Aug. 10—The 10th annual IGBO Worldwide Festival of Arts and Culture will memorialize Igbo Landing by presenting culture, art, music and language on Friday and Saturday at Selden Park. The event will ...

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — A new historical marker is coming to Glynn County to honor the lives of a tribe from Africa who chose death over slavery in the early 1800s. The push to commemorate the Igbo ...

It is one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people; allegedly 75 Igbo slaves chose suicide over forced servitude. On the slave ship called the Wanderer in May 1803, the Igbo arrived as ...

Sub: The introspective artist turns ancestral defiance into Afrobeats gold and traditional folklore, honouring the Igbo Landing with a song that confronts blind loyalty to oppressive systems, and ...

Opata said this in Nsukka on Thursday during an International Conference to commemorate the 220th year of Igbos landing in the USA, with the theme: “The Legacy of Research and Resilience in the Fight ...

Oct. 30—An African-American legend grounded in fact tells how members of the Igbo tribe drowned themselves in the inland waters off St. Simons Island more than two centuries ago rather than face a ...

MT. PLEASANT, Utah (KUTV) — A trip of a lifetime doesn’t always require going out of the country. Some of the most life-changing trips can happen within a short distance from home. That’s what ...

Inspired by the powerful true story of the Igbo Landing of 1803, where a group of enslaved Africans chose the ocean over slavery. This poetic film follows African freediver Tatiana Mendes as she ...