She is getting prettier by the day. Wishing her a wonderful new year.

davecris:
Op u were making sense until those examples.

What's wrong with examples? They are examples of AP (Advanced Pidgin) I proposed above, using Igbo, the only Nigerian vernacular language I know. The beauty of AP is that everyone of the Nigerian over 500 languages would supply words to it.

Pidgin English has the potential to truly bond Nigeria linguistically and create an econonmy of at least 5 billion dollars, spanning a network of media houses, novelists etc.

But the current pidgin, for all its creative subversion takes most of its vocabulary from English and thus has no originality or concrete raison d'etre.

Thus today I am proposing Advanced Pidgin( AP), that deliberately fuses at least 100 words from every one Nigeria's over 500 languages.

Two benefits of Advanced Pidgin Pidgin( AP) ( amongst others)

Greater linguistic conformity amongst Nigerians

By introducing 100 key words from every Nigerian language, vernacular languages would loose their mystery and would be more comprehensible to all. Much of colloquial speech in every language relies heavily on key words, so by making at least 100 words from every Nigerian language available, we are well underway to introducing a pan-Nigerian language.

Creating a vibrant sub-economy

By creating AP we can can create wealth and employment spanning advertising firms, book publishing, broadcasting etc, that touches every part of the country. The latent commercial potentials of Nigerian vernacular languages are ill-harnessed. AV will open a new vista of enterprenual energy and engagement.

Examples of how AP will work

I will start by using Igbo, the only Nigerian vernacular language I speak.
Here are eight Igbo words that can be introduced into AP: Mahadum (university), Ulọ ( pronounced Ulor) - house, mmiri( water), Amamihe( knowledge), onyonyo ( television), ike ( power), jee (go), nso (near)

Here are sample sentences that integrate current pidgin (CP) and Avanced pidgin( AP)

I wan jee ulor - I want to go home.

My mahadum dey nso. - My university is nearby

I wan mmiri. - I want water

Amamihe na ike. - Knowledge is power.

These sentences give an advanced vernacular experience to pidgin. When the 500 plus vernacular languages supply their owns words, AV would be a force to reckon with , able to generate its own vocabulary for science, literature etc .

To be sure current pidgin incorporates words from local languages but they are few and far between. The main bulk of pidgin's vocabulary comes from English and thus there isn't any real distinction between pidgin and English. Advanced pidgin (AP) is an accelerated pathway to jolt pidgin English into the 21st century by synergising Nigerian vernacular languages.

lalasticlala, seun, odumchi, Fulaman198, bigfrancis21

And an Igbo language blog or website where articles will be in a good first step.

ChinenyeN:
Who wants to coin new terminology? Pick a topic, any topic. Let's indulge ourselves.

Nice one. I was doing a google search and stumbled on this. Count me in if it is still in progress.

ChinenyeN:
Scolti, olia? What's the latest development on your project, if you don't mind sharing?

It has been a while. I was engaged in other activities, so was absent for a while, but I am now considerably freer. My mind is still very much in this activity. Nothing in the intervening period has convinced me otherwise, of the need to jolt the Igbo language from its complacency. I have more ideas and I am sure, so do you and others so invested. I will create a facebook page or Whatsapp group early next year where we (those of us so interested) can come together, synergistically , as I would like this to be done 'ime ulo' or we use only Igbo here.

It has been a while. I was engaged in other activities, so was absent for a while, but I am now considerably freer. My mind is still very much in this activity. Nothing in the intervening period has convinced me otherwise, of the need to jolt the Igbo language from its complacency. I have more ideas and I am sure, so do you and others so invested. I will create a facebook page or Whatsapp group early next year where we (those of us so interested) can come together, synergistically , as I would like this to be done 'ime ulo' or we use only Igbo here.

Why should a young, hale and hearty man like Cyril Stober retire. He still has prime years ahead of him.

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bigtt76:
Did they ever make any impact?

Irokotv makes millions every year. Last year it signed a multimillion deal with a French company, to supply French-speaking countries with films. Infact, it has an international arm supplying (and translating) films to countries around the world interested in Africa films. There is a massive demand for Nollywood films in and out of Nigeria. They are one of the greatest forces in the Nigerian film-making industry.

This is a nice development. More grease to their elbow.

1 Absolute Value- uru kpamkpam (eteraka etiti ọnụọgụgụ na efu elu akara ọnụọgụgụ.)
2 Addend - nsonye (otu nke ọnụọgụgụ a na-tinye na nsogbu mgbakwunye)
3 Adjacent angles- nsoebe akuku (akuku abuo na-eke oke akuku)
4 Algebraic expression - nkwuputa oguguakara (otu nkwuputa nwere otu maobu purugbanwe karia)
5. Alternate interior angles- Isoro ime akuku
6 Angles - akuku (a kpụrụ mgbe akara abụọ mekọrọ)
7 Angle measure - ituu akuku
8 Area - ogbe
9 Arithmetic mean- ichi-onuogugu agbaetiti
10 Average -agbaetiti
11 bar graph - eseogugu logo
12 Circle graph - eseogugu okiriki
13 Cone - ikoefu
14 Congruent - otunha (enwe otu nhà na ọdịdị)
15 Congruent angles -akuku otunha (akuku abụọ nwere otu nhàra)
16 Consecutive numbers - ọnụọgụgụ sonazu
17 Consecutive integers - ọgụgụdum sonazu
18 Coordinates -nchịkọta
19 Counting -agụta
20 Counting Principle - agụta ekweizizi
21 Counting number-
agụta ọnụọgụgụ
22 Cube - akukuisi
23 Cylinder - okirikiitọ
24 Decimal - nke-iri
25 Decimal places - ebe
nke-iri
26 Degree -ókè
27 Degree measure- ituu ókè
28 Denominator- ọnụọgụgụ
ala/okpuruakara
29 Diameter - ngaime ( ahiri na-ekewa okiriki (circle) na ọkara. Ọ na-aga kpọmkwem site na etiti nke okiriki na-amalite na gwuchaa na nsọtụ nke okiriki.)
30 Difference -ọdi-iche
31 Digit - oguguaka (o so na ìgwè ọgụgụdum sonazu site na 0 rue 9)
32 Dividend - ọgụgụkewara (ọnụọgụgụ a na-ekewa na nsogbu nkewa)
33 Divisibiliy- idinkewa
34 Divisor- nkewaabuọ
35 Equation - nhara (nkwupụta nkaọnụọgụgụ nke na-eji ịrịba-ama hakwa otú na-egosi na nkwupụta nkaọnụọgụgụ abụọ hàra.)
36 Equilateral triangle -=eriri-nha nha-itọ
37 Even number-ọnụọgụgụ ha-otu
38 Exponent-ọnụọgụgụ-elu
39 Factor - nkewahara
40 Fundimental Principal of Counting - Ụkpụrụ nkeisi aguta
41 Graph - eseọgụgụ
42 Heptagon - akukuasaa
43 Hundreds place - ebe nari
44 Hundredths place - ebe nari asaa
45 Hypotenuse - akukulogo
46 Improper fraction - ntaọgụgụ adighiezi
47 Inequality - ahaghiotu
48 Integer- ọgụgụdum
49 Irrational Number - ọnụọgụgụ agbaghiuche
50 Isosceles triangle - ntuatọ nhara
51 Line - akara (ogologo akara na-aga ruo ebighịebi na ntụziaka abuọ)
52 Lowest Common Denominator - okpurueriri
kasi-ala ọha
53 Mean- ètitiọgugu ( nkezi, nchikota nke otu ìgwè (set) ọnụọgụgụ kewara site na ọnụọgụgụ nke umu ọnụ ọgụgụ na ìgwè.)
54 Median - uru-etiti ( (O bu) uru nke etiti ìgwè ọnụọgụgụ mgbe ha na-haziri malite kasị ala ruo kasị elu. Ọ bụrụ na ndị ìgwè nwere ihe ọbụna (even) ọnụ ọgụgụ nke umu ọnụ ọgụgụ , uru-etiti bụ nkezi nke abụọ umu ọnụ ọgụgụ nke dịkarịrị nso na n'etiti
55 Mixed number -ọnụọgụgụ gbọkọrọ (Bụ ọnụọgụgụ okpu na-mejupụtara ọnụọgụgụ dum ntaọgụgụ.)
56 Mode - etuuzọ (uru maọbụ ụrụ na-abia ọtụtụ ugboro na ndepụta nke umu ọnụọgụgụ.)
57 Multiple of a number - otutu nke ọnụọgụgụ (ngwaahịa/ọputara nke ọnụ ọgụgụ ahụ na ọzọ ọnụ ọgụgụ
58 natural number - ekerendu ọnụọgụgụ ( ọgụgụdum ziriezi ọ bụla, ọnụọgụgụ agụta)
59 Negative number - ọnụọgụgụ megideọma (ọnụọgụgụ ọbụla pekari efu)
60 Number line- eriri ọnụọgụgụ
61 Numerator - ọnụọgụgụ elu (ọnụ ọgụgụ elu na ntaọgụgụ)
62 Octagon -akukuasatọ (Akukuabuo nwere akuku asato)
63 odd number - ọnụọgụgụ adabaghi (onuogugu dum na-adịghị nkewa site 2)
64 Ones place - ebe ofu (ọnọdụ onuogugu nke mbụ ọbula na-ekpe nke ntụpọ nke-iri)
65 Order of operations- nsoro ọruọru (Nsoro nke ime mfe nsogbu jiri otutu ọruọru)
66 Ordered pair - nsorowo ìgwèabuọ (achịkọta
67 Origin -Mmalite (ntụpọ 0,0 na alamfe (plain) ebe ntu x na ntu y na-ezute)
68 Parallel lines - eriri ologoyiri
69 Parallelogram - ologoyirianọ
70 Pentagon - akukuise
71 Percent - na nari
72 perpendicular lines- ologoiriitoolu ahiri (ahiri na-irutu na-etolite akuku nri.)
73 Pie chart - eseozi okiriki
74 Point (ntụpọ) ( ntu na-anọchite anya ebe kpọmkwem)
75 Positive number - onuogugu ziriezi
76 Prime number - onuogugu izizi
77 Prism - nkpuitọ
78 Probability - puruomeadi (ọnụ ọgụgụ nke omeme nwere ike ime kewara site ngụkọta ọnụọgụgụ nke puru ome)
79 Product - (ọputara/ngwaahia) (Ngwaahịa n'ihi nke nsogbu omeotutu (multiplication) )
80 Proportion - nhara oke
81 Pythagorean Theorem - Nkọwara pythagoras (nchikota nha-anọ nke ogologo nke ụkwụ abụọ nke akukuatọ hàra ogologo nke akukulogo
nha-anọ-wo)
82 Quadrilateral - Ahirianọ
83 Quotient - ọputadum (ọputa ọgụgụdum nke nkewa ogologo)
84 Radius - akaraetiti (okiriki na-amalite na etiti okiriki (circle) na-agwụ na nsọtụ nke okiriki.)
85 range - okeọdi ( idiche etiti umu uru kasị elu na kasị ala na ìgwè ọnụọgụgụ)
86 Ratio - onutunye (ntụnyere nke ọnụọgụgụ abuọ maọbụ nraibu (quantity))
87 Rational number - Real number ziriuche
88 Real number - ọnụọgụgụ ezi (ọnụọgụgụ obula ziriuche maobu ezighiuche)
89 Reciprocal - mmegwara
90 Rectangle - akukuanọ
91 Rectangular box - igbe akukuanọ
92 Reduced fraction -ntaọgụgụ belata (ntaọgụgụ nke ọnụọgụgụ-elu na okpuruakara enweghi nkewahara.)
93 Reflection - nchezi
94 Regular polygon -ńọ́kọ́dum abuọ́dum
95 Repeating decimal- meghari nke-iri
96 Rhombus - anọ́dum
97 Right angle - akuku nri
98 Right triangle - akukuitọ́ nri
99 Sample space- efe ngwaele
100 Scatter plot - aka zizacha
101 Sphere - okirikiri
102 Square - nha-ano
103 Square root - nha-ano mgbọrọgwụ
104 Tangent - nsoaka
105 Tens place - ebe iri
106 Tenths place - ebe iri ikpe
107 Thousands place - ebe puku
108 Thousanths place - ebe puku nri
109 Transformation - ngbanweodidi (Nchikota ọbụla nke nsụgharị na nchezi)
110 Translation - nsughari (usoro ikpu ntupọ maobu ọnụọgụgụ ruo eteraka kpọmkwem ijekapiri)
111 Transversal - jeimeahiri
112 triangle inequality rule- ahiriatọ iwu adighinhara
113 Units place - ebe nkeji
114 Variable - purugbanwe
115 Vertex- nzukoakara
116 Vertical angles - akukunri akuku- (umu akuku na-megide ibe ya nke guzobere mgbe akara abuo zukoro)
117 Volume - nraoke (onuoke (volume) nke efe nraume
118 Whole number- ọnụọgụgụ dum
119 x-axis - x-ntu
itọ na-anọ)
120 x-coordinate - x-nchikota
121 y-axis- ntu-y
122 y-coordiante - y-ọgụgụabuọ- (ọnụọgụgụ nke otuabuo nsorowo)

