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About the Project
Audio Recordings of Ethnography of the Igbo People
Planning Grant
This project will survey and document over 2000 hours of audiotapes currently housed at the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria. Collected between 1972 and 1983, as part of the “Igbo Salvage Ethnography Project,” the collection contains information on Igbo life, mythology, ethnomusicology, marriage and burial ceremonies, religion, philosophy, social life, literary and productive arts, history, science, medicine, technology and more. In addition to the audio tapes, the collection includes detailed fieldnotes collected by the ethnographic team that recorded the audio material. The materials provide a first-hand account of the lives and practices of one of Africa’s most important ethnic groups, not filtered through print, academic biases, or Western methodologies.
Project Leads
- Chima Korieh, Marquette University + African Studies Center, University of Leiden
- Ozioma Onuzulike, University of Nigeria
- Nkiru Ohia, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria
More Information
Audio Recordings of Ethnography of the Igbo People (1980-1983)
Collection Details
This is a collection of over 2000 audio tapes of ethnographic surveys of different aspects of life, history, culture, and society of the Igbo-speaking people of Southeastern Nigeria. The tapes belong to the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, which commissioned the project.
The collection is held at the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.