The 7th Igbo Conference, London. Sat, 21st April 2018 . Keynote speaker Chimamanda Adichie

The central output of the conference will be the development of an online Igbo digital archive through harnessing the knowledge and cultural resources of the community.

The last conference was held in 2017 with the guiding theme ‘Legacies of Biafra: Reflections on the Nigeria-Biafra war 50 years on’, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war. The ‘Legacies of Biafra’ conference launched the “Know Your History” initiative which seeks to create physical and digital spaces for learning and knowledge exchange centring on Igbo history, whilst also serving the development and population of the digital Igbo studies archive.

The 7th Igbo conference is a natural progression in the “Know Your History” series as it focuses on the need to preserve records and oral histories in order to expand our understanding of the history, culture and customs of the Igbo. The conference will also stage the official launch and unveiling of the Online Igbo Studies Encyclopaedia and archive, which is a freely accessible web based heritage project of the Igbo Studies Initiative.

The conference will be attended by archivists, digital, historians, subject experts, local stakeholders from across Nigeria and West Africa, international experts, academics and the general public. The conference will facilitate discussions around the history of Igbo people across the centuries, and the importance of creating a repository and space to document and preserve the history, heritage and culture of Igbo people both in Igboland and in the diaspora.

The speakers for the ‘Memory, Culture and Community’ conference include:

Ms. Chimamanda Adichie . Professor Osita Okagbue . Professor Paul Basu . Ms Ego Ahaiwe . Mr Nathan Richards . Ms. Kelly Foster . Mr Brian Ezeike . Ms. Vivian Ogbonna . Mr Emeka Ed Keazor.

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Wow, thanks for making this to happen