Igbo Daily Drops

She thought Nigeria was never cold. Then the harmattan reached Nsukka, and

her roommate held out a jacket and three sentences.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases for cold

mornings and hard wind — and watch a Lagos-raised student who has always

understood Igbo, but never spoken it, become the strictest Igbo speaker on

her hostel corridor in a week.

Set in January 2026 at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, during the

harmattan, Nigeria's hidden winter, this story follows two nineteen-year-old

roommates: one from a village outside Nsukka who carries the season's home

knowledge in her body, and one raised in Lagos who never needed it. The

words and the know-how arrive together. This is intangible cultural heritage

and an endangered language, offered in a spirit of cultural understanding

and an African heritage renaissance.

Kamsi, Ụjụnwa and the hostel week are fictional. The language findings and

the harmattan are documented.

Research in this episode draws on Ngozi Ugo Emeka-Nwobia, Ebonyi State

University, 2019 — Igbo children often understand the language better than

they speak it, and weakened transmission means losing contact with

ecological knowledge carried by oral tradition.

📖 Today's proverb: Mgbe onye tetara n'ụra bụ ụtụtụ ya — Whenever you wake

is your morning.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Oyi na-atụ m. — I'm cold.

2. Ikuku na-efesi ike. — The wind is blowing hard.

3. Yiri uwe oyi gị. — Put on your coat.

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

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Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

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A landslide on Mount Cameroon, a lorry full of cement, and a sixteen-year-old

asked, for the first time in his life, to decide.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases for heavy rain,

flooded roads and "I can't go now" — and why, in an Igbo apprenticeship, the

bravest thing a boy can say is that he won't move.

Set in 1983 on the Limbe–Idenau road beside Debundscha, one of the wettest

places on earth, in British Southern Cameroons, administered with Nigeria until 1961, this

story follows an Igbo trader and the nephew he is training. The Igbo

apprenticeship system has passed on judgement, not only skills, for

generations. This is intangible cultural heritage and an endangered language,

offered in a spirit of cultural understanding and an African heritage

renaissance.

Tobenna, Maduka and the journey are fictional. The apprenticeship findings,

the road and the region's history are documented.

Research in this episode draws on Bridget Irene and colleagues, De Montfort,

Coventry and Robert Gordon universities, 2024 — Igbo apprentices learn by

repetition, by doing and by storytelling, including the stories of their

masters' successes and failures.

📖 Today's proverb: Nwayọọ nwayọọ ka e ji aracha ofe dị ọkụ — Hot soup is

eaten slowly.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Mmiri na-ezosi ike. — It's raining heavily.

2. Mmiri adọchiela ụzọ. — The road is flooded.

3. Enweghị m ike ịga ugbua. — I can't go now.

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple

🌐 learnigbonow.com

Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

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Main Channel: @learnigbo on YouTube
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Be one of them. Every sentence you learn is a drop. 
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Forty degrees under a zinc roof, two hundred pairs due Friday — and the soles

won't stick.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases for sun, heat and

cold water — and how a young shoemaker in Aba beat the hottest month by

handing his day back to the sun.

Aba's shoemaking cluster beside Ariaria International Market is one of West

Africa's great informal manufacturing hubs, and it was pioneered in the 1950s

by migrants from Mbaise who began by cutting sandals from old car tyres. Almost

every shoemaker there learnt the trade through the Igbo apprenticeship system.

This is intangible cultural heritage and an endangered language, offered in a

spirit of cultural understanding and an African heritage renaissance.

Chimsom, Ebuka and Pa Ndukwe are fictional. The history of Aba's shoe cluster

and its apprenticeship system is documented (Meagher, 2010; 2011).

Research in this episode draws on Kate Meagher, Identity Economics (James

Currey, 2010) — 99% of Aba's shoe producers trained as apprentices, learning

skills, networks, and "occupational values relating to quality and work ethics."

📖 Today's proverb: Onye aghala nwanne ya — Let no one leave their brother

behind.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Anwụ na-acha taa. — The sun is shining today.

