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Digital Identity and Morphological Productivity in the Igbo Language: Situating African Identity in a Technological Age

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Felista Chidi Akidi — Igbo Unit, Directorate of General Studies, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Goodnews Chinasa Ihezuonu — Department of Languages, Linguistics Unit, University of Delta, Agbor, Delta State

As technology continues to transform communication across Africa, African languages are increasingly adapting to the linguistic demands of digital spaces. This study examines the relationship between digital identity and morphological productivity in the Igbo language, with particular attention to how Igbo users creatively generate, adapt, and circulate new linguistic forms …

Challenges And Prospects of Igbo Language Use in Digital Technology

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Chinyere Benedicta Onyemaechi — Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Owerri, Chioma Rosemary Ayozie — Directorate of General Studies, Federal University of Technology, Owerri

The increasing use of digital technologies has opened new possibilities for the development, preservation, and transmission of African languages. However, it has also introduced significant challenges for languages such as Igbo, especially in relation to accessibility, orthography, user attitude, and technological infrastructure. This study investigates the challenges and prospects of …

Igbo Healthcare, Mental Health and Wellbeing

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Egwunwoke Chibueze Obi — Ladder Press Nigeria Limited, Ogba Ikeja, Lagos

The Igbo people of Nigeria have a rich cultural heritage that influences their healthcare, mental health, and wellbeing practices. This paper examines with much autoethnography, the traditional Igbo healthcare system, which emphasizes a holistic approach to health, incorporating spiritual, social, and physical dimensions. Mental health is understood within the …

Tending to Umi Okpukpu as an Igbo Diasporic Literary Architecture

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Erondu, Chinyere — Independent Researcher Washington, DC, USA

Tending to Umi Okpukpu as an Igbo Diasporic Literary Architecture Bone Marrow, often eaten as a delicacy within Igbo traditional soups & dishes, and the locale in which nourishment, sustenance and nutritional provision resides, provides opportunity to draw a parallel between the Umi Okpukpu of Igbo ontological realities and the …

Ọsọ Ndu Agwụ Ike: Reintegration, Survival, and the Igbo Philosophy of Second Chances

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Ferdinand, Joy Amaka — School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AK, USA

Reintegration after incarceration is often framed within Western criminological models that emphasize individual responsibility, risk management, and behavioral compliance. While these approaches offer valuable insights, they frequently under-theorize endurance, dignity, and communal responsibility as central to life after prison. This paper advances an indigenous theoretical framework of reintegration grounded …

Land as Epistemology: Indigenous Knowledge and More-Than-Human Relations in Igbo and Diné (Navajo)Thought

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Iroegbu, Oke — Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles

This paper argues that Indigenous epistemologies transform our understanding of land by positioning it as an active, relational agent in the production of knowledge rather than a passive object of inquiry. Bringing Igbo cosmology from southeastern Nigeria into dialogue with Diné (Navajo) philosophy, it examines how concepts such as …

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