• Igbo people in Jamaica were trafficked by Europeans onto the island between the 18th and 19th centuries as enslaved labour on plantations. Igbo people...
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    The Igbo people (English: /ˈiːboʊ/ EE-boh, US also /ˈɪɡboʊ/ IG-boh; also spelled Ibo and historically also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́...
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    cluster of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. Igbo Languages are spoken by a total of 31 million people. The number of...
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    primarily for the supply of enslaved people to British colonies in the Americas. In Jamaica, the bulk of enslaved Igbo arrived relatively later than the...
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    a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of the slave ship they were on, and refused to submit to slavery in the United States...
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    Igbo Americans, or Americans of Igbo ancestry, or Igbo Black Americans (Igbo: Ṇ́dị́ Ígbò n'Emerịkà) are residents of the United States who identify as...
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    the Igbo people in Jamaica, who have had a considerable influence on the local culture and language. Eddoes appear to have been developed as a crop in China...
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    Igbo land (Standard Igbo: Àlà Ị̀gbò), east is the indigenous homeland of the Igbo people. It is a cultural and common linguistic region in southeastern...
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    The list of Igbo people includes notable individuals who have full or significant ancestry traced back to the Igbo people of South-East and South-South...
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    in the political marginalization of the Igbo people, as Nigeria has not had another Igbo president since the end of the war, leading some Igbo people...
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    Igbo Jews are members of the Igbo people of Nigeria who practice Judaism. It is a tenet of their beliefs that they have ties to one of the lost tribes...
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  • Ewe people, and to a lesser degree: Yoruba, Ibibio people and Igbo people. Akan (then called Coromantee) culture was the dominant African culture in Jamaica...
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  • Nigerian Pidgin (category Articles containing Igbo-language text)
    in London" (although the Jamaican is more likely to say Wi de a London and the Surinamese way is Wi de na London.) The word originates from the Igbo word...
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  • Ngwa people (natively: Nde Ṅgwà IPA: [ŋɡʷa]) are an Igbo group living in the southern part of Igboland. The Ngwa people are found predominantly in Abia...
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  • languages, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora. Words or slang from Jamaican Patois can be heard in other Caribbean countries,...
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    Junkanoo (category Parades in the Bahamas)
    found in three "groups" of West African festival traditions. These are; the annual New Yam Festival of the Mmo secret society of the Igbo peoples the Egungun...
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  • census, the number of people who identified as Igbo was 18,315. Some Igbo people may have identified as Nigerian. There were 51,835 people who self identified...
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    and abroad. Igbo words such as 'unu' for 'you people', 'sooso' for 'only', 'obia' for 'native doctoring', etc. are used in patois of Jamaica and many Central...
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  • Hutus Igbo Indigenous Australians Indigenous people of the Americas First Nations Huaorani people Inuit Canadian Inuit Greenlandic Inuit Métis people Native...
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    Susan Kelechi Watson (category American actors of Jamaican descent)
    was born in Brooklyn on November 11, 1981. Her parents were born in Jamaica. Watson's middle name "Kelechi" means "Thank God" in Nigeria's Igbo language...
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  • Bajan Creole (category Articles containing Igbo-language text)
    Bim From Igbo bé mụ́, 'my place, people, kindred', common nickname for Barbados de, deh From Igbo dị̀, 'present in' eye-water calque from ányá mmírí...
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    Ukpabi (Ibritam). As a result of clashes with the Igbo people who were moving southward, culminating in the Ibibio War which took place about 1630 and 1720...
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    Maroons (redirect from Maroon people)
    that retained formal autonomy in Jamaica after the Second Maroon War was Accompong, in Saint Elizabeth Parish, whose people had abided by their 1739 treaty...
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  • Ndoki tribe (redirect from Ndoki people)
    Ndoki also known as Ọkwa are a tribe of Igbo people that are located at the hinterland of Igboland and coastal region of Bonny and Opobo. Pre-colonial...
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    Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the...
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  • 000 were Igbo. In the next century, people of Igbo descent were taken with settlers who moved to Kentucky. According to some historians, the Igbo also comprised...
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    Buju Banton (category Jamaican people imprisoned abroad)
    from the Maroons of Jamaica. In August 2024, Banton said he had traced his origin to the Igbo people according to his bloodline. Igbo is an ethnic group...
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    They are involved in Humanitarian Aid, especially prior to Ramadan. The Igbo Jews of Nigeria are one of the components of the Igbo people. Certain Nigerian...
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  • languages. In London, 10,119 people (0.13% of all residents aged three and over) spoke Yoruba as a main language, 5,252 (0.07%) people spoke Igbo and 3,577...
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    Music of Nigeria (category All Wikipedia articles written in Nigerian English)
    Afrobeats, Igbo highlife, Afro-juju, Waka, Igbo rap, Gospel,Nigerian pop and Yo-pop. Styles of folk music are related to the over 250 ethnic groups in the country...
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