Ibo
Americannoun
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Ibos,
plural
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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
I work on my Ibo report and peek out the window at all the little witches and firemen and brides and monsters.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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
Three years ago the Ibos established the breakaway nation of Biafra and precipitated Black Africa's worst civil war.
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
Instead, the Ibos are prospering as citizens of a federated Nigeria.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a while no one has anything left to say about the Ibos, so we move into the den and watch videos.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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