UNESCO prediction: Ohanaeze institutes professorial chairs to save Igbo language, identity

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has taken a large measurement towards preserving Igbo heritage, particularly the language.

This comes amid the prediction by UNESCO that the Igbo connection volition spell into extinction.

However, successful a large determination to halt the prediction from coming to pass, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, connected Thursday, instituted 4 Professorial Endowment Chairs.

DAILY POST reports that the 4 professors, from Enugu, Ebony, Anambra and Imo were chosen aft a rigorous process.

Three others, 1 each from Abia, Delta and Rivers, are expected to beryllium selected successful coming weeks to implicit the 7 Igbo speaking states.

Speaking astatine the Ohanaeze Secretariat, President-General, John Azuta Mbata described the inaugural arsenic a captious involution to safeguard Igbo individuality amid increasing planetary pressures.

“This juncture is not simply a gathering; it is simply a solemnisation of our affluent taste heritage, a testament to our resilience, and a committedness to the aboriginal of the Igbo language, history, and culture,” Mbata said.

He noted that the programme, driven by the organisation’s National Executive Committee, is designed to fortify taste preservation done world probe and organization support.

“As we embark connected this important initiative… we are taking a captious s...