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- Going to Work, Market & Home — The Igbo Art of Moving Through the World (S1 E26)
A woman steps off a night-shift bus in Brampton, Ontario, in the
dark before dawn — and says three words that carry five centuries
of Igbo survival philosophy.
In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 essential
movement phrases — the sentences that place you in the flow of
your day, in Igbo, wherever in the world that day unfolds.
The Igbo have one of the most documented migration histories of
any people on earth — from the Atlantic slave trade to the
post-war rebuilding of Igboland to the Japa generation building
lives in Canada, the UK, and beyond. Each movement carried the
culture forward without dissolving it. Research in this episode
draws on Dr Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu, Tansian University, Anambra
State, writing in the Journal of African Studies and Sustainable
Development, 2019 — who found that the Igbo build where they
land rather than standing still and waiting. Each episode of
this archive builds bridges between generations, communities,
and continents through the living knowledge of one of Africa's
great civilisations.
3 Igbo Sentences learnt in today's episode :
- A na m aga orụ. I am going to work.
- A na m aga ahịa. I am going to the market.
- A na m ala ụlọ. I am going home.
The proverb mentioned in this episode :
Anaghị anọ n'otu ebe ekiri mmọnwụ.
You do not stand in only one place to watch the masquerade.
📥 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: an
ongoing documentation of Igbo language and culture for learners,
institutions, and future generations.
Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Digital
Humanities Architect.
🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple
▶️ YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/dropsyt
🌐 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.12 min - Week 5 Omnibus: Learn Igbo Through Stories | 5 Complete Episodes
🎧 WEEK 5 OMNIBUS: All 5 Episodes in One Continuous Session
Missed the daily drops this week? This omnibus combines all five complete
episodes from Week 5 of Igbo Daily Drops—no breaks, no interruptions,
just pure immersive storytelling, language instruction, and scholarly
documentation of Igbo intangible cultural heritage.
📚 THIS WEEK'S EPISODES:- Episode 21: Learn Igbo: I Am Working Right Now — 84% Start Businesses. Here's Why.
- Episode 22: Learn Igbo: Describe Your Movement — Going Home, Running, Arriving
- Episode 23: Learn Igbo: Household Tasks — When Egusi Costs Too Much in Melbourne
- Episode 24: Learn Igbo: Rest & Breathing — The Proverb That Stops the Depletion
- Episode 25: Learn Igbo: What Are You Doing? — One Woman, the Atlantic, and the Language She Refused to Forget
🗣️ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
15 essential Igbo phrases from basic greetings to sophisticated
cultural protocols used in business transactions.
Perfect for diaspora learners reconnecting with their heritage, language
students, or anyone interested in Igbo culture and intangible cultural
heritage preservation.
📖 FREE RESOURCES:
- Weekly Speaking Workbook: LearnIgboNow.com
🏛️ ABOUT IGBO DAILY DROPS:
Daily 10 minute episodes (some extended) blending storytelling,
peer-reviewed scholarship, and practical language instruction. Hosted by
Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo—Heritage Futurist and daughter of the soil.
We're on a mission to raise 10,000 next-generation Igbo speakers. Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds
Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo—the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.
🎙️ NEW EPISODES 5 DAYS/WEEK
📱 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
⭐ Leave a review—help another learner find their way home
Ka anyị bido. Let us begin.This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.
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.52 min - Learn Igbo Fluency: Week 5 Speaking Practice — 15 Essential Sentences
This is your Week 5 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. The sentences this week move from seeing different food items, to asking how much one should pay.
The Igbo sentences we learnt this week are :
A na m eme ihe — I am doing something
A na m arụ ọrụ — I am working
A na m eche gị — I am waiting for you
A na m ala ụlọ — I am going home
A na m abanye ụgbọelu ugbua — I am entering a plane right now
A na m agba ọsọ — I am running
A na m aza ụlọ — I am sweeping the house.
A na m esi nri — I am cooking.