120 Mathematical terms translated into Igbo (and a few definitions)
1 Absolute Value- uru kpamkpam (eteraka etiti ọnụọgụgụ na efu elu akara ọnụọgụgụ.)
2 Addend - nsonye (otu nke ọnụọgụgụ a na-tinye na nsogbu mgbakwunye)
3 Adjacent angles- nsoebe akuku (akuku abuo na-eke oke akuku)
4 Algebraic expression - nkwuputa oguguakara (otu nkwuputa nwere otu maobu purugbanwe karia)
5. Alternate interior angles- Isoro ime akuku
6 Angles - akuku (a kpụrụ mgbe akara abụọ mekọrọ)
7 Angle measure - ituu akuku
8 Area - ogbe
9 Arithmetic mean- ichi-onuogugu agbaetiti
10 Average -agbaetiti
11 bar graph - eseogugu logo
12 Circle graph - eseogugu okiriki
13 Cone - ikoefu
14 Congruent - otunha (enwe otu nhà na ọdịdị)
15 Congruent angles -akuku otunha (akuku abụọ nwere otu nhàra)
16 Consecutive numbers - ọnụọgụgụ sonazu
17 Consecutive integers - ọgụgụdum sonazu
18 Coordinates -nchịkọta
19 Counting -agụta
20 Counting Principle - agụta ekweizizi
21 Counting number-
agụta ọnụọgụgụ
22 Cube - akukuisi
23 Cylinder - okirikiitọ
24 Decimal - nke-iri
25 Decimal places - ebe
nke-iri
26 Degree -ókè
27 Degree measure- ituu ókè
28 Denominator- ọnụọgụgụ
ala/okpuruakara
29 Diameter - ngaime ( ahiri na-ekewa okiriki (circle) na ọkara. Ọ na-aga kpọmkwem site na etiti nke okiriki na-amalite na gwuchaa na nsọtụ nke okiriki.)
30 Difference -ọdi-iche
31 Digit - oguguaka (o so na ìgwè ọgụgụdum sonazu site na 0 rue 9)
32 Dividend - ọgụgụkewara (ọnụọgụgụ a na-ekewa na nsogbu nkewa)
33 Divisibiliy- idinkewa
34 Divisor- nkewaabuọ
35 Equation - nhara (nkwupụta nkaọnụọgụgụ nke na-eji ịrịba-ama hakwa otú na-egosi na nkwupụta nkaọnụọgụgụ abụọ hàra.)
36 Equilateral triangle -=eriri-nha nha-itọ
37 Even number-ọnụọgụgụ ha-otu
38 Exponent-ọnụọgụgụ-elu
39 Factor - nkewahara
40 Fundimental Principal of Counting - Ụkpụrụ nkeisi aguta
41 Graph - eseọgụgụ
42 Heptagon - akukuasaa
43 Hundreds place - ebe nari
44 Hundredths place - ebe nari asaa
45 Hypotenuse - akukulogo
46 Improper fraction - ntaọgụgụ adighiezi
47 Inequality - ahaghiotu
48 Integer- ọgụgụdum
49 Irrational Number - ọnụọgụgụ agbaghiuche
50 Isosceles triangle - ntuatọ nhara
51 Line - akara (ogologo akara na-aga ruo ebighịebi na ntụziaka abuọ)
52 Lowest Common Denominator - okpurueriri
kasi-ala ọha
53 Mean- ètitiọgugu ( nkezi, nchikota nke otu ìgwè (set) ọnụọgụgụ kewara site na ọnụọgụgụ nke umu ọnụ ọgụgụ na ìgwè.)
54 Median - uru-etiti ( (O bu) uru nke etiti ìgwè ọnụọgụgụ mgbe ha na-haziri malite kasị ala ruo kasị elu. Ọ bụrụ na ndị ìgwè nwere ihe ọbụna (even) ọnụ ọgụgụ nke umu ọnụ ọgụgụ , uru-etiti bụ nkezi nke abụọ umu ọnụ ọgụgụ nke dịkarịrị nso na n'etiti
55 Mixed number -ọnụọgụgụ gbọkọrọ (Bụ ọnụọgụgụ okpu na-mejupụtara ọnụọgụgụ dum ntaọgụgụ.)
56 Mode - etuuzọ (uru maọbụ ụrụ na-abia ọtụtụ ugboro na ndepụta nke umu ọnụọgụgụ.)
57 Multiple of a number - otutu nke ọnụọgụgụ (ngwaahịa/ọputara nke ọnụ ọgụgụ ahụ na ọzọ ọnụ ọgụgụ
58 natural number - ekerendu ọnụọgụgụ ( ọgụgụdum ziriezi ọ bụla, ọnụọgụgụ agụta)
59 Negative number - ọnụọgụgụ megideọma (ọnụọgụgụ ọbụla pekari efu)
60 Number line- eriri ọnụọgụgụ
61 Numerator - ọnụọgụgụ elu (ọnụ ọgụgụ elu na ntaọgụgụ)
62 Octagon -akukuasatọ (Akukuabuo nwere akuku asato)
63 odd number - ọnụọgụgụ adabaghi (onuogugu dum na-adịghị nkewa site 2)
64 Ones place - ebe ofu (ọnọdụ onuogugu nke mbụ ọbula na-ekpe nke ntụpọ nke-iri)
65 Order of operations- nsoro ọruọru (Nsoro nke ime mfe nsogbu jiri otutu ọruọru)
66 Ordered pair - nsorowo ìgwèabuọ (achịkọta
67 Origin -Mmalite (ntụpọ 0,0 na alamfe (plain) ebe ntu x na ntu y na-ezute)
68 Parallel lines - eriri ologoyiri
69 Parallelogram - ologoyirianọ
70 Pentagon - akukuise
71 Percent - na nari
72 perpendicular lines- ologoiriitoolu ahiri (ahiri na-irutu na-etolite akuku nri.)
73 Pie chart - eseozi okiriki
74 Point (ntụpọ) ( ntu na-anọchite anya ebe kpọmkwem)
75 Positive number - onuogugu ziriezi
76 Prime number - onuogugu izizi
77 Prism - nkpuitọ
78 Probability - puruomeadi (ọnụ ọgụgụ nke omeme nwere ike ime kewara site ngụkọta ọnụọgụgụ nke puru ome)
79 Product - (ọputara/ngwaahia) (Ngwaahịa n'ihi nke nsogbu omeotutu (multiplication) )
80 Proportion - nhara oke
81 Pythagorean Theorem - Nkọwara pythagoras (nchikota nha-anọ nke ogologo nke ụkwụ abụọ nke akukuatọ hàra ogologo nke akukulogo
nha-anọ-wo)
82 Quadrilateral - Ahirianọ
83 Quotient - ọputadum (ọputa ọgụgụdum nke nkewa ogologo)
84 Radius - akaraetiti (okiriki na-amalite na etiti okiriki (circle) na-agwụ na nsọtụ nke okiriki.)
85 range - okeọdi ( idiche etiti umu uru kasị elu na kasị ala na ìgwè ọnụọgụgụ)
86 Ratio - onutunye (ntụnyere nke ọnụọgụgụ abuọ maọbụ nraibu (quantity))
87 Rational number - Real number ziriuche
88 Real number - ọnụọgụgụ ezi (ọnụọgụgụ obula ziriuche maobu ezighiuche)
89 Reciprocal - mmegwara
90 Rectangle - akukuanọ
91 Rectangular box - igbe akukuanọ
92 Reduced fraction -ntaọgụgụ belata (ntaọgụgụ nke ọnụọgụgụ-elu na okpuruakara enweghi nkewahara.)
93 Reflection - nchezi
94 Regular polygon -ńọ́kọ́dum abuọ́dum
95 Repeating decimal- meghari nke-iri
96 Rhombus - anọ́dum
97 Right angle - akuku nri
98 Right triangle - akukuitọ́ nri
99 Sample space- efe ngwaele
100 Scatter plot - aka zizacha
101 Sphere - okirikiri
102 Square - nha-ano
103 Square root - nha-ano mgbọrọgwụ
104 Tangent - nsoaka
105 Tens place - ebe iri
106 Tenths place - ebe iri ikpe
107 Thousands place - ebe puku
108 Thousanths place - ebe puku nri
109 Transformation - ngbanweodidi (Nchikota ọbụla nke nsụgharị na nchezi)
110 Translation - nsughari (usoro ikpu ntupọ maobu ọnụọgụgụ ruo eteraka kpọmkwem ijekapiri)
111 Transversal - jeimeahiri
112 triangle inequality rule- ahiriatọ iwu adighinhara
113 Units place - ebe nkeji
114 Variable - purugbanwe
115 Vertex- nzukoakara
116 Vertical angles - akukunri akuku- (umu akuku na-megide ibe ya nke guzobere mgbe akara abuo zukoro)
117 Volume - nraoke (onuoke (volume) nke efe nraume
118 Whole number- ọnụọgụgụ dum
119 x-axis - x-ntu
itọ na-anọ)
120 x-coordinate - x-nchikota
121 y-axis- ntu-y
122 y-coordiante - y-ọgụgụabuọ- (ọnụọgụgụ nke otuabuo nsorowo)
odumchi, bigfrancis21, Fulaman198, lalasticlala, seun

Phut:


What is the etymology of Ngigauwa? I feel it would be better if there is a correlation between it and the word for computer. Makes for easier learning and flow.

Fossil - nhapuochie is good, but Ozuochie is better (in my estimation). Haven't gone through the whole list. Will come back with more comments, when I do. Ji shi ike

'Ngigauwa' came from the Ahiajoku lectures. Ozuochie is good. The Igbo language has an enormous power of creation. The strongest word would become the headword, while the rest synonyms. Daalu.

Phut:
@ Scholti: This is great work on your part. In my opinion most are spot on except for # 49. Why would light be Ihe?

Obundu - DNA
Njefie - Error and the rest are awesome.

If Internet is Ngigauwa, what would u call a computer?

Phut,

Thanks for the post.

The 'ìhè' with the diacritic marks isn't the same as 'ihe'. 'ìhè' stands for brightness. For computer, in a previous translation, I put it as 'Igweuru', as an attempt to award it the everyday essentiality, it connotes.

pleep:
10$ for the first low-IQ African moronn to translate this passage into his native language:


"But the difference of space is essentially a determinate, qualitative difference. As such it is (a) first, the negation of space itself because this is immediate and undifferentiated self-externality, the point. (b) The negation as negation, however, is itself spatial, and the relation of the point to space is the line, the first otherness of the point. (c) The truth of the otherness is, however, the negation of the negation. The line, therefore, passes over into the plane, which on the one hand is a determinacy opposed to line and point, and thus is plane in general, but on the other hand is the suspended negation of space, and thus the re-establishment of spatial totality, which, however, now contains the negative moment within itself an enclosing surface, which splits off an individual, whole space."

Is this all you got? Even dog language can translate this.

ChinenyeN,

ChinenyeN:
Ndeewo nu. Sorry for not responding sooner. I never forgot about the thread. I was just busy finalizing some projects.

Anyway, thank you all for the contributions. I am currently compiling the contributions based on themes. In the mean time, I'd like to touch on Scholti's suggestion of an online academy. I find it interesting, and certainly there are some advantages to having an online academy over a brick-and-mortar compound. However, I see that more as a short-term fix. My intention with a private institution is to build toward a self-sustaining system. The solution then has to be long-term. Although, there is no rule that states that both (online academy and physical private institution) cannot be done. In fact, I can easily envision a situation where both are systematically linked.

The lack of significant overhead involved in running an online academy would make the online academy a relatively easy first step. All it takes is good hosting, a well-developed site, and scalable databases. I realize that it is easier said than done, but it would still get off the ground much faster than any attempt to open up a physical private institution. The question now is [again] how to implement it. Scholti imagines the site as a 'go-to' site for anything from cv-writing, traveling to manufacturing and also serve as a reporting/news platform. However, I would prefer to limit the scope of that, for two reasons:

1. I don't believe an online academy need operate in that terrain.
2. There already exists plenty of online news/reporting platforms that report in Igbo. The most notable being IgboRadio.

That's just a personal preference of mine. That aside, the next question would be implementation. Will the online academy be like YouTube or have more structure like Udemy or Ed2Go? There are advantages and disadvantages of both implementations (structured, organized [Udemy/Ed2Go] vs open-community, sharing [YouTube]). As a personal preference of mine, I would prefer the more structured route, such as Udemy and Ed2Go. It would be easier to link a structured online academy to the more long-term private institution as a distance learning program.

