Ala Igbo

Enugu · Onitsha · the diaspora

About the paper

A global voice for the Igbo nation.

Ndiigbo Worldwide Media publishes news and essays about Igbo society — the towns of the East, the language, the markets, the rites, and the people who carry all of that into the world.

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A Global Voice For The Igbo Nation

What we stand on

We are not a nostalgia project and we are not a costume. Igbo life is contemporary: it is a village meeting and a container yard, a grandmother’s primer and a film set in Enugu. This paper treats all of that as one subject.

Our name is a promise. A worldwide voice does not mean one opinion. It means we will not outsource the telling of this society to people who cannot pronounce it.

We publish what happened: elections in Awka, light in Aba, Iri Ji in the square, a language that refused a deadline. Correspondents write under their own names. Readers who sign in may save stories and send letters. Filing for the masthead is reserved for appointed editors.

The desks

  • News — public life in the East and the diaspora.
  • Culture — omenala, without the tourist brochure.
  • Language — asụsụ Igbo as a living room, not a museum.
  • Business — markets, apprentices, and the long trade.
  • Arts — film, music, letters.
  • History — ofo, memory, the record.
  • Living — food, marriage, the ordinary day.
  • Opinion — argument, signed.

The desk

The first editor claims the desk with their own email and password. From the studio they create every other editor and hand them keys. Readers may save stories and send letters, but they cannot file.

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