A na m asa efere — I am washing plates.
A na m ezu ike. — I am resting.
A na m eku ume. — I am breathing.
A na m eche echiche. — I am thinking.
Kedu ihe ị na-eme? — What are you doing?
Ị na-amụ Igbo? — Are you learning Igbo?
Ginị ka ọ na-eme? — What is he/she doing?
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This is the language your family carried. Now it is yours to carry too.
📺 Visual version with full diacritics: youtube.com/@learnigbo
📥 Free practice speaking workbook for week 5 at www.learnigbonow.com
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.This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.
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.10 min - Learn Igbo: What Are You Doing? — One Woman, the Atlantic, and the Language She Refused to Forget | Igbo Daily Drops (S1 E25)
Nkwọmma is eleven days into a fourteen-day fishing voyage
somewhere between the Canary Islands and Mauritania. She has
spoken Igbo to no one. In the dark of her bunk, with forty
minutes of satellite signal left, she presses play — and the
language finds her anyway.
In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn three Igbo
questions — the ones that cross oceans, shift attention from
self to other, and turn a language practice into a conversation.
This episode tells the story of Ụmụezeokoha — an indigenous
Igbo community carved into Benue State by colonial
boundary-drawing, Igbo in every way the map refuses to confirm.
Their experience is one of thousands across West Africa: Igbo
communities at the administrative edge of Igboland, holding the
language without the infrastructure that names them as its
keepers. Every sentence they speak is an act of documentation.
Each episode of Igbo Daily Drops is part of that same work —
building a living record of Igbo intangible cultural heritage
for learners, educators, and the generations who will need it
to still be here. This is language learning as cultural
understanding — building bridges not just between speakers, but
between communities the official map separated and the language
refused to divide.
Research in this episode draws on Emmanuel Emeka Nwaoke,
Ebonyi State University — whose 2019 work on Igbo language
endangerment and ICT documentation found that peripheral
Igbo-speaking communities face a specific vulnerability that
only proactive documentation can address.
📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com
Igbo is classified as definitely endangered due to declining child fluency and English code-mixing, despite 20M+ speakers—join us to reverse the shift!
Every episode is part of the Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive:
an ongoing documentation of Igbo language and culture for
learners, institutions, and future generations.
Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and
Digital Humanities Architect.
🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple
▶️ YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/dropsyt
🌐 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.9 min - Learn Igbo: Rest & Breathing — The Proverb That Stops the Depletion | Igbo Daily Drops (S1 E24)
She had been back in her mother's house in Enugu for four days.
The surgery was done. The doctor had said rest. The aunties had
said rest. Ifeoma had said yes and kept working.
In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn three phrases
to name what your body is doing — rest, breath, and thought —
the interior language that Igbo builds directly into daily speech.
Igbo oral tradition holds a proverb for this exact moment: Beta
anụ beta anụ bụ n'ahụ nnama — repeatedly cutting meat comes
from the body of the cow. This episode explores what that proverb
teaches about the cost of relentless giving, rooted in Flora
Nwapa's documentation of Igbo women's survival — and why her
heroines sometimes needed someone to say: the cow needs to rest.
Each episode is a lesson in cultural understanding — building
bridges between generations, communities, and continents through
the living knowledge of one of Africa's great civilisations.
Research in this episode draws on Priya & Selvi, Bharathidasan
University — their 2018 study of Igbo women's resilience and
survival strategies in Flora Nwapa's One is Enough.
📥 Free Speaking Workbook: https://learnigbonow.com/
Igbo is classified as definitely endangered due to declining child fluency and English code-mixing, despite 20M+ speakers—join us to reverse the shift!
Every episode is part of the Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive: an ongoing
documentation of Igbo language and culture for learners,
institutions, and future generations.
Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Digital
Humanities Architect.
🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple
▶️ YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/dropsyt
🌐 learnigbonow.com
Every sentence you learn is a drop. And 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.9 min - Learn Igbo: Household Tasks — When Egusi Costs Too Much in Melbourne | Igbo Daily Drops ( S1 E23)
A man in Footscray, Melbourne, is trying to cook his mother's soup
twelve thousand miles from where he learned to make it — and the
egusi is too expensive for a small packet.
In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 present-tense
Igbo phrases — the sentences that say what your hands are doing as
they do it, the way Igbo households have always taught.
In traditional Igbo family life, sweeping, cooking, and washing plates
were not chores assigned to children. They were the curriculum. The
household was the first school — and what children did inside it was
what they became. That knowledge travels. It arrives in Melbourne,
in a borrowed pot, with a packet of green pumpkin seeds standing in
for egusi. Each episode in this archive contributes to the living
documentation of Igbo language and cultural knowledge — building
understanding across generations, communities, and continents through
one of Africa's great civilisations.
Research in this episode draws on Anyachebelu, Adaora Lois and
Umeodinka, Uchenna Grace, University of Lagos and Lagos State
University — whose 2025 study in Olu Igbo documents how domestic task
participation functioned as moral and cultural formation in traditional
Igbo households.
📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com
Igbo is classified as definitely endangered due to declining child fluency and English code-mixing, despite 20M+ speakers—join us to reverse the shift!
Every episode is
part of the Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive: an ongoing documentation
of Igbo language and culture for learners, institutions, and future
generations.
Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Digital
Humanities Architect.
🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple
▶️ YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/dropsyt
🌐 learnigbonow.com
Every sentence you learn is a drop. And 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.11 min - Learn Igbo: Describe Your Movement — Going Home, Running, Arriving | Igbo Daily Drops (S1 E22)
📥 Free Speaking Workbook: www.learnigbonow.com
An elderly woman sits in an airport in Equatorial Guinea with a clay pot her mother carried from a village she has never seen. She is sixty-seven years old. She is going for the first time.
In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 movement phrases — the sentences that describe your body in motion, your destination in sight, and the exact moment you step forward.
There is a community of Igbo people in Equatorial Guinea whose presence there tracesnot to trade or migration but to the Biafran War — people carried across borders aschildren during one of the 20th century's most devastating humanitarian crises, who built lives in Spanish-speaking West Africa and kept the Igbo language alive in private, across generations, in kitchens and in clay pots wrapped in cloth.
This episode documents their story — an example of intangible cultural heritage carried in the body across sixty years of absence. Each episode of this podcast builds bridges between generations, communities, and continents through the living knowledge of one of Africa's great civilisations.
Research in this episode draws on Victor C. Uchendu — an Igbo scholar documenting hisown people — whose landmark 1965 study identifies ụlọọma, the place of origin, as the ontological foundation of Igbo identity: where your umbilical cord is buried is not past geography. It is a living covenant.
Igbo is classified as definitely endangered due to declining child fluency and English code-mixing, despite 20M+ speakers—join us to reverse the shift!
Every episode is part of the Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive: an ongoing documentation of Igbo language and culture for learners, institutions, and future generations.
Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Digital Humanities Architect.
🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple
▶️ YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/dropsyt
🌐 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.11 min - Learn Igbo: I Am Working Right Now — 84% Start Businesses. Here's Why. | Igbo Daily Drops (S1 E21)
A twenty-one-year-old at a timber shed near Kenyatta Market in Enugu earns a single nod from his Oga — and begins to understand what his hands are actually building.
In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 present-tense phrases — the anchor structure that lets you say what you are doing right now, while you are in it.
This episode documents the Igbo apprenticeship system — Igba-ọdịbọ — one of the most rigorously studied models of knowledge transmission and wealth creation in West Africa. New peer-reviewed research across Onitsha Main Market found that 84% of former apprentices went on to start their own businesses, and more than 70% of those businesses were still operating after five years. A separate study across all five states of the Southeast found a statistically significant correlation between the apprenticeship system and community wealth creation. This is not heritage nostalgia. This is documented, measurable civilisational architecture. Each episode of Igbo Daily Drops builds bridges between generations — transmitting the living knowledge of one of Africa's great civilisations to learners who carry it forward.
