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Linguistic Borrowing and Translanguaging in Multicultural Obollo Speech Community, Southeastern Nigeria

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
Historically, the influx of people with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds (e.g., Onitsha, Hausa, Yoruba, and Idoma) in Nigeria to Obollo from 1970s onward led to language contact and its consequences on an unprecedented scale.
Crescentia Ugwuona
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Didactic and pedagogical dimensions of Igbo oral children’s songs

open access: yesJournal of Language and Cultural Education, 2021
There is a sharp decline in the performance of Igbo oral songs by children in recent times. Unlike in the days gone, children of nowadays rarely gather in groups in the evenings or during moonlight nights to play and perform some dramatic and musical ...
Nwosu Onyebuchi   +2 more
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Enfants-soldats au Nigeria : les romanciers témoignent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
During an interview, Ishmael Beah, conscripted in Sierra Leone when he was 13, testified to the fact that the rights of child‐soldiers were constantly violated.
Ugochukwu, Francoise
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Adaptation and inculturation, as tools for understanding Igbo-African marriage system: A rereading of 1 Timothy 3:2

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2020
1 Timothy 3:2 in its traditional reading is one of those Bible texts that have negatively challenged the Igbo style of marriage and family life. This is because the church’s ‘generalisation policy’ on the sacrament of matrimony, which has presented such ...
Prince E. Peters
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Insertion strategies used with lone English verbs in otherwise Igbo utterances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Using examples of tape recorded conversational data from fifty educated adult Igbo-English bilinguals resident in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, this paper demonstrates that lone English verbs are typically inserted into otherwise Igbo utterances by means of ...
Ihemere, K., Ihemere, K.
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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the reintegration to normal living index into IGBO language among individuals with mobility disability

open access: yesJournal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2019
Background Community reintegration is one of the most important elements of disability rehabilitation globally. Hence, there is need for availability of psychometrically-sound and culturally-specific instruments for its measurement. Most of the available
Emmanuel Chiebuka Okoye   +6 more
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Ntule omenala Igbo n’abụ ederede Igbo

open access: yesOGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies, 2019
No ...
Nnyigide, Nkoli Mercy   +1 more
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Nigeria : un siècle de dictionnaires igbo bilingues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The ALLEX lexicography project, the fruit of an active collaboration between Universities in Zimbabwe, Sweden and Norway, has already led to the publication of two monolingual dictionaries, of Shona and Ndebele, showing that lexicography can be used ...
Ugochukwu, Francoise
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Environmental determinant of religious names: A study of Úgwú and naming among the Nsukka-Igbo people of Nigeria

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article makes a contribution towards understanding the correlation between Úgwú (hill or mountain) and personal names among the Igbo people of Nigeria. Sacralisation of the natural environment which include hills or mountains is a belief that cuts
Paulinus O. Agbo   +2 more
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A cross-cultural analysis of communication patterns between two cultures in Southwest Nigeria

open access: yesInkanyiso, 2017
Communication scholars estimate that two-thirds of communications are influenced by the culture of the communicator. On this basis, this study examined the Igbo and Yoruba socio-cultural relationships as they influence the management of their ...
Olugbenga Elegbe, Ifeoma Nwachukwu
doaj   +1 more source

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