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When Sounds Learn to Travel: Igbo Music, Media, and Cultural Survival

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

Presenter(s): Uche JohnMark Nwaneri

Music has remained a significant aspect of Igbo social life, embodying storytelling, spirituality, political passion, and communal unity. This paper explores how Igbo musical traditions and rituals embedded in native instruments such as the ogene, udu, ekwe, igba, ichaka, oja, and later showcased through palm-wine guitar music, church music, highlife, …

Marriage as a Contested Moral Space: Tradition, Modernity, and Social Change in Igbo Society

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

Presenter(s): Maria Ukamaka Umenyili

Marriage in Igbo society has historically functioned as a central institution for social organization, moral regulation, and communal continuity. Rooted in deeply embedded customs such as bride wealth, kinship obligations, extended family authority, and gendered role expectations, Igbo marriage has long served as a stabilizing force within the social order. …

Gendered Visions of History and Ecological Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Achebe and Adimora-Ezeigbo

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

Presenter(s): Mary J. N. Okolie

This paper employs a postcolonial ecofeminist framework, drawing on the work of Vandana Shiva, to argue that Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones presents a vital corrective to the patriarchal and tragic historical vision immortalized in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. While Achebe’s seminal novel charts the collapse …

Igbo Ebinie: O Bughi Igbo Adaa (Igbo Rising, not Igbo Landing)

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

Presenter(s): Onwubiko Agozino

Akwukwo nchoputa m ga egosi na ndi Bekee siri asi mgbe ha kwulu na imerekiti ndi Igbo ndi ntori resiri ndi na agbo ohu si kama ha ga abu ohu, ka ha danye na oshimiri welu nwuo, loghachi uwa na be anyi. Na uche m, nke ahu bu okwu aghugho …

Words That Wound: The Impact of Political Rhetoric on Haitian-Immigrant Communities

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

Presenter(s): Laura Napoleon

This paper examines how political rhetoric becomes more than speech—it becomes policy, perception, and lived consequence for Haitian immigrant communities in the United States. Through Critical Discourse Analysis and Autoethnography, I explore how public statements made during the Trump administration framed Haiti and Haitian migrants through racialized and deficit-based language. …

Reading Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God as Igbo Speculative Fiction

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

Presenter(s): Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

The second quarter of the twenty-first century and moving forward towards a viable African future call for a speculative approach in African literature discourse to be placed on its traditional foundations. With advanced technological knowledge impacting social media, literature, science, culture, economy, politics, value systems, and more, it is time …

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