Research in this episode draws on Odeh et al., Rhema University Nigeria / Caritas University / Renaissance University (2025), and Omede & Chukwu, Federal Polytechnic Orogun (2024).
📥 Free Speaking Workbook: learnigbonow.com
Igbo is classified as definitely endangered due to declining child fluency and English code-mixing, despite 20M+ speakers—join us to reverse the shift!
Every episode is part of the Igbo Daily Drops Living Archive: an ongoing documentation of Igbo language and culture for learners, institutions, and future generations.
Hosted by Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo — Heritage Futurist and Digital Humanities Architect.
🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/iddspot
🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/iddapple
▶️ YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/dropsyt
🌐 learnigbonow.com
Every sentence you learn is a drop. And 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.11 min - Week 4 Omnibus: Learn Igbo Through Stories | 5 Complete Episodes
🎧 WEEK 4 OMNIBUS: All 5 Episodes in One Continuous Session
Missed the daily drops this week? This omnibus combines all five complete
episodes from Week 4 of Igbo Daily Drops—no breaks, no interruptions,
just pure immersive storytelling, language instruction, and scholarly
documentation of Igbo intangible cultural heritage.
📚 THIS WEEK'S EPISODES:- Episode 16: Learn Igbo: I See Rice, I See Food — First Words in an Igbo Market
- Episode 17: Learn Igbo: Asking Prices at the Market — "How Much Is It?"
- Episode 18: Learn Igbo: How to Say What You Want — Market Confidence in 3 Sentences
- Episode 19: Learn Igbo: Do You Have? — Market Language from Serekunda to Onitsha
- Episode 20: Learn Igbo: The Rye Lane Protocol — How to Finish an Igbo Transaction
🗣️ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
15 essential Igbo phrases from basic greetings to sophisticated
cultural protocols used in business transactions.
Perfect for diaspora learners reconnecting with their heritage, language
students, or anyone interested in Igbo culture and intangible cultural
heritage preservation.
📖 FREE RESOURCES:
- Weekly Speaking Workbook: LearnIgboNow.com
🏛️ ABOUT IGBO DAILY DROPS:
Daily 10 minute episodes (some extended) blending storytelling,
peer-reviewed scholarship, and practical language instruction. Hosted by
Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo—Heritage Futurist and daughter of the soil.
We're on a mission to raise 10,000 next-generation Igbo speakers. Every sentence you learn is a drop. Every drop feeds
Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo—the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.
🎙️ NEW EPISODES 5 DAYS/WEEK
📱 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
⭐ Leave a review—help another learner find their way home
Ka anyị bido. Let us begin.This has been Igbo Daily Drops with Yvonne Mbanefo.
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.51 min - Learn Igbo Fluency: Week 4 Speaking Practice — 15 Essential Sentences
This is your Week 4 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. The sentences this week move from seeing different food items, to asking how much one should pay.
This is the language your family carried. Now it is yours to carry too.
📺 Visual version with full diacritics: youtube.com/@learnigbo 📥 Free practice speaking workbook for week 4 at www.learnigbonow.com
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.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.10 min
About Igbo Daily Drops
From the publisher's feed
Learn to speak Igbo in 10 minutes a day — and understand the culture and worldview behind every word.
Igbo Daily Drops is a daily Igbo language and culture podcast hosted by Igbo educator…
and TED Global speaker Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo. Every episode gives you conversational Igbo you can use straight away, grounded in the proverbs, stories and scholarship that make the language make sense.