Anyway, I think I've gotten what I was looking for (initial thoughts on the most effective and cost-effective implementation). Thank you all who contributed.

IgboRadio is a poor excuse of a news site. It is hardly updated. Throughout this year, it has barely published anything. The guy who runs it, basically comes in whenever he feels like and posts a story and vanishes. He started out with a good idea, but was perhaps overtaken by other concerns. Journalism is an up-to-the-minute affair. It needs to be fed always. There is not a single functioning Igbo news site or radio platform on the internet, which really says a lot about how the Igbo treat their language. I suggested a news section, a radio platform and other 'less intensive' courses like CV-writing for the sake of traffic (regular site visits to access contents) as this is really important in the beginning - as a clutch, but the main meat would be structured courses. People's interests have to be awakened.

An online academy, remains in my considered view, the best way forward in the short-run. It can be linked to an app. Miraculously, I see it catching on with enough persistence, but it at least needs to have a few people willing to dedicate their time to do some translations and diffusion to get it rolling.

davidante27,

davidante27:
Communication means :the successful conveying or sharing of ideas ,information and feelings.
Wouldn't it be better if everyone could communicate in one language instead of having interpreters ? What matters most is simply the ease of transfer of the message. Now imagine how difficult it would have been for Africans to understand each other if most Africans nation weren't unified by English or French language.
I'm not implying that people should suddenly abolish their languages and embrace English. Gradually,all of that will eventually happen. As I mentioned earlier,most people in Norway,Sweden,Denmark,Finland,Germany understand English language and speak it fluently as a second language. There are American and Canadian teachers teaching English in Japan,China,Singapore and South Korea, and most people there understand English . English is already the universal lingual France,although Chinese language has the largest number of speakers .

But Asians and Africans understood each other for millennia without English or French. These languages have only been on the African continent actively for less than 200 years, in a continent that is more than 100,000 years old, in which time Africans communicated and shared with each other across space and time. English and French, serve a useful purpose but they are not inevitable. Even today on the continent, there are extensive spaces where African languages play a vital role of communication.

Pleep,

pleep:
You people have the brains of rats.
English would replace the french, spanish and portugese that are spoken in other parts of the continent.

Go back and read my post again. I did not say that English should replace all the languages in Africa. I said the ethnic groups in Africa should be condensed into a lesser number of larger groups:


Learn to fucking read.

You are not of us. We are just humouring you. You couldn't even deal with the meat of the points I raised, yet you run around writing about IQ. You write like someone with a mental disease. I only replied the language part for a reason. ONLY AFRICAN LANGUAGES - ALL OF THEM - SHOULD BE USED ON THE CONTINENT IN UNIVERSITIES, POLITICS, ECONOMICS ETC AND ENGLISH, FRENCH ETC COME A DISTANT SECOND. AFRICAN ETHNIC GROUPS AND LANGUAGES MUST REMAIN AS THEY ARE. I speak six European languages and I can't see any superiority they have that they should be accorded pride of place.

Europe has a land mass of 10.18 million km² with a commensurate 87 ethnic groups, while Africa has more than thrice that number - 30.22 million km² and an official 3000 ethnic groups, although the true number is around 1200 as many distinct ethnic groups are more properly, subgroups and there are lots of deep ties of culture, marriage and history that create a deep core of unity amongst the ethnic groups. Africa has enough space and resources to cater for all its ethnic groups and languages, they only need to be managed in respectful spaces like the Switzerland example I wrote in my previous post. We do not need to merge ethnic groups and languages to create a few super-continental languages or ethnic groups for peace and prosperity. Europe with its fewer ethnicities has given us catastrophic examples of barbaric wars and carnages. Even if merging would take place, it should be a consensual/natural process that would take place over time.

Pleep,

Learn a few African languages and study African history and current affairs. Follow African news and their developments. You have no debate. I can smash your views but it might be a waste of time. I only commented on the language part of your first post, so that those who are not sufficiently clued, would not fall into your views. The English language is largely a borrowed language. There is very little in it that is native to it compared to 90% of Nigerian languages that depend on their vocabulary and grammar to function. Take Igbo for instance. It has hundreds of dialects with their own vocabularies, proverbs etc. It has native words for many plants, trees, animals, politics, economics etc, where the English language equivalents are from Greek and Latin. The English language should be a distant second language on the continent. If not for inferiority complex, by now we should have Hausa, Zulu, Shona etc, universities in Africa, just as there are Polish, Catalan etc universities.

No European country - apart from Ireland for historical reasons - has bowed to the international might of English by making it a national language and Europe has fifty countries. Even Sweden that is seen as the most receptive of English, has the second highest number of published articles - in Swedish - on Wikipedia. Preach your message of making the English language a continental language, first to Europe, the homeland of English as it only comes a distant second on the continent. I would rather Zulu be the continental language. It is a more natural language - 90% of its vocabulary belongs to it. Its written works on science, politics, economics etc are largely its own. It has produced lots of books and has a vibrant media. English produces more books because of its status in world science and business. But German, French, Japanese and Chinese etc are not far behind. There are many knowledges that are not published in English. Every years lots of books are published in African languages from Malawi, Uganda etc.

Africa only needs to manage its diversity of languages, by respecting them and apportioning spaces to them to thrive (I prefer it to be in-country) and then allowing mutual co-operation between them. We should aim for the Switzerland example. It is composed of French, Italian and German ethnic groups, with each having universities run in their languages and many other examples of cultural cohabitation. This is civilisation.

Africa doesn't need to aggregate its many languages into an arbitrary few, rather it needs to rearrange the diversity of its languages, in my view, into federal units (within their existing nations). There are 225 indigenous European languages, yet Europe is home to many of the world's prosperous and semi-prosperous countries. Literally every country in Europe runs on its own language(s). Languages are important to the economic, political and social fabric of a country. If they are going to die, it should be a natural/consensual process involving the native speakers and not something slapped on them.

Igbo and Yoruba for instance, are more natural than French. The former languages rely heavily on their natural formations, while the latter on Latin, from where it derives most of its grammar and vocabulary. In fact African languages on the whole, are natural specimens of used languages. They are spoilt with numerous dialects, each having unique words and richness. The only area African languages might struggle is in deep science and even this is navigable with great creativity. There are many African languages that have come a long way like Kinyarwanda and Zulu, that have generated huge bodies of writings.

1 Economics = Nka-akụnụba (Ọ pụtara na ọmụmụ nke akunauba.)
2 Absolute advantage-Nriteuru kpamkpam
3 Accounting profit- Uruahia ndoteego
4 average fixed cost- ọnuahia agbaetiti arapara
5 Average revenue- Agbaetiti uruemeputa
6 Average tax rate- Agbaetiti ọnụego ụtụ-ala
7 Average total cost= Agbaetiti ọnụego nile
8 Average variable cost- Agbaetiti ọnụego puruiche
9 Budget deficit- Nhaziego dida
10 Budget surplus- Nhaziego njukari
11 Business cycle - Okiriki Azumahia
12 Cartel- òtùikpari
13 Circular flow diagram- Okirikiri Eruba esesengosi
14 Coase theorem- Akọwatara Coase
15 Collusion- Nkukọisi
16 Comparative advantage -Nriteuru a tụnyere
17 Complements- Nọkọaka
18 Constant return to scale-Efereọgụ (scale) ibiaghachi mgbe nile
19 Consumer surplus- Onye-nzuahia Njukari
20 Cost- ọnụahia
21 cross price elasticity of demand- Obe egoozuzu idi-igbati nke juruichọ (demand)
22 Deadweight loss= Ibu-ọnwụ funahụrụ
23 Diseconomies of scale- Nsepu-akunauba nke efereọgụ
24 Economic profit - uruahia akunauba
25 Law of Increasing Costs - Iwu nke na-amụba ọnuahia
26 Economies of scale- akunauba
nke efereọgụgụ
27 Efficiency-ọruọma
Efficient scale -ọruọma efereọgụgụ
28 Elasticity = idi-Yoruba
29 Equilibrium- nhata
30 Equity - nhaka
31 Explicit costs - ọnụahia doanya
32 Exports - mbufeofesi
33 Externality= idi-mpụga
34 Factors of production- akpata nke mmepụta
35 Fixed costs- ọnụahia kapịrị ọnụ
36 Implicit costs - ọnụahia a doronaya
37 Import quota = oke-aka ibubata
38 Imports - ngwa ebubutara
39 Income elasticity of demand - egoọru idi-Yoruba nke juruchọ
40 Inferior good - ngwa di gla
41 Inflation-onu oriri
42 Interdependence= mmekọ-nọrọonwe
43 Laffer curve- oruro Laffer
44 Law of demand - Iwu juruọchọ
45 Law of supply- Iwu ibufe
46 Lorenz Curve- oruro Lorenz
47 Lump sum tax - okpụrụkpụ utuala (tax)
48 Macroeconomics= akunauba-mpuga
49 Marginal cost-ọnụahia akuku
50 Marginal product- ngwaahia akuku
51 Marginal Product of Labor- ngwaahia akuku nke ọru
52 Marginal revenue- egonweta akuku
53 Marginal tax rate- ọnụego utu-ala akuku
54 Market economy- Ahia Akunauba
55 Microeconomics- akunauba nso
56 Monopolistic completion= mmezu ijiri-nani/ike0nnwekota mmezu
57 Monopoly- ijirinani
58 Nash equilibrium - Nhara Nash
59 Natural Monopoly- ijirinani
ekere
60 Normal good-ọma nke dabara
61 Normative statements- nkwupụta dabara
62 Oligopoly- ere-olenaole
63 Opportunity cost- ọnuahia ahapugara
64 Phillips curve - oruro 65 Phillips
66 Pigovian tax = utuala Pigovian
67 Positive statements - nkwupụta di-ezi
68 price ceiling- egoọzuzu uko
69 Price discrimination - ịkpaókè egoozuzu
70 Price elasticity of demand- Egoọzuzu idi-ngbata nke juruọchọ
71 Price elasticity of supply - Egoọzuzu idi-ngbata nke ibufe/nyefe
72 Price floor - ala Egoọzuzu
73 Private goods- ngwaahia nkeonwe
74 Producer surplus - njufe onye-mmeputa
75 production function- ọrụ mmepụta
76 Production possibilities curve- Oruro mmepụta puruome
77 Profit - nriteuru
78 Progressive tax - utuala mmubanye
79 Proportional tax - utuala di-nhara
80 Public goods - ngwaahia ọha
81 Regressive tax -utuala njeghachi
82 Scarcity-ụkọ
83 Shortage- ọdi-obere
84 Specialization- mpuruiche/ndonaiche
85 Substitutes-ndochi anya
86 Sunk cost- ọnuahia emikpuru
87 Supply side economics- Ibufe nka-akụnụba akụkụ
88 Surplus - njufe
89 Tariff- utuala-ezi (Utuala elu ngwaahia emepụta ná mba ọzọ na-ere ha n'ime obodo.)
90 Tax incidence- Utuala arịawanye (ụzọ nke ibu utuala na-ekere n'etiti ndi keere òkè n'ahịa)
91 Total cost- ọnuahia ngụkọtaọnụ
92 Total revenue -ọnuahia egonweta
93 Variable cost -ọnuahia ome-iche
94 Welfare economics -ọdimma nka-akụnụba
95 Economic profit- nriteuru nkaakụnụba
96 Safety Net - ụgbụ nchekwa
97 Traditional economy - akunauba ọdinala
98 Entrepreneur - Onye nwereaka
99 Centrally Planned Economy - Akunauba ahaziri n'etiti
100 Trade-Offs - nke ahapuru

naijadeyhia:


You should have been able to deduce from my statement that I was refering g to professional journalism in general and in its true form and not speaking up for kemi or in support of her comments about Linda.

What I am simply trying to say is for us to perhaps hear her out because indeed for someone to be able to afford a 600m home in banana are we to really say her source of income is from blogging alone? There is no statistical fact to support her making 360m yearly (perhaps during the campaign period per the last elections) but definitely not in a normal year. Something isn't right for real. Why would kami mention Lindas own sisters name and single out Dudafa? Indeed it was Laura who blew the lid on the banana acquisition. Will we call it a coincidence that it was shortly after the new government came in that she bought herself a banana crib? We all know that politically truck loads of money were dispersed during the past elections and she just may have been a beneficiary. Of course she wouldn't come out and say she got anything until she is finge/red with proof. However I remember Jonathan having a meeting with top bloggers back then and making a few his favourites and she may have Been one of the favoured ones based on popularity. She is innocent until proven guilty but there is more than meets the eye with the whole thing is all i am saying

Why can't you find your own success and leave her to her own. Linda is worth more than 600m.

People want to bring down this hard-working lady.

