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  ODIBENDI: A Journal Of Igbo Consciousness

  Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

  EDITORIAL COMMENT
  This is the debut of ỌDỊBENDỊ: A Journal of Igbo Consciousness. This edition takes care of the
  entries for a conference on yam and the ceremony about yam. So some titles in this publication
  focus on yam and the new yam festival of the Igbo people of Nigeria. The authors, who mostly
  wrote in Igbo, are Cecilia A. Eme, Patrick Ik. Umezi and Florence U. Ibeh, Edith N. Onukawa,
  Chinenye C. Olakaibe, Basilica N. Eweoma and Anthony C. Mgborogwu, Christian E. C.
  Ogwudile and Ikechukwu Okodo.
  Some other authors looked at other aspects of the culture of the people. They include Gladys I.
  Udechukwu that studied Igbo Culture Symbols and Ogochukwu R. Ifeka who wrote on covenant
  which is Ịgba Ndụ in the Igbo language. Charles A. Nneke also wrote on a culture topic with
  respect to the Ijele masquerade of Igbo people and Chinelo E. Ude-Akpe that delved into Ịjụta
  Akwụ, that is, the Igbo culture of recalling the spirit of a missing corpse for the purpose of the
  funeral. Ifeyinwa C. Isidienu and Ann C. Onyekelu looked at the masquerade as the instrument
  of stability. Still on culture, Ihuoma E. Obienusi and Chinyere P. Chikwendu wrote on the effects
  of patriarchy on women in the Igbo rural community, and Stanley C. Mgbemena and Benson O.
  S. Udezo discussed the real Igbo people of Umuchu before the arrival of Christianity on their
  soil. In addition, Fidelis C. Aghamelu, Anothony C. Nwafor and Anthony C. Onwuliri
  categorically reflected the highlight of communal life over individualism in African society.
  The need for developing the Igbo language caught the interest of some authors. One of them is
  Chinweude N. Ugochukwu who married the Igbo language with globalisation. Another is
  Aloysius U. Umeodinka that observed the brightful future of the university graduates of Igbo
  Studies. And Edith U. Nwobu calls for the provision of enabling environment for the youths’
  learning of the Igbo language rather than focusing on the older generation, as a way forward.
  Literary Studies is not left out in this edition. Ogochukwu R. Ifeka studied some selected literary
  works that concern covenant making to state that covenants create situations of trust among those
  that enter into them. And Obiageli T. Nsolibe traced prophecies in the literary works she studied.
  The rest of the authors include both Nnaemeka C. Abamara and Chinwe I. Onyemachi who
  studied the effect of culture shock on Igbo immigrants in the diaspora. Rev’d Daniel I.
  Ilechukwu and Chiamaka P. Ilechukwu assessed the Pentecostal missionary activities in Nigeria
  from the end of the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War up till date. And Clement N. Okodo analysed the
  duties of headmasters which are the sine qua non for the good administration of primary schools
  in Nigeria.
  Prof. Ikechukwu Okodo
  Editor-in-Chief
  March 2, 2020