Library

The complete Igbo knowledge commons — 20 subjects, 155 published pages, 9,300+ lines of documented history, culture, and analysis. Browse by subject or follow a thread.

This platform is coming soon

Mkomigbo is a new project. While this platform is being built, the knowledge library — 20 subjects, 137+ pages of thesis-level scholarship — is fully live and free to explore.

Explore the Knowledge Library Open AWAG Calendar

What to expect when it launches

History

From the 9th-century Igbo-Ukwu bronzes to the Nri Kingdom, the Women's War of 1929, colonial conquest, and the Biafra war. The full arc of Igbo historical experience.

11 pages Live

Religion and Esoterism

Odinala — the Igbo cosmological system. Chi, Ala, Amadioha, Ikenga, the dibia tradition, and the spiritual framework that underlies all Igbo cultural life.

28 pages Live

Diaspora and Slavery

The 1.6 million people taken from the Bight of Biafra, the Middle Passage, the Igbo Landing, and the communities of Igbo descent across the world.

14 pages Live

Biographical Portraits

Equiano, Jaja, Blyden, Robeson, Azikiwe, Achebe, Adichie, Okigbo, Margaret Ekpo — 20+ full biographical essays with archival photographs.

10 pages Live

Language

Nsibidi ideographs, the Önwu orthography, Igbo phoneme inventory with proposed digraphs and trigraphs, grammar, tones, and dialect survey.

14 pages Live

Resistance and Biafra

Five centuries of Igbo resistance — Ekumeku, the Women's War, Biafra, IPOB, and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The unbroken thread of Igbo refusal to accept domination.

13 pages Live