100 umu okwu azumahia di mkpa sugharia n'Igbo

1 intellectual capital - uba mmeputa (Mkpokọta ihe ọmụma (ma ma ọ bụ akwukwo) nke ndị mmadụ n'otu na-nzukọ ma ọ bụ ọha mmadụ.)
2 company - otu-ahia
3 market opportunity analysis - tọsaokwu ohere ahia (Otu ngwa (application) nke ịkọ usoro ndị ahịa akpata pụrụ imetụta ọchọ ngwaahịa makwaara ya dị a ahịa ohere).
4 horizontal integration - iwekotaọnu ologolo (Mmakọ nke umu otu ahia n'otu ogbo nke mmepụta n'otu ma ọ bụ ahiameputa dị-iche iche.)
5 management information system (MIS) - Njikwa ọrunhazie ọmuma (Uzo a haziri imuta nkpa omuma nke njikwa nzuko na lari nile, na-eme arụmọrụ na mkpebi usoroime.)
6 telecommuting-ọrụ-n'ụlọ
7 downsizing-mgbubilata
8 outsourcing-eziga ọrụ n'èzí
9 (R and D) Research and Development-Nyochọputa na mmalite
10 headquarters-ụlọisi
11 market- ebeahia
12 bonus - ufo-ego
13 personnel- ndiọru
14 quarter - nke anọ
15 promotion- nbulielu
16 asset- ngwa
17 recruitment -ịchọta/inabata ndị ọrụ
18 sales department-ngalaba ahịa
19 liability- ụgwọ jiri
20 presentation - ngosiputa
21 meeting- nzukọ
22 end user - onye ikpeazu (Onye ma ọ bụ ìgwè ndị ga-eji ngwaahịa mepụtara site na oru ngo.)
22 party- mmadu ( Onye nọ na mereme ulọ ikpe)
23 objective- ebumnobi
24 entrepreneur- ewerehazie (onye na-ahazi, ejisie, na-ewe ize- ndụ n'azụmahịa)
25 contract- nkwekọrịta, nsukọ
26 commercial (advert)- ngosiahia, mgbasa ozi
27 Venture Capital - Ego imalite ahia
28 investment - itinye ego ime
29 credit - mbibi aka
30 opportunity cost - ọnuahia ahapugara (ọnu ahia na okwu nke ndi ọzọ ahapuru)
31 logistics- Akọ ihazie
32 agreement -nkwekọrịta
33 shareholder - onye ji oke
34 interest - ego mmuba
35 customer service department - ngalaba ahịa ọrụ
36 inventory - igụọ uru ahia
37 terms -ọnọdu ahia (ọnọdụ ọ bụla nke dịgasị iche iche nke a rapara na ego azụmahịa )
38 loan- ego mbibi
39 lien - ikike were ( ikike iwere ihe onwunwe ọzọ ma ọ bụrụ na nkwesime (obligation) e mere.
40 manager - ndu isi
41 board of directors -Ndi ndu;
42 staff- ndi ọru
43 Human Resources - nchikọta ndi ọru
44 capital - ego mbido; ubaahia
45 budget - nhazieego
46 disruption - emeghasịkwa; ntọzaza)
47 networking - jirikọta
48 launch - oge mmalite
49 consumer - onye zu ahia
50 supply chain- njikọ mbufe
51 startup - azumahia ọhu
52 branding - aha iche
overhead - ego isi (ego ole ọ na-ewe na igba azụmahịa)
53 point of sale - ebe ire
54 cost of sales - ọnuahia nke ahịa-ọrịre ( ọnuahia nke iguọ-uru-ahia (inventory) nke azumahia eresigo ndi-zu-ahia.
55 wholesale = ire- nnukwu
56 revenue - nputa uru
57 salary - ụgwọ ọru
58 account -ọbaego
59 grant- ego-enyemeaka
60 non profit organization-Nzukọ enyemaka
61 operations- arụmọrụ
62 CEO - onye isi nile
63 equity - nhatanha (ihe dị iche n'etiti uru ahia (market value) nke a na ihe onwunwe na nkwugide megide ya)
competitor-osompi
64 merger -Nchikota (Nchikota abụọ ma ọ bụ karịa otu-ahia (company) banye otu ogbo-ahia (firm))
65 acquisition - ngute/nweta
66 partnership - ndikọọnu
67 agenda - nsoroime
68 status report- ede ọnọdu
69 margin -akụkụ (ego/okpogho (finance) ugbu ahịa ọrịre (net sales) mwepu ọnuahia nke ngwaahịa na ọrụ e rere)
70 sponsor - onye nkwado
71 income statement = ego-ọru nkwupụta (otu Ego/okpogho ( financial) nkwupụta nke na-enye nputa arụmọrụ nke oge kpọmkwem)
72 c/o (care of) - n'aka
platform-ogbu elu
73 web 2.0 - ugbu 2.0
74 social media -elekọta ebeozi
75 oru ngo - oru ngo
multitask - ime otutu ọru
76 reach a consensus - iru/me nkwenyere
77 resign - ihapu n'onwe
78 CV- akwọ ichọ ọru
79 conference call - oku/ọkpọ nbiakọọnu
80 exchange rate - ọnụego mgbanwe
81 transaction- imeahia
82 viral marketing - iziza ele ahia
83 industry- ahiameputa
84 monetization - ndona-ego
85 scalable - kwe imuba (Onwunwe nke ugbuọru (network) na-enye gị ohere itinye ntumekọ (node) ma ọ bụ dịkwuo ya ibu nke mfe.)
86 strategy - alo ime
87 information technology- ọmuma nkànaụzụ
88 trademark - akara ahia
89 CBA - ichọputa (Mkpebi etuiwu (formal) usoro eji mgbe a n'ịtụle apụtakarị akụnaụba nke na mmejuputa ọmuma idi-nche, njikwa na nchebesike (safeguard)
90 business plan-atụmatụ azụmahịa
91 deadline -n'obi imecha; eririọnwu (mgbe na oge ebe ihe ga-emezuariri)
92 factors of production - akpata nke mmepụta
93 substitution effect - mmetụta nnọchi
95 equivalent annual cost - ọnuahia nhata kwa-afọ (ọnuahia inwe ngwa-ahia na ndu ya nile.)
96 net present value (NPV) - uru ụgbụ(net) nke ugbua (Ihe dị iche n'etiti uru ugbua nke aga (flow) ego ọdịnihu site na ntinyeego (investment) na nra ntinyeego)
97 customer satisfaction= nju-oke onyezuahia
98 -management- njikwa-
99 external environment - agbata ezi
100 profit- uruahia

Ngaba...

E lee anya n’ahịrịabụ nke iri na isii wee rue na nke iri na
asatọ, odee abụ a jikwa ajụjụ nzaraonwe wee gosipụta
mgbagwoju anya o nwere gbasara ọnọdụ nchekwa nke obodo
a:
Kọọrọ m ihe kpatara na
Mmadụ ga-enwe egbugbere
Ma anwụ ana-ama ya n’eze?
N’ahịrị abụ ndị a, ode ji egbugbere wee nọchite anya
nchekwa. Ode abụ a na-akọwa na e nweghị ezi nchekwa
UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities
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n’ala Naịjirịa, maka na o nweghị ka anwụ ga-esi na-ama onye
nwere egbugbere ọnụ n’eze. Ebumnobi ode abụ a bụ ka ọ
kọwaara ụmụ Naịjirịa na e nwere akụnaụba ga-ezu ilekọta
onye ọbụla anya, mana ndị ọchịchị dị n’aka ekweghị ka onye
ọbụla keta oke ruuru ya. Nke a mere na ọtụtụ mmadụ naahụsi
anya n’obodo odeabụ.
N’ “Arịrịọ”, odeabụ a ji ikpe, aghụghọ na arịrịọ wee tụnye aro
ihe dị iche iche o chere ga-eweta udo, ezi nchekwa, nkwụsiike
na ọganiihu obodo. Na nkebi abụ nke mbụ na nke abụọ, ode
abụ rụtụrụ aka n’ihe dị iche iche e ji enyere ndụ aka:
Ihe ndị mmadụ chọrọ
abụghị okpokpo bekee na Igbo na-atọ ka ụtụ
ihe ndị mmadụ chọrọ
bụ mmiri a ga-a
ụ a
ụ na nri a ga-eri eri
Ihe ndị mmadụ chọrọ
abụghị ama bekee na-ejikarị ube
Ihe ndị mmadụ chọrọ
bụ ụlọ ọgwụ na ụlọ akwụkwọ
ụmụ ha n’akwụghị ụgwọ
nọrọkwa ebe ahụ nweta ihe ndị isi, na-enwetara
ụmụ ha n’akwụghị ụgwọ.
Ihe dịịrị ọsa mma na-adịkwuri uze.
(Emenanjo 30)
Site n’ahịrị abụ ndị a, odee katọrọ okpokpo bekee na asụsụ
Igbo na-atọ ka ụtụ ndị isi ji arafu ndị ha na-achị, ma rịọkwa
ndị isi ka ha nye ndị ha na-achi ezigbo mmiri ọ
ụ
ụ, nri, ụlọ
ọgwụ na ụlọ akwụkwọ ụmụ ha ga-aga n’akwughị ụgwọ.
N’eziokwu, ọ bụ ihe doro ewu na ọkụkọ anya na ọtụtụ ndị
ọchịchị na-eleghara ihe kwesịrị ka ha mee anya ma na-achụ
ikuku ọsọ. Mana ọ bụrụ na ndị isi na-agba mbọ ịhu na ha
nyere ndị ha na-achị ihe dị iche iche e ji enyere ndụ aka dịka
Agumagu Igbo dika Ngwaoru n'ikwalite ezi Nchekwa na Nkwusiike Ohaobodo
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odee abụ a rụtụrụ aka, a ga-ahụ na udo ga-adịrịrị n’obodo.
Onye elu na onye ala ga-ejikọ aka ọnụ hụ na a kwalitere udo,
ezi nchekwa na ọganiihu obodo.
Arịrịọ na aro odeabụ a yitere otu arịrịọ ndị ntorobịa ala
Naịjirịa rịorịọ onye isi ala, Dr Ebele Goodluck Jonathan ka ọ
rịgooro n’ọkwa n’afo 2011. Mgbe onye isi ala jụrụ ha ihe ọ
ga-emere ha ka ha wee nye aka kwalite udo, ezi mmekọrịta,
nchekwa na ọganiihu nke obodo Naịjirịa, ha rịorịọ onye isi ala
ka o nye ha ọkụ ma kwekwa ya nkwa na ọ bụrụ na o nwee ike
inyenwu ha ọkụ, na ha ga-agba mbọ hụ na mpụ, arụrụala na
akparamaagwa ọjọọ dị iche iche e ji mara ndị ntorobia gaabụzi
akụkọ mgbe ochie n’ala Naịjirịa. Ọ dịziiri okeke na
okafọ ịkọwa ma onye isi ala emezuru arịrịo a ndị ntorobịa
rịorịọ ya. Nke a na-egosi na akparamaagwa ọjọọ dị iche iche
ndị isi na-akpa bụ ihe kacha ebute ala adịghị mma n’obodo.
“Naijirịa bụ enyi mba” odeabụ a ji aghụghọ, otito na
egbeokwu wee katọọ ọnọdụ ọjọọ obodo Naịjirịa nọ na ya. Na
nkebi abụ nke mbụ, odee abụ kọwara ka ihe si kwụrụ n’ala
Naịjirịa. O gbasoro ụzọ ikpe wee katọọ ụdị ajọ ụzọ e nwere
n’ala Naịjirịa.
Na nkebi abụ nke abụọ, odee ji atụmatụokwu a naakpọ
ekwuecheọzọ wee katọọ ọnọdụ enweghị ezi nchekwa,
ime mpụ na arụrụala na mkpagbu juru ala Naịjirịa. Site n’ahịrị
abu ndị a na-esote, a ga-achọpụta na e nweghị ezi nchekwa
n’ala Naịjirịa:
Naịjirịa bụ Enyimba
Obodo achọghị mmegbu
Lee! Ọnwụ ụmụ akwụkwọ
Ndị uwe ojii gbagbusiri
Na Soweto
Na-agba ya anya mmiri
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N’ihi na a hubeghị
Ihe dị otu a na ya.
(Onyekaonwu, 2003)
Onye ọbụla ji nwayọ wee gụọ ahịrị abụ ndị a dị n’elu nke
ọma, ga-achọpụta na ode abụ a ji ha akatọ ka ihe si kwụrụ
n’ala Naịjirịa. A tụrụ anya na oke na ọrụ ndị uwe ojii
n’obodo ọbụla bụ ichekwa ndụ na akụnaụba ụmụ mmadụ.
Mana a bịa n’ala Naịjirịa, a ga-achọpụta na ụfọdụ ndị uwe
ojii so na ndị na-ala ndụ ụmụ mmadụ n’iyi n’ụzọ ezighị
ezi. Ọnọdụ dị etu a bụ ihe jọgburu onwe ya. Odee abụ a
mekwara ka a mata na ala Naịjirịa na obodo Soweto dịka
ụmụ ejima n’ebe o metụtara ime mpụ na arụrụala.
Ebumnobi odeabụ bụ ka o site n’abụ a gbaa mpụ na
arụrụala juru ala Naịjirịa n’anwu, ka ụmụ Naịjirịa soro ya
wee katọọ ajọ ọnọdụ ndị o zipụtara n’abụ ya ka udo wee dị
n’ala Naịjirịa.
N’“Naịjirịa”, odeabụ a ji ya wee zipụta echiche na mmetuta o
nwere gbasara ala Naịjirịa. O ji nkebi abụ nke mbụ na nke
abụọ wee kọwaa na Chineke ji ngọzị pụrụ iche we chọọ obodo
Naịjirịa mma:
Obodo mmanụ a
ụ
Mmiri ara ehi
na-eru n’ime ya
Akụnaụba ka Eke ji chọọ gị mma
Ala ọma bụkwa ugwu nye gị. (Okediadi 2003)
N’ezie, Naịjirịa bụ otu obodo Chineke ji ụdị ngọzị dị iche
iche wee chọ mma. Mana, n’ihi echekwaghị ngọzị ndị a
nke ọma, ọtụtụ ụmụ Naịjirịa na-ahụsi anya n’ebe ọ dị
ukwu. Ndị ọchịchị nchigbu ekweghị na ala ga-adị mma,
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dịka ode abụ a si kwa arịrị na nkebi abụ nke atọ, nke anọ
na nke ise:
…..
Ndị ọchịchị nchigbu
Ụnụ eteela ala anyị unyi n’ihu
…..
Chei! ụnụ bụ anwụta
Ụnụ amịkpọọla ụmụ mmadụ ọbara
….
Ndị oke ọchịchọ!
Ụnụ hiwere amụma dị iche iche
Ọ bụ nke gịnị?
Inyere ndị ụwa na-atụ n’ọnụ aka.
Onye ka o rukwaru aka?
N’akpa ụnụ ka ha bachara
Ndị ọchịchị nchigbu ndoonu! (Okediadi 20-1)
Odeabụ a ji ahịrị abụ ndị a wee gosịpụta na ọ bụ ndị ọchịchị
nchịgbu na-ebute ala adịghị mma n’obodo Naịjirịa. Ebumnobi
ya bụ ka a katọọ akparamaagwa ọjọọ dị iche iche ndị ọchịchị
nchịgbu na-akpa, ka e wee chụọ ha ọsọ ụkwụ eru ala; ka udo
na ọganiihu wee dị n’ala Naịjirịa. Ezi ndị ọchịchị bụ ndị naechekwa
ndị ha na-achị nke ọma. Mana ode abụ a gosipụtara
ndị ọchịchị nchịgbu Naịjirịa ka anwụ nta na-amịkpọ ọbara ndị
ha na-achị.
A bịa n’ala Naịjirịa taa, arụ na-atụzi ime, na-amụsa ụmụ ebe
niile. A maghịzi ka a ga-esi kwọ onye ukwu wara. Mpụ,
arụrụala na akparamaagwa ọjọọ dị iche iche juru
elu na ala. E nweghị nchekwa maọlị. A na-akwafuzi ọbara
ụmụ mmadụ ka mmiri. N’ezie, a maghị nke a ga-ekwu ghara
ibe ya.
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Nchịkọta, Nchọpụta na Aro
Abụ niile a tụlere n’edemede a zipụtara ma rụtụchakwa aka ka
ihe si kwụrụ n’obodo Naịjirịa taa. Ndị odee abụ ndị a sitere
n’ụzọ ikpe na aghụghọ wee katọọ akparamaagwa ọjọọ dị iche
iche ndị isi ọchịchị na-akpa, nke na-ebute ọgbaaghara, ala
adịghị mma, adịghị n’otu, enweghị ezi nchekwa na
mmekọrịta. Ha gara n’ihu rụtụkwa aka n’ụzọ dị iche iche a gaagbaso
wee nweta ezi nchekwa na ọganiihu n’obodo Naịjirịa.
Nke a na-egosi na agụmagụ Igbo, ọ kachasị abụ ederede Igbo
bụ nnukwu ngwaọrụ n’ịkwalite ezi nchekwa, mmekọrịta,
nkwụsiike na ọganiihu obodo. Ka o sila dị, site n’edemede a, a
chọpụtara na ọ dị ọtụtụ ozi na aro dị nnukwu mkpa ndị ode
abụ Igbo na-atụnye site n’ọrụ nka ha; ọ kachasị etu o si metụta
ụzọ dị iche iche a ga-agbaso wee nweta udo, ezi ọchịchị,
mmekọrịta n’etiti ndị isi ọchịchị na ndị a na-achị achị, ezi
nchekwa, nkwụsiike na ọganiihu obodo. N’ihi nke a, ọ dị
nnukwu mkpa ka ndị ọchịchị na ndị a na-achị achị na-ewepụta
ezigbo ohere wee na-agụ abụ Igbo ndị a iji chọpụtasịa ozi na
aro ndị ahụ ma gbaa ezi mbọ na-etinye ha n’ọrụ. Nke a gaenye
aka belata mpụ, arụrụala na akparamaagwa ọjọọ dị iche
iche juru obodo a ma kwalite ezi mmekọrịta, udo, ezi
nchekwa, nkwụsiike na oganiihu nke obodo Naịjirịa.

