Stakeholders within the South-east area yesterday got here collectively to harp on the necessity to hold the Igbo language alive, decrying the nonchalant angle about Igbo folks on the quick disappearance of their language.
At a colloquium held in Enugwu-Ukwu Civic Centre in Njikoka Native Authorities Space of Anambra State, a number of personalities gave concepts as to easy methods to hold the language from going into extinction, enjoining all to make sure they all the time communicate the Igbo language.
President-Common of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Anambra State, Damian Okeke, who was additionally on the occasion, referred to as for a regulation that might compel the Igbo folks to talk the language and likewise gown in its cultural attires as a method of encouraging the customs and traditions of the folks.
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“We will begin with the Enugwu-Ukwu which has held a yearly colloquium on this subject by asking that the normal ruler of Enugwu-Ukwu, Ralph Ekpeh, makes a regulation that might encourage all members of the group to talk the Igbo language.
The lead speaker on the occasion, a Professor of African and Up to date research on the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College, Igbariam, Prof Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, spoke on the theme: ‘Neighborhood-based mostly method to selling and sustaining the Igbo Language’.
She queried Nigeria’s colonial masters for his or her disregard for the Igbo language in addition to the imposition of the English language on the folks.
“The white man did properly by coming to present our civilisation, however in instructing us what they know and what they need us to study, they need to have seemed nice to see what we have that’s worthy of preservation.
“Our language is our pleasure. Our individuals should be taught to talk our language in order that the prediction of UNESCO that Igbo language is amongst these that may go extinct in 2050 doesn’t come to go,” she stated.
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