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- noun Plural form of
Igbo .
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Most of Friday's 20 fatalities were shopkeepers, as well as Igbos, members of a predominantly Christian ethnic group from Nigeria's south.
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Their accounts of the stars, the planets, the human soul—these gave birth over millennia to the religions of the African tribes: the Fons, the Igbos, the Kongos, and dozens more.
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Suffering pogroms in the north and west, the Igbos retreated to their home base and, under the charismatic leadership of the Oxford - and Sandhurst - educated Emeka Ojukwu, attempted to secede.
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Concentrated in the southeast, the Igbos, who are predominantly Catholic, had significant "outside" presences in other regions, notably the largely Muslim north, where the Hausas are dominant.
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The Igbos themselves survived and even thrived when peace returned, but confidence in the idea of a successful Nigeria was badly shaken.
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Their accounts of the stars, the planets, the human soul—these gave birth over millennia to the religions of the African tribes: the Fons, the Igbos, the Kongos, and dozens more.
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Their accounts of the stars, the planets, the human soul—these gave birth over millennia to the religions of the African tribes: the Fons, the Igbos, the Kongos, and dozens more.
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Their accounts of the stars, the planets, the human soul—these gave birth over millennia to the religions of the African tribes: the Fons, the Igbos, the Kongos, and dozens more.
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Their accounts of the stars, the planets, the human soul—these gave birth over millennia to the religions of the African tribes: the Fons, the Igbos, the Kongos, and dozens more.
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A coup within the coup led to the eviction of the Igbos from the ruling junta.
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