Nkoli Mercy Nnyigide
Ngalaba Ihe Omụmụ Igbo, Afrịka na Eshia
Mahadum Nnamdị Azikiwe, Ọka
nkolimercy@gmail.com
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Nkwụsiike Ọhaobodo
Nkoli Mercy Nnyigide
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ujah/article/viewFile/113333/103050

Ụmị Edemede
Ka Naịjirịa nwerechara onwe ya n’afọ 1960, olileanya ọtụtụ
ụmụamala ya bụ na ihe ga-adịzị mma. Mana ka oge na-aga, a
chọpụtara na ihe na-akawanye njọ. Usoro ọchịchị dị iche iche
dapụtara. Ndị amị na ndị nkịtị achịala mana ọnọdụ gara
n’ihu na-akawanye njọ. O bu ihe doro anya na ọchịchị ha bụ
nke nchịgbu na fọnfọju akpa. N’agbanyeghị na Chineke ji
akụnaụba na ngozi dị iche wee chọọ Naịjirịa mma, agụụ ka
na-afịọ ụmụ ya ọnụ; iheegwu na oke ụjọ na-eme oge niile;
ọtụtụ nne na nna anaghị akwụnwuziri ụmụ ha ụgwọ akwụkwọ;
ndị ntorobịa gara mahadum enweghịkwa ọrụ. Ajọ ọnọdụ dị
etu a na-ebute ọgbaaghara n’obodo ma na-etinyekwa ọtụtụ
ụmụ Naịjirịa na mpụ dị iche iche dịka izu ohi, ịtọrọ mmadụ,
igbufu mmadụ, ịkwafu ọbara mmadụ dịka mmiri, dgz. Ọ bụ
ihe ndị a kpalitere mmụọ omenchọcha ịchọpụta ụzọ dị iche
iche agụmagụ Igbo, ọ kachasị abụ ederede Igbo ga-esi nye
aka n’ibelata ajọ ọnọdụ a ma weta udo na ezi nchekwa ma
kwalitekwa nkwusiike nke ohaobodo. N’ime nke a, a tụlere
abụ ederede Igbo dị iche iche iji chọpụta echiche ndị odeeabụ
Igbo gbasara ọnọdụ ọchịchị obodo Naịjirịa nakwa aro na ụzọ
dị iche iche ha tụpụtara a ga-esi wee belata ajọ ọnọdụ a, ka e
wee nwee ike kwalite ezi nchekwa na ọganiihu obodo Naịjirịa.
Agumagu Igbo dika Ngwaoru n'ikwalite ezi Nchekwa na Nkwusiike Ohaobo

Abstract
After the Nigerian independence in 1960, the expectation of
many of her citizens was that things would be better. But as
time went on, it was observed that things were becoming
worse. Different systems of government emerged. The military
and civilians ruled but situation went forth to be bad. It was
obvious that their governance was bad and characterized with
selfish interest. Notwithstanding that God blessed Nigeria
with many resources; her citizens are still suffering from
hunger; terrible things always happen; many parents could no
longer afford their childrens’ school fees; youths that
graduated from the university are unemployed. This kind of
unhealthy situation brings about social instability and
encourages some Nigerian to engage in different crimes like
robbery, kidnapping, extra judicial killings, and murder of
different kinds, etc. it is against this background that the
researcher hopes to examine different ways the Igbo
literature, especially the Igbo written poetry could help to
control this ugly situation and bring about good security and
also promote social stability. The study analyzed some written
Igbo poems in order to observe the position of some Igbo
poets concerning the situation of governance in Nigeria and
their contributions on how to improve it, so as to promote
good security and progress in Nigeria.

