{
  "id": 753178,
  "title": "Ohanaeze takes campaign for Igbo culture, language to women’s meeting",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/ohanaeze-takes-campaign-for-igbo-culture-language-to-womens-meeting",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T09:59:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Post Nigeria",
    "slug": "daily-post-nigeria",
    "url": "https://dailypost.ng/2026/08/13/ohanaeze-takes-campaign-for-igbo-culture-language-to-womens-meeting/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has been actively promoting its campaign for the preservation of Igbo language and culture through women's meetings in the Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State. The organization's chairman, Chief Uchenna Nwoye, led a team of executives to sensitise women of Umudioka community during this year's August meeting. The August gathering is an annual event where women from Igboland, both in Nigeria and the diaspora, convene to discuss matters of mutual concern.\n\nDuring the meeting, Nwoye emphasized the urgent need to promote Igbo culture, warning that it is on the verge of disappearing due to neglect. He urged women to incorporate Igbo language, traditions, and customs into their daily lives and to instill these values in their children from an early age. \"Our culture and our language are dying, and that is because we are already neglecting what we have,\" Nwoye stated.\n\nAnother prominent figure at the event, Mrs Joy Onyekwere, the state woman leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, expressed concern over the alarming trend of children in Igboland not being fluent in the Igbo language. She highlighted the potential dangers this poses for families, particularly in times of danger when children may need to communicate secretly with their parents. \"What that means is that you cannot communicate secretly with your children or even pass a message to them when they are in danger without strangers knowing,\" Onyekwere lamented.\n\nThe traditional ruler of Ifitedunu community, Igwe Emeka Ilouno, also addressed the women, stressing the importance of feeding children with natural and organic food. He cautioned that excessive consumption of junk food was detrimental to children's academic performance, attributing this to the reduced capacity of their brains. \"Feeding your children with noodles and other such foods limits the capacity of their brains. Let us go back to our natural food,\" Ilouno advised.",
  "summary": "Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has taken its campaign for the promotion of Igbo language and culture to women’s meetings in communities across Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State. The chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dunukofia Chapter, Chief Uchenna Nwoye, led other executive members of the organisation on the campaign to sensitise women of […] Ohanaeze takes…",
  "key_points": [
    "Ohanaeze Ndigbo promotes Igbo language, culture in Dunukofia meeting",
    "Chairman Uchenna Nwoye urges women to preserve culture, language",
    "State woman leader Joy Onyekwere warns of children's language illiteracy"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Ohanaeze Ndigbo's campaign to preserve Igbo language and culture through women's meetings marks a bid to reclaim and pass on heritage, warning that neglect is leading to its decline.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}