2. Ọ na-ekpo ọkụ nke ukwuu. — It's very hot.

3. Nye m mmiri oyi. — Give me cold water.

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple

🌐 learnigbonow.com

Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

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Main Channel: @learnigbo on YouTube
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Our Mission: Raise 10,000 more next-generation Igbo speakers by next year. 
Be one of them. Every sentence you learn is a drop. 
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🎧 WEEK 36 OMNIBUS: All 5 Episodes in One Continuous Session

Missed the daily drops this week? This omnibus combines all five complete episodes from Week 36 of Igbo Daily Drops—no breaks, no interruptions, just pure immersive storytelling, language instruction, and scholarly documentation of Igbo intangible cultural heritage.
    
The episode titles in Week 36 are:

Episode 176 - Days of the Week 

Episode 177 - Telling the Time 

Episode 178 - The Market Days 

Episode 179 - The Months 

Episode 180 - Parts of the Day 

🗣️ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

15 essential Igbo phrases from talking about feelings , social expectations, starting a new phase of life , etc

Perfect for diaspora learners reconnecting with their heritage, language 

students, or anyone interested in Igbo culture and intangible cultural 

heritage preservation.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

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Be one of them. Every sentence you learn is a drop. 
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📺 Visual version with full diacritics: youtube.com/@learnigbo 

📥 Free practice speaking workbook for week 36  at www.learnigbonow.com

This is your Week 36 Igbo language practice session from Igbo Daily Drops — 15 sentences learnt over the past week in Igbo daily drops,  built for real-life use. Commands, requests, questions, and the kind of warm, human phrases that make the difference between knowing a language and living in it.

Work through each sentence at your own pace. You will hear it once, then again — then it is your turn. 

A bịara m Guangzhou na Tuzdee — I came to Guangzhou on Tuesday

Kọntena m ga-apụ na Fraịdee — My container will leave on Friday

Aga m akpọ gị na Sọnde — I'll call you on Sunday

Gịnị na-akụ ebe ahụ? — What time is it there?

Elekere anọ na-akụ ebe a. — It's four o'clock here.

N'ebe ahụ, ọ bụ elekere ise. — There, it's five o'clock.

Taa bụ Eke. — Today is Eke.

Echi bụ Orie. — Tomorrow is Orie.

Anyị ga-ezukọ n'ahịa Nkwọ. — We will gather at the Nkwọ market.

Ọnwa atọ gara aga, enweghị m ihe ọbụla. — Three months ago, I had nothing.

N'ọnwa Mee, aga m emeghe ụlọ ahịa. — In May, I'll open the shop.

Na Disemba, ụmụ m ga-alaghachi akwụkwọ. — In December, my children will go back to school.

Anyị ga-ebido n'ụtụtụ. — We'll start in the morning.

N'ehihie, anwụ na-achasi ike. — In the afternoon, the sun is very strong.

Anyị ga-akwụsị tupuu chi ejie. — We'll stop before it gets dark.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

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He is making a film about the night with a camera that can only see in the day.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases for the parts of

the day — morning, afternoon, and before dark — and how a cameraman with no

lights rebuilt his whole shooting day around them.

Surulere, Lagos, 1992 — the year the Igbo-language film Living in Bondage

helped launch Nigeria's home-video boom, the industry now called Nollywood.

Okwudili has a borrowed VHS camera, a roll of kitchen foil, and an actress who

must be home before dark. In Igbo, chi has two distinct meanings, a person's guiding

spirit and daylight, and the chi in tupu chi ejie, "before it gets dark", is

the daylight one. This is intangible cultural heritage and an endangered

language, offered in a spirit of cultural understanding and an African

heritage renaissance.

Okwudili, his crew and their film are fictional. Living in Bondage (1992), its

role in opening the market, and the conditions of early video-film making are

documented (Haynes, 2016).

Research in this episode draws on Jonathan Haynes, University of Chicago

Press, 2016 — the 1992 Igbo-language Living in Bondage "inaugurated the video

boom" — and Chinua Achebe, "Chi in Igbo Cosmology", 1975 — chi has two

distinct meanings, personal spirit and daylight, especially daybreak and nightfall.