EVERY EPISODE (about 10 minutes)
- Ilu – a proverb and what it means for life today
- Story Scene – a story drawn from across the eras of Igbo life, from precolonial Igboland through the colonial encounter to the present day
- Scholar's Spark – one insight from Igbo studies books, academic journals and peer-reviewed research
- 3 Sentences – everyday Igbo phrases to say out loud right away
EVERY WEEK
- Speaking Practice – the week's 15 essential sentences, slowly and clearly
- Omnibus – all five episodes in one continuous listen
- Free workbook – download yours at learnigbonow.com
WHO IT'S FOR
Diaspora adults reconnecting with their roots. Parents raising Igbo-speaking children. Non-Igbo spouses and partners. Anyone who loves the culture. Complete beginners are welcome, and if you understand Igbo but have never felt confident speaking it, this podcast was made for you.
YOUR HOST
Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo is a Heritage Futurist, Igbo language educator and cultural consultant. She is the author of the Amazon bestseller Igbo Dictionary for Children, co-founder of the Annual Igbo Conference at SOAS, University of London, a TED Global speaker, and cultural consultant on the award-winning film Equiano Stories.
READY TO SPEAK, NOT JUST LISTEN?
The Igbo Speaking Gym, our live speaking practice community, opens soon. Join the waitlist for founding-member access: learnigbonow.com
Watch with full tone marks: youtube.com/@LearnIgbo
For your children: youtube.com/@LearnIgboforKids
FOR INSTITUTIONS
Igbo Daily Drops is also a growing archive of Igbo intangible cultural heritage, documenting proverbs, oral traditions and social practices and passing them on to the next generation of speakers. Museums, universities, schools, heritage bodies and film/TV productions: episodes, transcripts and teaching materials are available for partnership and licensing via learnigbonow.com.
Created in honour of Chief Richard Neife Tagbo and Lolo Mary Joan "Molly" Tagbo, and every generation who carried this language before us.
Our mission: 10,000 new Igbo speakers in one year. Every sentence you learn is a drop, and every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo, the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.
Follow now and start your journey home. Igbo bụ Igbo.
EVERY EPISODE (about 10 minutes)
- Ilu – a proverb and what it means for life today
- Story Scene – a story drawn from across the eras of Igbo life, from precolonial Igboland through the colonial encounter to the present day
- Scholar's Spark – one insight from Igbo studies books, academic journals and peer-reviewed research
- 3 Sentences – everyday Igbo phrases to say out loud right away
EVERY WEEK
- Speaking Practice – the week's 15 essential sentences, slowly and clearly
- Omnibus – all five episodes in one continuous listen
- Free workbook – download yours at learnigbonow.com
WHO IT'S FOR
Diaspora adults reconnecting with their roots. Parents raising Igbo-speaking children. Non-Igbo spouses and partners. Anyone who loves the culture. Complete beginners are welcome, and if you understand Igbo but have never felt confident speaking it, this podcast was made for you.
YOUR HOST
Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo is a Heritage Futurist, Igbo language educator and cultural consultant. She is the author of the Amazon bestseller Igbo Dictionary for Children, co-founder of the Annual Igbo Conference at SOAS, University of London, a TED Global speaker, and cultural consultant on the award-winning film Equiano Stories.
READY TO SPEAK, NOT JUST LISTEN?
The Igbo Speaking Gym, our live speaking practice community, opens soon. Join the waitlist for founding-member access: learnigbonow.com
Watch with full tone marks: youtube.com/@LearnIgbo
For your children: youtube.com/@LearnIgboforKids
FOR INSTITUTIONS
Igbo Daily Drops is also a growing archive of Igbo intangible cultural heritage, documenting proverbs, oral traditions and social practices and passing them on to the next generation of speakers. Museums, universities, schools, heritage bodies and film/TV productions: episodes, transcripts and teaching materials are available for partnership and licensing via learnigbonow.com.
Created in honour of Chief Richard Neife Tagbo and Lolo Mary Joan "Molly" Tagbo, and every generation who carried this language before us.
Our mission: 10,000 new Igbo speakers in one year. Every sentence you learn is a drop, and every drop feeds Oké Osimiri Mmụta Igbo, the Ocean of Igbo Knowledge.
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