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“White Igbos”: Reflections on the Anyali, History and Culture of Difference in an African Society

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Kingsley C. Ezeuwa

The term ‘White Igbos’ refers to individuals of Igbo descent who were born with albinism and consequently identified as the Anyali or Anyabeke. Albinism as the congenital lack of melanin shaped the historical construction of socio-cultural difference in Igboland and several other parts of Africa. The Europeans, William Cole of …

Reading Azodo Linguistically: Corpus, Criticism, and African Literary Discourse

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Chidi Igwe

This paper offers a corpus-assisted linguistic study of selected English and French writings by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. It approaches her literary criticism not only as interpretation, but as a specialized authorial corpus whose terminology, lexical patterns, textual organization, and pragmatic choices produce African literary and cultural meaning. Drawing on corpus …

When Sounds Learn to Travel: Igbo Music, Media, and Cultural Survival

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Uche JohnMark Nwaneri

Music has remained a significant aspect of Igbo social life, embodying storytelling, spirituality, political passion, and communal unity. This paper explores how Igbo musical traditions and rituals embedded in native instruments such as the ogene, udu, ekwe, igba, ichaka, oja, and later showcased through palm-wine guitar music, church music, highlife, …

Marriage as a Contested Moral Space: Tradition, Modernity, and Social Change in Igbo Society

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Maria Ukamaka Umenyili

Marriage in Igbo society has historically functioned as a central institution for social organization, moral regulation, and communal continuity. Rooted in deeply embedded customs such as bride wealth, kinship obligations, extended family authority, and gendered role expectations, Igbo marriage has long served as a stabilizing force within the social order. …

Gendered Visions of History and Ecological Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Achebe and Adimora-Ezeigbo

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Mary J. N. Okolie

This paper employs a postcolonial ecofeminist framework, drawing on the work of Vandana Shiva, to argue that Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones presents a vital corrective to the patriarchal and tragic historical vision immortalized in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. While Achebe’s seminal novel charts the collapse …

Igbo Ebinie: O Bughi Igbo Adaa (Igbo Rising, not Igbo Landing)

Conference: The 23rd Annual International Conference of the Igbo Studies Association (ISA) (2026)

Presenter(s): Onwubiko Agozino

Akwukwo nchoputa m ga egosi na ndi Bekee siri asi mgbe ha kwulu na imerekiti ndi Igbo ndi ntori resiri ndi na agbo ohu si kama ha ga abu ohu, ka ha danye na oshimiri welu nwuo, loghachi uwa na be anyi. Na uche m, nke ahu bu okwu aghugho …

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