📖 Today's proverb: Chọọ ewu ojii ka chi dị — Look for the black goat while it

is still daylight.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Anyị ga-ebido n'ụtụtụ. — We'll start in the morning.

2. N'ehihie, anwụ na-achasi ike. — In the afternoon, the sun is very strong.

3. Anyị ga-akwụsị tupu chi ejie. — We'll stop before it gets dark.

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple

🌐 learnigbonow.com

Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

FREE RESOURCES: - Igbo Heritage Family Kit: https://learnigbonow.com -
Main Channel: @learnigbo on YouTube
Kids' Channel: @learnigboforkids on YouTube 


Our Mission: Raise 10,000 more next-generation Igbo speakers by next year. 
Be one of them. Every sentence you learn is a drop. 
And every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo — the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge. Subscribe now. Foundation episodes begin today.

The bank closed. The moon did not.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases for talking about

months and making plans — three months ago, in May, in December — and how a

calendar drawn in charcoal turns grief into a plan.

Eke Awka market, 1970, weeks after the Nigeria–Biafra war. Oriakụ, a

widowed cloth seller, has four five-pound notes: the twenty pounds the bank

gave back for her savings. With a stick of charcoal from her own burnt

rafters, she draws the months on the one wall still standing. In Igbo, month

and moon share one word, ọnwa. This is intangible cultural heritage and an

endangered language: the story of how Igbo women rebuilt, offered in a spirit

of cultural understanding and an African heritage renaissance.

Oriakụ and her family are fictional. The charcoal calendar, the burnt stall

and her daughter's occupied school are fictional reconstruction. The flat

£20 policy for Igbo depositors is documented (Achebe, There Was a Country,

2012), as are troops billeted in secondary schools in early 1970 and women's

central role in war-time trade and post-war recovery.

Research in this episode draws on Gloria Chuku, African Economic History,

1995 — Igbo women's trade and farming were "paramount in sustaining the Igbo

population during the war", and one mat-maker, Janet Agu, gave her son £48

"with which to start life again" when it ended.

📖 Today's proverb: E jighị ụtụtụ ama njọ ahịa — You do not judge a market's

failure by its morning.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Ọnwa atọ gara aga, enweghị m ihe ọ bụla. — Three months ago, I had nothing.

2. N'ọnwa Mee, aga m emeghe ụlọ ahịa. — In May, I'll open the shop.

3. Na Disemba, ụmụ m ga-alaghachi akwụkwọ. — In December, my children will go

   back to school.

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple

🌐 learnigbonow.com

Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

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Be one of them. Every sentence you learn is a drop. 
And every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo — the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge. Subscribe now. Foundation episodes begin today.

The government was counting the women. The women were counting the days.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases for naming the

Igbo market days — today is Eke, tomorrow is Orie, we will gather at the

Nkwọ market — and how a four-day week carried a revolution.

November 1929, Oloko, Bende Division. A warrant chief's man has tried to

count Nwanyeruwa's goats; she has answered, "Was your mother counted?"

Mgbeke, a palm-oil trader named for Eke day, sends a palm frond down the

market chain — Orie, Afọ, Nkwọ — and on Nkwọ the road to the District

Office fills with women. This is Ọgụ Ụmụnwaanyị, the Women's War, told

through the izu, the four-day market week that organised Igbo life long

before the seven-day week arrived. It is intangible cultural heritage and an

endangered language, offered in a spirit of cultural understanding and an

African heritage renaissance.

Mgbeke and her family are fictional; their story draws on documented events

of the Women's War of 1929. The Eke-to-Nkwọ relay and the knotted palm leaf

are dramatic inventions. Historical accounts document palm-leaf summonses and

mobilisation through women's market and kinship networks.

Research in this episode draws on Judith Van Allen, Canadian Journal of

African Studies, 1972 — the Women's War was coordinated through the women's

market mikiri network, which the British discovered but never inquired

into.

📖 Today's proverb: Otu aka anaghị eke ngwugwu — One hand cannot tie a

bundle.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Taa bụ Eke. — Today is Eke.

