AHIAJOKU LECTURES
(Published by the Ministry of Information and Social Development and printed by the Government Printer, Owerri)

 

Lecturer (Onyeozizi) Title (Ishiokwu)

Prof. M. J. C. Echeruo (1979)

Afamefune: A matter of identity
Prof. Bede N. Okigbo (1980) Plant and food in Igbo culture
Prof. A. E. Afigbo (1981) The age of innocence
Prof. A O. Anya (1982) The environment of isolation or the ecology and socio-biology of Igbo culture and political development
Prof. Donatus Nwoga (1984) Nka na nzere - The focus of Igbo worldview
Prof. B. O. Nwabueze (1985) The Igbo in the context of modern government and politics in Nigeria - a call for self-examination and self-correction
Dr. Pius N. Okigbo (1986) Towards a reconstruction of the political economy of Igbo civilization
Prof. M. A. Onwuejeogwu (1987) Evolutionary trends in the history of the development of the Igbo civilization in the culture theatre of Igboland in Southern Nigeria
Prof. A. N. Okoro (1988) Chukwu ka dibia
Prof. M. O. Chijioke (1989) Ugwumba: The greatness of a people
Prof. A. O. Animalu (1990) Ucheakonam (A way of life in the modern scientific age)
Prof. R. O. Ohuche (1991) Ibu anyi danda - The centrality of education in Igbo culture
Prof. G. M. Umezuruike (1992) The hub of Igbo cultural renaissance in the scientific age
Prof. Emmanuel Obiechina (1994) Ncheteka: The memory, story and continuity of Igbo culture [source down?]
Prof. V. C. Uchendu (1995) Ezi na Ulo: The Extended Family in Igbo Civilization

{Odenigbo Lecture Series was instituted primarily to 'Christianize' Ahiajoku Lectures*}

Prof. Cyril A. Onwumechili (2000) Igbo Enwe Eze

*This was as a result of the objection of misguided Christians, supported by the then military administrator of Imo State, a supposedly 'born-again' character named Colonel Zubairu, to the "Ahiajoku" nomenclature -- which they regarded as 'pagan.'  Nothing could be further from the truth because before the advent of European Christianity, the concept of Chukwu, Almighty God, was already ingrained in Igbo culture. Professor Afigbo called it "... an attempt to wipe the cultural slate of the Igbo people clean" [Afigbo, 2000] 

The Odenigbo Lecture was delivered in Igbo language. In 1999, Chinua Achebe presented a lecture titled: Echi di ime, taa bu gboo [Tomorrow Is Pregnant Today Is Early Enough].