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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If Obi wins, he would be the first Ibo president of Nigeria since it returned to democracy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
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
Mr Ibo says the news hit the local Syrian and Muslim communities hard.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2019
Like when Ibo, a 23-year-old Gambian, sings Bob Marley’s “One Love” — and others follow with classical Bangladeshi songs and Shakira’s “Waka, Waka.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2017
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
"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
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
The British say that their departure would bring the Moslem Hausa tribe down from the north to dominate the Ibos and Yorubas.
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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