2. Echi bụ Orie. — Tomorrow is Orie.

3. Anyị ga-ezukọ n'ahịa Nkwọ. — We will gather at the Nkwọ market.

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot

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🌐 learnigbonow.com

Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

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He is standing on the line where the world's time begins — and he still

gets his sister's hour wrong.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases for asking and

telling the time: what time is it there, it's four o'clock here, it's five

o'clock there — and why one small question can hold a family together.

Michael Ndụbụisi Hart was born in Woolwich in 1961 to an English mother and

an Igbo father he never met. At sixty-five, a DNA test finds his sister,

Ụgọmma, a market trader in Nkwerre, Imo State. The episode documents the

Igbo habit of locating a person in their day before talking your matter,

the Angelus ringing over a Nkwerre market, and the quiet labour of

children of absence reclaiming an endangered language late in life. It is

intangible cultural heritage, offered in a spirit of cultural understanding

and an African heritage renaissance.

Michael and Ụgọmma are fictional; their world is documented.

Research in this episode draws on Ola Uduku, University of Strathclyde,

2002 — the grandchildren of Igbo settlers abroad are often totally

assimilated, yet occasionally look for their roots.

📖 Today's proverb: Mgbe onye tetara bụ ụtụtụ ya — Whenever a person wakes

up is their morning.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Gịnị na-akụ ebe ahụ? — What time is it there?

2. Elekere anọ na-akụ ebe a. — It's four o'clock here.

3. N'ebe ahụ, ọ bụ elekere ise. — There, it's five o'clock.

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple

🌐 learnigbonow.com

Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

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Her container sails on Friday. Her visa ends on Saturday. On Sunday, her

mother goes into surgery in Enugu. She is in Guangzhou.

In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 phrases that put the

days of the week behind you and ahead of you: Tuzdee, Fraịdee, Sọnde, and

the small markers that tell Igbo whether a day has happened or is still to

come.

Set in the Tianxiu Building in Guangzhou's Xiaobei district, the heart of

the African trading community some call "Chocolate City", the episode

documents two ways of counting Igbo time: the four-day market week (Eke,

Orie, Afọ, Nkwọ) and the seven-day izu ụka, whose Sunday is still Ụbọchị

Ụka, the church day. It is intangible cultural heritage carried in an

endangered language, across the world's busiest trade routes. It is offered

in a spirit of cultural understanding and an African heritage renaissance.

Akụnnaya and her mother are fictional; their world is documented.

Research in this episode draws on Adams Bodomo, University of Hong Kong, 2010

— Guangzhou's African traders act as "linguistic, cultural and economic

bridges" between China and Africa, and Igbo can be heard in the city's shops

and churches.

📖 Today's proverb: O bu ibu anaghị ebu ala — The one who carries a load does

not carry the earth.

🗣️ Sentences practised today:

1. Abịara m Guangzhou na Tuzdee — I came to Guangzhou on Tuesday

2. Kọntena m ga-apụ na Fraịdee — My container will leave on Friday

3. Aga m akpọ gị na Sọnde — I'll call you on Sunday

📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com

🏛️ By every measure UNESCO uses to assess a language's vitality —

intergenerational transmission, community attitudes, government support — Igbo is

vulnerable. This podcast documents Igbo intangible cultural heritage — oral

traditions, social practices, rituals, and knowledge systems — while teaching

conversational Igbo to diaspora learners worldwide. Every episode is part of the

Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive.

Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Daughter of the soil.

▶️ Watch the visual version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnIgbo/podcasts

🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple

🌐 learnigbonow.com

Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo —

the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.

This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.

FREE RESOURCES: - Igbo Heritage Family Kit: https://learnigbonow.com -
Main Channel: @learnigbo on YouTube
Kids' Channel: @learnigboforkids on YouTube 


Our Mission: Raise 10,000 more next-generation Igbo speakers by next year. 
Be one of them. Every sentence you learn is a drop. 
And every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo — the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge. Subscribe now. Foundation episodes begin today.