing in Igbo and English since the 1970s, reading the loom as a …
Language, Literature and LinguisticsEmeka J. Nwosu, Halima Bello, Grace O. Adeyemi
Proverbs are among the hardest items to translate, because their force depends on shared cultural knowledge. Using a corpus of 120 Igbo proverbs and their published English translations, this study classifies the strategies translators use, from literal render…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsAdaeze N. Okafor, Tobenna Eze
Teachers in Nigerian secondary schools routinely move between English and Igbo, yet official policy treats such switching as a lapse. Drawing on forty hours of recorded lessons in four Nsukka schools, this study examines when and why teachers switch codes. The…
Education and PedagogyNkechi L. Okoli, Yusuf A. Danjuma
Shop signs, billboards and posters make language visible in the city. This study photographs and analyses 1,200 signs in three districts of Enugu to map the use of English, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin and other languages. English dominates official and commercial si…
Language, Literature and LinguisticsOluwaseun T. Bakare
Nigeria’s constitution allows legislators to speak Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba, but English remains the language of the National Assembly. This paper reads parliamentary records alongside theories of linguistic justice to ask what a genuinely multilingual legislatur…
Politics, Governance and DevelopmentEbuka Nnaji
Highlife songs often speak in the voice of an elder giving advice. This review surveys the advisory mode in Igbo highlife from the 1960s to the present, reading lyrics as moral philosophy set to music. It argues that the genre’s proverbs, warnings and blessing…
Humanities and Social SciencesFunmilayo O. Adebayo
Nollywood films increasingly circulate with English subtitles on streaming platforms, reaching viewers who do not speak the languages on screen. This study compares subtitled and original versions of twelve Yoruba- and Igbo-language films to show how subtitlin…
Communication and Media Studies