Ijaw

[ee-jaw]

noun

plural

Ijaws ,

plural

Ijaw .

1. Ijo.

Example Sentences

On the sidelines, an Ijaw youth leader, Godswill Doubra, said of the Itsekiris, “If we want to kill, we can kill dozens.”

From New York Times

Eurasia Group, Henshaw and Patterson Ogun, founding director of the Ijaw Council for Human Rights, said locals were unlikely to blow up pipelines.

From Reuters

The Ijaw Youth Council, which represents local people, said it expected thousands more cuts as other oil majors retrench.

From Reuters

People from ethnic groups along the coast, such as the Efik and Ijaw, usually acted as stevedores for the white merchants and as middlemen for Igbo traders like my great-grandfather.

From BBC

She was an Ijaw and could not understand Arize’s Igbo.

From Literature