Author: Solomon AmadiumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ilu Ndi Igbo: Suitable proverbs for different occasions translated (similarities between Igbo and Yoruba proverbs)
Author: Solomon AmadiumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ilu Ndị Igbo
Author: Julius Ekeilu & whakatauki
Author: Oli OgbonnaPublisher: OLILEANYA OGBONNA
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This piece is done as part of my quest to train our kids to appreciate the right values using elements in diverse cultures particularly those of my parents (Igbo) and those of tangata whenua (Maori) - the land where we now reside. Parents have a role to train their children. This involves inculcating certain values in the children. Language is a basic tool for communicating concepts and thoughts. Different elements are available in the use of language irrespective of nativity. Proverbs referred to in Te reo as ‘whakatauki’ and in Igbo language as ‘ilu’ are a well-used tool to pass on information. The Igbos have a statement that “Ilu bu mmanu eji eri okwu”. That statement means that proverbs are the sauce used to consume / eat words or discourse. The proverb is set in the context of food (kai) and feeding. While children can be said to learn better with visual communication of the message being passed across, using proverbs helps in passing across an instruction, moral or standard. In this book and the ensuing series, my daughters and I will explore the use of whakatauki, as well as ilu to describe situations and proffer solutions and suggestions. We will look at various whakatauki (ilu / proverbs) and seek to use experiences that children will find easy to identify with.
Ilu Ndi Igbo
Author: Solomon AmadiumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Omenuko
Author: Nwana, PitaPublisher: African Heritage Press
ISBN: 1940729173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Omenụkọ (real name: Igwegbe Odum) whose home in Okigwe, Eastern Nigeria, was a popular spot for field trips by students in schools and colleges, as well as a favourite attraction for tourists in the decades before and after the Nigerian Independence in 1960. Generations of Igbo children began their reading in Igbo with Omenụkọ, and those who did not have the opportunity to go to school still read Omenụkọ in their homes or at adult education centers. Omenụkọ was a legendary figure and his 'sayings' became part of the Igbo speech repertoire that young adults were expected to acquire. Omenụkọ, a classic in Igbo Literature, written by Pita Nwana and published in 1933 by Longman, Green & Co, Ltd, London, is in this translation made accessible to a global audience. Emenyonu utilizes his mastery of both languages (Igbo and English) to faithfully present to his audience a complete rendition of Omenụkọ as originally written. The timeless significance of this novel as a progenitor of the Igbo language novel is again underscored.
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress
Author: B. NyamnjohPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 995655183X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a permanent work in progress by drawing inspiration from Chinua Achebe's harnessing of the effectualness of oratory, especially his use of proverbs in his works. The book recognises and celebrates the fact that Achebe's proverbial Igbo imaginations of being and becoming African are compelling because they are instructive about the lives, stories, struggles and aspirations of the rainbow of people that make up Africa as a veritable global arena of productive circulations, entanglements and compositeness of being. The contributions foray into how claims to and practices of being and becoming African are steeped in histories of mobilities and a myriad of encounters shaped by and inspiring of the competing and complementary logics of personhood and power that Africans have sought and seek to capture in their repertoires of proverbs. The task of documenting African proverbs and rendering them accessible in the form of a common hard currency with fascinating epistemological possibilities remains a challenge yearning for financial, scholarly, social and political attention. The book is an important contribution to John Mbiti's clarion call for an active and sustained interest in African proverbs.
Ilu Ndi Igbo
Author: Solomon AmadiumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Igbo (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Linguistic Paradise
Author: Ozo-mekuri NdimelePublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785644073
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
In the Linguistic Paradise is the second volume in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series. The motivating force behind the establishment of the Festschrift Series is to honour outstanding scholars who have excelled in the study of languages and linguistics in Nigeria. This volume is dedicated to Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo, a celebrated linguist and a pioneer professor of Igbo Linguistics. The book is organised in five sections, as follows: Language, History and Society; Literature, Stylistics and Pragmatics; Applied Linguistics; Formal Linguistics; and Tributes. There are 15 papers in the first section the majority address the perennial problem of language choice in Nigeria. Section two contains 10 papers focusing on literature, stylistics and pragmatics. Section three contains 17 papers a sizeable number of which focus on language teaching and learning, two are on lexicography, while others are on language engineering. Section three contains 16 papers focusing on the core areas of linguistics. In section four a biographical profile of Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo and list of publications is presented, while Nwadike examines the contributions of Emenanjo in Igbo Studies.
Igbo Proverbs: a Compilation
Author: Onyekachi IbekwePublisher: Henry Onyekachi Ibekwe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A selection of 1,000 proverbs in Igbo language, each accompanied by a usable English translation.
Fostering Christian Faith in Schools and Christian Communities Through Igbo Traditional Values
Author: Michael OkohPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643901682
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Religious education in Nigeria is in a state of transformation, owing to the country's current pluralist nature among other factors. In the process, concepts of religion and education are revisited and reassessed in order to make them meaningful to mankind in his pluralist world. With this book, author Michael Okoh inaugurates a fundamental revision. He brings traditional African education and values alongside Christian ideals into dialogue with the "Western progressive learning approaches," paving new ways for religious education activity in Nigeria, particularly in Igboland. (Series: Tubingen Prospects on Pastoral Theology and Religious Pedagogics / Tubinger Perspektiven zur Pastoraltheologie und Religionspadagogik - Vol. 45)