Mkpọlite
Agụmagu nwere nghọta abuọ. Uzoma Nwadike kọwara na
nghọta nke mbụ, bụkwa nghọta izugbe, bụ na agụmagụ bụ ihe
ọ bụla dị n’ụdị edereede. N’ihi nke a, ihe amụmamụ ọ bụla
dịka sọm, akụkọala, dgz, nwere agụmagụ nke ya. Nghọta nke
abụọ agụmagụ nwere pụrụ iche bụ nke kọwara ya dịka ọrụ
nka nke e sitere na ya wee na-akowapụta ma na-ahụ ndụ. (80).
N’ịga n’ihu, agụmagụ dịka ihe ọmụmụ bụ ọrụ nka nke e
chepụtara echepụta, ma jiri asụsụ nka chọọ ya mma, nke e si
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na ya egosipụta ma na-ahu ndu. O nwere ike ịdị n’ụdị
ekwurunọnụ maọbụ ederede. Agụmagụ nwere nnukwu
ngalaba atọ ndị a: akụkọ, ejije na abụ.
Agụmagu Igbo malitere n’oge gboo mgbe ndị Igbo
malitere ndụ ha. Ụdị agụmagụ e nwere n’oge ahụ bụ nke
ọdịnala. E deghị ụdị agụmagụ a ede; ọ bụ naanị ọnụ ka e ji
agụpụta ya. Ọ na-esi n’aka ndị nna nna wee fere n’aka ụmụ
ụmụ ha. Ka oge na-aga, mgbe ndị ọcha bịara n’ala Igbo, ha
wepụtara igwe e ji ebiputa akwụkwọ. Ọ bụ oge ahụ ka ndị
odee maliteziri depụtawa ma bipụtawakwa ụfọdu akwụkwọ
agụmagụ ederede.
Agbụrụ maọbụ obodo dị iche iche nwere ụzọ dị iche
iche ha si akatọ ọchịchị nchịgbu ma na-ebuso akparamagwa
ọjọọ dị iche iche agha. Ụfọdụ obodo kwenyere n’iji egbe na
mma wee chụọ mpụ na arụrụala na-aga n’ọha obodo ọsọ.
Mana ndị odee, ndị na-eti egwu, ndị na-emepụta ejije, dgz. naesite
n’ọrụ nka ha were akatọ akparamagwa ọjọọ dị iche iche
na-aga n’ọha obodo. Ha na-esite n’ọrụ nka ha wee na-arụtụ
aka n’ihe dị iche iche na-eme na gburu- gburu ha dịka:
ndọrọndọrọ ọchịchị, agụmakwụkwọ, ahụike, nchekwa, ọnọdụ
akụnaụba, dgz. Mbọ ha na-agba bụ ka e site n’ọrụ nka ha wee
kwalite udo, nchekwa, nkwusiike na ọganiihu obodo.
Nchekwa pụtara ilekọta akụnaụba maọbụ ndụ anya
nke ọma, n’ekweghị ka mkpagbu ọbụla bịakwasị ya. E lee
anya ka ihe si kwụrụ n’obodo Naịjirịa taa, a ga-achọpụta na e
nweghị ezi nchekwa na ya. Mpụ, arụrụala na akparamaagwa
ọjọọ dị iche iche ndị isi ọchịchị na ndị a na-achị achị naakpa
ekweghị na ala ga-adị mma. Ịmaatụ, site n’ihe dịka n’afọ
2002, ndị otu a na-akpọ Boko Haram malitere ibute nnukwu
ọgbaaghara n’ala Naịjirịa. Ha na-akwafuzi ọbara ụmụ mmadụ
ka mmiri. Ọzọ, n’afọ 2012, e gbusịrị ụfọdụ ụmụ okorobịa
Naịjirịa na-agụ akwụkwọ na Mahadum Port Harcourt n’ụzọ
ezighị ezi. Ọnọdụ ndị a bụ ihe ịgba anya mmiri nye ụmụ
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Naịjirịa Ihe ndị a niile na-egosi na e nweghị ezi nchekwa n’ala
Naịjirịa taa.
Na ngalaba atọ agụmagụ nwere: iduuazị, ejije na abụ,
edemede a ga-agbado ụkwụ n’abụ ederede Igbo. N’edemede
a, a họọrọ ma tulee abụ ederede Igbo anọ iji gosipụta echiche,
ozi na aro ndị odee ha na-atunye gbasaara ka ihe si kwụrụ
n’ala Naịjirịa taa; ọ kachasị etu o si metụta ịkwalite nchekwa
na ọganiihu obodo. Abụ ndị a họọrọ gụnyere: “Ụkọ n’uju” na
“Arịrịọ” n’Ụtara Ntị nke ‘Nolue Emenanjo (n.d), “Naịjịrịa bụ
enyi mba” n’ Uche bụ Afa nke Goddy Onyekaonwu bigharịrị
n’afọ 2003, na “Naịjịrịa” n’Ije Ụwa nke Nkechinyere
Okediadi bipụtara n’afọ 2003.
Ihe kpatara e ji wee gbado ụkwụ n’abụ bụ na abụ bụ
ngalaba agụmagụ kacha enye ndị odee ohere pụrụ ịche
n’izipụta echiche na mmetụtaobi ha gbasara ka ihe si kwụrụ
n’obodo. N’ịkwado nke a, Emmanuel Jenkwe kọwara na abụ
bụ ngalaba agụmagụ bakarịrị uru n’ịkatọ maọbụ ịkwatu ndị
ọchịchị nchigbu (165).
Nnyocha Agụmagụ
N’ebe a, ọ dị mkpa ka e nyetụ nkọwa gbasara abụ. Ọtụtụ ndị
ọkammụta n’ihe ọmụmụ agụmagụ enyela nkọwa dị iche iche
gbasara abụ. Na nkọwa nke ya, C. Ekwealor kọwara abụ dịka
ngalaba agụmagụ na-ejikarị enyookwu (nhụrụnuuche) na
ndanusoro arụ ọrụ. Ọ gara n’ihu kọwaa na ihe na-emebe abụ
bụ nkaasụsụ e jiri dee ya (26). Nkọwa a dabara adaba n’ihi na
a bịa n’abụ, ndị odee na-ahọrọ okwu n’ụzọ ọ ga-esi wee naemetụta
ọgụụ na mmụọ mgbe ọ na-agụ ya. Nke a na-egosi na
nkaasụsụ a na-ewebata n’abụ na-adị iche n’ụdị nkaasụsụ e ji
ezipụta ngalaba agụmagụ ndị ọzọ.
N’echiche nke ya, Nwadike kọwara na abụ bụ ọrụnka
nke e tinyere n’asụsụ dị ọgọ, hazie n’usoro pụrụ iche, bịa
nwee echiche miri emi na mmetụta n’ahụ na n’obi (72).
Nkọwa a na-egosikwa na nkaasụsụ e ji ede abụ na-apụ iche.
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Ihe ọzọ gbara elu na nkọwa a bụ na a na-ede abụ n’ụzọ o si
emetụta na mmụọ. Ihe ndị a dị iche na ngalaba agụmagụ ndị
ọzọ.
Nchọpụta na-egosi na e nwere ihe ndị mebere abụ
Igbo. Ihe ndị ahụ dịka Asoonye Ụba- Mgbemena si rụtụ ha
aka bụ: echiche, asụsụ, ndanusoro na mmetutaobi (vii). Ọ bụ
ihe anọ a a kpọrọ aha n’elu jikọrọ ọnụ mebe abụ Igbo. Ya bụ,
na abụ agaghị ezu oke ma ọ bụrụ na ihe anọ a adịghị na ya.
N’edemede abụ, ndị odee na-ejikarị ikpe akwara ngwaọrụ.
Gịnị bụ ikpe? N’echiche ya, Nwadike kọwara na ikpe bụ;
Nkọrọmọọnụ nke e sitere n’ụzọ egwu na amụ,
ekwuechezọ, akaje, emu, mkparị na oyiri ha ndị
ọzọ wee na-akatọ mọọbụ na-agba n’anwụ, ajọ ihe
na ajọ omume na nzuzu. Ikpe anaghị eji mba, ọgụ
na mgba, okwu na ụka mọọbụ esemokwu aga.
Mgbe ụfọdụ a na-apụta ihe, kwuo hooha ihe a
chọrọ ikwu, ma mgbe ụfọdụ kwa, a ‘na-ekpu ekete
n’isi gwa eze’ ihe a chọrọ ịgwa ya (106) .
Ikpe bara nnukwu uru. Dịka Nwadike si kowaa,
Ikpe na-arụ orụ dịka ihe e ji agbazi omume
gbagọrọ agbagọ ndị mmadụ na-eme. E ji ikpe eme
ka ọhanaeze guzosie ike n’akparamagwa ha maka
na onye mewechaa ka ọ sọrọ ya, obodo eree ka
ogiri. Ya bụ, na ihe ndị na-akpọlite ikpe
n’ọhaobodo bụ ajọ akparamagwa ndị mmadụ na
usoro ihe ụfọdụ na-adabachaghị adaba. Mgbe
ọbụla okpeikpe kpere ikpe, ọ na-ajalite ọhanaaeze
ka ha soro katọọ ihe ọjọọ. Ọ na-eme ka onye
mọọbu otu na-eme ajọ ihe mịkpulaa ka ọhaobodo
nwee ezumike nke obi (107).
Ọ bụ uru ndị a ikpe bara mere na e nwere ụdị abụ Igbo a naakpọ
abụ ikpe. Ọ bụ ụdị abụ a ka ndị odeabụ na-ejikarị agba
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ọtụtụ ihe na-eme n’obodo n’anwụ. Ha na-esitekwa na ya were
akatọ akparamagwaa ọjọọ dị iche iche ndị mmadụ, gọọmenti,
ndị isi ọchịchị, dgz. na-akpa. Ekwealor kọwara abụ ikpe dịka
ụdị abụ e ji akatọ ihe ọjọọ dị iche na ndụ mmadụ maọbụ
n’etiti ọhanaeze. Ọrụ abụ ndị a na-abụkarị ịhazi ndụ ụmụ
mmadu site n’ịgba agwa ọjọọ n’anwụ (29). N’echiche nke ya,
Nwadike kọwara na, a na-eji abụ ikpe akọtọ ajọ ihe dịka
omume ọjọọ: nrafu, aghụghọ, arụrụala, nzuzu, ịgba asịrị, na
ihe ndị ọzọ na-adịghị mma ụmụ mmadu na-eme. Oge ụfọdụ, a
na-esite n’otito katọọ ihe ọjọọ mmadụ na-eme n’emeghị ka
onye ahụ mata kpọmkwem na a na-akọcha ya. Ọtụtụ oge, ndị
egwu na-esite n’egwu ha katọọ ihe ọjọọ na-aga n’obodo (53).
Abụ ndị a tulere n’edemede a dabachara n’abụ ikpe.
Ọzọkwa, ọtụtụ ndị ọkammụta n’ihe ọmụmụ agụmagụ
arụtụla aka na mmekọrịta dị n’etiti ndị odee abụ na ọhaobodo
nakwa uru dị iche iche agụmagụ bara n’ịkwalite nchekwa na
ọganiihu obodo. Nwachukwu –Agbada na Okodo atụleela nka
dị iche iche nnukwu odee abụ bekee bụ Ezenwa -Ohaeto si
wee jiri ụfọdụ abụ ikpe ya wee gbaa ọtụtụ akparamagwa ọjọọ
dị iche iche ndị ọchịchị ala Naịjirịa na-akpa n’akwụkwọ abụ
ya ọ kpọrọ I Wan Bi President na If To Say I Bi Soja. (8-9) na
(156-7). N’akwụkwọ abụ ndị a, a ga-asị na Ezenwa-Ohaeto
gbadoro ụkwụ n’usoro ọchịchị nchịgbu e nwere n’obodo
Naịjirịa wee dee ha. Ebumnobi ode abụ ndị a bụ isite n’ọrụ
nka ya wee katọọ akparamaagwa ọjọọ dị iche iche ndị isi
ọchịchị na-akpa ma meghekwa anya ọtụtụ mmadụ ka ha
chọpụta ka ihe si kwụrụ n’ọhaobodo. Dịka ha si wee tulee abụ
a a kpọrọ “If To Say I Bi Soja”, a ga-achọpụta na ode abụ a ji
ikpe wee katọọ mpụ na arụrụala dị iche iche a na-ahụtazi
n’etiti ndị soja ala Naịjirịa. Ọ bụ ihe doro anya na gọọmenti
guzobere ndị soja dịka ndị na-ahụ maka nchekwa ndụ na
akụnaụba ụmụ mmadụ. Mana n’abụ a, ode mere ka o doo
ọhanaeze anya na ndị soja obodo ya ahapụla ọrụ kwesịrị ka ha
rụọ ma bụrụzie ndị fonfonju akpa. Nke a bụ eziokwu maka na
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e lee anya n’ihe na-eme n’ala Naịjirịa taa, ọ bụ ihe na-agba
anya mmiri. Otu dị iche iche gọọmenti guzobere ka ha naechekwa
ndụ bụzi ndị na-ala ndụ n’iyi n’eleghị anya n’azụ. Ọ
bụ ọnọdụ dị etu a na-ebute ọgbaghara, oke egwu, ala adịghị
mma n’obodo.
Mmetụta ndị ode abụ na-abụkarị enyo e ji ahụ ụfọdụ
ihe gbasara ndụ na ka ihe si kwụrụ n’ọhaobodo (Akporobaro
37-. Ka o sila dị, e nwekwara ndị odee abụ na-ede naanị ka
ha wee zie ọhaobodo ozi dị mkpa (33). N’ịkwado nke a,
Nonye Obi kwuru na agụmagụ nwere ikike ịgbanwe ndụ ọtụtụ
mmadụ n’obodo (60). Ọ kọwakwara na agụmagụ naenyochapụta
obodo ma na-akatọ akparamaagwa ọjọọ ụmụ
mmadụ na-akpa (63).
N’otu aka ahụ, May Okolie kwuru na ọ bụ ihe doro anya na
agụmagụ ndị isi ojii na-aga n’ihu na-akụziri ha ihe dị iche iche
dịka oke na ọrụ dịịrị ha n’ịweghachi ụwa ọhụụ mmadụ azụ
(143-4)
Ka Emenanjo, Onyekaọnwọ na Okediadi Si Ji Abụ Ha
Gbaa Ka ihe sikwụrụ n’Anwụ
N’“Ụkọ N’uju”, odeabụ a ji nhagideokwu wee ziputa aha abụ
a iji gosi na ala adịghị mma n’obodo ya. E leghị anya, ode abụ
a sitere n’abụ wee na-akowa ka ihe si kwụrụ n’ala Naịjirịa.
Site n’aha e nyere abụ a - ụkọ n’uju, a ga-achọpụta na ọtụtụ
ụmụ Naịjirịa ka nọ n’ezigbo ihe ụkọ n’agbanyeghị na
akụnaụba gbọrọ kasaa n’obodo a.
Na nkebi abụ nke mbụ, ode abụ a sitere n’ajụjụ nzaraonwe
wee gosipụta mgbagwoju anya o nwere n’ihi ajo ọnọdụ
ọtụtụ ụmụ Naịjirịa nọ na ya –
Kedụ zi ka a ga-esi nọdụ n’anyịm
Were asọ na-akwọ aka?
Kedụ kwanụ ka a ga-esi nọdụ n’iyi
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Kwere ncha ọ baa anyị n’anya?
Na nkebi abụ a dị n’elu, anyịm na iyi na-anọchite anya
akụnaụba e nwere n’ala Naịjirịa. Nezie, onye nọ n’anyịm
ekwesịghị iji asọ akwọ aka. Onye nọkwanụ n’iyi ekwesighị ka
ncha baa ya anya. Mana ode abụ a ji nkebi abụ a wee zipụta
na ụmụ Naịjirịa na-ahụjụ anya nke ukwu n’agbanyeghị
akụnaụba dị iche iche Chineke ji wee gozie obodo a.
Na nkebi abụ nke abụọ ode abụ sị,
Nkenu bi n’ala na-apịta mmanụ
Karịa ọsa bitọ n’elu
Onye jiri nwayọọ tulee ahịrị abụ abụọ, ọ ga-achọpụta na mpu
na arụrụala, iri akaazụ, ịpụnara mmadu ihe ya n’ike na ihe arụ
dị iche iche juru n’ala Naịjirịa, maka na o nweghị ka nkenu bi
n’ala ga-esi na-apịta mmadụ karịa ọsa bitọ n’elu. Nkenu bụ
anụmanụ na-ebi n’ala, ebe ọsa bụ anụmanụ na-ebi nelu osisi.
A bịa n’ebe ihe na-aga nke ọma, o kwesịrị na ọ bụ ọsa ga naapịta
mmanụ karịa nkenu n’ihi na ebe obibi ya bụ elu osisi, ọ
kachasị n’elu osisi nkwụ. Mana odeabụ a ji ọnọdụ nkenu na
ọsa a wee na-akọwara ọgụụ ma na-egosi na ala adịghị mma
n’obodo a.

