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When the Ancestors Speak: Igbo Literary Wisdom and Resilience

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

Presenter(s): Chinasa Ekeoma, Jane Nkechi Onuoha

This paper explores how Igbo oral and written literary traditions function as living records of communal memory, ethical teachings, directives, and cultural resilience. The study equally considers how such traditions mutually shape Igbo proverbs, folktales, masquerade performances, and ritual chants. The work argues that ancestral voices are encoded in language …

From Oral Wisdom to Global Goals: Igbo Proverbs as Indigenous Frameworks for Sustainability and Resilience

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

Presenter(s): Adaora Lois Anyachebelu

Indigenous African oral traditions have long articulated principles of sustainability, resilience, and ethical living through culturally embedded forms such as proverbs. Among the Igbo of southeastern Nigeria, proverbs function as condensed philosophical texts that transmit communal values, regulate social conduct, guide resource management, and equip communities with adaptive strategies for …

Tales From the Dumpsite: Nigerian Women Waste Pickers’ Narratives of Resilience and Resistance

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

Presenter(s): Adaobi Muo

Waste pickers, though largely invisibilized, are vital actors within African urban societies such as Aba and Onitsha. In Nigeria, the waste-picking population is predominantly composed of women. These women, including those of Igbo origin, mobilize waste picking as a site of resilience and resistance in negotiating survival amid urban poverty, …

The Depiction of Women in Igbo Proverbs: Far from the “Negative” Crowd

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

Presenter(s): Ujubonu J. Okide

In patriarchal societies all over the world, including Africa, men exercise control over women and dominate/relegate them in so many ways, as seen in myth, folklore, and proverbs. Quite a good number of research studies have been carried out in the subjugation of women in proverbs in Igbo. However, little …

Surviving War, the Educated Igbo Wo/Man, and Changing Gender Roles in Chimamanda Adichie’s War Novel

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

Presenter(s): Ogbu Chukwuka Nwachukwu

Aggregate scholarly inquiries into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s war novel (2006) tilt heavily toward certain strands of Feminism that inveigh against maleness as if maleness and femaleness are mutually exclusive and perpetual adversaries. Many scholarships fail to reckon, for instance, that if gender roles become fluid and social functions are relaxed …

Oso Ndu Agwuike: The Principle of Igbo Resilience and Survival

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

Presenter(s): John Okwudiri Obineche

This paper Osondu Agwuike: The Principle of Igbo Resilience and Survival, explores the concept of Oso Ndu Agwuike as a philosophical framework captioned here to encapsulate the principle of Igbo resilience, survival and existential reality: Drawing on recent empirical studies (2023–2025), historical analyses, ethnographic accounts, proverbial expressions and oral tradition, …

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