Browse through all abstracts presented at past conferences.
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Ogochukwu A. Agbo
Over the years, people have left their homes to other foreign countries in search of greener pastures. This is not restricted to young unmarried people, some married older people also migrate too. This is the situation with Sota Ojo who left his wife and children to sojourn in a foreign …
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Ikenna Obumneme Aghanya
My late father, Col. Ejike Obumneme Aghanya (Rtd) was the commander of the Research and Production (RAP) group, during the thirty months Biafran war. As a trained Engineer and a military officer, himself and some notable Igbo scientists/engineers like Engineer Seth Nwangwu, Dr. Ogbuehi, Engineer Willy Achukwu, Engineer Roy Umenyi, …
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Ikechukwu Cosmas Ahamefule
For the capital formation among the Igbo of southeast Nigeria, there exist traditional institutions through which the people raised resources to attend to their community and individual needs. These included, among others, Contribution Clubs, Family and Extended Family Pools, Age Grade Associations, Title Taking/Societies, Pawning, Inheritance, Land/Economic Trees Pledging, Imachi …
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Rosemary Akpan
This study examines the emotional connections between people, animals, spirits, and technology in Igbo cosmology, literature, and modern culture. The paper tends not to completely separate humans from non-humans in Igbo thought. It acknowledges the agency of spirits (mmụọ), sacred animals, ancestral artifacts, and things like ọfọ and ikenga, which …
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Esther Ogochukwu Akpulu
Ọtụtụ oge, ihe ọjọọ ụfọdụ na-amalite ma gaa n’ihu were ọnọdụ ka a ga-asị na ọ bụ ihe kwesịrị ekwesị ma ọ bụ dịkwa ka usoro iwu nabatara. Ihe kpatara nke a bụ ịnabata omenala arịrọ. Omenala arịrọ bụ mmadụ ịrọ ka a ghara ịta ya ahụhụ oge ọ dara …
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Gladys Ijeoma Akunna
A global health philosophy articulates that health is wealth. On a personal level, Mathman Gandhi further emphasized that health is real wealth, not pieces of gold or silver. A healthy people build a healthy progressive society, hence the Igbo Ndu nmiri , ndu azu philosophy which projects that health and …