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Igbo Daily Drops

Learn to speak Igbo in 10 minutes a day — and understand the culture and worldview behind every word.Igbo Daily Drops is a daily Igbo language and culture podcast hosted by Igbo educator and TED Global speaker Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo. Every episode gives you conversational Igbo you can use straight away, grounded in the proverbs, stories and scholarship that make the language make sense.EVERY EPISODE (about 10 minutes)- Ilu – a proverb and what it means for life today- Story Scene – a story drawn from

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9:42

Learn Igbo: Giving Directions — The Road That...

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2026/10/07

A woman in Gabon has never walked the road home, but she has recited it every night for fifty-seven years. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 direction-giving phrases — the sentences that walk someone to your door using landmarks, not maps. In 1969, Ijeoma was seven when she was flown out of Uli during the Biafran war. Tonight her grand-niece stands in that same village, following directions memorised by a child. This episode documents Igbo spatial knowledge as intangible...

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10:24

Learn Igbo: Turn Right & Left — The Drum Said Turn |...

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2026/10/06

Eleven dancers turn right. One fifteen-year-old in Houston turns left — and the reason has nothing to do with his feet. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 directional commands in Igbo — how to turn right, move left, and turn someone around to face you. Set in a church fellowship hall in Alief, Houston, three weeks before an Igbo festival, this episode documents Atilogwu dance and the Igbo knowledge that instruments carry the shape of speech — a living strand of intangible...

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10:43

Learn Igbo: Front and Back — The House Built to Fall...

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2026/10/05

A conservator holds the broken arm of the earth deity Ala — and is told not to fix it. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 everyday phrases for front and back — and discover why, in an mbari house, where a figure stands is part of what it says. Mbari houses, built by the Owerri Igbo as offerings to Ala, are among the most remarkable works of African architecture and sculpture — made in seclusion, unveiled with celebration, then deliberately left to return to the earth. Thi...

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59:05

Week 33 Omnibus: Learn Igbo Through Stories | 5...

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2026/10/04

🎧 WEEK 33 OMNIBUS: All 5 Episodes in One Continuous Session Missed the daily drops this week? This omnibus combines all five complete episodes from Week 33 of Igbo Daily Drops—no breaks, no interruptions, just pure immersive storytelling, language instruction, and scholarly documentation of Igbo intangible cultural heritage. The episode titles in Week 33 are: Episode 161 - Describe Your Daily Routine — The Clay Ledger Episode 162 - Family Habits — The Father in t...

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12:18

Learn Igbo Phrases : Week 33 Speaking Practice — 15...

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2026/10/03

📺 Visual version with full diacritics: youtube.com/@learnigbo 📥 Free practice speaking workbook for week 33 at www.learnigbonow.com This is your Week 33 Igbo language practice session from Igbo Daily Drops — 15 sentences learnt over the past week in Igbo daily drops, built for real-life use. Commands, requests, questions, and the kind of warm, human phrases that make the difference between knowing a language and living in it. Work through each sentence at your own pace. Yo...

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17:27

Learn Igbo: Defending a Name — The Sky Was Clear |...

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2026/10/02

In Igbo, "O meghị ihe ọjọọ" means: she did nothing wrong. Sometimes a language lesson is also the defence of a name. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 Igbo sentences for defending someone's name, including the exact words a dibia used to end a village's whispers: Ọ nwụrụ ọnwụ chi ya — she died the death her chi appointed. My mother died in the very week her widow's mourning white was due to come off. The church that shared her mourning washed its hands. Anịkpụta — Dibie ...

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10:18

Learn Igbo: Saying What We Don't Do — We Do Not Kill...

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2026/10/01

At dawn in a Catholic sacristy in 1985, a young priest raises an iron rod, and a grandmother steps in front of it. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 negative-habit phrases (we don't, it doesn't, I don't): the grammar that lets you say who you are by what you refuse to do. In the Idemili towns of Anambra State, the python is not killed. It is called Nne, mother, and treated as the messenger of the river that gave the clan its name. This episode documents that living prohi...

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10:01

Learn Igbo: Saying How Often — The Two Clocks of...

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2026/09/30

Mgbidi, 1962: the eight o'clock news is on, the full moon is up, and one eleven-year-old girl has her thumb on the only switch in the compound. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 Igbo frequency phrases (every month, every Nkwọ day, sometimes), the words that turn a single action into a rhythm of life. Igbo time runs on izu, the four-day market week of Eke, Orie, Afọ and Nkwọ, and on ọnwa, the moon and the month. This episode documents that calendar alongside uli, the wome...

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10:03

Learn Igbo: Family Habits — The Father in the Body |...

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2026/09/29

He never met his father — so why does he eat, hum, fold money and leave a room exactly the way his father did? In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 everyday phrases for describing the habits of family members — the sentences that let you say what someone you love always does. Terence Anyaọkụ, a retired Liverpool bus driver, meets his half-sister for the first time in Arondizuogu, Imo State, during the Ikeji festival. His father was an Igbo seaman on the Elder Dempster Line ...

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9:13

Learn Igbo: Describe Your Daily Routine — The Clay...

