| Today those who are not ethnic Yorubas or Igbos rarely speak Yoruba or Igbo. |
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| The Africans began to see themselves not as Hausas, Igbos, or Yorubas, but as Nigerians in a common struggle against their colonial rulers. |
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| And yet, Hausas and Igbos had coexisted peacefully for decades before those massacres of 1966, as evidenced by the presence of thousands of Igbo in Hausaland and vice versa. |
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| Does anyone know of any other Niger-Congo languages up on that northerly coast that are like this, contrasting with the better-known Twis and Mendes and Igbos? |
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| Thousands of Igbos are reported to be fleeing Kano and returning to the east, with expectations of violent clashes after the Council of State's decision. |
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| The drumming aspect has been well developed among the Yorubas, while the horning aspect is well developed among the Igbos and Edos. |
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| The mentally ill among the Igbos are referred to as onye ara and are typified by vagrant psychotics. |
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| He was also worried over the killing of Igbos in some parts in Nigeria, and the requirement for a constitutional part for the traditional rulers in the nation. |
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| In 1967, Achebe's native Biafra region declared independence largely in response to massacres of Igbos in the country's north, sparking a brutal civil war. |
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| About 1 million people died in the war for an independent Biafra for the Igbo people of the southeast, mainly Igbos who starved to death because food imports were blocked. |
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