Igbo Heritage Month in Little Rock
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FROM: Nnanta Chidi Uwadineke, Executive Director, SPILCA (Society for
Promoting Igbo Language and Culture in America), Inc.
(via Nkiru)
In observance of Igbo Heritage Month, SPILCA, Inc. will sponsor a panel of
Igbo professionals in Arkansas to discuss "Igbostory" of more than 30 years
ago. The following have signed up to participate: Dr. Chukwuma J. Obiagwu,
Dr. Chukwuma P. Aka, Dr. Dennis O. Balogu, Dr. Ndubuisi L. Okere and Rev. Fr.
Emmanuel Iheaka. Two more people are expected to sign up. The moderators
will be Nnanta Chidi Uwadineke, Executive Director of SPILCA/Host of Igbo
Kwenu TV program, and Hyginus Ihedoro Ukadike, Chairman of the Advisory Board
of SPILCA.
Some of the topics the panel will discuss include: Pogrom, Genocide, Ethnic
Cleansing, Ahiara Declaration and Aburi Accord as they affected the Igbos
then. The panel will also compare what the Igbos suffered then to what is
going on now at Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Albania. Music will be mostly
Ikperikpeogu, Harcourt Whyte and Igbo gospel.
The day will be Sunday, May 30, 1999, at the Millionaire Room, 700 South
Broadway, Little Rock, Arkansas, at 7:00 p.m.
"As you face your future, don't forget your past." It will be educational
and also free to the public. Come with the whole family and don't forget the
children at home. Remember this is the last Igbo Day observance this century
before the year two thousand (Y2K). Plan to be there!!!
If you are an Igbo and 33 or more years old, you are a war survivor. But if
you are under 33 years old, you are an offspring of a war survivor. During
this American Memorial Day weekend, SPILCA implores all Igbos to remember our
Igbo war heroes of more than 30 years ago. This brings me to the analogy
that Igbos and the United States have something in common--their Memorial Day
which sometimes falls on May 30, the day that the Republic of Biafra was
declared.
Dr. M. O. Ene should be commended for the publication of KWENU and his
foresight in helping to preserve the recent history of Ndi Igbo. This I call
Igbostory.
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