Ibo
Americannoun
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Ibos,
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Ibo
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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
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That groove went on to inspire much of subsequent reggae, distinctly heard in works by Sugar Minott, Ibo Cooper, Gregory Isaacs and Dennis Brown.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
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
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
Another defendant, Nigerian native Elizabeth Amachaghi, needed an interpreter in her native language, Ibo, to be flown to North Carolina from the West Coast, her attorney said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2019
In Nigeria the Ibo people became the local entrepreneurial equivalent of New Guinea’s Chimbus.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
When the Eastern Region of Nigeria seceded in 1967 and the civil war broke out, many of the Ibos in Ondo fled in fear of reprisals.
From US News ● Sep. 29, 2016
After Biafra fell, there were fears that many of the surviving 4,000,000 Ibos there would be slaughtered or starved.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a time when hardliners within his government were urging a more ruthless prosecution of the war, Gowon told them: "We have no enemy, the Ibos are not our enemy."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Jack" Gowon, 39, turned his 250,000-man army into a well-disciplined reconstruction corps and put it to work helping the Ibos bounce back.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence social scientists continue to debate the specific reasons why receptivity changed in Islam, China, and Europe, and why the Chimbus, Ibos, and Navajo were more receptive to new technology than were their neighbors.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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