ABOUT US IGBO SCHOLARS FORUM, NIGERIA is an Assembly
of Educated Igbo Sons and Daughters Propagating the Course of Igbo Nation to
the Global Space through Paper Writings and Publishing via Ideal International Journal, IgboScholars
International Journal and Ékwé Jọnal. They also organize Conferences, Symposia
and Workshops with a view to finding solutions to Igbo problems.
As a matter of
fact, Igbo Scholars Forum was founded by Prof. Onukwube Alexander Alfred Anedo
in 2007 when he thought of preserving Igbo cultural artifacts that were facing
extinction and with the support of his Academic Father, Professor Obed Muojekwu
Anizoba (Ọzọnwa), he started collecting same for safe keep in his office.
Later, he sought the opinion of Professor Anizoba on forming an Association
that would take care of keeping the Igbo nation and their life in the eyes of
the world through writing and publishing papers on everything about the Igbo,
since, it was reported then, that in the next fifty years, Igbo language and
culture would vanish. There and then, the three journals: Ékwé Jọnal,
IgboScholars International and Ideal International were born and IGBO SCHOLARS
FORUM, NIGERIA came into being. However, the Forum was not officially inaugurated
till after they had launched of a
festschrift in honour of their life patron, Prof. Obed Muojekwu Anizoba (Ọzọnwa)
of the Department of African & Asian Studies, Nnamdi Azikiwe University,
Awka, Nigeria on the 15th day of December, 2012. In his kind
gesture, Prof O. M. Anizoba established a website https://www.igboscholarsforum.com.ng
(which they later upgraded to https://www-biafuluigboscholarsforum-com-ng.com ) and https://biafuluigboscholarsforum.mystrikingly.com/. for
them to use in telling the world who the Igbo people are, about their life,
what they believe in and their relationship with people and other cultures of
the world outside theirs.
It is interesting to know that
the Igbo, a people found in the Nigerian States of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Benue,
Cross river, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Kogi and Rivers States are the most
populated, intelligent, industrious, educated and travelled race in Nigeria and
Africa yet, not much is known about them hence, the need for this Forum. The
world needs to know and understand this specie of humans that is rarely missed
in every part of the Globe and take them as a race needed for greater Global
peace and development.
HQs: Department of African & Asian Studies, faculty of Arts,
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. E-mail: Igboscholarsforum@yahoo.com igboscholarsforum@gmail.com
Website: https://www-biafuluigboscholarsforum-com-ng.com
https://biafuluigboscholarsforum.mystrikingly.com/.