Ebere Dominic Chibuzor
Ngalaba Asụsụ Igbo, Kọleeji Ọzụzụ Ndị Nkụzị Gọọmenti Etiti Dị Na Kano.
dominozion@yahoo.com

Ụmi Edemede
Ọtụtụ mgbe, imeriime ụmụ afọ Igbo anaghị eji asụsụ Igbo ebido ikwu okwu. Tụmadị ndị nne na nna ha rụrụ ọrụ bekee n’obodo ndị mepere emepe na mpụga ala Igbo. Ọtụtụ n’ime ha ji asụsụ a gwara ogwa akọwapụta uche ha. Maka ụmụaka ndị dị etu a, ohere ọzọ ha nwere ịmụta asụsụ na omenala Igbo bụzị n’ụlọakwụkwọ. E ruo n’ ụlọakwụkwọ, ọ naghịkwa adịịmfe n’ihi na ha na-amụzị asụsụ Igbo dị ka asụsụ nke abụọ. Ọnọdụ a wee bụrụ nnukwu ihe ndọlaazụ nye ọmụmụ asụsụ na omenala Igbo. Ụta adịghịrị ụdị ụmụaka ndị a n’ihi na ọ bụ asụsụ nwata na-anụkarị na gburugburu ebe obibi ya ka ọ na-ebu ụzọ amụta. Ọ bụ nke a kpatara o ji dị oke mkpa ịchọ ụzọ a ga-esi chọpụta ma gbochie ihe ndọlaazụ niile na-egbochi ezi agamnihu n’ọmụmụ asụsụ na omenala Igbo n’ụlọakwụkwọ tụmadị na Kọleeji ebe a na-azụpụta ndị ga-akụzịasụsụ ndị a. N’ime nke a, ihe nchọcha a gbasoro usoro nchọcha nkọwasi na nnyocha ya. Ihe nchọcha a gosipụtara na enweghị mmasị so bụrụ nnukwu ihe ndọlaazụ nye ọmụmụ asụsụ na omenala Igbo. Ọ kwadoro usoro nkụzị ga-akwalite mmasị ụmụakwụkwọ n’ọmụmụ asụsụ ụ nke ga-eme ka asụsụ, tụmadịasụsụ nne nọrọ n’ogo kwesịrị ya n’ọmụmụ ihe. N’ikpeazụ, a chịkọtara ihe niile a rụtụrụ aka n’edemede ma site na ya wepụta ndụmọdụ na mmechi zuru oke.


1.0. Ndubanye
Asụsụ bụ nnukwu ihe onyinye Chineke nyere mmadụ. N’ihe okike niile, ọ bụ sọọsọ mmadụ ka Chineke nyere onyinye a. Ọ bụ asụsụ ka mmadụ na ibe ya ji enwe mmekọrịta nke ga-eme ka e nwee nghọta n’isiokwu a na-ekwu maka ya. Dị ka Emenanjọ (2009) si kọwaa ya:
Onye chọrọ irịọ ihe, ọ bụ asụsụ ka o ji egosi ya. Onye chọrọ izipụta anụrị ma ọ bụ iwe dị ya n’obi, ọ bụ asụsụ ka o ji eme ya. Chekene ka ụwa ga-adị ma a sị na asụsụ adịghị, Redio na Tiivi agaghị aba uru ọ bụla(p. 3)

Asụsụ mbụ nwa ga-amụta dị oke mkpa. Ọmụmụ asụsụ na-enye mmadụ nghọta pụrụ iche gbasara omenala na ewumewu ndị nwe asụsụ. Nke a kpatara okporo atụmaatụ iwu e hiwere maka mmụta n’ala Naịjịrịa (NPE 1981), ji sie ọnwụ sị
…To achieve the objectives (of pre-primary education), Government will ensure to it that the medium of instruction in the primary schools is initially the mother-tongue or the language of the immediate community and, at a later stage, English (pp. 10-13).
Ihe a na-akọwa ebe a bụ na iji mejụpụta ebumnobi mmụta ọtaakara, Gọọmenti ga-agbasi mbọ ike ịhu na a ga-ejiriri asụsụ nna nwata kụziere nwa ihe na mbido ọmụmụ ihe n’ụlọakwụkọ ọtaakara, ma afọ atọ gasịa, sị werezịa Bekee. Atụmaatụ a gakwara n’ihu kwuo na ọ banye ụlọakwụkwọ sekọndịrị, ọ ga-amu otu asụsụ ala Naịjịrịa ọzọ tinyere asụsụ e ji kuo ya mmiri. Atụmaatụ a magburu onwe ya. Ma ruo kwa taa, ọgaghị n’anya ya n’anya ya.

N’ime asụsụ niile nọ n’ala Naịjịrịa, bụ nke Emenanjọ (2003) sị na o ruru ihe dị ka narị abụọ ruo narị ise, asụsụ Igbo bụ otụ n’ime anọ ndị gbara ọkpụrụkpụ. Ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo alaala azụ nke ukwuu karịa asụsụ ndị ọzọ gbara ọkpụrụkpụ n’ala Naịjịrịa (Awụsa,Yoruba, Fulfulde). Ọtụtụ ụmụ Igbo jiri asụsụ dị ka Bekee a gwakọtara ya na Igbo bido ikwu okwu, ebe ndị ọzọ na-asụ Pijin. Ihe ọtụtụ na-aghọta n’ asụsụ Igbo akarịghị, ‘Bịa ebe a!’, ‘Gịnị bụ aha gị?’, ‘Ọbụ gịnị?’ mọbụ ‘Anụ ọfịa!’ na ‘Mechie ọnụ gị!’ Nchọpụta ụfọdụ ndịọkammụta mere, dị ka nke Ohiri-Aniche (2002) gosịpụtara na ụzọ iteghete n’ime narị ụmụaka Igbo anaghị anụ asụsụ Igbo ma ọlị. Ihe a a na-ekwu abụghị maka sọọsọ ụmụaka, ọtụtụ ndị nne na nna amachaghị asụ Igbo ọfụma, dị ka n’iji Igbo kwuo ahịrịokwu anọ maọbụ ise n’etinyeghị Bekee, ma ya fọdụzịa ụmụ ha.

Oge a chọrọ iji asụsụ ala Naịjịrịa atọ gbara ọkpụrụkpụ (Igbo, Awụsa, na Yoruba) edepụta okporo iwu ndị na-achị ala anyị ma kesara ya ọhaneze, ọtụtụ ndị nnọchite anya anyị n’ụlọ nzukọ ome iwu Naịjịrịa so na ndị mbụ gbara ya bụ atụmatụ ụkwụ. Ụfọdụ ji ọnụ ha gwa ndị nta akụkọ na ha agaghị enwe ike ịgụpụta ndepụta a ma ọbụrụ na e jiri asụsụ Igbo dee ya. Ọ bụ nke a kpatara o ji dị mkpa ịkwalite ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo n’ụlọakwụkwọ anyị ha, bido n’ Ọtaakara ruo na Mahadum.

Ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo bịara dị mkpa karịchaa na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị n’ihi na ọ bụ ebe a ka a na enye nwataakwukwo ọzụzụ n’ụzọ kasị mma e si akuzi ihe, ọ kachasịasụsụ, Omenala, Ewumewu, na Ụtọasụsụ Igbo. Ọ bụ ha ka e kwesiri ihi aja n’ukwu n’ihi na ha nweta ezi ọzụzụ, usoro nkụzị ha ga-enye aka ma mee ka ụmụakwụkwọ na-enwe mmasi n’ọmụmụ asụsụ na omenala Igbo. Abịa na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị, e nwere ụdị kụrịkụlụm abụọ e ji akụzịasụsụ Igbo. Nke mbụ bụ maka ndị na-amụ asụsụ Igbo dị ka asụsụ mbụ (A1), ebe nke abụọ bụ ndị na-amụ ya dị ka asụsụ nke abụọ ha (A2). Ọ bụ ya mere onye ọ bụla chọrọ ọganihu ndị Igbo na asụsụ Igbo ji achọ ụzọ a ga-esi kwalite nkụzị na ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo. Ọzọ bụ na ụfọdụ ụmụakwụkwọ gụrụ asụsụ Igbo na Mahadum anaghị enwe ọzụzụ zuru oke n’okporo nkụzị.

N’edemede a, mgbe ọ bụla anyị na-ekwu maka ‘asụsụ’ Igbo, ebumnuche anyị gụnyere omenala na ewumewu ndị Igbo. Asụsụ na omenala mba na-aga aka na aka. Ihe kpatara nke a bụ na Omenala nọ dị ka uwe e ji chọọ asụsụ mma, nke na nwa ọ bụla ma asụsụ nna ya ma kwa omenala nna ya, nke amaghịnna ya agaghị ama omenala nna ya. Ọtụtụ ndị ma ihe a na-akọ na sayensi asụsụ kwekọtara na asụsụ bụ ejirimara kachasị ibe ya na ndụ mmadụ ma ọ bụ obodo, (Whorf, 1956, na Kammelụ, 2006, p. 100). Mba ọ bụla asụsụ ha furu, omenala ha efuola; nke omenala ha furu, ihe ahụbaama ha efuola.

2.0. Mbọ Ndị A Gbarala
(a). Agbaala mbọ dị iche iche iji wulite ọmụmụ asụsụ na omenala Igbo na Kọleji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị. Otu n’ime ha bụ nhiwe e hiwere otu jikọtara ndị nkụzị asụsụ Igbo, na gburugburu ala Naịjịrịa afọ ole na ole gara aga, nke a enyela aka mee ka ndị nkụzị na-agakọta kwa afọ iji tụlee okwu ndị a kpụ n’ọnụ ma chepụta ụzọ ndị ga-enye aka bute agamnihu.

(b). Ọzọkwa, site na ntụziaka ndị N.C.C.E., e meela ka ngalaba asụsụ na omenala Igbo nọrọ n’ogo nnọọronwe na ọtụtụ Kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị, ya bụ ikewapụta ya site na ngalaba asụsụ ala Naịjịrịa. Ọnọdụ a mere ka ndị nkụzị asụsụ Igbo nwee ike gbanahụ ụfọdụ ihe mkpagbu a na-ahụ ebe e bukọtara asụsụ Naịjịrịa niile n’otu ngalaba, nyekwa ha ikikere ịhazi onwe ha n’ụzọ kwesiri ekwesi.

(ch). Otu akụkụ ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo tara akpụ bụ njem nleta ala Igbo. Njem ọmụmụ ihe izu isii a na-eri ego buru ibu. Iji belata ihe nramahụ dịịrị ụmụakwụkwọ n’ịchọta ego ha ji eme njem nleta na ọmụmụ ihe gbasara ala Igbo, a na-ekesara ụmụakwụkwọ akwụkwọ leta ha ga-eji nata enyemaka site n’aka nne na nna, ikwu na ibe nakwa ọchịchị steti na nke ime obodo ha.

(d). Inwe mmasị dị oke mkpa n’ihe ọ bụla mmadụ na-eme. Iji kwalite ogo mmasị ụmụakwụkwọ nwere n’ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo, ndị nkụzị asụsụ Igbo kwekọtara na a ga-ewebata egwu na ọchị n’ọmụmụ ihe. Abịa n’ụfọdụ Kọleeji ndị nọ n’ugwu Awụsa, enweela otu egwu ụmụakwụkwọ na-amụ asụsụ Igbo, ma na-emekwa ụbọchị ncheta omenala Igbo kwa afọ. Emume a metụtara ejiji, nri, na egwuregwu Igbo, nke na-eme ka ụmụakwụkwọ na enwewanye mmasị n’ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo.

3.0. Ihe Ndọlaazụ Ndị Ọzọ
(a). Ọ bụ eziokwu na ọtụtụ ihe agbanwoola kamgbe otu Ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo (ISA) bidoro ibuso ihe ndọlaazụ ndị a agha. N’agbanyeghị mbọ niile ndị a a gbarala iji kwalite ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo, ihe na-ebenụ ka na-ebe. Ihe kpatara nke a bụ na ọtụtụ ndị Igbo enwebeghị mmasị zuru oke n’ebe asụsụ ha nọ. Nsogbu a kacha njọ ebe ụmụagbọghọ na-eje akwụkwọ nọ. Ọ dị mkpa ime ka ha mata na onye ọ bụla na-asụ asụsụ ndị ọzọ ma leghara nke ya anya na-eme onwe ya ohu ndị ahụ ọ na-asụ asụsụ ha, (Chinagorom, 2006, p. 60)

(b). A bịa n’ụfọdụ ụlọakwụkwọ, nsogbu ndị ọzọ dị kwa. Enwechaghị ndị nkụzị a zụrụ ọfụma na okporo nkụzị asụsụ. Ndị isi kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị steeti nwe nọ na Kano kwụsịrị ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo n’afọ 1998 n’ihi na ha enwetaghị ndị nkụzị ga-akụzịrị ụmụakwụkwọ asụsụ Igbo. Enwetaghị ndị nkụzị zuru oke na-abụkarị nsogbu n’ụlọakwụkwọ ndị no na mpụga ala Igbo tụmadị ugwu Awụsa.

