But her Igbo wasn't too good.

The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods.

A Pakistani Muslim teaching Jewish Holocaust history to young Igbo children.

So God is in heaven surrounded by His angels was translated as Igbo .

The first Igbo Bible was translated from English in about the 1800s by Bishop Crowther, who was a Yoruba.

And for some reason, in Cameroon, when they tried to translate the Bible into Cameroonian patois, they chose the Igbo version.

There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is nkali.

This seemingly innocent joke, when I heard it as a child in Nigeria, was told about Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa, with the Hausa being Harry.

And it's important to know Igbo is a tonal language, and so they'll say the word igwe and igwe same spelling, one means sky or heaven, and one means bicycle or iron.

What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing influences from Jay Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their grandfathers.

When I was growing up in Nigeria and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from there were always rites of passage for young men.

So, this woman, who converted from the Church of England to Catholicism when she married my father and there's no one more rabid than a Catholic convert decided to teach in the rural areas in Nigeria, particularly among Igbo women, the Billings ovulation method, which was the only approved birth control by the Catholic Church.

It's getting as close as possible to the thought experiment of finding two families both of whom live in Brussels who are identical on every single one of these dimensions, but one of whom speaks Flemish and one of whom speaks French or two families that live in a rural district in Nigeria, one of whom speaks Hausa and one of whom speaks Igbo.

But the most powerful push for the conference came from politicians in the largely Christian south, apprehensive that power would return to the Muslim north in 2007 after Obasanjo, himself a southern Christian, completed his second term. Since political independence in 1960, politics has revolved round Nigeria s major ethnic groups the Igbo and Yoruba in the south, and the Hausa and Fulani in the north.

But it is PRONACO s demand that at least 50 of the oil revenue derived from the Niger delta and other states in the south be retained in the area of production that most threatens the survival of the country s survival as a united entity. The Biafra war was largely an oil war, prosecuted by northern officers and politicians to win back the delta oil fields from the Igbo.