Author's Study
Nigerian Culture: Igbo
Food
Igbo cuisine consists of a variety of different vegetable soups with meats like goat, chicken, turkey, and cow. They also like to use dried fish. Their staple crop is yam.There's a New Yam Festival celebrated every year with the belief that new yam leads to a prosperous year. Chinese restaurants, hamburgers, pizza, and other fast foods can also be found in southeastern Nigeria.
Here are a few of the traditional Igbo dishes Adichie mentions in her novels.
Language
One of the four official languages in Nigeria is Igbo. It has over 24 million speakers with over
20 different dialects. Igbo is also spoken in Equatorial Guinea.
For writing, Igbo uses the Latin alphabet like in English. Very few adjectives are used in Igbo. They use accents to differentiate low tones and high tones when
spoken.
Here are some basic animal names in Igbo.
Click on the image to learn more simple words in Igbo.
Music
Music plays an important role in Igbo culture for celebrations of joy and songs of pleasure. Instruments like the drums and gongs began music genres like Highlife, Waka, and Odomudu.
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