Return and Revival: The Budding Social Revolution of Ndi Igbo in Nigeria

The majority of the world's Igbos live in Igboland, a forested region in Nigeria stretching all the way to the West African coast.

Igbos, like Jews in other parts of the world, have steadfastly kept and practiced the traditions of their cultural heritage, known as Omenana, orally transmitted over generations for thousands of years.

Many Igbos continue to believe to this day that the Igbo society developed from a nucleus of traveling clans of ancient Israelites who left their land to escape the civil wars between the biblical states of Israel and Judah. Today, the Igbo community in Nigeria mostly consists of nearly six hundred (autonomously functioning, democratically organized, and basically egalitarian!) towns and villages in Igboland - but there also millions of Igbos who live in Nigeria's cities and urban centers.

As Igbos rediscover their cultural heritage after centuries of colonization, oppression, and political turbulence, and open a groundbreaking, historic dialogue with Jewish communities across the globe, a grassroots movement is starting to restore vitality and autonomy to Igbo communal life in Africa.

This website is dedicated to that movement.