Igbo Pelican

Igbo Pelican

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Igbo Pelican episodes

  • Ndidi
    The essence of patience: This topic dwells on patience, its importance, essence and as it adds value to our lives as humans.
    4 min
  • Who is who in Igbo land?
    This episode is purely a self explanatory one as it enlightens the Igbo people on the need to know their leaders. With this lecture, the thrust of the instructor in getting the people informed is achieved.
    6 min
  • Subject Object Switching in Igbo
    Subject Object Switching (SOS): This is a concept developed and initiated by the late Prof. Angela Uwalaka, DDL. This seems to be passivisation which goes with only experiential and process verbs. Scholars over the years have tried to support or refute the precense of the phenomenon in Igbo language.
    8 min
  • Cliticization: The Igbo Example.
    Cliticization as a concept in the Igbo Language explains how some words are dependent on their neighbiurs as bound morphemes. Clitics can also be said to be the smallest meaningful grammatical elements just as affixes. The functions and different types of clitics are also discussed.
    10 min
  • Tone in Igbo
    Tone in Igbo describes the different types of tone and a basic knowledge to understanding how tone as a feature of African Languages function. A step further was made to talk about the functions of tone too. The lecture was given by an astute academic, Ebele Uba (Ph.D) who specialises on Phonology.
    25 min

About Igbo Pelican

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Igbo Pelican is a youth movement with the Igbo young people as target audience. The paramount goal of this programme is to help teach Igbo as a language to the upcoming young Igbo minds especially those in the diaspora. This will help them play an active role in revitalization and maintenance of the Igbo Language. Our mission is to see that the Igbo Language even with this little but impactful means grows relentlessly everyday following the footsteps of our pioneer Igbo scholars who have created a path we wish to become an established path for posterity.