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2026/09/28

In 1934, a colonial officer asks an Igbo master potter what she does all day — and his pen has already started writing the wrong answer. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 everyday routine sentences — the words that put your own work on the record, in your own voice. Set in Ehugbo (Afikpo), five years after the 1929 Women's War, this story documents Igbo women's pottery as an intangible cultural heritage: a craft learnt after marriage, sold down the Cross River, and gover...

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58:23

Week 32 Omnibus: Learn Igbo Through Stories | 5...

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2026/09/27

🎧 WEEK 32 OMNIBUS: All 5 Episodes in One Continuous Session Missed the daily drops this week? This omnibus combines all five complete episodes from Week 32 of Igbo Daily Drops—no breaks, no interruptions, just pure immersive storytelling, language instruction, and scholarly documentation of Igbo intangible cultural heritage. The episode titles in Week 32 are: Episode 156 - Wanting vs Having — The Sentence Behind Her Eyes Episode 157 - Unfinished Plans — The On...

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19:14

Learn Igbo Phrases : Week 32 Speaking Practice — 15...

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2026/09/27

📺 Visual version with full diacritics: youtube.com/@learnigbo 📥 Free practice speaking workbook for week 32 at www.learnigbonow.com This is your Week 32 Igbo language practice session from Igbo Daily Drops — 15 sentences learnt over the past week in Igbo daily drops, built for real-life use. Commands, requests, questions, and the kind of warm, human phrases that make the difference between knowing a language and living in it. Work through each sentence at your own pace. Yo...

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12:22

Learn Igbo: If and But — The Father Who Stopped...

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2026/09/26

For ten years he flew to his children, one continent at a time. This year, a retired headmaster in Item decides the house that raised them will do the calling. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 conditional sentences — how to build a complete argument in Igbo with ọ bụrụ na (if) and mana (but), and say no to someone you love without closing the door. In Igbo life the obi — the family's reception house — is where people come to the elder, not the other way round. This epis...

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Learn Igbo: Saying "If" — What My Father Left in...

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2026/09/25

Her father left no will — but he did leave something in writing, and she carries it into the room where her brothers mean to divide his land. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 conditional Igbo sentences — the "if… then" logic that lets you argue without breaking a family. Six weeks after her father's funeral, Nkemdirim Anyanwu, a palm-oil and gari trader in Nnobi, Anambra State, walks into a kindred meeting about inheritance. This episode documents a living piece of Igbo...

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9:13

Learn Igbo: Describing a Drawback — The Fees He Never...

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2026/09/24

He paid for four years of her education — and then watched her carry the wedding cup to someone else. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 Igbo phrases for saying something is good but carries a cost — the grammar of an honest heart. In Owerri, a retired civil servant sits on his veranda on the evening of a wedding he quietly paid for. This episode documents two pieces of Igbo intangible cultural heritage: the kin- and community-funded education that built modern Igboland, ...

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9:58

Learn Igbo: Unfinished Plans — The One Who Stayed |...

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2026/09/23

The money for the roof came from London and Houston. The carpenter still didn't come. And one man keeps driving to the village at dawn to wait for him. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 Igbo phrases for plans that changed and work still unfinished — from a four-word everyday sentence to a longer stretch sentence that trains your ear for real conversation. In Igbo tradition, the ama nna — the father's compound — belongs to the whole lineage, and its upkeep was designed fo...

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9:59

Learn Igbo: Wanting vs Having — The Sentence Behind...

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2026/09/22

She feeds half a university faculty before she has looked at her own reflection. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 Igbo sentences that hold a want and a hard truth in the same breath — the grammar of achọrọ m... ma... (I want... but...). This episode documents intangible cultural heritage at the crossing point of two UNESCO domains: the economics of Igbo women's market trade, and the social code of silence that has protected — and sometimes cost — Igbo wives for generati...

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54:18

Week 31 Omnibus: Learn Igbo Through Stories | 5...

Igbo Daily Drops ·

2026/09/20

🎧 WEEK 31 OMNIBUS: All 5 Episodes in One Continuous Session Missed the daily drops this week? This omnibus combines all five complete episodes from Week 31 of Igbo Daily Drops—no breaks, no interruptions, just pure immersive storytelling, language instruction, and scholarly documentation of Igbo intangible cultural heritage. The episode titles in Week 31 are: Episode 151 - Naming Your Needs — The Sentence That Keeps the Body Working Episod...

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12:40

Learn Igbo Phrases : Week 31 Speaking Practice — 15...

Igbo Daily Drops ·

2026/09/19

📺 Visual version with full diacritics: youtube.com/@learnigbo 📥 Free practice speaking workbook for week 31 at www.learnigbonow.com This is your Week 31 Igbo language practice session from Igbo Daily Drops — 15 sentences learnt over the past week in Igbo daily drops, built for real-life use. Commands, requests, questions, and the kind of warm, human phrases that make the difference between knowing a language and living in it. Work through each sentence at your own pace. Yo...

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11:15

Learn Igbo: Why and Because — The Man History Almost...

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2026/09/18

A custodian. A documentary crew. And a name they didn't come to film. In this episode of Igbo Daily Drops, you'll learn 3 Igbo "why" and "because" phrases — the exact words that let you demand the real story instead of the short one. Nearly nine decades ago, a Nigerian man's hoe struck ninth-century bronze while he dug a cistern in his own compound. The excavation site that made him famous still carries his family's name — Igbo Isaiah — though for most of those decades, almost no one asked ...

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