Contents: • • Introduction / Chikwendu PK Anyanwu • • Teaching and Using the Igbo Language (Keynote Address) / Michael J. C. Echeruo • • Igbo Texts: A Tool for the Development and Promotion of Igbo Language and Culture / Udeze, Chinenye V. • • I A What I Speak: The Ima Philosophy & Igbo Renaissance / Eefiena Ezeani • • Historical Perspective on The Development of Igbo Language and Culture in The Diaspora: Continuities and Discontinuities / Chineme Onyigbuo Produced by Igbo Conference London in association with the Centre for African Studies, SOAS Language Centre, University of London