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Leveraging Digital Technologies to Revitalize Igbo Language and Culture among Young Nigerians: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Chioma Ibeleche

As an Igbo language teacher and advocate for cultural preservation, I am eager to present my research on the intersection of technology, culture, and human capital in promoting the language, traditions, and values of the Igbo people. This presentation will explore how digital technologies, especially AI-powered tools and social media …

Cultural Education, Modernity and the Igbo Youth

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Mary Chinturu Adindu

This paper highlighted the attitude or behavior of the youths consciously or unconsciously towards the moral values of Igbo traditions and culture. It x-rays the negative impacts of modernity on the Igbo tradition and culture and the nonchalant attitude of the society in safeguarding her culture. Applying the hypothetical analysis …

“Japa” Syndrome and its Attendant Baggage: Irene Salami’s Sweet Revenge as a Paradigm

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Ogochukwu A. Agbo

Over the years, people have left their homes to other foreign countries in search of greener pastures. This is not restricted to young unmarried people, some married older people also migrate too. This is the situation with Sota Ojo who left his wife and children to sojourn in a foreign …

Relics of the Biafran/Nigerian War: The Engineering Wonders of Colonel Ejike Obumneme Aghanya (Rtd) and the Research and Production (RAP) Group

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Ikenna Obumneme Aghanya

My late father, Col. Ejike Obumneme Aghanya (Rtd) was the commander of the Research and Production (RAP) group, during the thirty months Biafran war. As a trained Engineer and a military officer, himself and some notable Igbo scientists/engineers like Engineer Seth Nwangwu, Dr. Ogbuehi, Engineer Willy Achukwu, Engineer Roy Umenyi, …

Continuity in Indigenous Institutions for Capital Formation among the Igbo in Post-Colonial Nigeria, 1970 - 2020

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Ikechukwu Cosmas Ahamefule

For the capital formation among the Igbo of southeast Nigeria, there exist traditional institutions through which the people raised resources to attend to their community and individual needs. These included, among others, Contribution Clubs, Family and Extended Family Pools, Age Grade Associations, Title Taking/Societies, Pawning, Inheritance, Land/Economic Trees Pledging, Imachi …

Non-Human Agency in Igbo Cultural History: Affective Entanglements between Humans, Animals, Spirits, and Technology

Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)

Presenter(s): Rosemary Akpan

This study examines the emotional connections between people, animals, spirits, and technology in Igbo cosmology, literature, and modern culture. The paper tends not to completely separate humans from non-humans in Igbo thought. It acknowledges the agency of spirits (mmụọ), sacred animals, ancestral artifacts, and things like ọfọ and ikenga, which …

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