(ch). Ngwa nkụzị zuru oke kọrọ ụkọ n’ọtụtụ kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị tụmadị ndị e ji akụzị omenala. Nke a metụtara ma kọleeji ndị gọọmenti etiti nwe ma nke ndị steeti. Ngwa nkụzị ndị a gụnyere apịmaapị dị iche iche dị ka umu Okpesi, Ikenga, Ekpo, Ọfọ, dgz. Ọ bụghịkwa kọleeji niile nwezuru ngwa egwu ọdịnala ndị Igbo.

(d). Akamgba ọzọ chere amụmamụ Igbo bụ nsogbu ndekọ na ndesa ya bụ nsogbu ọtọgrafị. Ndị ọkammụta dị iche iche ewepụtala ụzọ ha chere kasị mma n’odide asụsụ Igbo ma n’ezie enwebeghị nkwekọrịta zuru oke na ndekọ na ndesa imeriime mkpụrụokwu.

(e). Ihe ọzọ ka bụ nsogbu nye amụmaamụ Igbo bụ nkesa akwụkwọ ọgụgụ Igbo. Inweta akwụkwọ Igbo na-ara ahụ n’akụkụ Naịjịrịa ụfọdụ dị ka n’ugwu Awụsa. Abịa kpọmkwem n’obodo Kano nakwa Katsina, akwụkwọ Igbo ndị a na-ahụkarị n’ahịa bụ nke ndị sekọndịrị. N’ajụjụ ọnụ a jụrụ ụfọdụ ndị na-ere akwụkwọ n’obodo abụọ ndị a, ha kọwara na ọ na-ete aka tupu ha erepụ akwụkwọ ndị e dere maka ụlọakwụkwọ ndị dị elu. Ha kwetara na ha na-erepu nke ndị sekọndịrị tụmadị na mbido tam ọ bụla. Site na azịza a ndị na-ere akwụkwọ nyere, otu ihe doro anya bụ na ọnụọgụgụ ndị na-amụ asụsụ Igbo pere mpe n’ụlọakwụkwọ ndị dị elu ma na kano ma na Katsina.

(f). Na nchọcha Kammelụ (2006, p. 98) depụtara gbasara ọnọdụ amụmamụ Igbo na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị ndị nọ n’ọdịda anyanwụ ala Naịjịrịa, ọnụọgụgụ ụmụakwụkwọ na-amụ asụsụ Igbo na-agba anya mmiri. Nchọcha Kammelụ a gosịpụtara na abịa na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị asaa nọ n’ọdịda anyanwụ ala Naịjịrịa, ọnụọgụgụ ụmụ Igbo debatara aha na ngalaba asụsụ Igbo enweghị oge ọ karịrị mmadụ iri na gburugburu kọleeji niile nọ n’akụkụ Naịjịrịa ahụ n’ime afọ iri nchọcha a gbadoro ụkwụ.

(g). Ohiri-Aniche, (2006, p. 47) gosịpụtara na ọnụọgụgụ ụmụakwụkwọ na-amụ asụsụ Igbo na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị pere mpe karịa ndị no na ngalaba Awụsa, Frenchị, Yoruba, na Ingilishi. A na-agụ ole ghara ibe ya, a bịa na kọleeji Alvan Ikokwu dị n’Owere kpọm kwem na akụkụ asụsụ Igbo, sọọsọ ụmụakwụkwọ iri nọ na kilaasị ndị na-apụ apụ, n’ime mmadụ iri a, sọọsọ isii na-agbasi mbọ ike.

4.0. Ụzọ A Pụrụ Ịgbaso
(a). Inwe mmasị dị oke mkpa n’ihe ọ bụla mmadụ na-eme. Ọ na-enye mmadu agbamume n’ọmụmụ asụsụ weta ịhụnanya na alụmdi ma na-ebute mmepe na ọganihu n’obodo. Ụzọ kachasị mma iji mee ka mmụọ ụmụ Igbo nọ na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị na anụ ọkụ n’ihe gbasara asụsụ Igbo bụ site n’iwebata asọmmpi asụsụ na omenala Igbo nke a ga-erite ego gbara ọkpụrụkpụ na ya. E nwere ike I hiwe nke a na mbido afọ ọ bụla. A ga eme ka ndị nta akụkọ gosị asọmmpi a n’onyonyo Tiivi na Redio ka ọ kpụọ ọkụ n’ọnụ.

(b). Ọzọkwa, iji kwalite mmasị ha n’ọmụmụ Igbo, ụmụakwụkwọ na-amụ asụsụ Igbo na kọleeji anyị ha kwesịrị ka a na- akwụ ha nchọnchọ ego ha ga-eji nyere onwe ha aka n’ụlọakwụkwọ. Ụdị enyemaka a ga-adọta mmụọ ụmụ Igbo nọ na ngalaba ndị ọzọ.

(ch). Ọdịkwa mkpa ikwalite ọnụọgụgụ ngwa e ji akụzị ihe na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị site n’ime ka gọọmenti ala Naịjịrịa gbaa mbọ hụ na eweghachitere ụmụ ihe ọkpụ anyị ha bụ


nọ ugbu a na-ezu ike n’ụlọ nlere muzium ndị ọcha. Nke a ga-eme ka ngwa nkụzị omenala Igbo zuwanye oke.

(d). Ọ bụghị naani I weghachi ndị furu efu, a ga-akwụsị ọgbụgba ọkụ ndị otu ụka dị iche iche na-agba ụmụ ihe ọkpụ ndị fọdụrụ n’ala Igbo.

Nchịkọta na Mmechi
N’ihe ndepụta a, nke gbadoro ụkwụ na ụzọ a pụrụ ịgbaso iji mwulite asụsụ na omenala Igbo n’ogo ọpụrụiche na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị, a kọwapụtara uru asụsụ bara mere o ji dị mkpa ị kwado ya, nakwa ọnọdụ ọjọọ asụsụ Igbo nọ n’etiti asụsụ ndị ọzọ gbara ọkpụrụkpụ n’ala Naịjịrịa. Ndepụta a egosịpụtala ụfọdụ mbọ ndị a gbarala iji tọghapụ ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo n’ọgbụ ji ya. Ọtụtụ n’ime mbọ ndị a gbadoro ụkwụ n’iwulite mmasị ụmụakwụkwọ na-amụ asụsụ Igbo. Nchọcha a mere ka a mata ihe ndọlaazụ ndị ka fọdụrụ na kọleeji ọzụzụ ndị nkụzị nakwa ụzọ a ga-esi buso ha agha. Ndị ọchịchị kwesịrị iji asụsụ Igbo agwa ndị ha na-achị okwu dị ka ndị Awụsa na Yoruba si eme. Ụmụokorobịa kwesịrị iji Igbo anọrị mgbe. N’ikpeazụ, iji mee ka asụsụ Igbo bụrụ ọkaibe e ji ohere a akpọlite ndị Igbo n’ụra ka asụsụ anyị gharakwa ifunarị anyị. Ọrụ a chọrọ mgbakọ aka onye ọ bụla, ọkachasị ndị ọnụ na-eru n’okwu. Onweghị mkpụrụokwu Igbo na-eme ihere, ụtara bụ ụtara ofe bụ ofe, onye ọ bụla tinye aka na ihe fọrọ otu agwụla agwụ.

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It isn't impossible to have Igbo-run schools. Infact I attribute their absence to the poor thinking skills that largely defines the Nigerian leadership. It is just that in the short-run we must stoop to conquer. I posted my '100 scientific terms translated into Igbo' in an Igbo facebook group, I joined recently and some of comments I read made me understand that there are Igbos who do not know the wealth and possibilities of their language. I believe with a convincing argument many would be convinced of the utility of Igbo-run schools.

1 President
Commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces
Minister of Petroleum - Ọchiala/Nzeobodo, Isi-ochiagha nke ndi-usu Agha
2 Vice President - Osote Nzeobodo
3 Minister of Justice- Ọkaobodo (minister) nke ikpeezi
4 Attorney General - Isi-ikpe obodo
5 Minister of Foreign Affairs- Ọkaobodo nke eme ofesi
6 Minister of Finance - Ọkaobodo nke Ego/Okpogho
7 Minister of Defence -Ọkaobodo nke Nche
8 Minister of Education-Ọkaobodo nke Nguakwukwọ
9 Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment- Ọkaobodo nke Nkaemeputa, Nzuahia na Mbuteime
10 Minister of Labour and Employment- Ọkaobodo Omeọrụ na Nnọnaọru
11 Minister of Federal Capital Territory- Ọkaobodo Isiala njikọbodo
12 Minister of Science and Technology -Ọkaobodo Nkammuta na Nkànaụzụ
13 Minister of Solid Minerals -Ọkaobodo Mkpọmpkọ Akuaala
14 Minister of Interior - Ọkaobodo Mbanye obodo
15 Minister of Budget and National Planning -Ọkaobodo nhaziego na atụmatụ obodo
16 Minister of Power, Works and Housing -Ọkaobodo ọkuulọ, ọru na nye-ulọ
17 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development- Ọkaobodo nke Iwuugbo na mmalite imeobodo
18 Minister of Transportation - Ọkaobodo nke njem-ugboala
19 Minister of Health- Ọkaobodo maka ahuike
20 Minister of Women Affairs - Ọkaobodo maka eme Umu-nwanyi
21 Minister of Niger Delta-Ọkaobodo maka Naija Delta
22 Minister of Information -Ọkaobodo nke Ozi
23 Minister of Environment-Ọkaobodo nke Agbata
24 Minister of Youth and Sports - Ọkaobodo nke okolobia na egwureahu
25 Minister of State for Aviation - Ọkaobodo nke obodo maka ugboelu
26 Minister of state for Environment- Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu (state) maka agbata
27 Minister of State for Foreign Affairs - Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka eme ofesi
28 Minister of State for Solid Minerals- Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka akuala
29 Minister of State for Health- Ọkaobodo nke ahuike ọnọiwu
30 Minister of State for Niger Delta- Ọkaobodo ọnọiwu
nke Naija Delta
31 Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing- Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka ọkuulọ, na ebeobibi
32 Minister of State for Education- Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka nguakwukwọ ọnọiwu
33 Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development - Ọkaobodo maka iwuugbo na nkwalite imeobodo
34 Minister of State for Labour and Employment- Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka omeọrụ na nnọnaọru
35 Minister of State for Budget and National Planning- Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka nhaziego na atụmatụ obodo
36 Minister for Communication - Ọkaobodo maka nyeokwu
37 Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment- Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka nka-emeputa, nzuahia, mbuteime
38 Minister of State for Petroleum - Ọkaobodo nke ọnọiwu maka mmanuugbo
39 Minister of Water Resources - Ọkaobodo ekereala mmiri

Ezeagu,

I wish I can share your optimism of Igbos sending their children to Igbo-run schools, but my observations lead me to the pessimism of it happening in the short run save for a radical government policy that would reorientate the language situation. I still maintain, an online academy would be an appropriate start. This would have the advantage of showcasing what a physical Igbo academic presence would do, including the deployment of new Igbo specialist terms.

There is absolutely no doubt that the Igbo language is capable of any level of academic usage and that Igbos would perform better in their native tongue, it is just that a lot of Igbos are stuck to the security, the English-only education system in Nigeria offers.

Since English is the exclusive language of instruction in Nigeria, setting up an Igbo-run school is not feasible in the short run, because the Igbo, for the most part, have become acclimatised to the completely English-run educational system, and its dominant economic rewards and security.

What I think is feasible in the short term, is setting up an online academy where all sorts of courses or instructions would be offered in Igbo, accessible to all, with the widest diffusion. This academy would evangelize the Igbo language as a potent language of instruction. This ofcourse would need the participation of at least some Igbos, who are willing to volunteer their time to do translations and writings. This site would be a go-to for any speaker of the language seeking help for anything, from, cv-writing, travelling to manufacturing. It would have news reports and a radio platform.

We have to stoop to conquer. Many Igbos, faced with the incontrovertible evidence of their language offering similar instructions, would be converted (and actively campaign) to the idea of getting instructions non-virtually, privately or publicly in Igbo.

I am ready to join this train with like-minded people today. We must move beyond thoughts and words into action.