Ibo
Americannoun
plural
Ibos,plural
Ibo-
a member of an Indigenous Black people of southeastern Nigeria, renowned as traders and for their art.
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the language of the Ibo, a Kwa language.
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in S Nigeria
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the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family: one of the chief literary and cultural languages of S Nigeria
Example Sentences
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A different video introduced me to Ibo Landing, a legend that 75 Igbo warriors died by mass suicide instead of being enslaved, and another to Yasuke, the first Black samurai.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2021
“We may have a new middle class, but what is it built on?” asked Ibo Blazicevic, president of Bolivia’s National Chamber of Industries.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2019
Ibo is a dance that represents freedom in tribute to the country's status as the world's first black republic, independent since 1804.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2019
She writes the way the late Ibo feminist supreme Victoria Mojekwu spoke!
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2017
“And, uh, I used watercolor paint because it can wash away easily, just like the memory of the Ibo revolt unless we keep studying it.”
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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